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Brodrick, William

From the bestselling author of THE SIXTH LAMENTATION and THE GARDENS OF THE DEAD Del autor de los bestsellers The Sixth Lamentation y The Gardens of the Dead . ...

Greenspam, Alan

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001, in his fourteenth year as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Alan Greenspan took part in a very quiet collective effort to ensure that America didn`t experience an economic meltdown, taking the rest of the world with it. ...

Pratchett, Terry

Most of us grow up having always known to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happens when a princess kisses a frog or a boy pulls a sword from a stone. This book looks at the living myths and folklore that are reflected, celebrated and libelled in the imaginative universe of Discworld. ...

Irvine, Susan

Naomi`s ability to keep finding situations to express her need for extremes, fashion and low life, makes this dramatic and exciting. Muse is a dizzyingly brilliant first novel, stylistically accomplished and risk taking. La habilidad de Naomi para encontrar situaciones que expresan su necesidad de extremos, desde el mundo de la moda al de los más desfavorecidos, convierte esta ...

Heller, Zöe

When New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff is felled by a stroke, his wife Audrey uncovers a secret that forces her to reexamine her ideas about him and their fortyyear marriage Joel`s children will soon have to come to termswith this unsettling discovery themselves, but for the meantime, they are grappling with their own dilemmas... ...

James, P. D.

When the notorious investigative journalist, Rhoda Gradwyn, booked into Mr ChandlerPowell`s private clinic for the removal of a facial scar, she had every prospect of a successful operation, and the beginning of a new life. She was never to leave Cheverell Manor alive. Dalgliesh and his team are called in to investigate the murder. Cuando Rhoda Gradwyn, afamada periodista de in...

Ackroyd, Peter

Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner`s office in Clarendon Street provides corpses but they have often died of violence and drowning: they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. Victor Frankenstein comienza su...

Bruges, James

This book explores environmental, economic and social ideas to save our planet. It helps us understand what is happening to the planet today, exposes the actions of corporations and the lack of action of governments, weighs up new technologies, and champions innovative and viable solutions. ...

March, Ivan

Indicates key recordings on CD, DVD and enhanced SACD, including those in surround sound. This book lists and assesses versions of various major classical works. ...

Higson, Charlie

Following a treacherous rescue mission high in the freezing Alps, James Bond is preparing for life back at Eton. But James is under surveillance. his every move is being watched. He alone holds the clue to a sinister plot that will bring bloodshed and carnage to his school and his country. ...

Gellman, Barton

For eight years the world has felt the consequences of an American leader who has managed to alienate natural allies. This man was not George W Bush, but Dick Cheney the powerful and unaccountable figure ever to become America`s Vice President, and arguably the damaging. This book tells the history of this period to reveal Dick Cheney`s role. ...

Beaton, Jane

The first in a series of books set in Downeys school, following the adventures of Maggie McAteer who leaves a rough comprehensive school in Glasgow to teach at an exclusive boarding school in Cornwall. El primero en una serie de libros ambientados en la escuela Downeys. La serie sigue las aventuras de Maggie MacAteer, que deja una dura escuela de secundaria en Glasgow para ense...

Jones, Sadie

Sadie Jones tells her story using minute details to convey the apparent ordinariness of her characters` lives. But from the choreography of these walking, smiling, drinking people, from their emotional repression and their children`s deprivation, she conjures an atmosphere of menace and suspense that erupts into violence and tragedy Sadie Jones nos ofrece una historia que nos d...

Milner, Donna

Growing up on a dairy farm in the mountains of British Columbia in the 1960s, three kilometres north of the American border, Natalie Ward knew little of the outside world. Creciendo en una granja lechera en las montañas de la Columbia Británica en los años 60 del siglo veinte, tres kilómetros al norte de la frontera con los Estados Unidos, Natalie Ward sabía muy poco del mundo ...

Bushnell, Candace

The sexy new novel from Candace Bushnell, full of her trademark wit and observation. La nueva y sexy novela de Candace Bushnell, que nos vuelve a ofrecer sus agudas dotes de observación y su ingenio marcas de la casa. ...

In theory, life for Sam as a stayathome dad is idyllic and stressfree. Months of honing his childcare programme have enabled him to run a shipshape home with productive days spent creating fingerprint masterpieces, cooking up organic cuisine and polishing the family silver. In practice, the Holden Childcare Programme has fallen out of favour. En teoría, la vida de Sam como padr...

Gemmell, David

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Stephenson, Neal

Here is another brilliantly original novel from the cult author of Snowcrash and Cryptonomicon .Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3,400yearold monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians.And, one by one, Raz and his friends, mentors, and teachers are summoned forth without warning into the unknown. Desde la infancia, Raz ha vivido...

Branson, Richard

In Business Stripped Bare Branson shares the incredible truth about his most risky, brilliant and audacious deals. In this book, discover how he tried to take on one of the world`s biggest superbrands, how he plans to change the course of the world`s rivers to cut carbon emissions. Business Stripped Bare is a dynamic, inspirational and truly original guide to success in busi...

Patterson, James

Goddard, Robert

Richard Eusden is on his way to work in London one unremarkable winter morning when he is intercepted by his exwife, Gemma. She has sad news of his old friend, her other exhusband, Marty Hewitson. Marty is dying, but needs a favour done for him now, today, at once. Eusden reluctantly agrees and sets off on what should be a simple errand. But, soon it turns into a race for life...

Lette, Kathy

When Lucy`s husband of eighteen years runs out on her, she`ll do anything to win him back. Jasper has left Lucy for her best friend, the chic and thin interior decorator Renee. To make matters worse, her teenage daughter Tally, blames her Mum. `Dad left because you`ve let yourself go, you`re overweight and you nagged him`. ...

Roth, Philip

Presents a portrait of the artist as an old man. This is a study of obsession, forgetfulness, resignation and ungratifiable desire. Esta obra presenta el retrato de un artista hacia el final de su vida. Este es un estudio de la obsesión, la tendencia a olvidar, la resignación y los deseos no gratificados. ...

Hoeg, Peter (1957- )

As in his previous work, Hoeg takes the thriller genre and weaves a compelling story that emerges piece by piece, while gently teasing the reader at the same time, forcing his audience to question how much of the tale is a smokescreen. This is a book that doesn`t cease to surprise and challenge and deserves to be read at least twice. Como en su obra anterior, Hoeg se centra en ...

Roth, Philip

Presents a portrait of the artist as an old man. This is a study of obsession, forgetfulness, resignation and ungratifiable desire. Esta obra presenta el retrato de un artista hacia el final de su vida. Este es un estudio de la obsesión, la tendencia a olvidar, la resignación y los deseos no çgratificados. ...

Mankell, Henning

When archaeologist Louise Cantor`s son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. While looking through his bundles of papers, she discovers he was obsessed with the conspiracy theory that JFK`s brain disappeared prior to the autopsy along with the vital evidence regarding bullet exit wounds. Cuando Henrik, hijo de la arqueóloga Louise Cantor, es ...

Mankell, Henning

The Pyramid is a collection of 5 short stories plus an additional prologue. It tells about the time between 19691989, from the time when Wallander was a police at Malmö to that he meets his father at a Egyptian police station in Cairo The Pyramid , es una recopilación de cinco relatos cortos además de un prólogo adicional. Nos relata cerca del período entre 1969 y 1989, desde ...

Kureishi, Hanif

A wonderfully colourful, warm and epic novel of London life, love, sex and regret from one of Britain`s greatest contemporary writers. Una maravillosa, colorida, cálida y épica novela sobre la vida, el amor, el sexo y los remordimientos en Londres, de uno de los más grandes escritores británicos de nuestros días. ...

Lehane, Dennis

Rollicking, brawling, gritty, political, and always completely absorbing, The Given Day is a rich and satisfying epic. Ambientada en el convulso Boston de 1919, dos policías se ven inmersos en los intentos por crear un sindicato de policía. Al mismo tiempo, la ciudad es asolada por una epidemia de gripe, traída por los soldados que regresan de combatir en Europa durante la Prim...