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'A delightfully sweet and cozy novel that's as comforting as a warm cup of tea' - Kirkus Reviews, StarredFollowing the untimely death of their parents, Anne, Beatrix, and Violet Quigley have made a business of threading together the stories that lie at the bottom of their customers' teacups. Days at their teashop are filled with fortune-telling intertwined with the sound of clinking china and the scent of cinnamon shortbread.When the Council of Witches comes calling with news that the city Diviner has lost her powers, the sisters suddenly find themselves being pulled in different directions. As Anne's magic begins to develop beyond that of her sisters', Beatrix's writing attracts the attention of a publisher, and Violet is enchanted by the song of the circus-and a mischievous trapeze artist threatening to sweep her off her feet-it seems a family curse that threatens to separate the sisters forever is taking effect.With dwindling time to rewrite their future and save the cosy and much-loved tearoom, the Quigleys set out to bargain with Fate. But in focusing so closely on saving each other, will they lose sight of themselves?
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Los protagonistas de este libro sienten que han perdido la libertad para ordenar su propia historia dentro de otra historia que es mucho más grande que ellos mismos. La madre celosa del tiempo que su empleada de hogar pasa con sus hijos, el adolescente vigoréxico obsesionado con construir un cuerpo que lo convierta en mejor persona, el anciano judío homosexual que llora abrazado a los jerséis de su amante cuando se le rompe la lavadora... y la vida. Una colección de personajes que luchan por encajar en el relato de sus propias vidas, héroes y fracasados al mismo tiempo. Labari indaga en estos cuentos en el deseo, la diferencia de clase social o el racismo, y en las carencias de todo tipo que nos impiden descifrar nuestra identidad sin atender a dogmas o a recetas. Al contrario, enfrenta el peligroso deseo de reunir lo que es distinto a través del lenguaje y se lanza a escribir desde fronteras, palabras e idiomas nuevos.
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Life is hopeless but it is not serious. We have to have danced while we could and, later, to have danced again in the telling.Tunde, the man at the centre of this novel, reflects on the places and times of his life, from his West African upbringing to his current work as a teacher of photography on a renowned New England campus. He is a reader, a listener, and a traveller drawn to many different kinds of stories: from history and the epic, of friends, family, and strangers, those found in books and films. One man's personal lens refracts entire worlds, and back again.A weekend spent shopping for antiques is shadowed by the colonial atrocities that occurred on that land. A walk at dusk is interrupted by casual racism. A loving marriage is riven by mysterious tensions. And a remarkable cascade of voices speak out from a pulsing metropolis.Tremor is a startling work of realism and invention that examines the passage of time and how we mark it. It is a reckoning with human survival amidst ''history's own brutality, which refuses symmetries and seldom consoles'' - but it is also a testament to the possibility of joy. This is narration with all its senses alert, a surprising and deeply essential work from a beacon of contemporary literature.
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There's a 5* Christmas mystery unfolding at The Regency Grand Hotel…*Escape into the world of Molly the Maid in this delightfully festive novella*It’s the Christmas countdown at the Regency Grand Hotel, and Molly the maid is polishing up her holiday list.*Deck halls*Dust off decorations*Buy Secret Santa gift*Solve mystery?A festive plot throws Molly off-kilter. Why does her beau, Juan Manuel, keep disappearing? And why are the hotel corridors filled with whispers?Someone is keeping a secret. And, as Molly discovers, the answers to the mystery lie in a most unexpected gift…Full of charm and feel-good festive cheer, The Mistletoe Mystery is the perfect stocking-filler this Christmas!
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Settle down for bedtime with Peter Rabbit and all his friends in this enchanting collection of brand new stories perfect for a cosy bedtime read with all the family.Follow Peter and all his friends through beautiful night-time scenes and exciting woodland adventures before cosying-up for bedtime. Help Peter find a lost toy ladybird, camp by the lake, and even set out on a night-time raid of Mr. McGregor's vegetable patch!Featuring 24 brand new stories, inspired by Beatrix Potter's original tales, and activities to help little ones create a healthy bedtime routine, this beautiful book makes the perfect gift to read every night and will become an evening tradition for Peter Rabbit fans young and old.
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From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to take over.Meet Otto and Cecil. Two brothers growing up privileged in the Welsh countryside. They enjoy watching nature shows, playing with their pet pony, impersonating their Grandfather...and killing the help. Murder is the family business after all. Downton Abbey, this is not. However, it’s not so easy to continue the family legacy with the constant stream of threats and distractions seemingly leaping from the hedgerow. First there is the matter of the veritable cavalcade of escaped convicts that keep showing up at their door. Not to mention the debaucherous new tutor who has a penchant for speaking in Greek and dismembering sex dolls. Then there’s Mummy’s burgeoning opioid addiction. And who knows where Daddy is. He just vanished one day after he and Mummy took a walk in the so called “Ghost Forest.” With Grandfather putting pressure on Otto to step up, it becomes clear that this will all end in only two a nuclear apocalypse or just another day among the creeping thistle and tree peonies. And in a novel written by Chuck Palahniuk, either are equally possible.
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Red, White & Royal Blue meets The Nightmare Before Christmas in a sexy, quirky romcom where the golden-hearted Prince of Christmas falls for the totally off-limits Prince of Halloween.Nicholas “Coal” Claus used to love Christmas. Until his father, the reigning Santa, turned the holiday into a PR façade. Coal will do anything to escape the spectacle, including getting tangled in a drunken, supremely hot make-out session with a beautiful man behind a seedy bar one night.But the heir to Christmas is soon commanded to do his duty: he will marry his best friend, Iris, the Easter Princess and his brother’s not-so-secret crush. A situation that has disaster written all over it.Things go from bad to worse when a rival arrives to challenge Coal for the princess’s hand…and Coal comes face-to-face with his mysterious behind-the-bar hottie: Hex, the Prince of Halloween.It’s a fake competition between two holiday princes who can’t keep their hands off each other over a marriage of convenience that no one wants. And it all leads to one of the sweetest, sexiest, messiest, most delightfully unforgettable love stories of the year.
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A practical companion to the international bestseller Dopamine Nation, for individuals, families, counsellors, teachers, and anyone who wants to go beyond the narrative and engage in practices that will reset reward pathways for a more flourishing life.In Dopamine Nation, Dr. Lembke introduced readers to her ground-breaking research that demonstrates how abundance itself is a stressor, contributing to rising rates of addiction, depression, and anxiety. Now, she's written the workbook that we've all been waiting for.Full of specific exercises, fill-in tables, and inspiring examples, readers will be able to more clearly identify the substances and behaviors they struggle to moderate. With the warm, authoritative voice we know and love, Dr. Lembke will share her valuable advice on how to undertake your own dopamine fast, reset your own pathways, and live a happier and more fulfilling life.
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Loving Kane nearly destroyed me once, now that he's Alpha he could be my end.My life collapsed the day my Were lover Kane abandoned me four years ago, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Now I need his help.I've got one shot to save my brother, as long as I solve the murders plaguing our city, Cambria. It'll mean diving headfirst into the political minefield of our supernatural elite. But a new alpha has joined the fray. He's dangerous, he's devastating, and he's the same man who obliterated my world all those years ago.The deal: fake being his mate to solve the case. The cost: everything.As catastrophe looms and old passions ignite, I'm faced with the impossible choice between loyalty and love. But the killer is watching and waiting to strike. . .
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An anthology that celebrates the power of culture in Palestinian resistance, with selections of memoir, short stories, essays, book reviews, personal narrative, poetry, and art.Includes twenty-five black-and-white illustrations by Palestinian artists.The Arabic word sumūd is often loosely translated as “steadfastness” or “standing fast.” It is, above all, a Palestinian cultural value of everyday perseverance in the face of Israeli occupation. Sumūd is both a personal and collective commitment, people determine their own lives, despite the environment of constant oppressions imposed upon them. This anthology spans the 20th and 21st centuries of Palestinian cultural history, and highlights writing from 2021–2024. The collection of writing and art features work from forty-six contributors from Hossam Madhoun, co-founder of Gaza's Theatre for Everybody, as he survives the post-October 2023 war on Gaza,Novelist Ahmed Masoud with “Application 39,” a sci-fi short story about a Dystopian bid for the Olympics,Sara Roy and Ivar Ekeland with “The New Politics of Gaza as Prologue,” an analysis of Israel’s divide and conquer policies of fragmentation,Historian Ilan Pappé with a review of Tahrir Hamdi’s book, Imagining Palestine, in which he unpacks the relationship between culture and resistance,Essayist Lina Mounzer with “Palestine and the Unspeakable,” an offering on the language used to dehumanize Palestinians,And poetry by the next generation of poets who have inherited the mantle of the late Mahmoud Darwish (1941–2008).The essays, stories, poetry, art and personal narrative collected in Sumū A New Palestinian Reader is a rich riposte to those who would denigrate Palestinians’ aspirations for a homeland. It also serves as a timely reminder of culture’s power and importance during occupation and war.Allison Epstein combines cleverly constructed plot with unforgettable characters in this exuberant historical page-turner, intercut with fractured retellings of traditional Eastern European folk stories that are equal parts deadly dark and slyly illuminating. Vividly written and emotionally intense, Let the Dead Bury the Dead reminds us that the concerns of the past aren't quite as far behind us as we like to believe.
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A partir del estudio y la influencia de la Antigüedad clásica en la cultura occidental, esta obra reflexiona desde distintas perspectivas y mediante los conceptos eje de valor, tiempo y responsabilidad el lugar del clasicismo el estudio de esta época en la actualidad. De esta manera, se busca cuestionar y redefinir lo clásico bajo paradigmas actuales, en los que se reconocen narrativas olvidadas por la disciplina, como el feminismo o el poscolonialismo. Se analizan los desafíos que esto plantea y la necesidad que surge para replantear nuestra aproximación a lo clásico desde una conciencia crítica más allá del idealismo y los discursos hegemónicos con los que hemos estudiado tal periodo durante siglos.
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With an introduction by Helen OyeyemiA mesmerising and enigmatic collection of short stories, haunted by the horrors of war, never before translated into English, and divided into two halves: journeys and flowers.A traveller embarks on a search for what lies beneath reality and finds villages where the dead walk at solstice, silkworm-like women live in cocoons, and a thousand men in gleaming armour play at being soldiers. Thirty-eight stories of invented flowers follow: absurd, lush and dreamlike, they capture different truths of humanity.Mercè Rodoreda, in these beguiling, uncanny stories, fragments of beauty and darkness, combines inventive force and lyrical power in a poetic voice of indelible magnetism, and confirms herself as one of the greatest Catalan writers of the twentieth century.
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A brand-new series of novelty board books from bestselling author Tom Fletcher!OH LOOK - it's snowing!Shall we build a Snowman?Tap, slide, and jiggle the pages to build a spectacular Snowman and use your magic to bring it to life - with some familiar faces from the Who's In Your Book series helping along the way!Toddlers will love this interactive board book, full of fun novelties that encourage curiosity and exploration and a gentle narrative that is perfect to read aloud.
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‘Twas the night before Chrissie, when inside their home, not a Heeler was stirring, not even a gnome.It’s Christmas Eve and Bluey and Bingo are tucked up snug in their beds. When suddenly a noise outside wakes them up . . . Who could it be?Experience the magic of Christmas Eve with Bluey and the Heeler family in this retelling of the classic Christmas tale!Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!
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Everyone is getting ready for Christmas, but can you find Bluey and Bingo in all the festive fun?There’s lots of hidden surprises too! Join in and search for stockings, snow globes and a Surfing Santa in this Christmas search-and-find book.
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A beautifully illustrated guide on how to transform your everyday outfits, Gucci-style.Bring the defining principles of Gucci's style to your own wardrobe with this celebration of one of the world's most renowned fashion houses. From channelling the super brand with your beauty choices, finding your inner extrovert in the clothes you choose, and even bringing the influence of the house's equestrian beginnings into your streetwear - this is an essential handbook for going Gucci, your way.Including the stories, history and personalities who have defined a legacy like no other, there's no better companion for fans of Gucci.
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ESSAYS ON ARETHA FRANKLIN, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, BOB DYLAN, PAUL MCCARTNEY, LEONARD COHEN, BUDDY GUY, MAVIS STAPLES, PATTI SMITHA Financial Times Book of the Year 2023The greatest popular songs, whether it’s Aretha Franklin singing ‘Respect’ or Bob Dylan performing ‘Blind Willie McTell’, have a way of embedding themselves in our memories. You remember a time and a place and a feeling when you hear that song again. In Holding the Note, David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and editor of The New Yorker, writes about the lives and work of some of the greatest musicians, songwriters, and performers of the past fifty years.He portrays a series of musical lives – Leonard Cohen, Buddy Guy, Mavis Staples, Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, and more – and their unique encounters with the passing of that essential element of music: time. These are intimate portraits of some of the greatest creative minds of our time written with a lifetime’s passionate attachment to music that has shaped us all.
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From the moment he interviewed Yoko Ono on his late night radio show in September 1971, Elliot Mintz’s life would never the same again. That phone call would lead him to an intense and revealing friendship with Yoko and her husband, John Lennon, until John’s untimely death in 1980, and beyond, to the present day.In 1971, then the talk host on American airwaves, Elliot Mintz was talking to all of the major figures in the burgeoning West Coast music scene when he was asked whether he would interview Yoko about her new album. Their talk quickly lead to other private calls and then to John Lennon, with whom he quickly formed a firm bond. Those conversations became hours-long epics, to the extent that Elliot had another phone line put in, for which only two people had the number - John and Yoko.The aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup ushered in a tumultuous decade. Elliot witnessed it, or heard all about it, at close hand including the unbearable cost of such fame when John and Yoko separated for what became known as his ‘lost weekend’. There was joy when their son Sean was born and the creative rebirth that was the multi-platinum selling triumph, Double Fantasy. But then there was unimaginable tragedy too when John was brutally murdered in December 1980.
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BLOODTHIRSTY UNICORNS. UNLIKELY HEROES. A DEADLY CURSE.The epic adventure continues.Don’t miss the unputdownable new book in number 1 bestselling SKANDAR series, for readers ages 9 to 99 and fans of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Eragon and Impossible Creatures. *PRE-ORDER NOW!*Skandar and the Unicorn Thief was WATERSTONES CHILDREN'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 and WINNER OF THE INDIE BOOK AWARDS 2023!Skandar and the Phantom Rider was one of THE SUNDAY TIMES BEST BOOKS FOR CHILDREN 2023.As Skandar and his friends begin their fourth year at the Eyrie, the Island’s unicorns are struck by a terrible curse that threatens to change everything. Between a Commodore determined to eliminate the spirit element for good, and a sister hellbent on revenge, nowhere is safe for Skandar.As more and more unicorns are affected by the curse, the clock is ticking for Skandar and his quartet, who find themselves literally racing for their lives. Can they stop the curse in its tracks before the Island is lost for ever?Get ready for unlikely heroes, elemental magic, sky battles, ancient secrets and ferocious unicorns in this highly anticipated adventure that will keep you reading after lights out!
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As a young man, Fernando Pessoa wrote ‘be plural like the universe.’ Staying true to this, he went on to invent more than one hundred fictional alter-egos, which he called heteronyms. This biography, probing Pessoa’s experience and imagination of reality, navigates the poet’s early days in Lisbon and South Africa, reveals a philosopher-poet and pioneer of Portuguese modernism, and delves into the birth of Pessoa’s heteronymic universe. Bartholomew Ryan traverses Pessoa’s writings on evolving radical politics and his messianic dream of an empire of poets, his ventures into esoteric realms and his expertise in astrology. The book unravels Pessoa’s real and imaginary relationships, and explores his unfinished prose masterpiece, The Book of Disquiet. This is a compelling, timely exploration of Pessoa’s profound and innovative ideas, including his revolutionary concepts of identity and self-multiplicity.
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Un llibre que desmunta una frase erròniament atribuïda a Freud: «La psicoanàlisi s'ha de mantenir al marge de la política»«La psicoanàlisi s'ha de mantenir al marge de la política». Aquesta línia de conducta, atribuïda a Freud, ha facultat tota mena de viratges, des dels més recents, en què la psicoanàlisi és esgrimida des de les pitjors posicions reaccionàries (contra el feminisme, l'antiracisme, els moviments socials, etc.). També és la manera còmoda d'enterrar tota una part de la història d’aquesta disciplina, i amb ella el seu llegat revolucionari.En aquest llibre, veurem Freud saludar amb entusiasme la revolució de 1917 i encoratjar Vera Schmidt en els seus esforços per aclimatar la psicoanàlisi a la Rússia soviètica, a Wilhelm Reich lluitant a Àustria i després a Alemanya contra la suposada neutralitat política de la disciplina, seguirem a Francesc Tosquelles des de la Guerra civil fins a l'Hospital de Saint-Alban, i Jean Oury des de Saint-Alban fins a la clínica de La Borde, travessarem l’oceà amb l’arribada de la psicoanàlisi a l’Amèrica Llatina dels setanta de la mà de Marie Langer, descobrirem el renaixement de la psicoanàlisi revolucionària a Alemanya als anys seixanta amb el SPK (Col·lectiu de Pacients Socialistes) que tenien per programa convertir la malaltia en una arma. Florent Gabarron-Garcia recupera aquest preciós patrimoni per tornar a situar la psicoanàlisi al centre de la lluita per l'emancipació.
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The New York Times bestseller and basis for the Tony Award–winning hit musical, soon to be a major motion picture starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.With millions of copies in print around the world, Gregory Maguire’s Wicked is established not only as a commentary on our time but as a novel to revisit for years to come. Wicked relishes the inspired inventions of L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, while playing sleight of hand with our collective memories of the 1939 MGM film starring Margaret Hamilton (and Judy Garland). In this fast-paced, fantastically real, and supremely entertaining novel, Maguire has populated the largely unknown world of Oz with the power of his own imagination. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz’s most promising young citizens.But Elphaba’s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard’s secret police are everywhere. Animals—those creatures with voices, souls, and minds—are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals—even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. Recognized as an iconoclastic tour de force on its initial publication, the novel has inspired the blockbuster musical of the same name—one of the longest-running plays in Broadway history. Popular, indeed. But while the novel’s distant cousins hail from the traditions of magical realism, mythopoeic fantasy, and sprawling nineteenth-century sagas of moral urgency, Maguire’s Wicked is as unique as its green-skinned witch.
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After losing the future he imagined for himself with his wife, a journalist sets out in search of connection and purpose at a tipping point with climate change and global conflict, in this breathtaking novel from the Strega Prize–winning author of The Solitude of Prime Numbers.
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El sábado 7 de octubre de 2023 se produjo en el sur de Israel una de las masacres hacia los judíos más sangrientas y crueles desde 1945. Cientos de militantes de Hamás asesinaron cerca de 1200 personas y tomaron alrededor de 240 rehenes que fueron llevados a Gaza. Este es el relato hora por hora de un crimen pavoroso, que no debemos olvidar.Son las 6:30 a. m. y un estruendo de cohetes comienza a aturdir en el territorio israelí. Hay drones sobrevolando para neutralizar las cámaras y ametralladoras del muro de seguridad que separa la Franja de Gaza. Al mismo tiempo, miles de asesinos traspasan el muro por túneles, llegan en motos y a pie o aterrizan en parapentes, armados hasta los dientes, y atacan a los kibutz y a los asistentes del festival Supernova. El objetivo es asesinar la mayor cantidad de judíos y capturar rehenes.Un pogrom en el siglo XXI es el resultado de semanas de investigaciones de un equipo de corresponsales franceses que reconstruyeron en breves crónicas este raid enloquecido de sangre, balas y muerte. Basado en numerosos relatos de los sobrevivientes, los últimos mensajes rescatados de celulares de las víctimas enviados a sus seres queridos, las palabras de soldados veteranos y de expertos en catástrofes y los llamativos informes previos con los que contaban los servicios secretos israelíes sobre un inminente ataque programado metódicamente hace más de un año. Este libro no pretende ser un trabajo de historiadores, sino un documento riguroso y descarnado de lo inmediato, para que el horror y la deshumanización no sean naturalizados.Los asesinos llegaron de a cientos. Mataron y siguieron matando con balas o cuchillos, a familias, niños y ancianos, incluso a mujeres embarazadas. Violaron y mutilaron para humillar y aniquilar. Los asesinos reían, se filmaban, se mostraban orgullosos por los teléfonos.Del prólogo de Étienne GernelleEstos muertos nos interrogan y también nos condenan mientras que no nos ubiquemos del lado de lo sagrado de la vida. En Israel y en Palestina.Del epílogo de Kamel Daoud
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What happens when we become used to each other, when we become bored, when we anticipate each other’s moods like the seasons cycled in a day? What happens when you are tired of me and I tire of you?Every couple has a story. How they met, how they fell in love – their ups, their downs. What made them want to be in each other's arms day and night. The struggle of family expectations. The need to please each other, the desire to go their separate ways. It is about the private universe between two people as they try to hold to each other despite the barriers of geography, culture and class.Every couple has a beginning, a middle, and maybe an end.The Lovers is an enchanting fable that explores the light and dark of a relationship – a love distilled down to its barest form. You might think you know this story. Maybe you do.
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It is 2027. France is in a state of economic decline and moral decay.As the country plunges into a closely-fought presidential campaign, the French state falls victim to a series of mysterious and unsettling cyberattacks. The sophisticated nature of the attacks leaves the best computer scientists at the DGSI – the French counter-terrorism agency – scrambling for answers.An advisor to the country’s Finance Minister, Paul Raison is close to the heart of government. His wife Prudence is a Treasury official, while his father Édouard, now retired, has spent his career working for the DGSI. When Édouard has a stroke, his children have an opportunity to repair their strained relationships, as they determine to free their father from the medical centre where he is wasting away.Michel Houellebecq’s Annihilation reveals new sides to his writing, adding compassion and tenderness to the emotions of rage and irony that have powered both him and his earlier works to international fame.
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Robert Darnton analiza el funcionamiento de la industria editorial durante el periodo de la Ilustración en Francia y zonas vecinas. La obra expone la importancia del papel del editor en la difusión de las obras, así como los conceptos emergentes de propiedad intelectual y piratería durante la época.
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DESCUBRE CÓMO SER UN LÍDER EN SOLO 21 DÍAS CON ESTE LIBRO ÚNICO QUE CAMBIARÁ TU VIDA. El auténtico liderazgo comienza en ti, despierta al líder que llevas dentro. Este libro no es solo un libro, es una revolución personal y profesional que te impulsará, te desafiará y, lo más importante, te transformará profundamente.Descubre cómo el origen del liderazgo está en tu interior y se extiende para transformar a quienes te rodean. Prepárate para descubrir las habilidades que definen a un gran líder y cambia tu vida.
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LA RECUPERACIÓN DE UN CLÁSICO MODERNO DEL PENSAMIENTO, HOY MÁS VIGENTE QUE NUNCA. *Premio Nobel de Literatura* Un examen profundo y estimulante de las razones por las que luchamos y las implicaciones de la guerra. Ante las consecuencias devastadoras de la Primera Guerra Mundial, el filósofo y matemático Bertrand Russell se propuso examinar los fundamentos psicológicos y sociológicos del conflicto. Su idea era encontrar una explicación a los numerosos factores que influyen a la humanidad en su decisión de luchar consigo misma. Russell sostiene en este texto que la guerra es el resultado de emociones primitivas e irracionales, y que la razón y la compasión pueden usarse para reducir las probabilidades de conflicto, considera las implicaciones éticas de la guerra y su potencial para prevenirla. ¿Por qué luchamos? nos sigue proporcionando hoy un recurso valiosísimo para comprender la compleja dinámica de los conflictos bélicos. Es una lectura esencial para cualquiera que busque una mayor comprensión de las motivaciones detrás de la guerra y de las posibilidades de evitarla.
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He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me.After receiving a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, socialite Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She's not sure what she will find - her cousin's husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.Noemí is more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she's also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: not of her cousin's new alluring, menacing husband, not of his father, and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi's dreams with dark visions.For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family's once colossal wealth and faded mining empire keeps them safe from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper, she unearths stories of violence and madness.And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may find it impossible to escape.
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Inspired by the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China, A Song to Drown Rivers is an epic historical fantasy about womanhood, war, sacrifice and love against all odds as the fate of two kingdoms hangs in a delicate balance.Her beauty hides a deadly purpose . . .Since birth, Xishi’s extraordinary beauty has been seen as a blessing. When Xishi draws the attention of the famous young military advisor Fanli, he presents her with a rare opportunity: to use her beauty as a weapon. One that could topple the rival neighbouring kingdom, improve the lives of her people and avenge her sister’s murder. All she has to do is infiltrate the enemy palace as a spy and seduce their immoral king.What neither Xishi nor Fanli expect is the doomed attraction that ignites between them. Even worse, Xishi soon finds herself under the hungry gaze of the king and his advisors. Despite his gentleness, a brutality lurks and Xishi knows she can never let her guard down. But the higher she climbs in the court, the further she and Fanli have to fall. And if she is unmasked as a traitor, she will bring both kingdoms down . . .
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Murder and mayhem disrupt a family Christmas by the sea in this gripping festive thriller for 9+ readers!George and his family are celebrating Christmas by the sea. But when a body washes up on the beach, George can’t stop thinking about the strange lights he saw on the cliff top… Neither can his cousin, Isla. Together, they follow the clues, and as they draw nearer to the truth, they step further into danger. On land, or at sea, someone is desperate to stop them, whatever it takes. And that someone may be closer to home than they realise…
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A touching tale about a little bunny with a big heart, featuring sparkly silver foil on every page!Snow Bunny and her friends are putting on a Christmas show. Finally, the stage is set and Snow Bunny has helped Bear, Mouse and Fox with their acts, but - oh dear! - there's no time left for her to prepare her own perfomance.But as the performers take their final bows, it's time to shine the spotlight on the helpful friend whose hard work and brilliant ideas made it all possible: Snow Bunny - the true star of the show.The perfect book for sharing on cold winter's nights in the run-up to Christmas!There are more books in the Snow Bunny series to collect: Snow Bunny's Christmas Wish and Snow Bunny's Christmas Gift.
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A beautifully designed coffee table book celebrating the one and only Barbie™This official Mattel book celebrates the life and contributions of Barbie. With hundreds of images and sections ranging from Style Icon, Barbie Evolution, and Fashion as well as a detailed timeline and a section of factoids and tidbits, this gorgeous book will please Barbie aficionados while also rewarding casual fans.Pop icon, fashion muse, and role model Barbara Millicent Roberts―known to the world simply as “Barbie”―continues to fascinate generations worldwide. Since her introduction in 1959, she has constantly evolved to embrace the changing times, becoming increasingly inclusive and representative of women today.Barbie: The Celebration of an Icon charmingly explores the social and aesthetic trends that Barbie has embodied from the 1950s to present day in areas including fashion, society, art, and costume.As the introduction by author, curator, and museum director Massimiliano Capella notes: In the year she turns sixty-five (2024), Barbie continues her transformations and evolutions, progressing with the times, ever faithful to her intrinsic nature as a fashion icon, but increasingly inclusive, keenly attentive to social and global themes and issues, such as diversity and gender equality, true to her longtime motto, timelier than ever: “You can be anything.”A companion book dedicated to Ken will follow in 2025.
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From one of contemporary literature’s most exciting new voices, a haunting story centered on the Hungarian polymath John von Neumann, tracing the impact of his singular legacy on the dreams and nightmares of the twentieth century and the nascent age of AIBenjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World electrified a global readership. A Booker Prize and National Book Award finalist, and one of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year, it explored the life and thought of a clutch of mathematicians and physicists who took science to strange and sometimes dangerous new realms. In The MANIAC, Labatut has created a tour de force on an even grander scale.A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory and the first programable computer, and pioneering AI, digital life, and cellular automata. Through a chorus of family members, friends, colleagues, and rivals, Labatut shows us the evolution of a mind unmatched and of a body of work that has unmoored the world in its wake.The MANIAC places von Neumann at the center of a literary triptych that begins with Paul Ehrenfest, an Austrian physicist and friend of Einstein, who fell into despair when he saw science and technology become tyrannical forces, it ends a hundred years later, in the showdown between the South Korean Go Master Lee Sedol and the AI program AlphaGo, an encounter embodying the central question of von Neumann's most ambitious unfinished project: the creation of a self-reproducing machine, an intelligence able to evolve beyond human understanding or control.A work of beauty and fabulous momentum, The MANIAC confronts us with the deepest questions we face as a species.
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An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility, a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.
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