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Surfacing

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From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale—now an Emmy Award-winning Hulu original series—and Alias Grace, now a Netflix original series.Part detective novel, part psychological thriller, Surfacing is the story of a talented woman artist who goes in search of her missing father on a remote island in northern Quebec. Setting out with her lover and another young couple, she soon finds herself captivated by the isolated setting, where a marriage begins to fall apart, violence and death lurk just beneath the surface, and sex becomes a catalyst for conflict and dangerous choices. Surfacing is a work permeated with an aura of suspense, complex with layered meanings, and written in brilliant, diamond-sharp prose. Here is a rich mine of ideas from an extraordinary writer about contemporary life and nature, families and marriage, and about women fragmented...and becoming whole.

Lezioni di chimica

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La cucina è chimica e la chimica è vita. La capacità di cambiare tutto, compresi se stessi, comincia da qui.Elizabeth Zott è magnetica. Se entra in una stanza, state certi che non le staccherete gli occhi di dosso: perché è bella, e perché ha quel modo schietto di esprimere il proprio pensiero, che scende come una lama sulla superficie molle della morale comune. Siamo nel 1952, ed Elizabeth è una giovane chimica che lavora all'Hastings Research Institute in California, un ambiente ferocemente maschilista dove il suo innegabile talento viene per lo più messo a tacere, sabotato, o usato per il prestigio altrui. Malgrado le difficoltà, il coraggio di rivendicare diritti e successi non viene scalfito e spinge Elizabeth a perseverare. C'è solo un uomo che ammira la sua determinazione: è Calvin Evans, genio della chimica in odore di Nobel, con il quale nasce un sentimento puro in cui condivisione delle formule e attrazione fisica vanno di pari passo.Ma la vita, come la scienza, è soggetta a trasformazioni, e qualche anno dopo la tempra di Elizabeth, ora madre single, folgora un produttore televisivo che le affida la conduzione di Cena alle sei, un programma di cucina che nelle sue mani diventa un appuntamento quotidiano immancabile per il grande pubblico. Il suo approccio rivoluzionario ai fornelli, infarcito di digressioni scientifiche, non mira solo alla preparazione di stufati, ma anche ad aprire gli occhi all'universo femminile. Lezioni di chimica è la storia di una donna irresistibile, che cade e si rialza più volte; è l'avventura di un'esistenza che ribalta gli schemi e costruisce un nuovo percorso, nonostante tutto. Con Elizabeth Zott si ride e si piange. È lei a dettare il ritmo, a indicarci quando andare a testa alta e quando invece è impossibile. Quello che sembra dirci, alla fine di tutto, è di non fermarci mai.

The Island

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A summertime story only Elin Hilderbrand can tell: a family in upheaval after a cancelled wedding fill an island summer with heartache, laughter, and surprises.Birdie Cousins has thrown herself into the details of her daughter Chess's lavish wedding, from the floating dance floor in her Connecticut back yard to the color of the cocktail napkins. Like any mother of a bride-to-be, she is weathering the storms of excitement and chaos, tears and joy. But Birdie, a woman who prides herself on preparing for every possibility, could never have predicted the late-night phone call from Chess, abruptly announcing that she's cancelled her engagement.It's only the first hint of what will be a summer of upheavals and revelations. Before the dust has even begun to settle, far worse news arrives, sending Chess into a tailspin of despair. Reluctantly taking a break from the first new romance she's embarked on since the recent end of her 30-year marriage, Birdie circles the wagons and enlists the help of her younger daughter Tate and her own sister India. Soon all four are headed for beautiful, rustic Tuckernuck Island, off the coast of Nantucket, where their family has summered for generations. No phones, no television, no grocery store - a place without distractions where they can escape their troubles.But throw sisters, daughters, ex-lovers, and long-kept secrets onto a remote island, and what might sound like a peaceful getaway becomes much more. Before summer has ended, dramatic truths are uncovered, old loves are rekindled, and new loves make themselves known.

Werewolf Cop

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Zach Adams is one of the best detectives in the country. Nicknamed Cowboy, he’s a soft-spoken homicide detective known for his integrity and courage under fire. He serves on a federal task force that has a single mission: to hunt down Dominic Abend, a European gangster who has taken over the American underworld.After a brutal murder gives them a lead, Zach and his tough guy NYPD partner Martin Goulart are finally on Abend’s trail. But things get complicated — and very, very weird. Goulart’s on-the-job enemies are accusing him of corruption. And Zach is beginning to suspect that Abend’s evil goes beyond crime—perhaps to the edge of the supernatural. As his investigation continues in Germany, Zach finds himself lured into the impossible. In a centuries-old forest under a full moon, a beast assaults him, cursing him forever. In the aftermath, Zach is transformed into something horrible —something deadly.Now, the good cop has innocent blood on his hands. He has killed—and will kill again—in the form of a beast who can’t be controlled or stopped. Before he can free himself, he’s going to have to solve the greatest mystery of all: How can you defeat evil when the evil is inside you?

The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (30 short stories)

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The Damned Thing - Ambrose Bierce A Prisoner in Fairyland - Algernon Blackwood The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories - Algernon Blackwood The Willows - Algernon Blackwood Wieland: or, The Transformation - Charles Brockden Brown The Keeper of Cademuir - John Buchan No-man's-land - John Buchan The Grove of Ashtaroth - John Buchan The Watcher by the Threshold - John Buchan The King in Yellow - Robert William Chambers The Signal-Man - Charles Dickens Trilby - George du Maurier The Lost Stradivarius - John Meade Falkner Curious, If True: Strange Tales - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman- The Three Strangers - Thomas Hardy The Night Land - William Hope Hodgson Carnacki, The Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson The Ghost Pirates - William Hope Hodgson The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - James Hogg The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Washington Irving Ghost Stories of Chapelizod - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Child That Went With The Fairies - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Familiar - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Vision Of Tom Chuff - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu At the Mountains of Madness - Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu - Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Dunwich Horror - Howard Phillips Lovecraft The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen The Inmost Light - Arthur Machen The Novel of the White Powder - Arthur Machen The Terror - Arthur Machen The Beetle - Richard Marsh The Vampire - Jan Neruda In the Dark - Edith Nesbit The Power of Darkness - Edith Nesbit The Demon Spell - Hume Nisbet The Vampire Maid - Hume Nisbet The Fall of the House of Usher - E.A. Poe The Masque of the Red Death - E.A. Poe The Pit and the Pendulum - E.A. Poe The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade - Edgar Allan Poe Varney the Vampire - James Malcom Rymer

The Marshal: A Collection of Tales of How He Got His Man

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The Marshal is a collection of tales that show you how he got his man, told by fifteen talented new writers that are sure to revive the western genre.Which will be your favorite?Featured Contributors:Ace BakerBen FineBob PriceBruce HarrisDavid MasseyDawn DeBraalE. W. FarnsworthGerry WojtowiczKathryn SadakierskiLincoln ReedLuis Manuel TorresMatt McGeeOliver BradySteve CarrandTodd Salvia

God the Invisible King

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This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. Its core is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. The writer will be found to be sympathetic with all sincere religious feeling. Nevertheless it is well to prepare the prospective reader for statements that may jar harshly against deeply rooted mental habits.

Summerland

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The "queen of the summer novel" explores the power of community, family, and honesty-and proves that even from the ashes of sorrow new love can take flight (Kirkus Reviews).A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. What begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt--but the emotional damage is overwhelming. Questions linger about what happened before Penny took the wheel.As summer unfolds, startling truths are revealed about the survivors and their parents, the secrets kept, promises broken, and hearts betrayed.

Origin

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ΟΠΟΙΟΣ ΚΙ ΑΝ ΕΙΣΑΙ Ο,ΤΙ ΚΙ ΑΝ ΠΙΣΤΕΥΕΙΣ ΤΑ ΠΑΝΤΑ ΠΡΟΚΕΙΤΑΙ ΝΑ ΑΛΛΑΞΟΥΝ Μπιλμπάο, Ισπανία Ο Ρόμπερτ Λάνγκτον, καθηγητής συμβολολογίας και θρησκευτικής εικονολογίας στο Χάρβαρντ, επισκέπτεται το Μουσείο Γκούγκενχαϊμ για να παραστεί στην ανακοίνωση μιας σημαντικής ανακάλυψης που πρόκειται να αλλάξει για πάντα το πρόσωπο της επιστήμης. Οικοδεσπότης είναι ο Έντμοντ Κιρς, ένας σαραντάρης δισεκατομμυριούχος μελλοντολόγος, με καταπληκτικές, υψηλής τεχνολογίας εφευρέσεις και προκλητικές προβλέψεις που τον έχουν κάνει παγκοσμίως διάσημο. Ο Κιρς, που ήταν ένας από τους πρώτους μαθητές του Λάνγκτον στο Χάρβαρντ πριν από είκοσι χρόνια, πρόκειται να αποκαλύψει ένα εκπληκτικό επίτευγμα που θα δώσει απαντήσεις σε δύο από τα πιο θεμελιώδη ερωτήματα για την ανθρώπινη ύπαρξη. Όμως η βραδιά σύντομα εξελίσσεται στο απόλυτο χάος, η ανακάλυψη του Κιρς κινδυνεύει να χαθεί για πάντα και ο Λάνγκτον αναγκάζεται να δραπετεύσει από το Μπιλμπάο μαζί με την Άμπρα Βιδάλ, την όμορφη διευθύντρια του μουσείου, και να καταφύγουν στη Βαρκελώνη σε μια προσπάθεια να εντοπίσουν τον κρυφό κωδικό πρόσβασης που θα ξεκλειδώσει το μυστικό του Κιρς. Μέσα από σκοτεινούς διαδρόμους κρυφής ιστορίας και ακραίας θρησκείας, ακολουθώντας ίχνη της σύγχρονης τέχνης αλλά και αινιγματικά σύμβολα, ο Λάνγκτον και η Βιδάλ πρέπει να ξεφύγουν από έναν βασανισμένο διώκτη, που φαίνεται πως διαθέτει ισχυρούς συμμάχους στα ίδια τα Βασιλικά Ανάκτορα της Ισπανίας και ο οποίος δε θα σταματήσει μπροστά σε τίποτα, προκειμένου να κάνει τον Κιρς να σιωπήσει. Το πιο ευφάνταστο και ιδιοφυές μυθιστόρημα του Dan Brown.

Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo

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Los siete maridos de Evelyn Hugo, de Taylor Jenkins Reid, llega a Stefano Books con una nueva edición revisada y, además, podrás leer en exclusiva el primer capítulo del nuevo libro de la autora, Atmosphere: Una historia de amor.¿ESTÁS LISTO PARA PERDERTE ENTRE LAS PÁGINAS DE UNA DE LAS NOVELAS MÁS IMPORTANTES DE LA LITERATURA CONTEMPORÁNEA, QUE YA HA CAUTIVADO A MÁS DE 500.000 LECTORES HISPANOS?Evelyn Hugo, la mítica estrella de Hollywood, tuvo siete maridos... pero un solo gran amor.«¿Quién fue el amor de la vida de Evelyn?».Esa es la gran pregunta. Ese es el gancho de este libro.Siete maridos.¿A cuál quiso más?¿Cuál fue su verdadero amor?Eso es lo que quiero saber, como periodista y como lectora.El libro no empezará por ahí, pero quizás ella y yo sí debamos comenzar por ahí.Quiero saber, de todos esos matrimonios, cuál fue el más importante.

Fourteen Days

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Set in a Lower East Side tenement in the early days of the COVID-19 lockdowns, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive collaborative novel from the Authors Guild, with an unusual twist: each character in this diverse, eccentric cast of New York neighbors has been secretly written by a different, major literary voice—from Margaret Atwood and Celeste Ng to Tommy Orange and John Grisham.One week into the COVID-19 shutdown, tenants of a Lower East Side apartment building in Manhattan have begun to gather on the rooftop and tell stories. With each passing night, more and more neighbors gather, bringing chairs and milk crates and overturned pails. Gradually the tenants—some of whom have barely spoken to each other—become real neighbors. In this Decameron-like serial novel, general editors Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston and a star-studded list of contributors create a beautiful ode to the people who couldn’t escape when the pandemic hit. A dazzling, heartwarming, and ultimately surprising narrative, Fourteen Days reveals how beneath the horrible loss and suffering, some communities managed to become stronger.Includes writing from: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Joseph Cassara, Jennine Capó Crucet, Angie Cruz, Pat Cummings, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Douglas Preston, Alice Randall, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R.L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, Caroline Randall Williams, De’Shawn Charles Winslow, and Meg Wolitzer!

Welcome to Beach Town

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Beloved New York Times bestselling author Susan Wiggs returns with a compulsively readable tale of an idyllic California beach town forced to reckon with scandal when a high school valedictorian’s speech reveals secrets that shake the town to its core."Readers will savor sunny skies and perfect surf in this stunning new novel, but one thing is for sure: In this Beach Town, there is always more happening than meets the eye. Don’t miss this expansive beauty of a summer book!" --Kristy Woodson Harvey, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Summer of SongbirdsEvery town has its secrets...In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it’s graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. At Thornton, the students are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer’s daughter who is there on scholarship. To the shock of everyone in the audience, Nikki veers off script while giving her commencement address and reveals a secret that breaks open the whole community. As her truth explodes into the light, Alara Cove will face a reckoning.Nikki Graziola’s accusation shakes the foundation of Alara Cove, pitting her against the wealthy family whose money runs the town. Her new notoriety sends Nikki into exile for years, where she finds fame—but not fortune—overseas as a competition surfer...until a personal tragedy compels her to return to Alara Cove. As Nikki struggles to rebuild her future, she finds that the people of the town have not forgotten her. But time has changed Alara Cove, and old friendships, rivalries, and an unexpected romance draw her back into the life of the beach town she’s never quite forgotten, and where joy and redemption may be possible after all.

Niedaleko pada jabłko

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NOWA POWIEŚĆ AUTORKI BESTSELLEROWYCH WIELKICH KŁAMSTEWEKCZY GDYBYŚCIE PODEJRZEWALI, ŻE WASZ OJCIEC ZABIŁ WASZĄ MATKĘ,DONIEŚLIBYŚCIE O TYM POLICJI?Rodzina Delaneyów na pierwszy rzut oka jest idealna. Joy i Stan wychowali czwórkę wspaniałych dzieci. Przez lata prowadzili jedną z najsłynniejszych szkół tenisowych w Australii. I choć młodość mają już za sobą, wciąż jest między nimi chemia, a gdy grają w debla, są niepokonani. Takiej miłości można tylko pozazdrościć.Dlaczego więc Joy pewnego dnia po prostu… znika?Czwórka rodzeństwa – Amy, Logan, Troy i Brooke – próbuje dowiedzieć się, co stało się z ich matką. Co oznacza zagadkowa wiadomość, którą wysłała w dniu zaginięcia? Dlaczego ojciec tak dziwnie się zachowuje? I co wspólnego z tym wszystkim ma nieznajoma, która rok temu zapukała do drzwi ich rodzinnego domu?Im więcej pytań zadają Delaneyowie, tym więcej drobnych rys pojawia się na obrazku idealnego małżeństwa. Liane Moriarty – specjalistka od rodzinnych sekretów – jak zwykle po mistrzowsku buduje napięcie, na które składają się drobne nieporozumienia, od dawna tłumione żale oraz paskudne tajemnice.Jakie to jest dobre!Jojo MoyesZabawna i przerażająca.Stephen KingMoriarty opowiada świetną historię, rozumie swoich bohaterów i pisze o nich z niezwykłą czułością.„The Washington Post”Moriarty w swojej najlepszej formie. „Booklist”Wielbiciele Moriarty, radujcie się!CNN

The Castle of Otranto; a Gothic story. (With a critical introduction.).

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The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire.

El Duque de L'Omelette

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Uno de los cuentos más destacados del escritor clásico Edgar Allan Poe.

A la recherche d'Alice Love

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Alice Love tombe en faisant du sport. Lorsqu'elle se réveille, elle pense qu'elle a 29 ans, qu'elle est enceinte de son premier enfant et qu'on est en 1998. En réalité, on est en 2008, Alice a trois enfants, Madison, 10 ans, Tom, 8 ans et Olivia, 5 ans, et s'apprête à divorcer. Comment a-t-elle pu devenir cette femme autoritaire et maigrichonne (faire du sport ? elle DÉTESTE ça !) ? Pourquoi Elisabeth, sa soeur adorée, est-elle en froid avec elle ? Comment Nick, son amour de toujours, et elle en sont-ils venus à se détester ? Alice devra s'efforcer de reconstituer le puzzle de cette décennie oubliée et découvrira si son amnésie est une malédiction ou une bénédiction.Et si perdre la mémoire était la meilleure chose qu'il soit jamais arrivé à Alice ?

10 Children's Short Stories 1

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Timeless collection of children's well known stories including the works of Lewis Carroll, Madame Le prince de Beaumont, Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, J. M. Barrie, Hans Christian Andersen, and more! This collection features 10 integrated text and audio narrated by Matthew Rutledge and Erica Lee. ALICE IN WONDERLAND BEAUTY AND THE BEAST CAT AND MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP HANSEL AND GRETEL LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD PETER PAN THE FROG PRINCE THE LITTLE MERMAID THE STORY OF CINDERELLA THREE LITTLE BEAR

Hot Shot

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The Sisterhood: a group of women bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Now their male allies, the Men of the Sisterhood, have formed a top-secret organization of their own, with the same goal of helping the helpless and righting the wrongs of the world . . . Loyalty is a way of life for the Sisterhood and their significant others. When lawyer Lizzie Fox’s husband, Cosmo Cricket, is left critically injured after being shot by an unknown assailant, the men of BOLO Consultants head straight for Las Vegas to comfort Lizzie—and to uncover a dangerous enemy in the City of Sin. As head of Nevada’s Gaming Commission, Cosmo has powerful enemies. Yet the shooting seems to be related to one of his private projects. Built in the desert outside Las Vegas, Happy Village is a flourishing community for seniors who have lost a spouse. Cosmo’s widowed father found new purpose in running the venture. But the neighborhood that’s now home to Happy Village was once run by rival gangs, a complicated past that has come to haunt the place. Jack, Harry, and the rest of the crew need to remove the threat, risking everything to take on a vicious and mysterious gang leader known only as Hot Shot. And while the men of the Sisterhood fight for justice for their friend, Cosmo is fighting for his life—and the stakes have never been higher . . .

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Everything I Know About Love and Ghosts: a sharply funny, beautifully observed and exquisitely relatable story of heartbreak and friendship, and how to survive both.Andy loves Jen. Jen loved Andy. And he can't work out why she stopped.Now he is. . .1. Without a home2. Waiting for his stand-up career to take off3. Wondering why everyone else around him seems to have grown up while he wasn't lookingSet adrift on the sea of heartbreak at a time when everything he thought he knew about women, and flat-sharing, and his friendships has transformed beyond recognition, Andy clings to the idea of solving the puzzle of their broken relationship. Because if he can find the answer to that, then maybe Jen can find her way back to him.Andy still has a lot to learn, not least his ex-girlfriend's side of the story. With an ingenious feat of narrative, Dolly Alderton offers up a love story with two endings, an act of emotional honesty that establishes her as one of our most exciting writers and demonstrates yet again why she is “quite simply, the bard of modern day love” (—Lena Dunham).

Just Another Day at the Office

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Just Another Day at the Office reveals the never-before-known details of how Philip Blake (aka The Governor) took full control of Woodbury. In this exciting story that takes place between The Walking Dead: Rise of the Governor and The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury, Philip unleashes his full fury on the previous leaders of the small walled-off town. This one-man-army, a man on his way to becoming the fearsome Governor who will eventually go up against Rick Grimes and company, single-handedly takes on all foes, both zombie and human alike. Robert Kirkman and Jay Bonansinga's story was originally published in issue 1 of The Walking Dead magazine and contains approximately 3,500 words, along with an extended excerpt for The Walking Dead: The Road to Woodbury.

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