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It's a usual Friday afternoon in Kabul. Residents are praying, drinking, shopping. At exactly 2:36pm the bomb explodes. Merza, an Afghan parliamentarian receiving ominous threats, thinks he's the target. Alive, but shaken, he stops to aid the wounded. Alec, an American journalist who shouldn't even be in Kabul, looks for a story. With other reporters, he rushes to the scene. Taking place over twelve hours on January 28, 2011, The Finest Supermarket in Kabul is inspired by true events.

In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth’s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy surface of Enceladus. Earth-raised Colonel Carter Rhodes, in charge of Earth’s recovery efforts, calls upon Gwen Baré, a Venusian engineer, to regain control of the deserted moon outpost and collect fuel for Earth’s collapsing power grids.

Miss Jane Quayle excels at invention. How else could the sheltered daughter of an English gentleman create lurid Gothic novels so infamous someone wants their author silenced forever? Fortunately, Jane has taken steps to protect herself: first, by assuming a pen name, and second, by taking up residence at remote Dunnock Castle, surrounded by rugged scenery that might have been ripped from the pages of one of her books. Her true identity remains a secret...until one dark and stormy night.

From lunar logic to retrograde real talk, eclipses to asteroids, practicing astrologer Rachel Stuart-Haas breaks down the astrological phenomena that impact your day-to-day life in this giftable guide to the heavens and what they have in store.

Despite the many films and television programmes over the decades since the end of the Second World War that portrays our allied heroes as grown-up men and women, the Battle of Britain was in the main actually fought and won by teenagers. The average age of an RAF fighter pilot was just 20 years old. Many of the men and women who designed and built their planes were even younger.

The story concerns the attempts by a prince and his followers to shield themselves from a terrible plague which is devastating the surrounding area and to carry on living lives of pleasure. Their attempts ultimately prove futile. The Red Death is the name of the infectious disease which causes people to die within 30 minutes. Those who are infected bleed profusely from their skin, especially their faces, before they die. Some six months after the arrival of Prince Prospero's guests, a masked ball is held for them.

Esme Nicholls is to spend the summer in Cornwall. Her late husband, Alec, who died fighting in the war, grew up in Penzance, and she’s hoping to learn more about the man she loved and lost. While there, she will stay with Gilbert, in his rambling seaside house, where he lives with his former brothers in arms. Esme is fascinated by this community of eccentric artists and former soldiers, and as she gets to know the men and their stories, she begins to feel this summer might be exactly what she needs.

Lotte Meisner genießt ihr Rentner-Leben inmitten der Weinberge und der Gesellschaft ihrer Hündin Käthe, als die Idylle des ruhigen Örtchens in der Vorderpfalz durch einen Todesfall bei der Probe des Kirchenchors getrübt wird. Fräulein Meisner, ein langjähriges Mitglied, glaubt nicht an einen natürlichen Tod der Solistin und beginnt auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. Doch bald stirbt ein weiteres Mitglied und sein Tod wirft sofort eine Frage auf: will sich im Chor etwa jemand nach oben morden?

Mitchells grootste bestseller wereldwijd, met meer dan 50.000 exemplaren verkocht in Nederland en Vlaanderen. Wolkenatlas is alleen al door zijn 'matroesjka'-structuur uniek. Vijf verhalen worden verteld tot de helft: het avontuurlijke reisjournaal uit 1850 van notaris Ewing, de hilarische brieven van de musicerende oplichter Frobisher, de thriller van roddeljournaliste Luisa Rey, de krankzinnige lotgevallen van uitgever Cavendish en het vraaggesprek met de kloon Sonmi-451. Het zesde verhaal speelt ver in de toekomst, wanneer de mensheid bijna ten onder is gegaan.

El potencial de todos los niños regularmente es determinado por una medida estandarizada: su coeficiente intelecutal (iq). Si la puntuación es elevada, el camino hacia un futuro dorado pasa por un colegio de nivel superior. Si la puntuación es demasiado baja, el futuro pasa por un colegio público con perspectivas muy limitadas. ¿El propósito? Una sociedad mejorada en la que los costes de la educación estén controlados al máximo posible y donde los profesores se centren en los estudiantes más prometedores.

Nueva York, mucho amor, sexo y diversión. ¿Te lo vas a perder? Arizona Li, una chica de Alabama, que se muda a Nueva York para terminar sus estudios de Medicina y hacer la residencia en uno de los mejores hospitales de Manhattan. Maddox Lewis, un teniente del Ejército de Tierra de los Estados Unidos, que solo busca en las mujeres buen sexo pasajero que le ayude a olvidar un pasado del que huye sin obtener éxito.

Il filo parte da Amma, drammaturga nera britannica in procinto di mettere in scena la sua prima opera fuori dalla nicchia, e collega le altre undici storie, tutte diverse, tutte importanti per la costituzione di un arazzo complicato e meraviglioso. Bernardine Evaristo, prima vincitrice nera del prestigioso Booker Prize, ci regala la rara e preziosa possibilità di guardare con occhi nuovi il nostro mondo, quel mondo che ci comprende e ci sovrasta e di cui, vuoi per pigrizia e vuoi per incapacità umana, siamo sempre e comunque troppo ignoranti.

Neuroscience is revolutionizing our understanding of human psychology and behavior. By showing how to apply this new understanding to how you recruit, manage, and develop your people, Brann is enabling you to deliver a step change in organizational performance and individual achievement.

As Hitler prepared to invade Poland during the sweltering summer of 1939, men and women from across London's museums, galleries and archives formulated ingenious plans to send the nation's highest prized objects to safety. Using stately homes, tube tunnels, slate mines, castles, prisons, stone quarries and even their own homes, a dedicated bunch of unlikely misfits packed up the nation's greatest treasures and, in a race against time, dispatched them throughout the country on a series of top-secret wartime adventures.

Fairy tales are not just fairy tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In The Fairy-Tellers, award-winning travel-writer Nick Jubber explores their secret history of fairy tales: the people who told them, the landscapes that forged them and the cultures that formed them.

Carlos no puede quejarse de su vida, tiene trabajo y se ha ido a vivir con su novia, Vanessa; una chica dulce, lista y muy hermosa. Sin embargo sólo consigue sentirse realmente vivo cuando coge su guitarra y toca con el grupo de música que cofundó con sus dos amigos de siempre, Ana y Javier. Cuando surge la idea de coger los bártulos e irse a tocar de pueblo en pueblo, tiene que plantearse cuál es la vida que quiere y cuáles son sus verdaderos sentimientos hacia Ana.

Rachel lives a quiet life in the peaceful countryside, content with her perfect man and her lovely dog. But when she stumbles upon a body in the woods one day, all that shatters. She knows what she has to do: run. Don’t get accused of murder. But when this victim is identified as her boyfriend’s estranged wife, Rachel realises she’s already the prime suspect. With mounting evidence against her, Rachel’s only hope is to keep her past well hidden.

Carlos no puede quejarse de su vida, tiene trabajo y se ha ido a vivir con su novia, Vanessa; una chica dulce, lista y muy hermosa. Sin embargo sólo consigue sentirse realmente vivo cuando coge su guitarra y toca con el grupo de música que cofundó con sus dos amigos de siempre, Ana y Javier. Cuando surge la idea de coger los bártulos e irse a tocar de pueblo en pueblo, tiene que plantearse cuál es la vida que quiere y cuáles son sus verdaderos sentimientos hacia Ana.

1938, Salzburg. Johanna, Birgit, and Lotte Eder have always lived quiet lives, working in their father’s clockmaking shop and helping their mother in the house. But like many other Austrians, they find it impossible to ignore the changes in the world around them. At first Johanna finds it hard to believe the Nazis pose a real threat. But then her father hires Franz to help in his shop. He’s kind and soulful, with dark eyes that twinkle with intelligence. But he’s Jewish, and as Johanna falls for him, she realizes that loving him puts them all in danger.

Una historia de intriga, mentiras, amor, celos y tragedia donde nada es lo que parece. Un monumental thriller, trepidante, inesperado y singular, donde el fuego no es lo único que arde. Inés y Oliver son los protagonistas. En un incendio mueren algunos de los compañeros de Oliver, que es bombero y eso parece haberlo hundido. Inés empieza a recibir mails sospechosos de mail que le empujan a investigar sobre lo que realmente pasó en el incendio.