'A Yorkshire Agatha Raisin' - Dalesman
It’s dark in the Dales this winter . . .
When Mrs Shepherd arrives at the Dales Detective Agency, quite convinced that someone is trying to kill her, Samson O’Brien dismisses her fears as the ramblings of a confused elderly lady.
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Samson O’Brien has been dismissed from the police force, and returns to his hometown of Bruncliffe in the Yorkshire Dales to set up the Dales Detective Agency. However, the villagers aren’t that welcoming to a man they see as trouble.
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But MI5’s formidable First Desk did not become Britain’s top spy by accident, and she has successfully thwarted the inquiry at every turn. Now the administration that created Monochrome has been ousted, the investigation is a total bust—and Griselda and Malcolm are stuck watching as their career prospects are washed away by the pounding London rain.
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WINNER OF THE SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE 2023
LONGLISTED FOR THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE 2023
NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023
A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett
A woman moves from the place of ...
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Lights. Camera. Lies.
18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.
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It is raining the day her life changes for ever. Attacked, drugged and kidnapped, Paige is transported to Oxford – a city kept secret for two hundred years, controlled by a powerful, otherworldly race. Paige is assigned to Warden, a Rephaite with mysterious motives. He is her master. Her trainer. Her natural enemy.
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La épica y emocionante historia de una mujer cuya vida abarca los momentos históricos más relevantes del siglo XX. Desde 1920 -con la llamada «gripe española»- hasta la pandemia de 2020, la vida de Violeta será mucho más que la historia de un siglo. Violeta viene al mundo un tormentoso día de 1920, siendo la primera niña de una familia de cinco bulliciosos hermanos.
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Giovanni Boccaccio, genialissimo e spregiudicato innovatore di temi, generi e modelli, apre con questa Vita di Dante alla nuova letteratura in volgare spazi del tutto mediti. Qui una scontata pratica agiografica si converte, animandola un fervore che darà l’Umanesimo, in esaltazione del poeta. E quale poeta. E il nuovo Virgilio di una sorgente di letteratura stavolta tutta cristiana: [...]
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Negli anni del dominio letterario di D'Annunzio, due piccoli libri portavano ai lettori una nuova idea di poesia. Erano opera di Guido Gozzano, morto prematuramente a trentatré anni, e illustravano un mondo popolato da personaggi comuni e «buone cose di pessimo gusto».
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Questo volume, che comprende l’intera produzione letteraria del poeta romano, dà la possibilità di indagare l’epoca, la temperie culturale, i modelli, il percorso artistico di un autore che compare in ogni antologia letteraria.
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Prendete lo spirito dissacrante che trasforma nevrosi, sesso e disastri famigliari in commedia, da Fleabag al Lamento di Portnoy, aggiungete l’uso spietato che Annie Ernaux fa dei ricordi: avrete la voce di una scrittrice che in Italia ancora non c’era. Veronica Raimo sabota dall’interno il romanzo di formazione.
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She will breathe a new empire into life – but all worlds can escape their creator…‘Full of adventure… A celebration of the power of storytelling’ GUARDIANIn the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history.
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Pi?? dekad strachu.
JEDNA MROCZNA PRAWDA.
Glasgow, 1965 rok. Jack Mackay, nieust?pliwy, uparcie d???cy do celu nastolatek, nie wyobra?a sobie ?ycia, które mia?oby by? nudne i przewidywalne. Ch?opak ma tylko jedno marzenie, a jest nim przeprowadzka do Londynu. Udaje mu si? przekona? czterech muzyków ze swojego zespo?u, by wyjechali do Wielkiej Brytanii, gdzie czeka ich kariera muzyczna.
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Don't miss out on the series that everyone can't stop talking about! 'Pure escapism - think Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades' - The Sun'We weren't expecting to become obsessed with Rebecca Yarros's Fourth Wing, but we very much are - and we're not alone . . .
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1930s London. Poor Lady Georgiana - thirty-fourth in line to the throne - has nothing to serve her Bavarian princess houseguest, even though the Queen of England has requested that she entertain her. Then there's the matter of the body in the bookshop and the princess's unwitting involvement with the Communist party. It's enough to drive a girl mad.
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At the Convent of Sweet Mercy young girls are raised to be killers. In a few the old bloods show, gifting talents rarely seen since the tribes beached their ships on Abeth. Sweet Mercy hones its novices' skills to deadly effect: it takes ten years to educate a Red Sister in the ways of blade and fist.
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On Abeth the vastness of the ice holds no room for individuals. Survival together is barely possible. No one survives alone.
To resist the cold, to endure the months of night when even the air itself begins to freeze, requires a special breed. Variation is dangerous, difference is fatal. And Yaz is not the same.
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The greatest story can reach the stars . . .
This is the start of an incredible new journey from the internationally bestselling author of Prince of Thorns, in which, though the pen may be mightier than the sword, blood will be spilled and cities burned…
Evar has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, older than empires and larger than cities.
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Histoires Courtes en Portugais est une collection de 25 histoires courtes non conventionnelles et divertissantes, chacune de quelques paragraphes, qui sont conçues pour aider les apprenants débutants et intermédiaires du Portugais à améliorer leurs compétences linguistiques d'une manière amusante et engageante.
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With the passing of time comes Taliban rule over Afghanistan, the streets of Kabul loud with the sound of gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear, the women's endurance tested beyond their worst imaginings. Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways, lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with a startling heroism.
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In war we find out who we are.
FRANCE, 1939
In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says good-bye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France…but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent.
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Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere.
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Perfect for fans of Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood, this ??oesweet and funny” (Kerry Winfrey, author of Waiting for Tom Hanks) teen rom-com is hopelessly romantic with enemies to lovers and grumpy x sunshine energy! *Get your limited edition purple copy now, to match the September release of ...
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The first rule of book club:
You don't talk about book club.
Braden Mack thinks reading romance novels makes him an expert in love, but he'll soon discover that real life is better than fiction.
Liv Papandreas has a dream job as a sous chef at Nashville's hottest restaurant. Too bad the celebrity chef owner is less than charming behind kitchen doors.
[lire la quatrième du livre Undercover Bromance]
An atmospheric, gritty, and compelling novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932, by the bestselling author of Riding Lessons.
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Alaska, 1974. Ernt Allbright came home from the Vietnam War a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes the impulsive decision to move his wife and daughter north where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.
Cora will do anything for the man she loves, even if means following him into the unknown.
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Celebrating 25 years of The Notebook - the classic novel which became the heart-wrenching film. *Once again, just as I do every day, I begin to read the notebook aloud... Noah Calhoun has returned from war and, in an attempt to escape the ghosts of battle, he sets his mind and his body to restoring an old plantation home to its former beauty.
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What have we done to each other?
These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches.
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Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez.
«En agosto nos vemos es también otra prueba irrefutable de su talento, dedicación y amor por la literatura.Es una obra imprescindible. El broche final a una carrera y una vida únicas».
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Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel.
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Professore mai professorale, esigente dispensatore di pareri irrevocabili, Cesare Brandi fu sempre in viaggio in luoghi che i suoi incarichi lavorativi lo portarono a conoscere e ad amare: una attività che per lui aveva una dimensione etica prima ancora che estetica.
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1 cahier de 128 pages.
Ce cahier d’exercices, très pratique et ludique, a été conçu spécialement pour les débutants en coréen. 130 exercices à la progression étudiée et sous forme de jeux sont proposés, accompagnés de leurs corrigés.
À la fin de chaque chapitre, vous pourrez également autoévaluer votre niveau de langue.
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OAKLEYI have one goal. To be drafted into the NHL and make my father proud. I've never been interested in dating, not when all of my spare time is spent at the rink perfecting my craft.
There's no time for distractions. I can't afford them. But she came out of nowhere.
Octavia Layton, the girl with the pretty smile and the broken heart. One night spent talking beneath the stars and [...]
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL AWARD 2023'A beautiful and evocative novel about grief, about growing up, about losing and winning. The people and places in this book will stay with me for a long time.
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