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In The Dark
Your next riveting, twisty read!' SHARI LAPENA
'Reminded me of Hitchcock at his finest, where twist follows twist at a breath-taking pace' Daily Mail
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THEY'RE HIDING IN THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR?
From the author of the massive bestseller CLOSE TO HOME, comes the second pulse-pounding DI Fawley crime thriller.
A woman and child are found locked in a basement room, barely alive.
No one knows who they are - the woman can't speak, and there are no missing persons reports that match their profile. The elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before.
The inhabitants of the quiet Oxford street are in shock. How could this happen right under their noses? But DI Adam Fawley knows that nothing is impossible.
And that no one is as innocent as they seem . . .
WHAT AUTHORS AND READERS ARE SAYING:
'Cancel everything. You're not going anywhere until you finish reading In The Dark' EMILY KOCH
'A classy, agile, fresh, unpredictable and utterly compelling gift of a book: hats off!' NICCI FRENCH
'Cara Hunter is the new queen of the cliffhanger: fans of Close To Home are not going to be disappointed' JOHN MARRS
'A real gripper of a read' PETER JAMES
'One of the best crime thrillers I have ever read' KATHRYN CROFT
'In the Dark kept me up into the late hours. Clever and wonderfully complex!' JANE CORRY
'Cara Hunter is a brilliant plotter, but it's her masterfully drawn characters that really make her novels stand out' RACHEL ABBOTT
'A twisty, utterly compulsive read with an ending you won't see coming. I gobbled it up in one satisfying sitting' EMMA KAVANAGH
'Gritty, compelling and very real. I loved it' MEL SHERRATT
'A mazey, gripping read' IAN RANKIN
'I finished it in one sitting!' NUALA ELLWOOD
'Disturbingly real, highly clever and it totally kept me guessing. I loved it' CJ SKUSE
'It had me so gripped, I couldn't put this chilling book down. Cara Hunter is a masterful storyteller' SARAH WARD
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Nach dem Gewitter
Ein Paar unterwegs in Italien. Es ist eine Abschiedsreise. Kurz vor dem Städtchen M. liegen Fototüten am staubigen Straßenrand. Negative, Bilder einer Hochzeit. Ohne zu wissen, warum, nimmt die Frau den Zufallsfund an sich und schleppt ihn mit sich herum, fast zwanzig Jahre lang. Erst als ihr Sohn heiratet, macht sie Abzüge. Was sie sieht, läßt sie nicht los. Wer sind die Menschen auf den Bildern? Wieso lagen die Tüten an jenem gewittrigen Nachmittag am Straßenrand?Aus welcher Zeit stammen sie? Warum stellen die fremden Bilder in ihren Händen »die Ordnung der Dinge in Frage«? Unerklärlich berührt, entschließt sie sich, nach M. zu fahren. Ihre zunächst harmlose Spurensuche entwickelt sich zu einer unheimlichen Geschichte. Je mehr sie das Geheimnis aufzuhellen versucht, desto tiefer gerät sie selbst hinein.Ulrike Edschmid spürt dem lautlosen Verschwinden nach, das sich unseres Lebens in jedem Augenblick bemächtigt. Es ist die Melancholie der Zufälligkeit, die einen aus ihrer klaren und genauen Erzählung anweht.
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Dictionnaire des Expressions et Locutions Tradit.
Ce dictionnaire restitue toute la diversité de la langue française travers ses expressions et locutions les plus savoureuses. La signification des expressions d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. L'origine et l'histoire détaillée de chaque expression. De nombreuses citations d'écrivains l'appui des développements. Un classement facile par mots-clés.
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Lacná kniha Dictionnaire des Expressions et Locutions Tradit.
Ce dictionnaire restitue toute la diversité de la langue française travers ses expressions et locutions les plus savoureuses. La signification des expressions d'hier et d'aujourd'hui. L'origine et l'histoire détaillée de chaque expression. De nombreuses citations d'écrivains l'appui des développements. Un classement facile par mots-clés.
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Kleine Duden 3 - Der Passende Ausdruck
Das aktuelle Handbuch zum schnellen Nachschlagen. Alle L÷sungen auf einen Griff. 77132 Frage-/Antwort-Paare. Mit Zahlengliederungssystem und Randmarken f?r die schnelle Suche.
Autumn of the Patriarch
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude, explores the loneliness of power in Autumn of the Patriarch. 'Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside.' As the citizens of an unnamed Caribbean nation creep through dusty corridors in search of their tyrannical leader, they cannot comprehend that the frail and withered man lying dead on the floor can be the self-styled General of the Universe. Their arrogant, manically violent leader, known for serving up traitors to dinner guests and drowning young children at sea, can surely not die the humiliating death of a mere mortal? Tracing the demands of a man whose egocentric excesses mask the loneliness of isolation and whose lies have become so ingrained that they are indistinguishable from truth, Marquez has created a fantastical portrait of despotism that rings with an air of reality.
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Leo & Co. Stille Nacht: Stufe 3
Weihnachten steht vor der Tür und wie alle Jahre stellt sich die Frage: Wer feiert mit wem? Wo und wie? Diesmal soll alles einmal ganz anders werden!
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Drugs 2.0
A few years ago, deals were done in dimly-lit side streets or on the phone via a friend of a friend. Today, you can order every conceivable pill or powder with the click of a mouse. But the online market in narcotics isn't just changing the way drugs are bought and sold; it's changing the nature of drugs themselves. Enterprising dealers are using the web to engage highly skilled foreign chemists to tweak the chemical structures of banned drugs - just enough to create a similar effect, just enough to render them legal in most parts of the world. Drugs such as mephedrone (aka miaow-miaow) are marketed as 'not for human consumption', but everyone knows exactly how they're going to be used - what they can't know is whether their use might prove fatal. From UK dancefloors to the offices of apathetic government officials, via social networking sites and underground labs, Mike Power explores this agile, international, virtual subculture that will always be one step ahead of the law.
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Material Design
Wenn das professionelle Interesse an neuen Materialien uber eine intuitive Faszination hinausgeht, stellt sich die Frage, wie Innovationen aus der Materialerforschung in die Architekturanwendung importiert werden konnen. Hier setzt dieses grundlegend
e Buch an. Ausgehend von Materialeigenschaften wie Textur, Elastizitat oder Transparenz uberwindet es die traditionellen Einteilungen von Werkstoffen zugunsten der Darstellung ubergreifender Verarbeitungs- und Verwendungsarten wie Falten und Biegen,
Schneiden und Weben, Spiegeln und Projizieren. Die entwurfsorientierten Strategien und Techniken umfassen sowohl die etablierten als als "neue" Materialien. Sie ubergreifen alle Mastabe vom Detail bis zum Gesamtgebaude. Die Beispiele reichen von Prot
otypen bis hin zu groen ausfuhrten Projekten der letzten Jahre. In neun Kapiteln werden aus dieser neuen Sicht Oberflachen und Schichtungen, Fugungen und Verbindungen, Gewebe und Texturen, Transformationen mittels reaktiver Materialien und Nanomateri
alien, die Integration ephemerer Faktoren wie Wind und Licht sowie die systematische Erschlieung von Ressourcen durch Materialsammlungen dargestellt. Einleitend wird die Herausbildung der aktuellen Materialkultur beschrieben. Ein abschlieender Teil b
ehandelt den Beitrag der Materialinnovation zu aktuellen Anforderungen von Fragen der Nachhaltigkeit, des Lebenszyklus usw.
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Havel
"Vaclav Havel: iconoclast and philosopher-king, an internationally successful playwright who became a political dissident and then, reluctantly, a president. His pivotal role in the Velvet Revolution, the end of Communism and the birth of a modern, west-facing Czech Republic makes him a key figure of the twentieth century. He was a character of great contradictions, a courageous visionary who put his life at risk, a leader who inspired great loyalty; yet a man wracked with doubt, self-criticism, depression and despair. Above all he was an intellectual and artist, always true to himself, someone who never lost a profound sense of the absurd. Michael antovsky was one of Havel's closest friends. They met as dissidents under Communism, and when a frail Havel was released from prison in May 1989 just months before the Velvet Revolution it was antovsky who carried his bag for him; during Havel's first presidency antovsky was his press secretary, speech writer and translator, and their friendship endured until Havel's death in 2011. He is therefore uniquely placed as Havel's biographer; a rare witness to this most extraordinary life."
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Dictionnaire Hachette 2009
Un dictionnaire de français pour bien s'exprimer. 58 000 mots de la langue avec leurs différents sens et des exemples. Les mots nouveaux de l'année découvrir dans un cahier spécial de 8 pages. Les variantes autorisées de la nouvelle orthographe indiquées et expliquées. Des définitions claires et compltes avec : locutions, étymologie, prononciation. Avec un guide pratique du français pour éviter les piges. Les principales rgles de la grammaire. Tableaux de conjugaison. Maximes et proverbes. Liste des préfixes et des suffixes. Un dictionnaire encyclopédique pour maîtriser les repres indispensables. 25 000 noms propres dans tous les domaines du savoir. Les hommes, les faits, les lieux, les uvres, les évnements qu'il faut connaître. 600 développements encyclopédiques pour approfondir les sujets importants. Avec un mémento des connaissances. Atlas géographique mondial de 32 pages. Chronologies des grandes dates de l'histoire de la France et du monde. Les institutions françaises et européennes en résumé. Les notions-clés en sciences : mathématiques, physique-chimie, sciences de la Vie et de la Terre. Les listes de prix Nobel, Médaille Fields, Académie française. Un dictionnaire illustré trs facile d'accs. Un ordre alphabétique unique pour les mots de la langue et les noms propres. 3 000 illustrations - planches, dessins, schémas et photos - sur tous les sujets : faune, flore, sciences, techniques, uvres d'art, sites naturels, monuments, villes, portraits. 285 cartes géographiques des pays, régions, départements.
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The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me (R/I)
"A true genius...Roald Dahl is my hero". (David Walliams). The giraffe, the pelican and the agile monkey set out to prove that they are the best window-cleaning company around. Roald Dahl, the best-loved of children's writers, was born in Wales of Norwegian parents. His books continue to be bestsellers, despite his death in 1990, and total sales are over 100 million worldwide! Quentin Blake is one of Britain's most successful illustrators. His first drawings were published in Punch when he was sixteen. He has illustrated nearly three hundred books and he was Roald Dahl's favourite illustrator. He has won many awards including the Whitbread Award and the Kate Greenaway Medal. Besides being an illustrator he taught for over twenty years at the Royal College of Art and in 1999 he became the first ever Children's Laureate! Six years later he was awarded a CBE for services to children's literature and in 2013 he was knighted in the New Year's Honours - which means his full title is Sir Quentin Blake, although we can still all go on calling him Quentin as usual.
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Wings of the Dove
She found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ...the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed ...And she was dead, dead, dead'. Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically involved with promising journalist Merton Densher when they become acquainted with Milly Theale, a New York socialite of immense wealth. Learning of Milly's mortal illness and passionate attraction to Densher, Kate sets the scene for a romantic betrayal intended to secure her lasting financial security. As the dying Milly retreats within the carnival splendour of a Venetian palazzo, becoming the frail hub of a predatory circle of fortune-seekers, James unfolds a resonant, brooding tale of doomed passion, betrayal, human resilience and remorse. The "Penguin English Library" - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Hellblau
Tillmann verbringt den Sommer in North Carolina. Ein Hurrikan zieht auf. Ein Leuchtturm wird verschoben. Auf dem Meeresboden ruhende Kriegsschiffe bilden die Kulisse für Tauchgänge. Ein hellblauer Badeanzug, ein westafrikanisches Gewand, in Form gebrachte Augenbrauen. Reagan besucht Bitburg. Jüdische Jungen, die den Blues singen, der Antisemitismus der Black-Power-Bewegung und die »Frauen fremder Völker«. Abschiebungen von Asylbewerbern, Streit um die Entschädigung von NS-Zwangsarbeitern, schwarze Aliens. Chicago, Detroit, Mannheim, Berlin, Krakau. Das ist der Kosmos des neuen Meinecke. Nachdem der Autor in The Church of John F. Kennedy Konzepte nationaler Identität in Frage gestellt und seine Figuren im Roman Tomboy in »gender trouble« gebracht hat, kreiselt Hellblau um die Konstruktion ethnischer Identität. Was ist ein Europäer, Afrikaner, Amerikaner, der jüdische Mann? Welche Folgen hat der transatlantische Sklavenhandel für die heutige Technomusik? Was – überhaupt – kann eine Technoplatte erzählen? Und wie politisch ist das? Inwiefern kann die Sängerin Dana International als ehemaliger Junge den Staat Israel beim Grand Prix de la Chanson repräsentieren? Und welche Farbe hat eigentlich Mariah Carey? Tillmann und seine Freundinnen Yolanda und Cordula tauschen E-Mails, Faxe, Platten und Bücher aus. Meinecke vernetzt die Perspektiven seiner Denk-Figuren zu einem polyphonen Textgeflecht.
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Glueckspieler
Eine raffiniert erzählte Geschichte über falsche Hoffnungen und zerstörte Träume, über die Tücken der Liebe und den Wert von Freundschaft. Zwei Frauen und ein Mann stehen plötzlich vor der Frage, ob sie alles riskieren wollen, um alles zu gewinnen. Sie wa
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The Book of Mirrors
MEMORIES CAN BE DEADLY A brutal murder It's been thirty years since Professor Weider was found dead in his stately home. With little evidence to convict a suspect, the case has never been solved. A buried mystery Now, a partial manuscript has been discovered that reveals three people were at the house that night. All three clearly remember what happened. But someone is lying... Already translated into 37 languages, The Book of Mirrors is the perfect novel for fans of psychological suspense and reading group fiction. Praise for The Book of Mirrors 'Intelligent and sophisticated - a crime story told the way Picasso painted pictures. Highly recommended.' Lee Child 'I loved this twisty mind game! The Book Of Mirrors starts with a secret manuscript about a cold-case murder and then uses a host of characters and perspectives to make you look in every direction but at the truth. Who is lying? Is anyone's recall perfect? This isn't just a very clever thriller---it leaves us wondering how much we subconsciously manipulate our own memories to protect ourselves.' Julia Heaberlin (bestselling author of Black Eyed Susans) 'An elegant, gripping, multi-layered tale about the illusory nature of truth and memory. I loved it.' Tammy Cohen `This Romanian author's debut novel in English is an agile and provocative exploration the tricks memory can play' - Sunday Times 'An impressive first novel, intelligent and well written' - The Times This twisty, brilliantly written tale of a grisly unsolved murder at Princeton asks if we can truly trust our own memories. This nuanced, multi-layered book has a cracking plot to boot and will be devoured by thriller fans - Sun 'Magical in its storytelling, the novel lingers in the memory long after an immensely satisfying denouement.' - Daily Mail `slippery murder mystery' - Irish Independent 'Intricately plotted ... Faulty memories, outright lies, and secrets make it hard to know whom to believe. The action builds to a crafty and believable resolution.' Publisher's Weekly
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Inventing the Enemy
Underscores the writer s profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes . . . Eco s pleasure in such explorations is obvious and contagious. "Booklist" " Inventing the Enemy" covers a wide range of topics on which Eco has written and lectured over the past ten years: from a disquisition on the theme that runs through his recent novel "The Prague Cemetery" every country needs an enemy, and if it doesn t have one, must invent it to a discussion of ideas that have inspired his earlier novels (and in the process he takes us on an exploration of lost islands, mythical realms, and the medieval world); from indignant reviews of James Joyce s "Ulysses "by fascist journalists of the 1920s and 1930s, to an examination of Saint Thomas Aquinas s notions about the soul of an unborn child, to censorship and violence and WikiLeaks. These are essays full of passion, curiosity, and obsession by one of the world s most esteemed scholars and critically acclaimed, best-selling novelists. True wit and wisdom coexist with fierce scholarship inside Umberto Eco, a writer who actually knows a thing or two about being truly human. "Buffalo News" "Thought provoking . . . nuanced . . . the collection amply shows off Eco's sophisticated, agile mind." " Publishers Weekly""
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Bescherelle Ecole
Une référence unique. En un seul volume, tout ce qu'un enfant doit savoir l'école. Pour réussir en français : les rgles de grammaire et d'orthographe, le vocabulaire, la conjugaison ; des encadrés retenir en début de chapitre, des tableaux, des listes de mots ; une navigation simple, un index facile consulter. Pour le plaisir de comprendre : des exemples choisis dans les livres préférés des enfants ; des illustrations attrayantes qui appuient le propos.
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Samedi
Pour Henry Perowne - neurochirurgien réputé, mari heureux, pre comblé d'un musicien de blues et d'une poétesse - ce devrait tre un samedi comme les autres. Pas question d'aller défiler contre la guerre en Irak. Plutôt goter les plaisirs de la vie. Et pourtant... Un banal accrochage et voil la violence qui surgit dans son existence protégée. Henry aura beau tenter de reprendre le fil de sa journée, ses vieux démons et le chaos du monde le rattraperont sans cesse durant ces vingt-quatre heures, au terme desquelles plus rien ne sera jamais comme avant. Tout en faisant diaboliquement monter le suspense, McEwan entrelace évnements planétaires et privés avec une telle virtuosité que cet étrange samedi devient la métaphore de toutes nos vies fragiles d'Occidentaux pris dans la tourmente de ce début de sicle. Et cette réflexion profonde sur le hasard et le destin, les pouvoirs respectifs de la science et de l'art, la qute d'un sens qui résisterait la mort nous montre une fois de plus, aprs Expiation, un romancier parvenu la plénitude de son art.
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