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From Britannica, The Horla, by Guy de Maupassant, is considered a masterly tale of the fantastic. The story was originally published as "Lettre d'un fou" ("Letter from a Madman") in 1885 and was revised, retitled "Le Horla," and published again in October 1886; the third and definitive version was published in May 1887. It is presented in the form of a diary and energetically details the hallucinatory obsessions of a madman.

Marcus Aquila and his patron Rutlius Scaurus have fought a superior enemy force to a standstill in Thracia, gaining the favour of the gods but paying a grievous cost in their family's blood. Battle-weary and mourning their losses, they are tasked with rooting out a spy ring operating in the lands into which their imperial master Severus's armies are advancing. Hunting down informers operating under the skilled and ruthless command of their sworn enemy Sartorius, spymaster to the usurper Niger, will not be easy.

From New York Times bestselling authors Steve Berry and Grant Blackwood comes an action-packed adventure: in the waning days of the Cold War, Luke Daniels embarks on a quest in search of the legendary library of Ivan the Terrible—the unlikely key to ending a looming threat orbiting two hundred miles above the earth.

Mink is a witness, a shape shifter, compelled to follow the story that has ensnared Celia and her village, on the West coast of Vancouver Island in Nuu’Chahlnuth territory. Celia is a seer who—despite being convinced she’s a little “off”—must heal her village with the assistance of her sister, her mother and father, and her nephews. While mink is visiting, a double-headed sea serpent falls off the house front during a fierce storm. The old snake, ostracized from the village decades earlier, has left his terrible influence on Amos, a residential school survivor.

In Suva, the bustling capital of Fiji, a tropical cyclone is looming. In this city of dazzling contradictions, three strangers are living worlds apart.

Navigating the ins and outs of an absent father and a traumatized mother, and marked by choices made around religious zealots, drug addicted family, and growing up with his gay siblings in suburbia. We discover that as we grow, we become collectors of memories, keeping the ones that matter and throwing out the ones that don’t. Our choices rely heavily on how we interpret our past, and what meaning that we give to those memories.

Contiene: La muerte de Iván Ilich, El diablo, Felicidad conyugal, El cafe de surat, De lo que vive el hombre.

"Tulee päivä, jolloin sinä olet Ranskan kuninkaalle tärkein ihminen maan päällä, päivä jolloin kuningas palvoo sinua."Poikkeuksellisen kaunis ja lahjakas porvaristyttö Jeanne Poisson vaalii sydämessään lapsena saamansa ennustusta: jonakin päivänä ihailtu kuningas Ludvig XV vielä huomaisi hänet. Kohtalo odottaa Jeannea Versaillesin saleissa, mutta Ranskan hovi on vaarallinen ja petollinen paikka, ja kilpailu kuninkaan suosiosta kovaa. Ludvigin rakastajattaret vaihtuvat tiuhaan, mutta neuvokas Jeanne onnistuu hurmaamaan kuninkaan ja nousemaan ennennäkemättömän vaikutusvaltaiseen asemaan.

Questa è la storia di cinque donne tenaci come ortiche. Una storia che ha inizio nel 1925 nel cuore del Coppedè, il quartiere più eccentrico di Roma. Qui, tra le architetture fantastiche del Villino delle fate, Marianna Mori cresce insieme a cinque bizzarri fratelli, parla con i mosaici all'ingresso, prepara intrugli magici e, quando l'amore non si intromette, legge alla perfezione i cuori delle persone che la circondano. Quell'amore per lei prenderà il nome di Carlo Ricci, pittore che con i suoi tratti intelligenti e lo sguardo scuro le toglie il fiato, prima di scomparire.

CHI SEI DISPOSTO A TRADIRE PER OTTENERE UN POTERE ILLIMITATO? Un ritorno traumatico ed esplosivo alla biblioteca porta i sei maghi alessandrini a fare i conti con le proprie vulnerabilità. Le vecchie alleanze si rompono rapidamente man mano che gli iniziati adottano strategie opposte per affrontare il patto che finora non sono riusciti a mantenere. Coloro che rimangono negli archivi si confrontano con le conseguenze etiche dei loro poteri astronomici, mentre altrove qualcuno della Società vuole influenzare la politica su scala globale.

En un nou exercici de narrativa magistral de Colm Tóibín, ens reunim amb Eilis Lacey, l’heroïna dels seu gran èxit de vendes Brooklyn. Vint anys després dels fets, als anys setanta, Eilis està vivint amb el seu marit, Tony Fiorello, i els seus fills en una casa a Long Island, massa a prop dels seus sogres. Una notícia impactant impulsa Eilis de tornada a Irlanda, a un món que ella creia que feia molt de temps que havia deixat enrere i maneres de viure, i estimar, que creia haver perdut per sempre.

Someone is preying upon the street children of Regency London. They seem to think no one will notice when urchins go missing—and even if they are noticed, who will care? Daniel needs to do something about the missing children. But with recent revelations about his past and an unexpected, somewhat unwelcome inheritance to deal with, this is a terrible time to dive back into the seedy underbelly of the crime world. Nevertheless, he's still a Bow Street runner, and his partner Lady Juliette is sensitive to the plight of these wayward youngsters.

Time never stands still. Kai has changed. Under his leadership, the Eternal Path Temple has evolved into the most formidable faction of the Trial Worlds. Kai is ready to hunt down and destroy the Manticores, for which he first must establish complete hegemony over Bellum. A great war looms on the horizon. Kai is unaware of the twists and turns that are waiting for him around the corner. The Trial Worlds have fulfilled the purpose of their Creator, so their existence is no longer necessary.

Joe McCabe returns the mountains, and the solitary life he prefers. It is alone by a campfire at night, or riding along the ridges by day, that he can let the pain from his past fully die. But when a figure he hasn't seen in years steps back into his life, bringing a whole new load of trouble, will it be more than he can handle?

Akemi’s desire for independence and aversion to marriage are unusual in her small village. A gift for drawing allows her to move to a rooming house in Tokyo where she studies medical illustration, finding satisfaction in the precision and purpose of her work. Sayako is the first roommate to pay Akemi attention, and they quickly become inseparable—Sayako drawn to Akemi’s humble origins, so distinct from her own insufferable, wealthy family; Akemi attracted to Sayako’s rebelliousness and her aspiration to be a painter.

West Germany, 1949. Former actor Max Kaspar suffered greatly in the Second World War. Now he owns a nightclub in Munich—and occasionally lends a hand to the newly formed CIA. Meanwhile, his brother Harry has ventured beyond the Iron Curtain to rescue an American scientist. When Harry is also taken captive, Max resolves to locate his brother at all costs. The last thing he expects is for Harry to go rogue.

For years, Lady Cassandra Sinclair has harbored a scandalous secret and a painful loss. Unwilling to trust a man again, Cassie throws herself into a confidential project—a private home for pregnant, unwed women. But after she is seen there by the arrogant lord she once fought feelings for, the walls around Cassie's secret life begin to crumble.

London, 1969: The Kray twins, the nemeses of Charles Holborne, barrister, are finally convicted of multiple murders and sent away for the longest prison terms ever imposed by a British court. But with London in the grip of a housing crisis and unscrupulous landlords hiking rents, there are new ruthless enforcers terrorizing destitute East Enders. When a tenant dies during a violent altercation with bailiffs, Charles is instructed to represent the businessmen charged with conspiracy to murder.

1838, England: When eighteen-year-old Frances Dickinson impulsively marries Lieutenant John Geils, all her hopes for her future are quickly shattered as she finds there is much about her husband she did not know. A cruel and violent man, John keeps Frances in isolation on his family's estate, while spending her fortune and preying upon their maids. Frances yearns to break free from her marriage but the law is not on her side. Only when John's abuse escalates can she set in motion a daring plan to secure her freedom.

"Les Amants de Venise" de Michel Zévaco est un roman historique captivant qui se déroule dans la Venise du début du XVIe siècle. L'histoire suit l'histoire d'amour tumultueuse entre Roland Candiano, membre de l'une des familles les plus puissantes de la ville, et une mystérieuse femme en quête de vengeance.