#1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci takesreaders inside the nations most elite power club and shows how farits members will go to protect their darkest secrets. The CamelClub. Its where the most influential businessmen and politicianswine, dine, and often change the course of historyand whereruthless mercenaries spy unseen, recording every last bit ofinformation to sell to the highest bidder. But when HarryStonehomeless man and conspiracy theorist extraordinairewitnesses agruesome murder, secrets begin to unravel. Stone steals a piece ofevidence from the scene that links the Clubs founders to the murderof a high-profile government official, and theyll do anything toget it back. Secret Service Agent W. Frank Churchill beginsinvestigating Stone as a murder suspect, but soon, with the help ofdefense attorney Kate Monroe, he unearths a shocking truth: One manis using the Camel Club for his own terrible devicesand to achievehis horrific goals, he must kill Stone....and anyone else who getsin

Few books have captivated the imagination and won the devotion and praise of readers and critics everywhere as has George R. R. Martin’s monumental epic cycle of high fantasy. Now, in A Feast for Crows, Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace...only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction.

When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find. Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy. But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they wil

A Tdle of Two Cities(1859) Dickens greatest historical novel, traces the private ires of a group of people caught up in the cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based his historical detail on Carlyles great work - The French Revolution - and also on his own observations and investigations during numerous visits to Paris. The best story have written was Dickens own verdict on A Tale of Two Cities. and the reader is cinlikely to disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical tact with the authors unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of human suffering,self-sacrifice, and redemption.

' This is the most astonishing piece of writing, lyrical in itsemotion and spare in its construction ...Toibin has crafted anunmissable read' - "Sunday Herald". In Blackwater in the early1990s, three women - Dora Devereux, her daughter Lily and hergranddaughter Helen - have come together after years of strife andreached an uneasy truce. Helen's adored brother Declan is dying.Two friends join him and the women in a crumbling old house by thesea, where the six of them, from different generations and withdifferent beliefs, must listen and come to terms with oneanother.'It is in his emotional choreography that Toibin showshimself to be an exceptional writer. Helen is estranged from bothher mother and grandmother ...Toibin helps them make peace - and hedoes it beautifully' - "Sunday Telegraph". 'He writes in spare,powerful prose and he is truly perceptive about familyrelationships which, at times, makes reading his stories incrediblypainful. But this is a beautiful novel' - "Belfast News". 'We shallbe readin

Vikas Swarup's spectacular debut novel opens in a jail cell in Mumbai, India, where Ram Mohammad Thomas is being held after correctly answering all twelve questions on India's biggest quiz show, Who Will Win a Billion? It is hard to believe that a poor orphan who has never read a newspaper or gone to school could win such a contest. But through a series of exhilarating tales Ram explains to his lawyer how episodes in his life gave him the answer to each question. Ram takes us on an amazing review of his own history — from the day he was found as a baby in the clothes donation box of a Delhi church to his employment by a faded Bollywood star to his adventure with a security-crazed Australian army colonel to his career as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Swarup's Q & A is a beguiling blend of high comedy, drama, and romance that reveals how we know what we know — not just about trivia, but about life itself. Cutting across humanity in all its squalor and glory, Vikas Swarup presen

Eine Reminiszenz an Helene Hanff's ' Charing Cross Road'. Eine warme, witzige und durch und durch unterhaltsame Ode an die Kraft des geschrieben Wortes.

Myths Legends retells the stories central toevery culture that have been passed down from generation togeneration for thousands of years. Coverage extends from thewell-known tales of the Ancient Greeks, which hold the key to theorigin of such phrases as "Achille's heel," to the lesser-known,but richly colorful, myths of the Americas and the East. Topicspreads explore characters and stories in terms of their cultural,psychological, and religious meanings and show their power,purpose, and influence both in their own time and in today's world.Feature spreads visit the sacred sites that can still be seentoday, and underline the importance of themes that appear acrosscultures and through the centuries. In looking at such universalthemes as creation, heroic trials, tricksters' lessons, and deathand the afterlife, Myths Legends investigates howdifferent cultures have addressed questions such as How was theworld created? How did man learn to use fire? and Why do we growold?

A black comedy by the author of "Lost Souls". Eric Pizer can just about keep his two lives going - weekends in the country with his wife, and Mondays to Fridays in London with a pretend job and a girlfriend with secrets of her own. But then life becomes very complicated indeed.

Elena Gilbert is once again at the centre of magic and dangerbeyond her imagining. And once more, Stefan isn't there to help!Elena is forced to trust her life to Damon, the handsome but deadlyvampire who wants Elena, body and soul. They must journey to theslums of the Dark Dimension, a world where vampires and demons roamfree, but humans must live as slaves of their supernatural masters.Damon's brother, the brooding vampire Stefan whom Elena loves, isimprisoned here, and Elena can only free him by finding the twohidden halves of the key to his cell. Meanwhile, the tensionbetween Elena and Damon mounts until Elena is faced with a terribledecision: which brother does she really want to be with? The drama,danger and star-crossed love that fills each Vampire Diaries bookis in full effect here, with Elena Gilbert once again filled withsupernatural powers.

When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man's chest. His baffling conclusion: that it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their most hated enemy, the Catholic church.In Rome, the college of cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Yet somewhere within the walls of the Vatican, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. While the minutes tick away, Langdon joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to decipher the labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome to the long-forgotten Illuminati lair - a secret refuge wherein lies the only hope for the Vatican. But, with each revelation comes another twist, another turn in the plot, which leaves Langdom and Vetra re

When a mysterious young Woman named Katie appears in the small Americantown of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautifulyet unassuming, Katie is determined to avoid forming personal ties until a seriesof c'vents draws her into two reluctant relationships. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, puttingdown roots in the close-knit community. But even as Katie begins to fall in love,she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts her... Eventually, though, Katie realizes that a choice must be made between a life oftransient safety and one of riskier rewards.., and that in the darkest hour,love is the only true safe haven.

Mais qui est donc Merlin ? Enchanteur, diabolique, prophète etmagicien, il se cache sous des dehors inattendus et ne révèle savraie nature qu'aux hommes de bien. Il nous entra?ne à sa suitedans l'univers celtique du Moyen Age, monde merveilleux peuplé debelles dames et de dragons, où l'on croise le roi Arthur et leschevaliers de la Table ronde. --Ce texte fait référence à uneédition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian "relation" with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has "improved" Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James's stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hype

In this startling historical mystery, unique in the author's canon, Agatha Christie investigates a deadly mystery at the heart of a dissonant family in ancient Egypt. Imhotep, wealthy landowner and priest of Thebes, has outraged his sons and daughters by bringing a beautiful concubine into their fold. And the manipulative Nofret has already set about a plan to usurp her rivals' rightful legacies. When her lifeless body is discovered at the foot of a cliff, Imhotep's own flesh and blood become the apparent conspirators in her shocking murder. But vengeance and greed may not be the only motives...

Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where Gossip Girl and her friends are the biggest stars ...whether or not the cameras are rolling. Lights, camera, scandal! Hollywood is invading New York and Serena is set for her big screen debut. She's already having an off-screen romance with her onscreen lover, Thaddeus. What will that mean for Hamptons-bound Nate? And if Nate is free, what about Blair? Sure, she's off to London to spend time with her royal boytoy, but Nate will always be Prince Charming in her eyes...

Set in an apocalyptic future ending in the year 2100, Shelley's 1826 novel concerns a plague that destroys almost all of humankind. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

A man went to knock at the king's door and said, Give me aboat. The king's house had many other doors, but this was the doorfor petitions. Since the king spent all his time sitting at thedoor for favors (favors being offered to the king, you understand),whenever he heard someone knocking at the door for petitions, hewould pretend not to hear . . ." Why the petitioner required aboat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him,the reader will discover in this delightful fable, a philosophiclove story worthy of Swift or Voltaire.

Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene, whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after'. And lastly, of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood, whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he first sets eyes on Bathsheba. The background of this tale is the Wessex countryside story is the majesty of the Wessex countryside in all its moods. contriving to make it one of the most English of great English novels.

The New York Times bestseller and Booker Prize contender that"delivers...a ghost story that creeps up your spine" (SeattleTimes). One post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday is calledto a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family forover two centuries, the Georgian house, once impressive andhandsome, is now in decline. Its owners-mother, son, anddaughter-are struggling to keep pace with a changing society, aswell as with conflicts of their own. But are the Ayreses haunted bysomething more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr.Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story isabout to become intimately entwined with his.

A conjurer of skill with an instinct for detection, Mr. Harley Quin has an almost magical flair for appearing at the scene of the most remarkable crimes. But is it just a trick of light that haunts his shadow with a ghostly apparition? Is it fate that invites him to a New Year's murder? And what forces are at work when his car breaks down outside Royalston Hall, an isolated estate with a deadly history?

Thomas Hardy's richly evocative novel opens with the arrival of Bathsheba in the village of Weatherbury to work the large, dilapidated farm that is her inheritance. The plot turns on her sentimental education, her infatuation for Sergeant Troy, a dazzling young cavalry officer, and her relationship with the shepherd-farmer, Gabriel Oak. Gabriel's strong presence permeates a drama of temptation,treachery and passion in which Bathsheba achieves a painful but necessary self-knowledge.

Deux jumeaux, Jean et Paul, forment un couple fraternel si uniqu'on l'appelle Jean-Paul. Mais Jean veut briser cette cha?ne etessaie de se marier. Paul fait échouer ce projet. Désespéré, Jeanpart seul en voyage de noces à Venise. Paul se lance à sa poursuiteet accomplit un long voyage initiatique autour du monde. A traversdes aventures multiples et de nombreux personnages, comme lescandaleux oncle Alexandre, surnommé le dandy des gadoues, ce romanillustre le grand thème du couple humain.