This thoughtful if less than suspenseful thriller frombestseller Patterson ( Eclipse ) charts the impact of thebrutal murder of black coed Angela Hall at Caldwell College inWayne, Ohio, on gifted athlete Mark Darrow, who discovered the bodyand later became a nationally renowned lawyer. Mark's best friendwas convicted of the crime, but many aspects of the trial troubledMark. Lionel Farr, Caldwell's provost and Mark's former mentor,offers Mark the post of college president 16 years after Angela'smurder. Mark agrees to return to Caldwell, now struggling with thesuspected embezzlement of $900,000 from its endowment by itscurrent president. With Lionel's support, Mark investigates boththe embezzlement and the old murder. Patterson evokes the quietschism between town and gown in Wayne as well as the fragilerelationship between blacks and whites, while Mark's probing hitsexposed nerves with fatal results. (Sept.) Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of ReedElsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This t

"AN OFTEN LYRICAL AND ALWAYS TOUGH-MINDED DEBUT . . . Provides rare insight into the three cultures—Spanish, Chinese, and Filipino—that coexist in the Philippines."—The New York Times Book Review

La porte était close. Le verrou n'opposait toutefois qu'unerésistance assez faible et que d'un coup d'épaule j'allaisbriser... A cet instant j'entendis un bruit de pas ; je medissimulai dans le retrait du mur. Je ne pus voir qui sortait du jardin; mais j'entendis, je sentisque c'était Alissa. Elle fit trois pas en avant, appela faiblement: - Est-ce toi Jér?me?... Mon coeur, qui battait violemment, s'arrêta, et, comme de magorge serrée ne pouvait sortir une parole, elle répéta plusfort - Jér?me! Est-ce toi? A l'entendre ainsi m'appeler, l'émotion qui m'étreignit fut sivive qu'elle me fit tomber à genoux.

Everyone thought that the hard part applying to college was getting accepted. But, now that acceptance letters have made their way into the hands of the Upper East Side's most glamorous, it's quite obvious that deciding on which college to attend may just be even more nerve-wracking and confusing. Luckily, there's only one month left of high school for the seniors, and they plan on partying the last part of the semester away. After all, there's always time to think about college after we attend the latest sample sale. Everything is finally falling into place for Blair Waldorf. She and Nate Archibald are back together, and she has finally handed her V card over to him. Her mother gave birth to her little baby sister, Yale; and, much to her surprise, she absolutely adores the tiny tyke, and is shaping up to be the best big sister the Upper East Side has ever seen. The only thing that has her baffled and in a perpetual state of anger is the fact that she has been wait-listed at Yale. Even worse, both Nate and

The true, declassified account of CIA operative Tony Mendez'sdaring rescue of American hostages from Iran that inspired thecritically-acclaimed film directed by and starring Ben Affleck, andco-starring John Goodman, Alan Arkin, and Bryan Cranston. On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the Americanembassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages,sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics stillreverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected tothe crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officernamed Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky planto rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by acast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents,and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehranunder the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fictionfilm called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect filmbackdrops, Mendez and a

Welcome to New York Citys Upper East Side, where my friends and I get everything and everyonewe want. Snagging the latest Marc Jacobs bag or your best friends boyfriend isnt pretty, but its always hot . . . Its almost graduation and our lives are really heating up. Everybodys into college and its obviously time to partyas if we hadnt been doing that already! Will Blair and Nates love affair continue? More importantly, will Blair finally get into Yale? Or will Nate and Serena hook up in New Haven and leave Blair alone in the city? And as for the juiciest scoop of all, whats this we hear about Jenny leaving Constance Billard to go to boarding school? Only time will tell how everyone will end up, but one things for sure: love is in the air, and it smells a lot like Gucci Envy.

In this exuberant book, the best-selling author Natalie Angierdistills the scientific canon to the absolute essentials,delivering an entertaining and inspiring one-stop scienceeducation. Angier interviewed a host of scientists, posing thesimple question "What do you wish everyone knew about your field?"The Canon provides their answers, taking readers on a joyridethrough the fascinating fundamentals of the incredible world aroundus and revealing how they are relevant to us every day. Angierproves a rabble-rousing, wisecracking, deeply committed tour guidein her irresistible exploration of the scientific process and thebasic concepts of physics, chemistry, evolutionary biology,cellular and molecular biology, geology, and astronomy. Evenscience-phobes will find her passion infectious as she strives "tomake the invisible visible, the distant neighborly, the ineffableaffable."

Russe à la maison et Fran?ais au lycée : n'est-ce pas unesituation difficile pour un enfant de quatorze ans ? Par chance, uncamarade de classe, Thierry Gozelin, va amener Aliocha à s'acceptertel qu'il est, riche de deux mondes et de deux natures. Bonsélèves, passionnés de littérature, rien d'autre qu'eux-mêmes nepara?t intéresser Thierry et Aliocha. En les rapprochant, la santéprécaire de l'un, le passé russe de l'autre en font des amis " pourl'éternité ".

FIRESTARTER is the mesmerising and menacing story of a sinister government agency, a fateful drug experiment, and a pigtailed girl named Charlie, who has an unimaginably terrifying gift. The power of pyrokinesis.

André Gide, exalté,sensuel, lyrique. Les Nourritures Terrestres , oeuvre dejeunesse, est un hymne panthéiste. Il célèbre la vie, la nature, ledésir. Sa composition est kaléidoscopique. Les genres y sontmêlés : notes de voyages, fragments de journal intime, rondeset ballades, dictionnaire poétique, dialogues fictionnels. Toutesles formes d'écriture sont convoquées pour dire l'ardeur aveclaquelle Gide tente d'exister. Il invite le lecteur à éduquer sasensibilité : tendre vers une acuité de l'instant, dumouvement, du dénuement. Vers l'amour, libéré de ses contraintesmorales ou religieuses. Gide rend hommage à la Création toute entière et pr?ne une vienomade, sans attaches. Son style est à l'images de sesintuitions : libre, sauvage et intensément poétique. "Nathana?l, je t'enseignerai la ferveur". C'est en effet celaque transmet Gide, cet éveil, cet élan à demi-mystique qui rendgr?ce au simple fait de respirer. --Claire Mazurel

In his introduction to the The BestAmerican Noir of the Century , James Ellroywrites, “noir is the most scrutinized offshoot of thehard-boiled school of fiction. It’s the long drop off theshort pier and the wrong man and the wrong woman in perfectmisalliance. It’s the nightmare of flawed souls with bigdreams and the precise how and why of the all-time sure thing thatgoes bad.” Offering the best examples of literary surethings gone bad, this collection ensuresthat nowhere else can readers find a darker, morethorough distillation of American noir fiction.

Many people among them Henry James) have considered Balzac tobe the greatest of all novelists. Eugenie Grandet, his spare,classical story of a girl whose life is blighted by her father'shysterical greed, goes a long way to justifying that opinion. Oneof the most magnificent of his tales of early nineteenth-centuryFrench provincial life, this novel is the work of a writer on whomnothing was lost, and who represents most fully the ability of thehuman animal to understand and illuminate its own condition. Translated By Ellen Marriage With An Introduction By Fredric R.Jameson Fredric R. Jameson is William A. Lane, Jr. Professor ofComparative Literature at Duke University in North Carolina. Hispublications include Sartre: The Origins of a Style, Signatures ofthe Visible, and Post-modernism, or, The Cultural Logic of LateCapitalism, with Aesthetics of the Geopolitical forthcoming. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Les nouveaux héritiers débarquent enfin sur l'?le de Ji. Là oùils espéraient des réponses, ils ne trouvent que de nouvellesquestions. Zu?a en personne, la déesse des assassins, les attend etleur révèle les plans de Sombre, le démo, qui menace de s'enprendre à la suprématie des dieux eux-mêmes. Face à un tel péril,Zu?a leur propose une alliance. Les héritiers vont-ils accepterl'aide de celle qui avait jusqu'alors juré leur perte ? Et quel ensera le prix ?

Offering a splendid collection of literary masterpieces in the best available translations, The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces is a literal library of Western literature in two portable volumes. Most major works, from Homer's Odyssey to Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, are offered complete or in substantial, readable excerpts. New authors and works abound, including pieces by Plautus, Lucian, Ariosto, de Vega, Shakespeare, Joyce, O'Connor, Munro, and Silko, and new sections of Medieval lyrics and tales, Romantic poetry in translation, and Dada-Surrealist poetry. Informative period introductions and author headnotes guide readers through the cultural and historical contexts surrounding the literature.

?" Quand j'ai compris que Mario était mort, tous les détailsme sont revenus. Les gens racontaient cela en long et en large à magrand-mère. Mario traversait le champ, un peu plus haut, à lasortie du village. Il cachait la bombe dans un sac, il courait.Peut-être qu'il s'est pris les pieds dans une motte de terre, et ilest tombé. La bombe a explosé. On n'a rien retrouvé de lui. C'étaitmerveilleux. C'était comme si Mario s'était envolé vers un autremonde, vers Ourania. Puis les années ont passé, j'ai un peu oublié.Jusqu'à ce jour, vingt ans après, où le hasard m'a réuni avec lejeune homme le plus étrange que j'aie jamais rencontré. " C'est ainsi que Daniel Sillitoe, géographe en mission au centre duMexique, découvre, gr?ce à son guide Rapha?l, la république idéalede Campos, en marge de la Vallée, capitale de la terre noire duChernozem, le rêve humaniste de l'Emporio, la zone rouge quiretient prisonnière Lili de la lagune, et l'amour pourDahlia.? J.M.G. Le Clézio. --Ce

Upon its publication, My Paper Chase received rave reviewsfrom newspapers, broadcasters, and bloggers across threecontinents, and was a 2009 Notable Book of the New York Times -andfor good reason. It's the wild and wonderful tale of anewspaperingand publishing odyssey that took Harold Evans from wartimeManchester to London and finally to America. Editor of two of theworld's most renowned newspapers, the Sunday Times and The Times,publisher of Random House, and a bestselling author in his ownright, Evans brings to life print media's glorious history as herecalls his own-from unmasking the greatest Soviet spy to taking onthe lost cause of the thalidomide children-and winning-to clasheswith politicians, government agencies, and Rupert Murdoch, tofinally achieving what Scott Fitzgerald has declared impossible-ASecond Act in America. In an age when newspapers everywhere are under threat, My PaperChase is a witty and inspiring personal story but also a poignantand timely reminder of all that newspapers

Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins—and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. So Kev refuses to submit to temptation…and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate. Then, Win returns to England…only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all costs. Meantime, an attractive, seductive suitor has set his sights on Win. It’s now or never for Kev to make his move. But first, he must confront a dangerous secret about his destiny—or risk losing the only woman he has lived for…

On the run . . . Elena Gilbert's love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has beencaptured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havocin Fell's Church. While her friends Bonnie and Meredith explore theevil that has taken over their town, Elena goes in search ofStefan. In order to find him, she entrusts her life to Stefan's brother,Damon Salvatore, the handsome but deadly vampire who wants Elena,body and soul. Along with her childhood friend Matt, they set outfor the slums of the Dark Dimension, where Stefan is being heldcaptive. It is rumored to be a world where vampires and demons roamfree, but humans must live enslaved to their supernatural masters.. . . Elena will stop at nothing to free Stefan. Yet with each passingday the tension between Elena and Damon grows, and she is facedwith a terrible decision: Which brother does she really want? Back in Fell's Church, Bonnie and Meredith have made some dirediscoveries. They hastily try to follow Elena and warn her—only tob