The Interpretation of Murder opens on a hot summer night in 1909 as Sigmund Freud disembarks in New York from a steamship. With Freud is his rival Carl Jung; waiting for him on the docks is a young physician named Stratham Younger, one of Freud's most devoted American supporters. So begins this story of what will be the great genius's first - and last - journey to America. The morning after his arrival, a beautiful young woman is found dead in an apartment in one of the city's grand new skyscrapers, the Balmoral. The next day brings a similar crime in a townhouse on Gramercy Park. Only this time the young heiress, Nora Acton, escapes with her life - but with no memory of the attack. Asked to consult on the case, Dr.Younger calls on Freud to guide him through the girl's analysis. Their investigation, and the pursuit of the culprit, lead throughout New York, from the luxurious ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria, to the skyscrapers rising on seemingly evert street corner, to the bottom of the East Rive

The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

The Fortress of Solitude is the story of Dylan Ebdus growingup white and motherless in downtown Brooklyn in the 1970s. It's aneighborhood where the entertainments include muggings along withgames of stoopball. In that world, Dylan has one friend, a blackteenager, also motherless, named Mingus Rude. As Lethem follows theknitting and unraveling of their friendship, he creates anoverwhelmingly rich and emotionally gripping canvas of race andclass, superheros, gentrification, funk, hip-hop, graffiti tagging,loyalty, and memory. The Fortress of Solitude" "is the first greaturban coming of age novel to appear in years.

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

In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walkerspeaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist inthirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Amongthe contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civilrights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and herdaughters healing words.

The Tin Drum, one of the great novels of the twentiethcentury, was published in Ralph Manheim's outstanding translationin 1959. It became a runaway bestseller and catapulted its youngauthor to the forefront of world literature. To mark the fiftiethanniversary of the original publication, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,along with Grass's publishers all over the world, is bringing out anew translation of this classic novel. Breon Mitchell, acclaimedtranslator and scholar, has drawn from many sources: from a wealthof detailed scholarship; from a wide range of newly-availablereference works; and from the author himself. The result is atranslation that is more faithful to Grass's style and rhythm,restores omissions, and reflects more fully the complexity of theoriginal work. After fifty years, THE TIN DRUM has, if anything,gained in power and relevance. All of Grass's amazing evocationsare still there, and still amazing: Oskar Matzerath, theindomitable drummer; his grandmother, Anna Koljaiczek; his mother,Agnes;

The Spartans is a compelling narrative that explores theculture and civilization of the most famous "warrior people": theSpartans of ancient Greece, by the world's leading expert in thefield. Sparta has often been described as the original Utopia--aremarkably evolved society whose warrior heroes were forbidden anyother trade, profession, or business. As a people, the Spartanswere the living exemplars of such core values as duty, discipline,the nobility of arms in a cause worth dying for, sacrificing theindividual for the greater good of the community (illustrated bytheir role in the battle of Thermopylae), and the triumph of willover seemingly insuperable obstacles--qualities that today arefrequently believed to signify the ultimate heroism. Paul Cartledgeis the distinguished scholar and historian who has long been seenas the leading international authority on ancient Sparta. He tracesthe evolution of Spartan society--the culture and the people, aswell as the tremendous influence they had on their worl

Que reste-t-il des émotions, des rêves, des désirs quandon dispara?t? L'homme d'Aden, l'empoisonneur de Harrar sont-ils lesmêmes que l'adolescent furieux qui poussa une nuit la porte du caféde la rue Madame, son regard sombre passant sur un enfant de neufans qui était mon grand-père? Je marche dans toutes ces rues,j'entends le bruit de mes talons qui résonne dans la nuit, rueVictor-Cousin, rue Serpente, place Maubert, dans les rues de laContrescarpe.Celui que je cherche n'a plus de nom. Il est moinsqu'une ombre ... Lire la suite , moins qu'une trace, moins qu'un fant?me. Il est enmoi comme une vibration, comme un désir, comme un élan del'imagination, un rebond du cSur, pour mieux m'envoler. D'ailleursje prends demain l'avion pour l'autre bout du monde. L'autreextrémité du temps

Jennifer Parker is a brilliant, lovely attorney on her way up. But less than twenty-four hours after joining the district attorney's office in Manhattan, Jennifer finds her career threatened by a Mafia prince. Michael Moretti is a compelling, charismatic crime lord who seeks to expand his domain. He will let no one stand in his way...no matter her beauty or ambition. Thus begins this mesmerizing tale of two relentless players struggling for absolute power in the greatest city in the world.And in their dangerous battle is a love more destructive than hate.

The three best friends make a pact over raspberry mojitos one night this year everything is going to change. Emmy is going to find a man on every continent for some no-strings fun. Adriana vows she'll secure a five-carat Harry Winston diamond on her fourth finger. And Leigh can't think of what she needs to change - until literary bad boy Jesse Chapman starts to get under her skin.

CALLING ALL GLEEKS! Get more of your favourite characters inthis official Glee prequel! All great performances deserve awarm-up! Enroll early at McKinley High to find out what went onbefore New Directions was even a glimmer in Mr Schuester's eye.When did Rachel first decide Finn was more than just a jock? Whendid Puck and Quinn start their secret romance? And how did thefledgling Glee Club function without a fearless leader? Hint: Itwasn't exactly a perfect melody. Break out the gold stars andrefill the slushies: it's time to find out what happened to allyour favourite characters before the show-mance began These novelscontain additional storylines to those featured in the hit TVshow.

The gripping international bestseller about motherhood goneawry Eva never really wanted to be a mother—and certainly not themother of the unlovable boy who murdered seven of his fellow highschool students, a cafeteria worker, and a much-adored teacher whotried to befriend him, all two days before his sixteenth birthday.Now, two years later, it is time for her to come to terms withmarriage, career, family, parenthood, and Kevin's horrific rampagein a series of startlingly direct correspondences with herestranged husband, Franklyn. Uneasy with the sacrifices and socialdemotion of motherhood from the start, Eva fears that her alarmingdislike for her own son may be responsible for driving him sonihilistically off the rails.

Published in 1934, Tender Is the Night was one of the mosttalked-about books of the year. "It's amazing how excellent much ofit is," Ernest Hemingway said to Maxwell Perkins. "I will say now,"John O'Hara wrote Fitzgerald, "Tender Is the Night is in the earlystages of being my favorite book, even more than This Side ofParadise." And Archibald MacLeish exclaimed: "Great God,Scott...You are a fine writer. Believe it -- not me." Set on the French Riviera in the late 1920s, Tender Is the Nightis the tragic romance of the young actress Rosemary Hoyt and thestylish American couple Dick and Nicole Diver. A brilliant youngpsychiatrist at the time of his marriage, Dick is both husband anddoctor to Nicole, whose wealth goads him into a lifestyle not hisown, and whose growing strength highlights Dick's harrowing demise.A profound study of the romantic concept of character -- lyrical,expansive, and hauntingly evocative -- Tender Is the Night, MabelDodge Luhan remarked, raised F. Scott Fitzgerald to the heights of"a mode

I.The deliciously witty and delightfully dishy novel about life at a glamorous fashion magazine is now a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox, starring Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway, set to open in theaters on June 30. II.The Devil Wears Prada The Devil Wears Prada is a 2003 novel by Lauren Weisberger about a young woman who, fresh from college, gets a job working as a personal assistant to a powerful fashion magazine editor that turns increasingly hellish as she struggles to keep up with her boss's capricious and demeaning requests. The book was hugely successful, spending six months on the New York Times bestseller list. A prime example of "chick lit," the novel was widely seen as a roman à clef about Vogue magazine and its iconic editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, since Weisberger worked there as an intern. Although she denies the story's editor is modeled on Wintour, many readers believed otherwise, which helped propel the book to the bestseller list. A film based on the novel,

Last summer, four terrified friends made a desperate pact toconceal a shocking secret. But now, someone has learned the truth,and the horror is starting again. There is an unknown avenger outthere who is stalkingthem in a deadly game. Will he stop atterror -or is he out for revenge?

Winner of the Newbery Medal When a baby escapes a murdererintent on killing the entire family, who would have thought itwould find safety and security in the local graveyard? Brought upby the resident ghosts, ghouls and spectres, Bod has an eccentricchildhood learning about life from the dead. But for Bod there isalso the danger of the murderer still looking for him - after all,he is the last remaining member of the family. A stunninglyoriginal novel deftly constructed over eight chapters, featuringevery second year of Bod's life, from babyhood to adolescence. WillBod survive to be a man?

Sujet : La petite sirène attend avec impatience ses 15 anspour monter à la surface de la mer. Ce jour tant attendu arrive. Leprince donne ce soir-là, une grande fête sur son navire. La petitesirène est émerveillée par tant de beauté. Mais une tempêtesoudaine fait sombrer le bateau. Le prince est sauvé par le couragede la petite sirène qui en tombe folle amoureuse. Dès lors, sonunique but sera de transformer sa queue de sirène en jambes, et devivre avec le prince. Mais ce souhait lui fera sacrifier sa voixmagnifique. Parviendra t-elle à faire comprendre au prince quec'est elle qui l'a sauvé, et qu'il recherche désespérément ???