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

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."

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.

?" 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

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

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day.

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.

THE CASUAL VACANCY J.K. Rowling Book De*ion： When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties,the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled marketsquare and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty fa?adeis a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wivesat war with their husbands, teachers at war with theirpupils…Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soonbecomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yetseen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicityand unexpected revelations? Blackly comic, thought‐provoking and constantly surprising, TheCasual Vacancy is J.K.Rowling’s first novel for adults. Author Profile: J.K. Rowling is the author of the bestselling Harry Potter seriesof seven books, published between 1997 and 2007, which have soldmore tha

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

I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper and jerked it under the tape. 'Shoot,' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. 'No!' Edward roared ...Dazed and disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - and into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of an evil vampire but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near and dear to them, they realise their troubles may just be beginning ...

A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which sparesno one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital,but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealingfood rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to thisnightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with nomother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barrenstreets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundingsare harrowing. A magnificent parable of loss and disorientation anda vivid evocation of the horrors of the twentieth century,Blindness has swept the reading public with its powerful portrayalof man's worst appetites and weaknesses-and man's ultimatelyexhilarating spirit. The stunningly powerful novel of man's will tosurvive against all odds, by the winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize forLiterature

Eugene wants to get on in the world. So he has come to Paris,where the streets teem with chancers, criminals and social climbers- and everyone is out for what they can get. When he finds a placeto stay at a shabby boarding house, he sees a potential plan tomake a fortune: the two beautiful, aristocratic women whomysteriously come at night to visit the lonely old lodger Goriot.Could they bring him the status and acceptance he craves? In thecity nothing is as it seems though. Soon Eugene gets out of hisdepth in a world of greed and obsession that he could never haveimagined. One that can only end in terrible tragedy.

Senhor Jose is a low-grade clerk in the city's Central Registry,where the living and the dead share the same shelf space. Amiddle-aged bachelor, he has no interest in anything beyond thecertificates of birth, marriage, divorce, and death that are hisdaily routine. But one day, when he comes across the records of ananonymous young woman, something happens to him. Obsessed, SenhorJose sets off to follow the thread that may lead him to thewoman-but as he gets closer, he discovers more about her, and abouthimself, than he would ever have wished. The loneliness of people'slives, the effects of chance, the discovery of love-all coalesce inthis extraordinary novel that displays the power and art of JoseSaramago in brilliant form.

Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death. Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and funny, this is a novel fi