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Amb motiu del centenari del naixement de Marià Villangómez, el millor homenatge és posar a labast dels lectors la seva obra poètica completa en una edició que recull els nou llibres ordenats per laut

The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal mines. But conflict is evitable when Paul seeks to escape his mother''s suffocating grasp through relationships with women his own age. Set in Lawrence''s native Nottinghamshire, "Sons and Lovers" (1913) is a highly autobiographical and compelling portrayal of childhood, adolescence and the clash of generations.

For the first time in one volume, with a fascinating introduction, come the stories of Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Hearts in Atlantis (Low Men in Yellow Coats), 1408, The Mangler and Children of the Corn. These five classic tales were turned into successful international films starring some of the worlds most famous actors from Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption through Anthony Hopkins in Hearts in Atlantis to John Cusack in 1408. Now you can read and re-read and own the originals.

Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? This is a classic story of paradise found - and lost. Richard lands in East Asia in search of an earthly utopia. In Thailand, he is given a map promising an unknown island, a secluded beach - and a new way of life. What Richard finds when he gets there is breathtaking: more extraordinary, more frightening than his wildest dreams. But how long can paradise survive here on Earth? And what lengths will Richard go to in order to save it?

Just before Christmas on a farm in Northern Norway, 80-year-old Anna Neshov, matriarch of a troubled family, is taken gravely ill. Her three sons have been quietly immersed in their work: one an undertaker, one a window-dresser, and the eldest running the family farm, but now they are forced to reunite for the first time in many years. Their personalities are as disparate as their careers, and tensions mount from the second they meet, climaxing over Christmas dinner when the matter of inheritance prompts the revelation of disturbing family secrets. Anne B. Ragde has created an engrossing dark comedy brought vividly to life through extraordinary characters. While perfectly in tune with their professions the Neshov sons as a family are little short of dysfunctional; nevertheless, the real theme of the novel is a sense of belonging. The farm itself defines this, with its power to draw people back to their roots, whether they like it or not.

Kara Crawford doesn't expect to find anyone who can fulfill her dark fantasies until she experiences one of the most incredible nights of her life with a man she's always admired from afar. Dante De Matteo may be a master of control now, but his troubled past means he won't let anyone ever get too close...

A rare book. An ancient code. A new trilogy that starts off with promise (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) from the New York Times bestselling master of passion and the paranormal. Within the pages of very rare books some centuries old lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwells unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumesand has sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Keyhas reappeared on the black market. Convinced that she needs an investigator who can also play bodyguard, she hires Sam Coppersmith, a specialist in paranormal crystals and amberhot rocks. Passion flares immediately between them, but neither entirely trusts the other. When it comes to dealing with a killer who has paranormal abilities, and a blackmailer who will stop at nothing to obtain an ancient alchemical code, no one is safe.

Steeped in its own problems, Glasgow''s mushrooming underclass is simmering with resentment; and one by one, refugees are disappearing. The authorities assume the refugees have vanished into the black economy, until the mutilated body of an Albanian man is fished out of the River Clyde. Asylum seekers and refugees with no roots and no families are easy pickings. But why is there no urgency from the authorities to find out what''s happening? Rosie Gilmour''s instincts tell her there''s more to this story, but after six weeks on the frontlines in Kosovo, is her sympathy for the refugees clouding her judgement? Rosie must decide what is most important to her. Her work, or her life?

Onkel Simon ist tot. Seine Asche verstreut Polizeiobermeister Kreuthner feierlich auf dem Wallberg - einer jungen Skifahrerin mitten ins Gesicht. Als Wiedergutmachung fährt Kreuthner mit ihr die berüchtigte schwarze ­Piste ab, die er angeblich bestens kennt. Nur wenig später stapfen sie in der Dunkelheit durch den Schnee und stolpern fast über die gefrorene Leiche einer Frau ... Ein neuer Fall für Kommissar Wallner und Polizeiobermeister Leonhardt Kreuthner! »Höchstes Lesevergnügen garantiert!« Gong

Julie Otsuka''s "The Buddha in the Attic", the follow-up to "When the Emperor Was Divine" was shortlisted for the 2011 National Book Award for Fiction and the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and winner of the Pen Faulkner Award for Fiction 2012. Between the first and second world wars a group of young, non-English-speaking Japanese women travelled by boat to America. They were picture brides, clutching photos of husbands-to-be whom they had yet to meet. Julie Otsuka tells their extraordinary, heartbreaking story in this spellbinding and poetic account of strangers lost and alone in a new and deeply foreign land. "Sweeping, symphonic, empathic ...subtle, infinitely skilful ...an exhilarating, compulsive read. Otsuka''s haunting, heartbreaking conclusion, in the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, is faultless". ("Daily Mail"). "A tender, nuanced, empathetic exploration of the sorrows and consolations of a whole generation of women ...the distaff equivalent of a war memorial". ("Daily Telegraph"). "A haunting and heartbreaking look at the immigrant experience...Otsuka''s keenly observed prose manages to capture whole histories in a sweep of gorgeous incantatory sentences". ("Marie Claire"). "An understated masterpiece ...she conjures up the lost voices of a generation of Japanese American women without losing sight of the distinct experience of each". ("San Francisco Chronicle"). Julie Otsuka was born and raised in California. She is the author of the novel "When the Emperor Was Divine", and a recipient of the Asian American Literary Award, the American Library Association Alex Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. Her second novel, "The Buddha in the Attic", was nominated for the 2011 National Book Award. She lives in New York City. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Unha novela de aventuras de mar e de terra con batallas navais, abordaxes, tétricas escenas de terror e tenras de amor, senlleiros personaxes lendarios e reais -un náufrago desmemoriado, un crego sabio e revolucionario, un fidalgo reformista...- e unha vila maldita que conforman a iconografia historica da galega Costa do Solpor. A novela esta ambientada na Galicia rural e urbana de mediados do seculo XVIII, facendonos participes das angueiras da vida cotia daqueles anos.Costa do Solpor comeza cun manuscrito onde un descoñecido escritor en lingua inglesa de finais do seculo XIX narra as peripecias da viaxe de volta dunha misteriosa goleta inglesa cargada cun fabuloso tesouro. Tras unha cruenta loita cuns piratas nunha illa atlantica, a goleta regresa ao punto de partida, o porto de Bristol, pero unha tormenta obrigaa a buscar refuxio nunha ria da Costa do Solpor. Un membro da Confraria da Man Morta, decatandose da importancia da carga, marcha a uña de cabalo a cidade da Coruña e avisa o capitan dun bergantin pirata fondeado cun nome de conveniencia neste porto. O bergantin saira ao encontro da goleta coa intencion de lle incautar o tesouro. Logo da abordaxe, o grumete da goleta logra salvarse gañando a costa a nado. Os piratas perseguirano a morte pero o rapaz ingles farase amigo dun mozo e dunha moza da beiramar e trataran, xuntos, de liberar a goleta e salvar os seus tripulantes dunha morte certa.Costa do Solpor foi finalista do Premio Xerais de Novela 2011.Unha novela de aventuras de mar e de terra con batallas navais, abordaxes, tétricas escenas de terror e tenras de amor, senlleiros personaxes lendarios e reais -un náufrago desmemoriado, un crego sabio e revolucionario, un fidalgo reformista...- e unha vila maldita que conforman a iconografia historica da galega Costa do Solpor. A novela esta ambientada na Galicia rural e urbana de mediados do seculo XVIII, facendonos participes das angueiras da vida cotia daqueles anos.Costa do Solpor comeza cun manuscrito onde un descoñecido escritor en lingua inglesa de finais do seculo XIX narra as peripecias da viaxe de volta dunha misteriosa goleta inglesa cargada cun fabuloso tesouro. Tras unha cruenta loita cuns piratas nunha illa atlantica, a goleta regresa ao punto de partida, o porto de Bristol, pero unha tormenta obrigaa a buscar refuxio nunha ria da Costa do Solpor. Un membro da Confraria da Man Morta, decatandose da importancia da carga, marcha a uña de cabalo a cidade da Coruña e avisa o capitan dun bergantin pirata fondeado cun nome de conveniencia neste porto. O bergantin saira ao encontro da goleta coa intencion de lle incautar o tesouro. Logo da abordaxe, o grumete da goleta logra salvarse gañando a costa a nado. Os piratas perseguirano a morte pero o rapaz ingles farase amigo dun mozo e dunha moza da beiramar e trataran, xuntos, de liberar a goleta e salvar os seus tripulantes dunha morte certa.Costa do Solpor foi finalista do Premio Xerais de Novela 2011.

From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are "Breakfast at Tiffany's "and" Other Voices, Other Rooms "(in one volume), " In Cold Blood, "and "Portraits and Observations" Most readers know Truman Capote as the author of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" and "In Cold Blood, " or they remember his notorious social life and wild and witty public appearances. But he was also the author of superb short tales that were as elegant as they were heartfelt, as compassionate as they were grotesque. This volume is the first to assemble all of Capote's short fiction--a collection that indeed confirms his status as one of the masters of this form. From the Gothic South to the chic East Coast, from rural children to aging urban sophisticates, all the unforgettable places and people of Capote's oeuvre are captured in this compendium. "The Complete Stories of Truman Capote" restores its author to a place not only above mere celebrity but to the highest levels of American letters.

El que teniu a les mans és gairebé un llibret teatral; una proposta de representació que fa temps —molt!— haurien d’haver lliurat dos amics per justificar la subvenció que va gosar concedir-los un po