Când o feti?? este g?sit? moart?, înecat?, dup? ce s-a l?udat c? a v?zut o crim?, faimoasa scriitoare de romane poli?iste Ariadne Oliver îl cheam? pe vechiul s?u prieten Hercule Poirot pentru a-l descoperi pe uciga?. Cine ?i de ce ar fi avut motiv s? omoare un copil nevinovat? Poate c? povestea spus? de Joyce nu era, pân? la urm?, una dintre obi?nuitele ei minciuni, menite a-i impresiona pe ceilal?i? Poirot va trebui s? fac? apel la toat? ingeniozitatea sa pentru a descâlci misterul unor decese ?i al unei dispari?ii suspecte, dar mai ales pentru a împiedica s?vâr?irea altor crime.

O serie de infrac?iuni minore comise într-un c?min de studen?i nu par, în mod normal, genul de caz de care se ocup? Hercule Poirot. Un pantof, un inel cu diamant, o pereche de pantaloni vechi, un stetoscop ?i alte m?run?i?uri furate, o e?arf? ?i un rucsac t?iate în buc??i – delicte prea neînsemnate pentru a fi anun?at? poli?ia ?i chiar mai pu?in demne de geniul lui Poirot. Totu?i, lista acestor lucruri este atât de bizar?, încât îi treze?te interesul celebrului detectiv. Din nou intui?ia lui se dovede?te corect?, c?ci un simplu caz de cleptomanie paveaz? drumul c?tre crim?...

O singur? alegere – ?l salveaz? de trecutul s?u O singur? alegere – ?i marcheaz? viitorul O singur? alegere – Scoate la iveal? primejdiile O singur? alegere – ?l schimb? pentru totdeauna O singur? alegere – ?l va elibera Aceast? edi?ie include: Transferatul ? Novicele ? Fiul ? Tr?d?torul ?i trei scene inedite din Divergent. Cu doi ani ?nainte ca Tris Prior s? fac? alegerea care avea s?-i schimbe via?a, fiul de ?aisprezece ani al liderului Abnega?iei a trecut prin acela?i lucru. Transferul lui Tobias c?tre Ne?nfricare repre-zint? ?ansa de a o lua de la cap?t. Aici, el nu va fi strigat pe numele dat de p?rin?i. Aici, el nu va permite ca teama s? ?l transforme ?ntr-un copil ?nsp?im?ntat. Proasp?t botezat ?Four“, el afl? ?n timpul ini?ierii c? va izb?ndi ?n Ne?nfricare. ?ns? ini?ierea este doar ?ncepu-tul, iar Four trebuie s?-?i revendice locul ?n ierarhia Ne?nfrica?ilor. Deciziile lui ?i vor afecta pe viitorii novici ?i vor scoate la iveal? secrete care ar putea s?-i pun? ?n primejdie propriul viitor – ?i viitorul ?ntregului sistem de fac?iuni. Doi ani mai t?rziu, Four este preg?tit s? ac?ioneze, dar cursul lucrurilor este ?nc? neclar. Totu?i, prima novice care sare ?n plas? ar putea schimba totul. Al?turi de ea, calea de a salva lumea ar putea deveni limpede. Al?turi de ea, el ar putea fi din nou Tobias. Veronica Roth completeaz? seria DIVERGENT cu un volum adiacent palpitant, relatat din perspectiva ?ndr?gitului ?i celebrului personaj Tobias. Cele patru povestiri incluse ?n aceast? edi?ie – TRANSFERATUL, NOVICELE, FIUL ?i TR?D?TORUL –, al?turi de trei scene inedite, ofer? cititorilor o privire electri-zant? asupra trecutului ?i sentimentelor lui Tobias, preg?tind totodat? terenul c?tre saga trilogiei DIVERGENT.

În mijlocul lag?rului de prizonieri de r?zboi condamna?i s? construiasc? o cale ferat? între Birmania ?i Thailanda, cunoscut? cu denumirea Calea ferat? a mor?ii, chirurgul Dorrigo Evans, comandantul lag?rului, este torturat de povestea de dragoste pe care a tr?it-o cu tân?ra so?ie a unchiului s?u cu doi ani în urm?. În str?dania lui de a-?i salva oamenii de înfometare, de holer?, de persecu?ii, Dorrigo prime?te o scrisoare care îi schimb? pentru totdeauna cursul vie?ii. O poveste despre dragoste ?i moarte cu multiplele lor fa?ete, despre r?zboi ?i despre adev?r, în care eroul î?i tr?ie?te experien?a de via?? numai pentru a descoperi tot ceea ce a pierdut.

Cand orasul era inca un oras, oamenii se trezeau in fiecare dimineata in Berlinul de Vest si in Berlinul de Est, separate prin Zidul necrutator. Cand orasul era inca un oras, Timo, Jakob si Christa nu aveau cum sa stie ca, intr-o buna zi, vor fi nevoiti sa deschida ochii intr-o lume fara adulti, in cartierele unui Berlin de nerecunoscut, plin de primejdii. Un oras in care, pentru a supravietui, este nevoie sa faci parte dintr-un grup: Gropiusstadt, Havel, Reichstag, Tegel, Zoo. In ciuda luptelor inversunate insa, toti au ceva in comun: virusul care, la sfarsitul adolescentei, le va curma viata, ca si cum maturizarea ar fi fost o condamnare la moarte. Iar virusul nu este singura primejdie. O fiara misterioasa umbla libera pe strazi, ataca si ucide animale si copii, apoi dispare fara urme. Iar pentru a se apara de inamicul invizibil, tinerilor nu le mai ramane decat sa se alieze si sa lupte impreuna.

ngyilkosságokba hajszoló, hipnotikus ének tartja rettegésben Szími szigetének lakóit. Pireuszban egy megbélyegzett, elvágott torkú holttestre bukkannak a hatóságok. Vajon mi állhat az események hátterében A knyv szerepli ezekre a kérdésekre keresik a választ, számtalan veszélyen és rejtélyen át, hogy végül kiderüljn a megdbbent igazság.

n Ziua Recunotinei doi adolesceni, Nate i Ashley, rmn n grija unchiului, un istoric linitit i retras, dup ce tatl ajunge la nchisoare pentru c ia ucis soia, pe care a prinso n flagrant delict tocmai cu fratele lui. Romanul ncepe n for – i apoi se dezlnuie cu adevrat. Numi amintesc cnd am citit ultima dat un roman cu o asemenea intensitate narativ; o relatare necrutoare a unui an catastrofal, violent, comic i sumbru totodat, aductor de profunde schimbri n viaa unei familii americane disfuncionale. Dea dreptul uimitor.“ Salman RuShdie

n Oslo-ul anilor ’90, ntro toamn prelungit n var indian, Will, un tnr scenarist plin de idei, dar neapreciat de productori, triete de patru ani mpreun cu iubita lui, Cathrin, art director ntro agenie de publicitate. Pentru a scpa de plictiseala care ncepe si bntuie, Cathrin iniiaz un joc erotic primejdios: cu pretextul c vor s-i cumpere o locuin, viziteaz case i apartamente, n care, ascunzndu-se de ochii agenilor imobiliari, renvie pasiunea primilor ani. Totul pare s se rezolve, Will semneaz un contract - e drept, pentru filme interzise minorilor, dar dispariia lui Cathrin d totul peste cap, calmul lund nfiarea unui thriller ce te ine cu sufletul la gur.

Iat?o pe fiica regelui troian Priam, vestita profet? Casandra, sosind ?n fa?a por?ilor cet??ii Micene ?n carul cu prizonieri al eroului grec Agamemnon. ?tie c? va fi ucis? ?nainte de asfin?itul soarelui ?i ??i rememoreaz? via?a, o existen?? excep?ional? pentru o femeie a acelor vremuri, ce culmineaz? ?n momente de o intensitate ?i un dramatism emo?ionant. Christa Wolf imagineaz? biografia fascinant? a unei figuri feminine at?t de controversate din mitologia antic?, reu?ind s? ne fac? s? o sim?im ca pe o contemporan? a noastr?.?

„Iat? o carte pe care s? o cite?ti încet ?i cu inima strâns?, o carte pe care s? o sim?i a?a cum sim?i ploaia b?tând darabana pe geamurile unui azil situat chiar aici ?i, în acela?i timp, la hotarele visului: acest t?râm atât de îndep?rtat ?i, în acela?i timp, atât de al nostru.  O zei?? stranie pare s? domine universul acestei opere singulare: boala, în multiplele ei variante, fizice ?i mentale, f?r? a uita c? fiecare boal? are o ie?ire, uneori spre lumina cea mai nea?teptat?, alteori spre cea mai nea?teptat? umbr?. Ne afl?m în fa?a unei c?r?i pline de delicate?e ?i de modera?ie, care??i trage vitalitatea din realism, din umanitate ?i, în acela?i timp, din delir, ?i care s?ar putea citi ca un roman polifonic, în?esat de voci care vorbesc în noapte.“ Jesús Ferrero (în Prefa??)

D. H. Lawrence's classic novel about the coal mine official Aaron Sisson, who escapes his dreary life in the English Midlands and travels to Italy to try to realise his dream of becoming a professional flautist.

A charming collection of short stories from the author of 'Little Women' Louisa May Alcott, each based around a type of flower.

Кра?на стр?мко летить у пр?рву: моторошна криза охоплю? вс? царини людського життя. Псевдовчен? наполегливо пропагують: мислення – це ?люз?я, пошук будь-якого сенсу – абсурд, ? зрештою уряд оголошу? моратор?й на розум. Талано- вит? п?дпри?мц? безсл?дно зникають, кидаючи сво? виробництво напризволяще або знищуючи його. Головн? геро? роману – Да?н? Та??арт ? Генк Р?арден – в?дчайдушно намагаються в?двернути катастрофу. Да?н? переконана, що в кра?н? з’явився та?м- ничий Руйн?вник, ц?ль якого – крах економ?ки ? тотальна деградац?я людей. Ж?нка не покида? над?? в?дтворити досконалий двигун, але перспективний молодий нау- ковець, який погодився допомогти ?й, в?дмовля?ться працювати на благо нев?глас?в. Да?н? не хоче в?дмовлятися в?д свого задуму, тож ?де на зустр?ч з? знев?реним до- сл?дником, а в дороз? знайомиться з волоцюгою. Свого часу в?н працював там, де й зародилося ?чисте зло?, яке зараз пожира? кра?ну… Друга частина роману м?стить блискуч? св?тоглядн? монологи, вкладен? в уста Франциско Д’Анкон?? та Генка Р?ардена.

In 1888 a client, Mary Morstan, comes with two puzzles for Holmes. The first is the disappearance of her father Captain Arthur Morstan in December 1878 and the second is that she has received 6 pearls in the mail from an anonymous benefactor once a year since 1882, since she answered an anonymous newspaper query inquiring for her. With the last pearl she has received a letter remarking that she has been a wronged woman and asks for meeting. Holmes takes the case and soon discovers that Major Sholto — Morstan's only friend who had denied seeing Morstan — had died in 1882 and that within a short span of time Mary began to receive the pearls, implying a connection. The only clue Mary can give Holmes is a map of a fortress with the names of Jonathan Small and three Sikhs, who are named Dost Akbar, Abdullah Khan, and Mahomet Singh. Holmes, Watson, and Mary meet Thaddeus Sholto, the son of the late Major Sholto and Capt Morstan's Army friend who has sent her the pearls. Thaddeus remarks that his father had a paranoid fear of one-legged men and confirms that Mary's father had seen the Major the night he died. That night, in a quarrel about an Agra Treasure, Morstan — who was in weak health — suffered a heart attack. Not wanting to bring attention to the object of the quarrel to public notice, Sholto disposed of the body and hid the treasure. However his own health became worse when he received a letter from India. Dying, he called his two sons and confessed to Morstan's death and was about to divulge the location of the treasure when he suddenly cried "Keep him out!". The puzzled sons glimpsed a face in the window but the only trace was a single footstep in the dirt. On their father's body is a note reading "The Sign of Four". Both brothers quarreled over whether a legacy should be left to Mary Morstan and Thaddeus left his brother Bartholomew, taking a chaplet and sending its pearls to Mary. The reason he sent the letter is that Bartholomew has found the treasure and possibly Thaddeus and Mary might confront him for a division of it. Bartholomew is found dead in his home from a poison dart and the treasure is missing. While the police wrongly take Thaddeus in as a suspect Holmes deduces that there are two persons involved in the murder: a one-legged man, Jonathan Small, as well as another "small" accomplice. He traces them to a boat landing where Small has hired a launch named the Aurora. With the help of his Baker Street Irregulars and his own disguise Holmes traces the launch. In a Police launch Holmes and Watson chase the Aurora and capture it but in the process end up killing the "small" companion after he attempts to kill Holmes with a poisoned dart shot from a blow-pipe. Small tries to escape but is captured. However the iron treasure box is empty; Small claims to have dumped the treasure over the side during the chase.

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865). The themes and settings of Through the Looking-Glass make it a kind of mirror image of Wonderland: the first book begins outdoors, in the warm month of May (4 May), uses frequent changes in size as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of playing cards; the second opens indoors on a snowy, wintry night exactly six months later, on 4 November (the day before Guy Fawkes Night), uses frequent changes in time and spatial directions as a plot device, and draws on the imagery of chess. In it, there are many mirror themes, including opposites, time running backwards, and so on. Short Summary: Alice is playing with a white kitten (whom she calls "Snowdrop") and a black kitten (whom she calls "Kitty")—the offspring of Dinah, Alice's cat in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland—when she ponders what the world is like on the other side of a mirror's reflection. Climbing up on the fireplace mantel, she pokes at the wall-hung mirror behind the fireplace and discovers, to her surprise, that she is able to step through it to an alternative world. In this reflected version of her own house, she finds a book with looking-glass poetry, "Jabberwocky", whose reversed printing she can read only by holding it up to the mirror. She also observes that the chess pieces have come to life, though they remain small enough for her to pick up. Upon leaving the house (where it had been a cold, snowy night), she enters a sunny spring garden where the flowers have the power of human speech; they perceive Alice as being a "flower that can move about." Elsewhere in the garden, Alice meets the Red Queen, who is now human-sized, and who impresses Alice with her ability to run at breathtaking speeds. This is a reference to the chess rule that queens are able to move any number of vacant squares at once, in any direction, which makes them the most "agile" of pieces. The Red Queen reveals to Alice that the entire countryside is laid out in squares, like a gigantic chessboard, and offers to make Alice a queen if she can move all the way to the eighth rank/row in a chess match. This is a reference to the chess rule of Promotion. Alice is placed in the second rank as one of the White Queen's pawns, and begins her journey across the chessboard by boarding a train that literally jumps over the third row and directly into the fourth rank, thus acting on the rule that pawns can advance two spaces on their first move.

Written for young adults, the Urban Underground series confronts issues that are of great importance to teens, such as friendship, loyalty, drugs, gangs, abuse, urban blight, bullies, and self-esteem to name a few. More than entertainment, these books can be a powerful learning and coping tool when a struggling reader connects with credible characters and a compelling storyline. The highly readable style and mature topics will appeal to young adult readers of both sexes and encourage them to finish each eBook. Harriet Tubman HS Series - Denique thought that if she wasn't so messed up in her head, she'd sort of like Trevor. But it would just end badly. So she focused on school. She wanted to graduate and get a job. College was now out of the question. Her family lived in the projects. Denique had to get a job as soon as possible after high school. With her and her mother bringing in money, the family could move to a better, safer place.

Here lies entombed the renowned King Arthur in the island of Avalon. – Inscription found at Glastonbury in the late 12th century King Arthur most probably never existed and if he did we know precious little about him, and yet he is one of the most famous Britons, while Excalibur and Camelot are perhaps the world’s best known sword and castle, and Hollywood doesn’t tire of returning to the world of Arthurian romance – another major movie is to be released in 2016. So, what’s the truth behind King Arthur? How did the legends take hold? And why have they endured for so long? Long before the Marvel Universe there was the universe of Arthurian romance and King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table examines the fact and the fiction behind Arthur, Lancelot, Merlin, Guinevere, Galahad, among others, as well as the quest for the Holy Grail. Beginning in the 12th century, the book explores what factual basis there is for the tales and how the characters, stories and motifs developed through histories, epic poems and prose tellings. The book also charts the revived interest in Arthurian romance in the 19th century and considers how the tales still hold the popular imagination today. Illustrated with more than 180 colour and black-and-white artworks and photographs and maps, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is an expertly written account of where literature, mythology and history meet.

Book 1 of the Forest People Series – The Awakening Camryn Painter is a 16-year-old freak of nature. Or possibly the savior of a civilization that isn’t supposed to exist. She’s a human chameleon… one who transforms into the image of whoever sees. Escaping from a medical research facility, Camryn discovers a magical forest world. Not that she’s welcome. Her new home is filled with faeries and beasts set on destroying her. Striking a tribal alliance between what she once believed were mythical beings is her only chance of survival… if she can just control her power and figure out who to trust.

Book 2 of the Forest People Series – The Choosing Camryn Painter’s powers come at a steep price. It’s one thing to master her chameleon abilities in the ancient forest world she now calls home, but another to use her abilities wisely. With the life or death of an entire civilization in her hands, Camryn must bond with a thunder dragon and join a battle she has little chance of winning… unless she can face down her own inner demons without destroying those she loves.

In the far future domed city of Dickens, no mercy is given. So when Eleanora Bryce finds her husband dead at his own hand, she finds herself trapped between the truth and his mountain of debt. Eleanora faces debtor’s prison — or worse — unless she can find a way out of Dickens. But can she return to the city which ruined her husband and murdered her son? A 6,000 word short story.

The book's protagonist is an English scientist and gentleman inventor living in Richmond, Surrey in Victorian England, and identified by a narrator simply as the Time Traveller. The narrator recounts the Traveller's lecture to his weekly dinner guests that time is simply a fourth dimension, and his demonstration of a tabletop model machine for travelling through it. He reveals that he has built a machine capable of carrying a person, and returns at dinner the following week to recount a remarkable tale, becoming the new narrator.In the new narrative, the Time Traveller tests his device with a journey that takes him to A.D. 802,701, where he meets the Eloi, a society of small, elegant, childlike adults. They live in small communities within large and futuristic yet slowly deteriorating buildings, doing no work and having a frugivorous diet. His efforts to communicate with them are hampered by their lack of curiosity or discipline, and he speculates that they are a peaceful communist society, the result of humanity conquering nature with technology, and subsequently evolving to adapt to an environment in which strength and intellect are no longer advantageous to survival. Returning to the site where he arrived, the Time Traveller is shocked to find his time machine missing, and eventually works out that it has been dragged by some unknown party into a nearby structure with heavy doors, locked from the inside, which resembles a Sphinx. Later in the dark, he is approached menacingly by the Morlocks, ape-like troglodytes who live in darkness underground and surface only at night. Within their dwellings he discovers the machinery and industry that makes the above-ground paradise possible. He alters his theory, speculating that the human race has evolved into two species: the leisured classes have become the ineffectual Eloi, and the downtrodden working classes have become the brutish light-fearing Morlocks. Deducing that the Morlocks have taken his time machine, he explores the Morlock tunnels, learning that they feed on the Eloi. His revised analysis is that their relationship is not one of lords and servants but of livestock and ranchers. The Time Traveller theorizes that intelligence is the result of and response to danger; with no real challenges facing the Eloi, they have lost the spirit, intelligence, and physical fitness of humanity at its peak. Meanwhile, he saves an Eloi named Weena from drowning as none of the other Eloi take any notice of her plight, and they develop an innocently affectionate relationship over the course of several days. He takes Weena with him on an expedition to a distant structure that turns out to be the remains of a museum, where he finds a fresh supply of matches and fashions a crude weapon against Morlocks, whom he fears he must fight to get back his machine. He plans to take Weena back to his own time. Because the long and tiring journey back to Weena's home is too much for them, they stop in the forest, and they are then overcome by Morlocks in the night, and Weena faints. The Traveller escapes only when a small fire he had left behind them to distract the Morlocks catches up to them as a forest fire; Weena is presumably lost in the fire, as are the Morlocks. The Morlocks use the time machine as bait to ensnare the Traveller, not understanding that he will use it to escape. He travels further ahead to roughly 30 million years from his own time. There he sees some of the last living things on a dying Earth, menacing reddish crab-like creatures slowly wandering the blood-red beaches chasing butterflies in a world covered in simple lichenous vegetation. He continues to make short jumps through time, seeing Earth's rotation gradually cease and the sun grow larger, redder, and dimmer, and the world falling silent and freezing as the last degenerate living things die out.