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Game of Thrones

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 3:14:17 PST

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A Game of Thrones grabs hold and won’t let go. It’s brilliant.’Robert Jordan‘Such a splendid tale. I couldn’t stop till I’d finished and it was dawn.’Anne McCaffrey‘Colossal, staggering… Martin captures all the intoxicating complexity of the Wars of the Roses or Imperial Rome in his imaginary world… one of the greats of fantasy literature.’SFX‘Fantasy literature has never shied away from grandeur ...

The Myth of the Rational Market

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 3:10:57 PST

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Examines the rise and fall of the efficient markets theory, the development of modern finance and the rise of behavioral economics, in an account that draws on ...

Economics of Good and Evil

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 3:09:17 PST

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Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and ev ...

Naamah's Kiss

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 3:08:56 PST

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Naamah’s Curse

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 3:08:55 PST

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Irrational Exuberance

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 3:07:16 PST

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With a new Afterword on the current state of the stock market, the ongoing debate over the “new economy,” and the larger implications of “irrational exuberance.” In this controversial, hard-hitting account of today’s explosive market, Robert J. Shiller, a leading expert on market volatility, evokes Alan Greenspan’s infamous 1996 reference, “irrational exuberance,” to explain the alternately soa ...

The Scarlet Contessa

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 3:06:37 PST

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A skilled reader in fortune-telling cards, Dea, a widowed lady-in-waiting to Renaissance Italy's Caterina Sforza, struggles to unravel the truth about her ...

Unconquered

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:34:37 PST

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A breathless novel of sensual daring and fiery adventure, UNCONQUERED introduces the brilliant outspoken Miranda, who would give up nothing for a man, and whose spirited ways and breathtaking sensuality would sweep her into perilous escapades of brutality and erotic discovery...

The Broken Crown

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:34:07 PST

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Lily Of The Nile

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:33:24 PST

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Heiress of one empire and prisoner of another, it is up to the daughter of Cleopatra to save her brothers and reclaim what is rightfully hers... To Isis worshippers, Princess Selene and her twin brother Helios embody the divine celestial pair who will bring about a Golden Age. But when Selene's parents are vanquished by Rome, her auspicious birth becomes a curse. Trapped in an empire that revile ...

Virgin Widow

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:33:00 PST

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This title is about England's forgotten Queen. England, 1469. A daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker, Anne Neville cannot dictate her own future. Her marriage will be political, made purely to advance her family's interests. But at the age of fourteen, her father's treason forces her into exile, and into an uneasy betrothal with Edward of Lancaster. Edward is changeable and completely controlled by ...

Harshini

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:32:41 PST

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PerfectBound exclusive ebook special features include an interview with the author by the editor of the Demon Child Trilogy, additional drawings and sketches by Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and reading notes. Medalon has surrendered to Karien and Tarja is once more an outlaw. The Defenders are scattered and their only hope for aid is Damin Wolfblade and the vast army of Hythria. But Damin has his own p ...

Treason Keep

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:32:32 PST

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"PerfectBound E-Book Special Features! reading notes, more unpublished illustrations from Stephanie Pui-Mun Law and an excerpt from Book Three, Harshini. The second instalment in Jennifer Fallon's Demon Child Trilogy. On the brink of death, R'shiel is taken to the Harshini haven of Sanctuary, where crucial decisions are being made. Can the Demon Child's life be saved? On Medalon's northern bord ...

Medalon

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:32:25 PST

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According to legend, the last king of the Harshini sired a half-human child, known as the Demon Child, born to destroy a god . . . The Sisterhood of the Blade rules Medalon with an iron fist--an iron fist within the steel gauntlet of the Defenders, elite warriors sworn to uphold the sisters and keep Medalon free of heathen influence.R'shiel, daughter of the First Sister of the Blade, has pulled a ...

Le luci di settembre

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:32:02 PST

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Durante l’estate del 1937 Simone Sauvelle, rimasta all’improvviso vedova, abbandona Parigi assieme ai figli, Irene e Dorian, e si trasferisce in un piccolo paese sulla costa per sfuggire agli ingenti debiti accumulati dal marito. Trova lavoro come governante per il facoltoso fabbricante di giocattoli Lazarus Jahn in una gigantesca magione chiamata Cravenmoore, dove l’uomo vive con la moglie malat ...

3096 giorni

Sat, 30 Jul 2011 6:27:15 PST

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Natascha Kampush ha dieci anni quando viene rapita. Troverà la libertà dopo 3096 giorni, oltre otto anni dopo, riuscendo a fuggire dall'appartamento in cui veniva segregata. Il rapitore, disperato per l'abbandono, si suicida. Il loro non era, infatti, un "semplice" rapporto di violenza e sottomissione. Tutta la lunga prigionia alterna momenti di violenza a momenti di tenerezza. Il rapitore vede c ...

Baudolino

Fri, 25 Mar 2011 6:49:51 PST

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In quella zona del basso Piemonte dove, anni dopo, sorgerà Alessandria,Baudolino, un piccolo contadino fantasioso e bugiardo, conquista FedericoBarbarossa e ne diventa figlio adottivo. Baudolino affabula e inventa ma,quasi per miracolo, tutto quello che immagina, produce Storia. Così, tra lealtre cose, costruisce la mitica lettera del Prete Gianni, che promettevaall'Occidente un reg ...

Fallen

Wed, 2 Mar 2011 3:03:01 PST

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SOME ANGELS ARE DESTINED TO FALL. Instant. Intense. Weirdly familiar ...The moment Luce looks at Daniel she knows she has never felt like this before. Except she can't shake the feeling that she has ...and with him - a boy she doesn't remember ever setting eyes on. Will her attempt to find out why enlighten her - or destroy her? Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic. Fallen is a thrilling stor ...

The Viscount Who Loved Me

Wed, 2 Mar 2011 2:50:26 PST

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The town is shocked when Anthony Bridgerton, confirmed bachelor and consummate rake, actually chooses a bride. He only obstacle is his intended's stunning, meddlesome elder sibling, Kate. When Anthony closes his eyes at night, it's Kate who haunts his increasingly erotic dreams. Kate is determined to protect her innocent sister from the handsome viscount whom all London considers the most wicked ...

The Courts of Love

Wed, 2 Mar 2011 2:18:56 PST

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When I look back over my long and tempestuous life, I can see that much of what happened to me—my triumphs and most of my misfortunes—was due to my passionate relationships with men. I was a woman who considered herself their equal—and in many ways their superior—but it seemed that I depended on them, while seeking to be the dominant partner—an attitude which could hardly be expected to bring abo ...

Il grande crollo

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:31:31 PST

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Alla fine del 1928, l'economia degli Stati Uniti viveva un momento di grandeeuforia: la Borsa andava a gonfie vele, le azioni crescevano, il denarocorreva a fiumi... Di lì a pochi mesi quel mondo di carta e di illusionisarebbe crollato come un castello di sabbia, distruggendo patrimoni,obbligando migliaia di industrie a chiudere, gettando sul lastrico milioni difamiglie, provocando all'int ...

Psicologia delle folle

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:29:20 PST

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Pubblicato nel 1895, questo studio seppe cogliere i primi segnali dell'entrata in scena di un nuovo attore sociale: la folla, soggetto e, al contempo, oggetto dell'operare politico. Degradato a manuale precettistico, fu "livre de chevet" di dittatori e aspiranti tali durante gli anni Venti del Novecento. Ma nelle sue parti più vitali, nelle sue numerose intuizioni, in un certo profetismo, questo ...

Crown of Crystal Flame

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:26:38 PST

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From "New York Times" and "USA Today" bestselling author C L Wilson comes the next stunning and sensual tale of 'The Tairen Soul' and the eternal battle for true love in the mystical Fading Lands.

Queen of Song and Souls

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:26:08 PST

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Star of the Morning

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:25:38 PST

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From the USA Today bestselling author comes the first in a magical romantic fantasy trilogy. Darkness covers the north, since the black mage has begun his assault on the kingdom of Neroche. Legend has it that only the two magical swords held by Neroche's king can defeat the mage. Now the fate of the Nine Kingdoms rests in the hands of a woman destined to wield one of those blades... In this ...

Kushiel's Scion

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:25:11 PST

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Imriel de la Courcel's birth parents are history's most reviled traitors, but his adoptive parents, the Comtesse Phedre and the warrior-priest Joscelin, are Terre d'Ange's greatest champions. Stolen, tortured and enslaved as a young boy, Imriel is now a Prince of the Blood; third in line for the throne in a land that revels in art, beauty and desire. It is a court steeped in deeply laid conspirac ...

The Poison Throne

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:24:43 PST

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When young Wynter Moorehawke returns to court with her dying father, but she finds her old home shadowed with fear. The king has become a violent despot, terrorizing those he once loved. His son and heir Alberon has fled into exile and now there are whispers everywhere of rebellion. Meanwhile, Alberon's half-brother Razi has been elevated to his throne. He struggles to meet his King's demands whi ...

Faefever

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:23:58 PST

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The New York Times bestselling author of Darkfever and Bloodfever returns to Dublin’s Fae-infested shores in a bold, sensual new novel. Hurtling us into a realm of seduction and shadows, Karen Marie Moning tells the enthralling tale of a woman who explores the limits of her mysterious powers as she enters a world of ancient sorcery—and confronts an enemy more insidious than she could ever have im ...

On the Night of the Seventh Moon

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 9:21:17 PST

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According to ancient Black Forest legend, on the Night of the Seventh Moon, Loke, the God of Mischief, is at large in the world. It is a night for festivity and joyful celebration. It is a night for singing and dancing. And it is a night for love. Helena Trant was enchanted by everything she found in the Black Forest -- especially its legends. But then, on the Night of the Seventh Moon, she sta ...

Le fonti della conoscenza e dell'ignoranza

Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:44:44 PST

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I due saggi che compongono questo libro sono, pur nella loro brevità, emblematici della postazione filosofica di Popper, ed esprimono il senso profondo che ne ha animato la battaglia culturale e politica. Interrogarsi e pronunciarsi sulla validità della nostra conoscenza non significa infatti soltanto affinare la speculazione, ma anche offrire visioni del mondo che possono essere fatte da tutti g ...

The Duke and I

Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:36:43 PST

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After enduring two seasons in London, Daphne Bridgerton is no longer naive enough to believe she will be able to be marry for love. But is it really too much to hope for a husband for whom she at least has some affection? Her brother's old school friend Simon Basset - the new Duke of Hastings - has no intention of ever marrying. However, newly returned to England, he finds himself the target of t ...

Divine Misdemeanors

Tue, 8 Feb 2011 23:36:09 PST

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You may know me best as Meredith Nic Essus, princess of faerie. Or perhaps as Merry Gentry, Los Angeles private eye. In the fey and mortal realms alike, my life is the stuff of royal intrigue and celebrity drama. Among my own, I have confronted horrendous enemies, endured my noble kin’s treachery and malevolence, and honored my duty to conceive a royal heir—all for the right to claim the throne. ...

Brida

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 5:01:18 PST

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"In Brida, il mio terzo romanzo che ho scritto appena dopo L'Alchimista, racconto l'iniziazione di una ragazza al mondo della magia attraverso diverse tradizioni esoteriche. In esso esploro svariati temi che mi sono cari, come la Grande Madre, le religioni pagane e l'amore. Quando ho scritto Brida e l'ho pubblicato in Brasile più di 18 anni fa, alcune tematiche come il volto femminile di Dio eran ...

Sorcery Rising

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:24:11 PST

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DAW is proud to present Sorcery Rising-a book which we believe will prove to be one of the most exciting fantasy debuts of our time. Its author, Jude Fisher, is a major U.K. publisher who oversees the British publication of all of J.R.R. Tolkien's work-which led to her writing The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings Visual Companion. Filled with magic and magical quests, war and ...

The Laurentine Spy

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:23:35 PST

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Odalisque

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:20:28 PST

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Once a captive of merciless desert slave traders, Lazar fought his way to freedom—and to an exalted role as Spur of Percheron, guardian of his adopted city, and confidant and protector of the Zar, Joreb. But now the Zar is dead and his fifteen-year-old heir, Boaz, must assume the mantle of leadership—guided by trusted advisor Lazar, the "mad" dwarf jester Pez . . . and Boaz's cruel, ambitious mo ...

The Hundred-Thousand Kingdoms

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:20:08 PST

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Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky - a palace above the clouds where gods' and mortals' lives are intertwined. There, to her shock, Yeine is named one of the potential heirs to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a v ...

King of Sword and Sky

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:19:28 PST

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Lady of Light and Shadows

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:19:24 PST

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Lord of the Fading Lands

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:19:20 PST

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This fantasy-romance debut features faerie king Rain Tairen Soul, a man tormented by age-old grief: a thousand years ago, the woman he loved was slain in battle, and in his rage he laid waste to half the world. Now his people are dying out and the evil mages of Eld are rising again. When Rain hears the call of his lost soul mate, Ellysetta, he journeys to the neighboring kingdom to find her; when ...

Mockingjay

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:18:56 PST

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The Twilight Lord

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:12:59 PST

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A Distant Tomorrow

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:12:02 PST

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My dear reader Five years have now passed since the Winter War between the Outlands and Hetar. But Gaius Prospero has not given up his scheme to become emperor, and unexpected tragedy causes Lara to once again heed the pull of her destiny. Finding herself across the sea in a secret new world known as Terah, she discovers that her magical abilities grow greater with each passing day. Using her ...

Black Friars

Sat, 18 Dec 2010 7:08:47 PST

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Chi è Eloise Weiss? Perché il più antico vampiro della stirpe di Blackmore abbandona per lei l’eternità suscitando le ire di Axel Vandemberg, glaciale Princeps dello Studium e tormentato amore della giovane? La Vecchia Capitale si prepara alla Vigilia di Ognissanti e il coprifuoco è vicino perché il Presidio sta per aprire le sue porte. Il lento salmodiare delle orde di penitenti che si riversan ...

Per sempre

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 0:37:50 PST

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Nell'Inghilterra del XII secolo non c'è gentiluomo scapolo che non aspiri alla mano di Abrielle di Harrington, una giovane dalla bellezza pura e sfolgorante, nota per l'arguta intelligenza e i nobili natali. Ma i numerosi pretendenti svaniscono come neve al sole quando a Vachel de Gerard, il suo amato patrigno tornato dalle Crociate, vengono negati il titolo nobiliare e i possedimenti promessi. A ...

Demon's Angel

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 0:37:20 PST

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In una remota fortezza di Budapest, sei seducenti guerrieri immortali sono legati da un'antica maledizione che nessuno è mai riuscito a infrangere... Un feroce guerriero coperto di tatuaggi... Un angelo caduto che rinuncia a tutto per stare con lui... Per settimane Aeron ha sentito accanto a sé un'invisibile presenza femminile. È Olivia, un angelo incaricato di ucciderlo. Lei sostiene di aver rin ...

Demon's Pleasure

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 0:37:16 PST

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Lords of the Underworld vol.3 In una remota fortezza di Budapest, sei seducenti guerrieri immortali sono legati da un'antica maledizione che nessuno è mai riuscito a infrangere... Un guerriero immune alle sofferenze. Una donna che riesce a vedere nel futuro. Un'attrazione impossibile e allo stesso tempo incontrollabile... Danika Ford sembra una ragazza come tante, ma in realtà nasconde un dono ...

Demon's Kiss

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 0:37:11 PST

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Lords of the Underworld vol.2 In una remota fortezza di Budapest, sei seducenti guerrieri immortali sono legati da un'antica maledizione che nessuno è mai riuscito a infrangere... Un guerriero possente e signore della Morte... Una temibile dea, portatrice di caos e disordine... Ma nessuno dei due è padrone del proprio destino... Anya, dea dell'anarchia, decide di mettere in campo tutte le propr ...

Demon's Night

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 0:36:51 PST

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I guerrieri avevano scatenato il male per vendicare il loro orgoglio ferito e ora erano costretti a ospitarlo dentro di sé. Così erano nati i Signori degli Inferi. Un guerriero immortale costretto da una maledizione a morire e a risorgere ogni notte... Una giovane donna mortale tormentata dagli echi del passato... Da sempre Ashlyn Darrow sente le voci delle persone che il destino ha condotto in ...

Lara

Wed, 1 Dec 2010 0:34:59 PST

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Welcome, dear reader, to the world of Hetar. A land of Forest Lords, of Shadow Princes and Coastal Kings. A place that is both civilized and savage. Where the social classes know their place, but where anyone can, under the right conditions, advance to the highest pinnacle. This is a place where pleasure is not censured but encouraged; where the ends are justified by the means. And yet all is not ...

The Dark Mirror

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 8:11:35 PST

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Bridei is a young nobleman fostered at the home of Broichan, one of the most powerful druids in the land. The tasks that he sets Bridei appear to have one goalto make him a vessel for some distant purpose. What that purpose is, Bridei cannot fathom, but he is content to learn all he can about the ways of the world. But something happens that will change Brideis world forever . . . and possibly wr ...

Catching Fire

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 8:11:06 PST

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Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their ...

Summers at Castle Auburn

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 8:10:12 PST

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She was a girl? ?with a talent for witchcraft and a taste for adventure. The illegitimate child of a royal lord, she longed for a man who could never be hers. And she lived for her summers at Castle Auburn? She is a woman? ?who has grown accustomed to standing alone. What she once loved, she has lost. Where she once saw joy, she now sees terrible injustice. And at the castle where she on ...

Tess Of The Durbervilles

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 8:08:32 PST

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The chance discovery by a young peasant woman that she is a descendant of the noble family of d'Urbervilles is to change the course of her life. Tess Durbeyfield leaves home on the first of her fateful journeys, and meets the ruthless Alec d'Urberville. Thomas Hardy's impassioned story tells of hope and disappointment, rejection and enduring love.

The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 8:07:41 PST

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The volume contains at the end 7 unnambered pages with maps. Born in Newgate prison and abandoned six months later, Moll's drive to find and hold on to a secure place in society propels her through incest, adultery, bigamy, prostitution and a resourceful career as a thief ('the greatest Artist of my time') before she is apprehended and returned to Newgate. If Moll Flanders is on one level a Puri ...

The Ravencliff Bride

Thu, 4 Nov 2010 8:07:09 PST

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Rosamund

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 7:10:35 PST

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From Bertrice Small, the beloved New York Times bestselling 'queen of romance,"* comes a sweeping new novel of a young girl's unexpected journey into womanhood, into mystery and passion, and into history.... Rosamund Bolton is the heiress to the manor of Friarsgate in the wild Cumbrian border between England and Scotland. More than a splendid inheritance, Friarsgate will chart the fate of the ...

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 7:06:04 PST

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Paul Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in economics, shows how today's crisis parallels the events that caused the Great Depression - and explains what it will take to avoid catastrophe. In 1999, in "The Return of Depression Economics", Paul Krugman surveyed the economic crises that had swept across Asia and Latin America, and warned that those crises were a warning for all of us: like dise ...

Il tocco del destino

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 7:00:41 PST

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Companion n°3 Sull’attraente e misteriosa Ann Van Helsing pesa una maledizione terribile: solo toccando una persona, riesce a leggerne la storia e i sentimenti più intimi. Gli abitanti del villaggio la credono una strega e Ann, schiacciata da un potere che non è in grado di controllare, si è isolata nella propria tenuta. Cerca la pace vagando per i boschi, dove però si imbatte in uomo che sembra ...

Blood night. Ombre su New Orleans

Tue, 2 Nov 2010 6:59:32 PST

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Per la psicologa Jessica Fraser un convegno in Transilvania dovrebbe essere soltanto una normale trasferta di lavoro. Ma una festa a tema sui vampiri in un vecchio castello rischia di trasformarsi in una notte di sangue, e solo grazie a un'oscura premonizione lei riesce a impedire il peggio. Rientrata a New Orleans, Jessica percepisce un'oscura presenza che non avvertiva da molto tempo. Chi l'ha ...

Amore, osa!

Sun, 17 Oct 2010 2:28:41 PST

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trilogia MacCarrick Brothers n.1 “Al decimo dei MacCarrick. La tua bella moglie partorirà tre figli scuri, gioia ti daranno fino a che non leggeranno questo libro, quando i loro occhi si poseranno su queste parole la tua vita finirà, morirai sapendo che sono diventati uomini maledetti, ombre che camminano sole, o accompagnate dalla morte. Il loro destino non è sposarsi, né conoscere l’amore o al ...

La luce del nord

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 0:01:17 PST

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Nel giorno della sua nascita, Auriane riceve da una sacerdotessa un misterioso amuleto e la profezia di una vita di gloria e di sventure. Figlia di un capo germanico, Auriane assiste agli orrori indicibili perpetrati da invasori spietati contro la sua tribù, e decide di consacrarsi alla vendetta. La fama delle sue mirabili gesta giungerà fino a Roma, alle orecchie del famoso statista Marco Giulia ...

Il graffio della pantera

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 7:07:41 PST

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Werecats n.1 Ho gli artigli, e non ho remore a usarli... Faythe Sanders sembra una normalissima studentessa, con i desideri e le abitudini di una qualunque giovane donna della sua età. Nessuno, al campus, sospetta che lei sia una creatura dalla doppia natura, umana e felina. E nemmeno che per conquistare la propria indipendenza abbia sfidato l'autorità del padre e rinunciato a Marc, il suo unic ...

Ossessioni nella notte

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 7:07:21 PST

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Wings in the Night vol.8 Sensuali e misteriosi, cavalcano le ali della notte, incalzati da spietati nemici... Un sogno ricorrente perseguita Amber Lily, un sogno che la affascina e la terrorizza insieme. Chi è il vampiro dai capelli biondi e dagli occhi infuocati che le regala una preziosa scatola intagliata? Lui le fa ribollire il sangue nelle vene, mentre il suo dono le trasforma il cuore in ...

Phantom

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:32:00 PST

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Every night at midnight Dax could start to feel the change. The curse that made him less human as the Phantom inside struggled to take over. Then he would hear the ghost riders--their pounding hoofbeats drawing ever nearer, reminding him that he was never safe. Nor were the ones he loved. As a girl, Robyn had pledged herself to him. But that was a lifetime ago. Now she was a woman. Beauti ...

Sapphire

Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:31:28 PST

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Not even love could stop her . . . Despite her privileged life in the sultry paradise of Martinique, the beautiful and daring Sapphire Fabergine will never be satisfied until she claims the honor and legitimacy that has been denied her. Sapphire sails to London to confront the aristocratic family who had disowned her before she was even born -- only to find that her father is dead and that his t ...

Blood

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:43:25 PST

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La storia inizia dove si conclude il romanzo precedente della serie, Il vampiro di Blackwood. La voce narrante è quella del vampiro Lestat - vecchio di duecento anni, ma con l'aspetto seducente di un bellissimo ventenne ossessionato dal desiderio di diventare un santo della Chiesa cattolica. Lestat vive nella sontuosa residenza di Blackwood, a New Orleans, insieme al giovane e bellissimo Quinn, ...

Graceling

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:42:36 PST

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Serie: Seven Kingdoms Trilogy vol.1 Tutti i Graceling hanno gli occhi di due colori diversi. Tutti i Graceling hanno un Dono. Difficile è però sapere quale Dono possiedono: a volte anche per loro stessi è duro capirlo e controllarlo. Ci sono Doni quasi inutili, come la capacità di ripetere le parole al contrario o di ricordare certi dettagli. Katje ha diciotto anni e il suo Dono è un'arma terrib ...

The Pretender's Crown

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:42:07 PST

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Stolen

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:41:31 PST

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In the tradition of Laurell K. Hamilton, and just in time for Halloween, a deliciously wicked sequel to Bitten, from Canada’s new queen of suspense. Even though she’s the world’s only female werewolf, Elena Michaels is just a regular girl at heart -- with larger than normal appetites. She sticks to three feasts a day, loves long runs in the moonlight, and has a lover who is unbelievably frustra ...

The Hidden City

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:41:10 PST

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The Silver Wolf

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:40:47 PST

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A richly atmospheric historical fantasy about shapeshifters struggling to survive in the decadent city of Rome during the Dark Ages. Rome is mired in crumbling grandeur. Into the Eternal City comes Regeane, a young woman distantly related to Charlemagne, and as such an unwilling pawn in the struggle for political power. But unknown to all, she is a shapeshifter: woman and wolf. Betrothed to a b ...

Darling Jasmine

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:39:53 PST

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Fans of Bertrice Small's long-lived heroine Skye O'Malley will enjoy being reunited with her extensive family in this 17th-century tale about her granddaughter, Jasmine de Marisco, and the man King James has decreed she marry: Jemmie Leslie, earl of Glenkirk. Two years ago, demanding the freedom to choose her next husand herself, Jasmine jilted Jemmie and escaped to France. Now Jemmie, following ...

Wild Jasmine

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:39:31 PST

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"SPELLBINDING." --Romantic Times From the palaces of pashas in seventeenth-century India to the scandalous court of James Stuart of England, one woman struggles against fate to find true love.... Princess Yasaman had been blessed with rapturous beauty, fierce intelligence, and an innocent sensuality that captivates two formidable men--her scheming half brother, Salim, and her loving husband, P ...

The Price of Desire

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:38:59 PST

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Olivia Cole is devastated to learn that her ne'er-do-well brother has promised her to the operator of a London gaming hall as payment of his debts. Olivia accepts her fate - even if it means that her reputation will suffer from living among rogues and gamblers. But when she meets the sexy and mysterious Griffin Wright-Jones, the Viscount of Breckenridge, Olivia has more than just her good name to ...

Rose Daughter

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 0:38:25 PST

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"It is the heart of this place, and it is dying," says the Beast. And it is true; the center of the Beast's palace, the glittering glasshouse that brings Beauty both comfort and delight in her strange new environment, is filled with leafless brown rosebushes. But deep within this enchanted world, new life, at once subtle and strong, is about to awaken. Twenty years ago Robin McKinley enthralled r ...

Lover Awakened

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 7:56:45 PST

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Serie Confraternita del Pugnale Nero 3. A Caldwell, non lontano da New York, è in corso da secoli una guerra senza regole e senza quartiere in cui a combattere sono lesser e vampiri. Anche Bella è una vampira. Appartiene alla glymera, l'aristocrazia, ma di quel mondo rifiuta le regole e i rituali. Coraggiosa e anticonformista, Bella vuole solo essere libera. E quando conosce Zsadist, il più fero ...

Warprize

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 7:32:04 PST

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Xylara is a Daughter of Xy, brought up to do her duty to her country, her king and her people. Her father, the Warrior King Xyron, is dead and her incompetent half-brother Xymund is on the throne; she has chosen to serve her people as a healer, until she is needed to make a marriage of alliance. But the once-great kingdom of Xy is threatened by the Warlord and his barbarian Firelanders, and her b ...

Shadowhunters

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 7:31:20 PST

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Clary Fray vorrebbe soltanto che qualcuno le restituisse la sua vecchia, normalissima, vita. Ma non c'è niente di normale nella sua vita se può vedere licantropi, vampiri e altri Nascosti, se sua madre è in un coma magicamente indotto e lei scopre di essere uno Shadowhunter, un cacciatore di demoni. Se Clary si lasciasse il mondo dei Cacciatori alle spalle avrebbe più tempo per Simon (forse più d ...

Lover eternal

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 6:53:24 PST

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Lui è bello e pericoloso, lei è soltanto un’umana. Il loro destino è stare insieme, nonostante tutto. È amore a prima vista tra Mary e Rhage, un uomo bellissimo che, per un’antica maledizione, è condannato a trasformarsi in mostro sanguinario ogni volta che perde il controllo. Non solo. Rhage è anche un vampiro e appartiene alla Confraternita del Pugnale Nero, che lotta per preservare la propria ...

Shadowhunters

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 6:18:46 PST

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La sera in cui la quindicenne Clary e il suo migliore amico Simon decidono di andare al Pandemonium, il locale più trasgressivo di New York, sanno che passeranno una nottata particolare ma certo non fino a questo punto. I due assistono a un efferato assassinio a opera di un gruppo di ragazzi completamente tatuati e armati fino ai denti. Quella sera Clary, senza saperlo, ha visto per la prima volt ...

Dimmi che mi ami

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 6:17:50 PST

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Dopo la morte dei genitori, sulla giovane Kelsey Langton pesa laresponsabilità del proprio futuro e di quello della sorella Jean, mentre lasituazione finanziaria appare a dir poco tragica e qualcuno cospira insegreto per sottrarre la proprietà del castello in cui vivono. A Kelseynon rimane che sacrificare se stessa e accettare un matrimonio diconvenienza. Se proprio si vuol chiamare ...

Skin Trade

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:43:03 PST

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When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Ten officers and one executioner have been slain - paranormal style. Anita heads to Vegas, where's she's joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward. It's a good thing he always has her ...

Mistress of Rome

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:34:52 PST

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An exciting debut: a vivid, richly imagined saga of ancient Rome from a masterful new voice in historical fiction Thea is a slave girl from Judaea, ...

Blood Royal

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 0:50:25 PST

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The Last Wife of Henry VIII

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 0:49:57 PST

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The Queen's Bastard

Sun, 23 May 2010 0:32:07 PST

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In a world where religion has ripped apart the old order, Belinda Primrose is the queen’s secret weapon. The unacknowledged daughter of Lorraine, the first queen to sit on the Aulunian throne, Belinda has been trained as a spy since the age of twelve by her father, Lorraine’s lover and spymaster. Cunning and alluring, fluent in languages and able to take on any persona, Belinda can infiltrate th ...

The Rose of York

Sun, 23 May 2010 0:31:39 PST

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How could Shakespeare's notorious villain have given society Blind Justice and the Presumption of Innocence? Hailed as a classic, meticulously-researched The Rose of York: Love & War reveals the truth about Richard III. Award-winning novelist Sandra Worth shows how his life impacts ours in a story of war and peace, love and hate, right and wrong, affording stunning modern parallels.

Nefertiti

Sat, 22 May 2010 0:38:35 PST

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When the Crown Prince of Egypt needs a wife, the beautiful, charismatic, ambitious and connected Nefertiti is his mother's first choice. She quickly becomes accustomed to the opulence of her new life. As Queen of the world's first great empire at the height of its power, all her dreams are realised. Beguiling and wilful, Nefertiti is soon as powerful as the Pharaoh himself. But when her husband ...

The Devil's Queen

Sat, 22 May 2010 0:26:01 PST

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From Jeanne Kalogridis, the bestselling author of I, Mona Lisa and The Borgia Bride,comes a new novel that tells the passionate story of a queen who loved not ...

All the Sweet Tomorrows

Sat, 22 May 2010 0:25:53 PST

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Bestselling author Bertrice Small continues the blazing adventures of raven-haired, emerald-eyed Skye O'Malley. This time, she is a pawn in the bitter war between England's Queen Elizabeth, and Mary, Queen of Scots. Once again, unprotected and alone, she must fight for her children. At the command of Queen Elizabeth, Skye marries the cruel Duc de Beaumont de Jaspre. Although her new life is horri ...

La figlia dello zar

Sat, 22 May 2010 0:25:37 PST

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Inghilterra - Russia, 1821 Figlia illegittima dello zar di Russia, Leonida ha ricevuto un'educazione impeccabile che le consente di frequentare i migliori salotti dell'aristocrazia europea senza destare sospetti. Per amore della madre accetta dunque di infiltrarsi nella dimora di Stefan Summerville, Duca di Huntley, allo scopo di recuperare delle lettere che potrebbero, cadendo nelle mani sbagl ...

Una dama da conquistare

Sat, 22 May 2010 0:25:19 PST

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Inghilterra, 1816 Lucas Paine, Marchese di Basingstoke, è un uomo d'azione, abituato ad affrontare intrighi e pericoli e animato dall'insaziabile desiderio di riabilitare il nome del padre, ingiustamente disonorato. Quando incontra Nicole Daughtry, a Londra per la sua prima stagione mondana, vede subito in quella fanciulla bellissima, ribelle e appassionata la complice ideale per mettere in att ...

The White Queen

Sat, 15 May 2010 0:36:56 PST

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The first in a stunning new series, The Cousins War, is set amid the tumult and intrigue of The War of the Roses. Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings this family drama to colourful life through its women, beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville, the White Queen The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman ...