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Brisingr. L'eredità

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:22:42 PST

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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:17:45 PST

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First Among Sequels

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:20:42 PST

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Thursday Next is back. And this time it's personal ...Officially, Literary Detective Thursday Next is off the case. Once a key figure in the BookWorld police force, she is concentrating on her duties as a wife and mother. Or so her husband thinks ...Unofficially, Thursday is working as hard as ever - and in this world of dangerously short attention spans, there's no rest for the literate. Can Thu ...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:16:51 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:16:51 PST

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Copyright free ebook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Pride and Prejudice

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:16:50 PST

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Copyright free ebook of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Wicked

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 5:03:41 PST

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An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 6:18:01 PST

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Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Saland ...

Lasciami entrare

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 7:29:58 PST

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A Blackeberg, quartiere degradato alla periferia ovest di Stoccolma, il ritrovamento del cadavere completamente dissanguato di un ragazzo segna l'inizio di una lunga scia di morte. Sembrerebbe trattarsi di omicidi rituali, ma anche c'è anche chi pensa all'opera di un serial killer. Mentre nel quartiere si diffonde la paura, il dodicenne Oskar, affascinato dalle imprese dell'assassino, gioisce seg ...

Snuff

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:47:03 PST

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse. And Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder. He is out of ...

Mastering cmake

Sat, 23 Jul 2011 0:07:49 PST

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Whiskey Classified

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 3:07:25 PST

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Now updated to include the latest offerings from all the Scottish distilleries, and using a unique profiling system based on whisky's 12 dimensions of aroma and taste, this rigorously researched volume is a superb and impartial guide to single malt whiskies. Featuring 267 color photos and illustrations.In Whisky Classified, expert David Wishart eschews the confusing jargon often used to describe ...

A Hat Full of Sky

Sun, 22 May 2011 20:19:47 PST

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WE SEE YOU. NOW WE ARE YOU ...' No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty. Tiffany Aching does. And there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die. To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the heart of what makes her a witch. Get past the 'I can't'. But even with the help of the Nac Mac Feegle - the rowdiest p ...

The Wee Free Men

Sun, 22 May 2011 20:19:45 PST

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" These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better thanthievin', fightin' and drinkin'.

The Magicians' Guild

Sun, 22 May 2011 20:19:45 PST

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Each year the magicians of Imardin gather together to purge the city streets of vagrants, urchins and miscreants. Masters of the disciplines of magic, they know that no one can oppose them. But their protective shield is not as impenetrable as they believe. Sonea, angry, frustrated and outraged by the treatment of her family and friends, hurls a stone at the shield, putting all her rage behind i ...

Land of Painted Caves

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 4:55:24 PST

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SQL and Relational Theory

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 17:37:59 PST

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Understanding SQL's underlying theory is the best way to guarantee that your SQL code is correct and your database schema is robust and maintainable. In SQL and Relational Theory, author C.J. Date demonstrates how you can apply relational theory directly to your use of SQL, with numerous examples and clear explanations of the reasoning behind them. Anyone with a modest to advanced background in S ...

Terry Pratchett's Discworld Collector's Edition Calendar 2011

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 5:41:01 PST

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The 2011 DISCWORLD CALENDAR is an inspired collection of paintings by illustrator Josh Kirby, who had his own unique interpretations of Terry Pratchett's phenomal Discworld. Each full-page illustration also appears as a thumbnail image on the back. The calendar dates are exhaustively researched and include major real-time calendrical data for the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United ...

Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

Sat, 25 Dec 2010 6:18:36 PST

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Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure, Haskell. With Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce A. Tate, you'll go beyond the syntax-and beyond the 20-minute tutorial you'll find someplace online. This book has an audacious goal: to present a meaningful exploration of seven languages within a single book. Rather than serve as a complete reference or installation guide, Seven Languages hits what' ...

American Gods

Thu, 9 Dec 2010 15:18:59 PST

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Days before his release from prison, Shadow’s wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and king of America. Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm or preternatural and e ...

Orcs - Bad Blood 02. Army of Shadows 2

Sun, 31 Oct 2010 6:24:48 PST

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Stryke and the Wolverines returned in 2008 in ORCS BAD BLOOD 1: WEAPONS OF MAGICALDESTRUCTION, taking their quest to save the Orc race from both man and the ...

History of Language

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 3:34:10 PST

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It is tempting to take the tremendous rate of contemporary linguistic change for granted. What is required, in fact, is a radical reinterpretation of what language is. Steven Roger Fischer begins his book with an examination of the modes of communication used by dolphins, birds and primates as the first contexts in which the concept of "language" might be applied. As he charts the history of lang ...

History of Writing

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 3:34:03 PST

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From the earliest scratches on stone and bone to the languages of computers and the internet, A History of Writing offers a fascinating investigation into the origin and development of writing throughout the world.Commencing with the first stages of information storage, Fischer focuses on the emergence of complete writing systems in Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC. He documents the rise o ...

A History of Reading

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 3:31:58 PST

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Steven Roger Fischer's book traces the complete story of reading from the time when symbol first became sign through to the electronic texts of the present day. Describing ancient forms of reading and the various modes that were necessary to read different writing systems and scripts, Fischer turns to Asia and the Americas and discusses the forms and developments of completely divergent dimension ...

I Shall Wear Midnight

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 6:09:26 PST

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Tiffany Aching is a witch. And she thinks she's doing a good job for the people on the Chalk. Even if the job seems to involve a lot of bandaging legs and cutting old ladies' toenails and not much, well, magic. Or sleep. But somewhere - some time - there's a tangled ball of evil and spite, of hatred and malice, that has woken up. And it's waking up all the old stories too - stories about evil o ...

The Sirens Of Titan

Sun, 12 Sep 2010 6:08:42 PST

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When Winston Niles Rumfoord flies his spaceship into a chrono-synclastic infundibulum he is converted into pure energy and only materializes when his waveforms intercept Earth or some other planet. As a result, he only gets home to Newport, Rhode Island, once every fifty-nine days and then only for an hour. But at least, as a consolation, he now knows everything that has ever happened and every ...

The Left Hand of Darkness

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 1:32:33 PST

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Ursula K. Le Guin's award-winning, groundbreaking science fiction classic takes us to the world of Winter, and introduces us to its inhabitants, the Gethenians-whose society is not based on gender roles.

The Last Hero

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 1:31:58 PST

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Paradise (Apparently)

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 20:53:50 PST

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A Princess of Landover

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 7:12:07 PST

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Princess Mistaya Holiday hasn't been fitting in too well at Carrington Women'sPreparatory.

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus: AND How to Get What You Want in Your Relationships

Sun, 16 May 2010 2:59:08 PST

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The legendary relationships guide that mothers recommend to their daughters, friends give as gifts and brothers steal from their sisters, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS is inarguably the definitive book on having a happy relationship. 'A treasure', 'a bible' and 'an heirloom' are some of the words used to describe the book that has saved countless relationships and improved innumerab ...

Lavinia

Sun, 16 May 2010 2:58:28 PST

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' Lavinia is the daughter of the King of Latium, a victorious warrior who lovespeace; she is her father's closest companion.

The Amber Spyglass

Sat, 8 May 2010 9:40:52 PST

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"We're going to the land of the dead and we're going to come back" Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been - and a journey to a dark place from which no-one has ever returned...

The Subtle Knife

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 4:03:14 PST

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"What is he? A friend, or an enemy?" "He is a murderer." Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the world.

Da un certo istante

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 6:37:57 PST

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Northern Lights

Tue, 9 Mar 2010 5:25:25 PST

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"Without this child, we shall all die." Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bearsfight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world...

L'esercito dei demoni

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 3:45:04 PST

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La genesi di Shannara, vol.3 Dopo la distruzione della civiltà, il destino dell'umanità sembra ormai segnato. Gli stessi elfi sono a rischio di estinzione. Uno sterminato esercito di demoni al comando di Findo Gask si appresta a circondarli e distruggerli. La loro unica salvezza sono le Pietre Magiche; gli elfi Kirisin e Simralin, inviati dall'Ellcrys, l'albero senziente, le hanno recuperate, ma ...

Javascript for Programmers

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 7:43:43 PST

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PRACTICAL, EXAMPLE-RICH COVERAGE OF: * XHTML(R)* CSS(R)* JavaScript(t): Control Statements,* Functions, Arrays, Objects* JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)* XHTML DOM(R): Objects and Collections* JavaScript Event-Driven Programming* XML(R) and RSS* XML DOM* Rich Internet Applications* Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)* XMLHttpRequest* Dojo Toolkit* Consuming Web Services* And more...VISIT WWW ...

Viaggio al centro della terra

Wed, 3 Feb 2010 7:37:57 PST

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Analizzando una strana pietra trovata da un suo studente, il professor Otto Lidenbrock di Amburgo scopre una misteriosa iscrizione di Arne Saknussemm, il famoso esploratore scomparso nel nulla. Seguendo quelle antiche indicazioni Lidenbrock decide di esplorare il centro del nostro pianeta. Accompagnato dal nipote Axel e da una guida islandese di nome Hans, Otto accede al mondo sotterraneo attrave ...

We'll Always Have Paris

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 7:24:36 PST

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From one of the greatest living literary imaginations and the celebrated author of FAHRENHEIT 451 comes a collection of never-before-published effortlessly beautiful tales. Recently described in The Times as 'the uncrowned poet laureate of science fiction' Ray Bradbury has won numerous awards including a Pulitzer Prize special citation in 2007 and an Emmy. In this new volume of never-before-publi ...

ORCS Bad Blood

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 6:34:47 PST

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The original Orcs trilogy ended with Stryke and his band of Orcs finding the ancestral Orc home hidden in another dimension. Orcs Bad Blood will tell the story of their hectic adventures in the other dimensions as they attempt to find peace for their race and escape the ever greedy, savage expansion of mankind. Fast moving, tongue-in-cheek and full of sorcery and bloodshed these are the perfect r ...

Unseen Academicals

Tue, 8 Dec 2009 6:34:30 PST

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The C++ Programming Language

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 18:33:37 PST

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Written by Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, this is the world's most trusted and widely read book on C++.The result is complete, authoritative coverage of the C++ language, its standard library, and key design techniques. Based on the ANSI/ISO C++ standard, The C++ Programming Language provides current and comprehensive coverage of all C++ language features and standard library components.

Thief of Time

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 3:35:41 PST

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Time is of the essence in Terry Pratchett’s twenty-sixth Discworld novel. Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it’s wasted (like underwater — how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities where there’s never enough time. But the construction of the world’s fir ...

Night Watch

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 3:35:41 PST

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Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he’s back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck… Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper and change the outco ...

Thud!

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 3:35:41 PST

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"It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win ... It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium ... It's the unsettling sound of history about to repeat itself ... THUD! It's the most extraordinary, outrageous, provocative, insightful, and keenly cutting flight of fancy yet from Discwor ...

La luna fredda

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 4:25:06 PST

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In una gelida notte di dicembre, con una luna piena che si staglia nel cielo nero di New York e la paura diffusa tra la gente di un nuovo 11 settembre, un killer spietato colpisce due volte a poche ore di distanza. Sulle scene dei delitti lascia il suo "biglietto da visita", un costoso orologio con le fasi lunari sul quadrante e un messaggio firmato "L'orologiaio". Tutto lascia supporre che i due ...

Real World Haskell

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 6:32:29 PST

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This easy-to-use, fast-moving tutorial introduces you to functional programming with Haskell. Learn how to use Haskell in a variety of practical ways, whether it's for short, script-like programs or large and demanding applications. Written for experienced programmers, Real World Haskell takes you through the basics of functional programming at a brisk pace, and helps you increase your understand ...

Nation

Sun, 4 Oct 2009 5:04:47 PST

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On the day the world ends... ...Mau is on his way home from the Boys' Island. Soon he will be a man. And then the wave comes - a huge wave, dragging black night behind it and bringing a schooner which sails over and through the island rainforest. The village has gone. The Nation as it was has gone. Now there's just Mau, who wears barely anything, a trouserman girl who wears far too ...

Monstrous Regiment

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 7:19:24 PST

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It began as a sudden strange fancy. . . Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time. . . And now she’s enlisted in the army, and is searching for her lost brother. But there’s a war on. There’s always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thi ...

Making Money

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 7:19:24 PST

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It's an offer you can't refuse. Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door? It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long. The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the ...

Going Postal

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 7:19:23 PST

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Terry Pratchett puts his stamp on the new Discworld novel. Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork’s ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he’s got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of th ...

The Broken Window

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 7:18:03 PST

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He is watching you. He knows you, better than you know yourself. And he is using his knowledge to plan your death. But you are not his only victim. He is also watching your killer. He is about to get away with the perfect murder ...

Gli elfi di Cintra

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 6:10:56 PST

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La genesi di Shannara, vol.2 Dopo "I figli di Armageddon" Terry Brooks ci riporta in un futuro del pianeta Terra tanto prossimo quanto terribile. Veleni ed epidemie hanno decimato gli esseri umani e molti dei sopravvissuti sono stati spazzati via dai demoni e dai loro alleati. Gli ultimi uomini resistono rinchiusi in roccaforti, oppure vagano senza meta per le terre desolate. Pochissimi hanno l ...

Quicksilver Zenith

Fri, 1 May 2009 17:12:03 PST

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From the author of the internationally accalaimed Orcs series comes a powerful new epic fantasy to rival the work of Raymond E. Feist and David Gemmell. Cursed with immortality and episodes of uncontrollable, berserk fury, Reeth Caldason is desperate to find a cure for his magical affliction. His search has brought him to the island state of Bhealfa, ruled by a despot and trapped between two pow ...

Something Rotten

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 7:08:02 PST

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Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the C ...

The Lathe of Heaven

Sat, 7 Mar 2009 5:50:50 PST

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George Orr is a mild and unremarkable man who finds the world a less than pleasant place to live: seven billion people jostle for living space and food. But George dreams dreams which do in fact change reality - and he has no means of controlling this extraordinary power. Psychiatrist Dr William Haber offers to help. At first sceptical of George's powers, he comes to astonished belief. When he al ...

The Dispossessed

Sat, 7 Mar 2009 5:50:29 PST

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The Principle of Simultaneity is a scientific breakthrough which will revolutionize interstellar civilization by making possible instantaneous communication. It is the life work of Shevek, a brilliant physicist from the arid anarchist world of Anarres. But Shevek's work is being stifled by jealous colleagues, so he travels to Anarres's sister-planet Urras, hoping to find more liberty and tolera ...

Stardust

Wed, 25 Feb 2009 1:03:05 PST

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In the sleepy English countryside at the dawn of the Victorian Era, life moves at a leisurely pace in the tiny town of Wall -- a secluded hamlet so named for an imposing stone barrier that surrounds a fertile grassland. Armed sentries guard the sole gap in the bulwark to keep the inquisitive from wandering through, relaxing their vigil only once every nine years, when a market fair unlike any oth ...

Good Omens

Sun, 2 Nov 2008 3:46:39 PST

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There is a hint of Armageddon in the air. According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (recorded, thankfully, in 1655, before she blew up her entire village and all its inhabitants, who had gathered to watch her burn), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. So the Armies of Good and Evil are massing, the four Bikers of the Apocalypse are revving up their ...

The Fifth Elephant

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 4:14:24 PST

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Sam Vimes is a man on the run, and if he can't make it through the forest to civilization there's going to be a terrible war. But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright, they're fast, they're werewolves—and they're catching up.

Carpe Jugulum

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 4:14:24 PST

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Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he was there for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he’s caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he’s not sure there is a right side. There’s the witches — Agnes, Magrat, Nanny Ogg, and the formidable Granny Weatherwax… And the vampires: the stakes are high but they’re intelligent — not easily got rid of with a g ...

The Truth

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 4:14:24 PST

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William just wants to get at the truth. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it’s only the third edition. William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld’s first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist’s life – people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want ...

Strata

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 4:14:24 PST

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The Company builds planets. Kin Arad is a high-ranking official of the Company. After twenty-one decades of living, and with the help of memory surgery, she is at the top of her profession. Discovering two of her employees have placed a fossilized plesiosaur in the wrong stratum, not to mention the fact it is holding a placard which reads 'End Nuclear Testing Now', doesn't dismay the woman who b ...

The Halfling's Gem

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 4:14:24 PST

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The Halfling's Gem Assassin Artemis Entreri whisks his kidnapped victim, Regis the halfling, south to Calimport and into Pasha Pook's vengeful hands. If Pook can control the magical panther Guenhwyvar, Regis will die in a real game of cat and mouse. Using an enchanted mask, dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden hides his heritage and races with the barbarian Wulfgar to save their light-fingered friend. An ...

Streams of Silver

Sun, 26 Oct 2008 4:14:24 PST

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Streams of Silver "Yer eyes'll shine when ye see the rivers runnin' silver in Mithril Hall!" Bruenor the dwarf, Wulfgar the barbarian, Regis the halfling, and Drizzt the dark elf fight monsters and magic on their way to Mithril Hall, centuries-old birthplace of Bruenor and his dwarven ancestors. Faced with racism, Drizzt contemplates returning to the lightless underworld city andmurderous l ...

Lo specchio nello specchio

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 4:52:52 PST

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Giramondo, funamboli, angeli, dittatori, donne obese, principesse si muovono attraverso stanze, palcoscenici, deserti, cattedrali e creano storie di volta in volta poetiche, bizzarre, assurde, surreali, sinistre. Al lettore il compito di fare da «specchio» alle immagini che gli si propongono con i suoi ricordi, le sue esperienze, i suoi sogni.

La solitudine dei numeri primi

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 4:52:03 PST

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Alice è una bambina obbligata dal padre a frequentare la scuola di sci. È una mattina di nebbia fitta, lei non ha voglia, il latte della colazione le pesa sullo stomaco. Persa nella nebbia, staccata dai compagni, se la fa addosso. Umiliata, cerca di scendere, ma finisce fuori pista spezzandosi una gamba. Resta sola, incapace di muoversi, al fondo di un canale innevato, a domandarsi se i lupi ci s ...

L'universo elegante

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 4:40:38 PST

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Oggi fisici e matematici lavorano a una delle più ambiziose teorie mai proposte: la teoria delle stringhe. Grazie a essa, lo scontro secolare tra le leggi del grande (la relatività generale) e le leggi del piccolo (la meccanica dei quanti) viene superato a vantaggio di una superiore unità, basata sull'affermazione che tutti gli eventi dell'universo nascono da un'unica entità: microscopici cicli d ...

Ricordando l'Apocalisse

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 4:40:38 PST

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Addio all'estate

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 4:40:38 PST

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1929: l’estate si rifiuta di finire e l’inizio dell’ottobre si rivela inaspettatamente caldo. Ma nel villaggio di Green Town, lllinois, è scoppiata la guerra civile. Si tratta di quel conflitto vecchio come il mondo che oppone i giovani agli anziani e che — in questo caso — ha come posta il controllo sull’orologio che spinge inesorabilmente in avanti le vite di tutti. A scatenare le ostilità sono ...

A volte ritornano

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 4:40:37 PST

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Edizione Bompiani (I Grandi Tascabili, 56) uscita inizialmente senza codice ISBN (1986) poi aggiunto nella successiva ristampa. Utilizzare questa scheda per entrambe le ristampe, selezionando la copertina corrispondente alla copia posseduta del libro. Mentre l'uomo domina e piega a sé le leggi di natura, affidando il controllo assoluto della propria esistenza alla tecnologia, inquietanti segnal ...

The Well of Lost Plots

Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:16:37 PST

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Larousse de poche

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:43:14 PST

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La qualité Larousse au format poche ! Langue française : 48 000 définitions, les niveaux de langue, les locutions et expressions. Culture générale : 8 000 noms propres actualisés, de nombreux articles encyclopédiques. En annexe : la liste de tous les mots touchés par la réforme de l'orthographe, les proverbes, un précis de grammaire, des tableaux de conjugaison.

Tangerine

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 8:39:50 PST

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Questi venticinque racconti composti dall'autore a partire dal 1948 mostrano l'evoluzione dei temi e la maturazione dello stile dello scrittore, capace di mutuare i moduli della letteratura fantascientifica (primo fra tutti il viaggio nel tempo) e dell'horror (fantasmi, telefoni che squillano nel cuore della notte...) per parlare dei problemi della modernità con quel misto di allegria e malinconi ...

Innocent Smoothie Recipe Book: Bk. 2

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 7:25:00 PST

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The hard-working people at innocent spend their days blending all kinds of delicious ingredients to create smoothies and juices that taste good and do you good. These are their secret recipes. This book contains fancy juices, healthy smoothies for kids, some posh stuff and tons of classic innocent smoothies, as well as recipes from proper foodies like that nice Jamie Oliver. Stuffed full of helpf ...

Neverwhere

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:53:07 PST

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The stunningly original and brilliant first novel from storytelling genius Neil Gaiman. Under the streets of London there's a world most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, and pale girls in black velvet. Richard Mayhew is a young businessman who is about to find out more than he bargained for about this other London. A single act of kindness cat ...

Quicksilver Twilight

Mon, 7 Jul 2008 17:53:07 PST

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Final volume in the powerful new fantasy adventure from Stan Nicholls, the British author of the internationally acclaimed Orcs series. Desperate to find a cure for the curse of immortality and the episodes of berserk fury and debilitating visions that plague him, Reeth Caldason has traded his fighting skills for the promise of access to powerful ancient magic. But the Resistance group he relucta ...

Un nuovo regno

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 19:21:11 PST

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Dohor, il despota della Terra del Sole, guida la sua sanguinaria conquista all'intero Mondo Emerso in alleanza con la setta degli Assassini. Le forze del bene e del male sono giunte all'ultima battaglia, ma Dubhe non può attendere che il re si arrenda: il simbolo della maledizione pulsa sul suo braccio, la Bestia le graffia il petto impaziente di uscire. L'unico modo per liberarsene è raggiungere ...

Jingo

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 6:11:23 PST

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A new land has surfaced and so have old feuds. And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there’s no law against it. It’s called “war.” He’s facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him . . .that’s just the people on his side. The enemy might even be worse. And his pocket Dis-organizer says he’s got “Die” under “T ...

The Last Continent

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 6:11:23 PST

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On the Discworld’s last continent, it’s hot. It’s dry. . . very dry. There was this thing once called the Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that’s not poisonous is venomous. But it’s the best bloody place in the world, all right? And it’ll die in a few days, except. . . Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer ...

Hogfather

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 6:11:23 PST

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ITS THE NIGHT BEFORE HOGSWATCH. AND IT'S TOO QUIET. Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker... Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again... The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but w ...

La leggenda di Earthsea

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:27:11 PST

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Earthsea, il mondo dei grandi arcipelaghi e degli immensi oceani, l'universo lontano dove la magia è ancora potente, la terra misteriosa in cui uomini e draghi hanno convissuto e dove, secondo una leggenda, un mago sconfiggerà le forze del male per riportare l'Equilibrio della vita... A Gont, una delle isole di Earthsea, vive un giovane pastore, Ged, il quale, grazie ai suoi straordinari poteri, ...

L'io della mente

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:27:11 PST

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Il francese senza sforzo

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:27:11 PST

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I dannati di Malva

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:27:11 PST

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Malva, la scintillante città di vetro e metallo, circondata dalla foresta. E laggiù, scavata nella terra, l’altra città segreta, soffocata da miasmi tossici. Sopra gli umani, sotto i loro schiavi. È questo il mondo diviso in cui si muove Telkar, il mezzosangue cresciuto tra i privilegi, ma segnato dal marchio infamante dei Drow. E quando a Malva cominciano le morti misteriose, sarà lui a offrirsi ...

Beethoven era per un sedicesimo nero

Sun, 11 May 2008 15:27:11 PST

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Tredici racconti. Tredici frammenti di vite. Storie d'amore. Gli incontri veri o immaginati dell'autrice con alcuni grandi scrittori del ventesimo secolo. La storia che da il titolo alla raccolta, vede un professore di biologia di Johannesburg ripercorrere la propria storia familiare. Al centro un tema paradossale e significativo: se un tempo tutti desideravano avere almeno una goccia di sangue b ...

Jane Eyre

Sat, 3 May 2008 18:44:51 PST

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Jane Eyre è il capolavoro di Charlotte Brontë, un romanzo di educazione e l'affresco vivissimo di un'epoca e di una società, la storia di una proposta d'amore inaccettabile dal punto di vista della morale corrente ma che innesca il tormento della passione e la conseguente repressione. Potente figura femminile, l'eroina del romanzo ha ispirato la versione cinematografica di Franco Zeffirelli. Cen ...

Dark Wraith of Shannara

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:05:58 PST

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The past is always with us, but sometimes we fail to recognise it for what it is.' These were Jair Ohmsford's final thoughts as he walked away from the carnage at Dun Fee Aran, having destroyed at last the book of dark magic known as the Ildatch. Following this great event, told in The Wishsong of Shannara, Jair discovers that he can draw on a form of magic that allows him to transform into other ...

The Crystal Shard

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:53:48 PST

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Akar Kessel, a weak-willed apprentice mage sets in motion events leading to the rediscovery of the magical device, the crystal shard. But is it merely an inanimate device . . . or is it capable of directing the defeat of Ten-Towns? Or have the barbarians already arranged for that themselves? Their brutal attack on the villages of Ten-Towns seals their fate, and that of the youn barbarian Wulfga ...

Lost in a Good Book

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:53:47 PST

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Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, an ...

I figli di Armageddon

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 3:23:03 PST

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La genesi di Shannara, vol.1 Su una Terra devastata in maniera irreversibile dall'inquinamento e dalle pestilenze imperversa ormai incontrastato il Vuoto, essenza stessa del Male. Suoi fidi servitori sono i Demoni e spaventose creature postumane, frutto delle terribili contaminazioni ambientali. Il genere umano stesso sembra destinato a una progressiva e inesorabile estinzione. Pochi e sparuti d ...

Twisted

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 6:04:37 PST

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'I can make good bad and bad badder, and most fun of all, really bad seem good.' Jeffery Deaver And that is exactly what he does in this superb collection. In 'Beautiful' former supermodel Kari's stalker has followed her through retirement to her new small town home. The police can do nothing. The only thing that will end the nightmare is the stalker's death or her own. In the Edgar-nominated ...

The Bad Beginning

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 6:44:39 PST

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Men at Arms

Sat, 5 Jan 2008 3:46:51 PST

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"Be a MAN in the City Watch! The City Watch needs MEN!" But what it's gotincludes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), Lance-constable Angua (a woman...most of the time) and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving). And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is A ...

Maskerade

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 4:23:51 PST

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The Opera House, Ankh-Morpork: a huge rambling building, where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by a strangely familiar evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress. But Granny Weatherwax is in the audience, and she doesn’t hold with that sort of thing. So there’s going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening’s entertainment with murders you can really hum.) Fr ...

Feet of Clay

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 4:23:51 PST

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A Discworld novel.

Interesting Times

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 4:23:51 PST

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MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY) The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise WHAT I DID ON MY HOLIDAYS. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water bufffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancienct cities. And all that stands i ...

Soul Music

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 4:23:51 PST

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OTHER CHILDREN GET GIVEN XYLOPHONES, SUSAN JUST HAD TO ASK HER GRANDFATHER TO TAKE HIS VEST OFF. Yes. There's a Death in the family. It's hard to grow up normally when Grandfather rides a white horse and wields a scythe--especially when you have to take over the family business, and everyone mistakes you for the Tooth Fairy. And especially when you have to face the new and addictive music ...

L'uomo scomparso

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:04:48 PST

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Tutto comincia in una scuola di musica di New York. Un killer, compiuto un omicidio, si chiude dentro una classe. In pochi minuti la stanza è circondata dalla polizia. Improvvisamente dall'interno arriva un urlo, seguito da un colpo di arma da fuoco. Sfondata la porta, gli agenti si trovano di fronte a un mistero: nell'aula non c'è nessuno. Una nuova sfida per Lincoln Rhyme e la bella Amelia Sach ...