They framed me. They abducted my wife. They took my child. I want him back. Sam Capra has one reason to live: to reclaim his baby son from the people who kidnapped him. Teaming up with a young mother whose daughter went missing, he tracks his child a cross the country in a dangerous, desperate race against time.

A solitary tent is found containing the body of a half-buried woman. She\'s been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off. Two years earlier Henning Juul lost his son in a domestic fire. Returning to work, physically and emotionally scarred, Henning struggles to overcome his past and be taken seriously again as a reporter - by his colleagues, his ex-wife

A magisterial new novel that takes us behind the scenes during one of the most formative periods in English history: the reign of Henry VIII. Wolf Hall is told mainly through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, a self-made man who rose from a blacksmith\'s son in Putney to be the most powerful man in England after the king. The cast also includes Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More, Anne Boleyn and Henry\'s other

In 1993, Fox debuted a strange new television show called The X-Files. Little did anyone suspect that the series would become one of the network\'s biggest hits-and change the landscape of television in the process. Now, on the occasion of the show\'s 25th anniversary, TV critics Zack Handlen and Todd VanDerWerff unpack exactly what made this haunting show so groundbreaking. Witty and insightful reviews

STUNNING ADVERTISING, is a hard-hitting book on publicity. Remembering such as the Benetton campaigns some years ago, a company which opted for publicity without taboos in which we were presented with images opposing aids, hunger, and racism... we thought of doing this book. Selecting only those campaigns which provoked a sensation in the way we act. Those which leave us speechless, or those which

Nel 1970, uno dei settimanali pi vivaci dello Stato del Mississipi, The Ford County Times\", fallisce. Ad acquistare la testata, con grande stupore di molti, Willie Traynor, un ragazzo di ventitré anni che non ha neanche terminato gli studi al college. Il giornale sembra spacciato, fino a quando una giovane madre viene brutalmente uccisa da un membro dell\'influente famiglia Padgitt. Willie riporta

The Tales of Beedle the Bard have been favourite bedtime reading in wizarding households for centuries. Full of magic and trickery, these classic tales both entertain and instruct, and remain as captivating to young wizards today as they were when Beedle first put quill to parchment in the fifteenth century. There are five tales in all: \'The Tale of the Three Brothers\' Harry Potter fans will know

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The woman within the mirror drew nearer. For a moment she appeared directly behind it and they could see the elaborate embroidery and beading of her gown; then she mounted up upon the frame as a step. The surface of the mirror became softer, like a dense cloud or mist.

1930s Hollywood. The depression has receded, the studios are booming, and the glitz and glamour are bewitching. But for Cecilia Brady, this is just life. That is, until she meets Monroe Stahr...Stahr is at the centre of it all. A genius production chief in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cecilia is mesmerised. But Stahr\'s attentions are caught elsewhere - in the arms of a mysterious woman - and Cecilia

A Kádár-kori titkosszolgálatok működése a rendszerváltás óta mind a mai napig a magyar közélet egyik meghatározó és kibeszéletlen témájának számít. Az 1962-ben új működési kereteket kialakító egykori szervezet legismertebb részlege - elsősorban egyes közéleti szereplők utóbb lelepleződő ügynökmúltja miatt - a belső elhárítással foglalkozó III/III. Csoportfőnökség lett. E részleg tényleges tevékenysége

In die Rinde der großen Blutbuche in dem kleinen Ort Shancarrig ritzten einst acht Kinder ihre Namen ein. Die Jahre vergehen, und mit ihnen verwehen die jugendlichen Hoffnungen und zerbricht so mancher Kindheitstraum. Auf unnachahmliche Weise erzählt die irische Bestsellerautorin Maeve Binchy von dem Leben der Menschen in diesem Ort Irlands, von ihren Geheimnissen und ihren Sehnsüchten.

Cameron MacDonald has spent his life guided by duty. As the police chief of a small Massachusetts town that has been home to generations of his Scottish clan, he is bound to the towns residents by blood and honour. Yet when his cousin Jamie arrives at the police station with the body of his wife and the bald confession that hes killed her, Cam immediately places him under arrest.Upozornenie: Vzhľadom

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Concentration : la dernire-née des émissions télévisées. On enlve des gens, on recrute des kapos, on filme… Tout de suite, le plus haut score de téléspectateurs, l’audimat absolu qui se nourrit autant de la cruauté filmée que de l’horreur dénoncée. Etudiante la beauté stupéfiante, Pannonique est devenue CKZ 114 dans le camp de concentration télévisé. Le premier sévice étant la perte de son nom, partant

What is \'nothing\'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos. Frank Close tells

Cousin Bette (1846) is considered to be Balzac\'s last great novel, and a key work in his Human Comedy. Set in the Paris of the 1830s and 1840s, it is a complex tale of the devastating effect of violent jealousy and sexual passion.Against a meticulously detailed backdrop of a post-Napoleonic France struggling with massive industrial and economic change, Balzac\'s characters span many classes of society,

V knize se můžete setkat se slavnými pohádkovými postavami, jako jsou Aladin, Ali Baba nebo Sindibád. Kromě toho poznáte i u nás méně známé příběhy, a to především povídky o Džuhovi, který je známou folklórní postavou v arabském světě. Představuje duchaplného člověka se smyslem pro humor, někdy hloupého a naivního, avšak vždy jednajícího s dobrým srdcem a úmyslem. Právě proto se často dostává do vtipných

Colourful dreams and tales. Chagall\'s world full of everyday miracles. The Belarusian painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985) is widely regarded as epitomizing the \"painter as poet\". The worldwide admiration he commanded remains unparalleled by any artist of the century. Chagall\'s paintings, steeped in mythology and mysticism, portray colourful dreams and tales that are deeply rooted in his Russian Jewish

Ted Wallace is an old, sour, womanising, cantankerous, whisky-sodden beast of a failed poet and drama critic, but he has his faults too. Fired from his newspaper, months behind on his alimony payments and disgusted with a world that undervalues him, Ted seeks a few months repose and free drink at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Lord Logan. But strange things have been going on