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¯In meinem ganzen Leben habe ich von Frauen nur den Nachmittag bekommen, und wie oft hat sich auch der noch zerschlagen.® Eingehüllt in den dekadenten Hauch des untergehenden Kaiserreiches, betrachtet Mihály die Welt und sich selbst kontemplativ undabgeklärt. Sein Metier ist die Verführung, die verheiratete 5Fleurs, eine namenlose grande dame, begehrt er nur halbherzig, die Liebe der unschuldigen jungen Schauspielschülerin Iboly erduldet er nur. Mihálys Reflexionen über die Liebe, die Frauen unddas Leben sind betörend, klug und berührend.Mit Sándor Márai und Antal Szerb gehört Erno Szép zu den Mitbegründern der ungarischen Moderne.¯Manchmal scheint die Zeit stillzustehen in diesem grandiosen Roman, der im Porträt der Hauptfigur noch einmal das Flair der Monarchie beschwört.® Susanne Kunckel in der >Welt am Sonntag

The Academy is the sports school everyone is talking about. But for Maya, it seems getting in was the easy part. It's staying there that's tough. To succeed it takes more than just talent. You need fame . . .After a star performance in the semi-finals at a tennis competition, Maya is labelled The Next Big Thing and books a high-profile modelling job. The only problem is her co-star in the campaign is her super-hot ex-boyfriend, Jake Reed - and this is a jobthat her rival, Nicole, wants! Maya's only just put the betrayal by Jake and Nicole behind her and now Maya is being drawn back into a circle of jealousy and desire. Luckily, she knows Nicole's latest secret and gossip is a powerful weapon at TheAcademy!If you adore Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars and Ally Carter's Gallagher Girls, you'll be mad about the sassy new series The Academy.

Le terrain vague de la rue Paul est bien plus qu'un bout de terre pour la bande de Jean Boka. C'est son terrain de jeu et de liberté ! Seulement la bande rivale, les Chemises Rouges, le convoite aussi... Une guerre en rcgle s'annonce alors ! Entretrahisons et plans de batailles, le combat s'annonce difficile... et les plus courageux ne seront pas forcément ceux auxquels on s'attendait.

'What are you thinking, Amy?' The question I've asked most often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I suppose these questions stormcloud over every marriage: 'What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who areyou? What have we done to each other? What will we do?' Just how well can you ever know the person you love? This is the question that Nick Dunne must ask himself on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. Thepolice immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are thepersistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife? And what was in that half-wrapped box left so casually on their marital bed? In this novel, marriage truly is the art of war...

En la Hungría de la posguerra se muestra la confrontación de dos mundos personificados por una madre y su hija.La anciana senora Szöcs vive en un pequeno pueblo húngaro. Acaba de perder a su marido, Vince y está sola. Iza, su hija y reputada doctora, se lleva a su madre a vivir con ella a su apartamento de Budapest. Comienza entonces una relación difícil, bienintencionada pero de resultado insatisfactorio. Iza ha tomado las riendas de la situación, y decidido el futuro de su madre, con buenas intenciones pero sin tener en cuenta las preferencias de su madre. Poco a poco, la senora Szöcs se va apagando debidoa la vida inerte y abandonada a la que ha sido confinada en Budapest, hasta que un día decide volver a su pueblo...

Der Goethe-Spezialist János Mester hat weder in der Forschung noch bei den Frauen wirklich Fortune: als Wissenschaftler wartet er bisher vergebens auf den groáen Durchbruch, und seine dritte Ehe steht vor dem Aus. Umso willkommener ist ihm da einForschungsaufenthalt in Berlin. Endlich wird er sein Buch über den Dichterfürsten und dessen Romanzen zum Abschluss bringen können. Aber statt zu arbeiten, lässt Janos lieber sein eigenes Leben und seine Lieben Revue passieren. Im Gegensatz zu demverehrten Meister hat er es jedoch nur auf ganze zehn Frauen gebracht. Und nur eine davon hat er wirklich geliebt.

Instalada en la casa que heredó de su padre y con la sola companía de una pariente anciana, Eszter es una mujer soltera que vive con la placidez y tranquilidad de quien ha logrado adaptarse a lo que la vida le ha deparado. Hasta que un día,inesperadamente, recibe un telegrama de Lajos, viejo amigo de la familia, anunciando su inminente visita. Canalla encantador y sin escrúpulos, cuyas magníficas dotes de actor le confieren un poder de seducción irresistible, Lajos no sólo traicionó aEszter, sino que también destruyó a su familia y les quitó todo lo que poseían, salvo la casa en la que viven y cuyo jardín es su único y escaso medio de subsistencia. Ahora, tras una prolongada ausencia, Lajos regresa y Eszter se prepara para recibirloconmovida por un torbellino de sentimientos contradictorios. Con la inevitabilidad del destino como eje central de la narración, La herencia de Eszter se desarrolla de una forma totalmente inesperada y paradójica. El vividor y mentiroso Lajos, con suinagotable energía, es un vendaval de vitalidad, alegría y pasión por la vida que sólo por el hecho de existir pone permanentemente en entredicho la aparente solidez de las convenciones morales más arraigadas. Escrita en 1939, tres anos antes de Elúltimo encuentro, con la misma prosa depurada y precisa que ha admirado a miles de lectores, esta novela es una pequena joya que merece su lugar entre las mejores obras literarias del siglo XX.

Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftlyconfiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft andWizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin! These new editions of the classic and internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning series feature instantly pick-up-able new jackets by Jonny Duddle, with huge child appeal, to bring Harry Potterto the next generation of readers. It's time to PASS THE MAGIC ON ...

An historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To Kill a Mockingbird.Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To Kill a Mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014.Go Set a Watchman features many of the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird some twenty years later. Returning home to Maycomb to visit her father, Jean Louise Finch-Scout-struggles with issues both personal and political, involving Atticus, society,and the small Alabama town that shaped her.Exploring how the characters from To Kill a Mockingbird are adjusting to the turbulent events transforming mid-1950s America, Go Set a Watchman casts a fascinating new light on Harper Lee's enduring classic. Moving, funny and compelling, it stands as amagnificent novel in its own right.

The master of the medical thriller' New York Times The explosive new thriller from New York Times-bestsellingauthor and master of the medical thriller, Robin Cook, takes readers back to where the genre began, with Coma: what happens when innocent hospital patients are used as medical 'incubators' against their will. Lynn Pierce, a fourth-year medical student atMason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Devastated by Carl's death, Lynnsearches for answers.

Che cosa aspetti a infilarti il costume, vecchio commediante, illusionista appassito? Il ballo in maschera sta per cominciare. Il libertino quarantenne ha un gusto amaro in bocca, e la stanza c piena di ombre: sono le ombre della sua giovinezza. Ma haun contratto, e deve rispettarlo. Dov'c la lettera che gli ha mandato Francesca? Devo vederti ha scritto. Oh, non sara né la prima né l'ultima che riceve da una donna sposata. Questa, pero, c stata scritta dalla sola donna che un giorno ha creduto diamare (e lui, per paura di quell'amore, c fuggito). Per di piu gliel'ha portata il marito in persona: Sua Eccellenza il conte di Parma.

Dans une petite ville de la province hongroise, un respectable professeur de latin mcne une vie terne et solitaire, dénuée de surprises. Lorsqu'il entreprend de tenir son journal, pour faire passer le temps , cette apparente tranquillité vole enéclats. Au fur et a mesure qu'il couche sur le papier les menus faits et gestes de ses journées, des bribes de souvenirs d'enfance lui reviennent, la glace qui recouvrait ses émotions se craquelle, et sa propre vérité surgit enfin. Cette felure enannonce une autre, qui va faire basculer sa vie : une passion amoureuse, violente, ravageuse... Ce premier roman de Sandor Marai impose d'emblée le talent magistral du grand auteur des Braises.

A profoundly moving novel with the unforgettable power of Szabo's award-winning The Door. When Ettie's husband dies, her daughter Iza insists that her mother give up the family house in the countryside and move to Budapest. Displaced from her community and her home, Ettie tries to find her place in this new life, but can't seem to get itright. She irritates the maid, hangs food outside the window because she mistrusts the fridge and, in her naivety and loneliness, invites a prostitute in for tea. Iza's Ballad is the story of a woman who loses her life's companion and a mother trying to get close to a daughter whom she has never truly known. It is about the meeting of the old-fashioned and the modern worlds and the beliefs we construct over alifetime.

Trois récits pour évoquer trois expériences cruciales de l'auteur, en Hongrie, a partir des années 1950. Le Drapeau anglais se situe a Budapest, pendant l'insurrection hongroise de 1956, et met en sccne les affres et les détours de la mémoire. LeChercheur de traces raconte le retour d'un homme dans une région ou, longtemps auparavant, ont eu lieu d'indicibles crimes. Et Proccs-verbal relate un voyage de Budapest a Vienne, peu aprcs la chute du mur de Berlin, voyage qui se transforme en uncauchemar bureaucratique. Un triptyque singulier ou le questionnement philosophique c“toie l'amour de la langue et de la forme littéraire. Trois textes d'une rare puissance narrative.

En avril 1945, Budapest est libérée par l'armée russe au terme d'un sicge implacable. Cet épisode historique, que Sandor Marai évoquera vingt-cinq ans plus tard dans ses Mémoires de Hongrie, lui inspire, a chaud, ce roman qu'il achcve en quelques mois.Pendant les dernicres semaines du sicge, une centaine de réfugiés se terrent dans les caves d'un immeuble, attendant l'issue d'un combat incertain. Autour de la jeune Élisabeth, fille d'un savant renommé, résistant au nazisme, se rassemblent toutessortes de gens. Au fil des jours, dans l'atmosphcre oppressante de ce huis clos, les caractcres se révclent, les masques tombent.

A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented authorChristine Rose is crossing the Ha'penny Bridge in Dublin late one night when she sees a stranger, Adam, poised to jump. Desperate to help, she talks him into a reckless deal: if he gives her two weeks - till his 35th birthday - she'll prove that life isworth living.But as the clock ticks and the two of them embark on late-night escapades and romantic adventures, what Christine has really promised seems impossibleA novel to make you laugh, cry and appreciate life, this is Cecelia Ahern at her thoughtful and surprising best.

Internationally acclaimed crime writer Jo Nesbo's antihero police investigator, Harry Hole, is back: in a bone-chilling thriller that will take Hole to the brink of insanity.Oslo in November. The first snow of the season has fallen. A boy named Jonas wakes in the night to find his mother gone. Out his window, in the cold moonlight, he sees the snowman that inexplicably appeared in the yard earlier in the day. Around its neckis his mother's pink scarf.Hole suspects a link between a menacing letter he's received and the disappearance of Jonas's mother-and of perhaps a dozen other women, all of whom went missing on the day of a first snowfall. As his investigation deepens, something else emerges: he isbecoming a pawn in an increasingly terrifying game whose rules are devised-and constantly revised-by the killer.Fiercely suspenseful, its characters brilliantly realized, its atmosphere permeated with evil, The Snowman is the electrifying work of one of the best crime writers of our time.

Curtis Colt didn't kill that liquor store woman, and that's a fact. It's not right that he should have to ride the lightning - that's what prisoners call dying in the electric chair. Curtis doesn't belong in it, and I can prove it.' But can Curtis'sgirlfriend prove it? Murder has undoubtedly been done, and if Curtis doesn't ride the lightning for it, then who will? These seven short stories, by well-known writers such as Dashiel Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, and Nancy Pickard, will keep you on theedge of your seat.CEFR B2/C1Word count 26,500

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