The unmissable first novel from bestselling and award-winning author of THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. \"If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.\" Miles Halter\'s whole life has been one big non-event, until he meets Alaska Young. Gorgeous, clever and undoubtedly screwed-up, Alaska draws Miles into her reckless world and irrevocably steals his heart. For Miles, nothing can ever be the

This book is very close to my heart. It\'s about no-nonsense, simple cooking with great flavours all year round. When I began writing it, I didn\'t really know what recipes I would come up with, but something began to inspire me very quickly... my vege table patch! I came to realise last year that it\'s not always about looking out at the wider world for inspiration. Being at home, feeling relaxed

This is the first book published on Los Angeles architect Archibald Quincy Jones (1913-1979), a pioneer in affordable housing designed with a modern aesthetic. The introductory essay traces Jones\'s life and career, his post-war planning projects and his long association with Palo Alto building magnate Joseph Eichler. The book contains a catalogue of sixty of Jones\'s projects illustrated with high-quality

In Boston, there\'s a killer on the loose. A killer who targets lone women, who breaks into their apartments and performs terrifying ritualistic acts of torture on them before finishing them off. His surgical skills lead police to suspect he is a physician - a physician who, instead of saving lives, takes them. But as homicide detective Thomas Moore and his partner Jane Rizzoli begin their investigation,

Jack is five. He lives with his Ma. They live in a single, locked room. They don’t have the key.

\"Moonfleet\" (1898) begins as a mystery and an adventure story, a tale of smuggling set among the cliffs, caves, and downs of Dorset. What will be the outcome of the conflict between smugglers and revenue men? And how can the hero, John Trenchard, discover the secret of Colonel John Mohune\'s treasure? As the book progresses these two interwoven themes resolve themselves into a third and richer one,

The literary world was shocked when in 1889, at the height of his career, Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa. His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment, not to promote a romance of empire, but to produce some of the most ironic and critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century

Down by the river bank, where the wind whispers through the willow trees, is a very pleasant place to have a lunch party with a few friends. But life is not always so peaceful for the Mole and the Water Rat. There is the time, for example, when Toad gets interested in motor-cars - goes mad about them in fact ...The story of the adventures of Mole, Rat, Badger, and Toad has been loved by young and old

It\'s Jake\'s birthday. He is sitting in a small plane, being flown over the landscape that has been the backdrop to his life - his childhood, his marriage, his work, his passions. Now he is in his early sixties, and he isn\'t quite the man he used to be. He has lost his wife, his son is in prison, and he is about to lose his past. Jake has Alzheimer\'s. As the disease takes hold of him, Jake struggles

The chilling true crime \'non-fiction novel\' that made Truman Capote\'s name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics. Controversial and compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote\'s comprehensive

The rich world of Magic: The Gathering comes to life, revealing new adventures, in this thrilling graphic novel featuring Planeswalker and pyromancer Chandra Nalaar. In the wake of tragedy, Chandra strikes out on her own, determined to protect the Multiverse, no matter the cost to herself. Along the way she\'ll not only have to fight new threats, but also her own sense of guilt. Fellow Planeswalker

This volume in a series about young architects introduces readers to the projects of 50 young and innovative architects throughout the Americas. The highly sophisticated works of the young practitioners chosen in this publication are not only at once innovative, fresh, enlightened and boundless in their aesthetic bravery, they are also without fail destined to stir a lasting imprint upon the architectural

\'What guts. What attitude! These are the immortals I wish I\'d learned about at school.\' - Olivia Colman Channel the feminist power of mythical goddesses in this witty, inspirational gift book. Want to break free from what\'s holding you back? Channel the Norse warrior goddess Freyja Feeling stressed? Turn the playful Japanese goddess Uzume for a superheroine superboost Tired of being nice? Meet

From the daring and critically acclaimed master of historical fiction Conn Iggulden, DARIEN is the first book in the Empire of Salt, an epic new fantasy series of spellbinding imagination . . . TWELVE FAMILIES. ONE THRONE. The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles.

Special edition slipcase edition of John Green\'s Paper Towns, with pop-up paper town. From the bestselling author of The Fault in our Stars. Quentin Jacobsen has always loved Margo Roth Spiegelman, for Margo (and her adventures) are the stuff of legend at their high school. So when she one day climbs through his window and summons him on an all-night road trip of revenge he cannot help but follow.

\'Calling all cars, calling all cars. Here\'s the story on the Smoke Rise kidnapping. The missing boy is eight years old, fair hair, wearing a red sweater. His name is Jeffry Reynolds, son of Charles Reynolds, chauffeur to Douglas King.\' The police at the 87th Precinct hate kidnappers. And these kidnappers are stupid, too. They took the wrong boy - the chauffeur\'s son instead of the son of the rich

Una bella storia da leggere e tanti facili giochi da svolgere. Utili vocabolari illustrati presentano: - l’a abbigliamento, il cibo - il bosco - il corpo umano

Out of extreme poverty Jean Valjean steals a loaf of bread and then spends many years trying to escape his reputation as a criminal. In later years he rises socially and is a respectable member of society; but policeman Javert will not allow him to forget his past and is determined to expose him.

A New York Times #1 Bestseller A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage\'s best books of the year Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning,

The rediscovery of the city that has been evident recently has by no means superseded the human desire for nature. On the contrary, the goal has been finding urban solutions that do justice to these growing needs and do so in ways that meet the requi rements for design, ecology, sociology, and economy. This publication addresses the subject of designing inner-city spaces. It documents twenty recently