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

Terrine presents a selection of recipes that bring together Stéphane Reynaud’s passion for rural French cooking and his enthusiasm for modern cuisine. The book offers some well-loved favourites as well as some more surprising dishes that reflect contemporary tastes. Illustrated with beautiful photographs and providing a broad range of recipes, from meat to fish and vegetables, and even desserts.

As a child, Landon Lucas Maxfield believed his life was perfect and looked forward to a future filled with promise - until tragedy tore his family apart and made him doubt everything he ever believed. All he wanted was to leave the past behind. When he met Jacqueline Wallace, his desire to be everything she needed came so easy...As easy as it could be for a man who learned that the soul is breakable

Flying cars, impossibly-shaped homes, ultrasonic travel - imagining the future has always fascinated creative people and explains why futuristic themes are often at the heart of style and fashion. This book demonstrates and comprehensively illustrates how designers and architects of today imagine and create tomorrow\'s world.

\'This brilliant book is a bombshell! Jane Seymour the shy mouse type? Think again!\' Kate Williams Alison Weir, historian and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen and Anne Boleyn: A King\'s Obsession, draws an enthralling portrait of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII\'s third queen, as you\'ve never seen her before. Essential reading for fans of Philippa Gregory and Elizabeth

With 20 million copies sold worldwide THE SHACK is an international bestseller that explores life\'s toughest questions through the gripping story of one man\'s struggle to find answers to his suffering. Mack\'s youngest daughter, Missy, was abducted during a family vacation and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years

Pietro arrives in Milan with a battered suitcase full of memories, to take up a new job as concierge. Living in his palazzo are lost and eccentric souls: Poppi, a lawyer; Luciana and her son; and Luca, a doctor, whose wife Viola holds a secret that could destroy their marriage. Right from the start Pietro has a special interest in Luca and his family, and soon he\'s letting himself into their apartment

The organization of public space raises many challenges. Its very nature of being on public display makes urbanism one of the fields of architecture that is most open to debate and controversy. Urban spaces should not only strive for a balance betweeen solid and void in the urban fabric, but they must also be highly functional. All architecture stems from the need to offer answers and solutions to

The stunning new summer besteller from Freya North. They drive each other crazy. And they both have something to hide. But we all have our secrets. It\'s just some are bigger than others! Joe has a beautiful house, a great job, no commitments -- and he likes it like that. All he needs is a quiet house-sitter for his rambling old place by the sea. When Tess turns up on his doorstep, he\'s not sure she\'s

Soon to be an NBC TV series! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse novels - \'the Mark Twain of things that live under your bed\' - comes a new novel of Midnight, Texas, the town where some secrets will never see the light of day ...Welcome to the most intriguing mystery you\'ll read this year. Welcome to Midnight, Texas. At Midnight\'s local pawnshop, weapons are flying

Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the biggest and best humorous quotation book there is - a complete one-stop shop of witty one liners. Quotations are ordered not by A-Z, but by thematic categories: love, business, religion, celebrity, you name it, every category is covered. The collection includes all the

A driver waiting at the traffic lights goes blind. An opthamologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read the textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. And when fire destroys the asylum, the inmates

Die legendäre Geschichte des unbekannten Jünglings Caspar Hauser, der 1828 völlig verwahrlost in Nürnberg auftaucht und sich später als legitimer Erbprinz des badischen Fürstenhauses erweist, hat damals in ganz Europa für Aufsehen gesorgt und ist seither vielfach bearbeitet worden. Die berühmteste Gestaltung, die sich eng an historische Tatsachen hält, hat Jakob Wassermann geschaffen. Caspar Hauser,

Family Houses presents a compilation of examples of the emerging residential architecture, which are linked by the manner in which they propose innovative and experimental solutions. Refinement in the selection of finishes, restraint in the distribution of rooms, and pains taken in integrating these spaces into their surroundings represent just some of the skills exercised by their designers.

En avril 1945, Budapest est libérée par l´armée russe au terme d´un si ge implacable. Cet épisode historique, que S ndor M rai évoquera vingt-cinq ans plus tard dans ses Mémoires de Hongrie, lui inspire, chaud, ce roman qu´il ach ve en quelques mois. Pendant les derni res semaines du si ge, une centaine de réfugiés se terrent dans les caves d´un immeuble, attendant l´issue d´un combat incertain. Autour

Republic is the central work of the Western world\'s most famous philosopher. Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy. It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary reader, who is carried along by the wit and intensity of the dialogue and by Plato\'s unforgettable

Ce roman a l’originalité de nous offrir de la France une vision mythique et lointaine, travers les nombreux récits que Charlotte Lemonnier, « égarée dans l’immensité neigeuse de la Russie », raconte son petit-fils et confident. Ce roman a reçu le prix Goncourt 1995 et ex-aequo le prix Médicis 1995. --Ce texte fait référence une édition épuisée ou non disponible de ce titre.

\'I was desperate to read more!\' Amazon reviewer. From the bestselling author of While My Eyes Were Closed comes a heartbreaking novel about starting over. Jo Gilroy, an award-winning TV news reporter, gave her heart away once. She won\'t be making the same mistake again. Having been dumped by Richard, the father of her toddler son Alfie, she returns to work to find she has been demoted and that Richard

Your life is dominated by your unconscious mind: by thoughts you\'re unaware of and movements you don\'t realise you are making. Words, colours, mannerisms and other cues you don\'t realise are affecting you, change what you think. The confidence you have in your ability to reason and to consciously choose what to do is caused by a series of illusions that scientists are only just beginning to understand.