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1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured by local partisans and shot in a summary execution. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed writer picking up hack work, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a fledgling newspaper, which happens to be financed by a powerful media magnate. As Colonna gets to know the team of journalists, he learns the paranoid theories of Braggadocio who is convinced that Mussolini's corpse was a body-double and part of a wider Fascist plot. It's the scoop he desperately needs. The evidence? He's working on it. Colonna is sceptical. But when a body is found, stabbed to death in a back alley and the paper is shut down, even he is jolted out of his complacency. Fuelled by media hoaxes, Mafiosi, love, gossip and murder, Numero Zero reverberates with the clash of the cynical forces that have shaped Italy since the last days of World War II. This gripping story from the author of The Name Of The Rose is told with all the power of a master storyteller. |
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Lie. Clever, wealthy, married to a beautiful woman: Roger Brown has it all. And his sideline as an art thief keeps him busy when his job as a corporate headhunter gets dull. Steal. Then his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Ambitious and talented, he's the perfect candidate for a top job Roger needs to fill — and the priceless painting he owns makes him the perfect target for a heist. Murder? But soon Roger finds out that there's more to Greve than meets the eye, and it's not long before the hunter becomes the hunted... |
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«A companion to Oliver Stone's ten-part Showtime documentary series in the tradition of Howard Zinn's «People's History of the United States,» this cutting-edge and provocative book challenges the status quo of American history. Multiple Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone (once called «Dostoevsky behind a camera») has directed such iconic movies as «Platoon,» «Wall Street,» «JFK,» «Natural Born Killers,» and «W «and is known for his often controversial point of view and probing exploration of weighty historical and political topics. Now, Stone collaborates with esteemed American University professor Peter Kuznick to present our country's «secret history,» one that has been unearthed through recently discovered archives and newly declassified material. Filled with poignant photos and little-known historical facts, this book covers the rise of the American Empire and national security state from the late nineteenth century through the Obama administration, revealing how deeply rooted the seemingly aberrant policies of the Bush-Cheney administration are in the nation's past-and why it has proven so difficult for President Obama to significantly change course. By discerning patterns that have previously gone unrecognized and examining the most recently released classified documents, Stone and Kuznick challenge prevailing orthodoxies and ask questions not normally raised. The result is not the kind of history taught in schools or represented on television or in popular movies, and it will come as a surprise to the vast majority of American and global citizens, shocking and astounding both experts and history-lovers alike.» |
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Deception, blackmail, murder, revenge — these are the themes of stories that move from London to the coast of Spain, from Mauritius to Dublin to Dordogne. Whether his subject is assassination by stealth, the cruel confidence trick or the cold shock of coincidence, Frederick Forsyth is never less than compulsive, the detail always authentic. |
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The third volume of the best-selling graphic novels series 100 Bullets written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Eduardo Risso. This dark and intriguing Eisner Award-winning series features a mysterious agent named Graves who approaches ordinary citizens and gives them an opportunity to exact revenge on a person who has wronged them. Offering his clients an attachE case containing proof of the deed and a gun, he guarantees his clients full immunity for all of their actions, including murder. Collects 100 BULLETS #37-57. |
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«A provocative history of violence from the «New York Times» bestselling author of «The Stuff of Thought» and «The Blank Slate» Believe it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our species' existence. In his gripping and controversial new work, «New York Times» bestselling author Steven Pinker shows that despite the ceaseless news about war, crime, and terrorism, violence has actually been in decline over long stretches of history. Exploding myths about humankind's inherent violence and the curse of modernity, this ambitious book continues Pinker's exploration of the essence of human nature, mixing psychology and history to provide a remarkable picture of an increasingly enlightened world.» |
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Penguin Classics commemorates the 50th anniversary of Steinbeck's Nobel Prize with two stunning new editions of his best-loved worksAt age fifty-eight, John Steinbeck and his poodle, Charley, embarked on a journey across America. This chronicle of their trip meanders from small towns to growing cities to glorious wilderness oases. Still evocative and awe-inspiring after fifty years, Travels with Charley in Search of America provides an intimate look at one of America's most beloved writers in the later years of his life — a self-portrait of a man who never wrote an explicit autobiography. Written during a time of upheaval and racial tension in the South — which Steinbeck witnessed firsthand — Travels with Charley is a stunning evocation of America on the eve of a tumultuous decade. |
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Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world — a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords, of newspaper magnates, back-biters and petty thieves. London is the backdrop and the connecting fabric of these three lives, reinforcing Ackroyd's grand theme that place and history create, surround and engulf us. From bustling, cut-throat Fleet Street to hallowed London publishing houses, from the wealth and corruption of Chelsea to the smoky shadows of Limehouse and Hackney, this is an exploration of the city, peering down its streets, riding on its underground, and drinking in its pubs and clubs. Everything is possible — not only in the new freedom of the 1960s but also in London's timeless past. |
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«Llama Llama ZIP! Llama Llama ZOOM! Llama Llama Red Pajama VROOM, VROOM, VROOM!» On the playground, Llama goes fast! Llama zips by on his scooter and swishes down the slide — whoosh! Younger audiences will love doing as Llama does in this supremely adorable fourth board book.» |
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This whimsical collection of poems and stories by Margaret Wise Brown is back in print in its original format the Little Golden Book. Garth Williams' artwork shines here, with the friendliest bunnies, dogs, and people ever! |
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Hello reader, In this book is a world. A world created by two awkward guys who share their lives on the internet! We are Dan and Phil and we invite you on a journey inside our minds! From the stories of our actual births, to exploring Phil's teenage diary and all the reasons why Dan's a fail. Learn how to draw the perfect cat whiskers, get advice on what to do in an awkward situation and discover which of our dining chairs represents you emotionally. With everything from what we text each other, to the time we met One Direction and what really happened in Vegas...This is The Amazing Book Is Not On Fire! |
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Artfully extracted and adapted almost entirely from Ted Geisel's work, this is a must for all expectant parents — and introduction to the wonderful world of Dr. Suess for their adorable baby-to-be. Exciting new discoveries are being made all the time about how much learning takes place while a baby is still in its mother's womb, and Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go makes the perfect welcome It's never too early to start them on a rich and healthy regimen of good ol' Dr. Seuss. |
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Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care — but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects. |
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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Time's Arrow tells the story, backwards, of the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T Friendly. He dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them and mangles his patients before he sends them home... Escaping from the body of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, the doctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards, aware only that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place in time. |
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From Alice and Abe to Zeb and Zipper, an alphabetical array of guests turns out for the biggest birthday party ever. But Hooper Humperdink isn't on the guest list. |
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A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origin of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story — and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism Wonder Woman, created in 1941, is the most popular female superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no superhero has lasted as long or commanded so vast and wildly passionate a following. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she has also has a secret history. Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has uncovered an astonishing trove of documents, including the never-before-seen private papers of William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman's creator. Beginning in his undergraduate years at Harvard, Marston was influenced by early suffragists and feminists, starting with Emmeline Pankhurst, who was banned from speaking on campus in 1911, when Marston was a freshman. In the 1920s, Marston and his wife, Sadie Elizabeth Holloway, brought into their home Olive Byrne, the niece of Margaret Sanger, one of the most influential feminists of the twentieth century. The Marston family story is a tale of drama, intrigue, and irony. In the 1930s, Marston and Byrne wrote a regular column for Family Circle celebrating conventional family life, even as they themselves pursued lives of extraordinary nonconformity. Marston, internationally known as an expert on truth — he invented the lie detector test — lived a life of secrets, only to spill them on the pages of Wonder Woman. The Secret History of Wonder Woman is a tour de force of intellectual and cultural history. Wonder Woman, Lepore argues, is the missing link in the history of the struggle for women's rights — a chain of events that begins with the women's suffrage campaigns of the early 1900s and ends with the troubled place of feminism a century later. |
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Verrückt, romantisch, köstlich – eine Liebeskomödie aus der Heimat des Dolce Vita. Das Leben der jungen Foodjournalistin Hanna könnte so wunderbar sein. Hätte sie nur nicht diese Restaurantkritik geschrieben, wegen der eine italienische Gutsherrin einen Herzinfarkt erlitten hat! Als sie dann auch noch versehentlich in den Besitz der Urne gelangt, reist die von Schuldgefühlen geplagte Hanna nach Italien – und wird zum unfreiwilligen Opfer eines Testaments, das es in sich hat. Denn selbst über ihren Tod hinaus verfolgt Giuseppa Camini nur ein Ziel: ihren unleidlichen Enkel Fabrizio endlich in den Hafen der Ehe zu steuern. Eine Aufgabe, die ein ganzes toskanisches Dorf in Atem hält, ein Familiendrama heraufbeschwört und Hannas Gefühlswelt komplett durcheinanderwirbelt! |
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«Wladimir Kaminer sucht das Grüne: Schrebergarten war gestern — nun lockt das Leben auf dem Land. Wer träumt nicht vom eigenen kleinen Garten Eden? Wladimir Kaminer findet ihn in einem Dorf vor den Toren Berlins. Den Schrebergarten hatte seine Familie aufgeben müssen, da man deren Freude an «spontaner Vegetation» nicht recht teilen wollte. Nun liegt ihr Paradies in Glücklitz — mit einem Häuschen am See, dem angeblich nördlichsten Weinberg der Welt und mit eigenwilligen Einwohnern, die bald mit den neuen Nachbarn Freundschaft schließen. Für Wladimir Kaminer entpuppt sich das Dorfleben als Abenteuer samt Torpedokäfern und Rettichbeeten, der Organisation einer «Russendisko» in der Dorfscheune, verschwiegenen Fischen, einem Wetter wie im Bermudadreieck — und natürlich jeder Menge Geschichten...» |
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