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Oliver Sacks

The man who mistook his wife for a hat

Oliver Stark

88 Killer

Tom Harper & Denise Levene

<p>Three unconnected crimes are about to be linked in the most chilling way imaginable. The abduction of a teenage girl, heading towards a bus stop. A woman shot, point-blank during a brutal robbery. A young man tortured, his body found wrapped in barbed wire.</p><p>With nothing to indicate that the three are connected, NYPD detective Tom Harper and psychologist Denise Levene must look beyond the surface to find a killer's true motivation. And they believe that they have found a murderer conditioned to hate and willing to go to any lengths to make his victims suffer.</p><p>The killer has nothing to lose. Harper and Levene have one chance to catch him. Sometimes hate is just the beginning…</p><

Oliver Stark

American Devil

Tom Harper & Denise Levene

Oluseyi Sonaiya

Creating a Win32 Window Wrapper Class

Osvaldo Soriano

A sus plantas rendido un león

Bongwutsi: un país africano ·que ni siquiera figura en el mapa·. Allí vive un argentino usurpando la condición de cónsul de su país, hundido en la pobreza y enardecido de entusiasmo por el reciente estallido de la guerra de las Malvinas, en disputa permanente con el embajador inglés, inexplicablemente entrampado en una trama donde se suceden conspiraciones con enviados de las grandes potencias mundiales, una interrumpida relación amorosa, los sueños de liberación y grandeza del inhallable- y ubicuo- Bongwutsi, la entrada triunfal al país de un ejército de monos…el vértigo narrativo no se interrumpe, la invención y la verdad se alían en el desborde de una fantasía indeclinable. El ímpetu narrativo de Osvaldo Soriano llega a su punto máximo en este relato fascinante.<

Osvaldo Soriano

Triste, solitario y final

La historia comienza cuando Stan Laurel (el actor cómico de la famosa serie del Gordo y el Flaco) acude al detective Philip Marlowe (el personaje creado por el escritor Raymond Chandler), también en el ocaso de su esplendor, para que averigüe por qué ya nadie lo llama para trabajar. Parodiando al conocido y esquemático cine norteamericano, la narración origina acontecimientos en los que el propio Soriano aparece como personaje para volverse cómplice de Marlowe y enfrentar así a las figuras más detestables de Hollywood.<

Patrick Süskind

Das Parfum

Von Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, dem finsteren Helden, sei nur verraten, daß er am 17. Juli 1738 in Paris, in einer stinkigen Fischbude geboren wird. Die Ammen, denen das Kerlchen an die Brust gelegt wird, halten es nur ein paar Tage mit ihm aus: Er sei zu gierig, außerdem vom Teufel besessen, wofür es untrügliche Indizien gebe: den fehlenden Duft, den unverwechselbaren Geruch, den Säuglinge auszuströmen pflegen. Eine wundersame Eigenschaft, zu der sich alsbald andere dazugesellen… Wir beginnen zu ahnen, was es mit Grenouille auf sich haben könnte, fangen an, ihn leibhaftig vor uns zu sehen, folgen ihm in gemessenem Abstand auf seinen Wegen durch die dunkelsten Gassen von Paris, schauen zu, wie er dem Parfumeur Baldini zur Hand geht – und müssen uns eingestehen, die Phantasie, den Sprachwitz, den nicht anderes als ungeheuerlich zu nennenden erzählerischen Elan Süskinds weit unterschätzt zu haben: so überraschend geht es zu in seinem Buch, so märchenhaft mitunter und zugleich so fürchterlich angsteinflößend.<

Patrick Süskind

Ein Kampf

Patrick Süskind

El Perfume – Historia De Un Asesino

Quizá los olores evoquen el privilegio de la invisibilidad. Antes del tacto, sucede el olor, como mensajero de una esencia que sabe desaparecer en el aire y ser agente de un gran poder. La seducción que despliega el olor es implacable: se instala en nosotros y sella su poderío en los tejidos de la memoria. Jean-Baptiste Grenouille tiene su marca de nacimiento: no despide ningún olor y por ello hace temer la presencia de algún demonio. Al mismo tiempo posee un don excepcional: un olfato prodigioso que le permite percibir todos los olores del mundo. Desde la miseria en que nace, abandonado al cuidado de unos monjes, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille lucha contra su condición y escala posiciones sociales convirtiéndose en un afamado perfumista. Crea perfumes capaces de hacerle pasar inadvertido o inspirar simpatía, amor, compasión… Para obtener estas fórmulas magistrales debe asesinar a jóvenes muchachas vírgenes, obtener sus fluidos corporales y licuar sus olores íntimos. Su arte se convierte en una suprema e inquietante prestidigitacion. Patrick Süskind, convertido en maestro del naturalismo irónico, nos transmite una visión ácida y desengañada del hombre en un libro repleto de sabiduría olfativa, imaginación y enorme amenidad. Su persuasión iguala la de su personaje y nos propone una inmersión literaria en el arco iris natural de los olores y en los turbadores abismos del espíritu humano. <

Patrick Süskind

Il profumo

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, nato il 17 luglio 1783 nel luogo più puzzolente di Francia, il Cimetière des Innocents di Parigi, rifiutato dalla madre fin dal momento della nascita, rifiutato dalle balie perché non ha l'odore che dovrebbero avere i neonati, anzi perché "non ha nessun odore", rifiutato dagli istituti religiosi, riesce a sopravvivere a dispetto di tutto e di tutti. E, crescendo, scopre di possedere un dono inestimabile: una prodigiosa capacità di percepire e distinguere gli odori. Forte di questa facoltà, di quest'unica qualità, Grenouille decide di diventare il più grande profumiere del mondo, e il lettore lo segue nel suo peregrinare tra botteghe odorose, apprendista stregone che supera in breve ogni maestro passando dalla popolosa e fetida Parigi a Grasse, città dei profumieri nell'ariosa Provenza. L'ambizione di Grenouille non è quella di arricchirsi, né ha sete di gloria; persegue, invece, un suo folle sogno: dominare il cuore degli uomini creando un profumo capace di ingenerare l'amore in chiunque lo fiuti, e pur di ottenerlo non si fermerà davanti a nulla.<

Patrick Süskind

La Historia Del Señor Sommer

<p>Tras conseguir un gran éxito con "El perfume" Süskind escribió otras novelas, entre ellas ésta, "La historia del señor Sommer". Es una novela corta narrada desde la perspectiva de un niño que ve como a través de los años el misterioso señor Sommer camina sin parar de pueblo en pueblo; descubrir porqué lo hace será un paso decisivo en su aprendizaje de la vida. Dotada de una extraordinaria ternura, la historia se completa con las bellísimas ilustraciones de Sempé.</p><p>Lo primero que llama la atención de La historia del señor Sommer es la hermosa ilustración de la portada de Sempé, lo que te hace evocar las primeras lecturas de El pequeño Nicolás, las travesuras de una pandilla memorable que está dentro del recuerdo colectivo de más de una generación de lectores. La portada te hace sentir que vas a pisar terreno conocido.</p><p>Y lo segundo que llama la atención es la historia en sí, como el mismo autor de El perfume es capaz de cambiar de tono y escribe una historia entrañable, cálida y cercana sobre un niño que sube a los árboles y que se encuentra con el misterioso señor Sommer, un hombre que pasa cada día caminando diez, doce o catorce horas, alguien tan ajeno y enigmático como sus caminatas.</p><p>Me ha gustado mucha esta historia contada con esa inocencia y lógica aplastante de los niños, al menos de los niños de libros capaces de hablar de las leyes de Galileo. Hay un mundo recurrente, subir a los árboles, el deseo de volar, el primer amor, la primera decepción… En una narración tan cálida hay recovecos para lo gris, lo temible.</p><p>Aunque tenga el tono de libro para niños, es un libro que se disfruta de mayor, que te ayuda a recordar de dónde vienes y cómo hubo una vez donde el mundo era puro misterio, y que ese misterio no tenía por que ser siempre tierno.</p><p>Maravilloso el personaje del niño, de su familia, el señor Sommer, un hombre sin frases, una parte del paisaje, y que poco a poco descubrimos la razón de sus caminatas, un buen libro para volver a plantearse qué es este mundo que nos rodea. Y un libro precioso, entrañable, de los que se leen con una media sonrisa.</p><

Patrick Suskind

Le parfum

Patrick Suskind

Perfume. The story of a murderer

When critics and readers caught scent of Patrick Suskind's "Perfume", it became an instant "New York Times" bestseller in hardcover and paperback. The reviews were sensational, word-of-mouth was incredible — and now it is back in an all-new trade paperback format. "A tour de force of the imagination." — "People."<

Patti Smith

Just Kids

<p>“It was the summer that Coltrane died. The summer Jimi Hendrix set his guitar in flames and China exploded the H-bomb. There were riots in Newark and marches against the war in Vietnam. The world was on the brink of change. It was the summer of love. And the summer of a chance encounter that would change the course of my life. It was the summer I met Robert.”</p><

Paul Stein

The Fourth Law

Paul Sutherland

Girl_s camp counselor

Star original

Paulette Smalls

Come and get it!

Late night library

Paullina Simons

Tatiana y Alexander

<p>Tatiana, embarazada y viuda a sus dieciocho años, huye de un Leningrado en ruinas para empezar una nueva vida en Estados Unidos. Pero los fantasmas del pasado no descansan: todavía cree que Alexander, su marido y comandante del Ejército Rojo, está vivo. Entre tanto, en la Unión Soviética Alexander se salva en el último momento de una ejecución.</p><p>Tatiana viajará hasta Europa como enfermera de la Cruz Roja y se enfrentará al horror de la guerra para encontrar al hombre de su vida… Dolor y esperanza, amistad y traición se mezclan en esta conmovedora novela protagonizada por dos personajes entrañables y llenos de coraje, capaces de desafiar por amor al destino más cruel.</p><

Perry Scope

When the loving gets rough

Beeline double novel

Peter Schweizer

Throw Them All Out

<p>Congressmen are big winners in the stock market. They cultivate companies in their loyalty structure from whom they get insider information often at the committee level. There are many ways they get rich while serving constituents, especially if you know what big deal Warren Buffett will do and when. Many names are given in this book of successful inside information operators within Congress.</p><p>While Throw Them All Out is our wake up call, it is also a potential training guide for future politicians. After all, Congress is unlikely to change the substance of rules that allow them to make a killing year on year. We should not aspire to do what they do. This would land the rest of us in prison and earn their contempt for us.</p><

Peter Seibel

Coders at Work: Reflections on the craft of programming

<p>Peter Seibel</p><

Peter Siebel

Practical Common Lisp

Peter Spiegelman

Black Maps

John March

Peter Spiegelman

Death's little helpers

John March

Peter Spiegelman

Red Cat

John March

Peter Spiegelman

Thick as Thieves

Philip W Simpson

Tribulation

Rapture

Pierre Szalowski

El Frío Modifica La Trayectoria De Los Peces

<p>Algunas navidades son inolvidables… Las de 1998 en Quebec, no se le olvidarán a un niño que, entonces tenía once años.</p><p>Sus padres le anunciaron que iban a separarse. Nunca hubiese pensado que algo así podría sucederle a él. Al día siguiente empezó la peor tormenta de hielo que Quebec había conocido jamás.</p><p>En el hielo florecieron situaciones inesperadas. Las personas recordaron sentimientos que habían olvidado. La vida cotidiana se detuvo. Algunas cosas dejaron de ser como habían sido durante mucho tiempo. Aquella tormenta cambiaría para siempre la vida del niño, de su familia y de sus vecinos. Incluso los peces, de uno de ellos, modificaron su comportamiento. Finalmente, la tormenta pasó.</p><p>A veces, las situaciones inesperadas hacen que veamos todo diferente.</p><p>El frío modifica la trayectoria de los peces. La historia de una felicidad caída del cielo.</p><

Polly Shulman

The Grimm Legacy

Is there a better antidote to a lonely teen existence than a dose of fairy-tale magic? Elizabeth has yet to make friends at her tony Manhattan private school, and she feels equally alone at home with her remote father and taskmaster stepmother. Then Elizabeth's teacher recommends her for a job at the New York Circulating Material Repository, and as Elizabeth befriends the other pages, she begins to learn that fairy tales aren't just fantasy and that many of the special collections' artifacts belong to her favorite childhood stories, including the magic mirror from Snow White. Just as Elizabeth learns about the repository's impossible wonders, some of the most powerful objects, and then some of the pages, disappear, and she finds herself leading the dangerous rescue.<

Dorothy L Sayers

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club

Lord Peter Wimsey

90-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew exactly when he had died — and the time of death was the determining factor in a half-million-pound inheritance.Lord Peter Wimsey would need every bit of his amazing skills to unravel the mysteries of why the General's lapel was without a red poppy on Armistice Day, how the club's telephone was fixed without a repairman, and, most puzzling of all, why the great man's knee swung freely when the rest of him was stiff with rigor mortis.<

Dorothy L Sayers

Have His Carcass

Lord Peter Wimsey

A young woman falls asleep on a deserted beach and wakes to discover the body of a man whose throat has been slashed from ear to ear…The young woman is the celebrated detective novelist Harriet Vane, once again drawn against her will into a murder investigation in which she herself could be a suspect. Lord Peter Wimsey is only too eager to help her clear her name. Murder brings Lord Peter and Harriet together again: when walking on a Dorset beach, Harriet discovers a corpse, the throat cut from ear to ear. Lord Peter comes to her assistance, and their inquiries lead from a distinctive razor blade to the salons of London's fashionable Jermyn Street, from a Russian émigré and professional dance-partner to a mysterious man with one shoulder higher than the other. As they investigate the trail of coded messages and secret agents, Harriet and Lord Peter's relationship becomes as tangled as the cat's-cradle of hints and clues that they are trying to unravel.<

Dorothy L Sayers

The Nine Tailors

Lord Peter Wimsey

Nine teller strokes from the belfry of an ancient country church toll the death of an unknown man and call the famous Lord Peter Wimsey to one of his most brilliant cases, set in the atmosphere of a quiet parish in the strange, flat, fen-country of East Anglia<

Dorothy L Sayers

The Documents in the Case

The only one of Sayers' twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character, written in collaboration with Robert Eustace. This is an epistolary novel, told primarily in the form of letters between some of the characters. This collection of documents — hence the novel's title — is explained as a dossier of evidence collected by the victim's son as part of his campaign to obtain justice for his father.<

Dorothy L Sayers

Five Red Herrings

Lord Peter Wimsey

Lord Peter Wimsey could imagine the artist stepping back, the stagger, the fall, down to where the pointed rocks grinned like teeth. But was it an accident? Or murder? Six people did not regret Campbell's death… five were red herrings. Set in the unusual background of an artists' colony in Galloway, in the south of Scotland, the book is one of the best of Dorothy Sayers' murder-mystery novels which made her the leading writer in the detective fiction field.<

Dorothy L Sayers

The Wimsey Papers

Dorothy L. Sayers published "The Wimsey Papers" in in 1939 and 1940, purporting to be between characters from the Wimsey novels. Aside from their interest to fans of Sayers, who would like to know more about her characters and about her views on the war, they're also interesting pieces of social history — these must be one of the last few pieces of writing where the word 'propaganda' is used in a neutral meaning, for example.<

Samuel Shem

The house of God

Now a classic! The hilarious novel of the healing arts that reveals everything your doctor never wanted you to know. Six eager interns — they saw themselves as modern saviors-to-be. They came from the top of their medical school class to the bottom of the hospital staff to serve a year in the time-honored tradition, racing to answer the flash of on-duty call lights and nubile nurses. But only the Fat Man —the Clam, all-knowing resident — could sustain them in their struggle to survive, to stay sane, to love-and even to be doctors when their harrowing year was done.<

Amanda Stevens

The Abandoned

The Graveyard Queen Series

<p>There are rules for dealing with ghosts. Too bad Ree Hutchins doesn’t know them.</p><p>When her favorite patient at a private mental hospital passes away, psychology student Ree Hutchins mourns the elderly woman’s death. But more unsettling is her growing suspicion that something unnatural is shadowing her.</p><p>Amateur ghost hunter Hayden Priest believes Ree is being haunted. Even Amelia Gray, known in Charleston as The Graveyard Queen, senses a gathering darkness. Driven by a force she doesn’t understand, Ree is compelled to uncover an old secret and put abandoned souls to rest—before she is locked away forever….</p><

Amanda Stevens

The Restorer

The Graveyard Queen Series

<p>My name is Amelia Gray. I'm a cemetery restorer who sees ghosts. In order to protect myself from the parasitic nature of the dead, I've always held fast to the rules passed down from my father. But now a haunted police detective has entered my world and everything is changing, including the rules that have always kept me safe.</p><p>It started with the discovery of a young woman's brutalized body in an old Charleston graveyard I've been hired to restore. The clues to the killer—and to his other victims—lie in the headstone symbolism that only I can interpret. Devlin needs my help, but his ghosts shadow his every move, feeding off his warmth, sustaining their presence with his energy. To warn him would be to invite them into my life. I've vowed to keep my distance, but the pull of his magnetism grows ever stronger even as the symbols lead me closer to the killer and to the gossamer veil that separates this world from the next. </p><

Michael Swanwick

Dancing with Bears

S M Stirling

The Council of Shadows

Shadowspawn

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