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« Rien n’est plus délicieux qu’un enfant dodu et bien juteux ! » Aujourd’hui, l’énorme crocodile a décidé qu’il mangerait un enfant… mais c’est sans compter sur les autres animaux de la jungle pour l’en empêcher ! Roald Dahl et Quentin Blake dans un festival de rebondissements et d’humour… légèrement noir : un succès garanti et jamais démenti auprès des petits.
...a mortgage is literally a death pledge? ...why guns have girls' names? ...why salt is related to soldier?
You're about to find out...
The Etymologicon (e-t?-'ma-la-ji-kan) is:
*Witty (wi-te\): Full of clever humor*Erudite (er-?-dit): Showing knowledge*Ribald (ri-b?ld): Crude, offensive
"The Etymologicon" is a completely unauthorized guide to the strange underpinnings of the English language. It explains: how you get from "gruntled" to "disgruntled"; why you are absolutely right to believe that your meager salary barely covers "money for salt"; how the biggest chain of coffee shops in the world (hint: Seattle) connects to whaling in Nantucket; and what precisely the Rolling Stones have to do with gardening..
Si no midiera casi dos metros veinte y tuviera un coeficiente intelectual superior al de Einstein, Al Kenner sería un adolescente ordinario. El día del asesinato de John Fitzgerald Kennedy, sin embargo, su vida dará un vuelco y saldrá a la luz que en el cuerpo de ese gigantón habita un muchacho traumatizado por los malos tratos que le inflige su madre alcohólica, que disfruta decapitando gatos y jugando a la silla eléctrica con su hermana menor, y que ha asesinado a sangre fría a sus abuelos. Después de cinco años internado en un psiquiátrico, rehabilitado y sin antecedentes penales gracias a su extraordinaria inteligencia y sus dotes de manipulación, Al pisará de nuevo la calle.Desconcertado ante el pacifismo y la contracultura de los jóvenes de su edad, esos hippies a los que no alcanza a comprender, y tras ver truncado debido a su altura su deseo de alistarse para ir a Vietnam o ingresar en la policía, Al se convierte en asesor psicológico de la policía de Santa Cruz. Como él mismo afirma, «haber matado confiere una auténtica legitimidad en la comprensión del fenómeno del paso a la acción que siempre será un misterio para el neófito», y está dispuesto a ayudar a poner fin a la ola de crímenes que vive California.Inspirado en un personaje real, Ed Kemper, un asesino en serie condenado a perpetuidad, y narrado como si se tratara de las memorias escritas por el protagonista desde la cárcel, Avenida de los Gigantes es un perturbador autorretrato de un asesino fuera de lo común.
The Addison brothers, Harry and Danny, have been estranged for many years, but when Danny calls from Rome pleading for Harry to get in touch, his brother doesn't ignore him. Except it seems he is too late, as Danny was on board a tourist bus which was blown apart by a bomb. But when Harry arrives in Italy he is plunged into a Kafka-esque nightmare, discovering that his brother is accused of assassinating the Cardinal Vicar of Rome and when he dares to suggest that Danny is still alive he finds that someone is willing to frame him for murder before he can start to clear Danny's name. Alone and vulnerable in a foreign country, Harry is sucked into the maelstrom of a conspiracy in the heart of the Vatican, where men of God are using the devil's hand to further the influence of the Catholic Church. A tense and absorbing thriller.
2010. Dans un terrain vague de Nairobi, un gamin à vélo s’amuse à rouler dans une grande flaque sur le sable ocre. Du sang humain, répandu en forme de croix. Sans le savoir, le garçon vient de détruire une scène de crime, la première d’une longue série.
2012, à Nairobi. Une femme albinos est décapitée à la machette en pleine rue. Le tueur a emporté la tête, un bras aussi. Elle a été massacrée, comme beaucoup de ses semblables, parce que ses organes et son corps valent une vraie fortune sur le marché des talismans. Appelée en renfort par le chef de la police kenyane, Hanah Baxter, profileuse de renom, va s’emparer des deux enquêtes. Hanah connaît bien le Kenya, ce pays où l’envers du décor est violent, brûlant, déchiré entre ultramodernité et superstitions. Mais elle ne s’attend pas à ce qu’elle va découvrir ici. Les croix de sang et les massacres d’albinos vont l'emmener très loin dans les profondeurs du mal.
Stephen Douglass's knowledge of the Oil and Gas Industry is woven into a plot similiar to John Grisham's tales of lawyers, judges, and the law. Both are terrific at storytelling at a brisk pace coming with a knowledgeable background. You will be educated as to the Oil and Gas Industry, especially the dark side of money making, and entertained by a romantic engaging action story. This book belongs in a class with "Unbroken", "Lost in Shangri-La", "In the Garden of the Beasts", other five star books that I have enjoyed this summer. (5 star review) The story you are about to read reveals how Jim Servito destroyed the hopes and aspirations of star-crossed lovers, Mike King and Karen Taylor, while simultaneously engineering one of the largest and most audacious thefts in Canadian and U.S. history. He stole $325,000,000 from the U.S. and Canadian governments, then murdered everyone who could implicate him. He possesses a brilliant criminal mind. Cynical and remorselessly ruthless, he has an enormous contempt for the law, police, governments, and the system in which they function. He assumes rules are for fools, and takes sadistic pleasure in breaking them. Everything was perfect. The beautiful daughter of wealthy parents meets the handsome son of middle class parents. They fall in love and assume they will marry and live happily ever after. Their assumption could not have been further from reality. Cruel twists of fate and the wrath of Jim Servito combine to prescribe a nightmare for the two lovers, one that grows in intensity and ultimately leads them to a life and death confrontation with Servito in Caracas.
A hotel offers a taboo service for its troubled clients, a vampire library attacks its readers, and a young man discovers the cutlery of the Marquis de Sade. Incarceration, incantations, romance, revenge and the end of the world occur in this collection of gothic tales.
The Tainted Trust is, in addition to a moving and action packed thriller, a brilliant depiction of what perfectly normal people will do for love and money. No one wept when Jim Servito died. He left an estate amounting to $325,000,000 when his wife, Karen killed him in Caracas. He had accumulated the fortune the old fashioned way: he stole it from the U.S. and Canadian Governments using a brilliant gasoline tax evasion scam. The money is hot, deposited in a Cayman Island bank, and it was cursed. It has a profound affect on everyone who touched it. It is managed by Alfred Schnieder, an aging and unscrupulous Caracas banker. Mike King, the love of Karen’s life, and nearly ruined by the Feds’ scorched earth efforts to recover Servito’s fortune, convinces her to keep the money, instead of returning it to its rightful owners. With the assistance of Schnieder, they form The King Trust, a near fatal mistake. Desperate to recover the money, the Feds continue to spare no expense and effort to do so. Phillip, the only child of Karen and Jim Servito, assumes he is the natural heir to his father’s fortune. He has his own greedy plans for the money. Aging Alfred Schnieder relinquishes the trust’s management to Louis Visconti, a thirty-two year old financial engineer. Dubbed ‘The Crown Prince of Wall Street’, and substantially more unscrupulous than Schnieder, Visconti takes The King Trust to bewildering heights, then fails, miserably. Kerri Pyper, Mike King’s twenty-three year old estranged daughter, has not seen or communicated with her father since she was nine. She discovers the existence of The King Trust and is shocked to learn that her natural father is its Trustee. Visconti, assuming he is the smartest man in the room, embezzles the fortune and flees to Monaco. He made only two mistakes: he deceived Schnieder and fell in love with Kerri.
From using crackpot psychics to cutting-edge forensics, Arthur Bryant and John May are famous for their maddeningly unorthodox approach to solving crimes that the ordinary police cannot. Now Christopher Fowler, “a new master of the classical detective story,”* brings back crime detection's oddest-and oldest-couple to solve the ultimate locked room mystery.
It's an “impossible” crime-a member of the Peculiar Crimes Unit killed inside a locked autopsy room populated only by the dead and to which only four PCU members had a key. And to make matters worse, the Unit has been shut down for a forced “vacation” and Bryant and May are stuck in a van miles away in the Dartmoor countryside during a freak snowstorm on their way to a convention of psychics.
Now, with Sergeant Janice Longbright in charge at headquarters, Bryant and May must crack the case by cell phone while trying to stop a second murder without freezing to death. For among the line of snowed-in vehicles, a killer is on the prowl, a beautiful woman is on the run from a man who seeks either redemption or another victim, and an innocent child is caught in the middle.
Weaving together two electrifying cases, White Corridor is an unforgettable triumph-by turns hilarious and harrowing-as two of detective fiction's most marvelous characters confront one of human nature's darkest mysteries: the ability to deceive, deny, and destroy.
Disquisiciones sobre diferentes formas de acometer los estudios elaboradas a mediados del siglo XX y que contiene diferentes ideas sobre la memoria y los diferentes métodos de facilitar la retentiva. Es posible que muchas de las ideas estén ya superadas hoy en día pero algunas de ellas son perfectamente aprovechables, si bien su lectura resulta por momentos algo farragosa.
Ensayo, 1989. La República de Trapalanda (tierra de trápalas) fija nítida radiografía del país y de la idiosincrasia de sus gentes. El enjuiciador que la estructura no apela al humor por el humorismo en sí. El tono elegido opera, ante todo, como medio para replantear a todos los que aman a la República Argentina un examen de conciencia, la revisión vital y positiva de su historia, actualidad y porvenir. Lo que Denevi articula con la amena informalidad del ensayo, de hecho proyecta alcances de un estudio polifacético donde -con levedad, pero mordazmente- incursiona política y sociología, economía y educación, organización cívica y legislación, usos y costumbres, etc.
'Rosaura a las diez', la primera novela de Marco Denevi, es un singular ejemplo de la vitalidad literaria. Sin la apoyatura publicitaria habitual para los libros de aparición reciente, y pasado ya el tiempo de exhibición del filme que, con el mismo título, dirigió Mario Sóffici, con Juan Verdager y Susana Campos en los papeles protagónicos, 'Rosaura a las diez' es hoy en el mundo una de las pocas novelas plenamente vigente y más leídas de la literatura argentina moderna.
Viriginie Despentes conclut sa trilogie "Vernon Subutex" (Grasset) avec un 3e opus plus dark que jamais. On y retrouve Vernon, le disquaire gourou qui avait agrégé autour de lui et de sa musique une petite communauté joyeuse et pacifique. La bande poursuit un temps son rêve de communion fraternelle avant de se prendre en pleine tête la barbarie, la violence et le terrorisme.
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