The year is 1327 Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy & Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths Brother William turns detective He collects evidence deciphers secret symbols & coded manuscripts & digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey where extraordinary things are happening under the over of night A spectacular popular & critical success The Name of the Rose is not only a narrative of a murder investigation but an astonishing chronicle of the Middle Ages ...

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'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings I burned down the town of Trebon I have spent the night with Felurian & left with both my sanity & my life I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day I have talked to Gods loved women & written songs that make the minstrels weep My name is Kvothe You may have heard of me' So begins the tale of Kvothe
- currently known as Kote the unassuming innkeepter
- from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult & dangerous school of magic In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician the accomplished thief the masterful musician the dragon-slayer the legend-hunter the lover the thief & the infamous assassin The Name of the Wind is fantasy at its very best & an astounding must-read title

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&I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings I burned down the town of Trebon I have spent the night with Felurian & left with both my sanity & my life I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day I have talked to Gods loved women & written songs that make the minstrels weep My name is Kvothe You may have heard of me& So begins the tale of Kvothe
- currently known as Kote the unassuming innkeepter
- from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players through his years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult & dangerous school of magic In these pages you will come to know Kvothe the notorious magician the accomplished thief the masterful musician the dragon-slayer the legend-hunter the lover the thief & the infamous assassin The Name of the Wind is fantasy at its very best & an astounding must-read title

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WARNING DO NOT READ THIS BOOK! Contains two extraordinary adventurers A missing magicians diary A symphony of smells & a deadly secret But wait you already know too much! It is too late Nothing will stop you now Open the book if you must But please tell no one 400 pages Bosch Pseudonymous ...

There is Balor of the evil eye whose very glance meant death; the wicked queen Aoife who turned children into swans; & Oisin who followed his love to her city beneath the waves Featuring beautiful colour illustrations by Irish Children's Laureate & twice Kate Greenaway winner P J Lynch & a previously unpublished poem by Seamus Heaney this is a stunning collection to cherish forever ...

The Namesake' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America' When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib & so Ashima & Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes' For now the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI But as time passes & still no letter arrives from India American bureaucracy takes over & demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name In a panic his father decides to nickname him ' Gogol'
- after his favourite writer Brought up as an Indian in suburban America Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents & so he sets off on his own path through life a path strewn with conflicting loyalties love & loss Spanning three decades & crossing continents Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling Elegant subtle & moving The Namesake' is for everyone who loved the clarity sympathy & grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies'
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THE NAMES is a contemporary thriller that starts off as a revenge story A deadly heroine ticks off--and kills--each "name" that brings her closer to knowing who killed her husband It will become much more than that The world of THE NAMES is Big Money Hedge funds leveraged buyouts market raids flash buys Incredibly high end deals that ruin lives & economies where secret cabals gamble with people&s lives & jaded billionaires find their kicks the only way they know how The idea is to take what&s REALLY GOING in the poisonous deadly world of high speed high stakes finance but really TURN IT UP push it to the edge & make it sexy dramatic & thoroughly deadly It&s about righting all the wrongs by any means necessary It&s KILL BILL meets WOLF OF WALL ST in a world that&s become Too Big to Fail It&s a relentless thriller that seeks to unlock the DA VINCI CODE that lies at the center of the world&s finances as the people who really pull the strings in the world finally get what&s coming to them The world of high finance has a profound but mysterious effect on all of our lives yet is understood by too few of us PETER MILLIGAN an incredibly talented writer who&s always been able to mine the zeitgeist for memorable stories wants to create a compelling drama set in this world LEO FERNANDEZ will bring a slick sexy visual appeal & together make this another must-read book for VERTIGO Collects THE NAMES 1-8 ...

The sixteenth Inspector Rebus novel from ' Britain's No 1 crime writer' DAILY MIRRORA murder has been committed
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Following Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder the final book in the Greg Mandel trilogy The Nano Flower by Peter F Hamilton is a gripping & heart-stopping sci-fi detective story Julia Evans billionairess owner of Event Horizon has for fifteen years been the power behind England's economic renaissance
- but now she's in trouble With her husband missing & rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth she has no time to take notice of a single flower delivered anonymously But this flower possesses genes millions of years in advance of any terrestrial DNA Is it a cryptic alien message or a poignant farewell token from her husband? One man might discover its origin
- but Greg Mandel will not be alone in his desperate search & as they both now discover simply being first in the race isn't nearly good enough when the Nano Flower begins to bloom

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