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El crimen de la habitación 12 (Susan Ryeland 2)

Autor: Anthony Horowitz

Número de Páginas: 601

Tras el éxito de la serie «Magpie Murders», la adaptación audiovisual de Un asesinato brillante, llega El crimen de la habitación 12, un desafío para aficionados a investigaciones detectivescas que demuestra nuevamente la maestría de Anthony Horowitz. Susan Ryeland, insatisfecha con su nueva vida en Creta, echa de menos Londres. Un día, recibe la visita de Lawrence y Pauline Treherne, propietarios de Branlow Hall, un lujoso hotel en Inglaterra. El matrimonio pide ayuda a Susan para encontrar a su hija. Cecily desapareció poco después de asegurar a sus padres que el hombre que cumple condena por un crimen cometido en su establecimiento es inocente. El día de la boda de Cecily, hace ocho años, Frank Parris, huésped del hotel, fue brutalmente asesinado a golpes en su habitación. Uno de los miembros del personal, Stefan Codrescu, fue declarado culpable y cumple condena en la cárcel. Sin embargo, después de leer la novela del difunto escritor Alan Conway, inspirada en el asesinato de Parris, Cecily se declaró convencida de la inocencia de Codrescu. Susan era la editora de Conway, por eso la pareja ha viajado a Creta; tal vez ella sea capaz de releer su novela y...

Un asesinato brillante (Susan Ryeland 1)

Autor: Anthony Horowitz

Número de Páginas: 627

SI ENTRAS EN ESTE ROMPECABEZAS LITERARIO, NO PODRÁS SALIR HASTA LA ÚLTIMA PÁGINA « Un asesinato brillante es tan buena como una novela de Agatha Christie. Quizá incluso mejor, más inteligente» . STEPHEN KING Susan Ryeland ha sido durante años la editora del excéntrico escritor superventas Alan Conway. Los lectores adoran al protagonista de su serie más famosa, el detective Atticus Pünd, que se dedica a resolver crímenes en la década de los cincuenta por pueblecitos ingleses aparentemente tranquilos. Sin embargo, la última novela que ha entregado Conway, y a la que le faltan los últimos capítulos, no es como las demás y está a punto de cambiar la vida de Susan. Aunque en la narración hay cadáveres y una interesante lista de sospechosos, entre las páginas del manuscrito se esconde otra historia: una trama que se entrelaza con la vida real en la que los celos, las envidias, las ambiciones despiadadas y los asesinatos superan con creces a la ficción. Anthony Horowitz, autor superventas del New York Times, nos transporta a un laberíntico misterio que encierra otro misterio de la mano de personajes dignos de los mejores clásicos en un escenario contemporáneo...

Moonflower Murders

Autor: Anthony Horowitz

Número de Páginas: 303

*The follow-on from Magpie Murders, soon to be a major BBC series starring Lesley Manville* 'The Lord of television mystery' LA Times 'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times 'Absolutely loved it. So clever, just masterful stuff.' Richard Osman 'Fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley ‘Anthony Horowitz is an absolutely exceptional writer’ Daniel Mays 'You have to hand it to Horowitz: the guy never fails to deliver a total page-turner. We LOVED it.' Richard & Judy ____________ Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn't as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London - even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot. So when an English couple come to visit with tales of a murder that took place in a hotel the same day their daughter Cecily was married there, Susan can't help but find herself fascinated. And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading Atticus ...

El camino de vuelta

Autor: Joaquín Leguina

Número de Páginas: 310

Han pasado ya treinta años desde aquellas elecciones de 1982 en las que el PSOE consiguió una aplastante mayoría absoluta y un hombre en los cuarenta, Felipe González, se dispuso a dirigir (por primera vez en tiempos de paz) un gobierno monocolor y socialista. Muchos eran los retos que tenía ante sí, muchos los logros conseguidos ―entre los que destaca convertir a España en un país avanzado social, cultural y económicamente― y no pocos los errores ―como la corrupción, el ordenamiento autonómico y las luchas intestinas del partido que quizá aún hoy se siguen pagando. Joaquín Leguina, con la distancia de los treinta años sucedidos, lleva a cabo en estas páginas un análisis subjetivo ―como protagonista que fue―, reflexivo y crítico de aquellos años. Haciendo especial hincapié en las cosas que a su juicio salieron mal pero sin obviar los aciertos. «Intentaré en las páginas que siguen dar al lector mi versión impresionista de aquellas gentes que llegaron al poder en 1982 y de aquellos avatares. Por lo tanto, este no es un libro de historia y tampoco se trata de unas memorias. Procuraré tomar la distancia que el tiempo transcurrido me permite para no...

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Autor: United States. Patent And Trademark Office

Número de Páginas: 1478

Magpie Murders

Autor: Anthony Horowitz

Número de Páginas: 492

THE NUMBER ONE EBOOK BESTSELLER 'Want to read a great whodunnit? Anthony Horowitz has one for you: MAGPIE MURDERS. It's as good as an Agatha Christie. Better, in some ways. Cleverer.' Stephen King 'The finest crime novel of the year' Daily Mail ***** Seven for a mystery that needs to be solved . . . Editor Susan Ryland has worked with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years. Readers love his detective, Atticus Pünd, a celebrated solver of crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but hidden in the pages of the manuscript lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition and murder. From the creator of Midsomer Murders comes a fiendish mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. ***** Praise for Magpie Murders - the gripping Sunday Times bestselling crime thriller: 'Ingenious' Sunday Times 'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail 'A stylish thriller' Sunday Mirror 'A cunning reinvention of the...

Le Nouveau guide des films - Intégrale

Autor: Jean Tulard

Número de Páginas: 7067

Les quatre tomes du Guide des films réunis dans une édition numérique inédite ! Depuis sa première édition, en 1990, le Guide des films de Jean Tulard s'est imposé comme un ouvrage de référence. Il a été actualisé à chaque réimpression : les deux volumes de l'édition d'origine sont ainsi devenus quatre, totalisant plus de 17 000 références et couvrant toute l'histoire du cinéma depuis les frères Lumière jusqu'à 2010. Chaque notice contient un générique détaillé, un résumé du scénario et un jugement critique. Un index général à la fin du volume recense tous les films référencés. Ainsi dispose-t-on d'un répertoire de tout ce qui a compté depuis l'invention du cinéma.

La Dernière Tombe

Autor: Michael Crichton

Número de Páginas: 141

Bien avant Jurassic Park, le jeune Michael Crichton, étudiant à Harvard, écrivait des romans pulp sous le nom de plume de John Lange... Quand le professeur Barnaby découvre entre les lignes de hiéroglyphes l'existence d'une tombe de pharaon – la dernière – demeurée secrète depuis des millénaires, il sait que le butin sera inimaginable. Il décide alors de mener en toute discrétion des fouilles pour retrouver le site funéraire, et le piller. Mais il lui faut une équipe. Lorsqu'il rencontre le journaliste au long carnet d'adresses Robert Pierce, il reconnaît en lui l'homme de la situation. Grisé par l'espoir d'un enrichissement scandaleux, ce dernier se laisse facilement embarquer dans le plan de l'égyptologue. Les rejoignent bientôt un voleur, un archéologue et un milliardaire. Ensemble, ils s'aventurent dans le désert à la recherche de la dernière tombe et de ses promesses. Mais cette équipe d'escrocs pourra-t-elle découvrir ce que les siècles ont si bien caché ? Et, même s'ils trouvent le trésor, pourront-ils s'enfuir avec leur butin... et garder la vie sauve ? Un roman de jeunesse au charme suranné et irrésistiblement drôle, qui révélait déjà ...

Listverse.com's Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Top 10 Lists

Autor: Jamie Frater

Número de Páginas: 497

A collection of crazy-but-true facts, peculiar occurrences, despicable crimes, bizarre records, unbelievable creatures, and many more shocking oddities. Delving into the shocking side of pop culture, science and history, Listverse.com’s Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Top 10 Lists offers a wealth of fascinating reading with over 200 lists and more than 2,000 interesting facts, including: • Alien Artifacts • Creepy Urban Legends • Bizarre Murder Weapons • Horrific TV Accidents • Outrageous Rock Tales • Twisted Circus Acts • Terrifying Villains • Crazy-but-True Movie Plots • Dirty CIA Operations • Monstrously Evil Babysitters • Strange Hamburger Facts • Animal Freaks of Nature • Mind-Blowing Technologies

Comptine mortelle

Autor: Anthony Horowitz

Número de Páginas: 660

Alan Conway écrit des romans policiers. C’est un auteur à succès, ce qui n’est pas pour déplaire à son éditrice, Susan Reynolds. Depuis des années qu’elle travaille avec lui, elle n’a pas de raison de se plaindre : chacun de ses livres se retrouve sur les listes de best-sellers. Les lecteurs adorent le détective Atticus Pünd, personnage central des romans de Conway, et ils raffolent de ses enquêtes dans la campagne anglaise des années 1950. Ils achètent, et Susan Reynolds sourit. Et son sourire s’étire à la lecture du nouveau manuscrit de son auteur fétiche. Rien de très original ou de très inhabituel : des meurtres, des suspects. La recette classique, efficace. Racoleur et bien ficelé, ce texte a tout pour plaire lui aussi au plus grand nombre. Mais les trois derniers chapitres et le dénouement de l’enquête manquent, ce qui a le don d’agacer l’éditrice qui s’empresse de les réclamer. Les obtenir cependant, se révèle être une tâche bien compliquée, surtout lorsqu’elle apprend la mort de l’auteur qui, en mettant fin à sa vie, menace celle de sa maison d’édition... Roman dans le roman, Comptine Mortelle est un bel hommage à...

Fire Season

Autor: Gary Indiana

Número de Páginas: 293

“One of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche.” —The Guardian The novelist, cultural critic, and indie icon serves up sometimes bitchy, always generous, erudite, and joyful assessments from the last thirty-five years of cutting edge film, art, and literature. Whether he’s describing Tracy Emin or Warhol, the films of Barbet Schroeder (“Schroeder is well aware that life is not a narrative; that we impose form on the movements of chance, contingency, and impulse....”) or the installations of Barbara Kruger (“Kruger compresses the telling exchanges of lived experience that betray how skewed our lives are…”), Indiana is never just describing. His writing is refreshing, erudite, joyful. Indiana champions shining examples of literary and artistic merit regardless of whether the individual artist or writer is famous; asserts a standard of care and tradition that has nothing to do with the ivory tower establishment; is unafraid to deliver the coup de grâce when someone needs to say the emperor has no clothes; speaks in the same breath—in the same discerning, insolent, eloquent way—about high art and pop culture. Few writers could get away with saying...

Easy Go

Autor: Michael Crichton , John Lange

Número de Páginas: 303

A thriller about an Egyptologist’s greatest find—and his quest to steal it—from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Jurassic Park and The Andromeda Strain. Brilliant Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has discovered a message hidden inside a particularly difficult set of hieroglyphics. It just may lead him to a secret tomb holding the greatest riches of the ancient world. Barnaby could put his name to the most fantastic archaeological find of the century. But he doesn’t just want to dig it up. He wants to steal it. With the help of a smuggler, a thief, and an English lord, he plans his heist. They find that tomb raiding is trickier than they thought, and those who steal from dead Egyptians face dangers worse than a mummy’s ancient curse. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Michael Crichton including rare images from the author’s estate.

The Dunning School

Autor: John David Smith , J. Vincent Lowery

Número de Páginas: 434

From the late nineteenth century until World War I, a group of Columbia University students gathered under the mentorship of the renowned historian William Archibald Dunning (1857–1922). Known as the Dunning School, these students wrote the first generation of state studies on the Reconstruction—volumes that generally sympathized with white southerners, interpreted radical Reconstruction as a mean-spirited usurpation of federal power, and cast the Republican Party as a coalition of carpetbaggers, freedmen, scalawags, and former Unionists. Edited by the award-winning historian John David Smith and J. Vincent Lowery, The Dunning School focuses on this controversial group of historians and its scholarly output. Despite their methodological limitations and racial bias, the Dunning historians' writings prefigured the sources and questions that later historians of the Reconstruction would utilize and address. Many of their pioneering dissertations remain important to ongoing debates on the broad meaning of the Civil War and Reconstruction and the evolution of American historical scholarship. This groundbreaking collection of original essays offers a fair and critical assessment of...

Teaching English in a Spanish Setting

Autor: Hang Ferrer Mora

Número de Páginas: 342

Marble Hall Murders

Autor: Anthony Horowitz

Número de Páginas: 453

'A masterclass in mystery writing’ Ragnar Jónasson 'Expect plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders' Express 'Worthy of Agatha Christie' Publishers Weekly *Starred Review* ‘Glorious fun’ The Daily Telegraph ------------- Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third. The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago. Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again. As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself. It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they...

Easy Go

Autor: Michael Crichton Writing As John Langetm

Número de Páginas: 293

From the creator of Jurassic Park and ER Egyptologist Harold Barnaby has just made the discovery of the century. While retranslating some old hieroglyphs, he has found clues to the location of a pharaoh’s lost tomb. But this discovery leads him to make the ultimate choice: rather than share his find with the rest of the world, Professor Barnaby is determined to locate the tomb and keep whatever treasure he finds inside for himself. But to pull off the greatest heist in the archaeological history, Barnaby will need help. Enter Robert Pierce, a transient freelance writer looking for excitement. They put together a five-man team, including a smuggler, an international thief, and the fifth Earl of Wheatston to bankroll the project, and set out to plunder the pharaoh’s lost tomb. But can this ragtag team survive the perils of the Egyptian desert and uncover what the centuries have kept hidden? And even if they find the treasure, can they escape with it alive? With a new introduction by Sherri Crichton

Faithful, Firm, and True

Autor: Titus Brown

Número de Páginas: 202

"In Faithful, Firm, and True: African-American Education in the South, Titus Brown traces the dual roles of the northern American Missionary Association (AMA) and the African American community of Macon, Georgia, in their joint effort to provide education to blacks in central Georgia. These education pioneers faced many formidable obstacles, including poverty, disease, white hostility, low funds, and a paucity of qualified teachers." "Faithful, Firm, and True: African-American Education in the South provides a thorough analysis of the important contributions made by early champions of black education in central Georgia and the central role played by Ballard Normal School. It is essential reading for scholars of African-American history, education, and Georgia history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Reconstruction in a Globalizing World

Autor: David Prior

Número de Páginas: 333

As one of the most complexly divisive periods in American history, Reconstruction has been the subject of a rich scholarship. Historians have studied the period’s racial views, political maneuverings, divisions between labor and capital, debates about woman suffrage, and of course its struggle between freed slaves and their former masters. Yet, on each of these fronts scholarship has attended overwhelmingly to the eastern United States, especially the South, thereby neglecting important transnational linkages. This volume, the first of its kind, will examine Reconstruction’s global connections and contexts in ways that, while honoring the field’s accomplishments, move it beyond its southern focus. The volume will bring together prominent and emerging scholars to showcase the deepening interplay between scholarships on Reconstruction and on America’s place in world history. Through these essays, Reconstruction in a Globalizing World will engage two dynamic fields of study to the benefit of them both. By demonstrating that the South and the eastern United States were connected to other parts of the globe in complex and important ways, the volume will challenge scholars of...

The Blue and Gold

Número de Páginas: 450

The Welsh in Iowa

Autor: Cherilyn A Walley

Número de Páginas: 254

The Welsh in Iowa is the history of the little known Welsh immigrant communities in the American Midwestern state of Iowa. Dr. Walley’s book identifies what made the Welsh unique as immigrants to North America, and as migrants and settlers in a land built on such groups. With research rooted in documentary evidence and supplemented with community and oral histories, The Welsh in Iowa preserves and examines Welsh culture as it was expressed in middle America by the farmers and coal miners who settled or passed through the prairie state as it grew to maturity in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work seeks to not only document the Welsh immigrants who lived in Iowa, but to study the Welsh as a distinct ethnic group in a state known for its ethnic heritage.

Stanley Kubrick

Autor: Gary D. Rhodes

Número de Páginas: 265

Seventeen essays examine the career and films of director Stanley Kubrick from a variety of perspectives. Part I focuses on his early career, including his first newsreels, his photography for Look magazine, and his earliest films (Fear and Desire, Killer's Kiss). Part II examines his major or most popular films (Paths of Glory, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey). Part III provides a thorough case study of Eyes Wide Shut, with four very different essays focusing on the film's use of sound, its representation of gender, its carnivalesque qualities, and its phenomenological nature. Finally, Part IV discusses Kubrick's ongoing legacy and his impact on contemporary filmmakers. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Encyclopedia of Television Shows

Autor: Vincent Terrace

Número de Páginas: 305

There were, between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2022, 1,559 television series broadcast on three platforms: broadcast TV, cable TV, and streaming services. This book, the second supplement to the original Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925-2010, presents detailed information on each program, including storylines, casts (character and performer), years of broadcast, trivia facts, and network, cable or streaming information. Along with the traditional network channels and cable services, the newest streaming services like Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus and pioneering streaming services like Netflix and Hulu are covered. The book includes a section devoted to reality series and foreign series broadcast in the U.S. for the first time from 2017 to 2022, a listing of the series broadcast from 2011 through 2016 (which are contained in the prior supplement), and an index of performers.

The Boothbay Playhouse

Autor: Jerry Vermilye

Número de Páginas: 302

Built to resemble an old New England barn, the Boothbay Playhouse operated from 1937 to 1974, under two separate managements, as a professional summer theatre. In the old-resident-company tradition, a different play was presented each week from June to September- and at prices that seem unbelievable today. But even then the challenge of filling seats was a perennial uphill battle that led to ongoing financial crunches for both managements until surmounting losses forced its closure. This is the story of that landmark theatre's trials, triumphs and tribulations, told by someone who was there for five of those 37 years. Illustrated with 60 photos, the volume also features casts and credits for all Playhouse productions

Betrayal in Berlin

Autor: Steve Vogel

Número de Páginas: 558

'Riveting and vivid ... At the heart of the book is Blake's own remarkable story, which Vogel tells with some sympathy, if not approval. It reads like a Hollywood screenplay' Foreign Affairs 'A fascinating account of Blake's career as a spy ... Blake's story has been told before, as has the tunnel's, but Steve Vogel pulls them together accessibly and comprehensibly, along with the wider political context and entertaining detail about personalities of the period' Spectator 'Excellent... although there are other books on Blake, Mr. Vogel's handling of his tale is original and rewarding... meticulously researched and full of vivid detail' Wall Street Journal 'A spy thriller that kept me up all night. Magnificent story-telling' Peter Snow A true Cold War espionage thriller set around the ultra-secret Berlin Tunnel - where British officer George Blake must run a high-stakes double cross to maintain his cover. The ultra-secret "Berlin Tunnel" was dug in the mid-1950s from the American sector in southwest Berlin and ran nearly a quarter-mile into the Soviet sector, allowing the CIA and the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) to tap into critical KGB and Soviet military underground...

Soldiers of Light and Love

Autor: Jacqueline Jones

Número de Páginas: 289

Soldiers of Light and Love is an acclaimed study of the reform-minded northerners who taught freed slaves in the war-torn Reconstruction South. Jacqueline Jones's book, first published in 1980, focuses on the nearly three hundred women who served in Georgia in the chaotic decade following the Civil War. Commissioned by the American Missionary Association and other freedmen's aid societies, these middle-class New Englanders saw themselves as the postbellum, evangelical heirs of the abolitionist cause. Specific in compass, but wide-ranging in significance, Soldiers of Light and Love illuminates the complexity of class, race, and gender issues in early Victorian America.

Trust Agents

Autor: Chris Brogan , Julien Smith

Número de Páginas: 322

The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller-now in a new, updated paperback edition Today's online influencers are Web natives who trade in trust, reputation, and relationships, using social media to accrue the influence that builds up or brings down businesses online. In Trust Agents, two social media veterans show you how to tap into the power of social networks to build your brand's influence, reputation, and, of course, profits. In this revised paperback version, learn how businesses are using the latest online social tools to build networks of influence and how you can use those networks to positively impact your business. Combining high-level theory and practical actions, this guide delivers actionable steps and case studies that show how social media can positively impact your business. New edition features specific first moves for entering social media for small businesses, educators, travel and hospitality enterprises, nonprofit organizations, and corporations Authors both have a major presence on the social Web as well as years of online marketing and new media experience If you want your business to succeed, don't sit on the sidelines while new markets and...

The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson

Autor: Alicia K. Jackson

Número de Páginas: 143

Owned by his father, Isaac Harold Anderson (1835–1906) was born a slave but went on to become a wealthy businessman, grocer, politician, publisher, and religious leader in the African American community in the state of Georgia. Elected to the state senate, Anderson replaced his white father there, and later shepherded his people as a founding member and leader of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church. He helped support the establishment of Lane College in Jackson, Tennessee, where he subsequently served as vice president. Anderson was instrumental in helping freed people leave Georgia for the security of progressive safe havens with significantly large Black communities in northern Mississippi and Arkansas. Eventually under threat to his life, Anderson made his own exodus to Arkansas, and then later still, to Holly Springs, Mississippi, where a vibrant Black community thrived. Much of Anderson’s unique story has been lost to history—until now. In The Recovered Life of Isaac Anderson, author Alicia K. Jackson presents a biography of Anderson and in it a microhistory of Black religious life and politics after emancipation. A work of recovery, the volume captures the life of a ...

The Lancet

Número de Páginas: 774

Tracy A. Conway, Volume 1 (Books #1, #2, and #3)

Autor: Barakah Bint Shakoor

Número de Páginas: 146

Tracy A. Conway, a 9 year old, fourth grade girl, who has lots of imagination, a funny character, and two best friends named Abby and Stacy. Join her on her adventures like finding her lost cat, the school spelling bee, starring in a movie by her favorite author, and participating in the school bicycle race.

The Kansas Historical Quarterly

Autor: Kirke Mechem , James Claude Malin

Número de Páginas: 562

Kubrick

Autor: Robert P. Kolker , Nathan Abrams

Número de Páginas: 543

The enigmatic and elusive filmmaker Stanley Kubrick has not been treated to a full-length biography in over twenty years. Stanley Kubrick: An Odyssey fills that gap. It is based on access to the latest research, especially into his archive at the University of the Arts, London, and other papers as well as new interviews with family members and those who worked with him. It offers comprehensive and in-depth coverage of Kubrick's personal, private, public, and working life. We discuss not only the making of his films, but also about those he wanted but failed to make like Burning Secret, Napoleon, Aryan Papers, and A.I. We discover what he was doing when he was not making films. This biography will puncture a few myths about this allegedly reclusive filmmaker, who created some of the most important works of art of the twentieth century