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The One State is the perfect society, ruled over by the enlightened Benefactor. It is a city made almost entirely of glass, where surveillance is universal and life runs according to algorithmic rules to ensure perfect happiness. And D-503, the Builder, is the ideal citizen, at least until he...

After a violent coup in the United States overthrows the Constitution and ushers in a new government regime, the Republic of Gilead imposes subservient roles on all women. Offred, now a Handmaid tasked with the singular role of procreation in the childless household of the enigmatic Commander and his bitter wife, can remember a time when she lived with her husband and daughter and had a job, before she lost everything, even her own name.

By the author of The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments and Alias Grace The trick was to disappear without a trace, leaving behind me the shadow of a corpse, a shadow everyone would mistake for solid reality. At first I thought I'd managed it. Fat girl, thin girl. Red hair, brown hair. Polish...

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed. 

Nessuno sa quando sia iniziata di preciso la leggenda della stanza segreta nel castello di Gowrie, eppure tutti la conoscono. Dopotutto, vista la forma irregolare del castello, le sue grandi dimensioni e la disposizione tentacolare degli alloggi, l'esistenza di una stanza del genere non sarebbe poi così improbabile, oltre che facile da nascondere. Si dice però che nessuno tranne il conte, il suo erede e un estraneo fidato ne conoscano la posizione.

Le medicine naturali rappresentano un patrimonio vastissimo di cultura terapeutica che si è sviluppato nel corso dei secoli, in diverse aree del mondo. Si tratta di un insieme di conoscenze volte all'armonia dell'uomo con gli elementi e le energie che lo circondano come via per il benessere.

Celebrate Halloween with four enduring masterpieces of classic supernatural fiction, brought together in one atmospheric audiobook collection. Journey down lonely roads where a mysterious coach carries passengers through the night, spend an uneasy evening aboard a ship with a cabin no one can...

Mortimer è un padre che ha portato la sua famiglia a vivere in un vecchio maniero scozzese. Un giorno, nelle vecchie rovine abbandonate di fianco alla casa, suo figlio inizia a sentire delle voci misteriose e subito dopo si ammala gravemente. Eppure il bambino non ha paura: piuttosto prova un enorme dolore per quell'apparizione, e disperato chiede al padre di risolvere il mistero e aiutare l'anima perduta a ritrovare la via.

Beautiful Creatures: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for...

Sixteen years after being locked up, at the age of sixteen, for the bloody murders of her employer and his housekeeper, Grace Marks is examined by Dr Simon Jordan, an expert in amnesia. As the days and weeks pass Simon tries to prise open the memories Grace claims to have lost and reveals a life...

Beautiful Darkness: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! * Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who...

The pampered daughter of a wealthy Georgian plantation owner, sixteen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara soon realises that young men can’t resist her charms, despite her forthright manners and her refusal to embrace her mother’s ladylike ways. She enters into an early marriage, but when the war between the Union and the Southern States breaks out and she is left a young widow, Scarlett’s life is turned upside down, and she finds herself embroiled, together with the world surrounding her, in a long struggle for survival.

Before Natasha Romanoff was an Avenger, she was a Russian spy and assassin, genetically altered by Soviet Union-era scientists to become a super soldier. But someone has stolen a sample of her blood—and the blood of James “Bucky” Barnes, the operative known as the Winter Soldier, another human weapon developed in a Russian laboratory. Whoever took their blood possesses the key to recreating the formula flowing through Natasha and Bucky’s veins—the formula that enhanced their physiology to superhuman levels.

An unexpected baby. A life-changing decision… Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine. When eighteen-year-old Rebecca Lawson is orphaned in tragic circumstances, she is forced to live with her aunt and uncle, working at their East London...

A WATERSTONES BEST HOME & LIFESTYLE BOOK OF 2023 ---------- This is a guide to a life well-lived. It is about the wonder of the everyday and the lessons that age brings. Wear stripes. Eat chocolate. Don’t leave empty-handed. But also embrace change, let go of what doesn’t matter and take...

Amparándose en la coartada del terrorismo, unos políticos teócratas se hacen con el poder y, como primera medida, suprimen la libertad de prensa y los derechos de las mujeres. Esta trama, inquietante y oscura, que bien podría encontrarse en cualquier obra actual, pertenece en realidad a esta novela escrita por Margaret Atwood a principios de los ochenta, en la que la afamada autora canadiense anticipó con llamativa premonición una amenaza latente en el mundo de hoy.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK Căsniciile nefericite se datorează adesea unui motiv simplu: vorbim limbaje diferite de iubire. În experienţa sa de peste 30 de ani în calitate de consilier matrimonial, dr. Gary Chapman a identificat cinci limbaje de iubire: cuvintele de încurajare, timpul petrecut alături de cel drag, cadourile, serviciile şi contactul fizic. Cartea le abordează pe fiecare în parte, într-un stil accesibil și plin de umor. Cum puteţi descoperi limbajul de iubire al partenerului dumneavoastră? Cartea include chestionare scurte, pe care le puteţi completa, precum şi întrebări aplicate, la care puteţi medita şi răspunde pe larg.

A brand's meaning—how it resonates in the public heart and mind—is a company's most valuable competitive advantage. Yet, few companies really know how brand meaning works, how to manage it, and how to use brand meaning strategically. This groundbreaking book provides the illusive and compelling answer. Using studies drawn from the experiences of Nike, Marlboro, Ivory, and other powerhouse brands, the authors show that the most successful brands are those that most effectively correspond to fundamental patterns in the unconscious mind known as archetypes. 

With a new introduction written and read by Margaret Atwood BY THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HANDMAID'S TALE AND THE TESTAMENTS WINNER OF THE 2000 MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge' Decades after Laura's mysterious demise, her sister Iris...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Margaret Mitchell's great novel of the South is one of the most popular books ever written. Within six months of its publication in 1936, Gone With the Wind had sold a million copies. To date, it has been translated into 25 languages, and more than 28...