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  • THE SUPER HOOPERS 2 - THE MYSTERY OF THE GOLDEN KIDS
    CASAMAYOR, ALBERTO
    ¡Nunca el baloncesto había sido tan divertido! Conoce a los Super Hoopers, el equipo de básquet más insólito que puedas imaginar: aunque los Super Hoopers están muy lejos de ser el mejor equipo, su amistad y humor inunda sus novelas. The Super Hoopers es una colección en inglés sobre baloncesto con mucho humor, protagonizada por un grupo de chicos y chicas de nueve años que v...
  • EL DIAMANT DEL RAJÀ / THE RAJAH'S DIAMOND
    STEVENSON, R. L.
    Harry Hartley és el secretari i confident d'una dama rica i massa malversadora; el reverend Simon Rolles abandona la paraula de Déu i acaba en mans d'un aventurer sense escrúpols; el jove banquer Francis Scrymgeour trenca amb la seva vida pròspera, i d'un dia per l'altre s’instal·la a Paris. El vincle que uneix a tota aquesta sèrie de personatges amb un destí inesperat és el di...
  • HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
    ROWLING, J K
    Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Ha...
  • CORALINE
    GAIMAN NEIL
    There is something strange about Coraline's new home. It's not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It's the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black-button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Co...
  • LA TREVA I ALTRES CONTES BESTIALS
    SAKI
    En aquest recull format per una desena d?alguns dels millors contes de Saki, les criatures del regne animal tenen una presència més que destacada. Un gat descobreix el do de la parla i es dedica a xerrar i a posar en solfa la hipocresia de l'època; un polític en plena febre electoral ha de compartir dormitori amb un porquet negre i un gall de baralla; els idíl·lics ànecs d?un e...
  • SOMNIS D'HIVERN
    FITZGERALD, F. S.
    "Winter Dreams" descriu l'ascens social d'un jove i, sobretot, les desafeccions de l'amor, tema recurrent en l'obra de Fitzgerald. A Bernice Bobs her Hair, una jove ingènua intenta fer tot el possible per sentir-se socialment acceptada. "Bob haircut" o "a la garçonne", era el tall de cabell propi de les escandaloses vampiresses del cinema. El bo i millor del narrador nord-amer...
  • CANIBALISME ALS VAGONS I ALTRES RELATS BREUS
    TWAIN, MARK
    Amb una ironia mordaç i unes bones dosis de fantasia i humor negre, l?autor de l?immortal Tom Sawyer, es manifesta en aquest recull de contes com un gran humorista que es fot magistralment de l?art, de la fama, dels venedors, de l?amor, de la mort. Una mostra: un tren aïllat enmig d?un temporal de neu ocupat per gentlemen amb una voracitat ferotge; un artista famós, naturalment...
  • DAISY MILLER
    JAMES, HENRY
    En una ciutat balneària suïssa, la bella americana Daisy Miller apareix a la vida del discret, obscur i enamoradís Frederick Winterbourne com un esclat de vitalitat i frescor. Més endavant a Roma, la seva rebel·lia contra els convencionalismes provocarà l'escàndol i l'enfrontarà amb la rigidesa moral dels seus compatriotes. ...
  • THE SENSE OF AN ENDING
    BARNES, JULIAN
    Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. ...
  • THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
    SALINGER, J. D.
    The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen- year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his r...
  • THE VERY HUNGRY CATERPILLAR
    CARLE, ERIC
    Eric Carle's classic and much loved picture book, The Very Hungry Caterpillar.The classic edition of the bestselling story written for the very young. A newly hatched caterpillar eats his way through all kinds of food, getting bigger and bigger, until eventually he turns into a beautiful caterpillar. One of the most popular picture books of all time, no nursery bookshelf is com...
  • A TASTE OF THE MOON
    GREJNIEC, MICHAEL
    The animals that live in the jungle show us how the things we share always taste much better. ...
  • NOCTURNES
    ISHIGURO, KAZUO
    In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the ?hush-hush floor? of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this qu...
  • WILT
    SHARPE, TOM
    Henry Wilt, tied to a daft job and a domineering wife, has just been passed over for promotion yet again. Ahead of him at the Polytechnic stretch years of trying to thump literature into the heads of plasterers, joiners, butchers and the like. And things are no better at home where his massive wife, Eva, is given to boundless and unpredictable fits of enthusiasm - for transcend...
  • ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND AND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
    LEWIS CARROLL
    Collecting Alice's complete adventures, a source of delight to children and adults alike for generations, the Penguin Classics edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass is edited with an introduction and notes by Hugh Haughton.Conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain Alice Liddell, the daughter of the dean of Carrol...
  • LORD OF THE FLIES
    GOLDING, WILLIAM
    First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern novels. This edition, which includes an introduction and notes by Ian Gregor and Mark Kinkead-Weekes, meets the demand for its use in schools and its prescription by numerous examining boards. In compiling the notes they have borne in mind the needs of...
  • ON THE ROAD
    KEROUAC, JACK
    On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and it goes racing towards the sunset with unforgettable exuberan...
  • DUBLINERS
    JOYCE, JAMES
    In ´Dubliners´, completed when Joyce was only 25, the author produced a definitive group portrait. The book is rooted in an accurate apprehension of the detail of Dublin life. The author also wrote ´Ulysses´ and ´Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man´. ...
  • FAHRENHEIT 451
    BRADBURY, RAY
    The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen.Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being the source of all discord and unhappiness. Even so, Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Depa...
  • INTERMEZZO
    ROONEY, SALLY
  • THE POSTCARD
    BEREST ANNE
  • 48 CLUES INTO THE DISAPPEARANCE OF MY SISTER
    OATES, JOYCE CAROL
  • CULT
    LÄCKBERG CAMILL
  • HOLLY
    KING, STEPHEN D.
  • THE ENIGMA OF ROOM 622
    DICKER, JÖEL
  • DEATH COMES TO PEMBERLEY
    JAMES P D
  • THE TWO TOWERS
    TOLKIEN, J. R. R.
  • TO PARADISE
    YANAGIHARA, HANYA
  • DUNE FILM TIE-IN
    HERBERT FRANK
  • THE SICILIAN METHOD
    CAMILLERI, ANDREA

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