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Hornclaw is a 65-year-old female contract killer who is considering retirement. A fighter who has experienced loss and grief early on in life, she lives in a state of self-imposed isolation, with just her dog, Deadweight, for company. While on an assassination job for the 'disease control' company she works for, Hornclaw makes an uncharacteristic error, causing a sequence of events that brings her past well and truly into the present.

Profilo basso e sangue freddo. Artiglio - nome guadagnato sul campo - conosce alla perfezione le regole del mestiere: prima di tutto non dare mai nell'occhio. Capelli grigi, pantaloni neri, e un viso che è una ragnatela di rughe, sembra proprio una signora in età come tante, una vecchina che si confonde nel vagone della metropolitana di Seul il venerdì sera. Se non fosse per il pugnale che nasconde in borsetta ricoperto da un sottile strato di cianuro di potassio.

China ist wirtschaftlich und kulturell immer mehr in den Blickpunkt gerückt. Auch über die Olympischen Spiele in Peking im August 2008 hinaus wird das Land für Geschäftsreisende und Touristen ein attraktives Ziel bleiben. Englisch allein reicht nicht aus, um sich vor Ort verständigen zu können. Daher bieten wir einen kompletten Kurs zum Selbstlernen in 70 Lektionen mit einem ebenfalls 70teiligen Vokabelsupplement.

四十八层的大厦上方，刹那间满眼烟火。有这么一个人花巨资买下一整层楼，只为了告诉我他喜欢我……四十八層的大廈上方，剎那間滿眼煙火。有這麼一個人花鉅資買下一整層樓，只為了告訴我他喜歡我……

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Penelope had never imagined that a careless remark would lead to her being swept into a wealthy family as a substitute bride. Faced with a tyrannical devil who preyed on the weak, Penelope found herself trapped in countless situations—pressed against walls, pinned to the bed, her petite waist aching each night.

Krautrock is not a music genre. Krautrock is a way of life. Its sonic diversity and global reach belie the common culture from where it emerged. This is a band-by-band history. Krautrock explores the history and methodology of the genre, charting its influences and innovations, its more mainstream acts (like Faust, Kraftwerk, and Can) as well as the less universally known (including Harmonia, Popol Vuh, Embryo, and Ash Ra Tempel), and how the genre developed in post-war Germany and what it means to today's listeners.

In The M&A Failure Trap: Why Most Mergers and Acquisitions Fail and How the Few Succeed, a distinguished team of finance and accounting researchers and practitioners delivers a practical and up-to-date exploration of the shortcomings of managerial mergers and acquisitions decisions.

When Yojin moves with her husband and daughter into the Dream Future Pilot Communal Apartments, she's ready for a fresh start. Located on the outskirts of Seoul, the experimental community is a government initiative designed to boost the national birth rate. Like her neighbours, Yojin has agreed to have at least two more children over the next ten years.

*INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* From the New York Times Notable author of The Old Woman with the Knife comes a bracingly original story of family, marriage and the cultural expectations of motherhood, about four women whose lives intersect in dramatic and unexpected ways at a government-run apartment...

It was supposed to be a carefree life. But because of the infamous scorpion, everything was broken. Lin Xiu is a transmigrator who found himself in a 12-year-old child's body. Before he transmigrated, he was at home re-watching the Special Forces series, until a red light shot from the television and shone on his body. He transmigrated into the world of I am a Special Forces 2, and was a child of solder parents.

*A New York Times Editors' Choice* Pick *A Most Anticipated Read in LitHub, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and Popsugar* The kinetic story of a sixty-five-year-old female assassin who faces an unexpected threat in the twilight of her career—this is an international bestseller and the English language...

Lemon-Aid is the self-help book for people who are curious about and courageous enough for a real life change when it comes to drinking sugar-loaded beverages and discovering solutions that are within reach. This refreshingly odd (mostly) and tell-all true story is an account of how a frantically busy and (admittedly) overwhelmed couple learned to become better versions of themselves by changing their family’s relationship with recreational sugar.

Le storie che compongono ArtifiCina – terza raccolta di racconti di fantascienza cinese in doppia lingua - esplorano il rapporto tra la natura “naturale” e quella “artificiale”, che rappresenta ormai uno dei tratti salienti della cultura cinese contemporanea.

Esistono luoghi capaci di farti sentire accolto anche solo per l'atmosfera e il profumo che si respirano al loro interno, e la pasticceria di questo romanzo è esattamente così: aperta ventiquattr'ore su ventiquattro, a prima vista sembra un normale forno dove comprare pane, torte e biscotti con un signore un po' burbero dietro il banco. All'apparenza, però. Perché, quando il ragazzino protagonista di questa storia lo sceglie come rifugio per scappare da una situazione familiare difficile, la realtà che trova è ben diversa.

Legend has it that more than a thousand years ago an Indian Buddhist monk named Bodhidharma arrived in China. His approach to teaching was unlike that of any of the Buddhist missionaries who had come to China before him. He confounded the emperor with cryptic dialogues, traveled the country, lived in a cave in the mountains, and eventually paved the way for a unique and illuminating approach to Buddhist teachings that would later spread across the whole of East Asia in the form of Chan—later to be known as Seon in Korean, Thien in Vietnamese, and Zen in Japanese.