Penguin The Katharina Code Horst Jorn Lier

Five years ago, serial killer Tom Kerr was imprisoned. Today, he's out to reveal the resting place of his final victim • However, Detective Wisting is taking no chances. Kerr is chained and handcuffed. The police have dogs and guns • But minutes after entering the forest, Wisting's officers lie broken and bleeding. And Kerr has vanished into the woods • Too late, Wisting realises their error. What's worse, Kerr had an accomplice who was never caught • Now two murderers are on the loose - and Wisting has just hours to find them

The Gypsy Code is a true story of secret identity, revenge and forbidden love that's perfect for fans of Running with the Firm, Undercover and Soldier Spy • Mike Woodhouse had everything: an engineering business, a wine bar, a home, a Range Rover and a boat. Then he caught a group of travellers stealing from his warehouse. A car chase, petrol bombing and court case later, and everything had changed • A marked man, Mike was forced to leave everything behind and move to the Peak District for a fresh start. But his old life was never far behind and when he fell for Rhoda, a Romany Gypsy, kin to the very people he was hiding from, he knew he wouldn't be safe for much longer

Katharina went missing twenty-four years ago. Each year on the anniversary of her disappearance Chief Inspector William Wisting visits her husband, the man he could never help. He re-reads her files, searching for the answer he could never find. The code he could never solve. Until now.This year is going to be different. Another woman is missing. And so is Katharina's husband. Wisting has to find him, but is he rescuing a dear friend, or playing a deadly game?

In 1999, seventeen-year-old Tone Vaterland was killed on her way home from work • Desperate for a conviction the police deemed the investigation an open-and-shut case and sent her spurned boyfriend, Danny Momrak, down for murder • But twenty years later William Wisting receives a puzzling letter. It suggests the wrong man was convicted for Tone's death • And the real murderer is still out there • Wisting is quickly thrown into a terrifying race against time where he must find the sender, decipher this mysterious letter and catch the real killer - before they strike again

15 лет назад Саймон Мейер вышел из своего дома, и больше его никто не видел • Не имея никаких зацепок, дело быстро закрылось. До сих пор • Потому что день назад умер политик Бернард Клаузен. И в его каюте на норвежском побережье полиция делает шокирующее открытие • Коробки с банкнотами стоимостью в миллионы долларов. Собирающий пыль • Старший инспектор Уильям Вистинг считает, что это может быть связано с исчезновением Мейера • Но раскрытие обоих дел будет означать сотрудничество со старым противником и погружение в темный преступный мир, который ведет ближе к дому, чем он мог себе представить • "Хижина" - очаровательный, захватывающий и атмосферный роман Йорна Хорста • Книга на английском языке • If you loved Wallander, meet Wisting - your next Scandi crime obsession

В книге "Код таланта" отмеченный наградами журналист Дэниел Койл опирается на передовые исследования, чтобы показать, что способности - это далеко не какая-то абстрактная мистическая сила, закрепленная при рождении, их действительно можно создать и развивать • В процессе он рассматривает таланты, работающие в таких разных местах, как музыкальная школа в Далласе и теннисная академия под Москвой, чтобы продемонстрировать, как может изменяться работа нашего мозга в зависимости от того, как мы подходим к конкретным задачам. Он объясняет, что на самом деле происходит, когда внешне ничем не примечательные люди внезапно совершают большой скачок вперед. Он объясняет, почему некоторые методы обучения намного эффективнее других. Прежде всего, он показывает, как все мы можем полностью раскрыть свой потенциал, если приступим к правильной тренировке своего мозга

When a police investigator is killed execution-style and Blix’s own daughter is targeted by the killer, he makes a dangerous decision, which could cost him everything. Blix & Ramm are back in a breathless, emotive thriller by two of Norway’s finest crime writers… • When police investigator Sofia Kovic uncovers a startling connection between several Oslo murder cases, she attempts to contact her closest superior, Alexander Blix before involving anyone else in the department. But before Blix has time to return her call, Kovic is shot and killed in her own home – execution style. And in the apartment below, Blix’s daughter Iselin narrowly escapes becoming the killer’s next victim • Four days later, Blix and online crime journalist Emma Ramm are locked inside an interrogation room, facing the National Criminal Investigation Service

Charting the rise and fall of an ambitious young social climber in a cruel, monarchical society, Stendhal's The Red and the Black is translated with an introduction and notes by Roger Gard in Penguin Classics • Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career takes him into the heart of glamorous Parisian society, along the way conquering the gentle, married Madame de Renal, and the haughty Mathilde. But then Julien commits an unexpected, devastating crime - and brings about his own downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical portrayal of French society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed and ennui, and Julien - the cold exploiter whose Machiavellian campaign is undercut by his own emotions - is one of the most intriguing characters in European literature

Our lives are pretty stressful, from the mountains of work emails to the never-ending life admin, finding time to see friends and family whilst still getting in those gym workouts, and why does everyone on Instagram have all this figured out. Working with crystals is a way to slow that frenetic world down, realign your intentions and find the inner calm we all seek. Some say that crystals are magic, but they're more than just magic. They have the power to reveal your truest self, the version of you that's been waiting to be seen and acknowledged • The Crystal Code explains how to the harness the power of these awesome rocks, introducing us to seventy stones and their unique personalities. It will show you how to find the perfect crystals to empower and energize you and will teach you some easy rituals, meditations and crystallized self-care routines

'The Master said, "If a man sets his heart on benevolence, he will be free from evil"' • The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self-knowledge, courage and love of one's fellow man, he argued that the pursuit of virtue should be every individual's supreme goal. And, while following the Way, or the truth, might not result in immediate or material gain, Confucius showed that it could nevertheless bring its own powerful and lasting spiritual rewards

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language • In Yukon, Canada during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, strong sled dogs are in high demand. Buck is stolen from his comfortable home in California and sold into service as a sled dog in Alaska. Will he survive life in the wild? • Penguin Readers is a series of the best new fiction, essential non-fiction and popular classics written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad • 'Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world' • In the only novel Conrad set in London, The Secret Agent communicates a profoundly ironic view of human affairs. The story is woven around an attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verlac must deal with the repercussions of his actions • The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction written in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels, to the beginning of the First World War