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A major literary event over two decades in the making, Your Name Here marks the seismic return of Helen DeWitt (The Last Samurai), and will introduce readers to the riveting voice of Ilya Gridneff. A book of unparalleled scope and vision, Your Name Here is a spectacular honeycomb of...

10 Jahre ist es her, seit die Tür des Buchparadies Rahel-Medea Ruoss in Winterthur das erste Mal aufgegangen ist. Was in diesen zehn Jahren alles geschah, was nötig ist, um ein Buchgeschäft zu führen, ja wie es überhaupt so weit kam, dass Rahel-Medea Lang sich mit 27 Jahren in die Selbstständigkeit wagte, dieses und Vieles mehr, erfahren Sie in diesem Buch. Ob Amüsantes, Trauriges oder Ergreifendes, das Leben in einem Buchgeschäft hat es in sich.

En 1893, à Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Émiliana Cyr, la fille unique de Louis Cyr, l’homme le plus fort de tous les temps, a six ans. Grâce à la force héritée de son père, que l’on prétend être un don de Dieu, elle marque son époque, présentée sur toutes les scènes comme l’enfant prodige du xixe siècle.

John Petersen had enough. He lost both his parents, his ex kept his daughter from him, and selling cars had no future. “I gotta get out of here.” He rented a condo in Acapulco, Mexico and left for the sun and relaxation. No worries for 18 days.He meets Elvira the second day of his vacation...

"Güçlü, hırslı bir at kişnemesi ovanın dört bir yönüne dağıldı. Dağınık düzen otlayan sekiz on at başlarını kaldırdılar ve kulaklarını diktiler. (...) İçlerinde güçlü kuvvetlileri vardı. Kimi kahra uğramış zavallı, kimi yılkının alışığı..." Hesaptan düşülmüş, defterden silinmiş Doru Kısrak'ın yılkıya bırakılma öyküsüdür. Kışın dağda, belde başının çaresine bakacak, çıplak tabiatla savaşacak, ömrü olur da bahara yılkıdan sağ dönerse, o zaman ona bir iş düşünülecektir.

It is said that of all things, hope is the last to die. After thousands of years and numerous attempts by humanity to alter its unwavering tendency towards civilizational suicide, even the hope that springs eternal was beginning to fade.Following seventy thousand years of undisturbed slumber...

Brought to you by Penguin. Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of...

The first in what will become the quintessential list of the best of live British comedy, AN AUDIENCE WITH BARRY CRYER brings you up close and personal with one of bastions of British comedy in this live recording of his sellout comedy tour. Available for the first time as a downloadable audio...

Thomas Wolfe’s first novel, Look Homeward, Angel, is at once a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story and a dark novel depicting a cynical post-war world view. The book follows the life of Eugene Gant, a young man driven by passion, intellect, and a search for something greater than himself. His earliest years in rural North Carolina include a wonderful education in poetry and literature against the backdrop of a loving, but tumultuous family life.

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover Michael Ondaatje's debut novel, 'a beautifully detailed story, perhaps the finest jazz novel ever written' Sunday Times Based on the life of cornet player Buddy Bolden, one of the legendary jazz pioneers of turn-of-the-twentieth-century New Orleans, Coming...

Matemáticos, físicos e químicos protagonizam as narrativas deste livro, no qual o chileno Benjamín Labatut reconta a história de quatro descobertas científicas que abalaram profundamente a humanidade e o mundo à sua volta. Valendo-se de recursos da ficção, o autor lança os leitores em meio às biografias conturbadas de cientistas como Schrödinger, Einstein, Heisenberg e outros, e assim revela as inquietudes existenciais, os dilemas éticos, as tragédias históricas e os meandros impressionantes pelos quais essas figuras – e a própria ciência – passaram.

Hur kunde Pedro Alonso López nästan obemärkt våldta och mörda uppemot 300 unga flickor i Ecuador, Colombia och Peru på 1970-talet? Kan hans dåd förklaras av hans uppväxtmiljö, eller är han bara helt enkelt en produkt av ren och skär ondska? I ”Monstret från Anderna” målar...

Blending family drama with page-turning suspense, My Lethal Obsession confronts the eternal hatred one group has faced throughout history in very human, very personal terms, and honors the unbreakable will to survive and begin anew. Gideon Wistreich is haunted by visions of his family’s...

The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legend Australia, 1901. Miles Franklin, the young daughter of poor bush farmers, manages to publish her first novel against all odds. A work of remarkable boldness and passion, it becomes an immense success in the English-speaking world. While...

La vida de una figura legendaria, y la historia de una democracia confiscada: la de Estados Unidos. «Sin duda, lo mejor que he leído sobre este legendario joven forajido.» Yannick Haenel, Charlie Hebdo «Un anti-western que ilumina admirablemente los excesos y la violencia de Estados Unidos...

Nach einer schmerzhaften Trennung kehrt Sue in die Villa ihrer Familie am Gardasee zurück. Sie sucht Abstand, Klarheit und den Mut, endlich herauszufinden, wer sie wirklich ist. Da ist Michele, der im Hotel ihrer Schwester Jule wohnt und sie gleichermaßen anzieht, wie ihr Kopfschmerzen bereitet. Und Luca, der Pizzabäcker mit süditalienischen Wurzeln, der mit seiner Leidenschaft für Kulinarik etwas in ihr berührt, das sie nicht erwartet hätte. Als ihr Vater Christoph sie schließlich mit einer schockierenden Wahrheit konfrontiert, beginnt Sue ihre Pläne neu zu überdenken.

En La última hermana María, una mujer de origen chileno sofisticada, alegre y superficial, asiste atónita a la ocupación alemana de París, que trunca para siempre su vida hasta entonces despreocupada e intranscendente. El azar la lleva a conocer la persecución a la que someten los nazis al...

"Desert solitaire" è diventato un libro di culto sin dalla sua pubblicazione, nel 1968. Un racconto provocatorio e mistico, arrabbiato e appassionato, in cui Edward Abbey ci restituisce la sua esperienza di ranger nell'Arches National Monument, nel Sudest dello Utah, catturandone l'essenza e trasmettendoci il desiderio di vivere nella natura e conoscerla nella sua forma più pura: silenzio, lotta, bellezza abbagliante.

Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot's first full-length novel, marked the emergence of an artist to rank with Scott and Dickens. Set in the English Midlands of farmers and village craftsmen at the turn of the 18th century, the book relates a story of seduction issuing in 'the inward suffering which is the worst form of Nemesis'. But it is also a rich and pioneering record - drawing on intimate knowledge and affectionate memory - of a rural world that we have lost.

The USA Today bestselling author of In Another Time reimagines the pioneering, passionate life of Marie Curie using a parallel structure to create two alternative timelines, one that mirrors her real life, one that explores the consequences for Marie and for science if she’d made a different...