Tsutsui, a lifelong Godzilla fan and historian, takes a lighthearted look at the big, green radioactive lizard, revealing how he was born and how he became a megastar.
Zsuzsa Bánk, Lars Brandt, Wilhelm Genazino, Olga Grjasnowa, Angelika Klüssendorf, Martin Mosebach, Teresa Präauer, Thomas Pletzinger und Antje Rávik Strubel haben Menschen aus Frankfurt getroffen...
Der gefährlichste Mann der Republik heißt Dr. Bernhard Sommerfeldt. Er ist aus Ostfriesland geflohen.Aber Ostfriesland hat auch sie: Ann Kathrin Klaasen, die beste Zielfahnderin in ganz...
The author of Abraham Lincoln and the Road to Emancipation traces a year of dramatic global change in the aftermath of a massive early 19th-century Indonesian volcanic eruption that disrupted...
Mit der australischen Romanautorin Elizabeth Costello hat J. M. Coetzee eine irritierend-humane, moralische und kompromißlose Figur geschaffen. Acht essayistische Erzählungen zeigen die alte Dame...
Der Zeithistoriker Götz Aly weist in diesem Buch die Kontinuität deutscher Denkmuster im 20. Jahrhundert nach. Er deckt am Beispiel ausgewählter Lebensläufe einen bestimmten Typus des deutschen...
A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to the grand tale of African adventure by Peter Capstick, the foremost hunting author of our time. Wally Johnson...
A collection of astonishing bite-sized explainers from the Economist. Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they...
In a time of endless chaos and bloodshed, when the only law was the law of the sword, a peasant boy named Hideyoshi dreamed of becoming a samurai. Despite his lack of strength and size, he learned...
A distinguished compilation of two classic fantasy novels, "Soldier of the Mist "and "Soldier of Arete," in one volume This omnibus of two acclaimed novels is the story of Latro, a...
Roberto Bolaño hat die Literatur verändert - und erzählt uns von einer aus den Fugen geratenen Welt. Melancholische Pornostars, durchgedrehte Dichter, mystische Zahnärzte und Fußballer mit einem...
"Gold in the Water" is the highly acclaimed and mesmerizing tale about the remarkable two-year journey an elite team of swimmers takes to the Olympic Games. Mullen creates a fascinating...
In the first of three volumes that comprise The Book of the Short Sun, Horn tells his story of life on the newly settled planet Blue. Horn is the only one who can locate the great leader Silk, and...
Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels and his swashbuckling tales of Khaavren have earned him an enthusiastic audience world-wide. "To Reign in Hell" does for the epic of Satan's...
Latro finds himself in Egypt, a land of singing girls, of spiteful and conniving deities. Without his memory, he is unsure of everything, except for his desire to be free of the curse that causes...
The planet HELLHOLE, devastated aby an ancient asteroid impact, is inhabited aby only the hardiest and most desperate colonists. It is one of 54 remote frontier worlds forced to pay tribute to the...
Nach dem Mega- Bestseller 'Das Rosie-Projekt': endlich geht es weiter! In Graeme Simsions romantischer Komödie 'Der Rosie-Effekt' entdeckt Don Tillman, unser Traummann der Herzen,...
40 or 50 families control the economies of Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Their interests range from banking to property, from shipping to sugar, from vice to...
»Ein fantastisches Buch.« Julia Roberts. Der internationale und preisgekrönte Bestseller von Elizabeth Gilbert.New York: um drei Uhr nachts erwacht Elizabeth Gilbert weinend im Badezimmer. Sie ist...
Diese einzigartige Familiensaga der schwarzen Amerikaner - die Geschichte von Kunta Kinte, der als Sklave aus Afrika verschleppt wurde, und den sechs nachfolgenden afro-amerikanischen Generationen...