This is the inspiring story of JFK, the Cold War, and the power of oratory to change the course of history. John F. Kennedy's last great campaign was not the battle for re-election that he did...
The outrageous and immortal, gender-bending and polymorphously perverse, over-the-top, and utterly on-target comic masterpiece from the bestselling author of Burr, Lincoln, and the National Book...
Set in Italy in the Middle Ages, this is not only a narrative of a murder investigation in a monastery in 1327, but also a chronicle of the 14th century religious wars, a history of monastic...
'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"' They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her...
"L'ampoule du projecteur a explosé en plein Fellini. Minne et moi regardions Amarcord du fond de notre lit. - Ah! Non! Merde! J'ai flanqué une chaise sur une table et je suis monté à...
Ragna und seine Partnerin Leo sind Drachenjäger. Leo ist ein echtes Wunderkind, von Ragna kann man das allerdings nicht behaupten.Doch als sie eines Tages auf einen ganz besonderen Drachen stoßen,...
How do we find calm in our frantic modern world? The author - lifelong cynic and spirituality-sceptic - finds himself on a Buddhist meditation retreat trying to answer this very question. With...
Privée d'affection, Mary Lennox n'a jamais appris, dans son extrême solitude, à sourire ni à aimer. À la mort de ses parents, emportés par une épidémie de choléra, Mary quitte son Inde...
In these fifteen superb stories, written in a style at once ineffable and immediately recognizable, Toni Cade Bambara gives us compelling portraits of a wide range of unforgettable characters, from...
"Qu'avaient vu, jusqu'en 1900, ceux dont les réflexions sur l'art demeurent pour nous révélatrices ou significatives, et dont nous supposons qu'ils parlent des mêmes oeuvres que...
James Van Praagh teaches that death is not the end, nor is it something to be feared, and that there is indeed life after death. He believes that everyone has psychic awareness but only a few have...
When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their summer away from home they don't imagine they will have a particularly interesting time. But that's before they chance upon the...
In the middle of the sixth century, the world's smallest organism collided with the world's mightiest empire. With the death of twenty-five million people, the Roman Empire, under her last...
From the bestselling author of "Of Paradise and Power" comes a major reevaluation of Americas foreign policy from the colonial era to the turn of the 20th century.
An unprecedented and masterfully told biography of Jacques Cousteau that reveals for the first time the fascinating and compelling individual behind this famous television personality. Inventor of...
Even Barney Panofsky's friends tend to agree that he is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a penchant for violence and probably a murderer'. But when...
A Book of Memories is made up of three first-person narratives: The first, that of a young Hungarian writer and his fated love for a German poet; we also learn of the narrator's adolescence in...
When ten-year-old Max is sent to boarding school, his idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end. Away from the freedom of his grandfather's farm, a world of rules and punishment awaits. But so...
The Complete Stories gathers together Anita Desai's short story collections Diamond Dust and Games at Twilight and the novellas of The Artist of Disappearance, with a new preface from the author.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION aby LIONEL SHRIVER Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success...
Ragna und seine Partnerin Leo sind Drachenjäger. Leo ist ein echtes Wunderkind, von Ragna kann man das allerdings nicht behaupten.Doch als sie eines Tages auf einen ganz besonderen Drachen stoßen,...
Elf Jahre nach Albert Camus Tod erscheint 1971 postum sein erster Romanversuch La mort heureuse. Camus schrieb das Manuskript zwischen Sommer 1937 und Sommer 1938 in seinem Geburtsland Algerien,...