Die Straße ist Lava - so lautet die einzige Regel seines Spiels. Also balanciert Oberschüler Yuki jeden Tag auf der schmalen, weißen Straßenmarkierung. Als ihm eines Tages Akira, auf derselben...
On the occasion of what would have been his 80th birthday, the Modern Library presents the first collection that includes all of Truman Capote's short fiction--a volume that confirms his status...
'She's no good, that girl. Much too individualistic'This is the story of Fenfang who, determined to carve out a life more independent than her provincial roots, gets a job as a film...
Charlotte Bront famously lived her entire life in an isolated parsonage on a remote English moor with a demanding father and with siblings whose astonishing creativity was a closely held secret....
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson's Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and...
Abschlußband"Pff, na klar hab ich einen Freund". Diese kleine Lüge bringt Erika ganz schön ins Schwitzen. Damit ihre Angeberei bei ihren Freundinnen nicht auffliegt, zeigt sie zum Beweis...
From one of the world's leading child psychologists comes a new collection of wide-ranging essays in which he reflects on the people, events, and cultural influences that have shaped him and...
Sweeping from the gentler confines of late 1940s small town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the '70s, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! mines golden seams of goodness...
Peter Carey, Booker Prize-winning author of "Oscar and Lucinda, " powerfully evokes the legend of 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly in this novel narrated in defiantly descriptive...
Petroski tells fascinating stories about the arduous processes that resulted in paper clips, Post-its, Phillips-head screwdrivers, Scotch tape, and fast-food "clamshell" containers....
Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never end. This is a book about post-conflict irresolution, about the lives...
Back in a new edition is Martin Amis's closet passion project: a compulsive gamer's guide to 1980s arcades and beating your younger self's high scoreIn this offbeat book, introduced by...
Aims To Tackle The Most Obvious Question That Anyone Has To Face, 'what Should I Do With My Life?' This Book Presents An Account Of Finding And Following People Who Have Uprooted Their...
The final book from one of Europe's cultural giants: an entertaining collection of essays about the modern world - from unbridled individualism to mobile phones
For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental Europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and...
The electrifying follow-up to the phenomenal bestseller "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" features Lisbeth Salander, the troubled, wise-beyond-her-years genius hacker, as the focus and...
Seit jeher wachen die Hexen über die Menschen und haben bereits unzählige Generationen mit ihren magischen Kräften geleitet und beschützt. Doch diese Zeiten sind vorbei: Technischer Fortschritt...
Die Geschichte wiederholt sich und abermals muss Adonis mitansehen, wie eine unschuldige Hexe vor seinen Augen brutal zerfetzt wird. Gerade noch war der Hexenlehrling bereit, seine magischen Waffen...
Die blutige Schlacht tobt und Adonis kämpft wie besessen, um am Imperium Rache zu nehmen. Doch auch für seine Flucht hat er bereits einen heimtückischen Plan geschmiedet, mit dem er den Mond, die...
Auf der wüsten Oberfläche des Mondes haben die letzten Hexen ein Refugium erschaffen, in dem sie sicher sind vor dem Hass der Menschen. Doch inmitten dieser scheinbaren Idylle erkennt Adonis, dass...
Multimillionaire at 32 Youngest Premier League football club owner at 36 His club and a fortune lost at 42 Owning your childhood club - that's the dream, isn't it? Simon Jordan made his...
Written in alternating chapters, "W or the Memory of Childhood" tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other story is about two...
The Year of Terror, 1937. Zybin, an exiled intellectual and archaeologist in the far province of Alma-Ata, finds himself wrongly accused of a crime during the darkest days of Stalin's reign....
The author of "French Women Don't Get Fat" offers the essential guide to the art of joyful living--in moderation, in season, and, above all, with pleasure.