Erlendur has recently joined the police force as a young officer. A homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes....
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...
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...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR by NPR, BOOKPAGE, AND SHELF AWARENESS Paula McLain is considered the new star of historical fiction, and for good reason. Fans of...
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.
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...
Von Pearl Harbour bis 9/11, von der Ermordung Kennedys bis zu dem tragischen Unfalltod von Lady Di- fast um jedes bedeutende Ereignis unserer Tage windet sich ein Gespinst aus Mythen und...
A revelatory work of investigative journalism, this comprehensive and unfiltered account of the war in Iraq is written by the only reporter who was embedded with the Allied land command.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jack Reacher is back in a brand-new page-turning thriller from acclaimed #1 bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.Digging graves had not been part of my plans...
The third in the series, following on from }Flora{ and }Bugs{. Not a biological guide, this instead looks at the natural world through the eyes of writers, musicians, artists and naturalists, as...
The thrilling conclusion to Hawks's Fourth Realm trilogy, "The Golden City" is packed with knife-edge tension, intriguing characters, and startling plot twists. Struggling to protect...
From the author of To Die For comes this poignant, stirring, and occasionally hilarious story of a woman's attempt to remake her life after a searing divorce. Maynard's novel captures love...
This is the story of Precious Jones, a sixteen year old illiterate black girl who has never been out of Harlem. She is pregnant żeby her own father for the second time, and kicked out of school....
From the celebrated British author and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling lan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of...
During the 1970s and 1980s, Peter Matthiessen took part in a number of expeditions to Africa, witnessing first-hand the continent's many and diverse peoples and wildlife. The fruits of these...
Ein kleines, verschwiegenes Tal in Kalifornien. Hier lebt seit den sechziger Jahren eine friedliche Hippie-Gemeinde. Nun soll ihr Dorf einem Stausee weichen. Man gibt ihnen genau fünf Wochen Zeit,...
Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything else she needs to make an excellent marriage: beauty, intelligence, a love of luxury and an elegant skill in negotiating the hidden traps and...
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured and transformed the world s imagination. A masterful book driven aby deep research, new...
Dexter Morgan--blood-spatter analyst... Husband... Father... Serial killer--knew that he couldn't burn the candle at both ends forever, and now, his dark deeds have finally ensnared him. He is...
A collection of more than 60 illustrated recipes for simple-to-prepare salads, dressings, breakfasts, and snacks to take on the go.The solution to the lunchtime salad rut, Salad in a Jar provides...
'A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lies, illusion and time' - NEW YORK TIMES'Herzog's writing bristles with the same eerie and uncompromising energy as his...