A darkly humorous Czech satire: a new super-breed tries to conquer the world. War with the Newts (1936) is Karel Capek\''s darkly humorous allegory of early 20th-century Czech politics. Captain van Toch discovers a colony of newts in Sumatra which can not only be taught to trade and use tools, but also ...
Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera. ''It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.'' Fifty-one ...
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Monster Calls comes a richly illustrated and lyrical tale, one that asks harrowing questions about power, loyalty, obsession, and the monsters we make of others. With harpoons strapped to their backs, the proud whales of Bathsheba''s pod live for the ...
From Collins Classics and the author of ''The Great Gatsby'' comes this razor-sharp satire on the excesses of the Jazz Age. From the author of The Great Gatsby, a tale of marriage and disappointment in the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald''s rich and detailed novel of the decadent Jazz Era follows the beautiful ...
100 carefully curated, useful things that will stimulate your baby or toddler''s natural curiosity about the world around them. Help your little one learn important vocabulary and build knowledge with this first word and picture book. Cleverly designed to inform and entertain, 100 First Things to Know ...
A body has been found on the overlook near Mulholland Drive. The victim, identified as Dr. Stanley Kent, has two bullet holes in the back of his head from what looks like an execution-style shooting. LAPD detective Harry Bosch is called out to invest igate. It is the case he has been waiting for, his ...
