Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway''''s most beloved works. Since Hemingway''''s personal papers were released in 1979, scholars have examined and debated the changes made to the text before publication. Now this new special restored edition presents the ...
What happens when the one that got away comes back? Find out in this sparkling debut from Mhairi McFarlane. ''''Think of the great duos of history. We''''re just like them.'''' ''''You mean like Kylie and Jason? Torvill and Dean? Sonny and Cher?'''' ''''I think you''''ve missed the point, Rachel.'''' ...
Napsal ho sedmadvacetiletý „rozhněvaný mužâ€ś, kterého vedla potřeba kritizovat a literárně zobrazit dĹŻsledky změny chudinského zákona v roce 1834. Tento zákon zrušil chudobince při jednotlivých farnostech a zavedl centralizovaný systém, který vedl ke korupci a rozkrádání prostředkĹŻ pro chudé a k ...
A stunning novel on love, identity, loss, and redemption, featuring diverse characters grappling with such issues as bipolar illness and bisexuality--now in paperback!
Seventeen-year-old Aderyn (",Ryn",) only cares about two things: her family, and her family''s graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote Welsh village ...
Kniha - autor Haruki Murakami, 224 stran, anglicky, Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá.What will you get for your birthday this year? A chance to see into the future? Or a reminder of the imperfect past? In this enviable gathering, Haruki Murakami has chosen for his party some of the very best short story ...
Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summers at Tiger House, the glorious old family estate on the island of Martha''''s Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of adulthood, the world seeming to offer itself up to them. Helena is leaving for Hollywood and a new marriage, ...
The meticulously dismembered body of a woman is discovered in the grounds of an abandoned monastery. ''''Too decomposed for standard autopsy. Request anthropologic expertise''''. Enter Dr Temperance Brennan, Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec, who has been researching recent ...
Carter and Sadie Kane, descendants of the magical House of Life, are in pretty big trouble. Despite their bravest efforts, Apophis, the giant snake of Chaos, is still threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness. Now the Kanes must do something no magician has ever managed - defeat Apophis himself. ...
"I guess it had gone okay with Stevie Rae. I mean, she had agreed to meet me tomorrow. And she hadn''t tried to bite me, which was a plus. Of course, the whole trying-to-eat-the-street-person thing was highly disturbing." Zoey''s best friend, Stevie Rae, is undead - in an eww! zombie! kind-of-way, not ...
Patrick Suskind''s Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. ''In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. ...
