In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist she''''d never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital to be treated for depression. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital renowned for its famous clientele ...
Karl IV., römischer Kaiser und König von Böhmen, machte sich um den Ausbau zahlreicher monumentaler Bauten verdient, wobei sein Hauptaugenmerk dem St.-Veits-Dom auf der Prager Burg galt. Diesel Dom sollte ein Meisterwerk der Gotik werden – eine aus Stein gefertigte Verkörperung des Glaubens, Symbol Seiner ...
John Buchan wrote The Thirty-Nine Steps while he was seriously ill at the beginning of the First World War. In it he introduces his most famous hero, Richard Hannay, who, despite claiming to be an ''ordinary fellow', is caught up in the dramatic race against a plot to devastate the British war effort. ...
Despite being mostly known for his fantastical graphic novels and adult fiction, Neil Gaiman''s first book for children is everything that you would expect from such a massive imagination as his. It''s special and wonderful and very weird indeed. Descr ibed by some as the new Alice in Wonderland, Coraline ...
National Bestseller Selected as one of NPR?S Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of All Time The #1 New York Times bestselling authors ultimate edition of his wildly successful first novel featuring his preferred text and including his special Neverwhere tale, How the Marquis Got His Coat Back ...
WHEN GOD WAS A RABBIT is an incredibly exciting debut from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Spanning four decades, from 1968 onwards, this is the story of a fabulous but flawed family and the slew of ordinary and extraordinary incidents that sh ape their everyday lives. It is a story about childhood ...
Inquisitor Glokta, a crippled and increasingly bitter relic of the last war, former fencing champion turned torturer extraordinaire, is trapped in a twisted and broken body - not that he allows it to distract him from his daily routine of torturing smugglers.§Nobleman, dashing officer and would-be fencing ...
This deluxe, illustrated edition celebrates the New York Times-bestselling series, The Kingkiller Chronicle—a masterful epic fantasy saga that has inspired readers worldwide. One: The Name of the Wind. My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town ...
It seems excessive.but that doesn''''t mean it didn''''t happen. The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world''''s greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by one name: Slash. Saul "Slash" Hudson was ...
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han is the first in this gorgeous series, if you want to lose yourself on the beach, this is the book for you! Everything that happened this past summer, and every summer before it, has all led up to this. To now. Every year Isabel spends a perfect summer at her family ...
he novel that gave birth to the video games ''Metro 2033'' and ''Metro: Last Light'' The breathtaking original story that inspired both the METRO 2033 and METRO: LAST LIGHT video games! An international bestseller, translated into 35 languages. Set in the shattered subway of a post apocalyptic Moscow, ...
''Simply the most consistently inventive, brilliant, curious and creative writer going'' Gillian Flynn Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in her latest incendiary novel. Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates returns with an incendiary novel that ...