As the financial crisis tightens its grip on Europe, the gilded world of Zurich''''s leading restaurant, Chez Huwyler,seems immune to plunging stock markets and collapsing banks. But behind the scenes, even the rarefied world of haute cuisine is feeling the bite and so Maravan - a Tamil dishwasher and ...
A New York Times No. 1 best seller §On the New York Times Best Seller List for more than 52 consecutive weeks §Includes an excerpt from the much-anticipated sequel and an interview with author Ransom Riggs §A mysterious island.§An abandoned orphanage.§A strange collection of very curious photographs§It ...
This title is second in the "New York Times" bestselling urban fantasy series set in Victorian London. Still reeling from her terrifying confrontation with the Magister and her brother''''s betrayal, Tessa Gray is drawn ever deeper into the Shadowhunter''''s dark underworld of demons and danger. In a ...
Banished for centuries, as punishment for trying to measure time, the inventor of the world\''s first clock is finally granted his freedom, along with a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two people the true meaning of time. He returns to our world and embarks on a journey with two unlikely ...
This revised and expanded edition of Tolkien''s own Hobbit-inspired poetry includes previously unpublished poems and notes, and is beautifully illustrated by Narnia artist Pauline Baynes. ''Here is something that no devotee of the Hobbit epic can afford to miss, while awaiting a further instalment of ...
Paul Christopher''''s Valley of the Templars is the next exciting John Holliday novel. Retired Army Ranger John Holliday and his friend Eddie travel to Cuba in search of Eddie''''s mysteriously vanished brother-and find themselves desperately trying to stop a shocking plot of a secret Templar cabal that ...
Grimm''s Complete Fairy Tales collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century, among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature: ''Little Red Riding Hood,'' ''Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs'', ''Cinderella'', ...
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succčs de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895.Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange ...
Die zweite, h�chst originelle, r�hrende, verdrehte und heitere Kindergeschichte von David Walliams, wundersch�n illustriert von Quentin Blake: Mr. Stink stinkt. Sogar ganz f�rchterlich. Chloe sieht Mr. Stink t�glich aber sie hat noch nie mit ihm gesprochen. Was nicht �berrascht, denn Mr. ...
