For lovers of Coco Mellor's Blue Sisters and the Oscar-nominated Sentimental Value, Mermaid is a piercing, multi-generational saga of shared tragedy, the jagged edges of sisterhood, and the secrets that surface when the past refuses to stay submerged.
In a future where humanity has scientifically conquered disease and physical death, Timshel leaves behind a civilization that has solved nearly every practical problem.
Each year, Garry Feguson awaited the return of the crows much like a five-year-old awaits Santa Clause's return, he says, because the very first, Caw, spelled anticipation to—the rebirth of his little wedge of this planet.
In this satire of the music industry, David Allington is the son of a politician, a record producer of questionable success, and a man whose life is falling apart like a bad drum track.
After high school graduation, and before starting college, David Martel was persuaded by his best friend to work with him at The Hungry Coyote Café which serves families by day and refugees from bars and strip clubs by night.
Told through a high-school autobiography assignment, Nora and I Stole a Car follows Oliver, a sixteen-year-old trying to survive school, family, and the mysteries of first love.
Encrucijada de todas las obsesiones e intuiciones de Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) y exponente de su singular talento para el relato, El lobo estepario se inscribe dentro del empeño, patente a lo largo de toda su obra, por iluminar la zona oscura de la condición humana a fin de poner al descubierto su carga trágica y su incierto destino.
Publicada en 1906, "Bajo las ruedas" es una prodigiosa recreación del mundo de la adolescencia, pero en ella Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) formula también una severa acusación contra los sistemas educativos que se imponen a costa de la imaginación y del cultivo armónico de las facultades espirituales, emocionales y físicas.
Alle, die ihre Mutter lieben, wird dieser Roman zutiefst berührenVor der atemberaubenden Kulisse Nordschwedens entfaltet sich eine mitreißende Mutter-Tochter-Geschichte, die zu Tränen rührt und einen gleichzeitig mit einem friedlichen und hoffnungsvollen Gefühl zurücklässtMajlis will nicht sterben.
Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.
Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Water Margin is an epic tale of rebellion against tyranny that will remind Western readers of the English classic Robin Hood and His Merry Men.
"e;Fighting the Shadow Warriors: A Marine in Vietnam"e; by Harry Knickerbocker provides a gripping, personal account of a Marine's experiences during the Vietnam War.
For three thousand years, the world of Sora has lived beneath a scarred sky, haunted by legends of the First Fall—a catastrophic war that shattered the heavens and plunged civilizations into ruin.
