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.
Bachelor Jimmy Pitt falls in love aboard a transatlantic liner en route to New York City, befriends a small-time burglar, and breaks into a police captain's house as a result of a bet.
In Schools of Fiction, Morgan Day Frank considers a bizarre but integral feature of the modern educational experience: that teachers enthusiastically teach literary works that have terrible things to say about school.
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.
This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture and continues to fascinate modern-day readers.
"e;A nonchalant string of anecdotes and wisecracks, told by a fellow who doesn't have a name, and has never caught a mouse, and isn't much good for anything except watching human beings in action"e; The New Yorker Written over the course of 1904-1906, Soseki Natsume's comic masterpiece, I Am a Cat, satirizes the foolishness of upper-middle-class Japanese society during the Meiji era.
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.
The Door Beyond the Thunder: How a Community of Kind Hearts Found the Answers Hidden Within Life's Greatest Storms is a philosophical fiction novel that follows the journey of a compassionate community living in a peaceful valley surrounded by mountains.
Under the Open Sky is a collection of nine literary short stories about the small, consequential moments when people choose to be honest — with others, and with themselves.
