Peter Waring (1937) is a full-scale revision of Reid's earlier Following Darkness (1912) in which Peter, a sensitive boy with literary inclinations, grows up unhappily in the household of his father, a cold village schoolmaster in Newcastle, County Down, and among his Belfast relatives whom he finds intolerable.
The first book in an action-packed, poignant duology inspired by Nigerian mythologyDemi just wants to survive: to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy her ancestral homeland of Ife; to escape the King's brutal genocide of her people - the darker skinned, magic wielding Oluso; and to live peacefully with her secretive mother while learning to control the terrifying blood magic that is her birthright.
The only writer ever to win both the Pulitzer Prize and Pen/Faulkner Award for a single novel (Independence Day) Richard Ford follows the completion of his acclaimed Bascombe trilogy with Canada.
WINNER OF THE 2011 YOUNG ADULT CATEGORY IN THE GERMAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE AWARDA beautifully written, darkly funny coming-of-age story from an award-winning, bestselling German authorMike Klingenberg isn t exactly one of the cool kids at his school.
Herzlich, rau und ungeschönt: Michael Brandner macht aus Lebenserinnerungen LiteraturDer kleine Paul steckt in Lederhose und Janker, als seine Mutter ihn aus Bayern nach Dortmund verfrachtet.
A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halld r Laxness's masterpieceLate one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat.
'Brimming from start to finish with sly humour and gothic mischief' SARAH WATERS 'Beguilingly clever, very sexy and seriously frightening' GUARDIAN'Atmospheric, sexy, creepy.
Finalist for the 2016 PEN Center USA Award for TranslationIn 1809, at the age of eighteen, Henriette Faber enrolled herself in medical school in Parisand since medicine was a profession prohibited to women, she changed her name to Henri in order to matriculate.
Craig Bartlett-Taylor was always trying to kill himself, but when he took an overdose at the back of Mrs Kenna's classroom, Richie thought he'd finally succeeded: it was a real-life Worst Case Scenario.
'Wise and playful and tender and beautiful' Bobby Palmer'So brilliant, so original and lovely and funny, that it reminds you of the point of reading' Rebecca Wait'Climb up here, Little Alien.
Das berührende Zeugnis einer außergewöhnlichen Freundschaft – ein mutiger, kraftvoller Text über die Hoffnung, wenigstens einem Kind eine Zukunft zu gebenNicolas Lunabba war selbst ein «Problemkind», nun kümmert er sich als Sozialarbeiter um Jugendliche, deren kriminelle Karriere vorgezeichnet scheint.
Nach seinem ersten Werk über betriebliche Inklusion bietet Paco D'Acquarica mit "Gemeinsam wachsen: Wie Inklusion von Menschen mit Behinderung am Ausbildungs- und Arbeitsplatz gelingt" eine weitere umfassende und praxisnahe Beratung für Unternehmen und Fachpersonal auf dem Weg zur Vielfalt.
Selbst wachsen und Wachstum begleitenDieses Buch ist für jeden gedacht, der das Bedürfnis hat, sich selbst weiter in das Leben und in Beziehungen hinein zu entfalten.