"e;While examining some timely social issues, Webb also delivers lots of edifying information on the animal kingdom in an entry sure to please fans and newcomers alike.
In 1874, the acclaimed photographer Eadweard Muybridge-famed for capturing the first motion image of a galloping horse-shot and killed his wife's lover, Major Harry Larkyns.
Ein spannendes, bewegendes Buch über eine faszinierende PersönlichkeitBohemienne, Femme fatale, erotische Ikone: Um die norwegische Schriftstellerin und Musikerin Dagny Juel und ihr bewegtes Leben ranken sich bis heute Legenden und Geheimnisse.
Venedig, die sonnige Küste Süditaliens, die rauen Berge der Toskana – drei Schauplätze, drei Schicksale, drei Geschichten voller Leidenschaft, Stolz und unerbittlicher Entscheidungen.
Wien, Gegenwart: Eleonora Deveraux, eine talentierte Restauratorin historischer Gemälde, wird von dem mysteriösen Vampir Valerian in eine Kreatur der Nacht verwandelt.
Stories from a world both fantastically strange and gruellingly familiar where isolation, ruin, prejudice, and misinformation soar in an irresistible, susurrant fugue of displaced families yearning to belongIn the four stories that make up The Dolls, characters are plagued by unexplained illnesses and oblique, human-made disasters and environmental losses.
Rachel Milligan is caring for her seven-year-old niece, Holly, at her home in Chicago when she receives devastating news: Holly's parents have been killed in a plane crash.
The Singleton family's fortunes seem unaffected by the Great Depression, and Perri--along with the other girls at Atlanta's elite Washington Seminary--lives a carefree life of tea dances with college boys, matinees at the cinema, and debut parties.
Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of the local apothecary, yearns for more adventure and experience than life in her father's shop and their small village provides.
Blake Bond, vampiro e capo della sicurezza ibrida della Scanguards, e Lilo Schroeder, un'umana, si ritrovano coinvolti quando la loro amica comune Hannah scompare nel nulla.
