Known only to a select clientele, Madame Helenes Pleasure House is an exclusive brothel in Regency England where every illicit fantasy that you could imagine is indulged.
While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but directors and novelists around the world have also been reinventing folk horror for the contemporary moment.
Spitzenköchin Katharina Schweitzer kehrt für einen besonderen Kulinarischen Anlass nach Baden zurück: Ein Wettkochen krönt das Fest, mit dem ihr Heimatdorf und das elsässische Scherwiller fünfundvierzig Jahre grenzüberschreitende Partnerschaften feiern.
Die Erzählungen über Mut, Verzweiflung, Liebe, Krankheit und Enttäuschung berühren durch ihre Ehrlichkeit und Echtheit, können Menschen überzeugen, erschüttern und beglücken, nachdenklich oder hoffnungsvoll zurück lassen.
Ein Tagebuch der Zukunft – Skurril, poetisch, tragisch, voller Liebe Nur wenig braucht es, damit alles ganz anders ist: Stürme sind über das Land gefegt, danach kamen Überschwemmungen, es ist seit Monaten unerträglich heiß, der Alltag ist aus den Fugen geraten.
'Celtic Fairy Tales' is a collection of twenty-six classic stories from British isles, collected by Joseph Jacobs, and accompanied by the masterful black-and-white illustrations of John D.
The do-good daughter of a New Orleans politician finds loveand scandalin the arms of a male escort in a ';romance series that just keeps getting better' (BookPage).
The book locates questions of languages, genre, textuality and canonicity within a historical and theoretical framework that foregrounds the emergence of modern nationalism in Egypt.
SOMEONE SPECIAL by Sheila O'Flanagan is an enthralling novel about families, friends and finding love that should not be missed by readers of Veronica Henry and Marian Keyes.
PAUL POPE 's new graphic novel Battling Boy debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list, and the original art is now the focus of a series of traveling art exhibits in the United States and Europe.
A major collection of entirely new poems from the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author of Time and Materials and The Apple Trees at OlemaA new volume of poetry from Robert Hass is always an event.
A highly illustrated account of the naval battles of Coronel and the Falklands in 1914, which saw the destruction of both British and German squadrons.
In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on "e;doing nothing,"e; Billy Ehn and Orvar Lofgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening.
In ihrem neuen Fantasy-Roman erzählt Spiegel-Bestseller-Autorin Maggie Stiefvater eine atmosphärisch-düstere Geschichte über Angst und Magie, Liebe und Mut.
Written in alternating voices, Jorge Guzman's JOB BOJ is a captivating novel that explores the progression from melancholy to happiness, or vice versa.
With her nearly broke and practically homeless mother about to land on her doorstep, Robyn Guthrie learns that desperation can play havoc with a daughter's scruples.
This book troubles the ways young people have been constructed as 'trouble' through critical readings of the effects and impacts, politically and ideologically, globally and locally, of scholarship and practice directed at South African young people's sexualities over the last three decades of addressing HIV, GBV and other sexual and gender justice challenges.
Taking the reader on a journey through queer manifestations in games, this book advocates for video games as a rich, political and cultural medium, which provides us with tools to navigate the future of gaming.
On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism.
This book presents research-based investigations of the communicative aspects of Barack Obama's presidency, with a focus on ethnicity, gender, and culture as they interact with communication.
The magnum opus from Alejandro Jodorowsky—director of The Holy Mountain, star of Jodorowsky’s Dune, spiritual guru behind Psychomagic and The Way of Tarot, innovator behind classic comics The Incal and Metabarons, and legend of Latin American literature.
The Absorption of Immigrants (1954) examines the assimilation of immigrants in the Yishuv (the Jewish Community in Palestine) and in the State of Israel.
A sweeping and spellbinding love story spanning the warm waters of the Mediterranean to the cold, clear skies of Norwaythe second in an epic new series of novels by #1 internationally bestselling author Lucinda Riley.
This book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation.
Seven-year-old Henry Day is kidnapped by fairy changelings living in the dark forest near his home - ageless beings whose secret community is threatened by encroaching modern life.
A slacker hero embarks on a rollicking cross-country journey of love-ins and acid trips in this rich portrait of the 1960s When his foxy professor/girlfriend kicks him out of her apartment, perennial college student Gene Barrett sets off on a road trip in search of a place he can call home.
