This captivating, atmospheric and gripping page-turner by million copy bestselling author Paul Sussman is a must read for fans of Clive Cussler, Tom Clancy and Wilbur Smith.
The second book in the captivating Birth of the Plantagenets series brings the twelfth-century reign of Henry II and his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine to vivid life, from bestselling author Blanche d'Alpuget.
Barbara Nadel's gripping Ikmen mysteries are the inspiration behind The Turkish Detective, BBC Two's sensational eight-part TV crime drama series available to watch on BBC iPlayer.
Originally published in "e;Harper's Magazine"e; in 1903 and 1904, "e;Italian Fantasies"e; is a 1910 work by British author Israel Zangwill (1864-1926).
Jervey Tervalon delivered "e;a marvelous read"e; (USA TODAY) in Dead Above Ground, his national bestselling novel of a troubled Southern familynow his literary landscape shifts to the West Coast, in this compelling portrayal of a young black university professor living life on his own terms, a life entangled in the complex relationships with the women who desire him.
Translocality in Contemporary City Novels responds to the fact that twenty-first-century Anglophone novels are increasingly characterised by translocality-the layering and blending of two or more distant settings.
The “strikingly original” debut novel by the masterful British author is “a perfect adventure” of love and smuggling on the English coast (The Nation).
An epic and unforgettable love story continues in Keeping 13, the second book in the international bestselling and TikTok-phenomenon The Boys of Tommen series, from Chloe Walsh.
Die vielfach mit Prousts Recherche und Lampedusas Der Leopard verglichene Romanfolge als SerieIn den turbulenten Jahren eines Künstlerlebens zwischen Neapel, Mailand und Paris emanzipiert sich der junge Giuliano von den Konventionen seiner Herkunft.
Investigative reporter Rae Burke will do anything to find her missing sister-in-law, even if it means facing Liam McKade, a man who almost lost his life saving hers.
This book proposes that computer games are the paradigmatic form of contemporary landscape and offers a synthesis of art history, geography, game studies and play.
The industrialization of prostitution and the sex trade has created a multibillion-dollar global market, involving millions of women, that makes a substantial contribution to national and global economies.
When Dr Thomas Browne accepts the role of both inquisitor and witness in one of Englands last witch trials, he embarks on what his biographer later calls the most culpable and stupid action of his life.
Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while his genius for finding the strangeness lurking within us all has been an influence on everyone from Freud to Hollywood.
Popkultur dreht sich immer schon um die ganz besonderen und die ganz normalen Dinge: von Winnetous Silberbüchse über Kaugummis, Diskokugeln und Nylonstrümpfen bis zu Selfiesticks und Michael Jacksons weißem Handschuh.
This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality.
Music in the Role-Playing Game: Heroes & Harmonies offers the first scholarly approach focusing on music in the broad class of video games known as role-playing games, or RPGs.
Atemberaubende Sci-Fi-Spannung im All – von Weltbestseller-Autor Christopher PaoliniAuf dem unbewohnten Planeten Talos VII wird eine Anomalie entdeckt: eine riesige kreisförmige Grube, deren Abmessungen so perfekt sind, dass sie nur einen Schluss zulassen: Die Senke muss künstlich angelegt worden sein.
Darcy is more deeply in love with his wife than everAs the golden summer draws to a close and the Darcys look ahead to the end of their first year of marriage, Mr.
Eine Frau mit einem Motorrad - Ein Mann mit einem Baby - Eine Gang mit einem Schaufelradbagger -eine Dystopie mit packendem Endzeit-Setting:Die alten Regeln gelten nicht mehr, seit drei Kriege und das Wasteland-Virus die Menschheit beinahe ausgelöscht haben.