In this luminous new novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to t

Auf der Erde schreibt man das Jahr 1518 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung (NGZ). Die Menschen haben mit der Liga Freier Terraner ein großes Sternenreich in der Milchstraße errichtet; sie leben in Frieden mit den meisten bekannten Zivilisationen. Doch wirklich frei ist niemand. Die Milchstraße wird vo

The comic story of a man's obsessive quest to build a fast food empire across America For the better part of the 1970s, entrepreneur Ben Flesh could expand his business kingdom with the snap of his fingers. His fast food restaurants and electronics stores were all a part of his rapidly growing domai

Ostracized by his family for his sexual identity, Prince Stephan is forced to flee his homeland before his older brother ascends the throne.

**From the acclaimed author of *Forest of a Thousand Lanterns* comes a fantastical new tale of darkness and love, in which magical bonds are stronger than blood.** Will love break the spell? After cruelly rejecting Bao, the poor fisherman who loves her, Lan, a wealthy nobleman's daughter, regrets

Mark Doty's prose has been hailed as "tempered and tough, sorrowing and serene" (*The New York Times Book Review*) and "achingly beautiful" (*The Boston Globe*). In *Still Life with Oysters and Lemon* he offers a stunning exploration of our attachment to ordinary things-how we invest objects with hu

To turn her life around, she’ll have to stand the heat. To fulfill his dreams, he’ll have to get Lucky. Despite her name, Lucky Pierce has always felt a little cursed. Refusing to settle for less or settle down, she changes jobs as often as she changes boyfriends. When her celebrity chef mother ch

**\*Three months on the *New York Times* bestseller list\*** Twenty years ago, America was captivated by the awful drama of the O.J. Simpson trial. The Simpson "Dream Team" legal defense had a seemingly impossible task: convincing a jury that their client, a man the whole country had watched flee

Jack Reacher walks alone. Once a go-to hard man in the US military police, now he's a drifter of no fixed abode. But the army tracks him down. Because someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president. Only one man could have done it. And Reacher is the one man who can find him.

Auteur Simon de Waal heeft uit honderden berichten op microblog Twitter een verhaal samengesteld dat heeft geresulteerd in het 'twitterboek' Wie een kuil graaft... De Stichting Collectieve Propaganda van het Nederlandse Boek (CPNB) riep ter gelegenheid van de jaarlijks in juni gehouden Maand van h

Sylvestre Bonnard, membre de l'Institut, est un historien et un philologue, doté d'une érudition non dénuée d'ironie. «Savoir n'est rien - dit-il un jour - imaginer est tout.» Il mène une vie austère au milieu de ses livres. Mais il consacre également tous ses efforts à trouver un manuscrit du XIVe

“What is love, if not a passionate heartbreak?” Nothing makes Ishana lose her facade except for the word ‘slut’. When someone slut shames her, she smashes his head and becomes headlines again. She is at the apex of her career but people are not ready to accept her boldness. Her strengths force the

The beloved characters of Divakaruni's bestselling novel "Sister of My Heart "are reunited in this powerful narrative in which the emotional bond between two lifelong friends is challenged, as the husband of one becomes dangerously attracted to the other.

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Le vieux guerrier se nomme Druss, mais on l'appelle Légende. Sa vie est un combat sans fin : deux bras maniant la hache au nom de l'honneur et de la justice. Pour l'ennemi nadir, il est Marche-Mort, un surnom sombre et maléfique, synonyme de destruction. A la veille de son dernier combat, le vieux g