This classic tale from the author of The Last Unicorn is a journey between the realms of the living and the dead, and a testament to the eternal power of love.
Titus Groan is seven years old. Lord and heir to the crumbling castle Gormenghast. A gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed k…
Titus, almost 20, flees oppressive Castle Rituals. Lost in a sandstorm, helped by Muzzlehatch owner of traveling zoo and his ex-lover Juno, stranded in big city, arrested for vagrancy, he longs for ho…
Diese drei Stücke ohne Handlung, ohne Szenenbilder und ohne Requisiten sind Sprechstücke, die, nach den Klangelementen der Beatmusik gebaut, die Sprache selbst zum Inhalt machen, es sind Versuche, auf…
Shelve Publikumsbeschimpfung und andere Sprechstücke
Naples, March 1931: a bitter wind stalks the city streets, and murder lies at its chilled heart. As one of the world s greatest tenors, Maestro Vezzi, is found brutally murdered in his dressing room a…
His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Betw…
Shelve The Lives of Christopher Chant (Chrestomanci, #2)
Thirst, a collection of forty-three new poems from the Pulitzer Prize-winner Mary Oliver, introduces two new directions in the poet's work. Grappling with grief at the death of the love of her life an…
At the centre of Music for Chameleons is Handcarved Coffins, a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the brutal crimes of a real-life murderer. Taking place in a small Midwestern town in America, it offers chil…
El sicomoro y la sibila, de Alix E. Harrow, es un relato de fantasía y brujería publicado en el Matreon de Crononauta (patreon.com/crononauta). Está ambientado en el mismo universo que su novela The O…
Ted Fullilove, aka Mr. Peanut, is not like other Ivy League grads. He shares an apartment with Goldberg, his beloved battery-operated fish, sleeps on a bed littered with yellow legal pads penned with …
When Sherlock Holmes acquires the fabled 'Dracula Papers', the stage is set for the greatest battle of wits since Reichenbach. Why did five men really pursue an innocent Transylvanian nobleman to the …
Parohia este monografia bizara a unei asezari imaginare din anii tragici si grotesti ai unei dictaturi agonizante si totodata un fals, ironic bildungsroman. Satul e vazut prin ochii unui antierou care…
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his…
Shelve The Pox Party (The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, #1)
"When you sell a man a book," says Roger Mifflin, protagonist of these classic bookselling novels, "you don't sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue you sell him a whole new life." The …
When they were born on May 28, 1934, weighing a grand total of just over 13 pounds, no one expected them to live so much as an hour. Overnight, Yvonne, Annette, Cécile, Émilie, and Marie Dionne captiv…
Shelve The Miracle and Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets
New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his job and join the likes of Salinger, Hemingway, Fitzger…
You’ve seen the headlines: Parmesan cheese made from wood pulp. Lobster rolls containing no lobster at all. Extra-virgin olive oil that isn’t. Fake foods are in our supermarkets, our restaurants, and …
Shelve Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do About It
This edition combines The Dream Songs, awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965, and His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, which won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969 and contains all 385 songs.…
Parenting can be such an overwhelming job that it’s easy to lose track of where you stand on some of the more controversial subjects at the playground (What if my kid likes to rough house—isn’t this o…
Shelve It's OK Not to Share and Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids
This title provides a complete guide to the mythical beasts and beings from a variety of cultures around the world, including Mesopotamian, ancient Greek, ancient Egyptian and Chinese, Japanese, Nordi…
Shelve The Mythical Creatures Bible: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Mythical Creatures
The publication of A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914) marked the debut of Robert Frost as a major talent and established him as the true poetic voice of New England. Four of his volumes wo…
Shelve Poems by Robert Frost: A Boy's Will and North of Boston
Nu striga niciodată ajutor este al optulea volum de versuri al lui Mircea Cărtărescu și se poate spune că e diferit de toată poezia lui precedentă. Scris la treizeci de ani după penultimul volum, timp…
Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every year…
After splurging to buy her childhood home in the Catskills, recently widowed Mikki Lincoln emerges from retirement as a freelance editor. With her ability to spot details that others fail to see, it's…
Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is …
„Personaje memorabile, un remarcabil simț al limbii și al construcției narative sunt doar câteva dintre calitățile acestui surprinzător roman al lui Bogdan Coșa. Istoria unei familii rurale, apăsată d…
Au centre du roman, une chaussure abandonnée sur un toit parisien. Tous les personnages du livre fréquentent le même immeuble, à proximité des rails de la gare du Nord. On rencontrera un enfant rêveur…
