Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Queen Levana and find their happily ever afters? Fans will not want to miss this thrilling conclusion to Marissa Meyer's No.11 New York Times-bestselling Lunar Chronicles series.
Freedomcomically and tragically captures the temptations and burdens of liberty: the thrills of teenage lust, the shaken compromises of middle age, the wages of suburban sprawl, the heavy weight of empire.
Beate Haas, defected from East Germany as a child, is notified that her parents abandoned mansion is available for her to reclaim. She and her two teenagers arrive to meet a ghost town. In the midst of inevitable change, two episodes of devastating, fateful violence come to define the family forever. A multigenerational epic about what it means to leave home, and what it means to return.
Utterly is found washed up on the shores of the Autumn Isles and taken in by the mysterious Watcher of Wildsea. When her guardian is drowned, Utterly is thrust into the role of Watcher, but can she keep the island safe from the threat of the terrifying Gorm? Mysteries lie beneath the oceans surface and adventure beckons. Utterly will unearth secrets about the sea, her parents and life itself.
Ever been lost for words abroad?
When you want to get your point across abroad there's only one way to do it: by swearing your ar e off! Impress the world with a stream of multi-lingual profanity from this nifty pocket book.
In this poignant and emotionally wrenching tale, famous curmudgeon Catwad faces loss, fear, and struggles with his own mortality when his best friend Blurmp receives news of... wait, who are we kidding? This isn't a melodrama -- it's another laugh-out-loud Catwad from Jim Benton!
A novel of enormous achievement, Monkey Boy tells the tale of Francisco Goldberg, a middle-aged writer who grapples with the challenges of family and love, legacies of violence and war, and growing up Guatemalan and Jewish in America.
In this graphic novel from a rising star in the indie comics scene, a young woman vanishes, leaving behind her grieving sister and lover. But this coolly despairing narrative focuses on a character only tangentially connected to the incident: Calvin, a divorced, sleeved-blanket-wearing Air Force technician who was friends with the boyfriend in high school. When Calvin agrees to let his old friend crash at his place, he becomes the target of vague, hostile conspiracy theories spread by internet cranks and late-night radio hosts. Like Drnaso's debut, Beverly, the small, precise dramas of Midwestern suburban life are positioned against a larger canvas of contemporary paranoia, rumor-mongering, and violence. The art is characterized by simplified, blocky figures moving though meticulously measured geometric Settings - Drnaso wears the influence of Chris Ware on his sleeve.
From the New York Times bestselling author comes a joyous and poignant book about the world of professional acting, the messiness of life and how every experience good or bad shapes who you are. Baggagechronicles the actors life in Hollywood and the ways in which work has repeatedly whisked him away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world.
Das bewegende Portrait der einzigartigen Persönlichkeit Yves Saint Laurant führt mitten hinein in die brodelnde und inspirierende Welt der Mode der 60er- und 7er-Jahre.
In einem von Terror und Gewalt erschütterten Amerika setzen die "Hüter" alles daran, ihre schlafwandelnden Freunde und Angehörigen auf ihrer mysteriösen Wanderung zu beschützen. Zugleich kommt immer mehr über die tödliche Seuche, die die Welt ins Chaos stürzt, ans Tageslicht. Je mehr Details entdeckt werden, umso deutlicher wird es, dass der eigentliche Virus die Menschheit ist und diese "Krankheit" offenbar kurz vor ihrer endgültigen Ausrottung steht. Doch welche Rolle spielen die Schlafwandler dabei, die unbeirrt ihren Weg gehen?Ein abgehalfterter Rockstar, ein tief religiöser Priester, ein in Ungnade gefallener Wissenschaftler und ein junges Mädchen, das die letzte Hoffnung einer zum Untergang verdammten Welt sein könnte, sind die Hauptfiguren in einer apokalyptischen Saga, die ganz in der Tradition von "The Stand" und "Das Licht der letzten Tage" steht.Buch 2 des Wanderer-Zweiteilers
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