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The beguiling story of the Queen of Mount Olympus, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA, ELEKTRA and ARIADNE. From Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ATALANTA (UK, Sunday Times, April 2023) ELEKTRA (UK, Sunday Times, May 2022) and ARIADNE (UK, Sunday Times, April...

The history of China is as rich and strange as that of any country on earth. Yet for many, China’s history remains unknown, or known only through the stylized images that generations in the West have cherished or reviled as truth. With his command of character and event - the product of 30 years of research and reflection in the field - Spence dispels those myths in a powerful narrative. Over four centuries of Chinese history, Spence fashions the astonishing story of the effort to achieve a modern China.

In einem großen Apartmenthaus in Manhattan wird das Leben Max als Lieblingshaustier auf den Kopf gestellt, als sein Besitzer einen schmuddeligen Mischlingshund namens Duke mit nach Hause bringt. Auch wenn sie sich Anfangs nicht riechen können, müssen sie sich schließlich verbünden, denn das weiße Kaninchen Snowball stellt eine Armee von ausgesetzten Haustieren auf, die sich an den Vierbeinern, die glücklich in Familien integriert sind, rächen wollen. Was machen eigentlich unsere Haustiere, während wir den ganzen Tag auf der Arbeit oder in der Schule sind?

‘There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance.’ Published in 1945, Sparkling Cyanide is all about remembrance. It begins with six characters recalling the horrific death of Rosemary Barton, a beautiful but shallow young heiress poisoned by a cyanide-spiked glass of champagne whilst...

One of the classic volumes of autobiography, My Early Life is a lively and colourful account of a young man's quest for action, adventure and danger. Churchill's schooldays are undistinguished, but he is admitted to Sandhurst and embarks on a career as a soldier and a war correspondent, seeing action in Cuba, in India, in the Sudan - where he took part in the battle of Omdurman, of which he gives us a stirring account - and finally in South Africa.

The discovery of a secret stairway running to the top of the castle leads Princess Irene to a revelation even more weighty than the fiendish plans of the goblin community that miner boy Curdie has discovered. Will the Princess and Curdie understand the significance of what they have found, or will Harelip and the goblins successfully execute their evil plan?

Die Idylle auf Wiens Weihnachtsmärkten ist trügerisch, jeden Tag wird dort ein Obdachloser entführt. Inspektor Karl Öhlinger vom Wiener Landeskriminalamt erhält regelmäßig anonyme Briefe, wo der nächste Sandler verschwinden wird.

The #1 book for coaches, leaders, talent managers and professionals around the world. The definitive and fully updated 6th edition. ''For those who want to understand the potential and power of coaching. This new edition is a must-read and a want-to-read; with powerful case studies of coaching...

From one of the truly preeminent historians of our time, this is a landmark book chronicling the French Revolution. Simon Schama deftly refutes the contemporary notion that the French Revolution represented an uprising of the oppressed poor against a decadent aristocracy and corrupt court. He argues instead that the revolution was born of a rift among the elite over the speed of progress toward modernity and science, social and economic change. 

Winston Churchill is perhaps the most important political figure of the twentieth century. His great oratory and leadership during the Second World War were only part of his huge breadth of experience and achievement. Studying his life is a fascinating way to imbibe the history of his era and...

Im Mai 1942 wird in Prag das Attentat auf Reinhard Heydrich, den stellvertretenden Protektoratsleiter, verübt. Offizielle Quellen berichten, dass die Waffe des Attentäters nicht funktionierte, als er auf Heydrichs Wagen schießen wollte. Eine auf das Auto geworfene Granate verfehlte ebenso ihr Ziel. Zuviel der Zufälle?

Dieser Jugendroman nimmt dich mit auf eine Reise durch die Höhen und Tiefen eines jungen Fußballers, der versucht, seinen Platz auf und abseits des Spielfelds zu finden. Max' Geschichte ist geprägt von der Liebe zum Sport, den Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens und der tiefen Verbundenheit zu seiner Heimatstadt.

Often called the greatest novel ever written, War and Peace is at once a historical war epic, a philosophical study, and a celebration of the Russian spirit. Noted for its mastery of realistic detail and psychological analysis, War and Peace follows the metamorphosis of five aristocratic...

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award Includes the story “Premium Harmony”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The masterful #1 New York Times bestselling story collection from O. Henry Prize winner Stephen King that includes twenty-one...

An anthology of full-cast Gothic dramas and readings from the author of the world’s most famous vampire tale Celebrated today as the creator of the legendary blood-sucking Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula, Bram Stoker was best known in his lifetime as stage manager to the actor Henry...

"Don't tell me what to do" - everyone's said it (or thought it!), but for the PDA brain it's a tenet that makes everyday tasks a constant challenge. Whether it's a request from a friend or a social expectation to do something, pathological demand avoidance can throw a bucket of ice water on your...

Little progress had been made by the Thames Valley Police since the discovery of a corpse in a North Oxford flat. The victim had been killed by a single stab wound to the stomach. The police had no weapon, no suspect, no motive, but within days of taking over the investigation, Chief Inspector Morse and Detective Sergeant Lewis uncover startling new information about the life and death of the victim, Dr. Felix McClure, late of Wolsey College, Oxford.

This masterful biography by one of Germany’s best known journalists was the leading nonfiction bestseller in Germany. Fest shows Hitler as the receptacle of the dreads and resentments of a shaken social order, gifted with an uncanny instinct for all that was hollow behind the appearance of...

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time Volume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne...

A woman's search for her missing sister instead brings her four powerful princes of chaos in this steamy, why-choose romantasy perfect for fans of Bonded by Thorns, Gild and The Serpent and the Wings of Night They said the trials were over. They were wrong. I survived the Choosing. I claimed my...