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O istorie fascinantă a operelor S.F. și fantasy care nu au fost terminate, au fost pierdute sau nu au fost valorizate destul. S.F-ul și genul

Comediennes

It wasn't until the 10th century that women were allowed to perform, and then only in rare incidences. Like many art forms, female comedy got

New Ghosts

These poems live and move among images: beach, forest, fire, dark - and then among the images of images: hunger, shadow, regret. What is it

Finding a Girl in America

Set in Dubus's largely coastal New England world, these short works focus on the residual anguish and momentary elation of deep emotional attachments--between lovers, bet...

Washington Square

A study of conflict between father and daughter, this is the story of Catherine, the plain, obedient daughter of Dr August Sloper of Washington Square,

Criminality and Narrative in Eighteenth-Century England

These narratives of violence, theft, disruptive sexuality, and rebellion compelled their readers to sort through fragmentary or contested evidence, anticipating the openn...

Helena Crash

A new pulse pounding, caffeine fueled, sword swinging, machine-gun firing, car crashing sci-fi adventure comic! In a future where coffee is illegal, Helena is a

Between the Psyche and the Polis

Incorporating studies of Freudian and Marxist approaches to questions of history and memory, this timely collection illuminates how history is being refigured in contempo...

Herbert Read

During his lifetime, Herbert Read (1893–1968) acquired a considerable international reputation. Poet and anarchist novelist and biographer critic of art, literature, an...

The Reception of Grimms' 'Fairy Tales'

'The essays address the reception of the Grimms' texts by their readers the dynamics between Grimms' collection and its earliest audiences and aspects of the

Being a Boy Again

Marcia Jacobson's Being a Boy Again identifies a literary genre that flourished between the Civil War and World War I - the American boy book.

The Lair

Norman Manea, cel mai faimos autor contemporan român în străinătate, a fost supraviețuitor a două regimurilor totalitare în România, urmând să plece în exil în

Will Sparrow's road

In 1599 England, twelve-year-old lying, thieving Will Sparrow runs away, meets many colorful characters on the road, and then reluctantly joins a traveling 'oddities' ex...

Screamin' Jay Hawkins' all-time greatest hits

'The R & B wildman Screamin' Jay Hawkins only had a single hit, the classic 'I Put a Spell On You,' and was often written

The Astonishing Life of August March

In this enchanting first novel, an irrepressibly optimistic oddball orphan is thrust into the wilds of postwar New York City after an extraordinary childhood in

Fridays At Enricos

Taken from a recently discovered manuscript published posthumously, this story provides a snapshot of San Francisco and Portland in the early 1950s and 1960s as

A Brief Guide to Oz (Going Over the Rainbow)

Presents a guide to the many versions and incarnations of Oz on screen, on stage, and in literature, while looking at the novels by Baum

Last Day I Saw Her

Janey's instincts tell her that she must finally find out what happened to Hattie, but life is already complicated enough: she's struggling with motherhood, a

The Great Leader

Retired Detective Sunderson must get past his troubles with alcohol if he and an unlikely 16-year-old sidekick are ever going to expose an elusive cult

Devotion

Ella is flat broke: wasting away on bodega coffee, barely making rent, seducing the occasional strange man who might buy her dinner. Unexpectedly, an Upper

Carte de bucate - Pesti si alte vietati ale apei

Autor: Horia Varlan

Treason by Words

Lemon investigates the remarkable phrase, treason by words, both as a legal charge and as a cultural event under the Tudor monarchy.

Seven Brothers Omnibus

Created by superstar action film director John Woo (Mission Impossible 2 Face-Off)! Six hundred years ago — long before history's great explorers stole the credit

Openwork

'André du Bouchet, a great innovator of twentieth-century letters, has yet to be fully recognized by a wide circle of international readers. This inviting volume

The Calvinist Roots of the Modern Era

This collection of essays traces Calvinism's presence in twentieth-century literature and demonstrates its impact as psychological construct, cultural institution, and so...

The Body and Eucharistic Devotion in Catharina Regina Von Greiffenberg's 'Meditations'

New study of the writings of Catharina von Greiffenberg, the German Baroque religious author. This book presents a fresh view of Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg,

Mae Volume 1

When she was just a girl, Abbie discovered a portal to fantasy world and for the last couple of years has been having great adventures

When the Music Stops

This is the story of Ella. And Robert. And all the things they never said. Their journeys will intertwine through seven key moments and seven

The lawyer's secret

Orphan Ellinor Arden is called from her secluded Paris home to London for the hearing of her estranged uncle’s will. To her surprise, she is

Mimi Lee Gets a Clue

Nominated for a Lefty Award! Mimi Lee is in over her head. There's her new Los Angeles pet grooming shop to run, her matchmaking mother

Sarah's Psalm

While visiting Senegal, Sarah Stewart, who is married and on a rising career track, falls in love with her literary mentor, Ibrahim Mangane, and with

LOVE INSURANCE

Take a risk on love in this zany romantic comedy that will charm you from the very first page! P.G. Wodehouse meets Oscar Wilde meets

Primii pasi in sah

Autor: Elisabeta Polihroniade

The Unpossessed City: A Novel

A gripping novel about the dangers and draws of contemporary Russia, from the author of The Geographer's Library With The Geographer's Library, Jon Fasman made

Tulip Taylor

Challenged to go on a `survival' reality TV show, fifteen-year-old make-up vlogger Tulip only accepts to escape her mother's money-making schemes and protect her youn...

Mirrors

Fiction. Born in the Paris suburb of Asnieres in 1939, Marcel Cohen lives in Paris where he makes his living, under a pseudonym, as a

Lost Children Archive

'A novel about a family of four, on the cusp of fracture, who take a trip across America--a story told through varying points of view,

Narrative and Culture

This collection draws together 14 essays in which the writers discuss narrative texts and practices, drawn from a variety of media and genres. The essays

Talk Back: The Bubble Project

Blank Bubbles transform the corporate monologue into a true public dialogue.

No Ordinary Wedding Planner

This is the inspiring story of Naomi Thomas, a secondary breast cancer sufferer who has decided to devote the remainder of her life to spreading

Buxton Learns to Share

'Buxton loves his things and doesn't want to share them with anyone else - ever! However, during a day out at the beach with Flora

History as Literature

This volume presents excerpts and translations of three thirteenth-century South German verse chronicles: Rudolf von Ems's Weltchronik, the anonymous Christherre-Chronik,...

Scarface (Bloomsbury Film Classics)

'I'm Scarface. I'm just about ten times as hard-boiled as Johnny Lovo ever thought of being. I've bumped off six or eight myself and another

LEGO DC SUPER HEROES Race Around the World

Superman and The Flash can't decide who is faster. So they decide to have a race across the world! But will a bunch of super-villains

The Dead Republic

The triumphant conclusion to the trilogy that began with A Star Called Henry. Henry Smart is back. It is 1946, and Henry has crawled into

All the time in the world

From a master of modern American letters comes an enthralling collection of brilliant short fiction about people who, as E. L. Doctorow notes in his

All of the Above

A funny and moving love story about friends, first loves and self-discovery by Queen of Teen 2014.When sixteen-year-old Toria Bland arrives at her new school

The Sea Beast Takes a Lover

'This debut author rightfully earns his place on the storytelling totem pole with this wildly original short story collection.'--San Francisco Chronicle Dazzling and d...

Voices of Italian America

Voices of Italian America presents the first authoritative study and anthology of the largely Italian-language literature written and published in the U.S. from the heyda...

Grandma And Grandpas Garden

Grandma and Grandpa loved being together in their beautiful garden. They loved it too when their granddaughter Lucy visited and they taught her many skills.

The Force Awakens

My Wyl and My Wrytyng

The essays examine Audelay's biography, his self-representation as the maker of his book, and the specific parts of that book, from the poems and colophons

Captain

It's 1915 and British troops are about to sail to Gallipoli. Billy is the youngest soldier in his platoon and is teased for not being

Reading Hemingway's Men without women

A close reading of one of Hemingway's short story collections. It guides readers towards understanding how Hemingway tested old ideas of family, gender, race, ethnicity

City of Gold

City of Gold is the thrilling new novel from Anton Gill. A rumour is going around the world that a vast source of gold has

Metode moderne aplicate in studiul limbii si literaturii romane

Autor: Adriana Maimascu

LICHTENBERG & THE LITTLE FLOWER GIRL

From dross to gold, an enchanting tale of love is spun. Goethe, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Tolstoy, Einstein--all praised the writings of Georg...

Crown of Smoke

The exciting conclusion to the Shadowscent duology! Rakel travels outside the borders of the empire, seeking answers to new questions about the past. Meanwhile, Ash

Right Livelihoods

Cea de-a doua novelă a colecției, K & K, se referă la un tânăr director de birou singuratic de la o agenție de asigurări, unde

My So-Called Bollywood Life

Winnie, pasionată de filmele de la Bollywood, a crescut crezând că viitorul este scris în stele. Panditul (Înțeleptul) familiei sale i-a prezis că va găsi