It is 1919, and the Great War that has ravaged Europe is over. In Italy, the people are exhausted. Tired of the political class. Tired of vague promises, inept moderates, and the agonizing machinations of a democracy that has failed ordinary citizens. While elite leaders have sat idly by, achieving nothing, one outsider—the director of a small opposition newspaper and a tireless political...

Das »Buch der Lieder« begründete Heines Weltruhm als Dichter. Es ist seine früheste Sammlung, erschienen 1827. Viele der knapp 240 Gedichte wurden vertont, darunter die Lorelei (›Ich weiß nicht, was soll es bedeuten‹) oder ›Im wunderschönen Monat Mai‹. Vielfach greifen sie auf altes Volksliedgut zurück und sind ihrerseits zu Volksliedern geworden.

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Suppor

The everyday life of a small provincial town was shaken by extraordinary and mysterious events. One day, a strange old man appears in the town - either a yogi, or a doctor, or a magician - and opens the Shop of Happiness.

This book was created on the basis of video meetings with doctors from different regions of Ukraine, in which Vasyl Knyazevich, with the participation of Danylo Yanevskyi, talked with specialists in various fields of medicine about strategies and tactics for survival and recovery of the physical and mental state of Ukrainians after the beginning of the full-scale invasion of the Russian...

The mystical laundress at the center of this novel is obsessed with purity. Her task is formidable as she stands guard over a sealed shaft at a Ukrainian coal mine that hides terrible truths. The bodies of dead Jews lying in its depths seem to attract still more present-day crimes. Acclaimed Russian author Sergei Lebedev portrays a ghostly realm riven by lust and fear just as the Kremlin...

36 and 6 cats are coming back! And now the dancing cats have a new talent - to doodle. Their paintings decorated the walls of the owner's cafe, but not for long... A crime happened. Who will investigate the strange disappearance? Who will reveal the secret of the eight linden boards? 36 and 6 detective cats get down to business...

Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comme

Moomendemal! Wer kann hier noch nicht Hessisch babbeln? Kein Grund, hibbelisch zu werden. Dieses Schnuckelsche von einem Bilderbuch ist wie ein gemütlicher Spaziergang durchs Hessische! Hier wird jede Vokabel, jede Redewendung mit einer köstlichen Zeichnung veranschaulicht. So schnallt auch der Auswerrdische, was ein Bembel oder ein Wullewatz ist! Wie nebenbei erfährt man zudem auch so manches...

36 and 6 cats - that's the number, no more and no less, of Galina Vdovichenko's tailed heroes - settled one rainy evening in Mrs. Krepova's apartment, despite her wishes. But the sphinx cat Baroness turned the heart of the adamant hostess towards homeless cats. Neither Mrs. Krepova nor her nephew Stas could even imagine what would happen if 36 adults and 6 small cats invaded their small apartment.

In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps--a community devoted exclusively to sickness--as a microcosm for Europe, which in the years before 1914 was already exhibiting the first symptoms of its own terminal irration

Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic...