The Inheritance Games ended with a bombshell, and now heiress Avery Grambs has to pick up the pieces and find the man who might hold the answers to all of her questions - including why Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons. Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows that she's not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up...

When Claudia accidentally eavesdrops on the epic breakup of Paige and Iris, the it-couple at her school, she finds herself in hot water with prickly, difficult Iris. Thrown together against their will in the class production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, along with the goofiest, cutest boy Claudia has ever known, Iris and Claudia are in for an eye-opening senior year.

Under the alias GirlOnline, Penny blogs her hidden feelings about friendship, boys, high school drama, her crazy family, and the panic attacks that have begun to take over her life. When things go from bad to worse, her family whisks her away to New York, where she meets Noah, a gorgeous, guitar-strumming American. Suddenly Penny is falling in love - and capturing every moment of it on her blog.

Eighth-grader Tilde could not even imagine that one day her photo would end up on the 'Scary Girls' Instagram page. It is already quite difficult for the girl to adapt in a new school, and this event adds even more troubles. School beauty Yasmin also did not expect that one of her photos could be interpreted as scary, but when she found herself under this hashtag on Instagram, she was very...

Written in 1914, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of modern bureaucracy wedded to the madness of totalitarianism, Kafka's nightmare has resonated with...

Joseph Roth paints a vivid portrait of Emperor Napoleon’s last grab at glory, the hundred days spanning his escape from Elba to his final defeat at Waterloo. This particularly poignant work, set in the first half of 1815 and largely in Paris, is told from two perspectives, that of Napoleon himself and that of the lowly, devoted palace laundress Angelica-an unlucky creature who deeply loves him....

Harry Haller is a sad and lonely figure, a reclusive intellectual for whom life holds no joy. He struggles to reconcile the wild primeval wolf and the rational man within himself without surrendering to the bourgeois values he despises. His life changes dramatically when he meets a woman who is his opposite, the carefree and elusive Hermine. The tale of the Steppenwolf culminates in the surreal...

The first volume of the most famous French novel of the 20th century was published over a hundred years ago, in November 1913. The novel was called 'Towards Swann', and its author Marcel Proust did not yet suspect that his offspring would grow into a cycle 'In Search of Lost Time', on which the writer would work until the last hours of his life. The reader will have to evaluate the second novel...

The chronological structure of the stories written between 1916 and 1939 conveys a precise picture of Joseph Roth's literary development: the arc of his storytelling art spans from the early work The Preferred Pupil to The Legend of the Holy Drinker, »one of the most beautiful legends written in the 20th century became« (Marcel Reich-Ranicki), to the novella Der Leviathan, Roth's last...

The original version of the great anti-war novel was confiscated by the Russian secret service in 1949 and has now been found in Russian archives. Found, edited and provided with a documentary appendix by Carsten Gansel. A book, back from 70 years as a prisoner of war.

The story of nineteen-year-old Paul Baeumer, who went from school to the front as an unsuspecting war volunteer, is now common knowledge. But when you read it again, the impression is again shocking: how Baeumer experiences the whole brutality of the carnage and the senseless deaths of his comrades instead of the hoped-for enthusiasm for the war and a short adventure is touching and outrageous.