Thanks to a DNA test, Avery knows she’s not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. As the mystery grows and the plot thickens, Grayson and Jameson, two of the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. And there are threats lurking around every corner, as adversaries emerge...

Belonging in the immortal company of the great works of literature, Dante Alighieri’s poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise—the sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.

She would do anything for Father. That's why she takes care of all her little sisters. That's why she runs end-of-the world drills. That's why she never asks questions. Because Father knows best. Until the day he doesn't. Until the day the government raids the compound and separates Piper from her siblings, from Mother, from the Aunts, from all of Father's followers--even from Caspian, the boy...

Laborers in California's dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own. When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfillment of their dream seems to be within their grasp. But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a...

‘Speak up for yourself-we want to know what you have to say.’ From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, an outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, Melinda becomes increasingly...

Berlin, 1942: When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move to a new house far, far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people in the distance.

«Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften», Musils unvollendetes Opus magnum, ist eines der wirkungsmächtigsten Werke der modernen Literatur, «ein letztes Prunkstück österreichischen Barocks, strotzend von Überfülle, Fleisch und Kostüm, Vorhang und Hintergrund, Sinnlichkeit und Reflexion». (Ernst Fischer)

‘Der Richter und sein Henker’ ist einer seiner berühmtesten Romane - die Geschichte eines Mordes. Mit den reißerischen Mitteln einer Detektivstory erzählt er die Aufklärung einer Gewalttat an einem Polizeileutnant, den letzten Fall des todkranken Komissars Bärlach - die Geschichte einer hintergründigen Pointe.

Charles Dickens’ Klassiker in einer modernen Neuübersetzung von Hans-Christian Oeser, die dem Geist des Originals wunderbar treu bleibt! Die bekannte Weihnachtserzählung gehört zum Fest einfach dazu und damit die berührende Botschaft: Weihnachten, das ist das Fest der Liebe und Menschlichkeit.

Eine kleine literarische Grundversorgung für alle, die dem Zauber von Advents- und Weihnachtszeit mit Vorfreude entgegenfiebern.

Zum schönsten Fest des Jahres gehören Weihnachtslieder einfach dazu. Damit am Weihnachtsbaum auch alle mitsingen können, versammelt »Weihnachtslieder« die Texte der 80 schönsten und populärsten Weihnachtslieder für das gemeinsame Singen im Advent und an Weihnachten bis zum Dreikönigsfest. Mit stimmungsvollen Illustrationen von Frank Walka.