Darka and Kat cannot imagine their life without dancing. Olya tries to find friends at a new school and support her father after the divorce. Oleg has been suffering from headaches for many years. And Dmytro doesn't know what to say to the girl he likes. The lives of these teenagers are intricately intertwined and form strange combinations, and sometimes resemble a movie. Lost friendships,...

It’s senior year, and Maeve and her friends are practicing and strengthening their mystical powers, while Maeve’s new relationship with Roe is exhilarating. But as Roe’s rock-star dreams start to take shape, and Fiona and Lily make plans for faraway colleges, Maeve, who struggles in school, worries about life without them-will she be selling incense here in Kilbeg, Ireland, until she’s...

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer-they have been her brother figures,...

Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: Survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. The catch? Avery has no idea why - or even who Tobias Hawthorne is.

Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television “family.” But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him...

In The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury, America’s preeminent storyteller, imagines a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor- of crystal pillars and fossil seas-where a fine dust settles on the great empty cities of a vanished, devastated civilization. Earthmen conquer Mars and then are conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of...

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon....

Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement.

The best cure for blues and depression. Slava Se is the pseudonym of the Latvian author Vyacheslav Soldatenko, who writes in Russian. He is a psychologist by training and works as a plumber. He also plays the guitar, gives concerts in the theater and writes books... Thanks to his good sense of humor and the quality of his literature, his books are very popular.

»Buddenbrooks« erschien 1901 und war Thomas Manns erster Roman. Bis heute zählt die bewegende Geschichte der Kaufmannsfamilie aus Lübeck zu den meistgelesenen Klassikern der deutschen Literatur.

»Berlin Alexanderplatz« gehört neben dem »Ulysses« von James Joyce und »Manhattan Transfer« von John Dos Passos zu den bedeutendsten Großstadtromanen der Weltliteratur. Erstmals 1929 im S. Fischer Verlag erschienen, erzählt der Roman die bewegende Geschichte des Franz Biberkopf, der nach seiner Entlassung aus dem Gefängnis in einen Strudel aus Verrat und Verbrechen gerät. Darüber hinaus aber...