Welcome to the Grandest Game, an annual competition run by billionaire Avery Grambs and the four infamous Hawthorne brothers, whose family fortune she inherited. Designed to give anyone a shot at fame and fortune, this year’s game requires one of seven golden tickets to enter. With millions on the line, those seven players will do whatever it takes to win.

Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson’s half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem—efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting...

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...

Miniature edition. White paper, large, legible font. Flipbook format, great for reading in the subway, on the bus, in a plane.

Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents’ cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera. Each is unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, when, during the restless summer weeks, unrelenting currents of obsession, fascination, and desire intensify their passion and test the...

Yevgeny Yevtushenko tells about the history of the creation of the Thirteenth Symphony by Dmitry Shostakovich, which rightfully belongs to the great works of the 20th century, as well as the history of his poem 'Babi Yar', published in 'Literaturnaya Gazeta' in 1961 and immediately became an event. Shostakovich's music and Yevtushenko's poems told about the tragedy that happened in 1941 and...

В книгу вошли два самых известных романа американского писателя Марка Твена 'Приключения Тома Сойера' и 'Приключения Гекльберри Финна'. Историями о приключениях двух отчаянных и непослушных мальчишек вот уже почти два века зачитываются мальчишки и девчонки. Том и Гек – два хороших друга. Правда, дружить им запрещают, ведь Гек – бродяга, с ним благовоспитанным детям даже разговаривать нельзя. Но...

'Goodbye To Berlin' is the original story of the chanteuse heroine Sally Bowles. Isherwood ironically captures life in Weimar Berlin, a city infamous for its flourishing demimonde and violent politics.

This book was conceived by the author as a textbook, but as he worked on it, it turned into a confession of a man who invested his life in a lost, but no less interesting, matter — the study of Russian culture. A sick product of a sick system, Russian culture is doomed to perish along with the system. Russian civilization, according to Dmitry Bykov, can still function for some time —...

In der »Filmerzählung« (Plenzdorf) von Paul und Paula spielt sich alles so und nicht anders ab: Es braucht lange bis zur großen Liebe. Paul, persönlicher Referent in einer Außenhandelsbehörde, hat ein bildhübsches, doch nicht sehr gescheites Mädchen geheiratet. Paula, mit zwei Kindern von zwei Männern, arbeitet im Supermarkt und ist entschlossen, dem Werben des älteren Herren und Reifenhändlers...

Hermann Hesses Erzählung über den Gegensatz zwischen Geist- und Sinnenmenschen und ihre produktive Vereinigung im Künstler ist eine moderne Gestaltung des Don Juan und Casanova-Motivs. Sie ist aber auch ein Loblied der Freundschaft, voller Abenteuer in einem zeitlosen Mittelalter. Klösterlicher und städtischer Kunstbetrieb und Vagantenpoesie: »Alle diese Elemente deutsch-romantischer...

Es war ein spektakuläres Ereignis, als Christa Wolf 1982 an der Frankfurter Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-Universität ihre Poetik-Vorlesungen hielt. Und die nachfolgende Buchveröffentlichung wurde zu einem Welterfolg: In Kassandra greift Christa Wolf auf einen Mythos des abendländischen Patriarchats zurück, den Trojanischen Krieg. Während Kassandra, die Seherin, auf dem Beutewagen des Agamemnon...