What happens if the light goes out? Internet? Connection? How will cities, countries, the planet change? Will modern people be able to live in new conditions? Three teenagers are forced to check this on their own experience. Eve-Lisa will have to put down the tablet and go outside for the first time in many years, Tim will have to leave his favorite books and become her guide in the dark, and...

om, the Cossacks hacked to death his father, his ear was cut off. There are riots in Kiev, the city is again captured by the Bolsheviks, but they have almost no control over the situation. Citizens are being robbed by real and fake Red Army soldiers, on the outskirts of Kiev every now and then gangs of all kinds of atamans - Zeleny, Grigoriev, Struk - are in charge ... Surviving is getting...

As Penny starts the school year she’s ready to face the world—alone. Noah has gone off the radar after ending his world tour early, and no one, including Penny, knows where he is. So when she accepts Megan’s invitation to visit her performing arts school, it seems like an opportunity to make some new friends.

Der Landvermesser K. kommt in einem winterlich stillen Dorf an. Sein Ziel: Das nahe und doch unerreichbare Schloss. Tiefer und tiefer verirrt sich K. im labyrinthischen Verwaltungsapparat des Schlosses und dem undurchsichtigen Beziehungsgeflecht im Dorf, bis nicht nur die Absichten der Dorfgemeinde, sondern auch seine eigenen immer fragwürdiger erscheinen. Das Schloss wurde Franz Kafkas...

»Du bist die Aufgabe. Kein Schüler weit und breit.« – Diesen und 108 weitere Aphorismen notiert Kafka während eines Kuraufenthalts bei seiner Schwester Ottla im böhmischen Zürau. In rätselhafter Mehrdeutigkeit legen sie Zeugnis ab von Kafkas existentieller Selbstbefragung. Neben den Zürauer Aphorismen enthält der Band die sogenannten ›Er-Aphorismen‹, in denen Kafka seine Gedanken fortführt.

No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up on...

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she’s already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she’s learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don’t have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you.

The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as ‘The Metamorphosis,’ ‘In the Penal Colony,’ and ‘A Hunger Artist’ to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume.

A pre-history story by a Belarusian author about a teenage girl whose life is a whirlwind of talent, illness, love and surrounding events. A tight knot of emotions that will eventually turn into power.

These were all just ghosts of the night, phantoms of the mind wandering in the dark. And although he had to see a lot of them and even once during a lonely walk to face Satan himself, the daylight always overcame all this devilry, and then he could lead an ordinary, pleasant life without fear of the forces of the other world.