"The Phenomenon of Man" ist ein philosophisches Werk von Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, das die Entwicklung des Lebens auf der Erde aus einer einzigartigen Perspektive betrachtet. Das Buch stellt eine Synthese von Wissenschaft und...

The New York Times bestselling author of State of Wonder, Run, and Bel Canto creates a resonant portrait of a life in this collection of writings on love, friendship, work, and art. "The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being...

"Set This House in Order" von Matt Ruff ist ein psychologischer Roman, der sich um zwei Hauptfiguren dreht, Andy Gage und Penny Driver, die beide an einer dissoziativen Identitätsstörung leiden. Nach einem traumatischen Erlebnis in...

You'll be silent forever, and I'll be gone in the dark. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders....

Natalie and François are the perfect couple, and perfectly happy. But after François dies suddenly, only seven years into their still blissful marriage, the widowed Natalie erects a fortress around her emotions into which no one can gain...

"Doris Lessing, of all the postwar English novelists, is the foremost creative descendant of that great tradition' which includes George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence." — New York Times Book Review Martha Quest, the embodied heroine of the...

Nancy Mitford meets Nora Ephron in the pages of The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Helene Hanff's delightful travelogue about her “bucket list” trip to London When devoted Anglophile Helene Hanff is invited to London for the English...

From Louis Ferrante, a one-time mafia thug and federal prison inmate, comes this remarkable and moving memoir of his journey from a life of crime to that of a promising writer Up until his incarceration, Louis Ferrante led the life of a...

How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and...

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen. In Equal Rites, a dying wizard tries...

"A thing of beauty. . . . A wildly funny, infinitely wise, near to tragic tale of man against the bog god machine." --Houston Chronicle Edward Abbey's classic comic gem of destructive mayhem and outrageous civil disobedience--the novel...

Das Buch "Field Guide To Bigfoot, Yeti & Other Mystery Primates Worldwide" von Patrick Huyghe ist eine umfassende Untersuchung und Katalogisierung der weltweit berichteten Sichtungen von mysteriösen Primaten. Es bietet detaillierte...