Es ist das gewaltigste Unterfangen, dem sich die Menschheit seit Beginn der bemannten Raumfahrt je gegenübersah: die Besiedelung eines neuen Sonnensystems. Ein Raumschiff mit Kolonisten machte sich einst auf den Weg zum Tau-Ceti-System, um eine neue Heimat zu finden. Nun, Jahrzehnte später, sind sie beinahe angekommen. Doch welche Abenteuer und Gefahren werden die Menschen dort - 11,9...

Der neueste Fall stellt sich für Kommissar Schneider schwieriger alle vorhergehenden dar. Das muß man sich mal vorstellen!. Und grausamer ist dieser Fall auch, denn es handelt sich nicht nur um einen Allgemeinmörder, sondern um eine ganze Sekte, anscheinend, oder sind gar Tiere zum Mord erzogen? Ein Huhn totet! Es ist unglaublich, aber in wessen Auftrag? Der Kommissar weiß manchmal nicht ein...

Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic! This glorious new edition of Newt Scamander's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (considered a classic throughout the wizarding world) features an extraordinary array of magical creatures, from Acromantula to Yeti via ten different breeds of dragon – all beautifully illustrated in full colour by the brilliantly inventive,...

The extraordinary life of Cher can be told by only one person … Cher herself. After more than seventy years of fighting to live her life on her own terms, Cher finally reveals her true story in intimate detail, in a two-part memoir. Her remarkable career is unique and unparalleled. The only woman to top Billboard charts in seven consecutive decades, she is the winner of an Academy Award, an...

Guy Montag was a fireman whose job it was to start fires... The system was simple. Everyone understood it. Books were for burning...along with the houses in which they were hidden. Guy Montag enjoyed his job. He had been a fireman for ten years, and he had never questioned the pleasure of the midnight runs nor the joy of watching pages consumed by flames...never questioned anything until he...

In Other Words is a revelation. It is at heart a love story of a long and sometimes difficult courtship, and a passion that verges on obsession: that of a writer for another language. For Jhumpa Lahiri, that love was for Italian, which first captivated and capsized her during a trip to Florence after college. Although Lahiri studied Italian for many years afterwards, true mastery had always...

Told in multiple POVs, A Game of Gods is the final installment in the Hades Saga by USA Today Bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair.Hades, God of the Dead, has finally made Persephone his in every way possible. With their wedding on the horizon, the couple should be ecstatic. But Demeter is wreaking havoc on their bliss by battering the whole of New Greece with erratic and dangerous weather....

Demon's birth begins with him looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise. In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty and addiction aren't ideas. They're as natural as the grass grows. For Demon, born on...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners...

Demigods Nico di Angelo and Will Solace must endure the terrors of Tartarus in their attempt to rescue an old friend in this thrilling adventure co-written by best-selling author Rick Riordan and award-winning author Mark Oshiro. As the son of Hades, Nico di Angelo been through so much, from the premature deaths of his mother and sister, to being outed against his will, to losing his friend...

Stephen Hawking was a very famous scientist whose ideas changed the world. He studied space and time and taught people about the universe. Stephen was often very ill and his life was not easy, but it was extraordinary. Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language....

Eine Liebesgeschichte? - Zweifellos. Die zärtliche Zuneigung der Bauernkinder Sali und Vreneli ist voller Poesie, voller Licht und Sonne. Die Sehnsucht, die sie weckt, hat ihre Wurzel jedoch nicht in der Erfüllung. Denn von Habsucht ist die kleine Welt der Kinder bestimmt, von der Besitzgier ihrer sich auf den Tod verfeindenden Väter.

Der Bahnwärter Thiel lebt glücklich mit seiner Frau und seinem Sohn Tobias zusammen und führt seinen Dienst stets pflichtbewusst und zuverlässig aus. Als seine Frau stirbt, heiratet er die dominante und herrische Magd Lene, mit der er ein Kind bekommt. Lene misshandelt Tobias, und Thiel sieht in einer Wahnvorstellung bereits seine erste Frau mit einem blutigen Bündel über die Gleise fliehen....

Kafka beendete die Niederschrift dieser "kleinen Geschichte", die er auch selbst einmal als "ausnehmend ekelhafte Geschichte" bezeichnete, in der Nacht vom 6. Dezember zum 7. Dezember 1912. Er beschreibt hier minutioes die Folgen der Verwandlung des Handelsreisenden Gregor Samsa in eine Tiergestalt und somit die unterschiedlichsten Elemente der Gegenwelt des Menschlichen. Im Jahr 1914 von...

Hedda Gabler to jedna z wielkich kobiecych postaci Ibsena - kobieta trawiona wielkimi ambicjami, która nie potrafi odnaleźć swojego miejsca w społeczeństwie. Henrik Ibsen konfrontuje niesprecyzowane dążenia bohaterki oraz mieszczański świat, którego ona nie potrafi i nie chce uznać za swój. Z konieczności zgodziła się na rolę żony w mieszczańskim domu, lecz pragnie czegoś więcej, za wszelką...

Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he...

Jane Austen is without question, one of England's most enduring and skilled novelists. With her wit, social precision, and unerring ability to create some of literature's most charismatic and believable heroines, she mesmerises her readers as much today as when her novels were first published. Whether it is her sharp, ironic gaze at the Gothic genre invoked by the adventures of Catherine...

In the Middle Ages there were gaols and dungeons, but punishment was for the most part a spectacle. In this provocative work, Michel Foucault argues that the development of the Western system of prisons, police and legal hierarchies have merely shifted the focus of social control from our bodies to our souls.

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James inimitable poise, is of the widest...

With Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, International Booker Prize-winner Olga Tokarczuk returns with a subversive, entertaining noir novel.