In September 1984, a man calling himself Roy Walsh checked into The Grand Hotel in Brighton and planted a bomb in room 629. The device was primed to explode in twenty-four days, six hours and six minutes, when intelligence had confirmed that...
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High Lonesome is a darkly comic, fiercely tragic, and strikingly original odyssey into American life. This collection by the author of Airships and Bats Out of Hell explores lost moments in time with intensity, emotion, and an eye to the past. In...
J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel "High Rise" contains all of the qualities we have come to expect from this author: alarming psychological insights, a study of the profoundly disturbing connections between technology and the human condition, and an...
Told more or less in reverse chronological order, High Tide is the story of Ieva, her dead lover, her imprisoned husband, and the way their youthful decisions dramatically impacted the rest of their lives. Taking place over three decades, High...
Higher state of...
Eliza Sommers es una joven chilena que vive en Valparaíso en 1894, el año en que se descubre oro en California. Su amante, Joaquín Andieta, parte hacia el norte decidido encontrar fortuna, y ella decide seguirlo. El viaje infernal,...
Deep in Provence, a century ago, four stone houses perch on a hillside. Wildness presses in from all sides. Beyond a patchwork of fields, a mass of green threatens to overwhelm the village. The animal world — a miming cat, a malevolent boar —...
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Endlich ist das entsetzliche Ringen vorüber, ist der furchtbare Bürgerkrieg zwischen den Nord- und Südstaaten Amerikas beendet. Der Norden hat gesiegt, wenn auch zu einem hohen, blutigen Preis: 600.000 Menschen mußten auf den...
If you want to learn about yourself, start by exploring the world around you.
Drawing on the rich experience of his own life, best-selling author Paulo Coelho takes us back in time to relive the dreams of a generation that longed for peace and dared...