When the patriarch of the Ballenger empire dies, his son, Jase, becomes its new leader. Even nearby kingdoms bow to the strength of this outlaw family, who have always governed by their own rules.
'You be going to live in the city, Hannah?' Farmer Price asked, pushing his battered hat up over his forehead. 'Wouldn' t think you'd want to go there Times like this, I would have thought your sister would try and keep you away.'
Drue Campbell’s life is adrift. Out of a job and down on her luck, life doesn’t seem to be getting any better when her estranged father, Brice Campbell, a flamboyant personal injury attorney, shows up at her mother’s funeral after a twenty-year absence.
Brr, ist das kalt hier! Mit dem magischen Baumhaus landen Anne und Philipp in einer schneebedeckten Landschaft genau vor den Toren eines römischen Lagers.
Texas, 8. September 1900: Eine gigantische Flutwelle, ausgelöst von einem Hurrikan, bricht über die Stadt Galveston herein und überrascht die Einwohner.
Considered by many to be the first science-fiction novel, the tragic tale of Victor Frankenstein and the tortured creation he rejects is a classic fable about the pursuit of knowledge, the nature of beauty and the monstrosity inherent to man.
Das Kultbuch von Mary Shelley in edler Schmuckausstattung mit Silberprägung! Kaum ein anderer Klassiker hat so viele Bühnenadaptionen und Verfilmungen erfahren wie Mary Shelleys »Frankenstein« (1818).
This edition of Frankenstein is perfect for GCSE-level students: it comes complete with the novel, plus an introduction providing context, and a glossary explaining key terms.
Written in 1816 when she was only nineteen, Mary Shelley's novel of "The Modern Prometheus" chillingly dramatized the dangerous potential of life begotten upon a laboratory table.
Every winter, Wren Silke is chased through the forest in a warped version of a childhood game. The boys who haunt her are judges, powerful and frightening pursuers, who know nothing of her true identity. If they knew she was an augur, their sworn enemy,
Mary Shelley’s timeless gothic classicaccompanied by the art of legendary illustrator Bernie Wrightson live on in this gorgeous illustrated adaptation of Frankenstein—featuring an introduction by Stephen King.
When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met.
Insomniaque, sous le choc d’un diagnostic médical alarmant, Franz Ritter, musicologue viennois, fuit sa longue nuit solitaire dans les souvenirs d’une vie de voyages, d’étude et d’émerveillements.
Par une nuit décisive, un voyageur lourd de secrets prend le train de Milan pour Rome. Quinze années d'activité comme agent de renseignements dans sa Zone...
Un château fort au bord d'un lac, entouré de montagnes et de grandes forets… C'est ce dont reve le comte Alexander Korvanyi.En 1833 ce capitaine hongrois quitte brutalement l'armée impériale pour épouser une jeune autrichienne, Cara von Amprecht.