Therese Raquin is a clinically observed, sinister tale of adultery and murder among the lower orders in nineteenth-century Paris. Zola\'s dispassionate dissection of the motivations of his characters, mere \'human beasts\' who kill in order to satisfy their lust, is much more than an atmospheric Second Empire period-piece. Many readers were scandalized by an approach to character-drawing which seemed

May, 1992. Hana is twelve years old when she is put on one of the last UN evacuation buses fleeing the besieged city of Sarajevo. Her twenty-one-year-old sister, Atka, staying behind to look after their five younger siblings, is there to say goodbye. Thin

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He\'s been looking in the windows again. Messing with cameras. Leaving notes. Supposed to be a refuge. But death got inside. When Katie Straw\'s body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police decide it\'s an open-and-shut case. A standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of Widringham women\'s refuge where Katie worked don\'t agree. They say it\'s murder. Will you listen

Told for the first time from their perspective, the story of children who survived the chaos and trauma of the Holocaust How can we make sense of our lives when we do not know where we come from? This was a pressing question for the youngest survivors of the Holocaust, whose prewar memories were vague or nonexistent. In this beautifully written account, Rebecca Clifford follows the lives of one hundred

A wind of change was blowing in the Eighties, by the end of the decade the Cold War was history. But what really moved a whole generation in these thrilling years was the solution of Rubik\'s cube! The magic cube is not the only object which intrinsically linked to the Eighties. The technical progress in form of computers, videogames and walkmans became part of every day life.

An adult fantasy/horror epic of monumental proportions, Kentaro Miura\'s Berserk is now offered at its original published size in handsome deluxe hardcover editions each collecting three volumes of the acclaimed manga series. Marked with the unholy Brand of Sacrifice that draws the damned to him, Guts the Black Swordsman battles the minions of Hell that thwart his search for Casca, his former captain

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In a future where consumerism, superficiality and corruption reign supreme, outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem has decided to stop sitting idly by and watching the world crumble around him. No one in The City is safe. YEAR TWO: I HATE IT HERE Outlaw journalist Spider Jerusalem has covered every flavor of newsworthy depravity in the course of his long and chemically enhanced career. But the legendary

1930s Hollywood. The depression has receded, the studios are booming, and the glitz and glamour are bewitching. But for Cecilia Brady, this is just life. That is, until she meets Monroe Stahr...Stahr is at the centre of it all. A genius production chief in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Cecilia is mesmerised. But Stahr\'s attentions are caught elsewhere - in the arms of a mysterious woman - and Cecilia

In The Illustrated Mum, Wilson introduces us to Dolphin, a young girl living in the wake of her tattooed mother Marigold\'s manic depression. With her older sister, Star, on the brink of adulthood and facing the traumas of adolescence, and her mum sin king further and further into her illness, Dol has no-one to turn to when the constant bullying at school causes her to withdraw into her own world,

It was just over 60 years ago that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, two of the world\'s most powerfully imposing leaders, died and their regimes crumbled. One of the most illuminating facts about this dark era of history is the way in which these tyrants, and others like them, used graphic design as an instrument of power. But how did these regimes succeed in influencing the minds of millions? It

Marco ist fünfzehn und hasst sein Leben in einem Clan,dessen Mitglieder von ihrem gewalttätigen und zynischen Anführer Zola in die Kriminalität gezwungen werden. Als er sein Sklavendasein nicht mehr aushält und flieht, stößt er ganz in der Nähe von Zolas Wohnsitz auf eine Männerleiche Die Suche nach dem Mörder führt Carl, Assad, Rose und Gordon, den Neuen im Sonderdezernat Q, tief hinein in das Netzwerk

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