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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Sharla Cody is only five but has already had a troubled life. Then she finds herself dumped with an elderly neighbour when her mother takes off for the summer. Although Sharla is not the angelic child Addy Shadd had pictured when she agreed to look a fter her, the two soon forge a deep bond. To Addy\'s surprise, Sharla\'s presence brings back memories of her own childhood in Rusholme, a town settled

Bernd Obermann has been living in New York for several years, in the part of the city historically known as Hell\'s Kitchen. He is intimately involved with his surroundings, and so he hardy betakes himself to the fundamental New York to lead us to the undiscovered Harlem, Coney Island, the recently russianized Rockaways, to a new soul food restaurant, to the best pizza parlor in little Italy, to the

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As seen on the SERIAL podcast, season 2, episode 1 (\"Dustwun\") Open this wordless book and zoom from a farm to a ship to a city street to a desert island. But if you think you know where you are, guess again. For nothing is ever as it seems in Istvan Banyai\'s sleek, mysterious landscapes of pictures within pictures, which will tease and delight readers of all ages.

FEAR KEEPS THEM RUNNING. HOPE KEEPS THEM ALIVE. Vivid, visceral, utterly compelling, AMERICAN DIRT is the first novel to explore the experience of attempting to illegally cross the US-Mexico border. Described as \'A Grapes of Wrath for our times\' (Don Winslow) it is a story that will leave you utterly changed. Yesterday, Lydia had a bookshop. Yesterday, Lydia was married to a journalist. Yesterday,

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

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Though most famous for his engravings, Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) was also a master painter and draftsman whose work exemplifies the spirit of German art. Dürer\'s importance in the German High Renaissance was such that he can be considered to embody the movement entirely. His visits to Italy (where he studied most notably with Giovanni Bellini) had a profound effect on his artistic development and

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While the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerillas, unfrocked priests and reformed though by no means inactive whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfillment. But for Cardinal Guzman, a man tormented by his own private demons, their stupendous, hedonistic fiestas represent the epicenter of all heresies.

Wenn die große Liebe verloren scheint... Der 91-jährige Ira steht nach einem schweren Unfall an der Schwelle des Todes. Nur die Erinnerungen an seine verstorbene Frau Ruth halten ihn am Leben. Währenddessen kämpfen Sophia und Luke, ein junges Paar, um ihre Liebe. Sie sind so verschieden, dass eine gemeinsame Zukunft kaum vorstellbar ist. Können sich die beiden Generationen gegenseitig retten? Nach

\"My Family and Other Animals\" is the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. \'What we all need,\' said Larry, \'is sunshine...a country where we can grow.\' \'Yes, dear, that would be nice,\' agreed Mother, not really listening. \'I had a letter from

A New York Times #1 Bestseller A New York Times and Washington Post notable book, and one of the Financial Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Slate, Mother Jones, The Daily Beast, and BookPage\'s best books of the year Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the long-awaited new novel—a book that sold more than a million copies the first week it went on sale in Japan—from the award-winning,