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THE SEQUEL TO THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WHATEVER YOU SAY I AM, CHRONICLING THE PAST TWENTY YEARS OF RAPPER EMINEM'S LIFE, BASED ON EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH THE ARTIST, HIS FRIENDS, AND ASSOCIATES "A passionate look at the Detroit rapper's music . . . an expert and thoughtful assessment." -...

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2015 SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER From the acclaimed author of Swing Time, White Teeth and Grand Union, discover a brilliantly funny and deeply mving story about love and family Why do we fall in love...

Dashiell Hammett was a crime writer who elevated the genre to true literature, and The Thin Man was Hammett’s last - and most successful - novel. Following the enormous success of The Thin Man movie in 1934, Hammett was commissioned to write stories for additional films. He wrote two full-length novellas for the films that became After the Thin Man and Another Thin Man.

Lila Mae Watson - the first black female inspector in the world's tallest city - has the highest performance rating of anyone in the Department of Elevator Inspectors. This upsets her superiors, because Lila is an Intuitionist: she inspects elevators simply by the feelings she gets riding in them. When a brand new elevator crashes, Lila becomes caught in the conflict between her Intuitionist methods and the beliefs of the power-holding Empiricists.

A delirious and gripping story of fatherhood and masculinity, told through the reimagined Greek myth of Daedalus, Icarus, King Minos, Ariadne, and the Minotaur. Daedalus of Crete is many things: The greatest architect in the world. The constructor of the Labyrinth that imprisoned the Minotaur...

Narkosmugling, rockerkrige og bloddiamanter fra Sierra Leone har været en del af Christian ”Chester” Grünwaldts liv i 45 år. Men han har også været familiefar. Han startede i 666 Stenløse, og undervejs blev han en del af Nationalen, den øverste ledelse i Bandidos i hele Europa...

Das Felsenbildnis: In einem kleinen Tale der Wildnis stand eine einzige Hütte verlassen und verloren. Die gewaltigen Hochwaldbäume, aus denen die Hütte gezimmert war, trugen zum Teil noch ihre Rinden, unter welchen behende Käfer und nagende Würmchen hausten. Aber das Holz war hart geworden; länger als vierhundert Jahre war es her, dass dieser Hütte Gezimmer emporgesprossen war als junger, grünender, säuselnder, wohldufthauchender Wald.

When a beautiful woman hires private investigator Sam Spade to find her missing sister, his partner is shot and killed that night. As Spade begins to unravel who the killer was, who the woman really is, and why there are dangerous people following her, he realizes that the mystery revolves...

Das 2. Buch Samuel ist der zweite Teil des Buches Samuel im Tanach. Es wird seit dem Mittelalter in 24 Kapitel unterteilt. Hauptfigur dieses Buches ist vielmehr David. Das Buch weist viele Parallelen zum 1. Buch der Chronik auf. Im Gegensatz zu diesem ist es aber merklich kritischer und legt den Schwerpunkt mehr auf die politischen Ereignisse als auf den Kultus.

Als Herwarth Walden, der Herausgeber der literarischen Zeitschrift Der Sturm, im Herbst 1911 nach Norwegen reist, schickt ihm seine Frau Else Lasker-Schüler Briefe hinterher. Darin erzählt sie ihm von ihrer Liebe zu drei anderen Männern. Das Pikante: Sie lässt die Briefe gleichzeitig im Sturm abdrucken. Das macht so eine Furore, dass Lasker-Schüler auch noch weiterschreibt, als ihr Ehemann wieder zuhause ist – und die Ehe allmählich zerbricht.

Drake Weston, Duke of Northumberland, is heir to wealth, prestige, and power. But when his rage pushes him to a tragic mistake, he must leave everything behind. Not just his home, but England herself. Cloaked in a false identity, Drake slips aboard a ship bearing indentured servants to America...

Long marriages are a gift... but they aren't always easy.You know yourselves better. You’ve learned to cherish the small things. You’re past keeping up with the Joneses. And yet, anxieties over grown children, worries about money and health, and feelings of disappointment can challenge even...

Ancient evil invades the land of Second Eden, endangering the existence of that alternate dimension as well as every soul on Earth, and two teenagers have the only means to stop them...

As The Bones of Makaidos begins, a wall of fire protects the inexperienced villagers of Second Eden from a planned invasion of dragons and Nephilim, but how long will the flames last? Billy, Walter, Ashley, Elam, and the faithful dragons help the people prepare, but they are woefully outnumbered...

Enoch’s Ghost, the second book in the Oracles of Fire series, picks up the exciting Dragons in Our Midst story where Tears of a Dragon and Eye of the Oracle ended. Walter, Ashley, and Karen ride the dragon Thigociain search of her son, Gabriel, and her long-lost mate, Makaidos. When Walter and...

Now that they've recognized the pattern, Idina and her unit need to close the Monstrous Pandora's Box to balance out the scales after defeating the Olc. But supernatural entities in Scotland are nothing like what Bravo Team has dealt with back home. Neither is magic. That's a problem when their primary objective is to get in, stop the source of monsters, and get back out. When everything leads Idina and her team back to her Muirden ancestral home in Scotland, the mission takes on a completely different meaning none of them saw coming. 

In his latest adventure Bruno, France's favourite country cop, investigates a long-buried war crime and faces a devastating flood that threatens the town he polices and the people he loves. 'FRENCH TOURISM SHOULD RAISE A GLASS TO WALKER'S DORDOGNE MYSTERIES' Daily Mail The long arm of history...

In The War We Never Fought, Hitchens uncovers the secret history of the government's true attitude and the increasing recruitment of the police and courts to covert decriminalisation initiatives and contrasts it with the rhetoric. Whatever and whoever is to blame for the undoubted mess of Britain's drug policy, it is not prohibition or a war on drugs, for neither exists.

These four works show Samuel Beckett at his most penetrating. Both Krapp's Last Tape (1958) and Not I (1972) are among the most striking pieces written for the theatre in the 20th century. An old man sits at a table, playing back old tapes made when he was younger, mixed glimpses of past feelings. In Not I, we have just a mouth expressing memories and torment in a torrent of words.

The Story of My Life is the explosive and exhilarating autobiography by the infamous libertine Giacomo Casanova. Intense and scandalous, Casanova's extraordinary adventures take the listener on an incredible voyage across 18th-century Europe - from France to Russia, Poland to Spain, and Turkey to Germany, with Venice at their heart.