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An awe-inspiring account of the afterlife and what happens when it spills over into the world of the living. The new novel from the most exciting new voice in the genre since Neal Stephenson. Loss is a thing of the past. Murder is obsolete. Death is just the beginning. In 1938, death is no longer feared but exploited. Since the discovery of the afterlife, the British Empire has extended its reach into Summerland, a metropolis for the recently deceased. Yet Britain isn't the only contender for power in this life and the next.

The novels of Iain M. Banks have forever changed the face of modern science fiction. With breathtaking imagination and extraordinary storytelling, they have secured his reputation as one of the most extraordinary and influential writers in the genre. 'Banks is a phenomenon' William Gibson It is...

Madame Moulin hat sich das Schlüsselbein gebrochen. Die Ballettschule wird vorübergehend geschlossen. Laura und Kim machen sich große Sorgen. Sie wollen doch tanzen! Eine Vertretung muss her, die die Tanzstunden übernimmt. Madame Moulin bittet einen befreundeten Tänzer um Hilfe. Aber ein Mann als Ballettlehrer?

Die Quantenphysik beschreibt Eigenschaften von kleinsten Einheiten, zum Beispiel Photonen, Elektronen oder Atomen...

Vor fast zehn Jahren verwüstete das sogenannte Jahrhunderthochwasser weite Teile Mitteleuropas. Viele Menschen haben dabei viel verloren...

Arifa Akter ist 36 Jahre alt. Über 20 Jahre davon hat sie in Textilfabriken in Dhaka gearbeitet. Mit zehn Jahren fing sie als Helferin an, für etwa 3.30 Euro...

Frauen, die ihre Träume wahr machten, wollten meist hoch hinaus und bei ihren Bemühungen konnte sie niemand aufhalten. Sie haben sich gegen Väter, Mütter, Brüder, Lehrer und gesellschaftliche Konventionen gestellt, um abzuheben und die gläserne Decke zu durchbrechen. Kurzweilige Lebensgeschichten von spannenden Frauen, die den großen Sprung wagten: Frauen, die im Hinterhof klein anfingen und später einen Weltkonzern leiteten, wie Margarete Steiff.

Ralph Loman works in an unsatisfying job, for a free London newspaper, when Francine Snaith, a temporary secretary for a corporate finance firm, unexpectedly crosses his path at a party. Her beauty ignites a blaze of excitement in his troubled heart. But Francine is ravenous for attention, driven by a thirst for conquest and when Ralph tries politely to extricate himself, he finds he is bound by chains of consequence from which it seems there is no escape.

We've heard the name "Condoleezza Rice" over and over again as the spokesperson for President George W. Bush in matters of national security and foreign affairs. She presented a balanced, firm, unafraid presence to the country after the terrible events of September 11, 2001, as she spoke to the media and the public on behalf of the President. And, when the President has something to say about our friends and foes overseas, "Condi," as she is known to her friends, is usually standing in the background.

"It began with a spark." A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and an invalid dreaming of his anxious boyhood. Their landlord's relationship with them is both intimate and shadowy. At times he shares their preoccupations and memories. He will also share their fate. In Night of Fire the passions and obsessions of these unquiet lives reach beyond the dying house that holds them. Ranging from an African refugee camp to the cremation-grounds of India, their memories mutate and criss-cross in a novel of lingering beauty and mystery.

The heartbreaking story of the love affair between Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya the true tragedy behind the timeless classic. When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of...

The emotional and intriguing story of life, love and loss from the No. 1 bestseller of Then She Was Gone, brought to you by Penguin. After her number-one single, she was never heard of again . . . Fifteen years later, Bee Bearhorn is found dead in her flat. Shiver in fear when Pandora opens her...

One month into our stay, we'd managed to dispatch most of our charges. We executed the chickens. One of the cats disappeared, clearly disgusted with our urban ways. And Lucky [the cow] was escaping almost daily. It seemed we didn't have much of a talent for farming. And we still had eleven months to go." Antonia Murphy, you might say, is an unlikely farmer. Born and bred in San Francisco, she spent much of her life as a liberal urban cliché, and her interactions with the animal kingdom rarely extended past dinner.

Radiospektakl' "Majskaja noch'" - po motivam odnoimennoj povest' Nikolaja Vasil'evicha Gogolja. Vhodit v cikl "Vechera na hutore bliz Dikan'ki". Napisana v 1829 - 1830 godah. Molodoj kazak Levko, syn sel'skogo golovy, bez pamjati vljublen v krasavicu Gannu, no otec junoshi, sel'skij glava, kategoricheski protiv togo, chtoby syn imel otnoshenija s prostoj kazachkoj. On ne daet svoego soglasija na venchanie molodyh. Otec nastol'ko uprjam, chto Levko idet na vsjacheskie uhishhrenija, chtoby poluchit' zhelaemoe.

Detskij radiospektakl' "Ole-Lukoje" - po odnoimennoj skazke Gansa Kristiana Andersena. Skazka rasskazyvaet o tainstvennom misticheskom sushhestve Ole-Lukoje. On prihodit k detjam po vecheram, kogda oni uzhe ukladyvajutsja spat', i navevaet im sladkie sny. On nosit podmyshkoj dva zontika, kotorye raskryvaet spjashhim detjam. Dlja detej, kotorye veli sebja horosho, prednaznachen zont s krasivymi kartinkami.

Zolotaja antilopa - klassicheskij primer indijskogo fol'klora. Nauchit malyshej otlichat' dobro ot zla, pomozhet ponjat' smysl nastojashhej iskrennej druzhby. Istorija Zolotaja antilopa otkroet detjam mir social'nogo obshhestva, v kotorom est' bogatye i dobrye, shhedrye i korystnye. Gde prostoj krest'janskij mal'chik okazalsja gorazdo spravedlivee i blagorodnee, chem bogatej radzha.

Abridged edition. C. J. Sansom's bestselling adventures of Matthew Shardlake continue in the fourth title of the series, the haunting Revelation. Spring, 1543. King Henry VIII is wooing Lady Catherine Parr, whom he wants for his sixth wife. But this time the object of his affections is resisting...

Abridged edition. Heartstone is C. J. Sansom's fifth spellbinding mystery in the Shardlake series. Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth...

A gripping, festive novel, Christmas Under the Stars by Karen Swan reveals the devastating power of secrets. 'Tuck yourself in under a blanket and get lost in the adventure' – Heat Worlds apart. A love without limit. In the snow-topped mountains of the Canadian Rockies, Meg and Mitch are...

Emma and Leo have been together forever, but their relationship seems to have lost its sparkle. When Leo turns up to Emma's 30th birthday dinner unforgivably late and extremely drunk, she can't help wishing for someone to wave a magic wand and turn Leo into a reliable and considerate boyfriend. Then Leo's path crosses with a decidedly unusual girl called Isobel, and as he falls under her spell, Emma sees him change before her very eyes. Soon she regrets wishing for a new Leo at all.