Bern - Fiction & Literature 5

Three classic Richard Sharpe adventures Richard Sharpe and the campaign in northern Portugal, spring 1809 A small British army is stranded when the French invade northern Portugal. Sharpe is cut off……続きを見る

The international publishing sensation is now available in the United Statesーtwo brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters. In o……続きを見る

Marc-Alain, an ex-junior hockey player and now an employee of the Canadian government, is struggling with the end of his 30s. He has minor physical ailments, decreased interest for his job, etc. But……続きを見る

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dub……続きを見る

*SHARPE’S STORM, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Major Sharpe finds himself a fugitive, hunted by enemy and ally alike. Major Richard Sharpe awai……続きを見る

Murder, Lies and Chocolate by Sally Berneathy. Book 2 of the Death by Chocolate Series. Rodney Bradford comes into Lindsay's restaurant, offers to buy her small house for double its value, eats her ……続きを見る

"O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia." O Livro do Desassossego, composto de centenas de fragmentos, dos quais Fernando Pessoa publicou apenas doze, o narrador principal deste livro é o semi-heter……続きを見る

**The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles A Penguin Classic** Robert Fagles, winner of the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation and a 1996 Acade……続きを見る

Towards midnight there was a little commotion on the Havre to Southampton packet boat Columbia, which was drawn up against the quay of the French port, and already preparing for its journey across ……続きを見る

Instead of the book he’s meant to write, Rudolph, a Viennese musicologist, produces this dark and grotesquely funny account of small woes writ large, of profound horrors detailed and rehearsed to th……続きを見る

Only four Roman epic poems survive from the Flavian period (69-96 AD): Valerius Flaccus's Argonautica, Statius's Thebaid and Achilleid, and Silius Italicus's Punica. Neil W. Bernstein argues that th……続きを見る

The heart and spirit of an indomitable people travel far in time and space: the unexpected luxury of a day spent at the home of a Hollywood star leads three old friends to share secret facets of the……続きを見る

Lawyer and former senator Ben Kincaid is meeting with the president when Washington suddenly explodes into chaos. A fanatical foreign dictator has hacked into the U.S. nuclear defense system and now……続きを見る

Horror, Humor, and Heroes is a collection of 12 short stories, 1 novella, and a novel preview. The collection has a little something in it for fans of fantasy, sci-fi, and dark humor. Stories includ……続きを見る

Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead™ are optimized by increasing……続きを見る

George Bernard Shaw was the greatest British dramatist after Shakespeare, a satirist equal to Jonathan Swift, and a playwright whose most profound gift was his ability to make audiences think by pro……続きを見る

Thomas Bernhard was one of the most original writers of the twentieth century. His formal innovation ranks with Beckett and Kafka, his outrageously cantankerous voice recalls Dostoevsky, but his gif……続きを見る

Rest Inn Peace is a charming bed and breakfast nestled in a magical grove on the outskirts of Yellowstone National Park, next to an old cemetery packed with brain-starved zombies. The inn is home to……続きを見る

Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw. Andrew Undershaft, a wealthy weapons trader, despises poverty believing "The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty ... our……続きを見る

Pizza and beer go together. But is pizza and beer any match for - Pizza guy and new girl in town? Weird, witty, and sometimes surprising, Slice - A Romantic Short Story, is a zesty meat lover's deli……続きを見る

"In Romanticism, the untrammeled Romantic in us struggles for expression in Art. The winner-no question-is the reader."ーNew Haven Review Romanticism explores and challenges the central ideas of hig……続きを見る

God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood -- a radical departure from Malamud's previous fic……続きを見る

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) is revered as one of the great British dramatists, credited not only with memorable works, but the revival of the then-suffering English theatre. Shaw was born in Dub……続きを見る

“A compelling mystery and a wise meditation on friendship, marriage, and motherhood.”ーJ. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of Maine Summer vacation on Great Rock Island was suppo……続きを見る

"The Man of Destiny" is one of Shaw's shorter works, just a one act play, in which we see the mastery of character development that is so common to the playwright's works. The play is an investigati……続きを見る

A fascinating novel written by one of the most famous actresses of early cinema, Sarah Bernhardt. The book presents a fictionalised and idealised version of Bernhardt's own life and career. 続きを見る

The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the number one bestseller Vagabond, this is the third instalment in Bernard Cornwell's Grail Quest series. In 1347 the English capture Calais and the war with Fr……続きを見る

*SHARPE’S STORM, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Spain, December 1812 In a deathly cold winter on the Spanish-Portuguese border, a group of deser……続きを見る

*SHARPE’S STORM, the brand new novel in the global bestselling series, is available to pre-order now* Lieutenant Richard Sharpe and a detachment of riflemen join the assault of a strong French force……続きを見る

1820s Britain: after the wars with France, when unemployment was high and soldiers could be paid off, when the government was desperately afraid of social unrest, any crime was drastically punished ……続きを見る