The first novel in nearly twenty years from the acclaimed actor/writer/director is a book about art and love, fame and heartbreak--a blistering story of a young man making his Broadway debut in Henry IV just as his marriage implodes.
A bracing meditation on fame and celebrity, and the redemptive, healing power of art; a portrait of the ravages of disappointment and divorce; a poignant considerati
In A Little Bit Country, city girl Rorie falls for cowboy Clay after he rescues her in a small town, but their budding romance faces complications. In Country Bride, heartbroken Kate impulsively proposes to her friend Luke, who insists she truly loves him and vows to prove it. Both stories explore the ups and downs of finding love in the countryside.
AI will be the defining development of the 21st century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will generate unprecedented wealth, revolutionize medicine and education through human-machine symbiosis, and create brand-new forms of communication and entertainment.
This definitive publication on Alexander McQueen (1969 - 2010) invites you into the creative mind and world of one of Britain's most brilliant, daring and provocative designers, and the many themes and references that shaped his visionary fashion collections.
One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house-a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, but others are snide, angry and full of pain.
The third book in the globally bestselling Bridgerton Family series, the inspiration behind the Netflix series Bridgerton. Welcome to Benedict's story . . .
Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party and finds that his own ascent becomes linked to Jivan's fall.
Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a white, wealthy family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS—White Girl Spoiled.
After a chance encounter at a Santiago nightclub, aspiring poet Gonzalo reunites with his first love, Carla. Though their desire for each other is still intact, much has changed: among other things, Carla now has a six-year-old son, Vicente. Soon the three form a happy sort-of family—a stepfamily, though no such word exists in their language.
Nearing the age at which his mother had migrated to the US, part of the wave of non-Europeans who arrived after immigration quotas were relaxed in 1965, Albert Samaha began to question the ironclad belief in a better future that had inspired her family to uproot themselves from their birthplace.
Since the days of the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s, no industry has made a greater impact on the world than Silicon Valley. And few individuals have done more to shape Silicon Valley than Peter Thiel.
Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the publication of Divergent with a special edition four-book boxed set of the #1 New York Times bestselling series that captured the hearts of millions of readers and inspired a series of major motion pictures starring Shailene Woodley.
Sol och glittrande hav: En badort är kulissen för denna vackra historia om förbjuden kärlek. Benny Goodman och Ray Charles är i ropet och en ung gymnasist och hans lärarinna finner varandra. Det är en roman om att älska och förlora den man älskar.
Siegfried Lenz är född 1926 i Lyck i Ostpreussen och firar i år sextioårsjubileum som författare. I Tyskland räknas han till en av de största och har s
Sensommaren 1913 kommer den unge adlige poeten Cecil Valance på besök till Two Acres, Cambridgevännen George Sawles familjeställe. Cecil skriver en dikt till Georges lillasyster Daphne, en dikt som kommer att gå in i den engelska litteraturhistorien som ett eko från en förlorad generation. En dikt om kärlek och ett England som redan när dikten skrivs håller på att försvinna.
In J. R. R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and The Silmarillion, Middle-earth endured cataclysmic wars and critical battles, causing great men, women and mystical creatures to arise, influence and shape the course of its history.
?Horan på den normandiska kusten? beskriver tillkomsten av ?Blå ögon svart hår? och pekar fram mot ?Emily L.?, två höjdpunkter i Duras senare författarskap. Men den är också i sig själv en höjdpunkt: en mörk, tät och gnistrande text om skrivande, våld och åtrå. Medan Duras ägnar sommaren 1986 åt att färdigställa sin bok, rör sig hennes älskare och sekreterare mellan kullarna, hotellen och barerna.