Fiction

Lisbon, 1938. In a Europe haunted by the ghost of totalitarianism, a journalist who has been dedicated to the news pages all his life is put in charge of the culture section of a mediocre newspaper. In need of a collaborator, he calls the...

With no capacity for any other intellectual activity, Mirko Czentovicz revealed himself as a world champion chess genius. But, on a boat trip from New York to Buenos Aires, he is presented with an enigmatic opponent: Mr. B., a Viennese nobleman fleeing from the...

Ten gorgeous dogs chase, hide and play with ten juicy sausages in this funny, original book about numbers by the multi-award-winning, bestselling Emily Gravett.Bursting with energy and fun, children will love to count the dogs and the sausages, as well as looking out for...

Florence, mid-16th century. Lucrezia, third daughter of the Grand Duke Cosimo de' Medici, is a quiet and perceptive girl, with a singular talent for drawing, who she enjoys in her discreet and quiet place in the palazzo. But when her sister Maria dies, just...

Rose has just arrived at Avalon School of Magic. She just made her first friends, Merline and Nina, and she just got her magical familiar cat. Everything should be great... But Flamme, her cat, runs away the very first night! What could be happening?

On the first page of this book we find a man facing a firing squad. We are in the Congo, in 1964. That man, kidnapped by the rebels along with fifteen hundred other Westerners, is the young Belgian consul in Stanleyville. His name is...

In a first-person voice as droll and irreverent as it is wise, Nothomb narrates Jesus’s final days, from his trial to his crucifixion to the resurrection, Amid asides about his relationships with his mother and Judas, his love for Mary Magdalene, and his many...

Things are about to get Wicked in New Orleans. Twenty-two year old Ivy Morgan isn’t your average college student. She, and others like her, know humans aren’t the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun… and for food. Her duty to the Order...

This is the last unpublished anthology of Isaac Asimov's science fiction, a work that brings together all those original stories that had never before been published in book form. Goodbye to Earth represents the latest and greatest achievement of the fifty-year career of this...

Originally published in 1965, this autobiographical novel covers a key year in Jack Kerouac's life, the period that led up to the publication of On the Road in September of 1957. After spending two months in the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation...

Welcome to the cursed town of Sparrow. Two centuries ago, three sisters were sentenced to death for witchery. Stones were tied to their ankles and they were drowned in the deep waters surrounding the town. Now, each summer, the sisters return, luring boys into...

A classic collection of Nora Ephron’s uproarious essays—tackling everything from feminism to the media, from politics to beauty products, with her inimitable charm and distinctive wit. In these sharp, hilariously entertaining, and vividly observed pieces, Ephron illuminates an era with wicked honesty and insight.

Every day Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train, to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a...

A new rhymed story, whose protagonist is an industrious little bee. Around her revolves a universe of large and small animals with one characteristic in common: they all want to taste the sweet honey that the little bee makes!

From the hand of Nicoletta Costa, an illustrator who has sold millions of copies of her books around the world, we will meet a kitten who, with their red balloon, lives a fabulous adventure full of fun surprises.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Stalking Jack the Ripper series comes the sizzling, sweepingly romantic sequel to Kingdom of the Wicked. After selling her soul to become Queen of the Wicked, Emilia travels to the Seven Circles with the enigmatic Prince of...

After a narrow escape from the dwarf quarry, the Grace brothers hatch a plan to retrieve the Field Notebook, but when they return to Spiderwick Manor they discover that something even more precious than the Notebook is also missing: their mother! With the help...

First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwick's Guide? And will the Grace kids be left alone, now that the...

As if being attacked by goblins and a bridge troll weren’t enough, Jared is now being targeted by Thimbletack. Simon is keeping an injured and very hungry griffin hidden in the carriage house. And Mallory is convinced the only way to get things back...

Why do the wolves think they can come to town and knock down all the houses? These three pigs won't stand it!The first begins to take aikido classes; he'll make mincemeat of that wolf! His brother learns a bit of jiujitsu; he'll tear that...