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The Enchanter is the Ur-Lolita, the precursor to Nabokov's classic novel. At once hilarious and chilling, it tells the story of an outwardly respectable man and his fatal obsession with certain pubescent girls, whose grace and subconscious coquetry reveal, to his mind, a special...

Helgoland is a treeless island in the North Sea where the twenty-three-year-old Werner Heisenberg made the crucial breakthrough for the creation of quantum mechanics, setting off a century of scientific revolution. Full of alarming ideas (ghost waves, distant objects that seem to be magically...

A stunning blow to sexism in science: Lucy Cooke debunks an outdated and incorrect conception of animal femininity. Recent evolutionary biology has revolutionized our understanding of what it means to be female. From Madagascar lemurs to orcas in the Salish Sea, Lucy Cooke explores...

Alfa fights with the French army in World War I. In the same front, his friend Mademba becomes injured and asks Alfa to kill him to end his suffering. Anxious to avenge the death of his partner, every night Alfa slips into enemy positions,...

Perseus. Jason. Atalanta. Theseus. Heracles. Rediscover the thrills, grandeur, and unabashed fun of the Greek myths. Whether recounting a tender love affair or a heroic triumph, Fry deftly finds resonance with our own modern minds and hearts. Illustrated throughout with classical art inspired by the...

Laurence Debray is the daughter of the philosopher Régis Debray and the historian Elizabeth Burgos. Her parents came from wealthy families, and both embraced the revolutionary cause of Castro. In this sincere book, Laurence Debray tells the myth and truth of her revolutionary parents...

In the midst of a marital crisis, Clara Montsalvatges sends an email to her siblings, Álvaro and Amanda, to inform them that she is divorcing Joan-Marc. Her personal problems lead her to question what she wants to do with her life and what others...

Ivan Jablonka's grandparents' lives ended long before his began: although Matès and Idesa Jablonka were his family, they were perfect strangers, When he set out to uncover their story, Jablonka had little to work with, Neither of them was the least bit famous, and...

Mysterious apparitions in the middle of the night, presences dark haunting old houses and haunting noises that they tear the silence. A spooky collection of stories from ghosts based on stories by Dickens, Kipling, Lovecraft and other great authors.

A psychological thriller, an immersive read, with echoes of Proust and Haneke... In a small town in the depths of northern France, neighbors Christine and the family formed by Patrice, Marion and their daughter, Ida. On Marion's birthday, the party organized by her husband...

Although we don't like it, fear attracts us! This book brings together five spooky stories from the world's most famous writers tailored for the smallest and most richly illustrated readers: Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, The Mummy, and...

Henry Chinaski has always fought tooth and nail against the “establishment” and its infinite tentacles. But in Hollywood this is not going to be easy: John Pinchot, a crazed film director, has decided to embark on a project that will take the stories of...

The reader who looks at these pages will find texts that speak of the best summer bath; perfect kisses; a mad expedition to the island of Faro at eighteen with a friend; Woody Allen’s films; Mary Poppins’ favorite character. The texts gathered here are...

Welsh picks up with the Trainspotting quartet exactly where he left them — right after that heroin deal that ended in a brawl, and with the proceeds of which Renton fled the country and settled in Amsterdam. In London, Sick Boy meets a posh...

In this story, the ordinary becomes a delirium without one knowing very well how, in which the rare ends up being normal and in which we can't do anything but laugh, because everything is hilarious and surreal at the same time. This story is...

If the conscious mind is nothing more than the tip of the iceberg, what does the rest of it do in the meantime? In his new book, David Eagleman, a highly regarded scientist in the field of neuroscience, makes his way through the depths...

A brilliant and moving account of the Ypi family and their struggle to maintain their dignity in a constantly changing world... Following the success of Free, Lea Ypi returns to unravel the past of her grandmother Leman, a past obscured by the Albanian secret...

Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. It’s an intellectual journey as he inches his way...

What is earthling Arthur Dent doing as a Sandwich Maker on a remote planet whose habitants adore Bob Almighty? How has the Transgalactic reporter had a child with the earthling without taking part of the carnal council? How is it possible that a robot...

Imagine an England where all the pubs are quaint, where the Windsors behave themselves (mostly), where the cliffs of Dover are actually white, and where Robin Hood and his merry men really are merry. This is precisely what visionary tycoon, Sir Jack Pitman, seeks...