German Drama

A thrilling tale of encounters with nature’s masters of biochemistry In Venomous, the molecular biologist Christie Wilcox investigates venoms and the animals that use them, revealing how they work, what they do to the human body, and how they can revolutionize biochemistry and medicine today...

Patch ist ein unterschätztes Schauspieltalent, findet er zumindest, dem eigentlich nur noch eins fehlt: der erste feste Freund. Darum nimmt er sich zu Beginn des neuen Schuljahrs vor, das mit der ersten Liebe und dem Theatererfolg endlich in die Tat umzusetzen. In seinem Heimatort Hiverhampton ist er jedenfalls der Teenager mit den größten Ambitionen und einem besorgniserregenden Level an Selbstbewusstsein. Das hilft schon eine ganze Menge, als das Casting fürs neue Schul-Theaterstück beginnt.

Set in Toronto and Italy, this powerful sequel to In a Glass House explores the sometimes forbidden aspect of desire and one’s longing for what is unrecoverable. Victor Innocente remeets his half-sister in Toronto, shortly after his father’s death. Uneasy with their new proximity in each...

The beloved actor and screenwriter’s second novel, set in 1903, stars a young concert violinist named Jeremy Webb, who one day goes from accomplished adagios with the Cleveland Orchestra to having a complete breakdown onstage. If he hadn’t poured a glass of water down the throat of a tuba...

In A Quitter’s Paradise, the darkly humorous debut by bold, new voice Elysha Chang, a young woman does everything she can to ignore her mother’s death, even as unearthed family secrets become increasingly inextricable from her own. Eleanor is doing just fine. Yes, she’s hiding things from...

“Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I’ve had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams’s The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!” —Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books “Holly Wilson’s Kittentits is sacred and profane...

From the award-winning author of The Bellwether Revivals comes a "gorgeous and harrowing work" (Emily St. John Mandel) set on a mysterious island, where artists strive to recover their lost gifts--and where nothing is quite as it seems. Situated on a Turkish island, Portmantle might be the...

Set ten years after Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom’s death, Rabbit Remembered returns readers to the small Pennsylvania town where Harry’s widow, Janice, and his son, Nelson, still reside. They are faced with a surprise when Annabelle, Harry’s 39-year-old illegitimate daughter, arrives on the...

Musical-Fan Riley träumt davon, Regisseurin am Broadway zu werden. Ausschlaggebend für diesen Plan ist es, das Frühlingsmusical ihrer Highschool erfolgreich über die Bühne zu bringen. Als sie eine leichtsinnige Entscheidung trifft, bekommt sie die schlimmste Strafe aller Zeiten: Sie muss ihren Hausarrest als Aushilfe im Sword and Board Games, dem Spielwarenladen ihres Vaters, verbringen.

A candid and moving memoir from the critically acclaimed singer and songwriterFor thirty years as a musician, Rosanne Cash has enjoyed both critical and commercial success, releasing a series of albums that are as notable for their lyrical intelligence as for their musical excellence.Now, in her...

Aurelia George was prepared to let the world believe she was dead. Tangled in the arms of her mountain men and bound only by the rules they make, the twice disgraced pop star had found her happily ever after. Or so she thought. The only thing surprising about learning her uncle wants her dead is...

In January 1945, in the waning months of World War II, a small group of people begin the longest journey of their lives: an attempt to cross the remnants of the Third Reich, from Warsaw to the Rhine if necessary, to reach the British and American lines. Among the group is eighteen-year-old Anna...

Widerwillig empfängt der bekannte Schriftsteller Pawel Wassiljewitsch die Muraschkina, eine emporstrebende, rotgesichtige Kollegin. Bevor die fleischige Dame ihren Fünfakter der Zensur vorlegt, will sie ihn Pawel Wassiljewitsch vorlesen. Dieser schätzt aber nur die eigenen Werke, wagt aber auch nicht, abzulehnen. Er gibt der Besucherin eine halbe Stunde Zeit.

“[A] striking debut. . . funny, heartbreaking, and real.”––SAM LANSKY, author of Broken People Prep meets The Secret History in this searing debut novel about a tragic scandal at an American prep school, told in the form of a literary investigation through a distinctly...

Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high...

In a rare opportunity to hear from a legend of Canadian literature in his own voice, this newly-abridged audio edition of How I Spent My Summer Holidays is read by the W.O. Mitchell himself. During the hot Saskatchewan summer of 1924, twelve-year-old Hugh digs up a cave to discover an escaped...

Der einfache Soldat Franz Woyzeck lebt mit seiner Geliebten Marie und ihrem Kind am Rande der Gesellschaft. Um sie zu ernähren, unterwirft er sich entwürdigenden medizinischen Experimenten. Als Marie eine Affäre beginnt, gerät Woyzeck immer mehr in einen Strudel aus Eifersucht, Wahn und Verzweiflung – mit tödlichem Ausgang. Büchners fragmentarisches Meisterwerk zeigt schonungslos, wie prekäre Lebensbedingungen den Menschen zermürben – zeitlos, kraftvoll, erschütternd.

“Friendship takes a dark turn in this sexy, seductive thriller.” —People Two couples. One dark, twisted game of love and obsession. Suspend your disbelief on this roller-coaster ride of a domestic thriller about the dangerous secrets that come to light when a wild fantasy turns sinister...

A kaleidoscopic novel spanning generations and continents, that reveals the connections between four women in their struggle for survival. A woman in 15th century West Africa named Ada buries her child and confronts a Portuguese enslaver. A woman in Victorian England named Ada Lovelace, a...

The Man with No Face is coming. CSI Darby McCormick find an emaciated, terrified woman hiding in the shadows of a crime scene. A DNA search reveals the woman was abducted five years ago and, somehow, she’s escaped the dungeon in which she was caged. With a teenage girl also missing, Darby...