High Society - Prijzen

La fille qui lisait dans le metro

Juliette prend le métro tous les jours à la même heure. La ligne 6, c'est chez elle. Elle aime y observer ceux qui lisent : la vieille dame, le collectionneur d'éditions rares, la jeune fille qui pleu...

Life Death Prizes

Shortlisted for the 2012 COSTA Novel Award Billy's Mum is dead. He knows - because he reads about it in magazines - that people die every day in ways that are more random and tragic and stupid than...

Post Office Girl

It's the 1930s. Christine, A young Austrian woman whose family has been impoverished by the war, toils away in a provincial post office. Out of the blue, a telegram arrives from an American aunt she's...

The Universe in Miniature in Miniature

In this genre-busting book from award-winning novelist Patrick Somerville characters, stories, and stray thoughts revolve around the The Machine of Understanding Other People, the story of a Chicago...

How Beautiful We Were Random House Large Print

From the celebrated author of the New York Times bestseller Behold the Dreamers comes a sweeping, wrenching story about the collision of a small African village and an American oil company. &;A novel...

We Own You

The Force Crime Team was well versed in tackling organised drugs crime. A routine raid rapidly takes them out of their comfort zone and into the world of prostitution, corruption and the cruel exploit...

Ragged Dick

It is canonical as a cultural text, rather than a purely literary one, as this Norton Critical Edition reflects. An extensive Contexts section includes maps, photographs, and documents showing how a...

Ein Fall von Liebe (Historisch, Liebe)

History of Science in Society

A History of Science in Society: A Reader, edited by Andrew Ede and Lesley B. Cormack, is a collection of primary source documents and an excellent companion to their text by the same name. It include...

Greece

Gathers stories from modern Greek writers such as Eva Vlami, George Seferis, and Odysseus Elytis. Discover Greece -- a country that has inspired centuries of travel -- through its best modern writers....

Roberta and Rogene

This is a lighthearted story of identical twin girls growing up in a small town in West Texas in the days of World War II and rationing, when the automobile was in its early days and before television...

Upon These Shores

This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and chronologically, th...