Uncommon Type - 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...

Söhne der Rosen

Julian Grifter wird direkt nach seinem Abschluss an der Highschool durch die Versetzung seines Vaters dazu gezwungen, seine Heimat in Nampa, Idaho zu verlassen und mit seinen Eltern nach Cape Orchid,...

An Experiment in Love

A New York Times Notable BookA coming-of-age story and a piercing look at the social pretensions and youthful betrayals of a Catholic girlhood.

The Pillow Book

Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly modern protagonist, Swift exposes many of the fol...

The Kept Woman

Part True Detective, part The Girl on the Train. All parts gripping. --theSkimm Husbands and wives. Mothers and daughters. The past and the future. Secrets bind them. And secrets can destroy...

101 Kids Activities that are the Ooey, Gooey-est Ever

Jamie Harrington, co-author of The 101 Coolest Simple Science Experiments - with 90,000 copies sold to date - and manager of the Kids Activities Blog boasting 3.1 million followers, teams up with Brit...

Dr. Slump, Vol. 18

It's a race to the finish line (and not just figuratively!) in the final volume of Dr. Slump! When Taro graduates from high school, he decides to get a job with the Penguin Village Police Department....

Welcome to the Ballroom

Fujita has drifted through middle school aimlessly, unable to find friends or anything that can hold his attention. Then, one day, he's attacked by a gang and saved by a mysterious man. But this isn't...