Als Bastian die Chance bekommt, endlich einmal mit dem «Red Hot Viking» zu reden, fackelt er nicht lange: Er fragt ihn, ob er fur sein Uniprojekt uber nordische Gotter modeln mochte. Uberraschend sagt der sogar Ja. Shit! Jetzt muss Bastian tatsachlich das Projekt auf die Beine stellen. ...
Gustav Klimt gave Alma her first kiss. Gustav Mahler fell in love with her at first sight and proposed only a few weeks later. Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius abandoned all reason to pursue her. Poet and novelist Franz Werfel described her as one of the very few magical women that exist. But who was this woman who brought these eminent men to their knees? In Ecstasy, Mary Sharratt answers that question. Coming of age in the midst of a creative an ...
An Oprah Editor's Pick, named as one of Globe & Mail's Best 100 Books of 2014, and one of Quill & Quire's Best Books of 2014 "Bewitching riddle of a novel." – O, the Oprah Magazine "Baillie reminds us of the power of novels to renew the world." – Booklist From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel The Incident Report comes a hypnotic novel following Heinrich Schlogel from Germany to Canada, ...
Malcolm Dowd is almost positive he recognizes the freshman who shows up for a session at his office in Baxter College's Center for Behavioral Health-he just can't place her. When suddenly she stands, takes off her wig, and reveals herself as Noah, the young man Malcolm had been treating months earlier, it marks the start of a relationship that will change them both. After losing his wife at a young age, Malcolm dedicated himself to giv ...
He was a married M.P. with two grown children. On the surface, his life was what he wanted it to be. She was his son's fiancee, a shattered woman who had only known forbidden love. When they meet, their attraction is instantaneous, their obsession complete. And nothing, it seems, can tear them away from each other and their dangerous, damaging, illicit passion… ...
Kim and Harry are total opposites who happen to have the same favorite people in the world: Kim's older sister, Eva, and her young son, Otis. Kim has never seen what her free-spirited big sister sees in a stuck-up banker like Harry and has spent her childhood trying to keep him out, while Harry's favorite occupation is provoking Kim. Both Harry and Kim are too stuck in their prejudices to care about what's really going on beneath ...
"Is Just a Movie is not just a movie, it's a poem, too."—Arundhati Roy, author, The God of Small Things"Earl Lovelace is arguably the Caribbean's greatest living novelist. In Is Just a Movie, he writes at the top of his considerable literary powers, picturing the Caribbean's poor and powerless defending their ever-embattled humanity with resourcefulness and tenacity."—Randall Robinson, author, Makeda"Is Just ...
