Peru

Author	Rick Riordan
ISBN	1368001440

In his penultimate adventure, a devastated but determined Apollo travels to Camp Jupiter, where he must learn what it is to be a hero, or die trying.

It's not easy being Apollo, especially when you've been turned into a human and banished from Olympus. On his path to restoring five ancient oracles...

Author	Irvine Welsh
ISBN	0393318680

With the Christmas season upon him, Detective Sergeant Bruce Robertson of Edinburgh's finest is gearing up socially—kicking things off with a week of sex and drugs in Amsterdam.

There are some sizable flies in the ointment, though: a missing wife and child, a nagging cocaine habit, some...

Author	Raymond Carver
ISBN	0679723692

Raymond Carver’s third collection of stories, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, including the canonical titular story about blindness and learning to enter the very different world of another.  These twelve stories mark a turning point in Carver’s career and “overflow with the danger,...

Author	Aldous Huxley
ISBN	0060085495

In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators,...

Author	Monica Drake
ISBN	0976631156

i am re-writing this review & re-rating this book with a lower rating thanks to a barrage of comments from the book's author, as well as the author's obnoxious ass-kissing friends. these folks made me really stop & think about how i felt about this book, & i came to the conclusion that i liked...

Author	Thomas Bernhard
ISBN	3423012994

Die Ursachen waren zerstörend und verbrecherisch - sie hinterließen unauslöschliche Spuren. Das Internat: ein raffiniert gegen den Geist gebauter Kerker; die Stadt: eine Todeskrankheit, ein Friedhof der Phantasie und der Wünsche. Der Krieg: die Stollen, in denen Hunderte erstickt und umgekommen...

Author	Stanley Cloud
ISBN	0395877539

Publishers Weekly described The Murrow Boys as "a lively, colloquial history of broadcast journalism that is so exciting one's impulse is to read it in a single sitting." It tells the swashbuckling tale of Edward R. Murrow and his legendary band of CBS radio journalists - Charles Collingwood, Howard...

Author	Thomas Bernhard
ISBN	3423014261

Eines Morgens beschließt der sechzehnjährige Gymnasiast auf dem Schulweg spontan, sich seinem bisherigen, verhaßten Leben zu entziehen und sich im Keller, einem Kolonialwarenladen, eine Lehrstelle zu verschaffen. Im Keller, am Rande der Salzburger Scherzhauserfeldsiedlung, dem heruntergekommenen,...