Guy de Maupassant 
Boule de Suif 

The job of the skin is to keep things in On the buttoned-down island of Here, all is well. By which we mean: orderly, neat, contained and, moreover, beardless. Or at least it is until one famous day, …

Finding the superhero genre in need of further investigation from philosophical standpoints that value excess as a creative drive, rather than denigrate it as a problem to be resolved, this book …

The House That Groaned is a graphic novel that explores bodies and the spaces they inhabit. It is set in an old Victorian tenement housing six lonely individuals who could only have stepped out of …

Overheard mobile pronouncements are a modern phenomenon. In the street, in the park, in supermarkets, buses, waiting rooms and even, heaven help us, in libraries, it’s quite impossible to get away fr …

The book "God’s Country and The Woman" is a kind of western novel written by James Oliver Curwood. A heartfelt no one which is set on the Canadian wilderness ender human drama. The story is …

Do you want to know what it really takes to be a web-slinging, wisecracking, fearless Super Hero? Why did Spider-Man become a Super Hero? What are his webs made of and why are they so strong? How is …

Lucy is an incurably uncool teen, and an octopus. For no reason at all (other than that she isn”t very ‘girly’), she is very unpopular, and even her parents don”t like her! The only friend who will …

The next level of melee between Anna and Nakita comes to a head in the epic universe of Living Metal. After the incident on Mars, the United Earth Government has revved up their search for augmented …

A ship slices through the waves of the Atlantic ocean. On board is Stefan Zweig, the renowned Austrian writer, and his second wife, Lotte. They have left New York and are bound for Brazil; President …