The birth of Jesus has been well chronicled, as have his glorious teachings, acts, and divine sacrifice after his thirtieth birthday. But no one knows about the early life of the Son of God, the missing years -- except Biff, the Messiah's best bud, who has been resurrected to tell the story in the divinely hilarious yet heartfelt work "reminiscent ...more

Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it...more

'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit. But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he's not on his deathbed; no, hi...more

Is this new land a place where magics really happen?From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale.In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far...more

Since the publication of Wicked, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion. At once a portrait of a would...more

Zwei Wochen Überlebenstraining in Nahost. Diese zündende Geschäftsidee verwirklichen ein Jude, ein Araber und ein Christ in Zeiten wirtschaftlicher Rezession. Denn Religion ist Religion, aber Geschäft bleibt Geschäft. Die Zielgruppe, die das Business-Trio erreicht, besteht wie erwartet aus “Blutrünstigen, Verrückten, Gelangweilten“. Höh...more

Mann, sind die alle blöd! Henryk M. Broder, bekannt für seine scharfzüngigen Glossen im Spiegel, hat diesmal 180 Seiten gebraucht, um diese Erkenntnis zu formulieren. Ein Buch, in dem deutsche Tageszeitungen, französische Politiker, sächsische Entführungsopfer, Peter Zadek und noch viele mehr den immergleichen Vorwurf einstecken müssen: Ihr ...more