Julian: 1621 books

It begins on the outskirts of Paris with a brutal murder. World renowned chef Jason Wade is contacted by an ex-girlfriend—a covert agent who needs his help desperately. But then she mysteriously disappears. Wade is suddenly thrust back into his dark past, and tied to an agency he has long since tried...

Winner of the 2017 Cave Canem Poetry Prize Set against the backdrop of the Obama presidency, Julian Randall's Refuse documents a young biracial man's journey through the mythos of Blackness, Latinidad, family, sexuality and a hostile American landscape.  Mapping the relationship between father...

At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications of this revolutionary...

An aging writer and his dead lover’s sister meet in Texas at the invitation and expense of a mutual friend, a recent widow celebrating her newly won freedom by throwing a party for all the old friends and colleagues, artists and art historians, her husband disdained.

Eleven hundred years into the future, California dominates the globe under a sovereignty-crushing regime—it’s up to one Texan to put an end to it. Meet Gabriel Spurangler, a Neo-Viking Cowboy with a lost memory and bad attitude. If there was ever anyone cut out for the job of saving the Earth...

“Haunting” Tangent Online.Gemma wants out. A “Gester” for her pimp, Maddox, Gemma sells her body for unprotected sex with carefully-screened clients in a futuristic London. The resulting foetuses are aborted at five months to provide valuable material for bio-medical research and treatment....

"A terrifying read that will keep you up well after your bedtime." ★★★★★-Self-Publishing Review“The wages of sin is DEATH.”This is the chilling message a band of thieves find during a midnight heist gone horrifyingly wrong. Trapped by a horde of faceless vigilantes, the...

Children's Story : An old man in the neighborhood has some strange habits. Is he crazy? Or is there some kind of wisdom behind his odd habits? Sometimes friendships are formed in the strangest ways .

"Und so lieg ich hier auch und denke: "Verdammt, wär's nur wieder manchmal wieder wie früher." Und sicherlich ist das eng mit Personen verknüpft die meinen Weg gekreuzt haben, vielleicht auch mit einer bestimmten Person, vielleicht auch mit einem besonderen Mädchen, dass wenn du...

Portobello Road is London’ s most iconic street and a unique place to live and visit. Despite the waves of gentrification, soaring rents and the recent arrival of High Street chains, its Bohemian, anarchic, creative spirit still survives. Julian Mash, a former bookseller at the famous Travel Bookshop,...

Susan is the protagonist. She stumbles her way into a modelling agency.

Theatralisches von Julian Schutting bietet drei Nachdichtungen antiker Texte für heutige Theater- und Literaturliebhaber: Dido und Aeneas, Kaiserin Irene konversiert mit Sohn Konstantin und Platons Gastmahl als (Neu-)Inszenierung des ewigen Schauspiels elementarer menschlicher Gefühle. Die Antike aus...

Extreme macrophotography opens up a new world for photographers, particularly biologists. By photographing subjects way beyond just life size magnifications, this book takes you a step closer to the very cells that make up organisms. Written with clarity and detail, Julian Cremona's book is the perfect...

Time and circumstance often prevent the perfect photograph from being taken. This book explains how to enhance an image using readily available software in order to obtain the photo you wanted to take. It explains how to analyse a photograph to recognize what needs to be done, and then shows how to...