Patrick: 6740 books

Mixing Machiavellian intrigue and the high fantasy of authors like Scott Lynch and Robin Hobb, Den Patrick's fantasy novels, with their Renaissance Italy like setting have brought an enticing new flavour to the fantasy genre. In a castle that is, itself, reminiscent of Gormenghast in its size and...

What if you could be immortal? And what if the price was to give up everything first, including your very life? Dr. Susan Jones is about to find out. A robotics scientist out of MIT, Susan is one of the inventors of the Sexbot, the world’s most advanced robot sex toy. Sexbots...

The sampler includes chapters from Ursula Dubosarsky’s The Golden Day, Patrick Ness’s More Than This, and Todd Mitchell’s Backwards.The Golden DayWhen their teacher goes missing during an outing, eleven girls grapple with the aftermath in this haunting, exquisitely told psychological mystery....

A new dark fantasy novel from author Patrick Keithahn . . . There’s a place some people go when they die. It’s a hostile, ever-changing world, a place of nightmares: the After. Unforgiving environments await, with demons forever on the prowl for new souls. Zak’s miserable life...

Winner of the 2005 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. From the author of Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America and the National Book Award finalist Elegy for a Broken Machine: Poems, here is the first collection from award-winning poet Patrick Phillips. A river runs through Patrick...

These six short novels and stories achieve the majesty and power of the best of Patrick White's great novels. They probe beneath the surface of events – a sexual lapse, the unaccustomed climate of a foreign country, interruptions in a cherished routine, a death, a toothache – to expose a deeper,...

"Indisputably one of the century's greatest writers." —Annie Proulx "The Hanging Garden is a novel for our time--a story about parentless children, mistreated by a world that, by its lights, intends no harm but nonetheless does enduring damage." —The New York Times Book...

Poems framed as epitaphs for extinct prehistoric animals hit the proverbial (coffin) nail on the head in this darkly humorous collection from expert poets Jane Yolen and J. Patrick Lewis. Macabre, ironic, and witty epitaphs share how prehistoric creatures like the terror bird, the woolly mammoth,...

"Talvez você não queira comprar este livro. Eu sei, não se espera que um autor diga esse tipo de coisa. Mas prefiro ser honesto com você logo de saída. Acho justo avisar que esta é uma história um pouquinho estranha. Não gosto muito de dar spoilers, mas basta dizer que esta aqui é......

"Zotte Charlotte", een keizerlijk drama van Patrick Bernauw, werd bekroond met de Provinciale Paul de Mont Prijs voor Toneel 1994 en vervolgens onder de titel "La Comédie Française" gerealiseerd als luisterspel (monoloog) in een regie van Frank Van Laecke en met Chris Lomme als...

Patrick Bernauw: Lang geleden las ik in De Zwanen van Stonehenge, het onvolprezen boek van Hubert Lampo over het magisch-realisme, over de schrijver Arthur Machen. Hoe hij met een kort verhaal in de vorm van een artikel verantwoordelijk werd voor een van de grootste mythes van de Grote Oorlog....

Bestselling and award-winning artist Patrick McDonnell uses the ABC's to tell a hilarious, high-energy alphabetical adventure. It starts with an ALLIGATOR and a BEAR chasing a CAT. When a DRAGON (and a chicken and an egg!) join in pursuit, things start to get REALLY interesting. A wild and...

In this best-selling novel, Patrick Smith tells the story of three generations of the MacIveys, a Florida family who battle the hardships of the frontier to rise from a dirt-poor Cracker life to the wealth and standing of real estate tycoons. The story opens in 1858, when Tobias MacIvey arrives in...

Heroines is a collection of short stories about six great women who have all changed the world through their courage, passion and intelligence. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. Joan of Arc was a sixteen year old farm girl who led France to victory over the English. Aung...