Books written by male authors (3108)
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Yona - Prinzessin der Morgendämmerung 01 by Mizuho Kusanagi DE
JapanDescription:
Als einzige Tochter von König Il ist Yona die Prinzessin eines kleinen Reiches namens Koka. Zur Feier ihres 16. Geburtstags kehrt ihr Cousin Su-won, in den sie schon lange verliebt ist, in den Palast zurück. Doch er verfolgt einen finsteren Plan: In der Nacht ermordet Su-won Yonas Vater mit seinem Schwert. Yona muss die schreckliche Tat mit ansehen, kann jedoch mit ihrem Leibwächter und Jugendfreund Hak vor den einfallenden Soldaten fliehen. Aber auch außerhalb des Palastes lauern viele Gefahren ...
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You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe EN
Country: North America / 
United States of America
United States of America
Description:
Novelist George Webber is driven from his hometown when his successful autobiographical novel infuriates the family and friends he has depicted in it.
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You Do Understand (Slovenian Literature Series) by Andrej Blatnik EN
SloveniaDescription:
Partly parables, partly fairy tales, You Do Understand is a comedy of errors for a species of talkers who’ve never learned to listen. This collection of sharp, spare, occasionally absurd, cruel, touching, and yet always generous short-short fictions addresses the fundamental difficulty we have in making the people we love understand what we want and need. Demonstrating that language and intimacy are as much barriers between human beings as ways of connecting them, Andrej Blatnik here provides us with a guided tour of the slips, misunderstandings, and blind alleys we each manage to fall foul of... continue
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You Dreamed of Empires : A Novel by Álvaro Enrigue EN
Country: North America / 
Mexico
Mexico
Description:
“Short, strange, spiky and sublime… [Enrigue] is clearly a major talent.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times From the visionary author of Sudden Death, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story. One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan – today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures. Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and Malinalli, a strategic, former ... continue
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You Shall Leave Your Land by Renato Cisneros EN
Country: South America / 
Peru
Peru
Description:
Renato Cisneros's great-great-grandmother Nicolasa bore seven children by her priest, raising them alone in nineteenth century Peru. More than a century later, Renato struggles to wring information about his origins out of recalcitrant relatives, whose foibles match the adventures and dalliances of their ancestors. As buried secrets are brought into the light and is bound up with key moments in the development of the Republic of Peru since it won independence.
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You Will Not Have My Hate by Antoine Leiris EN
FranceDescription:
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - "On Friday night you stole the life of an exceptional person, the love of my life, the mother of my son, but you will not have my hate." On November 13, 2015, Antoine Leiris’s wife, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, was killed by terrorists while attending a rock concert at the Bataclan Theater in Paris, in the deadliest attack on France since World War II. Three days later, Leiris wrote an open letter addressed directly to his wife’s killers, which he posted on Facebook. He refused to be cowed or to let his seventeen-month-old son’s life be defined by Hélène’s murder. He refused... continue
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Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart EN
Country: Europe / 
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Description:
The brilliant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain
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Your House is on Fire, Your Children All Gone : A Novel by Stefan Kiesbye EN
GermanyDescription:
Four young friends move from childhood to young adulthood in superstitious Hemmersmoor, where they accidentally come face to face with the darkest secret of the village in this new horror novel from the author of Next Door Lived a Girl. Original. 35,000 first printing.
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Your personal leadership guide by Ntangeki Nshala EN
TanzaniaDescription:
This book is for YOUTH. Those in Secondary school or College. While our YOUTH are schools they are taught in curriculum that prepares them to become skilled to perform certain professional tasks. ..like being a Doctor, Engineer, Lawyer, Accountant..etc. very few schools focus their efforts to shape the character of these YOUTH to grow up into responsible people who can use their knowledge, skills and energy for the general benefit of their families and community at large. In this book I talk to YOUTH about habits that need to be developed and which will be useful as they grow up and navigate t... continue
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Your Republic Is Calling You by Kim Young-ha EN
Country: Asia / 
South Korea
South Korea
Description:
This psychological thriller of a North Korean spy living in Seoul is “perhaps the most intriguing and accomplished Korean fiction yet to appear in English” (Kirkus). Foreign film importer Kim Ki-Yong is a family man with a wife and daughter. Living a prosperous life in Seoul, South Korea, he’s an aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi. But he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Then, after more than a decade of silence from the home office, he receives a mysterious email stating that he has one day to return to headquarters. But is the mess... continue