At the dawn of the next world war, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society, failing, however, in the face of terror, sin and evil. And as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable, an allegory, a myth, a morality tale, a parody, a political treatise, even a vision of the apocalypse, Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart.”

When anti-death-penalty activist David Gale is convicted and condemned to death for the murder of a colleague, reporter Bitsey Bloom sets out to learn the story behind Gale's crime. What she finds challenges her belief in Gale's guilt and, finally, in the justice system.

Jim is the dorky son of a local cement contractor who lives at home and has no direction. Josie is the gorgeous daughter of a wealthy businessman who dreams of leaving town. When Jim is locked inside a Target store on his first night as the overnight janitor, he discovers Josie, who fell asleep while contemplating shoplifting. Now locked in together, the pair learns they have a lot in common. Little do they know that two petty criminals are on the lam and looking for a place to hide.

In the 1910s, Srinivasa Ramanujan is a man of boundless intelligence that even the abject poverty of his home in Madras, India, cannot crush. Eventually, his stellar intelligence in mathematics and his boundless confidence in both attract the attention of the noted British mathematics professor, G.H. Hardy, who invites him to further develop his computations at Trinity College at Cambridge. Forced to leave his young wife, Janaki, behind, Ramanujan finds himself in a land where both his largely intuitive mathematical theories and his cultural values run headlong into both the stringent academic requirements of his school and mentor and the prejudiced realities of a Britain heading into World War One. Facing this with a family back home determined to keep him from his wife and his own declining health, Ramanujan joins with Hardy in a mutual struggle that would define Ramanujan as one of India's greatest modern scholars who broke more than one barrier in his worlds.

Hedwig, born male as Hansel in East Berlin, fell in love with an American G.I. and underwent a Gender Reassignment Surgery in order to marry him and flee to the West. Unfortunately, nothing worked out quite as it was supposed to - years later, Hedwig is leading her rock band on a tour of the U.S., telling her life story through a series of concerts at Bilgewater Inn seafood restaurants. Her tour dates coincide with those of arena-rock star Tommy Gnosis, a wide-eyed boy who once loved Hedwig - but then left with all her songs.

2001 film directed by John Cameron Mitchell

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  "Tatlı sözler söyleyen o ses, usulca ve gümüş gibi, çoğu zaman gülümsemekten pırıl pırıl parlayarak, ardından yine şefkat dolu bir ahenkle karanlığın içinden çıkageldiğinde, bu musiki yüreğine tatlı dilli bir rüzgar ya da uysal bir kuş gibi konduğunda..."\
 (s.25)Peyami Safa karakterlerinden birini okuyormuşum gibi hissettim Berger karakterini okurken adeta. Naif, kırılgan, zayıf, güçsüz yumruklarıyla yaşamın sert çalılıkları içinde ilerlemeye çalışan bir insan. Yer yer onda kendi zayıflıklarımı görüp, yer yer ona acıdım okurken. Şimşek'i okuduğum zamanın üzerinden geçen yıllardan sonra ilk defa dişlerimi sıktım bir karaktere üzülürken. Bu kitaptan hemen sonra şununla devam etmeli:Genç Bir Doktorun AnılarıM.B.

Five-year-old Zezé lives in Rio de Janeiro, in a forgotten slump in great poverty. But Zezé is not alone. In this world of scolding and beating, he has discovered a magical universe where he spends most of his time: the realm of imagination. There rules a sweet orange tree called Minguinho, and he is a tree like no other: he can talk.First published in 1968, this autobiographical novel is one of the most important Brazilian classics.

A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.

Dr. Edwin Spindrift, a very ordinary lecturer in linguistics, has been sent home from Burma with a brain tumor. Closer to words than people, his sense of reality is further altered by his condition. The night before he is to be operated on, Spindrift decides—shaven-headed, shirtless, and penniless—to postpone the surgery by escaping from the hospital. Things and people he hardly knew existed outside of his dictionaries swoop down on him as he careens through adventures in nighttime London.

PİA MATER, bir roman ancak bildiğimiz romanlardan çok farklı. Yazarın tanımlaması ile o bir Nöro-Roman. Bir sinirbilimci olan Serkan Karaismailoğlu daha önce yayımlanmış olan Kadın Beyni Erkek Beyni ve Beyinde Ararken Bağırsakta Buldum adlı kitaplarından sonra ilk defa bir roman denemesiyle okuyucunun karşısına çıkıyor. Ancak bu kitabında da gene bilim var. Bildiğimiz roman kurgusunun içine ustalıkla yerleştirilen bu bilimsel veriler, roman kahramanlarının eşliğinde bir hikâyeye dönüşüyor.Macera, bilim ve heyecanlı bir kitap okumak istiyorsanız PİA MATER tam size göre. Elma Yayınevi bir ilki daha buluşturuyor okuruyla; Serkan Karaismailoğlu ve Nöro-Roman…Nöro-Roman: Sinirbilimsel gerçeklerin, belli bir kurgu ve hayali karakterler eşliğinde okuyucuya sunulduğu bir roman türüdür.Adam bir türlü anlamıyordu. Beyin üzerine onlarca kitap ve araştırma okumuştu. Bu konuda kendisini önemli bir şekilde geliştirmişti ama gene de anlayamıyordu. Nasıl olur da bir başka insanı bu kadar net içinde hissedebilirdi ki. Onu gördüğü her an, sahip olduğunu sandığı bütün organlarının aslında ne kadar bağımsız ve başına buyruk olduklarını bir kez daha algılıyordu. Yıllardır beraber yaşadığı kalbi artık başkası için atıyordu, beyni desen çoktan olay yerini terk etmişti. Kendi hücreleri bile dinlemiyordu adamı. Bir insanın hücresi neden bir başkası için kendi vücuduna ihanet ederdi ki... Ama adam bir şeyden çok emindi. Tüm hücrelerinin kendisini terk edeceğini de bilse, onu gördüğü tek bir anı bile dünyada hiçbir şeye değişmezdi.

If the conscious mind—the part you consider you—accounts for only a tiny fraction of the brain’s function, what is all the rest doing? This is the question that David Eagleman—renowned neuroscientist and acclaimed author of Sum—answers in a book as accessible and entertaining as it is deeply informed by startling, up-to-the-minute research.

In 19th-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era.Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal despair, unable to find a cure for the headaches and other ailments that plague him. When he agrees to treat Nietzsche with his experimental "talking cure", Breuer never expects that he, too, will find solace in their sessions. Only through facing his own inner demons can the gifted healer begin to help his patient.In When Nietzsche Wept, Irvin Yalom blends fact and fiction, atmosphere and suspense to unfold an unforgettable story about the redemptive power of friendship.

Hiding from the Nazis in the "Secret Annexe"  of an old office building in Amsterdam, a  thirteen-year-old girl named Anne Frank became a writer.  The now famous diary of her private life and  thoughts reveals only part of Anne's story, however.  This book completes the portrait of this remarkable  and talented young   author.Tales from the Secret Annex is a  complete collection of Anne Frank's lesser-known  writings: short stories, fables, personal reminiscences,  and an unfinished novel. Here, too, are portions  of the diary originally withheld from publication  by her father. By turns fantastical, rebellious,  touching, funny, and heartbreaking, these writings  reveal the astonishing range of Anne Frank's  wisdom and imagination--as well as her indomitable love  of life. Anne Frank's  Tales from the Secret Annex is a  testaments to this determined young woman's extraordinary  genius and to the persistent strength of the  creative spirit.From the Paperback edition.

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