George-Paul Crețu

Betrayal and double-crossing are the order of the day.

Ed's clever plan to take out an enemy leaves him severely injured...

Automail engineer Winry is captured and held hostage to force Edward to do her captor's bidding.

A young family moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.

A homunculus manages to breach impenetrable Fort Briggs, and the Elric brothers discover a terrible alchemical secret that penetrates every corner of the world as they know it!

The brothers pursue fugitive May Chang to solve the mystery of why their alchemical powers were rendered inert while she and Scar continue to be able to wield them.

The horrors of the Ishbalan campaign occurred years before Ed became a state alchemist, and has serious repercussions, which set the tone for the complicated dealings of present-day state politics.

Ed and Al come face to face with the 'father' of the homunculi, who just so happens to be a dead ringer for their own father, Van Hohenheim--a resemblance too uncanny for coincidence.

In the midst of a heated battle, Ed and Prince Lin of Xing are swallowed whole by the homunculus Gluttony.

The hunter becomes the hunted when the Elric brothers and Prince Lin set a trap for the homunculus with the insatiable appetite - Gluttony!

Ed returns to Resembool and meets his father Hohenheim for the first time in many years.

Barry the Chopper, the psychopathic killer whose soul is encased in a suit of armor, has been captured by Colonel Mustang's troops.

Ed, Al and Winry return to Central Command, but only bad news greets the Fullmetal Alchemist and his friends.

The raid on the Devil's Nest becomes a slaughter, as government troops - led by the Fuhrer President himself, King Bradley - exterminate the half-human forces of the Homunculus Greed.

Where did Alphonse Elric go during the few short minutes he was wiped from existence, body and soul?

The origin of the Elric Brothers!

Ed, Alphonse and their mechanic Winry go south in search of Izumi Curtis, the master alchemist who taught the brothers how to use alchemy.

Trapped and injured in a secret alchemical laboratory, Edward Elric is at the mercy of his enemies, Lust and Envy.

Accompanied by their bodyguard, Alex Louis Armstrong, our heroes seek out their closest childhood friend, mechanic Winry Rockbell, to fix their battered 'auto-mail' bodyparts.

In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor.

Breaking the laws of nature is a serious crime!

Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed.

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved killings.

Lewis Carroll enriched it with Wonderland, Jonathan Swift with the Land of Dwarves, and Caragiale with the Land of Myths.

With humor and meticulous documentation, surgeon Cătălin Vasilescu introduces us to the world of operations, practices, experiments and medical discoveries whose influence on human health is either beneficial or downright harmful.

The legendary title novella from one of Mexico’s most influential writers is published here in English for the first time on the 100th anniversary of his birth.

The classic novel of a quest for knowledge that has delighted, inspired, and influenced generations of readers, writers, and thinkers—a perennial favorite for graduation gifts.

Infamous for the murder of Maria Iribarne, the artist Juan Pablo Castel is now writing a detailed account of his relationship with the victim from his prison cell: obsessed from the first moment he saw her examining one of his paintings, Castel had become…

Collected in this chilling volume are some of the famous Japanese mystery writer Edogawa Rampo's best stories—bizarre and blood-curdling expeditions into the fantastic, the perverse, and the strange, in a marvelous homage to Rampo's literary 'mentor', Edg…

Deserted villages of rural Mexico, where images and memories of the past linger like unquiet ghosts, haunted the imaginations of the author.

From the mad genius behind Chainsaw Man and Look Back comes a story about coping with loss.

"Countries and nations are different.

Institutions, laws, rules, all imported from the West, often confront on Romanian soil with adverse tendencies and interpretations, coming from the previous layer of civilization.

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.

Economic backwardness in relation to most European countries, especially the Western countries that serve as terms of comparison, represents a crucial problem for Romanian society.

The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the shock of defeat and to the occupation of Japan by American forces and their allies.

Twenty years after Doomsday, survivors of World War Three live in an underground world they have created in the subway system of Moscow.

In an interview for Hotnews, physicist Cristian Presură said that he disagrees with the strictly materialistic perspective that there is no difference between a child and a laptop.

As detective Musubi Susono investigates a series of child kidnappings, her own partner is viciously murdered.

Writing at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ryunosuke Akutagawa created disturbing stories out of Japan's cultural upheaval.

A short story about a chair that holds a dark secret.

A 'bummel' is a journey without end.

A world shared by three native humanoid races - the cavern-dwelling Gdemiar, elvish Fiia, and warrior clan, Liuar - is suddenly invaded and conquered by a fleet of ships from the stars.

This is the epic saga of an earthling, Valentine Michael Smith, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with 'psi' powers--telepathy, clairvoyance, telekinesis, and the ability to take control of the minds of others--and yet with complete inn…

The heart-pounding debut from the creator of the hit Scandinavian television show The Killing.

Petrescu îşi considera prima carte, Scrisorile unui răzeş, 'ca o lichidare a influenţei sadoveniste'.

The Great Mental Models: Volume 3 covers essential models from mathematics and systems.

Famous in his lifetime and still revered throughout Latin America, Machado de Assis has remained little known in the English-speaking world.

The hard sciences offer a wealth of useful tools you can use to develop critically important skills like curiosity, relationship-building, and leadership.

The Secret Garden, a classic loved for more than seventy-five years, is all that its title implies.