Inhalt: Erzählungen von Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, O. Henry, Stephen Crane und Jack London.
Inhalt: Englische und amerikanische Kurzgeschichten, vergnügt bis (augenzwinkernd) schrecklich - in englisch-deutschem Paralleldruck.
"Und wer sind Sie? " fragte er scharf. "Er ist Anhalter", sagte ich. "Ich lasse ihn mitfahren." "Ich habe nicht Sie gefragt", sagte er, "sondern ihn." "Habe ich was Unrechtes getan?" erkundigte sich mein Fahrgast. Seine Stimme war weich und ölig wie Pomade. "Höchstwahrscheinlich", antwortete der Polizist. "Jedenfalls sind Sie Zeuge. Mit Ihnen verhandle ich nachher. Führerschein", schnauzte er und streckte die Hand aus. Ich gab ihm meinen Führerschein.
Kurzgeschichten zum Kopfschütteln, Stirnrunzeln, Luftanhalten, Grinsen und Aufatmen vonRoald Dahl, O. Henry, Mrs Henry de la Pasture, St John Lucas, Robert Graves, E. V. Knox, Fred Urquhart und Saki.
Texte für Könner Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 187 Seiten Beteiligte:Fenzl, Richard (Hrsg.) Standort: Engl. Kee ISBN: 978-3-423-09423-8
Kein Autor kann es mit dem Bekanntheitsgrad William Shakespeares aufnehmen. Seine über 400 Jahre alten Stücke werden weltweit gelesen und gespielt, seine Sonette gelten als unvergleichlich. Dieses Phänomen hat seinen Ursprung nicht zuletzt in der Wortgewalt des Dichters und in der Zeitlosigkeit seiner Themen: Liebe, Leidenschaft, Krieg, Verrat und Ehre, Individuum und Gesellschaft, Erdenleben und Transzendenz. Nicht nur Hamlets Frage nach "Sein oder Nichtsein" ist längst zu einem geflügelten Wort geworden. Aber 'Shakespeares Wort-Schätze' bieten viel mehr als berühmte Zitate: Erst in längeren Abschnitten erschließen sich Gemeintes und die sprachliche Virtuosität des Dichters aus Stratford am eindrucksvollsten. Dazu gehört natürlich auch der Originaltext, der parallel zur Übersetzung dargeboten wird. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 223 Seiten Beteiligte:Günther, Frank (Hrsg.) Standort: Engl. Sha ISBN: 978-3-423-28023-5
Inhalt: Facettenreiches Irland - eine literarische Entdeckungsreise
Leuchtend grüne, aber auch sturmgepeitschte graue Landschaften, malerisch bunte oder melancholische Städte, jahrhundertelange Armut und Wirtschaftsboom - vielfältig sind die Bilder, die vor das innere Auge treten, wenn der Name Irland fällt. Wer die Insel literarisch erkunden möchte, der wird in diesem Lesebuch mit Texten aus dem 20. Jahrhundert fündig. Es ist eine kleine Sammlung mit Geschichten aus dem Alltagsleben, Porträts berühmter Persönlichkeiten, Berichten aus vergangenen Zeiten, Reflexionen über Unterdrückung und Widerstand, über Glaube und Aberglaube. Und immer wieder scheint aus den Texten aus der Feder oft namhafter Autoren vor allem des 20. Jahrhunderts die Liebe zu diesem Land durch.
Texte für Könner Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 175 Seiten Beteiligte:Raykowski, Harald (Hrsg.) Standort: Engl. Imp ISBN: 978-3-423-09525-9
Viewfinder : Literatur ; English language teaching Science Fiction Stories Ten Short Stories Langenscheidt-Longmann, München (2006)
Standort: Engl. Sci
Inhalt: Kitty Logan is a journalist whose career and personal life is in turmoil. When she turns to her terminally ill friend, mentor and editor, Constance, for advice she receives a mysterious list of 100 names. Following Constances death, Kitty must seek out as many people on the list as she can to uncover Constances own story and rediscover herself. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 325 S. Beteiligte:Ahern, Cecelia Standort: Engl. Ahe ISBN: 978-0-00-735047-6
Inhalt: Lying on Lucy Silchester's carpet one day when she returns from work is a gold envelope. Inside is an invitation - to a meeting with Life. Her life. It sounds peculiar, but Lucy's read about this in a magazine. Anyway, she can't make the date: she's much too busy despising her job, skipping out on her friends and avoiding her family. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 391 S. Beteiligte:Ahern, Cecelia Standort: Engl. Ahe ISBN: 978-0-00-735044-5
Inhalt: Vier Jahreszeiten voller Aufbruch, Freundschaft, Liebe und Hoffnung: der neue Roman der jungen irischen Bestsellerautorin, die weltweit Millionen von Lesern begeistert. Jasmine liebt ihre Schwester und ihre Arbeit. Als sie für ein ganzes Jahr freigestellt wird, weiß sie überhaupt nicht mehr, was sie tun soll und wer sie eigentlich ist. Matt braucht seine Familie und den Alkohol. Ohne sie steht er vor dem Abgrund. An Silvester kreuzen sich die Wege von Jasmine und Matt, und zwar absolut unfreiwillig. Doch dann beginnt ein Jahr voll heller Mondnächte, langer Gartentage und berührender Überraschungen ein Jahr, das alles verändert. Eine Geschichte so humorvoll, originell und einfühlsam, wie nur Cecelia Ahern sie schreibt. A thoughtful, captivating and ultimately uplifting novel from this uniquely talented author. When Jasmine is sacked from her dream job she realises that she has nothing else to fill her life. Bored and twitchy, she soon finds herself watching the antics of her neighbour, controversial DJ Matt, with more than a casual eye. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 323 S. Beteiligte:Ahern, Cecelia Standort: Engl. Ahe ISBN: 978-0-00-750177-9
Inhalt: Sofie und ihre Tochter Laura machen Urlaub in Schottland. Plötzlich verschwindet das Mädchen spurlos. Tagelang fehlt jedes Lebenszeichen von ihr. Die Polizei steht vor einem Rätsel. Verzweifelt macht sich Sofie selbst auf die Suche, denn sie hat einen schrecklichen Verdacht: Hat ihr cholerischer Ex-Mann Laura entführt?
Text dt. und engl. Europäischer Referenzrahmen: ab A2 Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 160 S. Beteiligte:Artmeier, Hildegunde Standort: Engl. ISBN: 978-3-468-44124-0
Inhalt: Costa Novel Award 2013 Was wäre, wenn man sein Leben wieder und wieder leben könnte, bis man schließlich alles perfekt gemacht hätte? Wäre man dann ein glücklicher Mensch? Ursula Todd ist eine für ihre Zeit ganz besondere Frau: unabhängig, modern, realistisch. Mit Humor begegnet sie nicht nur ihrer skurrilen Familie, sondern auch den seltsamen Ereignissen in ihrem Leben. Wie jeder erlebt sie Situationen, in denen sie sich fragt: Was wäre, wenn? Was wäre geschehen, wenn sich ihre Teenagerliebe erfüllt hätte? Was wäre geschehen, wenn sie studiert hätte? Oder was wäre aus ihr geworden, wenn sie nicht in England, sondern in einem anderen Land aufgewachsen wäre? Wäre ihr Leben schrecklicher oder besser verlaufen? Doch anders als anderen Menschen bleibt es für Ursula nicht bei diesen Fragen. Ihr ist es gegeben, ihr Leben immer wieder zu korrigieren und damit jeden Fehler zu beseitigen. Dennoch erlebt sie Verlust, Verrat, Krieg und Tod. Was also soll diese Gabe? Ist es überhaupt möglich, sein Leben fehlerlos zu leben? Winner of the Costa Novel Award and the South Bank Sky Arts Literature prize, and shortlisted for the Women's (Orange) Prize for Fiction, Kate Atkinson's acclaimed new novel, about a woman who lives her life over and over again through the most turbulent events of the 20th century, including the London Blitz.
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first breath.
During a snowstorm in England in 1910, the same baby is born and lives to tell the tale.
What if there were second chances? And third chances? In fact an infinite number of chances to live your life? Would you eventually be able to save the world from its own inevitable destiny? And would you even want to?
Life After Life follows Ursula Todd as she lives through the turbulent events of the last century again and again. With wit and compassion, Kate Atkinson finds warmth even in life's bleakest moments, and shows an extraordinary ability to evoke the past. Here she is at her most profound and inventive, in a novel that celebrates the best and worst of ourselves. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 619 S. Beteiligte:Atkinson, Kate Standort: Engl. Atk ISBN: 978-0-552-77663-9
Inhalt: Marian is determinedly ordinary, waiting to get married. She likes her work, her broody flat-mate and her sober fiancé Peter. All goes well at first, but Marian has reckoned without an inner selt that wants something more, an inner self that calmly sabotages her careful plans, stable routine - and her digestion. Marriage à la mode, Marian discovers, is something she literally can't stomach... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 281 S. Beteiligte:Atwood, Margaret Standort: Engl. Atw ISBN: 978-0-86068-129-8
Inhalt: Amos Decker, a police detective, is still haunted by a side effect from an accident he can never forget. One night Decker comes home from a stakeout to find his wife, young daughter and brother-in-law horrifically murdered. Decker has to use his skills as a detective and his unusual brain capacity to try and catch the monster who killed his family. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 402 S. Beteiligte:Baldacci, David Standort: Engl. Bal ISBN: 978-1-4472-7780-4
Inhalt: When Puller's older brother inexplicably escapes from the military's most secure prison, where he's being held for national security crimes, Puller finds himself part of an investigation to hunt down his own brother. As he digs more deeply into the case, Puller discovers troubling details about his brother's conviction and that someone is out there who doesn't want the truth to ever come out. David Baldacci is one of the world's most popular, widely read storytellers. In his blockbuster thrillers Zero Day and The Forgotten , he enthralled readers with John Puller. A combat veteran and special agent with the U.S. Army, Puller is the man they call to investigate the toughest crimes facing the nation. But all his training, all his experience, all his skills will not prepare him for his newest case, one that will force him to hunt down the most formidable and brilliant prey he has ever tracked: his own brother. THE ESCAPE It's a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. They know it's impossible . . . until now. John Puller's older brother, Robert, was convicted of treason and national security crimes. His inexplicable escape from prison makes him the most wanted criminal in the country. Some in the government believe that John Puller represents their best chance at capturing Robert alive, and so Puller must bring in his brother to face justice. But Puller quickly discovers that his brother is pursued by others who don't want him to survive. Puller is in turn pushed into an uneasy, fraught partnership with another agent, who may have an agenda of her own. They dig more deeply into the case together, and Puller finds that not only are her allegiances unclear, but there are troubling details about his brother's conviction . . . and someone out there doesn't want the truth to ever come to light. As the nationwide manhunt for Robert grows more urgent, Puller's masterful skills as an investigator and strengths as a fighter may not be enough to save his brother-or himself. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 470 S. Beteiligte:Baldacci, David Standort: Engl. Bal ISBN: 978-1-4555-5848-3
Inhalt: America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will Robie, a stone cold hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first--and last--mistake of his career . . . Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 422 S. Beteiligte:Baldacci, David Standort: Engl. Bal ISBN: 978-1-4555-1615-5
Inhalt: After spending the last 20 years in prison for killing his parents, convicted murderer Melvin Mars suddenly learns that he will be released. Another man has unexpectedly confessed to the crime. But it's unclear who the real murderer is--was the man's confession false? Is Melvin still the true killer?
In his No. 1 New York Times bestseller Memory Man , David Baldacci introduced the extraordinary detective Amos Decker-the man who can forget nothing. Now, Decker returns in a spectacular new thriller . . . THE LAST MILE Convicted murderer Melvin Mars is counting down the last hours before his execution--for the violent killing of his parents twenty years earlier--when he's granted an unexpected reprieve. Another man has confessed to the crime. Amos Decker, newly hired on an FBI special task force, takes an interest in Mars's case after discovering the striking similarities to his own life: Both men were talented football players with promising careers cut short by tragedy. Both men's families were brutally murdered. And in both cases, another suspect came forward, years after the killing, to confess to the crime. A suspect who may or may not have been telling the truth. The confession has the potential to make Melvin Mars--guilty or not--a free man. Who wants Mars out of prison? And why now? But when a member of Decker's team disappears, it becomes clear that something much larger--and more sinister--than just one convicted criminal's life hangs in the balance. Decker will need all of his extraordinary brainpower to stop an innocent man from being executed. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 416 S. Beteiligte:Baldacci, David Standort: Engl. Bal
Inhalt: A time to kill - or a time to die? The mission is to enter one of the most dangerous countries in the world. The target is one of the toughest to reach. The result could be momentous - or it could be Armageddon. There is no margin for error. US government operatives Will Robie and Jessica Reel have to prove they are still the best team there is. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 417 S. Beteiligte:Baldacci, David Standort: Engl. Bal ISBN: 978-1-4472-5929-9
Inhalt: Tony Webster is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2011 Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 150 S. Beteiligte:Barnes, Julian Standort: Engl. Bar ISBN: 978-0-09-957033-2
Inhalt: Sean is on the run in an isolated part of rural France. Desperate to avoid the police, he takes to the hedgerows, only to be caught in the jaws of a trap. Nearly unconscious from loss of blood, he is freed and taken in by two women. And that's when Sean's problems really start... STONE BRUISES is a classic nail-shredder of a thriller that holds you from the beginning and slowly tightens its grip. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 315 S. Beteiligte:Beckett, Simon Standort: Engl. Bec ISBN: 978-0-593-07329-2
Inhalt: Als die Vampirin Arianne in einer Höhle Zuflucht vor dem Morgengrauen sucht, stolpert sie über den verletzten Amerikaner Gareth. Er weckt heftiges Verlangen in ihr und ihre Gefühle geraten völlig durcheinander. Als ihr Erzfeind sie aufstöbert, riskiert Arianne alles, um Gareth zu schützen. Doch hat ihre Liebe eine Chance?
Gemeinsamer Europäischer Referenzrahmen: C1 Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 127 S. Beteiligte:Billy, Gina Standort: Engl. Bil ISBN: 978-3-8174-8261-0
Inhalt: Minding Frankie is a story about unconventional families, relationships whitch aren't quite what they seem, and the child at the heart of everyone's lives ... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 425 S. Beteiligte:Binchy, Maeve Standort: Engl. Bin ISBN: 978-1-4091-1790-2
Inhalt: Im Dorf Glengowan am Ufer von Loch Ness wird ein Dudelsackspieler ermordet. Misstrauisch beäugt von den Einheimischen kommt Inspektor Hudson einer Intrige auf die Spur.
Inhalt: When the killing's done deftly relates a richly humane tale about the dominion we attempt to exert, for better or worse, over the natural world. Combining action-packed adventure with delicious irony and believable characters without one trace of sanctimony, this is one of T.C. Boyle's richest and most engaging novels. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 443 S. Beteiligte:Boyle, T. C. Standort: Engl. Boy ISBN: 978-0-670-02232-8
Inhalt: The biggest novel yet from the master of American fiction, the New York Times bestselling author of The Women, T.C. Boyle
Eine einsame Insel vor der Küste von Kalifornien, die für die einen die Hölle ist, für die anderen das Paradies: Die schwindsüchtige Marantha verschlägt es 1888 nach San Miguel. Während sie sich, geplagt vom rauen Klima, von Monotonie und Einsamkeit, dem Leben entzieht, schafft es Adoptivtochter Edith, dem tyrannischen Vater und der verhassten Insel zu entfliehen. Jahrzehnte später zieht Elise Lester dorthin und findet mit ihrer Familie ihr Glück. Die Presse in den USA feiert die Lesters mitten in der Weltwirtschaftskrise als Inbild vom Mythos der Pioniere, doch die Idylle trügt. Boyle gelingt es meisterhaft, in dieser großen Saga das Schicksal dreier starker Frauen lebendig werden zu lassen. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 445 S. Beteiligte:Boyle, T.C. Standort: Engl. Boy ISBN: 978-1-4088-4259-1
Inhalt: Caught in a snowstorm, Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter at Wuterhing Heights. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before: the intense passion between the foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, her betrayal of him and the bitter vengeance he now wreaks on the innocent heirs of the past. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 359 Seiten Beteiligte:Bronte, Emily Standort: Engl. Bro
Inhalt: Maggie ist blind - und wann immer ihr die Welt zu laut und chaotisch wird, zieht sie sich auf ihre Lieblingsparkbank zurück. Doch in letzter Zeit hängt sie dort vor allem ihren eigenen widersprüchlichen Gedanken nach. Denn sie erwartet ein Kind, und nun nagen Zweifel an der eigentlich so selbstbewussten Frau. Eines Tages lernt sie Elsa kennen, die behauptet, ebenfalls schwanger zu sein. Aber Elsa ist eine alte Frau! Maggie beschließt herauszufinden, welches Geheimnis hinter Elsas Geschichte steckt. Und tritt damit eine Reise in die Vergangenheit an, an deren Ende ein kleines Wunder steht. Ein Wunder, das nicht nur Elsa ihren Frieden geben, sondern auch Maggie den Glauben an eine glückliche Zukunft schenken wird.
Aus dem Engl. übers. Systematik: Roman Umfang: 444 S. Beteiligte:Brooke, Amanda Standort: Bro ISBN: 978-3-442-48375-4
In einer stürmischen Mainacht wird ein 16-jähriges Mädchen in Austin brutal ermordet. Ein Mann wird verurteilt, doch seine Schuld konnte nie zweifelsfrei erwiesen werden. 18 Jahre später sorgt ein Roman über den Mordfall für Furore. Hinter dem Pseudonym der Autorin steckt Bellamy Lyston, die Schwester der damals Ermordeten. Als ein windiger Journalist die Identität der Autorin lüftet, erhält Bellamy anonyme Drohungen, und sie weiß: Der wahre Mörder ihrer Schwester ist noch auf freiem Fuß und hat nun sie im Visier ....
Bellamy Lyston Price was only twelve years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene as well as her memory of one vital fact that still eludes her . . . Now, 18 years later, Bellamy has written a novel based on Susan's murder. It's her first book, and it's an instant sensation. But because the novel is based on the most traumatic event of her life, she's published it under a pseudonym to protect herself and her family. But when a sleazy reporter for a tabloid newspaper discovers that the book is based on a real crime, Bellamy's identity - and dark family secrets - are exposed. Suddenly, she finds herself embroiled in a personal conflict and at the mercy of her sister's killer, who for almost two decades has gotten away with murder . . . and will stop at nothing to keep it that way. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 467 S. Beteiligte:Brown, Sandra Standort: Engl. Bro ISBN: 978-1-4447-3223-8
Inhalt: Evie Nicholson is in love . . . with the past. An antiques appraiser in a London shop, Evie spins fanciful attachments to Victorian picture frames, French champagne glasses, satin evening gloves, and tattered teddy bears¿regardless of their monetary value. Alice Nicholson is in love . . . with Fraser Graham, a dashing Scotsman whom Evie secretly desires. As crisply neat and stylish as Evie is cheerfully cluttered, Alice is a professional organizer determined to pull her sister out of her comfort zone¿and who presents her with an irresistible offer.
As a favor to friends of Fraser¿s family, Evie jumps at the chance to appraise a Scottish castle full of artifacts and heirlooms. What could be more thrilling than roaming the halls of Kettlesheer and uncovering the McAndrews¿ family treasures¿and dusty secrets? But crossing paths with moody heir Robert McAndrew has Evie assessing what she wants the most . . . and at an upcoming candlelight gala, a traditional dance will set her heart reeling. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 352 Seiten Beteiligte:Browne, Hester Standort: Engl. Bro ISBN: 978-1-78206-565-4
Inhalt: An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one grisly solution--a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism, The Postman Always Rings Twice is a classic of the roman noir . It established James M. Cain as a major novelist with an unsparing vision of America's bleak underside, and was acknowledged by Albert Camus as the model for The Stranger . 1990 hat das Bochumer Krimi-Archiv in einer großen Rundfrage bei Krimi-Kritikern, Krimi-Buchhändlern und Krimi-Autoren nach den ihrer Meinung nach besten Kriminalromanen gefragt. Das Ergebnis: Platz 1 für das brutale Meisterwerk "Wenn der Postmann zweimal klingelt".Das US-Depressionsdrama von James M. Cain (1892-1977) um das tödliche Verhältnis eines Wanderarbeiters mit der Frau eines Kneipenwirtes ist der beste Krimi aller Zeiten (im deutschsprachigen Raum). Er wurde bereits fünfmal verfilmt. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 169 S. Beteiligte:Cain, James M. Standort: Engl. Cai
Inhalt: The dead don't talk. Unless they have a secret to tell... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 231 S. Beteiligte:Cassidy, Laura Jane Standort: Engl. Cas ISBN: 978-0-14-133177-5
Inhalt: The fourth in the Detective Kate Burkholder series set in Ohio's Amish country. Three teenagers have vanished from Ohios Amish country. The only thing they have in common, other than their religion, is they are keen to leave the Plain Life. Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called in to consult by Agent John Tomasetti as her Amish roots will be invaluable in an investigation involving this sectarian society. They travel to the small town of Monongahela Falls to investigate the latest disappearance - that of seventeen-year-old Annie King. The only evidence left behind is a satchel - and a pool of blood. The case moves closer to home for Kate when a young relative, Sadie Miller, vanishes. With her own past resonating, Kate delves into the lives of the missing teens. Soon, a sinister pattern emerges along with a vital clue that changes everything. While following up on a lead, Kate makes an appalling discovery and unearths a secret no one could have imagined - thrusting her into a fight to the death with a merciless killer. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 277 S. Beteiligte:Castillo, Linda Standort: Engl. Cas ISBN: 978-0-230-76023-3
Inhalt: Early on the morning of her eleventh birthday, on the beach beside her North Carolina home, Daria Cato receives an unbelievable gift from the sea¿an abandoned newborn baby. When the infant's identity cannot be uncovered, she is adopted by Daria's loving family. But her silent secrets continue to haunt Daria.
Now, twenty years later, Shelly has grown into an unusual, ethereal young woman whom Daria continues to protect. But when Rory Taylor, a friend from Daria's childhood and now a television producer, returns at Shelly's request to do a story about the circumstances surrounding her birth, something precarious shifts in the small town of Kill Devil Hills.
The more questions Rory asks, the more unsettled the tiny community becomes, as closely guarded secrets and the sins of that long-ago summer begin to surface. Piece by piece, the mystery of summer's child is being exposed, a mystery that no one involved¿not Shelly, Daria, not even Rory¿is prepared to face. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 412 Seiten Beteiligte:Chamberlain, Diane Standort: Engl. Cha ISBN: 978-1-84845-307-4
Inhalt: ¿Why is this town called Mother¿s Rest?¿ That¿s all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It¿s a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal.
Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there¿s something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be? But before long he¿s plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way¿right back to where he started, in Mother¿s Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine. Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher¿s rule is: If you want me to stop, you¿re going to have to make me. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 562 Seiten Beteiligte:Child, Lee Standort: Engl. Chi ISBN: 978-0-8041-7879-2
Inhalt: Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a seventy-year-old biblical scholar, believes he has found the rarest of parchments - a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the Vatican library in the fifteenth century, it was assumed to be lost forever.Under the promise of secrecy, Jonathan attempts to confirm his findings with several other biblical experts. But on the eve before his own murder, he confides to Father Aiden O'Brien, a family friend, that one of those whom he trusted most is determined to keep it from being returned to the Vatican.The next evening Jonathan Lyons is found shot to death in his New Jersey home. His daughter, twenty-seven year old Mariah, finds her fathers body sprawled over his desk in his study, a fatal bullet wound in the back of his neck, and her mother, Kathleen, an Alzheimers victim, hiding in the study closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. The police suspect that Kathleen, who in her lucid moments knows that Jonathan was involved with a much younger woman Lily Stewart, has committed the murder.But Mariah believes that the key to her fathers death is tied to another question: Where is the missing parchment? Whom, among his close circle of friends, might he have consulted? And did one of them kill to keep possession of the letter? What Mariah doesnt know is that there was an eyewitness to the murder, someone whose unwise attempt to blackmail the killer begins a new circle of death, with Mariah as the ultimate target of one persons obsession with a priceless historical treasure. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 375 S. Beteiligte:Clark, Mary Higgins Standort: Engl. Clar ISBN: 978-1-4516-7791-1
Inhalt: Get to know this sensational city in detail starting from its glorious history all the way to its captivating present. Discover the magis that is London: the historic City, majestic Westminster, the vibrant West End and much, much more!
Step 1: Exam Level KET Systematik: Engl., , CEL 100 Umfang: 95 S. : zahlr. Ill. (farb.), graph. Darst. + 1 CD Beteiligte:Clemen, Gina D. B. Standort: Engl. Cle ISBN: 978-88-530-1021-6
Inhalt: A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? And most critically: What can he tell Myron and Win about the fate of his missing friend? Drawing on his singular talent, Harlan Coben delivers an explosive and deeply moving thriller about friendship, family, and the meaning of home. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 387 Seiten Beteiligte:Coben, Harlan Standort: Engl. Cob ISBN: 978-1-101-98569-4
Inhalt: Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. So when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todd's wife he's hoping for ....
But she is not Natalie.
Soon Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart puts his very life at risk, as he uncovers the secrets and lies that love can hide .... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 358 S. Beteiligte:Coben, Harlan Standort: Engl. Cob ISBN: 978-1-4091-0394-3
Inhalt: Rosie Hopkins is waiting excitedly for Christmas in the Derbyshire village of Lipton. Her sweetshop is festooned with striped candy canes, piles of Turkish Delight and happy, sticky children. She's going to be spending it with her whole family, and boyfriend Stephen. But when tragedy strikes at the heart of their community, Rosie's plans for the future collapse. Can she build a life in Lipton? And is what's best for the sweetshop also what's best for Rosie? Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 390 Seiten Beteiligte:Colgan, Jenny Standort: Engl. Col ISBN: 978-0-7515-5181-5
Inhalt: Mouth-watering recipes inside! As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf, and the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life, Anna Trent is already awake and at work; mixing and stirring the finest, smoothest, richest chocolate; made entirely by hand, it is sold to the grandes dames of Paris. It's a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in at home in the north of England. But when an accident changed everything, Anna was thrown back in touch with her French teacher, Claire, who offered her the chance of a lifetime - to work in Paris with her former sweetheart, Thierry, a master chocolatier. With old wounds about to be uncovered and healed, Anna is set to discover more about real chocolate - and herself - than she ever dreamed. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 440 S. Beteiligte:Colgan, Jenny Standort: Engl. Col ISBN: 978-0-7515-4920-1
Inhalt: Defence lawyer Mickey Haller has had some problems but now he's put all that behind him and is ready to resume his career. Then another lawyer dies, leaving Mickey his entire practice - including a very high-profile and potentially lucrative murder case. Mickey is back in business. Except that according to Detective Harry Bosch, the other lawyer was murdered. Odds-on by one of hid own clients. And now it's Mickeys job to defend him. Suddenly it's not just about winning. It's about staying alive. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 567 S. Beteiligte:Connelly, Michael Standort: Engl. Con ISBN: 978-1-4091-0228-1
Inhalt: As heard on BBC radio 4 book at bedtime winner of the Irish book awards novel of the year 2014 shortlisted for the costa first novel award 2014.Tess Lohan appears to be a quiet child. But within lies a heart of fire. A fire that will propel her from her native Ireland into the hurly-burly of 1960s New York. In this city she will face the twists of a life graced with great beauty, but forever floating close to hazard. Joyous and heart-breaking, Academy Street journeys through six decades and one incredible Story. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 179 S. Beteiligte:Costello, Mary Standort: Engl. Cos ISBN: 978-1-78211-420-8
Inhalt: In the locked office of a Honolulu building, three men are found dead, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 429 S. Beteiligte:Crichton, Michael Standort: Engl. Cri ISBN: 978-0-06-177645-8
Inhalt: The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive This edition contains a full chronology of Defoe's life and times, explanatory notes, glossary and a critical introduction discussing Robinson Crusoe as a pioneering work of modern psychological realism. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 251 S. Beteiligte:Defoe, Daniel Standort: Engl. Def
Inhalt: David Copperfield is the classic account of a boy growing up in a world that is by turns magical, fearful, and grimly realistic with brilliant series of comic and sentimental adventures in the spirit of the great eighteenth-century novelists. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: VIII, 866 S. Beteiligte:Dickens, Charles Standort: Engl. Dic ISBN: 978-0-307-94717-8
Inhalt: This darkest and most colorfully grotesque of Charles Dicken's novels swirls around one of his most beloved and unsullied heroes, the orphan Oliver Twist. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: XIV, 416 S. Beteiligte:Dickens, Charles Standort: Engl. Dic ISBN: 978-0-307-94718-5
Saint-Malo 1944: Die erblindete Marie-Laure flieht mit ihrem Vater, einem Angestellten des "Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle", aus dem besetzten Paris zu ihrem kauzigen Onkel in die Stadt am Meer. Verborgen in ihrem Gepäck führen sie den wahrscheinlich kostbarsten Schatz des Museums mit sich. Werner Hausner, ein schmächtiger Waisenjunge aus dem Ruhrgebiet, wird wegen seiner technischen Begabung gefördert und landet auf Umwegen in einer Spezialeinheit der Wehrmacht, die die Feindsender der Widerstandskämpfer aufzuspüren versucht. Während Marie-Laures Vater von den Deutschen verschleppt und verhört wird, dringt Werners Einheit nach Saint-Malo vor, auf der Suche nach dem Sender, der die Résistance mit Daten versorgt...
Hochspannend und mit einer außergewöhnlichen Sprachkunst erzählt Anthony Doerr die berührende Geschichte von Marie-Laure und Werner, deren Lebenswege sich für einen schicksalsträchtigen Augenblick kreuzen. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 530 Seiten Beteiligte:Doerr, Anthony Standort: Engl. Doe ISBN: 978-0-00-754869-9
Inhalt: When Mattie Gokey is given a bundle of letters to burn she fully intends to execute the wishes of the giver, Grace Brown. When Grace Brown is found drowned the next day in Big Moose Lake, Mattie finds that it is not as easy to burn those letters as she had thought. And, as she reads, a riveting story emerges - not only Grace Brown's story but also Mattie's hopes and ambitions for the future and her relationships with her friends and family.
Winner of the Carnegie Medal 2003 Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 389 Seiten Beteiligte:Donnelly, Jennifer Standort: Engl. Don ISBN: 978-0-7475-7063-9
Der 12. Juli 1906 ist ein schöner, sonniger Tag. Bis man die ertrunkene Grace Brown auf die Veranda des vornehmen Glenmore Hotels legt. Für die junge Mattie, die die Briefe der Toten an ihren Geliebten aufbewahrt, ändert sich mit diesem tragischen Ereignis das ganze Leben Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 396 S. Beteiligte:Donnelly, Jennifer Standort: Engl. Don ISBN: 978-0-15-205310-9
Inhalt: Aktuell und zeitlos zugleich, zutiefst menschlich und authentisch - einfach große Frauenunterhaltung. Das Leben der 17-jährigen Katie nimmt eine dramatische Wendung, als ein Anruf ankündigt, dass ihre Großmutter Mary bei ihr zu Hause einziehen wird. Ihre Mutter Caroline hat dem widerwillig zugestimmt, denn sie hatte seit vielen Jahren keinen Kontakt zu Mary und ist nicht gut auf sie zu sprechen. Katie muss mit der ihr fremden Großmutter das Zimmer teilen. Und sie fängt an, sich für Marys Geschichte zu interessieren. Katie will dem Familiengeheimnis auf die Spur kommen. Das ist nicht einfach, weil Mary an Alzheimer leidet. Doch Katie erkennt verblüffende Ähnlichkeiten zwischen sich und Mary: beide haben eine ungehörige Vorstellung vom Glück ...
Aus dem Englischen übersetzt Systematik: Roman Umfang: 478 S. Beteiligte:Downham, Jenny Standort: Dow ISBN: 978-3-570-10292-3
Inhalt: International literary superstar Dave Eggers on the biggest subject of them all - the state of the world.. Alan Clay ist ein Mann der Old Economy, der nicht ganz ohne eigenes Zutun so gut wie ausrangiert ist und nun darum kämpft, die Studiengebühren seiner Tochter bezahlen und einen Rest seiner Würde bewahren zu können. Er hat noch eine Chance, um seiner Finanzlage und damit seinem Leben die entscheidende Wendung zu geben: Für eine amerikanische IT-Firma fliegt er mit einem Team von jungen Leuten nach Saudi-Arabien. Dort, wo mitten in der Wüste eine funkelnde Wirtschaftsmetropole entstehen soll, wollen sie dem saudischen König ihre hochentwickelte IT-Technik vorführen, mit der sie die Stadt versorgen möchten. In einem Zelt am Rande der riesigen Baustelle, aus der eines Tages die Stadt erwachsen soll, kämpfen sie nicht nur mit drückender Hitze und wackligem WiFi, sondern warten auf einen König, der einfach nicht kommt."Ein Hologramm für den König" ist ein Roman über das, was die globalisierte Wirtschaft mit dem Menschen macht. Mit großer Empathie und herrlich absurder Komik erzählt, zielt er mitten ins Herz der heutigen Zeit. Vielschichtig, traurig, rührend. Ein literarischer Meilenstein. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 312 S. Beteiligte:Eggers, Dave Standort: Engl. Egg ISBN: 978-0-241-96515-3
Inhalt: Weil sie das Schulgeld für ihre kleine Tochter Saffron nicht bezahlen kann, arbeitet die alleinerziehende Werbetexterin Rose in Beas Restaurant in Notting Hill als Kellnerin. Als Rose über Bea den Künstler Neil kennenlernt, werden die drei schnell ein unschlagbares Team ... Text in Englisch mit Übungen. Niveau C1 Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 159 S. Beteiligte:Eilertson, Carole Standort: Engl. Eil ISBN: 978-3-468-44105-9
Inhalt: Ist Lauras Mutter damals wirklich mit einem anderen mann durchgebrannt, ist sie einem Verbrechen zum Opfer gefallen oder lebt sie am Ende noch? Die Suche nach der Vergangenheit führt Laura auf eine Beauty-Farm, auf der der Tod umgeht. Die Opfer sterben im Kreis ihrer Sternzeichen: Widder, Stier, Zwillinge, Krebs und Löwe. Laura ist im Tierkreiszeichen Jungfrau geboren... Text deutsch und englisch mit Übungen. Niveau B2. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 175 S. Beteiligte:Eilertson, Carole, Puchalla, Dagmar Standort: Engl. Eil ISBN: 978-3-468-44102-8
Inhalt: Joe Talbert, Jr. has never once met his namesake. Now out of college, a cub reporter for the Associated Press in Minneapolis, he stumbles across a story describing the murder of a man named Joseph Talbert in a small town in southern Minnesota.
Full of curiosity about whether this man might be his father, Joe is shocked to find that none of the town's residents have much to say about the dead man-other than that his death was long overdue. Joe discovers that the dead man was a loathsome lowlife who cheated his neighbors, threatened his daughter, and squandered his wife's inheritance after she, too, passed away--an inheritance that may now be Joe's.
Mired in uncertainty and plagued by his own devastated relationship with his mother, who is seeking to get back into her son's life, Joe must put together the missing pieces of his family history -- before his quest for discovery threatens to put him in a grave of his own. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 341 Seiten Beteiligte:Eskens, Allen Standort: Engl. Esk ISBN: 978-0-316-50978-7
Inhalt: Sian Bishop has left the city and thrown herself into a new life in the country. And she is not - repeat not - looking for love. But then, one glorious summer evening, Gus berresford arrives. One-time explorer, full-time heartbreaker, Gus is ridiculously exciting, wonderfully glamorous - and, Sian tells herself, completely wrong for a romantically cautious single woman like her. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 376 S. Beteiligte:Fforde, Katie Standort: Engl. Ffo ISBN: 978-0-09-953915-5
dtv zweisprachig The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Stories (Ba Englisch - Deutsch. Texte für Könner dtv, München (2015)
Standort: Engl. Fit
Inhalt: Fitzgeralds meisterhafte Erzählungen - kurios, knapp und brillant. Texte für Könner.
Zum 75. Todestag F. Scott Fitzgeralds
Der Held der Titelgeschichte altert 'rückwärts', die forsche Bernice plant eine nahezu revolutionäre Aktion und ein Besuch bei einer alten Jugendliebe nimmt eine überraschende Wendung - drei kleine Meisterwerke aus der Feder eines Hauptvertreters der amerikanischen Moderne fangen die Stimmung der 'Roaring Twenties' ein und bestechen durch ihre sprachliche wie poetische Kraft.
Inhalt: Fitzgerald war der literarische Wortführer des "Jazz Age". Er hat das glitzernde New York der Zwischenkriegsjahre, das sich für die Rhythmen von Duke Ellington und Louis Armstrong begeisterte, eingefangen, ohne die Frage auszublenden, ob dieser Glanz trügerisch sei. Seine Helden, kaum verhüllte Selbstporträts, strotzen nur so vor Selbstbewusstsein und leiden zugleich an ihrem Ausbeuten der eigenen Seele. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 172 S. Beteiligte:Fitzgerald, F. Scott Standort: Engl. Fit
Inhalt: Wie in seinem Bestseller "Keiko" erzählt Jamie Ford von zwei Menschen, die das Schicksal auseinandergerissen hat. Er erzählt von der dramatischen Suche eines verwaisten Jungen nach seiner Mutter, von Liebe und Vergebung. Seit dem Tag, an dem der leblose Körper seiner Mutter aus dem Haus getragen wurde, lebt William Eng im Waisenhaus. Als er im Kino die schöne Sängerin Willow Frost sieht, ist er überwältigt. Täuschend ähnlich sieht sie seiner Mutter. Entschlossen, den fernen Filmstar aufzuspüren, läuft er fort, schlägt sich auf den Straßen Seattles durch, sucht sie in Theatern und Lichtspielhäusern. Er muss Willow Frost finden. Er muss beweisen, dass sie seine Mutter ist, und endlich erfahren, was damals passierte. Vor dem Hintergrund der Großen Depression im Seattle der dreißiger Jahre hat Jamie Ford einen berührenden Roman über einen Jungen geschrieben, der nicht aufhört, an die Liebe seiner Mutter zu glauben, der alles wagt, um sie wiederzufinden.
William Eng, a Chinese-American boy, has lived at Seattle's Sacred Heart Orphanage for five long years. When during a trip to the movies, William glimpses an actress on the silver screen who he believes could be his mother, he becomes determined to find her and attempts to confront the mysteries of his past. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 409 S. Beteiligte:Ford, Jamie Standort: Engl. For ISBN: 978-0-7490-1468-1
Inhalt: Helen und Meg, zwei höhere Töchter aus London, verleben die Sommerfrische auf dem Landsitz Howards End. Es entspinnt sich eine Liebesgeschichte voller Sehnsucht, Zärtlichkeit und Melancholie zu den beiden attraktiven Söhnen des Hauses.
As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named Leonard Bast, who lives at the edge of poverty and ruin. When Mrs Wilcox dies, her family discovers that she wants to leave her country home, Howards End, to Margaret. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 676 S. Beteiligte:Forster, E.M. Standort: Engl. For
Inhalt: In California's Sacramento Valley, six people meet once a month to discuss Jane Austen's novels. They are ordinary people, neither happy nor unhappy, but all wounded in different ways, all mixed up about their lives and their relationships. Over the six month they meet marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements becone suitable, and under the guiding eye of Jane Austen, some of them even fall in love ...
Fünf Frauen und ein Mann treffen sich sechs Monate lang, um über die Romane von Jane Austen zu diskutieren. Doch was dabei ans Licht kommt, sind weniger die verschiedenen Aspekte von Stolz und Vorurteil als die Wünsche und Sehnsüchte der Teilnehmer selbst. Während der Jane Austen Club sich trifft, werden Ehen getestet, zarte Bande gesponnen und Tragödien gemeistert. Und die Liebe bahnt sich am Ende durch alle Wirrnisse ihren Weg. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 243 S. Beteiligte:Fowler, Karen Joy Standort: Engl. Fow ISBN: 978-0-14-102026-6
Inhalt: "Hattest du als Kind auch diesen Moment, in dem dir plötzlich klar wurde, dass deine Familie verrückt ist?"
Es war einmal ein Haus mit einem Garten, in dem wohnten ein Apfelbaum, ein Bach und ein kleine Katze mit mondgelben Augen. Hier wachsen drei Kinder auf: Rosemary, ihre ungestüme Schwester Fern und ihr großer Bruder Lowell. Sie könnten eine ganz normale Familie sein. Wäre ihr Vater nicht Wissenschaftler, und wäre Fern nicht ein ganz besonderes kleines Mädchen, das Wachsmalstifte verspeist, den perfekten Rückwärtssalto beherrscht und lacht wie eine Säge. Jahre nach Ferns Verschwinden erzählt Rosemary nun deren Geschichte. Denn erzählen war das Einzige, was Fern nie konnte. "Die wundersame Reise ins Herz einer Familie. Am Ende bricht das Buch dem Leser nicht einfach das Herz - es nimmt sein Herz und gibt es nicht mehr zurück." Dan Chaon "Mein Lieblingsbuch des Jahres." Elizabeth George From the bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club, the story of an American family, middle class in middle America, ordinary in every way but one. But that exception is the beating heart of this extraordinary novel. It's funny, clever, intimate, honest, analytical and swirling with ideas that will come back to bite you. You can't choose your family, but they can make choices for you. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 320 S. Beteiligte:Fowler, Karen Joy Standort: Engl. Fow ISBN: 978-1-78125-295-6
Inhalt: The first in a new series with psychotherapist Frieda Klein. Five-year-old Matthew Faraday is abducted and one of Frieda's patients describes dreams of seizing a boy who is the spitting image of Matthew. So Frieda finds herself drawn into the heart of the case ... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 412 S. Beteiligte:French, Nicci Standort: Engl. Fre ISBN: 978-0-14-104075-2
Inhalt: Endlich - der zweite Fall für Frieda Klein! Eisiger Dienstag.... In der Wohnung einer psychisch Kranken wird ein Toter gefunden: Edward Green, alias Robert Poole, der zu seinen Lebzeiten den Mitmenschen mit Charme und Charisma Alltag und Bankkonto erleichterte. Wieder einmal unterstützt die Psychotherapeutin Frieda Klein die Polizei bei den Ermittlungen. Das wird nicht überall gern gesehen. Zumal die Leiche einer jungen Studentin aufgefunden wird, die durch Kleins Fehleinschätzung ums Leben kam. Die Presse veranstaltet eine Hetzjagd auf sie. Aber sie trotzt allen Anfeindungen und hat bald eine schreckliche Vermutung. Und die Suche nach Pooles Mörder bringt auch sie in Lebensgefahr Ein intelligenter Thriller aus einem London, wie es nur wenige von uns kennen. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 447 S. Beteiligte:French, Nicci Standort: Engl. Fre ISBN: 978-1-4059-0916-7
Inhalt: A bloated corpse turns up in the Thames, throat slashed, and the only clue is a hospital wristband reading Dr. F. Klein. Frieda is taken to see the body and realizes with horror that it is Sandy, her ex-boyfriend. She¿s certain that the killer is Dean Reeve¿the man who has never stopped haunting her. But the police think he has been dead for years, and Frieda is their number one suspect. With few options, Frieda goes on the run to save herself and try to uncover the truth. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 374 Seiten ; Karte Beteiligte:French, Nicci Standort: Engl. Fre ISBN: 978-0-7181-7963-2
Inhalt: Frieda Klein reluctantly faces a case that penetrates to her very core. Saturday Requiem is classic Nicci French - a dark, gripping and sophisticated masterclass in psychological suspense in which nothing is quite what it seems . . .'Nicci French's sophisticated, compassionate and gripping crime novels stand head and shoulders above the competition' Sophie Hannah ***Thirteen years ago eighteen year old Hannah Docherty was arrested for the brutal murder of her family. It was an open and shut case and Hannah's been incarcerated in a secure hospital ever since.When psychotherapist Frieda Klein is asked to meet Hannah and give her assessment of her she reluctantly agrees. What she finds horrifies her. Hannah has become a tragic figure, old before her time. And Frieda is haunted by the thought that Hannah might be as much of a victim as her family; that something wasn't right all those years ago.And as Hannah's case takes hold of her, Frieda soon begins to realise that she's up against someone who'll go to any lengths to protect themselves . . .Saturday Requiem is the sixth addictive and intriguing novel in the Frieda Klein series by the bestselling author Nicci French.'French leads the field' Sunday Express'Brilliantly crafted . . . masterly control of suspense' Daily Mirror 'Tense, frightening, gripping' Easy Living 'Dark, nerve-tingling and addictive' Daily Express Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 389 S. Beteiligte:French, Nicci Standort: Engl. Fre ISBN: 978-0-7181-7965-6
Inhalt: A decade ago, psychologist Frieda Klein was sucked into the orbit of Dean Reeve -- a killer able to impersonate almost anyone, a man who can disappear without a trace, a psychopath obsessed with Frieda herself.
In the years since, Frieda has worked with -- and sometimes against -- the London police in solving their most baffling cases. But now she's in hiding, driven to isolation by Reeve. When a series of murders announces his return, Frieda must emerge from the shadows to confront her nemesis. And it's a showdown she might not survive.
Criminology student Lola Hayes has tracked Frieda down with a single-minded pursuit: she wants to delve inside the mind of a woman besieged by darkness. But in following every move Frieda makes, Lola is exposing herself to the same terrors-and the same twisted fixation of a diabolical psychopath.
This gripping cat-and-mouse thriller pits one of the most fascinating characters in contemporary fiction against an enemy like none other. Smart, sophisticated, and spellbinding, it's a novel to leave you breathless. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 374 Seiten Beteiligte:French, Nicci Standort: Engl. Fre ISBN: 978-0-7181-7968-7
Inhalt: Als das berühmte Model Lula Landry von ihrem schneebedeckten Balkon im Londoner Stadtteil Mayfair in den Tod stürzt, steht für die ermittelnden Beamten schnell fest, dass es Selbstmord war. Der Fall scheint abgeschlossen. Doch Lulas Bruder hat Zweifel, ein Privatdetektiv soll für ihn die Wahrheit ans Licht bringen. Cormoran Strike hat in Afghanistan körperliche und seelische Wunden davongetragen, mangels Aufträgen ist er außerdem finanziell am Ende. Der spektakuläre neue Fall ist seine Rettung, doch Strike ahnt nicht, was die Ermittlungen ihm abverlangen werden. Während er immer weiter eindringt in die Welt der Reichen und Schönen, fördert Strike Erschreckendes zutage und gerät selbst in große Gefahr. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 549 S. Beteiligte:Rowling, J.K., Galbraith, Robert Standort: Engl. Gal
Inhalt: When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg.Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality.With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them...A fiendishly clever mystery with unexpected twists around every corner, Career of Evil is also a gripping story of a man and a woman at a crossroads in their personal and professional lives. You will not be able to put this book down. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 487 Seiten Beteiligte:Galbraith, Robert Standort: Engl. Gal ISBN: 978-0-7515-6358-0
Inhalt: When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home.
But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost everyone he knows. If the novel were to be published, it would ruin lives--meaning that there are a lot of people who might want him silenced.
When Quine is found brutally murdered under bizarre circumstances, it becomes a race against time to understand the motivation of a ruthless killer, a killer unlike any Strike has encountered before... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 580 Seiten Beteiligte:Galbraith, Robert Standort: Engl. Gal ISBN: 978-0-7515-4926-3
Inhalt: A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise - Old Filth is now reissued with a new cover.
Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent Home from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period from the glory days of British Empire, through the Second World War, to the present and beyond, but also illuminates the complexities of the character known variously as Eddie, the Judge, Fevvers, Filth, Master of the Inner Temple, Teddy and Sir Edward Feathers. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 255 S. Beteiligte:Gardam, Jane Standort: Engl. Gar ISBN: 978-0-349-13949-4
Inhalt: A box of delights - another masterpiece from Jane Gardam and a companion novel to OLD FILTH
Filth (Failed In London, Try Hong Kong) is a successful lawyer when he marries Elisabeth in Hong Kong soon after the War. Reserved, immaculate and courteous, Filth finds it hard to demonstrate his emotions. But Elisabeth is different - a free spirit. She was brought up in the Japanese Internment Camps, which killed both her parents but left her with a lust for survival and an affinity with the Far East. No wonder she is attracted to Filth's hated rival at the Bar - the brash, forceful Veneering. Veneering has a Chinese wife and an adored son - and no difficulty whatsoever in demonstrating his emotions . . .
How Elisabeth turns into Betty and whether she remains loyal to stolid Filth or is swept up by caddish Veneering, makes for a page-turning plot in a perfect novel which is full of surprises and revelations, as well as the humour and eccentricites for which Jane Gardam's writing is famous. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 271 S. Beteiligte:Gardam, Jane Standort: Engl. Gar ISBN: 978-0-349-13948-7
Inhalt: HEADLINE'S LATEST AMAZING THRILLER ACQUISITION: New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner moves to Headline with her brand new D. D. Warren novel CATCH ME
The latest brilliant novel in the D.D. Warren series from Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner. IN FOUR DAYS, SOMEONE IS GOING TO KILL ME... At 8pm on 21st January, twenty-eight-year-old Charlie Grant believes she is going to be murdered and she wants Boston's top homicide detective, D.D. Warren, to handle her death investigation. Confronting D.D. at her latest crime scene, Charlie lays her cards on the table. For each of the last two years, one of her childhood friends has been murdered leaving Charlie as the only one of the three friends to remain alive. But as D.D. delves deeper in to the details of Charlie's case, she begins to question the young woman's story. Because Charlie can now outfight and outrun anyone she meets and D.D.'s instinct is that she's hiding a secret. A secret so explosive that Charlie herself may turn out to be the biggest danger of all... ...BUT THE SON OF A BITCH HAS GOT TO CATCH ME FIRST. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 455 S. Beteiligte:Gardner, Lisa Standort: Engl. Gar ISBN: 978-0-451-41343-7
Inhalt: They were daughters of a monster¿a father who slaughtered eight prostitutes before dying himself. Dr. Adeline Glen left the nightmare behind, and now she specializes in pain management. Her sister, Shana Day, followed in her father¿s violent footsteps, first killing at age fourteen and being incarcerated for more than twenty-five years. After a brutal attack, Boston Detective D. D. Warren needs Adeline¿s professional help to recover physically. But when a new psychopath known as the Rose Killer begins a reign of terror, D.D. must also consult the insane Shana¿who claims she can help catch the madman. D.D. may not yet be back on the job, but she is back on the hunt. Because the Rose Killer isn¿t just targeting lone women; he is targeting D.D. And D.D. knows there is only one way to take him down. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 455 Seiten Beteiligte:Gardner, Lisa Standort: Engl. Gar ISBN: 978-0-7553-8835-6
Inhalt: Eine Frage, eine Entscheidung im Bruchteil einer Sekunde und Brian Darby liegt tot auf dem Küchenboden. Seine Frau, die Polizistin Tessa, behauptet, ihn in Notwehr erschossen zu haben und zeigt ihre blauen Flecken zur Untermauerung der Geschichte vor. Für Detective DD Warren sollte es ein leichter Fall sein, doch wo ist Tessas sechsjährige Tochter?
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Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner returns with her brand new D.D. Warren paperback, LOVE YOU MORE. WHO DO YOU LOVE? A split-second decision and Brian Darby lies dead. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defence and for Boston detective D.D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter? As D.D.'s homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic state-wide search for a missing child, she must move quickly in order to learn all of Tessa's secrets and understand what has happened to the little girl. But for Tessa, the worst has not yet happened. She is walking a tightrope, with no-one to trust and nowhere to turn, as the clock ticks down to a terrifying deadline. She has one goal in sight, and she will use every ounce of her training to do what has to be done. All that matters is her child and no one could love her more... Two women. With one question... HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO SAVE YOUR CHILD? Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 406 S: Beteiligte:Gardner, Lisa Standort: Engl. Gar ISBN: 978-0-553-59192-7
Inhalt: When Hadiyyah Upman disappears from London in the company of her mother, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is as devastated as the girl's father. They are her close friends as well as neighbours, but since the child is with her mother, nothing can be done. Five months later, Hadiyyah is kidnapped from an open air market in Lucca, Italy, and this triggers an investigation in the full glare of the media spotlight. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 866 S. Beteiligte:George, Elizabeth Standort: Engl. Geo ISBN: 978-1-4447-7598-3
Inhalt: Becca King and her mother are on the run from her stepfather who has used Becca's talent for hearing 'whispers' to make a large and illegal sum of money. Now their options for safety are running out. In the town of Langley on Whidbey Island, Becca finds refuge in the home of her mother's childhood friend while her mother continues on to Canada in search of safety. But on her first day in town Becca meets sixteen years old Derric Mathieson, a Ugandan orphan who was adopted as a ten-year-old by the town's Deputy Sheriff. Derric has a secret that no one on Whidbey Island knows. Derric and Becca form an un-severable bond. Becca is convinced that she's the only person who can truly help him, and just maybe Derric can convince Becca that life is too short to live on the run. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 388 S. Beteiligte:George, Elizabeth Standort: Engl. Geo ISBN: 978-1-4447-1996-3
Inhalt: When an adolescent boy s body is found mutilated and artfully arranged on the top of a tomb, it takes no large leap for the police to recognize the work of a serial killer. This is his fourth victim but the first to be white. Hoping to avoid charges of institutionalized prejudice in the failure to pursue the earlier crimes to their conclusion, New Scotland Yard takes the case and hands it over to Acting Superintendent Thomas Lynley and his colleagues. The killer is a psychopath who does not intend to be stopped. Only a devastating tragedy within their ranks causes the police to fumble in their pursuit of him. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 900 S. Beteiligte:George, Elizabeth Standort: Engl. Geo ISBN: 978-0-06-208759-1
Inhalt: A sequel to the international bestseller "Eat, Pray, Love", this title is an intelligent contemplation of marriage that debunks myths, unthreads fears and suggests that sometimes even the most romantic of souls must trade in her amorous fantasies for the humbling responsibility of adulthood. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Beteiligte:Gilbert, Elizabeth Standort: Engl. Gil ISBN: 978-1-4088-1047-7
Inhalt: Elizabeth Gilbert is in her thirties, settled in a large house with a husband who wants to start a family. But she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a rebound fling later, Elizabeth emerges battered yet determined to find what she's been missing. So begins her quest. In Rome, she indulges herself and gains nearly two stone. In India, she finds enlightenment through scrubbing temple floors. Finally, in Bali, a toothless medicine man reveals a new path to peace, leaving her ready to love again. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 349 Seiten Beteiligte:Gilbert, Elizabeth Standort: Engl. Gil ISBN: 978-1-4088-1010-1
Inhalt: Can the same killer strike again¿a hundred and fifty years later?
Estes Park, Colorado, is a place of serenity. But it wasn't always so serene. Shortly after the Civil War, Nathan Kendall and his wife were murdered there, leaving behind a young son. The crime was never solved.
Now¿historian Scarlet Barlow is working at a small museum attached to a B and B, the same building where that murder occurred. She recently came to Colorado, reeling after her divorce from FBI agent Diego McCullough. Diego¿who's just been asked to join the Krewe of Hunters, a unit dealing with "unusual" situations¿
When Scarlet unwittingly takes pictures of people who've been murdered¿just like the Kendalls a hundred and fifty years before¿the police look at her with suspicion. Then the museum's statues of historic people, including Nathan Kendall, begin to talk to her, and she knows it's time to call her ex-husband. Diego heads to Estes Park, determined to solve the bizarre case that threatens Scarlet's life¿and to reunite with the woman he never stopped loving. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 360 S. Beteiligte:Graham, Heather Standort: Engl. Gra ISBN: 978-0-7783-1758-6
Inhalt: The inimitable Richard Jury returns in the latest in the bestselling mystery series: "Martha Grimes has written a whodunit with terrific characters and a grand plot mixed with her unique droll wit. Vertigo 42 is one smart mystery!" (Susan Isaacs, bestselling author of Goldberg Variations )
Richard Jury is meeting Tom Williamson at Vertigo 42, a bar on the forty-second floor of an office building in London's financial district. Despite inconclusive evidence, Tom is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered seventeen years ago. The inspector in charge of the case was sure Tess's death was accidental-a direct result of vertigo-but the official police inquiry is still an open verdict and Jury agrees to re-examine the case.
Jury learns that a nine-year-old girl fell to her death five years before Tess at the same place in Devon where Tess died, at a small house party. Jury seeks out the five surviving party guests, who are now adults, hoping they can shed light on this bizarre coincidence. Ultimately, four deaths-two in the past, two that occur on the pages of this intricate, compelling novel-keep Richard Jury and his sidekick Sergeant Wiggins running from their homes in Islington to the countryside in Devon and to London as they try to figure out if the deaths were accidental or not. And, if they are connected.
Witty, well-written, with literary references from Thomas Hardy to Yeats, Vertigo 42 is a pitch perfect, page-turning novel from a mystery writer at the top of her game. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 435 Seiten Beteiligte:Grimes, Martha Standort: Engl. Gri ISBN: 978-1-4767-2405-8
Inhalt: Worldwide bestseller John Grisham will keep you on the edge of your seat with his most suspenseful thriller yet. America's greatest storyteller brings us a new masterpiece of legal courage and gripping suspense - and his finest heroine since The Pelican Brief. One week ago, Samantha Kofer was a third-year associate at New York City's largest law firm. Now she is an unpaid intern in a legal aid clinic deep in small-town Appalachia. When Lehman Brothers collapsed, she lost her job, her security, her future. As she confronts real clients with real problems, she finds herself a world away from her past life of corporate fat cats and fatter bonuses. This is coal country. Meth country. The law is different here. And standing up for the truth means putting your life on the line. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 461 S. Beteiligte:Grisham, John Standort: Engl. Gri ISBN: 978-0-8129-9926-6
Inhalt: A unlikely trio of a street lawyer, an expert hustler and a Harvard Law School graduate make up Finlex & Figg - specialists in injury claims, quickie divorces and DUIS. None of them has ever faced a jury in federal court. But they are about to take on one of the biggest pharmaceutical companies in the States. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 436 S. Beteiligte:Grisham, John Standort: Engl. Gri ISBN: 978-1-4447-3061-6
Inhalt: In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. He dreams of al life in the courtroom, but finds himself there sooner than expected when he is dragged into the middle of a sensational murder trial. A cold- blooded killer is about to go free, and only Theo knows the truth. The stakes are high, but Theo won't stop until justice is served. Systematik: Engl. 5.2 Umfang: 263 Seiten Beteiligte:Grisham, John Standort: Engl. 5.2 Gri ISBN: 978-1-4447-1456-2
Inhalt: Christopher Boone is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrom. He knows lots about maths and nothing about people. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a terrifying journey which will turn his world upside down. Whitbread Award. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 271 S. Beteiligte:Haddon, Mark Standort: Engl. Had
Inhalt: New Year's Eve at Topper's House, North London's most popular suicide spot. And four strangers are about to discover that doing away with yourself isn't quite the private act they'd each expected. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 256 S. Beteiligte:Hornby, Nick Standort: Engl. Hor
Inhalt: Funny Girl is the story of a popular 1960s tv comedy series. The writers, Tony and Bill, comedy obsessives, who each harbour a secret. And most of all Sophie Straw, once Barbara Parker, Miss Blackpool 1964, who's changed her name and abandoned her old life because she just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy fame. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 341 Seiten Beteiligte:Hornby, Nick Standort: Engl. Hor ISBN: 978-0-241-96523-8
Inhalt: According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 243 S. Beteiligte:Hornby, Nick Standort: Engl. Hor
Inhalt: Annie has put fifteen years into safe, slightly obessive Duncan, and now she'd like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked. Is she really going to find a real, proper, feel-it-deep-down-in-your-boots love on a damp and windy seafront? Or perhaps she should follow her heart and pursue Tucker, the reclusive American rock star, who keeps emailing her his smart advice. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 248 S. Beteiligte:Hornby, Nick Standort: Hor ISBN: 978-0-14-104774-4
Inhalt: Fifteen-year-old Mariam is sent to Kabul to marry the troubnled and bitter Rasheed. Decades later, fifteen-year-old Laila must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam become very close. Like mother and daughter. Then comes the Taliban rule over Afghanistan. Everywhere gunfire and bombs, life a desperate struggle against starvation, burtality and fear. A portrait of a wounded country and a deeply moving story of family and friendship, Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 372 S. Beteiligte:Hosseini, Khaled Standort: Engl. Hos ISBN: 978-0-7475-8279-3
Inhalt: From the internationally bestselling author, praised for her beguiling, lyrical prose (The Sunday Times Review, UK), comes a brilliant, provocative novel about an artist, Harriet Burden, who after years of being ignored by the art world conducts an experiment: she conceals her female identity behind three male fronts.
With "The Blazing World", internationally bestselling author Siri Hustvedt returns to the New York art world in her most masterful and urgent novel since What I Loved. Hustvedt, who has long been celebrated for her "beguiling, lyrical prose" (The Sunday Times Books, London), tells the provocative story of the artist Harriet Burden. After years of watching her work ignored or dismissed by critics, Burden conducts an experiment she calls Maskings: she presents her own art behind three male masks, concealing her female identity. The three solo shows are successful, but when Burden finally steps forward triumphantly to reveal herself as the artist behind the exhibitions, there are critics who doubt her. The public scandal turns on the final exhibition, initially shown as the work of acclaimed artist Rune, who denies Burden's role in its creation. What no one doubts, however, is that the two artists were intensely involved with each other. As Burden's journals reveal, she and Rune found themselves locked in a charged and dangerous game that ended with the man's bizarre death. Ingeniously presented as a collection of texts compiled after Burden's death, "The Blazing World" unfolds from multiple perspectives. The exuberant Burden speaks - in all her joy and fury - through extracts from her own notebooks, while critics, fans, family members, and others offer their own conflicting opinions of who she was, and where the truth lies. From one of the most ambitious and internationally renowned writers of her generation, "The Blazing World" is a polyphonic tour de force. An intricately conceived, diabolical puzzle, it explores the deceptive powers of prejudice, money, fame, and desire. Emotionally intense, intellectually rigorous, ironic, and playful, Hustvedt's novel is a bold, rich masterpiece, one that will be remembered for years to come. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 356 S. Beteiligte:Hustvedt, Siri Standort: Engl. Hus ISBN: 978-1-4447-7963-9
Inhalt: Out of the blue, your husband of thirty years asks you for a pause in your marriage to indulge his infatuation with a young Frenchwoman. Do you: a) assume it's a passing affair and play along b) angrily declare the marriage over c) crack up d) retreat to a safe haven and regroup? Mia Fredricksen cracks up first, then decamps for the summer to the prairie town of her childhood, where she rages, fumes, and bemoans her sorry fate as abandoned spouse. But little by little, she is drawn into the lives of those around her: her mother and her circle of feisty widows; her young neighbour, with two small children and a loud, angry husband; and the diabolical pubescent girls in her poetry class. By the end of the summer without men, wiser though definitely not sadder, Mia knows what she wants to fight for and on whose terms. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 216 S. Beteiligte:Hustvedt, Siri Standort: Engl. Hus ISBN: 978-1-4447-1054-0
Inhalt: Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone in harbouring an ill-defined longing to break free. A visit to one of the few remaining Savage Reservations, where the old, imperfect life still continues, may be the cure for his distress.... Huxley's ingenious fantasy of the future sheds a blazing light on the present and is considered to be his most enduring masterpiece. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 229 S. Beteiligte:Huxley, Aldous Standort: Engl. Hux ISBN: 978-0-09-947746-4
Inhalt: Forever young? Bloss nicht! Mit einem neuen Jahr beginnt Marie Sharp auch ein neues Tagebuch! Kurz vor ihrem 67. Geburtstag ist sie fest entschlossen, endlich mehr für ihre Gesundheit zu tun. Doch dann ertastet sie etwas Merkwürdiges an ihrem Bauch, bestimmt ein Symptom für ... ja, für was nur? Gut, dass Marie genug Dinge hat, die sie vom Grübeln abhalten. Da wäre zum Beispiel der gut aussehende Untermieter, der offensichtlich etwas zu verbergen hat. Oder dieses "soziale Netzwerk", in das ihre Freunde ständig seltsame Dinge schreiben. Und nicht zuletzt eine neue, völlig verrückte Nachbarin. In all dem Trubel wird eines schnell klar: Marie ist nicht mehr die Jüngste - und das ist auch gut so!
Aus dem Engl. übers. Systematik: Roman Umfang: 352 S. Beteiligte:Ironside, Virginia Standort: Iro ISBN: 978-3-442-31364-8
Inhalt: Liebe und Tod, Leidenschaft und Vergänglichkeit, Wirklichkeit und Fiktion sind die Pole, zwischen denen der Puls des Romans von John Irving schlägt. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Schriftstellerin Ruth Cole, eine starke und verletzliche Frau, die mit ihren Büchern Erfolg und mit ihren Freunden Pech hat ... Umwerfend komisch und aufwühlend.
'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents 'bedroom'. This title tells the story of Ruth Cole. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 667 S. Beteiligte:Irving, John Standort: Engl. Irv
Inhalt: iIn 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and Englnad, a past that takes in fascism, two world-wars and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 258 S. Beteiligte:Ishiguro, Kazuo Standort: Engl. Ish
Inhalt: It starts as a game at a book group one night. Never Have I Ever... done something I shouldn't.
But Amy Whey has done something she shouldn't. And Roux, the glamorous newcomer to Amy's suburban neighbourhood, knows exactly what that is.
Roux promises she will go away - if Amy plays by her rules.
But Amy isn't prepared to lose everything. She's going to fight back, and in this escalating game of cat and mouse, there can be only one winner. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 340 Seiten Beteiligte:Jackson, Joshilyn Standort: Engl. Jac ISBN: 978-0-06-285531-2
Inhalt: When unworldly student Ana Steele first encountered the driven, damaged young entrepreneur Christian Grey, it sparked a sensual affair that changed both their lives irrevocably. Shocked, intrigued, and ultimately repelled by Christian's singular sexual tastes, Ana demanded a deeper commitment; determined to keep her, Christian agreed. Now, together, they have more - love, passion, intimacy, wealth, and a world of infinite possibilities. But Ana always knew that loving her Fifty Shades would not be easy and being together poses challenges neither of them ever anticipated. Ana must somehow learn to share Christian's opulent lifestyle without sacrificing her own integrity, identity, or independence; Christian must somehow overcome his compulsion to control and lay to rest the horrors that blighted his past and haunt his present. Just when it seems that together their love can conquer any obstacle, tragedy, malice and fate combine to make Ana's worst nightmares come true. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 569 S. Altersfreigabe: ab 18 Jahren Beteiligte:James, E.L. Standort: Engl. Jam ISBN: 978-0-345-80350-4
Inhalt: Sie ist 21, Literaturstudentin und in der Liebe nicht allzu erfahren. Doch dann lernt Ana Steele den reichen und ebenso unverschämt selbstbewussten wie attraktiven Unternehmer Christian Grey bei einem Interview für ihre Uni-Zeitung kennen. Und möchte ihn eigentlich schnellstmöglich wieder vergessen, denn die Begegnung mit ihm hat sie zutiefst verwirrt. So sehr sie sich aber darum bemüht: Sie kommt von ihm nicht los. Christian führt Ana ein in eine dunkle, gefährliche Welt der Liebe in eine Welt, vor der sie zurückschreckt und die sie doch mit unwiderstehlicher Kraft anzieht.
When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind - until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the "Fifty Shades Trilogy" is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 514 S. Beteiligte:James, E.L. Standort: Engl. Jam ISBN: 978-0-09-957993-9
Inhalt: Daunted by the singular sexual tastes and dark secrets of the beautiful, tormented young entrepreneur Christian Grey, Anastasia Steele has broken off their relationship to start a new career with a Seattle publishing house. But desire for Christian still dominates her every waking thought, and when he proposes a new arrangement, Anastasia cannot resist. They rekindle their searing sensual affair, and Anastasia learns more about the harrowing past of her damaged, driven, and demanding Fifty Shades. While Christian wrestles with his inner demons, Anastasia must confront her anger and envy of the women who came before her and make the most important decision of her life. Erotic, sparkling and suspenseful, Fifty Shades Darker is the irresistibly addictive second part of the Fifty Shades trilogy. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 531 s. Beteiligte:James, E.L. Standort: Engl. Jam ISBN: 978-0-09-957992-2
Inhalt: Isabelle's estranged archaeolist father dies leaving her a puzzle. In a box she finds some papers and a mysterious African amulet. But their connection to her remains unclear until she embarks on a trip to Morocco to discover how the amulet came into her father's possession. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 390 S. Beteiligte:Johnson, Jane Standort: Engl. Joh ISBN: 978-0-670-91799-0
Inhalt: In this dark, gripping mystery, a brutal murder unearths old secrets that should have stayed buried.
A body just turned up in the small town of Portland, Pennsylvania. The crime is eerily similar to a twenty-year-old cold case: another victim, brutally murdered, found in the Delaware River. Lead detective Parker Reed is intent on connecting the two murders, but the locals are on lockdown, revealing nothing.
The past meets the present when Becca Kingsley, who returns to Portland to be with her estranged but dying father, runs into Parker, her childhood love. As the daughter of the former police chief, Becca's quickly drawn into the case. Coming home has brought something ominous to the surface-memories long buried, secrets best kept hidden. Becca starts questioning all her past relationships, including one with a man who's watched over her for years. For the first time, she wonders if he's more predator than protector.
In a small town where darkness hides in plain sight, the truth could change Becca's life-or end it. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 290 Seiten Beteiligte:Katchur, Karen Standort: Engl. Kat ISBN: 978-1-5039-0063-9
Inhalt: Chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 278 S. Beteiligte:Keyes, Greg Standort: Engl. Key ISBN: 978-1-78329-369-8
Inhalt: Ein bewegender Roman über ein vergessenes Kapitel der amerikanischen Geschichte New York, 1929: Mit neun Jahren verliert Vivian Daly, Tochter irischer Einwanderer, bei einem Wohnungsbrand ihre gesamte Familie. Gemeinsam mit anderen Waisen wird sie kurzerhand in einen Zug verfrachtet und in den Mittleren Westen geschickt, wo die Kinder auf dem Land ein neues Zuhause finden sollen. Doch es ist eine Reise ins Ungewisse, denn nur die wenigsten von ihnen erwartet ein liebevolles Heim. Und auch Vivian stehen schwere Bewährungsproben bevor ... Erst viele Jahrzehnte später eröffnet sich für die inzwischen Einundneunzigjährige in der Begegnung mit der rebellischen Molly die Möglichkeit, das Schweigen über ihr Schicksal zu brechen.
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by pure luck. Would they be adopted by a kind and loving family, or would they face a childhood and adolescence of hard labor and servitude?As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was one such child, sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast of Maine, the memories of her upbringing rendered a hazy blur. But in her attic, hidden in trunks, are vestiges of a turbulent past.Seventeen-year-old Molly Ayer knows that a community-service position helping an elderly widow clean out her attic is the only thing keeping her out of juvenile hall. But as Molly helps Vivian sort through her keepsakes and possessions, she discovers that she and Vivian aren't as different as they appear. A Penobscot Indian who has spent her youth in and out of foster homes, Molly is also an outsider being raised by strangers, and she, too, has unanswered questions about the past.Moving between contemporary Maine and Depression-era Minnesota, Orphan Train is a powerful tale of upheaval and resilience, second chances, and unexpected friendship. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 278 S. Beteiligte:Kline, Christina Baker Standort: Engl. Kli ISBN: 978-0-06-195072-8
Inhalt: History is always a popular subject and British history has created some of the most lively and fascinating stories there are! Britain as we know it today has been shaped by centuries of political turmoil between state and church, as well as international conflicts, making its history a fascinating insight into how modern Britain has emerged. For this special, hardback edition of British History For Dummies , we've added over 100 black and white and colour photos for an even more explosive experience of British history. British History For Dummies Illustrated Edition : British history is still a major topic of interest, emphasised by the continual TV coverage and documentaries Inside you'll find rip-roaring stories of power-mad kings, executions, invasions, high treason, global empire-building and forbidden love- not bad for a nation of stiff upper lips! Includes fascinating information in the fun For Dummies style- from the Stone Age right through to modern day Britain and everything in between! Provides the ultimate British history experience and the hardback format with over 100 illustrations make it the perfect gift for amateur historians Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 414 S. Beteiligte:Lang, Sean Standort: Engl. Bri ISBN: 978-0-470-97819-1
Inhalt: From Harper Lee comes a landmark new novel set two decades after her beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece, To Kill a Mockingbird .
Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird , Go Set a Watchman perfectly captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition out of the illusions of the past - a journey that can be guided only by one's own conscience.
Written in the mid-1950s, Go Set a Watchman imparts a fuller, richer understanding and appreciation of Harper Lee. Here is an unforgettable novel of wisdom, humanity, passion, humour and effortless precision - a profoundly affecting work of art that is both wonderfully evocative of another era and relevant to our own times. It not only confirms the enduring brilliance of To Kill a Mockingbird , but also serves as its essential companion, adding depth, context and new meaning to a classic. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 278 S. Beteiligte:Lee, Harper Standort: Engl. Lee
Inhalt: A lawyer's advice to his childran as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitude to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence and hyprisy is pricked by the stamina of one man's struggle for justice. But the weight of history will only tolerate so much. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 309 S. Beteiligte:Lee, Harper Standort: Engl. Lee ISBN: 978-0-09-954948-2
Inhalt: Judith Lennox s new story of sibling rivalry, heartbreak, betrayal and forgiveness is sure to appeal to fans of Downton Abbey. During World War One Devlin Reddaway fell in love with Esme s older sister, Camilla, and promised to rebuild his ancestral home, Rosindell, for her. Now as the twentieth century draws to a close, Esme must uncover a truth which began all those years ago Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 505 S. Beteiligte:Lennox, Judith Standort: Engl. Len ISBN: 978-0-7553-8413-6
Inhalt: Kommissar Brunetti flieht mit seiner Familie vor der erdrückenden Hitze Venedigs in die Sommerfrische. Währenddessen sorgt sich Inspektor Vianello um das Verhalten seiner Tante: Sie scheint von Horoskopen besessen zu sein und entwendet dem Familienunternehmen immer wieder große Geldsummen. Ratlos holt er sich bei Brunetti die Erlaubnis ein, seine Tante beschatten zu dürfen und entdeckt als Geldempfänger Stefan Gorini. Aber wer ist dieser Mann? Brunetti erfährt zudem von einem Bekannten über Unregelmäßigkeiten im Gericht: die Richterin Coltellini und der Gerichtsdiener Fontana scheinen darin verwickelt zu sei. Doch als Fontana ermordert aufgefunden wird, wird der Fall verzwickter ...
In "A Question of Belief", Brunetti must contend with ingenious corruption, bureaucratic intransigence, and the stifling heat of a Venetian summer. With his hometown beset by hordes of tourists and baking under a glaring sun, Brunetti's greatest wish is to go to the mountains with his family, where he can sleep under a down comforter and catch up on his reading. But before he can go on vacation, a folder with court records has landed on his desk, brought by an old friend. It appears that cases at the local court - hardly known as a model of efficiency - are being delayed to the benefit of one of the parties. A creative new trick for corrupting the system, perhaps, but what can Brunetti do about it? And just when it looks like Brunetti will be able to get away, a shocking, violent crime forces him to stay in Venice. This is a stellar addition to Leon's celebrated series: atmospheric, packed with excellent characters, and building to an explosive, indelible ending. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 310 S. Beteiligte:Leon, Donna Standort: Engl. Leo ISBN: 978-0-09-954763-1
Inhalt: Die Leiche eines erstochenen Mannes wird in einem der zahllosen Kanäle Venedigs geborgen. Commissario Brunetti ist irritiert, irgendwie kommt ihm dieser Mann bekannt vor. Es gibt jedoch weder eine Vermißtenmeldung, noch irgendeinen Hinweis, der eine Identifizierung möglich machen würde und so läuft der Fall vorerst ins Leere. Bis sich Brunetti erinnert, den Mann auf einer Demonstration gegen europäische Milchquoten gesehen zu haben. Dies führt ihn und Inspektor Vianello in die Kreise der Lebensmittelindustrie und in eine Welt voller Erpressung und Korruption. When the body of man is found in a canal, damaged by the tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe, Brunetti has little to work with. No local has filed a missing-person report, and no hotel guests have disappeared. Where was the crime scene? And how can Brunetti identify the man when he can't show pictures of his face? The autopsy shows a way forward: it turns out the man was suffering from a rare, disfiguring disease. With Inspector Vianello, Brunetti canvasses shoe stores, and winds up on the mainland in Mestre, outside of his usual sphere. From a shopkeeper, they learn that the man had a kindly way with animals. At the same time, animal rights and meat consumption are quickly becoming preoccupying issues at the Venice Questura, and in Brunetti's home, where conversation at family meals offer a window into the joys and conflicts of Italian life. Perhaps with the help of Signorina Elettra, Brunetti and Vianello can identify the man and understand why someone wanted him dead. As subtle and engrossing as ever, Leon's "Beastly Things" is immensely enjoyable, intriguing, and ultimately moving. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 295 S. Beteiligte:Leon, Donna Standort: Engl. Leo ISBN: 978-0-434-02161-1
Inhalt: With the dramatic force of Tosca , Donna Leon's twenty-fourth novel in the bestselling Brunetti crime series quivers with the passion of opera and with the power of obsession.
In Death at La Fenice , Donna Leon's first novel in the Commissario Brunetti series, readers were introduced to the glamorous and cut-throat world of opera and to one of Italy's finest living sopranos, Flavia Petrelli - then a suspect in the poisoning of a renowned German conductor. Now, many years after Brunetti cleared her name, Flavia has returned to the illustrious La Fenice to sing the lead in Tosca .
As an opera superstar, Flavia is well acquainted with attention from adoring fans and aspiring singers. But when one anonymous admirer inundates her with bouquets of yellow roses - on stage, in her dressing room and even inside her locked apartment - it becomes clear that this fan has become a potentially dangerous stalker. Distraught, Flavia turns to an old friend for help. Familiar with Flavia's melodramatic temperament, Commissario Brunetti is at first unperturbed by her story, but when another young opera singer is attacked he begins to think Flavia's fears may be justified. In order to keep his friend out of danger, Brunetti must enter the psyche of an obsessive fan and find the culprit before anyone comes to harm. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 263 S. Beteiligte:Leon, Donna Standort: Engl. Leo ISBN: 978-1-78515-000-5
Inhalt: The Golden Notebook, first published in 1962, is the story of Anna Wulf, a divorced single mother and novelist, labouring against writer's block in 1950s London. Fearful of going mad, she records her experiences in four coloured notebooks. The black records her writing life, the red her political views, the yellow her emotional life and the blue everyday events. But it is the fifth notebook - the golden one - that brings the strands of her life together and holds the key to her recovery. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 577 S. Beteiligte:Lessing, Doris Standort: Engl. Les
Inhalt: Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar have made a pact. As they process the events of the Spring they will keep things . platonic . until the Solstice. But can they resist when the crackling tension between them is enough to set the whole of Crescent City aflame?
And they are not out of danger yet. Dragged into a rebel movement they want no part of, Bryce, Hunt and their friends find themselves pitted against the terrifying Asteri - whose notice they must avoid at all costs. But as they learn more about the rebel cause, they face a choice: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight. And they've never been very good at staying silent.
In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode - and the people who will do anything to save it. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 800 Seiten Beteiligte:Maas, Sarah J. Standort: Engl. Maa ISBN: 978-1-5266-2547-2
Inhalt: Half-Fae, half-human Bryce Quinlan loves her life. Every night is a party and Bryce is going to savour all the pleasures Lunathion - also known as Crescent City - has to offer. But then a brutal murder shakes the very foundations of the city, and brings Bryce's world crashing down. Two years later, Bryce still haunts the city's most notorious nightclubs - but seeking only oblivion now. Then the murderer attacks again. And when an infamous Fallen angel, Hunt Athalar, is assigned to watch her every footstep, Bryce knows she can't forget any longer. As Bryce and Hunt fight to unravel the mystery, and their own dark pasts, the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents, and down to the deepest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 803 Seiten, Karten Beteiligte:Maas, Sarah J. Standort: Engl. Maa ISBN: 978-1-5266-1012-6
Inhalt: Precious Ramotswe, the cheerful Botswana private investigator of "traditional build", is finally married to Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors, her detective agency is busy and life could not be better...... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 263 S. Beteiligte:MacCall Smith, Alexander Standort: Engl. MacC
Inhalt: Wayward daughters. Missing husbands. Philandering partners. Curious conmen. If you've got a problem, and no one else can help you, the pay a visit to Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only - and finest - female private detective. Her methods may not be conventional, and her manner not exactly Miss Marple, but she's got warmth, wit and canny intuition on her side, not to mention Mr J. L. B. Matekoni, the charming proprietor of Tlokweng Road Speedy Motors. And Precious is going to need them all and she sets out on the trail of a missing child, a case that tumbles our heroine into a hotbed of strange situations and more than a little danger... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 249 S. Beteiligte:MacCall Smith, Alexander Standort: Engl. MacC
Inhalt: On the hottest day of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip and jump into the fountain in the garden, watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambrige.By the end of the day, their lives will have been changed for ever. Robbie and Cecilia will have bcome victims of Briony's imagination. Briony have committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 371 Seiten Beteiligte:MacEwan, Ian Standort: Engl. MacE
Inhalt: Michael Beard ist a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. When Beard's professional und personal worlds collide in a freak accident, an opportunity presents itself for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, this is a story of the one man's greed and self-deception: a darkly satirical novel showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing an complex problem of our time. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 390 S. Beteiligte:MacEwan, Ian Standort: MacE ISBN: 978-0-09-955534-6
Inhalt: Familienrecht ist das Spezialgebiet der Richterin Fiona Maye am High Court in London: Scheidungen, Sorgerecht, Fragen des Kindeswohls. In ihrer eigenen Ehe ist sie seit über dreißig Jahren glücklich. Da unterbreitet ihr Mann ihr einen schockierenden Vorschlag. Und zugleich wird ihr ein dringlicher Gerichtsfall vorgelegt, in dem es um den Widerstreit zwischen Religion und Medizin und um Leben und Tod eines 17-jährigen Jungen geht. A brilliant, emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement and Amsterdam. Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies private sorrow and domestic strife. There is the lingering regret of her childlessness, and now, her marriage of thirty years is in crisis.
At the same time, she is called on to try an urgent case: for religious reasons, a beautiful seventeen-year-old boy, Adam, is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life, and his devout parents share his wishes. Time is running out. Should the secular court overrule sincerely held faith? In the course of reaching a decision Fiona visits Adam in hospital an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her and powerful new emotions in the boy. Her judgment has momentous consequences for them both. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 211 S. Beteiligte:MacEwan, Ian Standort: Engl. MacE ISBN: 978-0-224-10199-8
Inhalt: The author of The Paris Wife takes us to the heart of another true story: set in 1920s colonial Kenya, Circling the Sun is about an unforgettable woman who lives by nobody's rules but her own.
As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of sixteen Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage - but it was in facing up to this reality that she took charge of her own destiny. Scandalizing high society with her errant behaviour, she left her husband and became the first woman ever to hold a professional racehorse trainer's licence. After falling in with the notoriously hedonistic and gin-soaked Happy Valley set, Beryl soon became embroiled in a complex love triangle with the writer Karen Blixen and big game-hunter Denys Finch Hatton (immortalized in Blixen's memoir Out of Africa). It was this unhappy affair which set tragedy in motion, while awakening Beryl to her truest self, and to her fate: to fly. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 359 S. Beteiligte:MacLain, Paula Standort: Engl. MacL ISBN: 978-0-8129-9932-7
Inhalt: A sparkling, life-affirming story that will make you cry like Jojo Moyes and laugh like Dawn French. Here is a truth that can't be escaped: for Mia 'Rabbit' Hayes, life is coming to an end . . Rabbit Hayes loves her life, ordinary as it is, and the extraordinary people in it. She loves her spirited daughter, Juliet; her colourful, unruly family; the only man in her big heart, Johnny Faye. But it turns out the world has other plans for Rabbit, and she's OK with that. Because she has plans for the world too, and only a handful of days left to make them happen. Here is a truth that won't be forgotten: this is a story about laughing through life's surprises and finding the joy in every moment. Anna McPartlin auf der Höhe ihres Könnens: ein zutiefst ergreifender Roman über das Leben und das Sterben. Erst wenn das Schlimmste eintritt, weißt du, wer dich liebt. Stell dir vor, du hast nur noch neun Tage. Neun Tage, um über die Flüche deiner Mutter zu lachen. Um die Hand deines Vaters zu halten (wenn er dich lässt). Und deiner Schwester durch ihr Familienchaos zu helfen. Um deinem Bruder den Weg zurück in die Familie zu bahnen. Nur neun Tage, um Abschied zu nehmen von deiner Tochter, die noch nicht weiß, dass du nun gehen wirst ... Die Geschichte von Rabbit Hayes: ungeheuer traurig. Ungeheuer tröstlich. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 436 S. Beteiligte:MacPartlin, Anna Standort: Engl. MacP ISBN: 978-0-552-77374-4
Inhalt: New York Times bestselling author Susan Mallery returns with a poignant new story about finding love and freeing oneself from the past.... Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside she's still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet, Michelle returns to the quaint Blackberry Island Inn to claim her inheritance, and recover from the perils of war. Instead, she finds the owner's suite occupied by the last person she wants to see. Carly Williams and Michelle were once inseparable, until a shocking betrayal destroyed their friendship. And now Carly is implicated in the financial disaster lurking behind the inn's cheerful veneer. Single mother Carly has weathered rumors, lies and secrets for a lifetime, and is finally starting to move forward with love and life. But if the Blackberry Island Inn goes under, Carly and her daughter will go with it. To save their livelihoods, Carly and Michelle will undertake a turbulent truce. It'll take more than a successful season to move beyond their devastating past, but with a little luck and a beautiful summer, they may just rediscover the friendship of a lifetime. "e,This poignant tale of family dynamics, the jarring impact of change, and eventual acceptance and healing is sure to please Mallery's many, devoted fans."e, -Booklist on Already Home Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 360 S. Beteiligte:Mallery, Susan Standort: Engl. Mal ISBN: 978-0-7783-1338-0
Inhalt: In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the existence of an extraordinary artifact that, if he can find it, would redefine history. Traveling in one of Europe's earliest automobiles, he sets out in search of this strange treasure.
Thirty-five years later, a Portuguese pathologist devoted to the murder mysteries of Agatha Christie finds himself at the center of a mystery of his own and drawn into the consequences of Tomás's quest.
Fifty years on, a Canadian senator takes refuge in his ancestral village in northern Portugal, grieving the loss of his beloved wife. But he arrives with an unusual companion: a chimpanzee. And there the century-old quest will come to an unexpected conclusion.
The High Mountains of Portugal, part quest, part ghost story, part contemporary fable, offers a haunting exploration of great love and great loss. Filled with tenderness, humor, and endless surprise, it takes the reader on a road trip through Portugal in the last century and through the human soul. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 332 Seiten Beteiligte:Martel, Yann Standort: Engl. Mar ISBN: 978-1-78211-471-0
Lernkrimi Business English ; Lernziel Business English The 25 Million Coup ; Der 25-Millionen-Coup Das spannende Sprachtraining Compact-Verl., München (2006)
Standort: Engl. Mar
Inhalt: Juliet loves her family very much. She would do anything for them and she knows her husband, Rick, feels the same - which is a good thing because they ask a lot! Son, Tom, may be looking for work but he doesn't seem to be looking very hard. Their pregnant daughter Chloe has returned to the family home, bringing her two-year-old son with her.
Juliet's father, Frank, is getting over a heartbreak of his own and Rita, Juliet's mother, is becoming more and more erratic each day. And then there's Buster, the much-loved family dog - even though he does smell a bit ...With Christmas fast-approaching, Juliet knows that she and Rick need to pull out all the stops to turn the chaos into calm otherwise it could be a disaster. But things seem to spiralling out of control, which means just one thing - it must be Christmas! Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 488 S. Beteiligte:Matthews, Carole Standort: Engl. Mat ISBN: 978-0-7515-4548-7
Inhalt: Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old girl when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition. The pair set sail for France but the birth of a beloved son drives them further apart ... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 391 S. Beteiligte:McLain, Paula Standort: Engl. MacL ISBN: 978-1-84408-668-9
Inhalt: What happens when your past catches up with you? An evocative read for fans of Lisa Jewell and Liane Moriarty. Every broken heart has a history.
Anna hasn't been back to Oxford since her last summer at university. She tries not to think about her time there, or the tightly knit group of friends she once thought would be hers forever. She has almost forgotten the sting of betrayal, the secret she carries around, the last night she spent with them all.
Then a chance meeting on a rainy day in London brings her past tumbling back into her present. . . Can Anna finally face up to the memories of that summer and the people she left behind?
An absorbing, powerful novel of love, friendship and secrets that sweeps you away from the very first page. The perfect read for fans of Lisa Jewell, Liane Moriarty and Jane Fallon.Zur iPad-Leseprobe Vom Verlieren und Wiederfinden einer großen Liebe
Eines Tages flieht Anna Jones vor dem Regen in eine Londoner Buchhandlung - und steht plötzlich vor Victor, ihrer ersten großen Liebe. Siebzehn Jahre sind seit der Trennung vergangen, und doch konnte sie Victor nie vergessen. Diese zufällige Begegnung ist dazu bestimmt, Annas Leben zu verändern. Doch erst muss sie bereit sein, sich der Geschichte ihres gebrochenen Herzens zu stellen. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 418 S. Beteiligte:Mercer, Alison Standort: Engl. Mer ISBN: 978-0-552-77819-0
Inhalt: Thobela Mpayipheli, former freedom fighter, is trying to settle back into the new South Africa. But then his son is taken from him, one of a staggering number of children murdered or abused in South Africa, and Thobela knows only despair...and a cold desire for revenge. Thus is born the vigilante killer known as 'Artemis'. The police respond by putting on the case a man who can't afford to fail. Benny Griessel is on the brink of losing everything - his job, his family, his self-respect - and this could be his last chance to drag his life back out of the gutter. And then Benny meets Christine, a young mother working as a prostitute in Cape Town. And something happens that is so frightening, the world can never be the same again, for Benny, for Christine, or for Thobela.
Aus dem Afrikaans übers. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 408 S. Beteiligte:Meyer, Deon Standort: Engl. Mey ISBN: 978-0-340-82266-1
Inhalt: From the author of the highly acclaimed American Rust comes his eagerly awaited second novel, an extraordinary multi-generational Texan epic
Das literarische Ereignis des Jahres Das große Epos über den Gründungsmythos Amerikas. Dieser Roman begeistert Amerika: Schon kurz nach seinem Erscheinen wurde Der erste Sohn als moderner amerikanischer Klassiker bejubelt und in einem Atemzug mit den Meisterwerken von Cormac McCarthy, John Dos Passos und Larry McMurtry genannt. Philipp Meyer erzählt die Geschichte der Eroberung des amerikanischen Westens als große Familiensaga über drei Generationen. Es ist der Kampf des texanischen Clans der McCulloughs während der letzten 150 Jahre um Land, Öl und Macht. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 560 S. Beteiligte:Meyer, Philipp Standort: Engl. Mey ISBN: 978-0-85720-944-3
Inhalt: Jazz is spellbinding for the haunting passion of its profound love story, and for the bittersweet lyricism and refined sensuality of its powerful and elegant style. Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse.
Jazz is the story of a triangle of passion, jealousy, murder and redemption, of sex and spirituality, of slavery and liberation, country and city, of being male and female, African American, and above all being human. Systematik: Roman Umfang: 229 S. Beteiligte:Morrison, Toni Standort: Engl. Mor ISBN: 978-0-09-975091-8
Inhalt: A self-loathing veteran of the Korean War, Frank Money finds himself back in racist America with more than just physical scars. Suffering from crippling apathy, he is spurred into action by the need to rescue his sister, and discovers a profound courage he thought was lost forever. This is a deeply moving novel about an apparently defeated man finding his manhood and, finally, his home. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 256 S. Beteiligte:Morrison, Toni Standort: Engl. Mor ISBN: 978-0-307-74091-5
Inhalt: My real name, no one remembers. The truth about that summer, no one else knows.
In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.
Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.
Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?
Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker's Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker's daughter. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 585 Seiten Beteiligte:Morton, Kate Standort: Engl. Mor ISBN: 978-0-230-75928-2
Inhalt: A long lost letter arrives in the post and Edie Burchill finds herself on a journey to Milderhurst Castle, a great but moldering old house, where the Blythe spinsters live and where her mother was billeted 50 years before as a 13 year old child during WW II. The elder Blythe sisters are twins and have spent most of their lives looking after the third and youngest sister, Juniper, who hasn¿t been the same since her fiance jilted her in 1941. Inside the decaying castle, Edie begins to unravel her mother¿s past. But there are other secrets hidden in the stones of Milderhurst, and Edie is about to learn more than she expected. The truth of what happened in ¿the distant hours¿ of the past has been waiting a long time for someone to find it. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 677 S. Beteiligte:Morton, Kate Standort: Engl. Mor ISBN: 978-0-330-53378-2
Inhalt: A missing child June 1933, and the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. Alice Edevane, sixteen years old and a budding writer, is especially excited. Not only has she worked out the perfect twist for her novel, she's also fallen helplessly in love with someone she shouldn't. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.
An abandoned house Seventy years later, after a particularly troubling case, Sadie Sparrow is sent on an enforced break from her job with the Metropolitan Police. She retreats to her beloved grandfather's cottage in Cornwall but soon finds herself at a loose end. Until one day, Sadie stumbles upon an abandoned house surrounded by overgrown gardens and dense woods, and learns the story of a baby boy who disappeared without a trace.
An unsolved mystery Meanwhile, in the attic writing room of her elegant Hampstead home, the formidable Alice Edevane, now an old lady, leads a life as neatly plotted as the bestselling detective novels she writes. Until a young police detective starts asking questions about her family's past, seeking to resurrect the complex tangle of secrets Alice has spent her life trying to escape. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 599 Seiten Beteiligte:Morton, Kate Standort: Engl. Mor ISBN: 978-1-5098-1646-0
Inhalt: Lou Clark weiß eine ganze Menge. So kennt sie zum Beispiel ganz genau die Summe der Schritte von der Bushaltestelle bis nach Hause. Sie weiß, dass sie gerne im Teeladen arbeitet und dass sie ihren Freund Patrick möglicherweise gar nicht liebt. Will Traynor weiß, dass der Motorradunfall, ihm die Freude am Leben genommen hat- alles fühlt sich nun klein und ohne Sinn an. Doch er weiß, wie er dem ein Ende bereiten wird. Sie beide haben nicht die geringste Ahnung, dass sich ihrer beider Leben für immer verändern wird. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 498 S. Beteiligte:Moyes, Jojo Standort: Engl. Moy ISBN: 978-0-7181-5783-8
Inhalt: THE SEQUEL TO THE WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON ME BEFORE YOU Lou Clark has lots of questions.Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home.Whether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago.And will she ever get over the love of her life.What Lou does know for certain is that something has to change.Then, one night, it does.But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for - or just more questions?Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe.Open it and she risks everything.But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she's going to keep it, she has to invite them in . . .'A tender, funny and hopeful look at love, grief and life. Bumper box of tissues required' Stylist Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 406 S. Beteiligte:Moyes, Jojo Standort: Engl. Moy ISBN: 978-0-7181-7701-0
Inhalt: Zwei Paare getrennt durch ein Jahrhundert, verbunden durch ein Gemälde. Während um sie herum der Erste Weltkrieg tobt, versucht Sophie stark zu sein für ihre Familie, für ihren Mann Édouard, der auf Seiten Frankreichs kämpft. Nur ein Gemälde ist ihr geblieben, das sie an ihr gemeinsames Glück erinnert. Ein Porträt, das Édouard einst von ihr malte. Und das ihn jetzt retten soll Hundert Jahre später. Liv trauert um ihren Mann David. Vor vier Jahren ist er gestorben, viel zu früh. Livs kostbarster Besitz: ein Gemälde, das er ihr einst schenkte. Der Maler: Édouard. Das Modell: Sophie. Als ihr dieses Gemälde genommen werden soll, ist sie bereit, alles zu opfern. Auch das eigene Glück The hauntingly romantic and utterly irresistible new weepy from Jojo Moyes. What happened to the girl you left behind? In 1916 French artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his wife Sophie to fight at the Front. When her town falls into German hands, his portrait of Sophie stirs the heart of the local Kommandant and causes her to risk everything - her family, reputation and life - in the hope of seeing her true love one last time. Nearly a century later and Sophie's portrait is given to Liv by her young husband shortly before his sudden death. Its beauty speaks of their short life together, but when the painting's dark and passion-torn history is revealed, Liv discovers that the first spark of love she has felt since she lost him is threatened ... In "The Girl You Left Behind" two young women, separated by a century, are united in their determination to fight for the thing they love most - whatever the cost. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 539 S. Beteiligte:Moyes, Jojo Standort: Engl. Moy ISBN: 978-0-7181-5784-5
Inhalt: When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story, she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest. Instead she discovers a letter from 1960, written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband - and Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair. Despite, or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man. In 1960, Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident. She can't remember anything - her husband, her friends, who she used to be. And then, when she returns home, she uncovers a hidden letter, and begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for. Ellie and Jennifer's stories of passion, adultery and loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel - interspersed with real 'last letters'. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 489 S. Beteiligte:Moyes, Jojo Standort: Engl. Moy ISBN: 978-0-340-96164-3
Inhalt: Suppose your life sucks. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your stepson is being bullied and your daughter has a once in a lifetime opportunity ... that you can't afford to pay for. A novel by the brilliant Jojo Moyes, author of "Me before you". Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 512 S. Beteiligte:Moyes, Jojo Standort: Engl. Moy ISBN: 978-0-7181-7905-2
Inhalt: Nominated for the Romantic Novel of the Year 2005.
The captivating novel from RNA prize winner Jojo Moyes - based on a true story, beautifully repackaged to be published alongside Jojo's new stunning and emotionally fulfilling paperback, Silver Bay .
The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an unknown future.
In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England - aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men.
Rules of honour, duty, and separation are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's Captain down to the lowliest young stoker. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have imagined.
And Frances Mackenzie - the enigmatic young bride whose past comes back to haunt her thousands of miles from home - will find that sometimes the journey is more important than the destination. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 482 S. Beteiligte:Moyes, Jojo Standort: Engl. Moy ISBN: 978-0-340-96038-7
Ist Steve mitschuldig am Tod eines Mannes? Ein packender Gerichtsroman Der 16-jährige Steve ist einer von vier Angeklagten, die des Totschlags an einem Drugstore-Besitzer beschuldigt werden. Im Gegensatz zu seinen Mitangeklagten ist er zuvor polizeilich nie aufgefallen. Er kommt aus einer rechtschaffenen Familie und ist viel versprechendes Mitglied des Filmklubs seiner Schule. Und doch gibt es Hinweise, dass er an einem Raubüberfall beteiligt war, in dessen Folge der Drugstore-Besitzer erschossen wurde. Steve erzählt die Geschehnisse rund um die elftägige Gerichtsverhandlung aus seiner Zelle und dem Verhandlungssaal auf zwei Arten: sein Tagebuch und ein Drehbuch, das er über die Verhandlung schreibt. Während seine Tagebucheintragungen einen Jugendlichen zeigen, den die Verhältnisse im Gefängnis zutiefst ängstigen und der sich immer wieder die Frage stellt, ob er tatsächlich das Monster ist, als das ihn der Staatsanwalt hinstellt, ermöglicht das Drehbuch einen objektiven Blick auf die Verhandlung. Schnell ist der Leser in der Rolle des Geschworenen, der mit darüber zu entscheiden hat, ob Steve lebenslang hinter Gitter soll. Doch was hat er getan? Diese Frage durchzieht den Prozess und somit das Buch. Er hat sich mit den falschen Leuten eingelassen, so viel steht bald fest. Doch kann man schuldig werden, indem man nichts tut? Denn das war das vereinbarte Zeichen: Steve sollte den Drugstore auskundschaften und dann, ohne ein Zeichen zu geben, herauskommen, wenn die Luft rein war. Kann man schuldig werden, indem man nichts tut? Diese zutiefst moralische Frage bleibt bestehen, nachdem Steve freigesprochen worden ist, und wird den Leser auch nach dem Abspann des imaginären Films nicht loslassen. Walter Dean Myers erhielt für "Monster! Monster?" zahlreiche Auszeichnungen, darunter den "Corretta Scott King Award" und den von der American Library Association vergebenen "Michael L. Printz Award". Außerdem kam er auf die Auswahlliste zum "National Book Award". Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 281 S. Beteiligte:Myers, Walter Dean Standort: Engl. Mye ISBN: 978-0-06-440731-1
Inhalt: For Josh Harper, being in show-business means everything he ever wanted - money, fame, a beautiful wife, and a lead role on the London stage. For Stephen C. McQueen, it means a disastrous career playing passers-by and dead people. Stephen is stuck with an unfortunate name, a hopeless agent, a daughter he barely knows, and a job as understudy to Josh Harper, the 12th Sexiest Man in the World. And when Stephen falls in love with Josh's clever, funny wife Nora, things get even more difficult. But might there yet be a way for Stephen to get his Big Break? THE UNDERSTUDY is a scintillating comedy of ambition, celebrity, jealousy and love.
Wie man Filmstar wird? Über den kleinen Umweg des Ersatzschauspielers - so jedenfalls denkt sich das Stephen C. McQueen. Dem Schauspieler mit erstaunlichem Talent zum Pech - eine eben geschiedene Ehe, eine stagnierende, äußerst fragwürdige Karriere, keine Freunde, eine distanzierte Tochter, eine absolut verwahrloste Wohnung - begegnet auf eben diesem Umweg in Gestalt von Josh Harper sein bislang größtes Übel. Den zwölftsexiesten Mann der Welt und Star des Theaterstücks Verrückt, verworfen und gefährlich gilt es im Notfall, in seiner Rolle als Lord Byron zu ersetzen. Doch: Josh sieht nicht nur fantastisch aus, ist immer witzig, wortgewandt und einnehmend, er ist auch immer pünktlich und bei frustrierend guter Gesundheit. Dass Joshs Frau Nora Stephen ein bisschen zu gut gefällt und er sich mit ihr anfreundet, macht die Sache auch nicht eben einfacher. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 406 S. Beteiligte:Nicholls, David Standort: Engl. Nic ISBN: 978-0-340-93521-7
Inhalt: "Ich habe das Gefühl, unsere Ehe ist am Ende, Douglas. Ich glaube, ich will dich verlassen", verkündet Connie eines Nachts ihrem darauf absolut unvorbereiteten Ehemann Douglas. Nach über zwanzig Jahren glücklicher Ehe sei der ideale Zeitpunkt für eine Trennung und einen Neuanfang gekommen - jetzt, wo auch ihr Sohn Albie bald ausziehe. Doch der letzten gemeinsamen, bereits geplanten Reise, der Grand Tour durch bedeutende Städte Europas - Paris, Amsterdam, München, Venedig, Florenz, Madrid, Barcelona -, soll laut Connie dennoch nichts im Wege stehen. Unterwegs erinnert sich Douglas an ihre zahlreichen Erlebnisse und an die verschiedenen Phasen ihrer Beziehung und hofft, seine Frau auf dieser Reise zurückzugewinnen und zugleich die Beziehung zu seinem Sohn vertiefen zu können - ein ambitioniertes Unterfangen, das trotz akribischer Planung unerwartete Wendungen nimmt. David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced One Day in this brilliant, bittersweet new book, which will delight his fans and bring him many new readers. A novel about love and family, husbands and wives, parents and children, its publication will undoubtedly be one of the major events in the world of books in 2014. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 395 S. Beteiligte:Nicholls, David Standort: Engl. Nic ISBN: 978-0-340-89700-3
Inhalt: Kennedy Marr is a writer, a borderline alcoholic and a sex addict. When he becomes the unlikely recipient of a prestigious writing prize, he is contracted to spend a year teaching creative writing, and finds himself reconsidering his precarious lifestyle. Exploring the mid-life crisis and the contemporary male psyche, this is an explosive new work from the bestselling author of KILL YOUR FRIENDS. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 374 S. Beteiligte:Niven, John Standort: Engl. Niv ISBN: 978-0-09-959215-0
Inhalt: Emily Maxwell is a widow whose grown children have long moved away. When her sister-in-law and sole companion, Arlene, faints at their favorite breakfast buffet, Emily's life changes in unexpected ways. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 255 S. Beteiligte:O'Nan, Stewart Standort: Engl. O'Na ISBN: 978-0-670-02235-9
Inhalt: It was the summer when, without warning, college bound Kim Larsen disappears from the quiet Lake Erie town. As time passes and local search parties give way to wider televisions appearences, private investigations unearth dirty secrets, those closest to Kim struggle to maintain hope, and, finally, as the news cameras turn away, to hang on both her and themselves. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 287 S. Beteiligte:O'Nan, Stewart Standort: Engl. O'Na ISBN: 978-0-14-311602-8
Inhalt: Bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence, racism, brutality, and power in an incendiary novel. When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence, the incident shocks and galvanises her community, exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 308 S. Beteiligte:Oates, Joyce Carol Standort: Engl. Oat ISBN: 978-0-00-811486-2
Inhalt: Die Tiere auf der Manor Farm haben die Schnauze voll davon, dass ihre menschlichen Herren sie ausbeuten. Unter dem alten Keiler Old Major, der den Tieren die Produkte ihrer Arbeit zukommen lassen möchte, planen sie die Revolution. Als Old Major stirbt, übernehmen die beiden Schweine Schneeball und Napoleon die Führung. Gemeinsam gehen die Tiere auf die Barrikaden und vertreiben die Menschen schließlich von der Farm. Doch Napoleon ist seine neue Macht zu Kopf gestiegen. Unter dem Deckmantel der neuen Gleichberechtigung aller Tiere baut Napoleon eine brutale und korrupte Gesellschaft auf. Seine Vorstellung von einem vermeintlich neuen System lautet: Alle Tiere sind gleich, aber einige Tiere sind gleicher als andere ...
"Animal Farm" is a dystopian novella in the form of an allegory by George Orwell. Published in England on 17 August 1945, the book reflects events leading up to and during the Stalin era before World War II. Orwell, a democratic socialist and a member of the Independent Labour Party for many years, was a critic of Joseph Stalin and was suspicious of Moscow-directed Stalinism after his experiences with the NKVD during the Spanish Civil War. In a letter to Yvonne Davet, Orwell described Animal Farm as his novel "contre Stalin". The original title was "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story", but A Fairy Story was dropped by the US publishers for its 1946 publication. Of all the translations during Orwell's lifetime, only Telugu kept the original title. Other variations in the title include: A Satire and A Contemporary Satire. Orwell suggested for the French translation the title Union des républiques socialistes animales, recalling the French name of the Soviet Union, Union des républiques socialistes soviétiques, and which abbreviates URSA, which means "bear" in Latin
(c) 1996-2013 KNV Koch, Neff & Volckmar GmbH, Stuttgart Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 117 S. Beteiligte:Orwell, George Standort: Engl. Orw
Inhalt: George Orwell's picture of a world in which personal freedom is denied, where lies replace truth and where resistance is punished by torture, is one of the most powerful satires ever written. When Winston Smith rebels against the authority of Big Brother and his treachery is uncovered, he must be made to suffer the consequences. Das Wort "Big brother ist watching you!" ist allgemein bekannt. Es ist Synonym für den perfekten Überwachungsstaat, für das Ende jeder Individualität und Menschlichkeit, für das Eindringen eines Herrschaftsbereichs in die Intimsphäre und sogar in die Gedanken geworden. Mit "1984", seinem letzten Roman, den George Orwell 1948 kurz vor seinem Tod veröffentlichte, wurde der Verfasser der wohl bekanntesten Schreckens-Utopie des 20. Jahrhunderts populär. Die Anti-Utopie, eingebettet in die totalitären Erfahrungen des Stalinismus wie auch des Faschismus in Spanien und des Nationalismus in Deutschland, aber auch des britischen Imperialismus, muss als Absage an jedwede Form von Totalitarismus gesehen werden. Orwell verstand das Buch ebenso wie seine Satire "Farm der Tiere" als Negativfolie für einen demokratischen Sozialismus. Das Jahr 1984 ist zwar vergangen, ohne dass sich die Schreckensvisionen erfüllt hätten, an Aktualität hat dieses Werk trotzdem kein bisschen verloren. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 329 S. Beteiligte:Orwell, George Standort: Engl. Orw
Inhalt: Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award 2012 and the Albatros Literaturpreis 2014
Die bewegende Geschichte einer Gruppe von Frauen auf einer Reise ins Ungewisse ... Mit leiser Wehmut, vielen Fragen und großen Hoffnungen im Gepäck überqueren sie den Ozean: junge Japanerinnen, die Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts ihre Heimat verlassen, um in Kalifornien japanische Einwanderer zu heiraten. Bis zu ihrer Ankunft kennen die Frauen ihre zukünftigen Männer nur von den strahlenden Fotos der Heiratsvermittler, und auch sonst haben sie äußerst vage Vorstellungen von Amerika. Die Überfahrt wird zu einer seltsamen, oft traumartigen Passage zwischen zwei Welten - und die Ankunft in Amerika zu einem abrupten Erwachen in der Fremde, in der kaum etwas so ist wie erwartet ...
Presents the stories of six Japanese mail-order brides whose new lives in early twentieth-century San Francisco are marked by backbreaking migrant work, cultural struggles, children who reject their heritage, and the prospect of wartime internment.
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award For Fiction National Book Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A New York Times Notable Book
A gorgeous novel by the celebrated author of When the Emperor Was Divine that tells the story of a group of young women brought from Japan to San Francisco as "picture brides" nearly a century ago. In eight unforgettable sections, The Buddha in the Attic traces the extraordinary lives of these women, from their arduous journeys by boat, to their arrival in San Francisco and their tremulous first nights as new wives; from their experiences raising children who would later reject their culture and language, to the deracinating arrival of war. Once again, Julie Otsuka has written a spellbinding novel about identity and loyalty, and what it means to be an American in uncertain times. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 129 S. Beteiligte:Otsuka, Julie Standort: Engl. Ots ISBN: 978-0-307-74442-5
Inhalt: Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have just saved the rebel state from destruction by the forces of King Galbatorix, cruel ruler of the Empire. Now Eragon must travel to Ellesmera, land of the elves, for further training. It is the journey of a lifetime. But chaos and betrayal plague him at every turn, and Eragon isn't sure whom he can trust. Meanwhile, his cousin Roran, must fight a new battle home in Cornwall - one that puts Eragon in grat danger. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 681 S. Beteiligte:Paolini, Christopher Standort: Engl. Pao
Inhalt: When Eragon, a poor farm boy, finds a polished blue stone in the forest, he thinks it will buy his family food for the winter. But when the stone brings a baby dragon, Eragon soon realises he has stumbled upon a legacy nearly as old as the Empire itself. He is thrust into a perilous new world of destiny, magic and power. Can Eragon take up the mantle of the Dragon Riders? The fate of the Empire may rest in his hands..... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 517 S. Beteiligte:Paolini, Christopher Standort: Engl. Pao
Inhalt: Forces collide in Book III of the phenomenally successful Inheritance Cycle. Eragon represents the greatest hope for a better Alagaesia. Can this once simple farm boy rise to become a leader who can unite the rebel forces and defeat the King? Following the colossal battle against the Empire's warriors on the Burning Plains, Eragon and his dragon, Saphira, have narrowly escaped with their lives. Still there is more at hand for the Rider and his dragon, as Eragon finds himself bound by a tangle of promises he may not be able to keep, including Eragon's oath to his cousin Roran to help rescue Roran's beloved, Katrina, from King Galbatorix's clutches.But Eragon owes his loyalty to others, too. The Varden are in desperate need of his talents and strength, as are the elves and dwarves. When unrest claims the rebels and danger strikes from every corner, Eragon must make choices - choices that take him across the Empire and beyond, choices that may lead to unimagined sacrifice.
Ages 12 and up Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 763 S. Beteiligte:Paolini, Christopher Standort: Engl. Pao ISBN: 978-0-385-60791-9
Inhalt: The final stunning book in the Inheritance cycle featuring Eragon and his dragon Saphira. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 1142 S. Beteiligte:Paolini, Christopher Standort: Engl. Pao ISBN: 978-0-307-97664-2
Inhalt: York restaurant. But the interview is cut short by a horrific murder that takes place just yards from their table. The assassin escapes as quickly as he entered, leaving behind him a chaotic scene and a bloody corpse.
While Nick is reviewing the tapes from his interview, he stumbles upon a piece of evidence that could be crucial to the murder investigation. But something about the whole scenario doesn't fit together. As Nick investigates the clues for himself, he realises that someone is watching his every move - and they will stop at nothing to prevent Nick from discovering the truth. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 471 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James Standort: Engl. Pat ISBN: 978-0-09-952534-9
Inhalt: Abbie and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter into a luxurious hotel, and enjoy four days of pampering and partying. Then they wake up on a yacht, surrounded by police, accused of the foulest crime imaginable, and the vacation of a lifetime becomes a fight for survival. GUILTY WIVES is the ultimate indulgence - a non-stop joy-ride of friendship, danger and betrayal. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 424 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James Standort: Engl. Pat ISBN: 978-1-84605-790-8
Inhalt: Detective Alex Cross is ripped away from his family on Christmas Eve and that s nothing compared to what awaits him on Christmas Day On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Alex s phone rings, he knows that this won t be a merry Christmas. A father has taken his children and ex-wife hostage. Armed to the teeth and high on crystal meth, Henry Fowler is dangerously unstable. The lives of everyone in that house are hanging by a thread.
As this suburban nightmare is unfolding, another far greater threat is approaching. It will be a terrorist attack like Washington DC has never seen, and when nobody expects it. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 417 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James Standort: Engl. Pat ISBN: 978-0-09-957645-7
Inhalt: This is an action-packed political thriller full of secrets, lies and a deadly conspiracy How well can you ever really know someone?
As Ben Casper watches his best friend plummet from her sixth-floor apartment balcony, he realises his life is about to change. Diana had no reason to kill herself, she had to have been pushed.
Diana worked for the CIA, so the investigation into her death is kept tightly under wraps. But Ben is a political journalist, and can feel that something isn't right.
Ben starts investigating for himself and soon discovers Diana was leading a double life he knew nothing about. But when more people involved die in questionable circumstances, it's clear that someone doesn't want the truth to be uncovered. And unless Ben drops his investigation, he could be next... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 502 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James Standort: Engl. Pat ISBN: 978-0-09-957422-4
Inhalt: Thom and Jennifer Harlow are the perfect couple, and two of the worlds biggest movie stars. When they disappear, facts are hard to find, and even world-renowned Private Investigator Jack Morgan cant get to the truth. But as he keeps probing, he discovers that the couple have been living in a world of deception. Fast-paced and gripping, this is a brilliant addition to the Private series. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 501 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James Standort: Engl. Pat ISBN: 978-0-09-957415-6
Inhalt: Everyone thinks Emmy Dockery is crazy. Obsessed with finding the link between hundreds of unsolved cases, Emmy has taken leave from her job as an FBI researcher. Now all she has are the newspaper clippings that wallpaper her bedroom, and her recurring nightmares of an all-consuming fire.
Not even Emmy's ex-boyfriend, field agent Harrison "Books" Bookman, will believe her that hundreds of kidnappings, rapes, and murders are all connected. That is, until Emmy finds a piece of evidence he can't afford to ignore. More murders are reported by the day--and they're all inexplicable. No motives, no murder weapons, no suspects. Could one person really be responsible for these unthinkable crimes? Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 485 Seiten Beteiligte:Patterson, James, Ellis, David Standort: Engl. Pat ISBN: 978-0-09-959453-6
Inhalt: The seventh novel in James Patterson's bestselling series featuring Detective Michael Bennett Detective Michael Bennett is coming home to New York. And a world of unimaginable evil awaits. Having brought an end to the vengeful mission of the ruthless crime lord who forced the Bennett family into hiding, Michael is finally back in New York City. However, Bennett is thrust straight back into a horrifying case: a witness claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a sickeningly depraved and murderous gathering in a condemned building. The report reads like the product of an overactive imagination. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, the unbelievable claim becomes all too real... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 474 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James, Ledwidge, Michael Standort: Engl. Pat ISBN: 978-0-09-957405-7
Inhalt: At a glittering launch party overlooking the iconic Opera House, Private throws open the doors to its Sydney office. But there's little time for celebrating. Within days the agency's caseload is full, and a series of horrific murders in the wealthy Eastern Suburbs stretches the team to the limit. PRIVATE DOWN UNDER is another thrilling addition to the bestselling PRIVATE series. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 452 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James; White, Michael Standort: Engl. Pat
Inhalt: Charlotte O'Keefe's much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a very severe form of brittle bone disease. One stumble could force her to spend months in a body cast. Willow's condition is an expensive one, and her family faces financial ruin. Then Charlotte is offered a lifeline. She could file a "wrongful birth" suit against her obstrician, in the hope of receiving a monetary payout which would secure Willow's future. But the doctor she would be suing is Charlotte's best friend... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 551 S. Beteiligte:Picoult, Jodi Standort: Engl. Pic ISBN: 978-0-340-97904-4
Inhalt: For more than a decade Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 398 S. Beteiligte:Picoult, Jodi Standort: Engl. Pic ISBN: 978-1-4447-7815-1
Inhalt: The Golds and the Hearts have been neighbours and freinds for years and it came as no surprise when their teenage children, Chris and Emily formed a relationship. But now seventeen-year-old Emily id dead, shot with a gun Chris took from his father. It was an apparent suicide pact which only Chris survived - leaving two devastated families desperate for answers about an unthinkable act and the children they never really knew. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 517 S. Beteiligte:Picoult, Jodi Standort: Engl. Pic
Inhalt: Sage Singer, who befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone favorite retired teacher and Little League coach and they strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses and then he confesses his darkest secret - he deserves to die, because he was a Nazi SS guard. Complicating the matter? Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor. What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone who's committed a truly heinous act ever atone for it with subsequent good behavior? Should you offer forgiveness to someone if you aren't the party who was wronged? And most of all - if Sage even considers his request - is it murder, or justice? Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 480 S. Beteiligte:Picoult, Jodi Standort: Engl. Pic ISBN: 978-1-4767-2783-7
Inhalt: Bestseller-Autoren in der zweisprachigen Ausgabe von PONS. Plus Audio-CD mit dem Text in der Originalsprache. Für Lerner mit guten Vorkenntnissen. Detecitve Inspector Rebus lässt in zwei spannenden Storys die Verbrecherwelt von Edinburgh wieder zittern. Ausschnitt aus "A Good Hanging" (= Eindeutig Mord).
Text dt. und engl. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 93 S. + 1 CD Beteiligte:Rankin, Ian Standort: Engl. Ran ISBN: 978-3-12-561549-6
Inhalt: "The Complaints" - they're the cops who investigate other cops. Malcolm Fox works in the Complaints and Conduct departement, so he's not a popular man. He's just had a result, and should be feeling good about himself. But he's got problems of his own. Now Fox is given a new task. There's a cop called Jamie Breck, and he's dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. Fox takes on the job, and learns that there's more to the Breck case than anyone thinks. This knowledge will prove dangerous, ecpecially when a vicious murder intervenes far too close to home for Fox's liking... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 452 S. Beteiligte:Rankin, Ian Standort: Engl. Ran ISBN: 978-1-4091-0359-2
Inhalt: Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.
By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.
But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.
At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.
In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 369 Seiten Beteiligte:Reid, Taylor Jenkins Standort: Engl. Rei ISBN: 978-1-5291-5213-5
Inhalt: Der erste Roman einer faszinierenden Reihe um die "Sieben Schwestern".
Maia ist die älteste von sechs Schwestern, die alle von ihrem Vater adoptiert wurden, als sie sehr klein waren. Sie lebt als Einzige noch auf dem herrschaftlichen Anwesen ihres Vaters am Genfer See, denn anders als ihre Schwestern, die es drängte, draußen in der Welt ein ganz neues Leben als Erwachsene zu beginnen, fand die eher schüchterne Maia nicht den Mut, ihre vertraute Umgebung zu verlassen. Doch das ändert sich, als ihr Vater überraschend stirbt und ihr einen Umschlag hinterlässt - und sie plötzlich den Schlüssel zu ihrer bisher unbekannten Vorgeschichte in Händen hält: Sie wurde in Rio de Janeiro in einer alten Villa geboren, deren Adresse noch heute existiert. Maia fasst den Entschluss, nach Rio zu fliegen, und an der Seite von Floriano Quintelas, eines befreundeten Schriftstellers, beginnt sie, das Rätsel ihrer Herkunft zu ergründen. Dabei stößt sie auf eine tragische Liebesgeschichte in der Vergangenheit ihrer Familie, und sie taucht ein in das mondäne Paris der Jahrhundertwende, wo einst eine schöne junge Frau aus Rio einem französischen Bildhauer begegnete. Und erst jetzt fängt Maia an zu begreifen, wer sie wirklich ist und was dies für ihr weiteres Leben bedeutet ...
The first book in a new series from the number one international bestseller
Their future is written in the stars . . .
Maia D'Aplièse and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, 'Atlantis' - a fabulous, secluded castle situated on the shores of Lake Geneva - having been told that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died. Maia and her sisters were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their true heritage - a clue which takes Maia across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Once there, she begins to put together the pieces of where her story began . . .
Eighty years earlier, in the Belle Epoque of Rio, 1927, Izabela Bonifacio's father has aspirations for his daughter to marry into aristocracy. Meanwhile, architect Heitor da Silva Costa is working on a statue, to be called Christ the Redeemer, and will soon travel to Paris to find the right sculptor to complete his vision. Izabela - passionate and longing to see the world - convinces her father to allow her to accompany him and his family to Europe before she is married. There, at Paul Landowski's studio and in the heady, vibrant cafés of Montparnasse, she meets ambitious young sculptor Laurent Brouilly, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.
The Seven Sisters is a sweeping epic tale of love and loss - the first in a unique, spellbinding series of seven books, based on the legends of the Seven Sisters star constellation - Lucinda Riley showcases her storytelling talent like never before. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 626 S. Beteiligte:Riley, Lucinda Standort: Engl. Ril ISBN: 978-1-4472-7558-9
Inhalt: The second book in the spellbinding and sweepingly romantic Seven Sisters series by bestselling author Lucinda Riley. Follow Ally, a talented sailor, as she embarks on her journey to a museum in Norway - chasing the clue her beloved but elusive father left for her. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 692 S. Beteiligte:Riley, Lucinda Standort: Engl. Ril ISBN: 978-1-4472-8858-9
Inhalt: Je größer die Gefahr, desto heißer die Leidenschaft ... Lila Emerson liebt ihren Job als Homesitterin über alles. Doch als sie eines Tages vom Fenster ihres aktuellen Apartments einen Mord mit anschließendem Suizid beobachtet, verändert sich ihr Leben auf einen Schlag, denn Ashton Archer, der Bruder des potenziellen Mörders, bittet sie um Hilfe. Lila fühlt sich von dem attraktiven Künstler mehr als angezogen, und auch Ash weiß sofort: Die Frau mit den dunklen, tiefen Augen muss er zeichnen! Gemeinsam machen sie sich auf die Suche nach der Wahrheit, und bald wird klar: Unschätzbar teure Kunstgegenstände scheinen im Zentrum dieses Verbrechens zu stehen und ein Sammler, der für seine Obsession über Leichen geht.
A thrilling novel of crime and passion from Nora Roberts - the world's greatest storyteller Lila Emerson is fascinated by other people's lives. As a house-sitter, she loves looking after the glamorous homes she could never afford herself. And as a writer, she enjoys dreaming up stories for the people she sees from her window. But then one day she witnesses something only too real - the shocking murder of a young woman living across the street in New York. Now Lila is in mortal danger from an audacious, single-minded assassin who kills for profit and for pleasure. With the police following a false lead, Lila's only hope is to team up with Ashton Archer, an artist with his own complicated reasons for getting involved. Lila wants to trust the passionate, quick-witted Ash - but is she letting her feelings blind her to his motives? Either way, she will never watch from the sidelines again... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 483 S. Beteiligte:Roberts, Nora Standort: Engl. Rob ISBN: 978-0-7499-5930-2
Inhalt: Vertraue niemandem. Es könnte tödlich sein. Abigail Lowery lebt in einer abgeschiedenen Kleinstadt im Süden der USA. Mithilfe modernster Sicherheitssysteme hat sie ihr Haus in ein wahres Fort Knox verwandelt. Sie vermeidet den Kontakt zu anderen Menschen doch Brooks Gleason, der attraktive Polizeichef des Ortes, ist von der geheimnisvollen jungen Frau fasziniert und kommt ihr gefährlich nahe. Denn Abigail ha t Angst, sich ihren Gefühlen hinzugeben wie in jener schrecklichen Nacht vor zwölf Jahren, die ihr Leben auf dramatische Weise veränderte ... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 488 S. Beteiligte:Roberts, Nora Standort: Engl. Rob ISBN: 978-0-7499-5521-2
Inhalt: The chilling new psychological thriller from one of the most brilliant crime authors of today.
Why would a man escape from prison the day before he's due to be released?Audie Palmer has spent a decade in prison for an armed robbery in which four people died, including two of the gang. Seven million dollars has never been recovered and everybody believes that Audie knows where the money is.For ten years he has been beaten, stabbed, throttled and threatened almost daily by prison guards, inmates and criminal gangs, who all want to answer this same question, but suddenly Audie vanishes, the day before he's due to be released.Everybody wants to find Audie, but he's not running. Instead he's trying to save a life . . . and not just his own. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 518 S. Beteiligte:Robotham, Michael Standort: Engl. Rob ISBN: 978-0-7515-5291-1
Inhalt: Eine Frau ist tot und ihr Verlobter verbüßt eine lebenslange Haftstrafe für eine Tat, die er nicht begangen hat. Die Privatdetektivin Paige Holden ist im Besitz des einzigen Beweises seiner Unschuld. Doch sie kann ihn der Polizei nicht vorlegen. Auf der Suche nach dem wahren Täter kommt sie einem skrupellosen Serienmörder auf die Spur. Das Problem ist, ihre Suche bleibt vom Täter nicht unbemerkt.
The addictive Karen Rose serves up her most relentless thriller yet. A woman is dead and her fiance is serving a life sentence for a murder he didn't commit. Now PI Paige Holden holds the only piece of evidence that could see him freed, and she cannot take it to the police. With the help of disarming state attorney, Grayson Smith, Paige is determined to avenge the murdered woman and set an innocent man free. But Paige has only scratched the surface of a cover-up far deadlier than she could ever imagine. A string of mysterious deaths of women with a shared past sets Paige on the trail of a ruthless killer. The problem is, the killer's on her trail too ...
Set on the gritty streets of Baltimore, You Belong to Me kept readers "on the edges of their seats." Now, Karen Rose returns to the world of Baltimore's cops and prosecutors with a new tale of danger and desire...
A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden's home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms-from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive.
Five years ago, State's Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars. But when Paige Holden shares the flash drive with him, its contents cast doubts on the conviction-and lead him and Paige into a world of blackmail, dark secrets, and a decades-long string of murders. An investigation they'll survive only by trusting each other-and the truth. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 518 S. Beteiligte:Rose, Karen Standort: Engl. Ros ISBN: 978-0-451-23616-6
Inhalt: A book full of insight, full of sharp ironice twists, full of wisdom about American idealism, and full of terrific fun.. A profound and personal meditation on the changes in the American psyche over the last 50 years.
Pulitzer Prize Winner 1998 Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 423 S. Beteiligte:Roth, Philip Standort: Engl. Rot
Inhalt: Indignation is the story of a young's man education in life's terrifying chances an bizarre obstructions. It is a story of inexperience, foolishness, intellectual resistance, sexual discovery, courage and error, told with all the inventive energy and wit Roth has at his command. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 233 S. Beteiligte:Roth, Philip Standort: Engl. Rot ISBN: 978-0-09-953946-9
Inhalt: Gesellschaftskritischer Kurzroman über eine Liebe im Amerika der 50er Jahre. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 157 S. Beteiligte:Roth, Philip Standort: Engl. Rot
Inhalt: The fate of Roth's everyman is traced from his first shocking confrontation with death on the idyllic beaches of his childhood summers, through the family trials and professional achievements of his vigorous adulthood, and into his old age, when he is rended by observing the deterioration of his contemporaries and stalked by his own physcial woes. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 182 S. Beteiligte:Roth, Phillip Standort: Engl. Rot
Inhalt: The man was lost. The myth remained. Kvothe - the dragon-slayer, the renowned swordsman, the most feared, famed and notorious wizard the world has ever seen - vanished without warning and without trace. And even now, when he has been found, when darkness is rising in the corners of the world, he will not return. But his story lives on and, for the first time, Kvothe is going to tell it... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 993 S. Beteiligte:Rothfuss, Patrick Standort: Engl. Rot ISBN: 978-0-575-08142-0
Inhalt: Kvothe ("pronounced nearly the same as 'Quothe' "), the hero and villain of a thousand tales who's presumed dead, lives as the simple proprietor of the Waystone Inn under an assumed name. Prompted by a biographer called Chronicler who realizes his true identity, Kvothe starts to tell his life story. From his upbringing as an actor in his family's traveling troupe of magicians, jugglers and jesters, the Edema Ruh, to feral child on the streets of the vast port city of Tarbean, then his education at "the University," Kvothe is driven by twin imperatives¿his desire to learn the higher magic of naming and his need to discover as much as possible about the Chandrian, the demons of legend who murdered his family. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 722 S. Beteiligte:Rothfuss, Patrick Standort: Engl. Rot ISBN: 978-0-7564-0474-1
Inhalt: It was alwys difficult being Harry Potter and it isn't much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and father of three school-age children. While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places. Systematik: Engl. 5.1 Umfang: 343 Seiten Beteiligte:Rowling, J. K. Standort: Engl. 5.1 Row ISBN: 978-0-7515-6535-5
Inhalt: Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 192 S. Beteiligte:Salinger, Jerome D. Standort: Sal ISBN: 978-0-241-95042-5
Inhalt: A major new novel, his first work of fiction in seven years, from the universally acclaimed master and PEN/Faulkner winner: a sweeping, seductive love story set in the years after World War II. From his experiences as a young naval officer in battles off Okinawa, Philip Bowman returns to America and finds a position as a book editor. In a world of dinners, deals, and literary careers, Bowman finds that he fits in perfectly. But despite his success, what eludes him is love. His first marriage goes bad, another fails to happen, and finally he meets a woman who enthrals him before setting him on a course he could never imagine for himself. Romantic and haunting, All That Is explores a life unfolding in an unforgettable world on the brink of change - a dazzling, sometimes devastating labyrinth of love and ambition, a fiercely intimate account of the great shocks and grand pleasures of being alive.
James Salter ist einer der großen amerikanischen Erzähler unserer Zeit, ein moderner Klassiker, und "Alles, was ist" ist eine Huldigung an das New York der fünfziger und sechziger Jahre, an ein freies, ungezügeltes Leben und die einst so glamouröse Welt der Bücher und der Literatur. Als Lieutenant Philip Bowman aus dem Pazifischen Krieg zurückkehrt, der Schlacht von Okinawa knapp entronnen, liegt das Leben endlich vor ihm. Er studiert, heuert bei einer Theaterzeitschrift an, beginnt für einen Verlag Manuskripte zu lesen. Alles scheint möglich in dem noch ungebändigten New York. Er wird Lektor in einem angesehenen Verlag, diniert mit Schriftstellern, und er lernt Vivian kennen, Vivian Amussen, das schöne unnahbare Mädchen aus dem Süden. Bowman heiratet und wird geschieden, er betrügt und wird betrogen. Seine Arbeit, seine Liebschaften, seine Träume, wie alles ihn berührt und über ihn hinweggeht. Nur ein kurzes Flackern zwischen Erinnerung und Vergessen und doch: alles, was ist. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 289 S. Beteiligte:Salter, James Standort: Engl. Sal ISBN: 978-1-4472-6161-2
Inhalt: Epic and tragic in its scope, King Lear explores a king's demise into madness and insanity when he is betrayed by two of his manipulative and scheming daughters. It is Cordelia, the third and only daughter who refuses to flatter her father to deceive, who is banished from the kingdom, leading to dramatic and tumultuous events. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 153 S. Beteiligte:Shakespeare, William Standort: Engl. Sha
Inhalt: Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw, and her name is Stella Bain. A stateless woman in a lawless country, Stella embarks on a journey to reconstruct her life. Suffering an agonising and inexplicable array of symptoms, she finds her way to London. There, Dr August Bridge, a cranial surgeon turned psychologist, is drawn to tracking her amnesia to its source. What brutality was she fleeing when she left the tranquil seclusion of a New England college campus to serve on the Front; for what crime did she need to atone - and whom did she leave behind? Vivid, intense and gripping, packed with secrets and revelations, The Lives of Stella Bain is at once a ravishing love story and an intense psychological mystery. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 302 S. Beteiligte:Shreve, Anita Standort: Engl. Shr ISBN: 978-0-349-13965-4
Inhalt: Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They've been together for almost a decade, and are just about to get married. But then, on Lydia's 27th birthday, Freddie dies in a tragic accident.
Then something unbelievable happens. Lydia gets another chance at her old life with Freddie.
But what if there's someone in her new life who wants her to stay?
A gorgeously romantic love story for fans of PS I Love You and Me Before You, this novel will make you laugh, cry and remind you of what a wonderful gift it is to love and to be loved. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 433 Seiten Beteiligte:Silver, Josie Standort: Engl. Sil ISBN: 978-0-241-98616-5
Inhalt: Praise for The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy: Another superior Jane Austen homage...will entertain those who already know their Austen and Georgette Heyer by heart, as well as fans of old-fashioned romance. When Mr. Darcy realizes he insulted Miss Elizabeth Bennet at the Meryton Assembly, he feels duty bound to seek her out and apologize...When he has INSULTED a LADY But instead of meekly accepting his apology, Elizabeth stands up to him, and Darcy realizes with a shock that she is a very different type of lady than he is used to...Darcy is more intrigued than he's ever been by any young lady, but he's already entangled in a courtship. It's a brutal predicament for a man of honor who only longs to follow his heart... Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 373 S. Beteiligte:Simonsen, Mary Lydon Standort: Engl. Sim ISBN: 978-1-4022-4616-6
Inhalt: Don Tillman will heiraten. Allerdings findet er menschliche Beziehungen oft höchst verwirrend und irrational. Was tun? Don entwickelt das Ehefrau-Projekt: Mit einem 16-seitigen Fragebogen will er auf wissenschaftlich exakte Weise die ideale Frau finden. Also keine, die raucht, trinkt, unpünktlich oder Veganerin ist. Und dann kommt Rosie. Unpünktlich, Barkeeperin, Raucherin. Offensichtlich ungeeignet. Aber Rosie verfolgt ihr eigenes Projekt: Sie sucht ihren biologischen Vater. Dafür braucht sie Dons Kenntnisse als Genetiker. Ohne recht zu verstehen, wie ihm geschieht, lernt Don staunend die Welt jenseits beweisbarer Fakten kennen und stellt fest: Gefühle haben ihre eigene Logik.
Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very detailed questionnaire to help him find the perfect woman. One thing he already knows, though, is that it's not Rosie. Absolutely, completely, definitely no Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 329 S. Beteiligte:Simsion, Graeme Standort: Engl. Sim ISBN: 978-1-4059-1533-5
Inhalt: Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself daily of his hard-earned lessons, the last thing he is looking for is a serious relationship.
Maria Sanchez, the hardworking daughter of Mexican immigrants, is the picture of conventional success. With a degree from Duke Law School and a job at a prestigious firm in Wilmington, she is a dark-haired beauty with a seemingly flawless professional track record. And yet Maria has a traumatic history of her own, one that compelled her to return to her hometown and left her questioning so much of what she once believed.
A chance encounter on a rain-swept road will alter the course of both Colin and Maria's lives, challenging deeply held assumptions about each other and ultimately, themselves. As love unexpectedly takes hold between them, they dare to envision what a future together could possibly look like . . . until menacing reminders of events in Maria's past begin to surface. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 486 Seiten Beteiligte:Sparks, Nicholas Standort: Engl. Spa ISBN: 978-0-7515-5001-6
Inhalt: Movie tie-in edition of the Sparks classic Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job; loyal friends; his dream home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life, he believes that a serious relationship with a woman would only cramp his style. That is until Gabby Holland moves in next door. Despite Travis's attempts to be friendly, she seems to have a chip on her shoulder about him. But something compels Travis to get to know his new neighbour. His persistent efforts lead them both to make tough decisions, the consequences of which neither could have foreseen. The Choice confronts us with that most heart-wrenching question of all: how far would you go to keep the hope of love alive? Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 342 Seiten Beteiligte:Sparks, Nicholas Standort: Engl. Spa ISBN: 978-0-7515-6226-2
Inhalt: Perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern and Jojo Moyes, a beautifuland moving story about the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter Perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern and Jojo Moyes, a beautifuland moving story about the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter
Brett's Life List
1. Go to Paris
2. Perform live, on a super big stage
3. Have a baby, maybe two
4. Fall in love
Brett Bohlinger seems to have it all: a plum job, a spacious loft, an irresistibly handsome boyfriend. All in all, a charmed life. That is, until her beloved mother passes away, leaving behind a will with one big stipulation: In order to receive her inheritance, Brett must first complete the life list of goals she d written when she was a naïve girl of fourteen.
Grief-stricken, Brett can barely make sense of her mother s decision her childhood dreams don t resemble her ambitions at age thirty-four in the slightest. Some seem impossible. How can she possibly have a relationship with a father who died seven years ago? Other goals (Be an awesome teacher!) would require her to reinvent her entire future.
As Brett reluctantly embarks on a perplexing journey in search of her adolescent dreams, one thing becomes clear. Sometimes life s sweetest gifts can be found in the most unexpected places. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 331 S. Beteiligte:Spielman, Lori Nelson Standort: Engl. Spie ISBN: 978-0-09-958015-7
Inhalt: An unforgettable novel about a mother and her daughter trading perfect for real. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 362 S. Beteiligte:Steel, Danielle Standort: Engl. Stee ISBN: 978-0-552-16589-1
Inhalt: Steel's novel invites readers into the ultra-glamorous world of a five-star New York hotel, and brings to vivid life the man who builds it as his dream, the girl who grows up in its loving embrace, and the colorful guests and staff who make its magic complete. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 323 S. Beteiligte:Steel, Danielle Standort: Engl. Stee ISBN: 978-0-593-06308-8
Inhalt: Mississippi, 1962: Nach dem Studium verbringt Skeeter die Tage auf der elterlichen Baumwollfarm, als einzige ihrer Freundinnen ohne einen Ring am Finger. Und dann ist auch noch ihr geliebtes Kindermädchen spurlos verschwunden. Skeeter wünscht sich nur eins: Sie will weg aus dem engen Jackson und als Journalistin in New York leben. Um etwas zu verändern, verbündet sie sich mit zwei schwarzen Dienstmädchen: Aibileen zieht die Kinder ihrer Arbeitgeber auf. Das Tafelsilber darf sie aber nicht berühren. Und Minny ist auf der Suche nach einer neuen Stelle. Sie ist bekannt für ihre Kochkünste, aber sie ist auch gefürchtet: Denn Minny trägt das Herz auf der Zunge. Gemeinsam beschließen die drei Frauen, gegen die Konventionen ihrer Zeit zu verstoßen und etwas zu wagen. Denn sie alle haben das Gefühl zu ersticken und wollen etwas verändern in ihrer Stadt und in ihrem eigenen Leben. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileens best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobodys business, but she cant mind her tongue, so shes lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.
Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed.
In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way womenmothers, daughters, caregivers, friendsview one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Help is a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we dont. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 453 S. Beteiligte:Stockett, Kathryn Standort: Engl. Sto ISBN: 978-0-425-24429-6
Inhalt: Cathy ist neun, als sie Jack kennenlernt. Sie verbringen einen unbeschwerten Sommer an der englischen Küste miteinander. Cathy ist einundzwanzig, als sie aus ihrem Zuhause und vor einem Mann flieht, der Rache mit Liebe verwechselt. Cathy ist fast dreißig, als dieser Mann sie findet und ihre sorgsam aufbewahrten Erinnerungen für immer zu zerstören droht.
Über den Autor Anna Stothard, geboren 1983 in London, wuchs in Washington, Peking und New York auf. Nach dem Abschluss in Englischer Literatur in Oxford bekam sie ein Stipendium des American Film Institute in Los Angeles, wo sie zwei Jahre Drehbuch studierte. Anna Stothard lebt zurzeit in London.
Aus dem Engl. übers. Systematik: Roman Umfang: 302 S. Beteiligte:Stothard, Anna Standort: Stot ISBN: 978-3-257-30048-2
Inhalt: Karneval in Oxford! Thomas Schmitt feiert mit seinen englischen Kollegen eine ausgelassene Party. Doch die Feier endet jäh, als Thomas' Chef erstochen wird. Wurde er das Opfer einer tödlichen Verwechslung? Der fesselnde Lernkrimi bietet
Europäischer Referenzrahmen B1 Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 155 S. Beteiligte:Sykes, Joseph Standort: Engl. Syk ISBN: 978-3-8174-8259-7
Inhalt: Ben Masters, lebenslustiger Single und passionierter Kletterer, erhält einen mysterlösen Auftrag: Er soll eine gewisse Dorothy in Schottland aufsuchen und mit ihr verhindern, dass der Hexenzirkel "Dark Moon Coven" die Macht an sich reißt. Da taucht eine geheimnisvolle Schöne namens Naomi auf, und Ben wird von ihr verzaubert. Was er nicht weiß: Naomi ist das Black-Moon-Oberhaupt...
Text dt. und engl. Europäischer Referenzrahmen ab A2 Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 153 S. Beteiligte:Thieme, Anja Standort: Engl. Thi ISBN: 978-3-468-44126-4
Inhalt: The Companions of the Ring have become involved in separate adventures as the quest continues. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient Kings of the West, joined with the Riders of Rohan against the forces of Isengard, and took part in the desperate victory of the Hornburg. Merry and Pippin, captured by orcs, escaped into Fangorn Forest and there encountered the Ents. Gandalf returned, miraculously, and defeated the evil wizard, Saruman. Meanwhile, Sam and Frodo progressed towards Mordor to destroy the Ring, accompanied by Smeagol - Gollum, still obsessed by his 'preciouss'. After a battle with the giant spider, Shelob, Sam left his master for dead; but Frodo is still alive - in the hands of the orcs. And all the time the armies of the Dark Lord are massing. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 466 S. Beteiligte:Tolkien, J. R.R. Standort: Engl. Tol ISBN: 978-0-345-33973-7
Inhalt: Frodo and the Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in the battle with an evil spirit in the Mines of Moria; and at the Falls of Rauros, Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape the rest of the company were attacked by Orcs. Now they continue their journey alone down the great River Anduin -- alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 398 S. Beteiligte:Tolkien, J.R.R. Standort: Engl. Tol ISBN: 978-0-345-33971-3
Inhalt: Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power -- the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring -- the ring that rules them all -- which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 458 S. Beteiligte:Tolkien, J.R.R. Standort: Engl. Tol ISBN: 978-0-345-33970-6
Inhalt: Dorothys death leaves Aaron bereft. As those around him bring casserole after casserole, he ploughs on. But then Dorothy starts to materialise in the oddest places. And as she and Aaron talk, the cracks that were present in their perfectly ordinary marriage start to reappear. The new bestseller from Anne Tyler is a story about two people so intertwined they cannot be separated - even by death. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 262 S. Beteiligte:Tyler, Anne Standort: Engl. Tyl ISBN: 978-0-09-958204-5
Inhalt: When reclusive writer Leonora is invited to the English countryside for a weekend away, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. But as the first night falls, revelations unfold among friends old and new, an unnerving memory shatters Leonora¿s reserve, and a haunting realization creeps in: the party is not alone in the woods. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 338 Seiten Beteiligte:Ware, Ruth Standort: Engl. War ISBN: 978-0-09-959824-4
Inhalt: The sensational new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of
Before I Go To Sleep. The sensational new psychological thriller from the bestselling author of Before I Go To Sleep.
She loves her husband. She's obsessed by a stranger.
She's a devoted mother. She's prepared to lose everything.
She knows what she's doing. She's out of control.
She's innocent. She's guilty as sin.
She's living two lives. She might lose both . . . Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 425 S. Beteiligte:Watson, S.J. Standort: Engl. Wat ISBN: 978-0-85752-020-3
Inhalt: Oscar Wildes Dorian Gray ist eine der berühmtesten Figuren der Weltliteratur: So stauneswert schön er ist, so unverdorben und naiv ist sein Blick auf die Welt. Verführt durch den geistreichen Zyniker Lord Wotton, stürzt Dorian sich haltlos ins lüsterne Londoner Nachtleben. Ausschweifung und Genuss wecken in ihm den innigen Wunsch nach unvergänglicher Jugend - und auf wundersame Weise altert fortan nicht mehr er selbst, sondern ein Porträt von ihm. Doch Dorians unbedachter Pakt mit dunklen Mächten hat grausame Folgen... Assembles the elements of Oscar Wilde's talents in a reinterpretation of the Faustian myth. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 232 S. Beteiligte:Wilde, Oscar Standort: Engl. Wil ISBN: 978-1-84749-372-9
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