Inhalt: Connell and Marianne grow up in the same small town in the west of Ireland, but the similarities end there. In school, Connell is popular and well-liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation - awkward but electrifying - something life-changing begins.
Inhalt: Rue Siebert might not have it all, but she has enough: a few friends she can always count on, the financial stability she yearned for as a kid, and a successful career as a biotech engineer at Kline, one of the most promising start-ups in the field of food science. Her world is stable, pleasant, and hard-fought. Until a hostile takeover and its offensively attractive front man threatens to bring it all crumbling down. Eli Kilgore and his business partners want Kline, period. Eli has his own reasons for pushing this deal though - and he's a man who gets what he wants. With one burning exception: Rue. The woman he can't stop thinking about. The woman who's off-limits to him. Torn between loyalty and an undeniable attraction, Rue and Eli throw caution out the lab and the boardroom windows. Their affair is secret, no-strings-attached, and has a built-in deadline: the day one of their companies will prevail. But the heart is risky business - one that plays for keeps. Schlagworte:Affäre, Liebe, Unternehmen, Wissenschaftler, Wissenschaftlerin, Young Adult Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 379 Seiten Beteiligte:Hazelwood, Ali Standort: Engl. Haz ISBN: 978-1-4087-2890-1
Inhalt: Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home ¿ a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse ¿ but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb.
Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world¿s master storytellers. Schlagworte:Affäre, Baby, Ehepaar, Familie, Intrige Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 198 Seiten Beteiligte:MacEwan, Ian Standort: Engl. MacE ISBN: 978-1-911214-33-5
Inhalt: Nora Kelly, a young curator at the Santa Fe Institute of Archaeology, is approached by historian Clive Benton with a once-in-a-lifetime proposal: to lead a team in search of the so-called 'Lost Camp' of the tragic Donner Party. This was a group of pioneers who earned a terrible place in American history when they became snow-bound in the California mountains in 1847, their fate unknown until the first skeletonized survivors stumbled out of the wilderness, raving about starvation, murder-and cannibalism. Benton tells Kelly he has stumbled upon an amazing find: the long-sought diary of one of the victims, which has an enigmatic description of the Lost Camp. Nora agrees to lead an expedition to locate and excavate it - to reveal its long-buried secrets. Once in the mountains, however, they learn that discovering the camp is only the first step in a mounting journey of fear. For as they uncover old bones, they expose the real truth of what happened, one that is far more shocking and bizarre than mere cannibalism. And when those ancient horrors lead to present-day violence on a grand scale, rookie FBI agent Corrie Swanson is assigned the case... only to find that her first investigation might very well be her last. Schlagworte:America, Amerika, Archäologie, Ausgrabung, Donner Party, Kannibalismus, Mord, Oregon, Oregon Trail, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 369 Seiten Beteiligte:Preston, Douglas, Child, Lincoln Standort: Engl. Pre ISBN: 978-1-83893-107-0
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. Schlagworte:Asien, Buchpreis, China, Ehe, Ehemann, Englisch, Englischer Roman, Ferner Osten, Hongkong, Interkulturell, Liebe, Nominierung, Protagonistin, Richter, Treue Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 271 S. Beteiligte:Gardam, Jane Standort: Engl. Gar ISBN: 978-0-349-13948-7
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. Schlagworte:Anwalt, Benehmen, Buchpreis, England, Englisch, Englischer Roman, Identitätskrise, Kindheit, Lebenskrise, Malaysia, Männer, Nominierung, Verdrängung, Wales, Witwer, Älterer Mann Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 255 S. Beteiligte:Gardam, Jane Standort: Engl. Gar ISBN: 978-0-349-13949-4
Inhalt: Last Friends brings to a close Jane Gardam¿s lauded series that includes Old Filth (2006) and The Man in the Wooden Hat (2011). Like its predecessors, this final installment examines the complex world of British class, empire, and the social circles that bring them together. Gardam tells of the rise and fall of Terry Veneering, the son of a mysterious Russian acrobat and a rough-and-tumble local girl living in the English midlands. As a child, Veneering is exposed to the ugly side of the British upper class and narrowly escapes death during the Blitz in WWII. Disgusted by the attitudes of the English gentry, and with his hometown destroyed in the war, Veneering sets off to remake himself in the Far East, only to return to England under suspicion. Gardam¿s previous novels have brought her acclaim in England, and with the right mix of publicity and word-of-mouth support, American readers, too, will respond to her witty style, insatiable readability, and cast of strange and amazing characters.
Inhalt: From the bestselling author of The Ragged Edge of Night comes a powerful and poetic novel of survival and sacrifice on the American frontier.
Wyoming, 1876. For as long as they have lived on the frontier, the Bemis and Webber families have relied on each other. With no other settlers for miles, it is a matter of survival. But when Ernest Bemis finds his wife, Cora, in a compromising situation with their neighbor, he doesn't think of survival. In one impulsive moment, a man is dead, Ernest is off to prison, and the women left behind are divided by rage and remorse.
Losing her husband to Cora's indiscretion is another hardship for stoic Nettie Mae. But as a brutal Wyoming winter bears down, Cora and Nettie Mae have no choice but to come together as one family-to share the duties of working the land and raising their children. There's Nettie Mae's son, Clyde-no longer a boy, but not yet a man-who must navigate the road to adulthood without a father to guide him, and Cora's daughter, Beulah, who is as wild and untamable as her prairie home.
Bound by the uncommon threads in their lives and the challenges that lie ahead, Cora and Nettie Mae begin to forge an unexpected sisterhood. But when a love blossoms between Clyde and Beulah, bonds are once again tested, and these two resilient women must finally decide whether they can learn to trust each other-or else risk losing everything they hold dear. Schlagworte:19. Jahrhundert, Affäre, America, Amerika, Familie, Frauen, Liebe, Neunzehntes Jahrhundert, Siedler, Tragödie, Wilder Westen, Wyoming Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 479 Seiten Beteiligte:Hawker, Olivia Standort: Engl. Haw ISBN: 978-1-5420-9114-5
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. Schlagworte:Englischer Roman Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 325 S. Beteiligte:Ahern, Cecelia Standort: Engl. Ahe ISBN: 978-0-00-735047-6
Annie Higgins has one goal this year: to get her tiny business off the ground. But - infuriated by the advertising agency across the hall making fun of her job - Annie is goaded into accepting their crazy challenge: to make a random stranger Instagram-famous in just thirty days.
And even when they choose Dr Samuel Page PhD, historian and hater of social media, as her target, Annie's determined to win the bet - whether Sam likes it or not.
But getting to know Sam means getting to know more about herself. And before the thirty days are out, Annie has to make a decision about what's really important...
Funny, real and heart-meltingly romantic, Annie and Sam's story is My Fair Lady for the social media age - and the perfect feel-good read. Schlagworte:Instagram, Liebe, Social Media, Wette, soziales Netzwerk Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 409 Seiten Beteiligte:Kelk, Lindsey Standort: Engl. Kel ISBN: 978-0-00-758247-1
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 Schlagworte:20. Jahrhundert, Einundzwanzigstes Jahrhundert, England, Englischer Roman, Familie, Geheimnis, Liebe, Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 505 S. Beteiligte:Lennox, Judith Standort: Engl. Len ISBN: 978-0-7553-8413-6
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. Schlagworte:American English, Englischer Roman, Justizthriller, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 567 S. Beteiligte:Connelly, Michael Standort: Engl. Con ISBN: 978-1-4091-0228-1
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. Schlagworte:20. Jahrhundert, Alter, Amerikanisches Englisch, Einwanderer, Englischer Roman, Immigrant, New York, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, Waise, Zug, Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 278 S. Beteiligte:Kline, Christina Baker Standort: Engl. Kli ISBN: 978-0-06-195072-8
Inhalt: Mike and Verity have a special game. The Crave. They play it to prove what they already know: that Verity loves Mike. That she needs Mike. Even though she¿s marrying another man. Now Mike knows that the stakes of their private game are rising. This time, someone has to die¿ Schlagworte:Abhängigkeit, Stalking, Thriller, Trennung Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 354 Seiten Beteiligte:Hall, Araminta Standort: Engl. Hal ISBN: 978-1-78089-824-7
Inhalt: Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in a university library. His mother Margaret, a Chinese American poet, left the family when he was nine years old without a trace. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade, his family's life has been governed by laws written to preserve "American culture" in the wake of years of economic instability and violence. To keep the peace and restore prosperity, the authorities are now allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian origin, and libraries have been forced to remove books seen as unpatriotic.
Bird has grown up disavowing his mother and her poems; he doesn't know her work or what happened to her, and he knows he shouldn't wonder. But when he receives a mysterious letter containing only a cryptic drawing, he is pulled into a quest to find her. His journey will take him back to the many folktales she poured into his head as a child, through the ranks of an underground network of librarians, into the lives of the children who have been taken, and finally to New York City, where a new act of defiance may be the beginning of much-needed change.
Inhalt: Yeongdo, Korea 1911. In a small fishing village on the banks of the East Sea, a club-footed, cleft-lipped man marries a fifteen-year-old girl. The couple have one child, their beloved daughter Sunja. When Sunja falls pregnant by a married yakuza, the family face ruin. But then Isak, a Christian minister, offers her a chance of salvation: a new life in Japan as his wife.
Following a man she barely knows to a hostile country in which she has no friends, no home, and whose language she cannot speak, Sunja's salvation is just the beginning of her story.
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henrsy Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his "creation" has a mind of her own. Schlagworte:Dialekt, Komödie, My Fair Lady, Sprache Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 119 Seiten Beteiligte:Shaw, George Bernard Standort: Engl. Sha ISBN: 978-0-14-143950-1
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. Schlagworte:Bronte, Emily, Englischer Roman, Klassiker Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 359 Seiten Beteiligte:Bronte, Emily Standort: Engl. Bro
Inhalt: Animal Farm tells the story of a rebellion and how it goes wrong. The animals' lives on the farm are terrible - there is not enough food, the work is hard and animals are dying. One day, the animals kick out the farmer and start to run the farm. But things are not better for most of the animals. Life for them is the same as before.
Inhalt: Winston Smith rewrites history for the Ministry of Truth. Big Brother and the Thought Police watch everyone for signs of thoughtcrime. But Winston can remember life before the Party, and he questions the world he lives in. He starts to take risks, and then he falls in love with Julia, in a world where love is against the rules.
Inhalt: Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She's a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart-she's in New York City, and he's in their small hometown-but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.
Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven't spoken since.
Poppy has everything she should want, but she's stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together-lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.
Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?
#tiktok made me read it #BookTok Schlagworte:Booktok, Freundschaft, Liebe, Urlaub Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 364 Seiten Beteiligte:Henry, Emily Standort: Engl. Hen ISBN: 978-1-984806-75-8
Pons Lektüre in Bildern The Golden Teapot 20 landestypische Kurzgeschichten zum Englischlernen [A2-B1] Ernst Klett Verlag, Stuttgart (2016)
Standort: Engl. Gol
Inhalt: Englisch lernen mit spannenden Kurzgeschichten - Sie lieben England und alles, was dazugehört? Dann tauchen Sie ins Land ein und frischen Sie ganz nebenbei Ihre Englischkenntnisse auf! - Mit 20 abwechslungsreichen Kurzgeschichten rund um die Insel erweitern Sie spielend ihre Lesekompetenz. Wortangaben auf jeder Seite helfen Ihnen dabei. - Zahlreiche bebilderte Spezial-Seiten zu Schauplätzen, Personen oder Handlungen machen Wortschatzlernen zum reinsten Vergnügen. - Texte und Bilder werden verknüpft und erleichtern so schnelles Lesen und Memorieren.
Für Wiedereinsteiger (A2) und Fortgeschrittene (B1).
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).
Inhalt: Legendary spy and art restorer Gabriel Allon has at long last severed ties with Israeli intelligence and settled quietly in Venice, the only place where he has ever truly known peace. His beautiful wife, Chiara, has taken over the day-to-day management of the Tiepolo Restoration Company, and their two young children are discreetly enrolled in a neighborhood scuola elementare. For his part, Gabriel spends his days wandering the streets and canals of the watery city, bidding farewell to the demons of his tragic, violent past.
But when the eccentric London art dealer Julian Isherwood asks Gabriel to investigate the circumstances surrounding the rediscovery and lucrative sale of a centuries-old painting, he is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse where nothing is as it seems.
Gabriel soon discovers that the work in question, a portrait of an unidentified woman attributed to Sir Anthony van Dyck, is almost certainly a fiendishly clever fake. To find the mysterious figure who painted it-and uncover a multibillion-dollar fraud at the pinnacle of the art world-Gabriel conceives one of the most elaborate deceptions of his career. If it is to succeed, he must become the very mirror image of the man he seeks: the greatest art forger the world has ever known. Schlagworte:Agent, Gemälde, Italien, Kunst, Kunstfälschung, Spion, Thriller, Venedig Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 428 Seiten Beteiligte:Silva, Daniel Standort: Engl. Sil ISBN: 978-0-06-283533-8
Inhalt: Miranda Wood thinks she has seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover - until she discovers him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife.
Miranda is the obvious suspect, and she looks even gultier when her bail is posted by an anonymous donor. Was this an act of kindness designed to buy her time to clear her name? Or is someone trying to manipulate Miranda and draw her into the dark and secret world of a murdered man, where everybody's presumed guilty? With her world falling around her, Miranda is determined to discover who killed Richard. But proving her innocence may become secondary to staying alive! Schlagworte:Englische Literatur, Mord, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 281 Seiten Beteiligte:Gerritsen, Tess Standort: Engl. Ger ISBN: 978-0-7783-1531-5
Inhalt: Nina once bought into the idea that her fancy liberal arts degree would lead to a fulfilling career. When that dream crashed, she turned to stealing from rich kids in L.A. alongside her wily Irish boyfriend, Lachlan. Nina learned from the best: Her mother was the original con artist, hustling to give her daughter a decent childhood despite their wayward life. But when her mom gets sick, Nina puts everything on the line to help her, even if it means running her most audacious, dangerous scam yet.
Vanessa is a privileged young heiress who wanted to make her mark in the world. Instead she becomes an Instagram influencer-traveling the globe, receiving free clothes and products, and posing for pictures in exotic locales. But behind the covetable façade is a life marked by tragedy. After a broken engagement, Vanessa retreats to her family's sprawling mountain estate, Stonehaven: a mansion of dark secrets not just from Vanessa's past, but from that of a lost and troubled girl named Nina.
Nina's, Vanessa's, and Lachlan's paths collide here, on the cold shores of Lake Tahoe, where their intertwined lives give way to a winter of aspiration and desire, duplicity and revenge.
This dazzling, twisty, mesmerizing novel showcases acclaimed author Janelle Brown at her best, as two brilliant, damaged women try to survive the greatest game of deceit and destruction they will ever play. Schlagworte:Betrug, Betrüger, Dieb, Diebstahl, Familiengeheimnis, Frauen, Influencer, Krankheit Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 478 Seiten Beteiligte:Brown, Janelle Standort: Engl. Bro ISBN: 978-0-525-47912-3
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. Schlagworte:Adoptivkind, Amerikanisches Englisch, Australien, Englischer Roman, Entführung, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Schauspieler, Thriller, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 501 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James Standort: Engl. Pat ISBN: 978-0-09-957415-6
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. Schlagworte:Australien, Englischer Roman, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 452 S. Beteiligte:Patterson, James; White, Michael Standort: Engl. Pat
Inhalt: Linnet Doyle has everything: beauty, money... and her best friend's fiancé. But Linnet's honeymoon cruise down the Nile River turns into a nightmare when one of the passengers is found murdered. Hercule Poirot must find the murderer before more passengers die, in Agatha Christie's popular classic novel.
This reader also contains: - a wide range if skills practice - Cambridge English Preliminary and Trinity (Grade 6) style activities - Dossiers: Agatha Christie - Egypt; The Wall Street Crash of 1929 Schlagworte:Christie, Agatha <1890-1976>, Krimi, Nil, Ägypten Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 127 Seiten, Illustrationen Beteiligte:Christie, Agatha, Cameron, Janet Standort: Engl. Chri ISBN: 978-88-530-2051-2
Inhalt: A timeless love story with bite.It was a night like any other for funeral home director Ginny Lynn, until the exceptionally handsome-and unfortunately deceased-young man on her embalming table sat up, opened his emerald eyes and changed the course of her lifeforever, making her feel quite fluttery while he was at it.Humans aren't supposed to know Jonas Cantrell, or any vampire, exists. It's kind of a major rule. Despite his instantaneous bond with perfectly peculiar Ginny, he has no choice but to erase her memories of their one and only meeting.That was the plan. Before a reluctant Jonas can wipe Ginny's mind clean, she reveals a secret that brings their worlds crashing together. Human and vampire. Past and present. Darkness and light. And while their love is strictly forbidden, it might be theonly thing that can save them Schlagworte:Fantasy, Liebe, Vampir, Vampirgeschichte Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 376 Seiten Beteiligte:Bailey, Tessa Standort: Engl. Bai ISBN: 978-1-08-785752-7
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.
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. Schlagworte:Abenteuer, British English, Englischer Roman Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 251 S. Beteiligte:Defoe, Daniel Standort: Engl. Def
With a series of heartbreaks under her belt, Sally Milz - successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show - has long abandoned the search for love.
But when her friend and fellow writer begins to date a glamorous actress, he joins the growing club of interesting but average-looking men who get romantically involved with accomplished, beautiful women.
Sally channels her annoyance into a sketch, poking fun at this 'social rule'. The reverse never happens for a woman.
Then Sally meets Noah, a pop idol with a reputation for dating models. But this isn't a romantic comedy - it's real life.
Would someone like him ever date someone like her?
Skewering all our certainties about why we fall in love, ROMANTIC COMEDY is a witty and probing tale of how the heart will follow itself, no matter what anyone says. It is Curtis Sittenfeld at her most sharp, daring and compassionate best. Schlagworte:Autorin, Beziehung, Comedy, Dating, Drehbuchautor, Komödie, Musiker, Popstar, Schriftstellerin, Sketch, TV-Serie, Verfasserin Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 305 Seiten Beteiligte:Sittenfeld, Curtis Standort: Engl. Sit ISBN: 978-0-593-59725-5
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. Schlagworte:19. Jahrhundert, Abenteuer, California, Englisch, Englischer Roman, Familie, Frauenschicksal, Kalifornien, Liebe, Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung, Neunzehntes Jahrhundert, USA, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Weltwirtschaftskrise, Überleben Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 445 S. Beteiligte:Boyle, T.C. Standort: Engl. Boy ISBN: 978-1-4088-4259-1
Inhalt: In 1970, Captain Book arrives in South Vietnam and is assigned to a US advisory team in Ba Xuyen Province in the Mekong Delta. Supremely confident, Book is determined to end the war quickly. Shortly after his arrival, Book meets his vietnamese counterpart, Dai Uy (Captain) Nguyen Van Tran, a special projects officer also assigned to Ba Xuyen Province. An immediate friendship develops between them as they work side by side introducing several new programs designed to restore public confidence in the South Vietnamese government. Their friendship blossoms, bolstered by a unique cast of supporting characters and an emotionally rich set of events that examine the very fabric of human relations and the futility of war.
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. Schlagworte:Anwältin, Englischer Roman, Gefängnis, Gewalt, Liebe, Stalking, Vergangenheitsbewältigung Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 486 Seiten Beteiligte:Sparks, Nicholas Standort: Engl. Spa ISBN: 978-0-7515-5001-6
Inhalt: Twenty-five years ago, Major Franklin Trapper became a national icon when he lead a handful of survivors to safety after the bombing of a Dallas hotel. For years, he gave frequent speeches and interviews but then suddenly droppped out of the public eye, shunning all media. Now, ambitious TV journalist Kerra Bailey is determined to get an exclusive with the Major - even if she has to wrangle an introduction from his estranged son, former ATF agent John Trapper.
Trapper wants no association with the Major, but despite himself, he agrees to the meet. But when the interview goes catastrophically awry - with unknown assailants targeting his father and Kerra - Trapper starts a hunt to track down the gunmen ... and finally discover who was responsible for the Dallas bombings.
Kerra is wary of a man so charming one moment and dangerous the next, and she knows Trapper is withholding evidence from his ATF investigation into the bombing. But having no one else to trust and enemies lurking closer than they know, Kerra uand Trapper join forces to expose a sinuous nework of lies and conspiracy - and uncover who would want a national hero dead. Schlagworte:Attentat, Thriller Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 421 Seiten Beteiligte:Brown, Sandra Standort: Engl. Bro ISBN: 978-1-4736-6943-7
Inhalt: even days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again...
Eva Mercy is a single mother and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone's surprise, shows up unexpectedly in New York.
When Shane and Eva meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but also the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy, torrid week madly in love. While they may be pretending not to know each other, they can't deny their chemistry - or the fact that they've been secretly writing to each other in their books through the years.
Over the next seven days, amidst a steamy Brooklyn summer, Eva and Shane reconnect - but Eva's wary of the man who broke her heart, and wants him out of the city so her life can return to normal. Before Shane disappears though, she needs a few questions answered . . .
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. Schlagworte:England, Englischer Roman, Erotik, Liebe, Sex, Sexualität Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 531 s. Beteiligte:James, E.L. Standort: Engl. Jam ISBN: 978-0-09-957992-2
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. Schlagworte:England, Englischer Roman, Erotik, Liebe, Sex, Sexualität Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 514 S. Beteiligte:James, E.L. Standort: Engl. Jam ISBN: 978-0-09-957993-9
Inhalt: How long must we pay for the crimes of our youth? That is just one question Christopher Swann explores in this compulsively readable debut, a literary thriller set in the elite - and sometimes dark - environs of Blackburne, a prep school in Virginia. When Matthias Glass's best friend, Fritz, vanishes without a trace in the middle of an argument during their senior year, Matthias tries to move on with his life, only to realize that until he discovers what happened to his missing friend, he will be stuck in the past guilty, responsible, alone. Almost ten years after Fritz's disappearance, Matthias gets his chance. Offered a job teaching English at Blackburne, he gets swiftly drawn into the mystery. In the shadowy woods of his alma mater, he stumbles into a web of surveillance, dangerous lies, and buried secrets - and discovers the troubled underbelly of a school where the future had once always seemed bright. Schlagworte:Intrige, Thriller, Vergangenheit, Verschwinden, coming of age Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 356 Seiten Beteiligte:Swann, Christopher Standort: Engl. Swa ISBN: 978-1-61620-500-3
Inhalt: In a famine-stricken village on a dusty plain, a seer shows two children their fates. For a family's eighth-born son, there's greatness. For the second daughter, nothing.
In 1345, China lies restless under harsh Mongol rule. And when a bandit raid wipes out their home, the two children must somehow survive. Zhu Chongba despairs and gives in. But the girl resolves to overcome her destiny. So she takes her dead brother's identity and begins her journey. Can Zhu escape what's written in the stars, as rebellion sweeps the land? Or can she claim her brother's greatness - and rise as high as she can dream?
This is a glorious tale of love, loss, betrayal and triumph by a powerful new voice.
'As brilliant as Circe . . . a deft and dazzling triumph' - Tasha Suri, author of The Jasmine Throne
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan is a historical fantasy re-imagining of the rise to power of Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu was the peasant rebel who expelled the Mongols, unified China under native rule, and became the founding Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Schlagworte:China, Dynastie, Fantasy, Geschlechterrolle, Historisches, Identität, Kaiserin, Kaiserreich, Krieg, LGBTQ, Mongolei, Transgender Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 414 Seiten, Karte Beteiligte:Parker-Chan, Shelley Standort: Engl. Par ISBN: 978-1-5290-4339-6
Inhalt: When Jonah and Raff wake up on Monday, their mother Lucy isn't there. Although Jonah is only nine, he is the big brother, and knows enough about the world to keep her absence a secret. If anyone found out she'd left them alone, it could be disastrous for him and Raff; and she'll be back, he's nearly sure. With growing unease, he puzzles over the clues she's left behind. Who sent her the flowers? Why are all her shoes still in the house? Why is her phone buried in a plant pot? And who, in their diverse south London community, might know more about her than he does? For fans of My Name is Leon and The Trouble with Goats and Sheep, Tamsin Grey's outstanding debut is tender, funny and unsettling. Schlagworte:Englische Literatur, Geschwister, Gesellschaft, London, Mutter, Nachbarschaft, Stadtviertel, Verschwinden Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 455 Seiten Beteiligte:Grey, Tamsin Standort: Engl. Gre ISBN: 978-0-00-824563-4
Inhalt: Following a disastrous divorce, former New Jersey detective Mickey Gibson is now employed by a global investigation company, ProEye, to track down some of the extremely wealthy who seem bent on not paying their debts. Mickey misses police work but it has no place for her new role as the sole carer of two small children.
When Mickey is asked by Arlene Robinson, a colleague from ProEye, to inventory an old mansion owned by a notorious former arms dealer, Rutger Novak, she discovers a long-decomposed body in a secret room. Apparently Novak has cheated ProEye clients out of millions in the past, and now they want to nail him.
As the police investigation begins, they discover that there is no Arlene Robinson working for ProEye. Nor is there a mansion allegedly belonging to Novak. And the dead man is named as local wealthy recluse Daniel Pottinger.
Gibson is stunned, and ProEye is angry she took the case without checking. But Arlene Robinson is clever and convincing.
Now begins an unusual and compelling cat-and-mouse contest between the two women - revealing more about Gibson, but much more about the woman with no name, no morals and no empathy, who seems to be able to convince anyone of anything. Schlagworte:Thriller, Waffenhandel Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 537 Seiten Beteiligte:Baldacci, David Standort: Engl. Bal ISBN: 978-1-5290-6203-8
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 ....
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