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?
HEADLINE'S LATEST AMAZING THRILLER ACQUISITION: New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner moves to Headline with her brand new paperback LOVE YOU MORE and her new hardback CATCH ME
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
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