Inhalt: Jo, Meg, Amy and Beth are the four March sisters, all very different, but always there for each other. With their father away in the American Civil War, they all have to work hard to help their mother. But there's time for fun and games too with their friend, Laurie. Plays, a personal post-office, secret societies and even a bit of romance all help to foll their days while they grow up, hoping always for their father's return.
Stage 3, Intermediate, 1000 headwords, B1
Retold and activities by Silvana Sardi ; Illustrated by Júlia Sardà Systematik: Engl. 5.1 Umfang: 79 Seiten : farblich illustriert : 1 CD Beteiligte:Alcott, Louisa May, Sardi, Silvana Standort: Engl. 5.1 Alc ISBN: 978-3-12-514733-1
Inhalt: Keely Murdock's wedding to A.J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitches the hissy fit of the century, earning herself instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia.
Inhalt: Keely Murdock's wedding to A.J. Jernigan should have been the social event of the season. But when she catches her fiance doing the deed with her maid of honor at the country club rehearsal dinner, all bets are off. And so is the wedding. Keeley pitches the hissy fit of the century, earning herself instant notoriety in the small town of Madison, Georgia.
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: 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: When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?
Engl. CD: 9 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: 3 CDs, abridged Beteiligte:Clark, Mary Higgins, Maxwell, Jan Standort: Engl. CD Cla
Inhalt: When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?
Engl. CD: 9 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: 2 CDs, abridged Beteiligte:Clark, Mary Higgins, Maxwell, Jan Standort: Engl. CD Cla
Inhalt: No matter how much critics and readers love him, Connelly's Harry Bosch is definitely a downer. To catch the spirit of the popular series without sending listeners leaping out of their windows requires an unusually talented reader, who can take the tiny shreds of light the author sprinkles very sparingly through his dark and bloody outings and turn them into veritable bonfires. Fortunately, Cariou is a veteran of four previous Bosch audios who knows his man down to his obsessive socks. Cariou can also do Connelly's normal, only semidepressed supporting characters with grace and depth: Harry's female partner, other cops with mixed motives, crooked lawyers, on-the-make politicians, even a convicted serial killer trying to escape the death penalty by reopening one of Bosch's old wounds. Cariou, of course, can't remove Harry's guilt or ease his obsessions: he's an actor, not a therapist. But his talent adds a Prozac-like sense of ease not to be taken lightly.
Engl. CD: 37 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: 4 CDs (app. 5 h), abridged + 1 Beiheft Beteiligte:Connelly, Michael, Brandon, Michael Standort: Engl. CD Con
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: Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too--and he's certain he's on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in.
Engl. CD: 57 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: 3CDs Beteiligte:Connelly, Michael, Giles, Peter Standort: Engl. CD Con ISBN: 978-1-61113-695-1
Inhalt: Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too--and he's certain he's on the right trail. Despite the danger and uncertainty, Haller mounts the best defense of his career in a trial where the last surprise comes after the verdict is in.
Engl. CD: 57 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: 3 CDs Beteiligte:Connelly, Michael, Giles, Peter Standort: Engl. CD Con ISBN: 978-1-61113-695-1
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 six months they meet marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and, under the guiding eye of Jane Austen, some of them even fall in love..
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: 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: 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: Smuggled into Hamburg, Issa, a young Russian man carrying a large amount of cash and claiming to be a devout Muslim, forms an unlikely alliance with Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, and Tommy Brue, a sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank, as they become victims of rival intelligence operations in the War on Terror. Systematik: Engl., , Roman Umfang: 340 S. Beteiligte:LeCarré, John Standort: Engl. LeC ISBN: 978-0-340-97706-4
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: "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." 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.
Engl. CD: 25 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: app. 12 (4 CDs) Beteiligte:Lee, Harper, Spacek, Sissy Standort: Engl. CD Lee ISBN: 978-1-84657-256-2
Inhalt: "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." 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.
Engl. CD: 25 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: app. 12 h (4 CDs) Beteiligte:Lee, Harper, Spacek, Sissy Standort: Engl. CD Lee ISBN: 978-1-84657-256-2
Inhalt: "Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." 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.
Eng. CD: 25 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: app. 12 h (3 CDs) Beteiligte:Lee, Harper, Spacek, Sissy Standort: Engl. CD Lee ISBN: 978-1-84657-256-2
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: In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
Engl. CD: 64 Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: 3 CDs, abridged Beteiligte:Obama, Barack Standort: Engl. CD Oba
Inhalt: In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: 3 CDs, abridged Beteiligte:Obama, Barack Standort: Engl. CD Oba
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: 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: 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: 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: Two families - the Belseys and the Kippses - live beautiful but seperate live in their own beautiful corners of America. Or they should until Jerome Belsey falls for Victoria Kipps, throwing the two families on a collision course where an infidelity, a death, and an unexpected legacy forces everyone to examine the assumptions underpinning their lives. Set on both sides of the Atlantic "On Beauty" is a brilliant take on family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. It is also very funny indeed. Systematik: Engl. CD Umfang: 3 CDs abridged Beteiligte:Smith, Zadie, Andoh, Adjoa Standort: Engl. CD Smi
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