Inhalt: Logen Ninefingers, infamous barbarian, has finally run out of luck. Caught up in one feud too many he's about to become a dead barbarian, leaving nothing behind but bad songs and dead friends. Jezal dan Luthar, paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than winning glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then he hates everyone. Cutting treason out of the heart of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendships - and his latest trail of corpses could lead straight to the rotten heart of government... if he can just stay alive long enough to follow it... Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 536 S. Standort: Abe ISBN: 978-0-575-07979-3
Inhalt: How do you defend a city surrounded by enemies and riddled with traitors, when your allies can by no means be trusted and your predecessor vanished without trace? It's enough to make a torturer want to run - if he could even walk without a stick - and Inquisitor Glokta needs answers before the Gurkish army comes knocking at the gates. Northmen have spilled over the Angland border and are spreading fire and death across the frozen country. Crown Prince Ladisla is poised to drive them back and win undying glory. There is only one problem: he commands the worst-armed, worst-trained and worst-led army in the world. And Bayaz, the First of the Magi, is leading a party of bold adventurers on a mission through the ruins of the past. The most hated woman in the South, most feared man in the North, and most selfish boy in the Union make strange companions, but, if only they didn't hate each other so much, potentially deadly ones. Ancient secrets will be uncovered. Bloody battles will be won and lost. Bitter enemies will be forgiven - but not before they are hanged. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 584 S. Standort: Abe ISBN: 978-0-575-08201-4
Inhalt: Im England des frühen 19. Jahrhunderts ist Armut ein großes Problem. Fanny Price hat Glück. Sie stammt aus ärmlichen Verhältnissen, wächst jedoch bei reichen Verwandten auf dem eleganten Herrensitz Mansfield Park auf. Dort ist das Leben voller gesellschaftlicher Fallstricke. Fannys hochnäsige Cousinen lassen sie den Standesunterschied spüren und auch die kauzige Tante Norris macht ihr das Leben schwer. Trotz aller Hindernisse entwickelt sich Fanny zu einer klugen jungen Frau. Als schließlich ein aussichtsreicher Heiratskandidat auftaucht, gerät das geordnete Leben auf Mansfield Park gründlich aus den Fugen. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 491 S. Standort: Englisch Aus ISBN: 978-0-14-102814-9
Inhalt: Back in DC after successful missions in Edinburgh and Tangier, assassin Will Robie sees his latest assignment, to eliminate a US government employee, go badly wrong. But what had she done, and what did she know?
Robie is now a wanted man. And it seems that he's not the only one on the run. Young teeanger Julie Getty is devastated by the inexplicable murder of her parents in their home. Who wanted them dead, and why, is a mystery.
The police investigating the hit start to take an interest in Robie. He's particularly attracting the interest of Special Agent Nicole Vance, who believes that the two cases are connected. Robie finds himself in a dangerous position as he is tasked to investigate a crime at which he was present. Does he need to change sides to save lives - including his own? Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 591 S. Standort: Bal ISBN: 978-1-4472-0891-4
Inhalt: World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization - the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. Together they embark on a frantic hunt through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, deserted cathedrals, and the most secretive vault on earth... the long-forgotten Illuminati lair. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 572 S. Standort: Bro ISBN: 978-0-671-02736-0
Inhalt: A former National Security Agency programmer threatens to release a mathematical formula that will allow organized crime and terrorism to skyrocket, unless the code-breaking computer that is used to keep them in check but that violates civil rights is exposed to the public. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 429 S. Standort: Englisch Bro ISBN: 978-0-312-99542-3
Inhalt: An ingenious code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries...unveiled at last. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 489 S. Standort: Englisch Bro ISBN: 978-1-4000-7917-9
Inhalt: Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She'll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. As Libby's search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 350 S. Standort: Englisch Fly ISBN: 978-0-307-34157-0
Inhalt: "Was denkst du gerade, Amy?" Diese Frage habe ich ihr oft während unserer Ehe gestellt. Ich glaube, das fragt man sich immer wieder: Was denkst du? Wer bist du? Wie gut kennt man eigentlich den Menschen, den man liebt? Genau diese Fragen stellt sich Nick Dunne am Morgen seines fünften Hochzeitstages, dem Morgen, an dem seine Frau Amy spurlos verschwindet. Die Polizei verdächtigt sogleich Nick. Amys Freunde berichten, dass sie Angst vor ihm hatte. Er schwört, dass das nicht wahr ist. Dann erhält er sonderbare Anrufe. Was geschah mit Nicks wunderbarer Frau Amy? Selten wurde so raffiniert, abgründig und brillant manipuliert wie in diesem Psychogramm einer Ehe - ein teuflisch gutes Lesevergnügen.
Inhalt: A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began.
As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon-to-be-defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once-wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 450 S. Standort: Englisch Fra ISBN: 978-0-375-70075-0
Inhalt: Miles Halter is tired of his boring and lonely life at home in Florida, so he decides to go to a boarding school in Alabama, hoping that a new beginning might give him a new impetus. At the boarding school he makes friends with a group of youngsters - including the beautiful and intelligent yet unhappy Alaska Young - who open a whole new world for him. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 222 S. Standort: Gre ISBN: 978-3-06-031125-5
Inhalt: Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers - and two very dangerous men - came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke's world.
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born...and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives - and change his family and his town forever.... Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 465 S. Standort: Krimi/Thriller Gri ISBN: 978-0-440-23722-8
Inhalt: Leavin the world of corporate law far behind, he talks himfeld into a new job with Finley & Figg. A self-styled "boutique" firm with only two partners, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg are ambulance-chasing street lawyers who hustle nickel-and-dime cases, dreaming of landing the big win. For all his Harvard Law degree and five years with Chicago's top firm, Zinc has never entered a courtroom, never helped a client who really needed a lawyer, never handled a gun. All is about to change. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 436 S. Standort: Roman Gri ISBN: 978-1-4736-1284-6
Inhalt: He's a rising star at Drake & Sweeney, a giant Washington law firm. No time to waste, no time to help those in need. No time for a conscience.
But when a violent encounter with a homeless man stops him cold, Brock is forced to confront the truth about who he really works for. What he finds is a shocking violation of the rights of the homeless, with Drake & Sweeney at the centre, and suddenly his conscience begins to stir.
To do the right thing, Brock must put himself in the firing line and uncover his employer's most dangerous secrets.
But is he willing to risk it all? Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 360 S. Standort: Englisch Gri ISBN: 978-0-09-924492-9
Inhalt: When his best friend, April, disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, no one, not even Theo Boone, has the answers. As fear ripples through his small hometown and the police hit dead ends, it's up to Theo to use his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 217 S. Standort: Krimi/Thriller Gri ISBN: 978-1-4447-3184-2
Inhalt: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and his loyal friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can foresee what will happen to Hassan that afternoon, an event that is to shatter their lives. After the Russians invade and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world cannot grant him: redemption. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 340 S. Standort: Englisch Hos ISBN: 978-0-7475-7339-5
Inhalt: It is Christmas 1937 when sisters Rowan and Thea travel from London to Scotland to visit their dying father. Having lost their mother in a tragic sailing accident when they were young, the two women are accustomed to grief. But they have no idea that their father's death will expose a terrible deception...
For back in London is his wife Sophie and their two sons. Neither family knows of the other's existence, and when news reaches Sophie of Hugh's death her whole world is turned upside down.
Meanwhile, Rowan's marriage is crumbling, and Thea reluctantly finds herself acting as a go-between for her sister and her lover. But, with the onslaught of World War II, the lives of all three women will change for ever. And they must confront the secrets between them before they can seize their chance of happiness... Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 436 S. Standort: Englisch Len ISBN: 978-1-4722-6070-3
Inhalt: Meet Smithson "Smithy" Ide, an overweight, friendless, chain-smoking, forty-three-year-old drunk who works as a quality control inspector at a toy-action-figure factory in Rhode Island. By all accounts, especially Smithy's own, he's a loser. Then, within the span of one week, his beloved parents are killed in a car crash, and Smithy learns that his emotionally troubled, long-lost sister, Bethany, has turned up in a morgue in Los Angeles. Unmoored by the loss of his entire family - Smithy has always hoped Bethany might return - he rolls down the driveway of his parents' house on his old Raleigh bicycle into an epic journey that will take him clear across the country.
As Smithy pedals across America - through New York City, St. Louis, Denver, and Phoenix, to name a few - he encounters humanity at its best and worst and begins to remember an early life that too many beers have blotted out. The baseball games, the home-cooked meals, the soothing presence of his salt-of-the-earth parents: none of it could transform the dark truth of his sister's madness. Systematik: Roman Umfang: 358 S. Standort: Roman McL ISBN: 978-0-670-03363-8
Inhalt: In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America-the first African American to serve in that role-she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare. In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her-from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it-in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations-and whose story inspires us to do the same. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 426 S. Standort: Englisch Oba ISBN: 978-0-241-33414-0
Inhalt: Nina ist mit ihren Eltern nach England gezogen. Gleich am ersten Schultag lernt sie Evie und Holly kennen. Das ist der Beginn einer tollen Freundschaft. Begleite Nina und ihre Freundinnen durch die spannenden und romantischen Geschichten in diesem "Lovestories 4 Girls" Sammelband und verbessere dabei spielend leicht deine Englisch-Kenntnisse! Systematik: Kinder Englisch Umfang: 128 S. Standort: Kinder Englisch Pau
Inhalt: As a fierce, unrelenting winter grips Quebec, shadows are closing in on Chief Inspector Armand Gamache. When he receives a message about a mysterious case in Three Pines, he is compelled to investigate - a woman who was once one of the most famous people in the world has vanished.
The investigation gathers momentum and Gamache is drawn into a web of murder, lies and unimaginable corruption at the heart of the city. Facing his most challenging, and personal, case to date, can he save the reputation of the Sûreté, those he holds dear and himself? Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 534 S. Standort: Englisch Pen ISBN: 978-0-7515-4423-7
Inhalt: Named as one of the 100 Best Things in the World by GQ in 2003, the riotous adventures of Vernon Gregory Little in small-town Texas and beachfront Mexico mark one of the most spectacular, irreverent and bizarre debuts of the 21st century so far. Its depiction of innocence and simple humanity (all seasoned with a dash of dysfunctional profanity) in an evil world is never less than astonishing. The only novel to be set in the barbecue sauce capital of Central Texas, Vernon God Little suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 277 S. Standort: Englisch Pie ISBN: 978-0-571-21517-1
ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.
But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?
Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a 12-week period, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. Umfang: 192 S. Standort: Seh ISBN: 978-1-5266-5086-3
Inhalt: Matt felt sick. He sank down onto a chair, the phone still clasped to his ear. He didn't speak for a few moments and Meg broke the silence. 'Are you still there, Matt? Are you all right? I thought you'd want to know.' 'Yes, thanks Meg. I'm coming in. I'm on my way.' Matt put the phone down and sat still in the dark. Meg's words were echoing in his head and he was desperately trying to make sense of them...
Matthew Hudson is constantly reminded just how fragile life can be. Depressed by his routine existence in Manchester, Matt is haunted by the one failed relationship he has behind him - with Lydia, a dancer who left him to further her career in London. However, when he meets Laura, an attractive young primary school teacher, life seems to be looking up for Matt - until one phone call changes everything... Systematik: Roman Umfang: 203 S. Standort: Web ISBN: 978-1-905637-87-4
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