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.... Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Thriller Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 465 S. Standort: Krimi/Thriller Gri ISBN: 978-0-440-23722-8
Inhalt: Following his return to America after 20 years in Britain, Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail, which stretches from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. It provides endless opportunities to test his own powers of ineptitude and to witness the majestic silliness of his fellow human beings. Schlagworte:Englisch, Natur, Religion, Selbstfindung, USA Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 274 S. Standort: Bry ISBN: 978-0-7679-0251-9
Inhalt: Ten-year-old Abdullah would do anything for his younger sister. In a life of poverty and struggle, with no mother to care for them, Pari is the only person who brings Abdullah happiness. For her, he will trade his only pair of shoes to give her a feather for her treasured collection. When their father sets off with Pari across the desert to Kabul in search of work, Abdulla is determined not to be separated from her. Neither brother nor sister know what this fateful journey will bring them. Schlagworte:Afghanistan, Armut, Englisch Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 470 S. Standort: Englisch Hos ISBN: 978-1-4088-4245-4
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. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Thriller, Vatikan Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 572 S. Standort: Bro ISBN: 978-0-671-02736-0
Inhalt: On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the End of the day the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Robbie and cecilia will have crossed a boundary they had not even imagined atits start, and will have become vivtims of the younger girls imagination. Briony will have witness Mysteries, and committed a crime for which she will spend the rest of her life trying to atone Schlagworte:England, Englisch, Selbstmord, Verbrechen Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 371 S. Standort: McE ISBN: 978-0-09-942979-1
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. Schlagworte:Autobiografie, Biografie, Englisch, Englische Literatur, Politik Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 426 S. Standort: Englisch Oba ISBN: 978-0-241-33414-0
Inhalt: Everyone has to die. We all know it. With only a few months left, sixteen-year-old Tessa knows it better than most. She's made a list though - ten things she wants to do before she dies. Number one is sex. Starting tonight. But getting what you want isn't easy. And getting what you want doesn't always give you what you need. And sometimes the most unexpected things become important. Uplifting, life-affirming, joyous - this extraordinary novel celebrates what it is to be alive by confronting what it's really like to die. Schlagworte:Englisch, lebensgeschichte Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 327 S. Standort: Englisch Dow ISBN: 978-1-86230-487-1
Inhalt: A dazzling urban satire of modern human relations? An ironic, tragic insight into the demise of the nuclear family? Or the confused ramblings of a pissed thirty-something? Schlagworte:Englisch, Tagebuch Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 311 S. Standort: Fie ISBN: 978-0-330-37525-2
Bruno, Chief of police Death in the Dordogne (Band 1) The first Bruno, Chief of police novel Quercus Editions Ltd., London (2008)
Standort: Englisch Wal
Inhalt: When an old man, head of an immigrant North African family, is found murdered, suspicion falls on the son of the local doctor, discovered playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia.
But policeman Bruno isn't convinced, and suspects the crime has its roots in that most tortured period of French history - World War 2, a time of terror and betrayal that set brother against brother. Now it's up to him to find the killer - but will the people of St Denis allow him to go digging through a past they long to forget in order to do so? Schlagworte:Englisch, Frankreich, Krimi Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 342 S. Standort: Englisch Wal ISBN: 978-1-78429-940-8
Inhalt: On their first night in Paris, the Gamaches gather as a family for a bistro dinner with Armand's godfather, the billionaire Stephen Horowitz. Walking home together after the meal, they watch in horror as Stephen is knocked down and critically injured in what Gamache knows is no accident, but a deliberate attempt on the elderly man's life. When a strange key is found in Stephen's possession, it sends Armand, his wife, Reine-Marie, and his former second-in-command at the Sûreté, Jean-Guy Beauvoir, from the top of the Tour Eiffel to the bowls of the Paris archives and from luxury hotels to odd, coded works of art. It sends them deep into the secrets Armand's godfather has kept for decades. A gruesome discovery in Stephen's Paris apartment makes it clear the secrets are more raneid, the danger far greater and more imminent, than they realized. Soon the whole family is caught up in a web of lies and deceit. In order to find the truth, Gamache will have to decide whether he can trust his friends, his colleagues, his instincts, his own past. His own family. For even the City of Light casts long shadows. And in that darkness devils hide. Schlagworte:Englisch, Familiengeschichten, Krimi, Oberschicht, Paris Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 439 S. Standort: Englisch Pen ISBN: 978-1-250-14524-6
Inhalt: "Hearts are broken; "Lilian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead." But now Lilian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden in Three Pines, shattering the celebrations of Clara's solo show at the famed Musée in Montréal. Chief inspector Gamache, the head of homicide at the Sûreté du Québec, is called to the tiny village, where he finds the art world gathered, and with it a world of shading and nuance, a world of shadow and light. Where nothing is as it seems. Behind every smile there lurks a sneer. Inside every sweet relationship there hides a broken heart. And even when facts are slowly exposed, it is no longer clear if Gamache and his team have found the truth, or simply a trick of the light. Schlagworte:Englisch, Kanada, Krimi, Kunst Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 351 S. Standort: Englisch Pen ISBN: 978-1-250-00734-6
Inhalt: It's Easter, and on a glorious spring day in peaceful Three Pines, someone waits for night to fall. They plan to raise the dead... When Chief Inspector Gamache of the Sureté du Quebec arrives the next morning, he faces an unusual crime scene. A séance in an old abandoned house ahs gone horrifically wrong and somone has been seemongly frightened to death. In idyllic Three Pines, terrible secrets lie buried, and even Gamache has something to hide. One of his own team is about to betray him. But how far will they go to to ensure Gamache's downfall? Schlagworte:Englisch, Frühling, Geheimnis, Krimi, Mord, Ostern Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 454 Standort: Pen ISBN: 978-0-7515-4748-1
Inhalt: Each of these five short stories was written specifically for Christmas, and is infused with tremendous vitality as Dickens combines his concern for social ills with the myths and memories of childhood and traditional Christmas spirit-lore.
The very words 'Merry Christmas' were first coined in A Christmas Carol, the first of these books, which has become a touchstone of English Christmas fiction, and an enduring favourite the world over. Schlagworte:Englisch, Kindheit, Kurzgeschichten, Weihnachten Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 383 S. Standort: Dic ISBN: 978-1-85326-268-5
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. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Liebe, USA Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 450 S. Standort: Englisch Fra ISBN: 978-0-375-70075-0
Inhalt: Dieser Psycho-Thriller stellt Werte wie Patriotismus, Loyalität und Tapferkeit in Frage: Als Terroristen einen mit Kindern besetzten Bus kapern, geraten die Überzeugungen aller in das Geiseldrama Involvierten ins Wanken. Abiturthemen: The Individual in Society und Crime and Punishment Schlagworte:Englisch, Krimi, Spannung Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 208 S. Standort: : ISBN: 978-3-464-05027-9
Inhalt: A brilliant billionaire asset manager, en route via white stretch limo to the local haircutter, finds his trip interrupted by a presidential motorcade, music idol's funeral, movie set, and violent political demonstration, and receives a number of important visitors in the fields of security, technology, currency, finance, and theory. Schlagworte:Englisch, Gesellschaft, Humor, USA Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 210 S. Standort: Englisch DeL ISBN: 978-0-7432-4424-4
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. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Horror, Mord, Thriller Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 350 S. Standort: Englisch Fly ISBN: 978-0-307-34157-0
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. Schlagworte:Englisch, Englische Literatur, Technik, Technologie, Thriller Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 429 S. Standort: Englisch Bro ISBN: 978-0-312-99542-3
Inhalt: After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to daughter Lucy's isolated smallholding.For a time, his daughter's influence and the natural rhythms of the farm promise to harmonise his discordant life. But the balance of power in the country is shifting. He and Lucy become victims of a savage and disturbing attack which brings into relief all the faultlines in their relationship. Schlagworte:Affäre, Englisch, Farm, Südafrika, Tochter Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 220 S. Standort: Englisch Coe ISBN: 978-0-09-928482-6
Inhalt: In her early thirties, Elizabeth Gilbert had everything a moder American woman was supposed to want - husband, country home, successful career - but instead of feeling happy and fulfilled, she felt consumed by panic and confusion. This wise and rapturous book is the story ofhow she left behind all these outward marks of success, and a crushing depression. Gilbert set out to examine three different aspects of her nature, set against the backdrop of three different cultures: pleasure in Italy, devotion in India and on the Indonesian island of Bali, a balance between worldly enjoyment and divine transcendence. Schlagworte:Englisch, Indien, Italien, Meditation, Yoga Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 445 S. Standort: Gil ISBN: 978-0-14-311843-5
Inhalt: Debbie Tung talks about her experience with depression and anxiety. She shares what it´s like navigating life, overthinking every possible worst-case scenario, and constantly feeling like all hope is lost. Schlagworte:Angst, Depression, Englisch, Gesundheit, Graphic Novel Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 184 S. Standort: Englisch Tun ISBN: 978-1-5248-6327-2
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.
Harry Potter and the cursed child parts one and two : the official script of the original West End production Little, Brown, London (2016)
Standort: Row
Inhalt: Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen in englischer Sprache.
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy - until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy, learns to play Quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The Reason: Harry Potter is a Wizard! Schlagworte:Abenteuer, Englisch, Freundschaft, Jugendbuch, Zauberei, ab 13 Jahren Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 332 S. ISBN: 978-0-7475-4955-0
Inhalt: Harry Potter, along with his best friends, Ron and Hermione, is about to start his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry can't wait to get back to school after the summer holidays. (Who wouldn't if they lived with the horrible Dursleys?) But when Harry gets to Hogwarts, the atmosphere is tense. There's an escaped mass murderer on the loose, and the sinister prison guards of Azkaban have been called in to guard the school... Schlagworte:Abenteuer, Englisch, Freundschaft, Jugendbuch, Zauberei, ab 13 Jahren Systematik: Englisch Umfang: 468 S ISBN: 978-0-7475-4950-5
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