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Als Andreas Egger in das Tal kommt, in dem er sein Leben verbringen wird, ist er vier Jahre alt, ungefähr — so genau weiß das keiner. Er wächst zu einem gestandenen Hilfsknecht heran und schließt sich als junger Mann einem Arbeitstrupp an, der eine der ersten Bergbahnen baut und mit der Elektrizität auch das Licht und den Lärm in das Tal bringt. Dann kommt der Tag, an dem Egger zum ersten Mal vor Marie steht, der Liebe seines Lebens, die er jedoch wieder verlieren wird. Erst viele Jahre später, als Egger seinen letzten Weg antritt, ist sie noch einmal bei ihm. Und er, über den die Zeit längst hinweggegangen ist, blickt mit Staunen auf die Jahre, die hinter ihm liegen. |
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Cat jagt im Auftrag der Regierung Untote. Ihren ebenso verführerischen wie gefährlichen Exfreund Bones hat sie schon lange nicht mehr gesehen – schließlich ist Bones ein Vampir und damit eigentlich ihre Beute. Doch als ein Unbekannter ein Kopfgeld auf Cat aussetzt, ist Bones ihre einzige Chance, lebend aus der Sache herauszukommen. Aber kaum steht sie ihm gegenüber, lodert das Verlangen wieder in ihr auf – und so wird Cat beinahe zu spät klar, dass Bones ganz eigene Pläne für sie hat... |
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Onkel Wanja sieht sein letztes Stündlein herannahen, und er wünscht sich von seinem Neffen Wladimir nur noch eines: Bevor ich sterbe, möchte ich noch einmal die Welt bereisen. Vielleicht nicht die ganze Welt, vielleicht nur Europa oder gar nur Deutschland. Und auch dort nur Berlin. Kurzum, schicke mir bitte eine Einladung. Gesagt, getan. Als Onkel Wanja in Berlin eintrifft, machen sich die beiden zu Fuß auf den Weg zu Wladimir nach Hause. Es ist ein Spaziergang durch die nächtliche Stadt voller eigentümlicher Begegnungen und unvergesslicher Betrachtungen über das Leben. Was ist gut, was böse? Was bleibt irgendwann von uns? Warum leuchtet die Hose des Onkels im Dunkeln? Und wo gibt es eigentlich die besten Matjes? |
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The third volume of the great Knights Templar tetralogy from Wolfgang Hohlbein The year 1179 in the Holy Land. In order to save her own life, Robin is once again compelled to take to the sword and fight for the cause of the Templars. With the army of the Crusaders in the process of disintegrating, she saves the life of Balduin, King of Jerusalem, and is the witness of a sinister murder. Suddenly she finds herself in the midst of a deadly intrigue. Press Wolfgang Hohlbein blends together the fabulous, the suspenseful, and the search for meaning to create a magical elixir. Die Welt A turbulent story with high levels of action and excitement. Mainpost The magician of fantasy literature. Die Welt Exciting and original. Brigitte Young Miss Author Wolfgang Hohlbein, born in 1953 in Weimar, has merited a large readership through the most varied genres thriller, horror, science fiction, and historical novel and is one of the most successful German authors overall. |
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Auf eindringliche Weise berichtet Bestsellerautorin Charlotte Link von der Krankheit und dem Sterben ihrer Schwester Franziska. Es ist nicht nur das persönlichste Werk der Schriftstellerin, sondern auch die berührende Schilderung der jahrelang ständig präsenten Angst, einen über alles geliebten Menschen verlieren zu müssen. Charlotte Link beschreibt den Klinikalltag in Deutschland, das Zusammentreffen mit großartigen, engagierten Ärzten, aber auch mit solchen, deren Verhalten schaudern lässt und Angst macht. Und sie plädiert dafür, die Hoffnung nie aufzugeben — denn nur sie verleiht die Kraft zu kämpfen. |
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Ein Mord, eine geheimnisvolle junge Frau in Tel Aviv und Anwalt Joachim Vernau im Visier eines gnadenlosen Killers. Berlin, 2015. Anwalt Vernau erwacht im Krankenhaus und kann sich an nichts mehr erinnern. Dafür ist er der Held von Berlin: In einer U-Bahnstation hat er mehrere Männer in die Flucht geschlagen, die einen älteren Herrn bedrängt haben. Aber wer ist die junge Frau mit dem Davidstern, die seitdem durch seine Erinnerung geistert? Und was hat sie mit den schrecklichen Morden zu tun, die sich wenig später ereignen? Als Vernau der schönen Unbekannten zu nahe kommt, wendet sich das Blatt: plötzlich steht er unter Mordverdacht. In letzter Sekunde kann er das Land verlassen, sein Ziel: Tel Aviv. In der brodelnden Metropole am Mittelmeer sucht er nach dem einzigen Menschen, der ihn entlasten kann — und wird hinabgezogen in den Strudel eines vergessenen Verbrechens, das sich vor über dreißig Jahren in einem Kibbuz in Israel ereignet hat... |
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Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic — the toys from the beloved chapter books Toys Go Out, Toy Dance Party, and Toys Come Home — are back in a glorious full-color picture book, perfect for gift-giving this holiday season. Acclaimed author Emily Jenkins and Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Paul Zelinsky have created a book destined to become a classic. Children who have loved listening to the Toys trilogy, as well as those meeting the toys for the very first time, will be thrilled to see Lumphy, StingRay, and Plastic venture outdoors to play in the snow. Together the toys build a snowman, make snow angels, and, when day is done, head back inside their cozy house and wait for the return of the Little Girl. |
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«A whopping big celebration of the work of the late, great Nora Ephron, America's funniest — and most acute — writer, famous for her brilliant takes on life as we've been living it these last forty years. Everything you could possibly want from Nora Ephron is here — from her writings on journalism, feminism, and being a woman (the notorious piece on being flat-chested, the clarion call of her commencement address at Wellesley) to her best-selling novel, Heartburn, written in the wake of her devastating divorce from Carl Bernstein; from her hilarious and touching screenplay for the movie When Harry Met Sally... («I'll have what she's having») to her recent play «Lucky Guy» (published here for the first time); from her ongoing love affair with food, recipes and all, to her extended takes on such controversial women as Lillian Hellman and Helen Gurley Brown; from her pithy blogs on politics to her moving meditations on aging («I Feel Bad About My Neck») and dying. Her superb writing, her unforgettable movies, her honesty and fearlessness, her nonpareil humor have made Nora Ephron an icon for America's women — and not a few of its men.» |
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If you were a snowman, what job would you choose? Ten years ago, on the publication of Snowmen at Night, we discovered the secret lives of snowmen. While we humans sleep, the snowmen go sledding, play baseball, and drink cocoa. But now it's revealed that snowmen don't just play all night — they have jobs to do, just like the parents of human kids. Dentists replace missing coal from snowman smiles while pet store owners help pair snowkids with their very own snowpuppy or snowfish to love. The pizza man delivers frozen pizza, and factory workers make the coolest toys in town. This fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Snowmen series is a gleeful, goofy delight. Kids will love spotting the silly details in each illustration, and the hidden pictures too. |
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Snowmen at Night shared with us the magical, slip-sliding adventures of snowmen after dark . . . but have you ever wondered what snowmen do for Christmas? Well, now’s your chance to find out! The snowmen are back, and this time they’re celebrating Christmas—the snowman way! This snappy and entertaining companion to the New York Times bestseller Snowmen at Night depicts all the best parts of the holiday, replete with icy treats and a snowman Kris Kringle.Told in the same bouncy verse as the original, Snowmen at Christmas is perfect for a snowy evening read-aloud. |
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When Father Wolf and Mother Wolf find a man-cub in the jungle, they anger the greedy tiger Shere Khan by refusing to surrender it to his jaws, and rear the child as their own. But when little Mowgli grows up, the pack can no longer defend him. He must learn the secret of fire, and with the help of his friends Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, he faces his nemesis at last. |
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Target: Assassin! The five members of Alpha Force are training in the Caribbean when an oil tanker runs aground, spilling oil — black gold — into the seas. Diving down to the stricken tanker, Alpha Force soon discover that all is not as it seems. But they will need all their skills and ingenuity — powerboating, scuba diving, jet skiing — when a bomb explodes and an assassin strikes ...High-octane thrills from a master of adventure, bestselling author, TV presenter and an ex-SAS hero CHRIS RYAN. Includes Chris Ryan's top SAS tips on Safety and Survival in and around water. |
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Jade is so used to living in the shadow of Vicky, her loud, confident best friend, that when a tragic accident occurs, she can hardly believe that Vicky's no longer around. But Vicky's a sparky girl who's not going to let a small thing like being dead stop her from living life to the full! Whether Jade is in lessons, out running or tentatively trying to make new friends, Vicky is determined to make her presence felt. |
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«Includes the stories that inspired the movies «Total Recall, Screamers, Minority Report, Paycheck,» and «Next» More than anyone else in the field, Mr. Dick really puts you inside people s minds. «The Wall Street Journal»The Philip K. Dick Reader Many thousands of readers consider Philip K. Dick the greatest science fiction mind on any planet. Since his untimely death in 1982, interest in Dick s works has continued to mount, and his reputation has been further enhanced by a growing body of critical attention. The Philip K. Dick Award is now given annually to a distinguished work of science fiction, and the Philip K. Dick Society is devoted to the study and promulgation of his works.Dick won the prestigious Hugo Award for the best novel of 1963 for «The Man in the High Castle.» In the last year of his life, the film Blade Runner was made from his novel «Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?»This collection includes some of Dick s earliest short and medium-length fiction, including «We Can Remember It for You Wholesale «(the story that inspired the motion picture «Total Recall»), «Second Variety «(which inspired the motion picture «Screamers»), «Paycheck, The Minority Report,» and twenty more.» |
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«In «Shakespeare, Not Stirred,» two professors mix equal parts booze and Bard to help you through your everyday dramas. It s like having Shakespeare right there in your living room, downing a great drink and putting your crappy day in perspective. So get out your cocktail shaker and lend him your ears. Each original cocktail and hors d oeuvre recipe connects Shakespeare s characters to life s daily predicaments: Drown your sorrows after a workplace betrayal with Othello s Green-Eyed Monster Distract yourself from domestic drama with Kate s Shrew-driver or Cleopatra s Flings in a Blanket Recapture your youth with Puck s Magic Shrooms Mark a romantic occasion with Beatrice and Benedick s Much Ado About Frothing Featuring classic images from the Folger Shakespeare Library (hilariously doctored to feature some hard-partying Shakespearean protagonists) and Mini-Bards you can raid for extra context and commentary, «Shakespeare, Not Stirred» is a completely intoxicating experience.» |
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The sharpest stings ever to snap from the tip of an English-speaking tongue are here at hand, ready to be directed at the knaves, villains, and coxcombs of the reader's choice. Culled from 38 plays, here are the best 5,000 examples of Shakespeare's glorious invective, arranged by play, in order of appearance, with helpful act and line numbers for easy reference, along with an index of topical scorn appropriate to particular characters and occasions. |
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«The second book, following last year's «My Brilliant Friend,» featuring the two friends Lila and Elena. The two protagonists are now in their twenties. Marriage appears to have imprisoned Lila. Meanwhile, Elena continues her journey of self-discovery. The two young women share a complex and evolving bond that brings them close at times, and drives them apart at others. Each vacillates between hurtful disregard and profound love for the other. With this complicated and meticulously portrayed friendship at the center of their emotional lives, the two girls mature into women, paying the cruel price that this passage exacts.» |
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«A New York Times Bestseller An Economist Best Book of 2015 «The most important book on decision making since Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow.» —Jason Zweig, The Wall Street Journal Everyone would benefit from seeing further into the future, whether buying stocks, crafting policy, launching a new product, or simply planning the week’s meals. Unfortunately, people tend to be terrible forecasters. As Wharton professor Philip Tetlock showed in a landmark 2005 study, even experts’ predictions are only slightly better than chance. However, an important and underreported conclusion of that study was that some experts do have real foresight, and Tetlock has spent the past decade trying to figure out why. What makes some people so good? And can this talent be taught? In Superforecasting, Tetlock and coauthor Dan Gardner offer a masterwork on prediction, drawing on decades of research and the results of a massive, government-funded forecasting tournament. The Good Judgment Project involves tens of thousands of ordinary people—including a Brooklyn filmmaker, a retired pipe installer, and a former ballroom dancer—who set out to forecast global events. Some of the volunteers have turned out to be astonishingly good. They’ve beaten other benchmarks, competitors, and prediction markets. They’ve even beaten the collective judgment of intelligence analysts with access to classified information. They are «superforecasters.» In this groundbreaking and accessible book, Tetlock and Gardner show us how we can learn from this elite group. Weaving together stories of forecasting successes (the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound) and failures (the Bay of Pigs) and interviews with a range of high-level decision makers, from David Petraeus to Robert Rubin, they show that good forecasting doesn’t require powerful computers or arcane methods. It involves gathering evidence from a variety of sources, thinking probabilistically, working in teams, keeping score, and being willing to admit error and change course. Superforecasting offers the first demonstrably effective way to improve our ability to predict the future—whether in business, finance, politics, international affairs, or daily life—and is destined to become a modern classic. From the Hardcover edition.» |
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The incredible story continues in book three of the critically acclaimed Neapolitan Novels! Since the publication of My Brilliant Friend, the first of the Neapolitan novels, Elena Ferrante’s fame as one of our most compelling, insightful, and stylish contemporary authors has grown enormously. She has gained admirers among authors—Jhumpa Lahiri, Elizabeth Strout, Claire Messud, to name a few—and critics—James Wood, John Freeman, Eugenia Williamson, for example. But her most resounding success has undoubtedly been with readers, who have discovered in Ferrante a writer who speaks with great power and beauty of the mysteries of belonging, human relationships, love, family, and friendship. In this third Neapolitan novel, Elena and Lila, the two girls whom readers first met in My Brilliant Friend, have become women. Lila married at sixteen and has a young son; she has left her husband and the comforts her marriage brought and now works as a common laborer. Elena has left the neighborhood, earned her college degree, and published a successful novel, all of which has opened the doors to a world of learned interlocutors and richly furnished salons. Both women have attempted are pushing against the walls of a prison that would have seen them living a life of misery, ignorance and submission. They are afloat on the great sea of opportunities that opened up during the nineteen-seventies. Yet they are still very much bound to each other by a strong, unbreakable bond. |
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