Inhalt: Wahrlich wache Wachsfiguren Annemie muss in ein Panoptikum ziehen. Okay, das Museum gehört ihrer Familie und ihre Oma brauchte Hilfe, aber geht es noch verstaubter? Doch dann passieren mehrere Dinge gleichzeitig: Annemie trifft den nervigen, aber auch interessanten Leo und die Wachsfigur der Queen ist spurlos verschwunden. Aber Wachsfiguren können doch nicht weglaufen, oder? Annemie und Leo stoßen auf ein Familiengeheimnis und machen sich auf die Suche nach einer königlichen Wachsskulptur auf Abwegen. Umfang: 165 Min. ISBN: 978-3-8449-3528-8
Inhalt: Entdecke die Magie!Milo, Mia und Birdy verbringen zusammen mit ihren Eltern die Sommerferien in einem kleinen, einsam gelegenen Häuschen auf dem Land. Schon in der ersten Nacht macht Birdy Bekanntschaft mit der Fee Seidenhaar, die sie in ihr Zuhause im Wunderweltenbaum einlädt. Am nächsten Tag machen sich die Kinder mit Hilfe eines sprechenden Kaninchens auf die Suche nach dem magischen Baum. Dort treffen sie nicht nur auf Seidenhaar, sondern lernen auch den netten Herrn Mondgesicht, den Pfannenmann, Frau Wasch und all die anderen Gestalten des Zauberwaldes kennen. Zusammen erkunden sie die außergewöhnlichen Orte, die sie über den Wipfeln entdecken. Aber nicht alles ist nur Spiel und Spaß. Wird Mondgesichts Magie rechtzeitig wirken, um die Kinder im gefährlichen Land der Drachen zu retten?In Jacqueline Wilsons neuen Abenteuern im Zauberwald treffen wir die Wesen aus den Kinderbuchklassikern von Enid Blyton wieder. Spannende Erlebnisse sind garantiert!Der vierte von vier Bänden mit Sammelmotiv Umfang: 272 S. ISBN: 978-3-641-30357-0
Inhalt: Tagtäglich kümmern sich viele Angehörige zu Hause um hilfe- und pflegebedürftige Familienmitglieder. Die Betreuung einer pflegebedürftigen Person ist jedoch häufig mit hohen Anforderungen verbunden. Durch die Doppelbelastung von Pflege und Beruf kommt es häufig zu einer Überlastung der pflegenden Person. Während der Zeit der Pflege wäre eine Reduzierung der Arbeitszeit oder eine Auszeit vom Job deshalb oft bitter nötig. Doch wie können die finanziellen Konsequenzen gemildert werden? Dieser Ratgeber liefert pflegenden Angehörigen wertvolle praxisnahe Anregungen und Tipps, um die tägliche Pflegearbeit zu erleichtern. Zusätzlich werden Ihnen wichtige Leistungen der Pflegekasse zur Unterstützung aufgezeigt, wie z.B. Pflegekurse, ambulanter Pflegedienst oder Urlaubsvertretung (Verhinderungspflege), mit denen Sie Entlastung im Alltag finden. Darüber hinaus haben Pflegepersonen Anspruch auf Leistungen zur sozialen Absicherung. Diese erhalten einen ausführlichen Überblick über die Regelungen in den einzelnen Sozialversicherungen. Aus dem Inhalt: Wenn es ohne Hilfe nicht mehr geht: Wer organisiert erste Pflegemaßnahmen? Was muss wo beantragt werden? Teilzeit oder Auszeit für die Pflege: Finanzielle Folgen und Auffangmöglichkeiten Regelungen zur Pflegezeit- und Familienpflegezeit Leistungen der Kranken- und Pflegekasse: Was steht dem Versicherten zu? Pflegegrad und Pflegegeld: Wie ist der Antrags- und Genehmigungsablauf? Was gilt bei den verschiedenen Pflegegraden und welche Unterstützung gibt es? Die Verhinderungs- und Kurzzeitpflege sowie Tages- und Nachtpflege Vorsorgevollmacht und Notvertretungsrecht für Ehepartner Soziale Sicherung pflegender Angehöriger: Was gilt für die gesetzliche Kranken- und Pflegeversicherung, Arbeitslosen-, Unfall- und Rentenversicherung? Pflege, Ausgleichsansprüche und Erbe Umfang: 96 S. ISBN: 978-3-96533-368-0
Inhalt: Entdecker werden, Abenteuer erleben oder schon in jungen Jahren ein Meisterkoch sein? Die Maus, der Elefant und die Ente zeigen, wie's geht! Die Maus, der Elefant und die Ente nehmen Kinder mit auf eine spannende Entdeckungstour durch das Zuhause und die Natur. Da kann sich der ein oder andere Naturkundler beim Beobachten der Insekten zwischen den Grashalmen versuchen. Wer lieber basteln möchte oder als Gemüsebauer und -koch durchstarten, bekommt viele Anregungen dazu. Mit diesem praxisnahen Ratgeber werden viele Interessenfelder von Kindern zwischen 4-8 Jahren bedient. Alle Entdecker-, Bastel-, Spiele- und Kochideen haben einen Bezug zum direkten Umfeld der Kinder: das Haus und die Natur. Mit vielen interessanten Tipps und Tricks, zeigen wir, wie vielfältig und abwechslungsreich es vor der eigenen Haustür sein kann. In vier Kapiteln bietet "Drinnen & draußen mit der Maus" Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten für Kinder ? mal aktiv beim Bau eines Insektenhotels, mal kreativ und ruhig beim Mal-Quiz oder kulinarisch beim Anbauen und Verarbeiten von Gemüse und Obst. Man m(a)uss nicht in die Ferne schweifen, wenn Abenteuer & Spaß so nah liegen! Umfang: 231 S. ISBN: 978-3-96584-157-4
Inhalt: Danowski hat ein Problem: Weil er geholfen hat, eine Straftat zu vertuschen, wird er von seinem Chef erpresst. Der verlangt, dass Danowski ein Ermittlungsergebnis frisiert und einen Vermisstenfall als weiteren Mord einem Serientäter anhängt. Und das Schlimmste: Er kann mit niemandem darüber reden. Schlagworte:Krimi Systematik: SL Umfang: 303 Seiten Standort: Krimi Raeth / 1. OG ISBN: 978-3-499-01240-2
Inhalt: In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent's evolutionary richness. Distinguished scholar Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America-a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before. In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America's animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-69660-959-3
Winner of the 2023 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
Winner of the 2023 National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature
Shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society Ralph Waldo Emerson Award
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2022
A deep-time history of animals and humans in North America, by the best-selling and award-winning author of Coyote America.
In 1908, near Folsom, New Mexico, a cowboy discovered the remains of a herd of extinct giant bison. By examining flint points embedded in the bones, archeologists later determined that a band of humans had killed and butchered the animals 12,450 years ago. This discovery vastly expanded America's known human history but also revealed the long-standing danger Homo sapiens presented to the continent's evolutionary richness.
Distinguished author Dan Flores's ambitious history chronicles the epoch in which humans and animals have coexisted in the "wild new world" of North America—a place shaped both by its own grand evolutionary forces and by momentous arrivals from Asia, Africa, and Europe. With portraits of iconic creatures such as mammoths, horses, wolves, and bison, Flores describes the evolution and historical ecology of North America like never before.
The arrival of humans precipitated an extraordinary disruption of this teeming environment. Flores treats humans not as a species apart but as a new animal entering two continents that had never seen our likes before. He shows how our long past as carnivorous hunters helped us settle America, initially establishing a coast-to-coast culture that lasted longer than the present United States. But humanity's success had devastating consequences for other creatures. In telling this epic story, Flores traces the origins of today's "Sixth Extinction" to the spread of humans around the world; tracks the story of a hundred centuries of Native America; explains how Old World ideologies precipitated 400 years of market-driven slaughter that devastated so many ancient American species; and explores the decline and miraculous recovery of species in recent decades.
In thrilling narrative style, informed by genomic science, evolutionary biology, and environmental history, Flores celebrates the astonishing bestiary that arose on our continent and introduces the complex human cultures and individuals who hastened its eradication, studied America's animals, and moved heaven and earth to rescue them. Eons in scope and continental in scale, Wild New World is a sweeping yet intimate Big History of the animal-human story in America.
A seductively twisted romance about loyalty, fate, the lengths we go to hide the darkest parts of ourselves . . . and the people who love those parts most of all.
Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited — to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement — Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead.
Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he can't really live, either. Not while he's bound to the farm, locked in a cycle of grisly deaths and painful rebirths. There's only one way for him to break free. He needs to end the Westlock line.
He needs to kill Wyatt.
With Wyatt's parents gone, the spells protecting the property have begun to unravel, and dark, ancient forces gather in the nearby forest. The only way for Wyatt to repair the wards is to work with Peter — the one person who knows how to harness her volatile magic. But how can she trust a boy who's sworn an oath to destroy her? When the past turns up to haunt them in the most unexpected way, they are forced to rely on one another to survive, or else tear each other apart.
The world will burn in the final installment of Scarlett St. Clair's bestselling Hades X Persephone saga.
The gods are at war, the Titans have been released, and Hades and Persephone must fight tooth and nail for their happy ending.
Persephone, Goddess of Spring, never guessed that a chance encounter with Hades, God of the Underworld, would change her life forever-but he did. Now embroiled in a fight for humanity and battles between the gods, Persephone and Hades have entered a world they never thought they would see. To end the chaos, Persephone must draw upon her darkness and embrace who she's become-goddess, wife, queen of the Underworld.
Once, Persephone made bargains to save those she loves. Now, she will go to war for them.
In this enemies-to-lovers romcom for fans of Ashley Poston and Rainbow Rowell, a fangirl brings her fictional heartthrob to life and finds that the real world might just be better than fiction... Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week and her only plans are to binge-watch her favorite fantasy TV show, H-MAD, hang out with her best friend, Henry, and avoid her former best friend-turned enemy (and neighbor), Mack. But things go awry when Ivy wakes up one morning to find Weston, the gorgeous and very fictional main character of H-MAD, in her bedroom, claiming to be her soul mate. Ivy's fanfic writing has somehow brought Weston as she's imagined him to life, but living out her fanfiction dreams isn't all it's cracked up to be. Her not-so-fictional crush is causing some major real-world problems and Ivy is desperate for help. To figure out why Weston is suddenly three-dimensional, she ropes Henry and a reluctant Mack into the chaos. As they spend more time together, Ivy and Mack are forced to deal with the fallout of their broken friendship and might just realize that they both want something more. A Macmillan Audio production from Wednesday Books.
In New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz's ingenious fifth literary whodunnit in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series, Detective Hawthorne is once again called upon to solve an unsolvable case—a gruesome murder in an idyllic gated community in which suspects abound.
Riverside Close is a picture-perfect community. The six exclusive and attractive houses are tucked far away from the noise and grime of city life, allowing the residents to enjoy beautiful gardens, pleasant birdsong, and tranquility from behind the security of a locked gate.
It is the perfect idyll, until the Kentworthy family arrives, with their four giant, gas-guzzling cars, gaggle of shrieking children, and plans for a garish swimming pool in the backyard. Obvious outsiders, the Kentworthys do not belong in Riverside Close, and quickly offend every last one of the neighbors.
When Giles Kentworthy is found dead on his own doorstep, a crossbow bolt sticking out of his chest, Detective Hawthorne is the only investigator they can call to solve the case.
Because how do you solve a murder when everyone is a suspect?
An Instant New York Times, USA Today, and Indie Bestseller Enter a cold, silent forest and find out what feasts at night in this new gothic tale from bestselling and award-winning author T. Kingfisher, set in the world of What Moves the Dead. *A very special hardcover edition, featuring a foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.* After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their home country, Gallacia. In theory, one can find relaxation in even the coldest and dampest of Gallacian autumns, but when Easton arrives, they find the caretaker dead, the lodge in disarray, and the grounds troubled by a strange, uncanny silence. The villagers whisper that a breath-stealing monster from folklore has taken up residence in Easton's home. Easton knows better than to put too much stock in local superstitions, but they can tell that something is not quite right in their home. . . or in their dreams. Also by T. Kingfisher A House with Good Bones Nettle & Bone Thornhedge A Sorceress Comes to Call At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Inhalt:A skeptic and a supernatural being make a crossroads deal to achieve their own ends only to get more than they bargained for in this lively young adult romantic adventure from the New York Times bestselling author of Spell Bound and So This Is Ever After. Seventeen-year-old Ellery is a non-believer in a region where people swear the supernatural is real. Sure, they've been stuck in a five-year winter, but there's got to be a scientific explanation. If goddesses were real, they wouldn't abandon their charges like this, leaving farmers like Ellery's family to scrape by.
Knox is a familiar from the Other World, a magical assistant sent to help humans who have made crossroads bargains. But it's been years since he heard from his queen, and Knox is getting nervous about what he might find once he returns home. When the crossroads demons come to collect Knox, he panics and runs. A chance encounter down an alley finds Ellery coming to Knox's rescue, successfully fending off his would-be abductors.
Ellery can't quite believe what they've seen. And they definitely don't believe the nonsense this unnervingly attractive guy spews about his paranormal origins. But Knox needs to make a deal with a human who can tether him to this realm, and Ellery needs to figure out how to stop this winter to help their family. Once their bargain is struck, there's no backing out, and the growing connection between the two might just change everything. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-79716-964-4
Inhalt:An Instant New York Times Bestseller A USA TODAY Bestseller
Her father was the town detective. Her mother its most notorious criminal. Now the secrets of Mirror Lake are coming to the surface...and changing everything. "[A] stunning psychological thriller from one of the most insightful writers around" (CrimeReads), don't miss the latest from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors. When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge...including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-66801-046-4
Inhalt: Soon to be adapted for TV by Netflix! Jackie does not like surprises. Chaos is the enemy! The best way to get her successful, busy parents to notice her is to be perfect. The perfect look, the perfect grades-the perfect daughter. And then . . . Surprise #1: Jackie's family dies in a freak car accident. Surprise #2: Jackie has to move cross-country to live with the Walters-her new guardians. Surprise #3: The Walters have twelve sons. (Well, eleven, but Parker acts like a boy anyway.) Now Jackie must trade in her Type A personality and New York City apartment for a Colorado ranch and all the wild Walter boys who come with it. Jackie is surrounded by the enemy-loud, dirty, annoying boys who have no concept of personal space. Okay, several of the oldest guys are flat-out gorgeous. But still annoying. She's not stuck-up or boring-no matter what they say-but proving it is another matter. How can she fit in and move on when she needs to keep her parents' memory alive by living up to the promise of perfect? Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek EAN: tantor_audio#
With Extinction, #1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston has written a page-turning thriller in the Michael Crichton mode that explores the possible and unintended dangers of the very real efforts to resurrect the woolly mammoth and other long-extinct animals. Erebus Resort, occupying a magnificent, hundred-thousand acre valley deep in the Colorado Rockies, offers guests the experience of viewing woolly mammoths, Irish Elk, and giant ground sloths in their native habitat, brought back from extinction through the magic of genetic manipulation. When a billionaire's son and his new wife are kidnapped and murdered in the Erebus back country by what is assumed to be a gang of eco-terrorists, Colorado Bureau of Investigation Agent Frances Cash partners with county sheriff James Colcord to track down the perpetrators. As killings mount and the valley is evacuated, Cash and Colcord must confront an ancient, intelligent, and malevolent presence at Erebus, bent not on resurrection—but extinction. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date—a deeply intimate memoir of discovery, found family, and self-acceptance. The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag.
Central to RuPaul's success has been his chameleonic adaptability. From drag icon to powerhouse producer of one of the world's largest television franchises, RuPaul's ever-shifting nature has always been part of his brand as both supermodel and supermogul. Yet that adaptability has made him enigmatic to the public. In this memoir, his most intimate and detailed book yet, RuPaul makes himself truly known.
In The House of Hidden Meanings, RuPaul strips away all artifice and recounts the story of his life with breathtaking clarity and tenderness, bringing his signature wisdom and wit to his own biography. From his early years growing up as a queer Black kid in San Diego navigating complex relationships with his absent father and temperamental mother, to forging an identity in the punk and drag scenes of Atlanta and New York, to finding enduring love with his husband Georges LeBar and self-acceptance in sobriety, RuPaul excavates his own biography life-story, uncovering new truths and insights in his personal history.
Here in RuPaul's singular and extraordinary story is a manual for living—a personal philosophy that testifies to the value of chosen family, the importance of harnessing what makes you different, and the transformational power of facing yourself fearlessly.
A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings is a self-portrait of the legendary icon on the road to global fame and changing the way the world thinks about drag. "I've always loved to view the world with analytical eyes, examining what lies beneath the surface. Here, the focus is on my own life—as RuPaul Andre Charles," says RuPaul.
If we're all born naked and the rest is drag, then this is RuPaul totally out of drag. This is RuPaul stripped bare.
Inhalt: The sensational conclusion to the massive #1 New York Times bestselling series . . . It's been over three months since my friends and I took down Cyrus. Three months where my biggest fear was what paper was due next . . . But I should have known it was too good to last. Now everything is falling apart. The Vampire Court has no king, the Dragon Court has no heart, and the Gargoyle Court has me-a teenager in way over her head. And it's the worst possible timing, because a threat is brewing just as the Circle is collapsing. I have no choice but to return to the Shadow Realm and face the terrifying queen who nearly ended us . . . and make a deal with her to save Mekhi. But this time, I'm bringing my powerful friends with me-and Hudson. Except something is wrong with him, too. He's keeping a secret-even from me. All I know is that everyone's life hangs in the balance. And it's my fault-because I still owe the Crone a favor . . . and now she's come to collect. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek EAN: 9798765014950
On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives evolve into an elaborate dance of inner worlds enfolded within the outer forces of history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson's story rushes on across the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid twentieth-century America. A boy grows up-again and again and again. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written 4 3 2 1 is an unforgettable tour de force, the crowning work of this masterful writer's extraordinary career. Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Bookof Illusions, The New YorkTrilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger forLeviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four Fergusons made of the same genetic material, four boys who are the same boy, will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Chapter by chapter, the rotating narratives evolve into an elaborate dance of inner worlds enfolded within the outer forces of history as, one by one, the intimate plot of each Ferguson's story rushes on across the tumultuous and fractured terrain of mid twentieth-century America. A boy grows up-again and again and again. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written 4 3 2 1 is an unforgettable tour de force, the crowning work of this masterful writer's extraordinary career.
Inhalt: Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory. It asks: why do we find such meaning in certain moments, and forget others? Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-0-571-38497-6
This program is read by the author. "Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter." —Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books
From Paul Auster, a "literary original" (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget: his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. A Washington Post Best Book of the Year
Inhalt: An einem Sommermorgen in der Vergangenheit verändert der junge Mann Gavrilo Princip die Weltgeschichte für immer. Als er Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand und dessen Frau Sophie in Sarajevo erschießt, ist das der Beginn einer dunklen Zeit, die Millionen Menschen das Leben kostet und den Untergang der Kaiserreiche besiegelt. Im Ersten Weltkrieg erlebt der kleine Yves die Invasion Frankreichs mit, die Krankenschwester Edith Cavell versteckt zahlreiche verwundete Soldaten und der junge J.R.R. Tolkien kämpft im Schützengraben an der Somme. Das Kindermädchen Alice Lines überlebt einen U-Bootangriff, der britische Soldat Henry Williamson feiert über die Feindesgrenzen hinaus mit deutschen Soldaten Weihnachten und Manfred von Richthofen wird als Roter Baron weltberühmt. Dominic Sandbrook katapultiert die Hörer:innen mitten hinein und verwebt die historischen Ereignisse, unterschiedlichen Schauplätze und Einzelschicksale zu einem einzigartigen Gesamtbild des Ersten Weltkrieges. Umfang: 587 Min. ISBN: 978-3-7424-2254-5
Inhalt: The first Graywolf Press African Fiction Prize winner, a story of a girl's fantastical sea voyage to rescue her father. The House of Rust is an enchanting novel about a Hadrami girl in Mombasa. When her fisherman father goes missing, Aisha takes to the sea on a magical boat made of a skeleton to rescue him. She is guided by a talking scholar's cat (and soon crows, goats, and other animals all have their say, too). On this journey Aisha meets three terrifying sea monsters. After she survives a final confrontation with Baba wa Papa, the father of all sharks, she rescues her own father and hopes that life will return to normal. But at home, things only grow stranger. Khadija Abdalla Bajaber's debut is a magical realist coming-of-age tale told through the lens of the Swahili and diasporic Hadrami culture in Mombasa, Kenya. Richly descriptive and written with an imaginative hand and sharp eye for unusual detail, The House of Rust is a memorable novel by a thrilling new voice. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-70506-119-0
Inhalt:Set in the tumultuous year of 1968 in southern Virginia, a racially-charged murder case sets a duo of white and Black lawyers against a deeply unfair system as they work to defend their wrongfully-accused Black defendants in this courtroom drama from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.
Jack Lee is a white lawyer from Freeman County, Virginia, who has never done anything to push back against racism, until he decides to represent Jerome Washington, a Black man charged with brutally killing an elderly and wealthy white couple. Doubting his decision, Lee fears that his legal skills may not be enough to prevail in a case where the odds are already stacked against both him and his client. And he quickly finds himself out of his depth when he realizes that what is at stake is far greater than the outcome of a murder trial.
Desiree DuBose is a Black lawyer from Chicago who has devoted her life to furthering the causes of justice and equality for everyone. She comes to Freeman County and enters a fractious and unwieldy partnership with Lee in a legal battle against the best prosecutor in the Commonwealth. Yet DuBose is also aware that powerful outside forces are at work to blunt the victories achieved by the Civil Rights era.
Lee and DuBose could not be more dissimilar. On their own, neither one can stop the prosecution's deliberate march towards a guilty verdict and the electric chair. But together, the pair fight for what once seemed impossible: a chance for a fair trial and true justice. Over a decade in the writing, A Calamity of Souls breathes richly imagined and detailed life into a bygone era, taking the reader through a world that will seem both foreign and familiar. Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-66863-709-8
Inhalt:There's no such thing as witches...right? Emerson Wilde has built the life of her dreams. Youngest Chamber of Commerce president in St. Cyprian history, successful indie bookstore owner, and lucky enough to have her best friends as found family? Done. But when Emerson is attacked by creatures that shouldn't be real, and kills them with what can only be called magic, Emerson finds that the past decade of her life has been...a lie. St. Cyprian isn't your average Midwestern river town—it's a haven for witches. When Emerson failed a power test years ago, she was stripped of her magical memories. Turns out, Emerson's friends are all witches. And so is she. That's not all, though: evil is lurking in the charming streets of St. Cyprian. Emerson will need to learn to control what's inside of her, remember her magic, and deal with old, complicated feelings for her childhood friend—cranky-yet-gorgeous local farmer Jacob North—to defeat an enemy that hides in the rivers and shadows of everything she loves. Even before she had magic, Emerson would have done anything for St. Cyprian, but now she'll have to risk not just her livelihood...but her life. Don't miss Big Little Lies, Hazel Beck's exciting new witchy rom-com where one witch will have to prove her magic isn't a threat to all of witchkind! Witchlore series Book 1: Small Town, Big Magic Book 2: Big Little Spells (coming 2023) Standort: Overdrive Onleihbibliothek ISBN: 978-1-4882-1518-6
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