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Auf der Suche nach Zach
by Rowan Speedwell Wiebke BruecknerFünf Jahre lang war Zach Tyler, Sohn eines der reichsten Software - Mogulen der Welt, als Geisel gefangen, gefoltert und missbraucht worden. Als er endlich aus dem venezolanischen Dschungel befreit wird, ist er physisch und psychisch zerrüttet. Doch langsam beginnt er das Leben aufzubauen, das er hätte haben sollen, wenn ihn nicht ein unschuldiger Kuss in diese Hölle geschickt hätte. Sein bester Freund aus der Kindheit, David, hat diese Jahre mit überwältigenden Schuldgefühlen und Trauer verbracht. Jede Beziehung die David einging fiel auseinander, wegen seiner Gefühle für einen Jungen, von dem er glaubte, dass er tot sei. Als Zach gerettet wird, ist David überglücklich - und dann am Boden zerstört, als Zach ihn zurückweist. Zwei Jahre später kehrt David nach Hause zurück, und er und Zach müssen sich mit der Kluft zwischen ihnen auseinander setzen, mit dem, was sie füreinander empfinden und dem, was ihnen die Zukunft bieten könnte. Aber Zach hat Geheimnisse, und eines von denen könnte sehr wohl ihre zerbrechliche Liebe zerstören.
Auf der Suche nach den Utopischen Staaten von Amerika: Intentionale Gemeinschaften in Romanen des langen neunzehnten Jahrhunderts
by Verena AdamikIn diesem Buch wird versucht, die scheinbar direkte Verbindung zwischen Utopismus und den USA zu verstehen, indem Romane besprochen werden, die in dieser Kombination noch nie zusammengebracht wurden, obwohl sie sich alle um intentionale Gemeinschaften drehen: Imlays The Emigrants (1793), Hawthornes The Blithedale Romance (1852), Howlands Papas Own Girl (1874), Griggs' Imperium in Imperio (1899), und Du Bois' The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911). Sie setzen Nation und Utopie nicht in Beziehung, indem sie perfekte Gesellschaften beschreiben, sondern indem sie über Versuche schreiben, unmittelbar ein radikal anderes Leben zu führen. Indem die Lektüre die jeweilige kommunale Geschichte aufzeigt, bietet sie eine literarische Perspektive für kommunale Studien und trägt zu einer dringend notwendigen Historisierung für rein literarische Ansätze zum US-Utopismus und für Studien bei, die sich auf Pilgrims/Puritans/Gründerväter als utopische Praxis konzentrieren. Das Buch zeigt daher auf, wie die Autoren das utopische Potenzial der USA bewerteten, und zeichnet die Entwicklung der utopischen Vorstellungskraft im neunzehnten Jahrhundert aus verschiedenen Perspektiven nach.
Auf frischer Tat: Katarina Carter Mysterystory (Wirtschafts-Thriller mit Katerina Carter #1)
by Colleen Cross Rebecca FeistAls die gerichtlich bestellte Rechnungsprüferin und Betrugsermittlerin Katarina Carter und ihr Freund, der Journalist Jace Burton eine spontane Partyeinladung annehmen, haben sie alles andere als Verbrechen im Kopf. Aber eine entscheidende Weinermittlung hinterlässt einen bitteren Geschmack in Kats Mund und sie entdeckt Hinweise zu einem Millionen Dollar Weinbetrug, alles vor dem Abendessen!
Auf nach Kinsey Falls!
by Gayle LeesonFür Jade Burt gibt es nur ihre Arbeit und kein Vergnügen. Sie kann auch wirklich gut darauf verzichten, dass ihre Großmutter Millie sich in ihr Privatleben einmischt. Doch als diese ein verlassenes Opossum-Baby findet, führt sie das direkt zu Caleb Young. Caleb wäre doch perfekt für Jade! Als Jade Caleb trifft, ist es auch wahrlich nicht einfach, die Wahl ihrer Großmutter in Frage zu stellen. Dennoch ist Jade entschlossen, Caleb nicht an sich heranzulassen. Außerdem macht ihr seine Freundschaft mit Millie etwas Sorge. Was, wenn er ein raffinierter Betrüger ist, der es nur darauf abgesehen hat, eine süße alte Dame auszunutzen? Jade muss mehr über Caleb herausfinden, bevor er das Herz ihrer Großmutter … und das von Jade bricht!
Aufgang des Sanguinischen Mondes: Aufgang des Sanguinischen Mondes
by John Henry "Doc" HollidayRise of the Sanguine Moon ist eine Geschichte von zwei Freunden, die einen Traum in die Realität umsetzen und dabei auf Hindernisse, verrückte Liebe und indische Überlieferungen stoßen. Aber andererseits, haben nicht alle von uns Träume, die wir wahr werden wollen? Steigen Sie an Bord, schnallen Sie sich an und bereiten Sie sich auf eine sehr turbulente Fahrt vor....... Doktor
Aufs Spiel gesetzt
by Amy Lane Julia SchneiderXander Karcek hat sich immer nur zwei Dinge vom Leben gewünscht: Christian Edwards und Basketball - den Mann, den er liebt und den Sport, der in seiner Kindheit, die er lieber vergessen würde, seine einzige Zuflucht war. Seine beiden großen Leidenschaften haben ihm gut getan. Gegen jede Wahrscheinlichkeit haben Chris und er es zusammen von der Highschool, ins College und bis in ein Profi-Basketball-Team geschafft. Aber das Leben unter dem Mikroskop der Berühmtheit ist nicht leicht, besonders für zwei Männer, die vorgeben, Kumpels zu sein, damit niemand erfährt, dass sie so gut wie verheiratet sind. Ihre Beziehung überlebt die Opfer, die sie bringen und die Lügen, die sie erzählen, um zusammenzubleiben. Aber als ihr Geheimnis entdeckt wird, drohen die Konsequenzen sie zu zerstören, wie nichts sonst es vermochte. Chris und Basketball, das sind die zwei Dinge, die Xander zusammenhalten. Aber jetzt zwingt die Welt Xander dazu, eine Entscheidung zu treffen. Gibt es eine Zukunft mit dem Mann, den er liebt?
Aug 9—Fog
by Kathryn Scanlan"The searing strokes of this book remind me of the infinitude inside every life." --Leslie JamisonParis Review Staff Pick, one of Chicago Tribune's 25 Hot Books of Summer, and one of The A.V. Club's 15 Most Anticipated Books of 2019A stark, elegiac account of unexpected pleasures and the progress of seasonsFifteen years ago, Kathryn Scanlan found a stranger’s five-year diary at an estate auction in a small town in Illinois. The owner of the diary was eighty-six years old when she began recording the details of her life in the small book, a gift from her daughter and son-in-law. The diary was falling apart—water-stained and illegible in places—but magnetic to Scanlan nonetheless.After reading and rereading the diary, studying and dissecting it, for the next fifteen years she played with the sentences that caught her attention, cutting, editing, arranging, and rearranging them into the composition that became Aug 9—Fog (she chose the title from a note that was tucked into the diary). “Sure grand out,” the diarist writes. “That puzzle a humdinger,” she says, followed by, “A letter from Lloyd saying John died the 16th.” An entire state of mourning reveals itself in “2 canned hams.” The result of Scanlan’s collaging is an utterly compelling, deeply moving meditation on life and death. In Aug 9—Fog, Scanlan’s spare, minimalist approach has a maximal emotional effect, remaining with the reader long after the book ends. It is an unclassifiable work from a visionary young writer and artist—a singular portrait of a life revealed by revision and restraint.
Auggie & Me: Three Wonder Stories (Wonder Ser.)
by R. J. PalacioWONDER IS NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!Over 6 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Auggie & Me gives readers a special look at Auggie’s world through three new points of view. Previously only available in ebook, now they’ll be published all together--complete with an introduction from the author on how she came to write them--in a gorgeous hardcover package! These stories are an extra peek at Auggie before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie’s oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie’s new friend at school. Together, these three stories are a treasure for readers who don’t want to leave Auggie behind when they finish Wonder.
Auggie and Me: Three Wonder Stories
by R. J. Palacio<P>These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie's oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie s new friend at school. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Aughra's Wisdom of Thra (Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal)
by J. M. LeeFans of Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will treasure moments spent with the all-knowing Aughra in this magical gift book illustrated by Cory Godbey.Doesn't everyone get their advice from a feisty three-and-a-half-foot creature with ram horns, a detachable eye, and unlocked secrets to an entire fantasy universe? Allow Aughra to guide you with wisdom beyond this realm and advice only she can give.
Augie to Zebra: An Alphabet Book!
by Caspar Babypants"Eliza educates elephants. Manny mimics monkeys. Sisika sings with sparrows." Each letter of the alphabet gets its own alliterative sentence involving a name, an activity, and an animal. This fresh approach to the ABCs is coupled with Kate Endle's charming and colorful collage art. Kate Endle is a collector of beautiful and unusual printed papers, and she uses them to compose vibrant images for children's books and original artwork. This enhanced ebook features Caspar Babypants singing the song of Augie to Zebra as the words are highlighted, with automatic page turns. Of course, this beautiful ebook can be read the old-fashioned way as well.
Augie to Zebra: An Alphabet Book!
by Caspar Babypants"Eliza educates elephants. Manny mimics monkeys. Sisika sings with sparrows." Each letter of the alphabet gets its own alliterative sentence involving a name, an activity, and an animal. This fresh approach to the ABCs is coupled with Kate Endle's charming and colorful collage art. Kate Endle is a collector of beautiful and unusual printed papers, and she uses them to compose vibrant images for children's books and original artwork--which makes her books completely unique and immediately recognizable by a growing following. Readers can also download a free MP3 song of the text performed by Caspar Babypants, who is a popular performer and recording artist in the world of children's music (as well as lead singer of the Presidents of the United States).
Augmented Reality (Tom Swift Inventors' Academy #6)
by Victor AppletonTom and his friends expose the truth when a friendly rivalry becomes a cutthroat competition in this sixth novel in Tom Swift Inventors&’ Academy—perfect for fans of The Hardy Boys or Alex Rider.To increase interest in Swift Academy, the school&’s new PR rep announces the Invention Olympics, an event open to the public that will feature the students&’ varied creative talents. Everyone&’s excited to show off their latest ideas. But when the rep invites a production company to film a new reality show about the academy, the plan is met with a lot less enthusiasm. Tom and his friends have mixed reactions to the new attention. Some of them are loving the spotlight, while others want nothing to do with the show, and it&’s causing cracks in the group&’s rock-solid bonds. But Tom quickly realizes that they aren&’t the only ones at school on edge. The reality show producers seem to be pitting students against one another to create more drama for the screen. And as the Invention Olympics approaches, he starts to suspect that the filming may be a cover for something even more nefarious. Can he and his friends figure out the truth before the reality show has real-world consequences?
Augmented: Building a hero (libro #2)
by F. Rossi Tasha BlackAlcuni eroi non nascono… vengono costruiti. Secondo libro della appassionante trilogia Building a Hero dell'autrice di bestseller Tasha Black. Il primo libro, Reconstructed, è gratuito in tutti gli store. Preso contro la sua volontà, Edward Dalton si risveglia e si ritrova prigioniero dell'organizzazione paramilitare che ha popolato i suoi incubi da quando, tanti anni prima, l'ha lasciato a pezzi. Dalton viene a sapere di essere l'unico soggetto dell'esperimento originale in grado di controllare i suoi nuovi terribili poteri, e di domare la bestia che gli hanno messo dentro. I suoi carcerieri pensano che lui nasconda il segreto per il successo, e vogliono prenderglielo, con qualsiasi mezzo. Elizabeth Sterling è una visione d'amore di un tempo in cui tutto era più semplice, ma anche lei nasconde qualcosa. Se Dalton riuscisse a fidarsi di lei, potrebbe essere la persona che gli serve per salvarsi la pelle, ma forse è troppo tardi per salvare la sua anima. Nel frattempo, Westley Worthington cerca con tutte le forze di usare le sue nuove abilità per salvare il suo amico e riconquistare l'amore della sua vita, Cordelia Cross. Le sue nuove parti del corpo gli permetteranno di fare entrambe le cose? Scopritelo nel secondo romanzo della trilogia Building a Hero dell'autrice di bestseller Tasha Black. Nota dell'autore: Building a Hero è una trilogia di romanzi autoconclusivi di 200-300 pagine ciascuno, non è una serie con puntate brevi e finali in sospeso. Ciascun libro ha la sua storia completa ma, come per tutte le trilogie, i libri 1 e 2 lasciano alcune domande senza risposta, che vengono risolte nel libro finale. Grazie se mi leggerete!
Auguries
by Clea RobertsWhether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of Auguries, the much-anticipated second collection from Yukon poet Clea Roberts, are saturated with their northern landscape. Roberts is well versed in the distances and dynamics between tedium and ecstasy, light and dark, isolation and solitude, freeze and thaw, flow and stillness. Her poems are spare and clean, each like a single larch in an immense white plain; their exactness startling and arresting. As the Gerald Lampert Award jury citation for her celebrated first book noted, “Her images . . . are not only crisp and precise, but manage to speak about the physical conditions of this place and its emotional landscape in one and the same lyrical breath . . .” Written during a period in which Roberts both became a parent and lost a parent, the poems in Auguries lend themselves to prayer, surrender, celebration, reconciliation, meditation, and auspice. Tell me how to breathe between the painful and the beautiful, my lips, my eyelids slow with cold. (from “Cold Snap”) “Clea Roberts writes poems of clear, quiet beauty. They contain the silence of perception: alive to the world with open eye and open heart.” — Anne Michaels
Auguries of Innocence: Poems
by Patti SmithAuguries of Innocence is the first book of poetry from Patti Smith in more than a decade. It marks a major accomplishment from a poet and performer who has inscribed her vision of our world in powerful anthems, ballads, and lyrics. In this intimate and searing collection of poems, Smith joins in that great tradition of troubadours, journeymen, wordsmiths, and artists who respond to the world around them in fresh and original language. Her influences are eclectic and striking: Blake, Rimbaud, Picasso, Arbus, and Johnny Appleseed. Smith is an American original; her poems are oracles for our times.
Auguries of Summer
by Mel BossaEasy-going Sebastien divides his time between working as a cleaning technician, caring for his widowed father, and running off to the park for soccer practice. Coasting through his existence, he's convinced he doesn't have much going for him.That isn’t what his best friend Jack thinks. Quick-witted and passionate, Jack is fascinated by art and history, but the greatest book or painting could never compare to how he feels when he's alone with Sebastien.In the last five years, Seb and Jack have shared everything, sometimes even a bed. Yet though their chemistry is smoking hot, Sebastien keeps Jack at a safe distance. But when the two move in together to lower their living expenses, that distance gets smaller and smaller, until Sebastien and Jack are standing so close, they can't see what's right in front of their eyes ... the love of their life.
Augurios de inocencia
by Patti SmithLa esencia de Patti Smith, su ADN. «Una joya escondida. Entre las mejores de ellas.»Library Journal «Rompimos el corazón de nuestra madre y nos convertimos en lo que somos.» La artista que ha inscrito su visión de nuestro mundo en poderosos himnos, baladas y letras desvela en esta deliciosa colección de poemas su universo más íntimo: el vínculo con la naturaleza y el paisaje, su mapa interior, las contradicciones del individuo, su meditación sobre la muerte y con la fe. Un monólogo interior fresco y original impregnado de influencias eclécticas como las de Rimbaud, Picasso, Arbus, o William Blake, cuya poesía la acompañó desde que, a la edad de ocho años, su madre le regaló un ejemplar de Canciones de inocencia y de experiencia. La gran creadora que confesó «Si tuviera que quedarme con una sola cosa sería la literatura» deslumbra con su poesía. La crítica ha dicho...«Un libro duro, magnético y bello. Un poemario revelación, como una visión o un manifiesto de esperanza, que lucha contra el horror, contempla la barbarie para luego acusar a sus culpables y exonera a los niños, los de ahora y los que llevamos dentro, que quizá hemos traicionado.»Ester Andorrà, El Nacional «En su primer poemario en varios años, Augurios de inocencia, presenta obras ligeras e inquietantes por su indagación espiritual, la imaginería original y las asociaciones insólitas. [...] Romántica y renegada, Smith pasa de la ira a la empatía y nos recuerda que puede haber sanación en la protesta, consuelo en el lenguaje, catarsis en la expresión. Como siempre, nos lleva a las profundidades más dolorosas y luego nos acerca bailando hacia la luz.»Donna Seaman, Booklist «Treinta años después de Horses la luz de Smith sigue brillando con fuerza.»San Francisco Chronicle «Una joya escondida. Entrelas mejores de ellas.»Library Journal
Augury: Poems
by Eric PankeyFrom award-winning poet and author of Crow-Work, a collection exploring the presence of the divine in the seemingly ordinary. The ancient Romans practiced augury, reading omens in bird&’s flight patterns. In the poems of Augury, revelation is found in nature&’s smallest details: a lizard&’s quick movements, a tree scarred by lighting, the white curve of a snail&’s shell. Here the sensory world and the imagined one collide in unexpected and wonderful ways, as Pankey scrutinizes the physical for meaning, and that meaning for truth. With uncommon grace, each of Pankey&’s precise lyrics advances our shared ontological questions and expresses our deepest contradictions. In a world of mystery, should we focus on finding meaning or creating it? How can the known—and the unknown— be captured in language?Augury is a masterful and magical collection from a poet of stirring intelligence, &“a book of stones unstitched from the wolf&’s belly.&”Praise for Augury &“A darkly luminous book by a poet at the height of his considerable poetic power.&” —Kathy Fagan, author of Moving & St. Rage &“This is a book I will keep close at hand, alongside the best work of Montale, Dickinson, Celan, and Stevens. This is a book one will turn to again and again.&” —Rebecca Dunham, author of Cold Pastoral &“Each ethereal image he weaves into his work is delicately curated, whittled down through his attention to sound. . . . Pankey&’s poems destabilize as they straddle time and place, and he looks askance at the narrow way in which language is often viewed.&” —Publishers Weekly
August
by Bernard BeckettTrapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. When dawn breaks they might be seen from the road and rescued, or not. They wait desperately holding onto life, unravelling the sequence of events that brought them together. Tristan is a philosopher struggling with the question of free will. Grace's life of hardship allows no place for such ideas. But a brief encounter changes their lives, setting them on a collision course with love and death - and each other.
August
by Judith RossnerWe meet Lulu, a psychotherapist, and Dawn, a college freshman, who has attempted suicide on two separate occasions. The author delves into the lives of both of these women, and tells the story of their mutual journey toward self-discovery.
August
by Judith RossnerFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar-- the story of two women, a psychoanalyst and her patient who help each other through very different periods in their lives.When Dawn Henley, the beautiful, talented Barnard College freshman steps into psychoanalyst Dr. Lulu Shinefeld's office, she's immediately intrigued. What could have driven this girl to such extreme levels of depression? Over the course of five years, Dawn's bizarre and tortured childhood is drawn out, and both women are inevitably changed.
August 1914
by Michael Glenny Alexander SolzhenitsynA novel about the first 2 weeks of WWI, the Russian offensive into East Prussia, which resulted in the defeat of General Samsonov's Second Army by Hindenburg. Historical fiction.
August Blue: A Novel
by Deborah LevyThe mesmerising new novel from the twice Booker-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming HomeIf she was my double and I was hers, was it true that she was knowing, I was unknowing, she was sane, I was crazy, she was wise, I was foolish? The air was electric between us, the way we transmitted our feelings to each other as they flowed through our arms, which were touching.At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance.Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.So begins her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, Deborah Levy&’s August Blue uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselves anew.
August Blue: A Novel
by Deborah LevyNamed a Best Book of the Year by TIME, Vulture, The Guardian, BBC, The Week, and Publisher's WeeklyA new novel from the Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy, the celebrated author of The Man Who Saw Everything and The Cost of Living.At the height of her career, the piano virtuoso Elsa M. Anderson—former child prodigy, now in her thirties—walks off the stage in Vienna, midperformance.Now she is in Athens, watching an uncannily familiar woman purchase a pair of mechanical dancing horses at a flea market. Elsa wants the horses too, but there are no more for sale. She drifts to the ferry port, on the run from her talent and her history.So begins her journey across Europe, shadowed by the elusive woman who seems to be her double. A dazzling portrait of melancholy and metamorphosis, Deborah Levy’s August Blue uncovers the ways in which we attempt to revise our oldest stories and make ourselves anew.