Inhalt: Twenty-eight-year-old virtuoso violinist Gideon Davies has lost not only his memory of music but also his ability to play the instrument he mastered as a five-year-old prodigy. One fateful night at Wigmore Hall, he lifted his violin to play in a Beethoven trio --- and everything in his mind related to music was gone. Standort: IV/E Geor Schlagworte:Englisch, Krimi Umfang: 802 S.
Inhalt: When Dr. Courtine is invited to spend the days before Christmas with an old friend he is keen to accept, even though it is twenty years since they last met. One the night Courtine arrives, Austin tells him the story of the town ghost, a story of deadly rivalry and murder two centries old. Standort: IV/E Pall Schlagworte:Englisch, Fremdsprache Umfang: 389 S.
Inhalt: Ein Engländer läßt sich für einen ihm täuschend ähnlich sehenden, vom Revolutionstribunal zum Tode verurteilten Franzosen vertauschen und geht für ihn in den Tod. Schauplatz des Romans sind Paris und London während der Französischen Revolution. Standort: IV/ E Dick Schlagworte:Englisch, Französische Revolution, Klassiker, London, Paris, Roman Umfang: 367 S.
Inhalt: Real Year:2005 Binding unknown, however some books are completely new Paul West a young Englishman arrives in Paris to start a new job and finds out what the French are really like They do eat a lot of cheese some of which smells like pigs' droppings They don't wash their armpits with garlic soap Going on strike really is the second national participation sport after petanque And yes they do use suppositoriesIn his first novel Stephen Clarke gives a laughoutloud account of the pleasures and perils of being a Brit in France Less quaint Standort: IV/ E Clar Schlagworte:Englisch, Paris, Roman Umfang: 383 S.
Inhalt: The story centers on the impending death of the Messina Spartans' football coach Eddie Rake. One of the most victorious coaches in high school football history, Rake is a man both loved and feared by his players and by a town that relishes his 13 state titles. The hero of the novel is Neely Crenshaw, a former Rake All-American whose NFL prospects ended abruptly after a cheap shot to the knees. Neely has returned home for the first time in years to join a nightly vigil for Rake at the Messina stadium. Having wandered through life with little focus since his college days, he struggles to reconcile his conflicted feelings towards his former coach, and he assays to rekindle love in the ex-girlfriend he abandoned long ago. For Messina and for Neely, the homecoming offers the prospect of building a life after Rake.
Inhalt: Der Titelheld David verbringt nach dem frühen Tod des Vaters und dem der Mutter, die von seinem Stiefvater Murdstone und dessen herrschsüchtiger Schwester Jane allmählich zu Tode gequält wird, einige Zeit in der Schule des brutalen Mr. Creakle. Bereits mit zehn Jahren wird er zur Arbeit in die Fabrik Murdstones geschickt. Den unerträglichen Bedingungen entzieht er sich durch Flucht zu seiner Tante Betsey Trotwood nach Dover, die ihm den Besuch der reformpädagogischen Schule des Dr. Strong in Canterbury ermöglicht. Bei dem Londoner Advokaten Wickfield findet er schließlich herzliche Aufnahme. Nun beginnt Davids beruflicher Aufstieg vom Lehrling bei der Anwaltsfirma Spenlow und Jorkins hin zum Parlamentsreporter und Schriftsteller. Standort: IV/ E Dick Schlagworte:England, Englisch, Novelle Umfang: 716 S.
Inhalt: Jonathan Harker, ein Londoner Buchhalter, reist nach Transylvanien zum Schloss des Grafen Dracula, um geschäftliche Angelegenheiten des Grafen zu regeln, der die Absicht hat, nach London überzusiedeln. Harker wird in dem alten Gemäuer Zeuge unheimlicher Ereignisse, bis hin zu einer Begegnung mit drei Vampir-Damen, während Dracula, in dem Harker einen Vampir erkannt hat, nach London aufbricht, wo er Harkers Verlobte Mina und deren beste Freundin Lucy in seinen Bann zwingt. Jonathan Harker schließt sich nach seiner Rückkehr, von den Ereignissen sichtlich erschüttert, einer Gruppe von Vampirjägern um Dr. Van Helsing an, die Dracula gemeinsam zu seinem Schloss zurückverfolgen, um seiner unnatürlichen Existenz ein Ende zu bereiten. Standort: IV/ E Stok Schlagworte:Dracula, Englisch, Klassiker, Roman, Vampir Umfang: 315 S.
Inhalt: Joyce beschreibt ein genaues Bild der Stadt Dublin und seiner Bewohner während der Jahrhundertwende, die geprägt ist von radikalen sozialen und politischen Veränderungen. Standort: IV/ E Joyc Schlagworte:Dublin, Englisch, Jahrhundertwende, Klassiker Umfang: 156 S.
Inhalt: Coketown, eine typische Industriestadt in Nordengland während der industriellen Revolution. In Schulen und Fabriken werden Kinder und Erwachsene wie Sklaven gehalten bis ihr Widerstand gebrochen ist. Standort: IV/ E Dick Schlagworte:England, Englisch, Industrialisierung, Roman, Unterdrückung Umfang: 268 S.
Inhalt: Die Geschichte des sagenumwobenen weißen Wales und seines von grenzenlosem Hass getriebenen Jägers Kapitän Ahab ist ein moderner Mythos. Der besessene einbeinige Walfänger und der geisterhafte Wal liefern sich einen geradezu archaischen Kampf auf Leben und Tod. Standort: IV/ E Melv Schlagworte:Englisch, Roman, Wal, Walfang Umfang: 536 S.
Inhalt: 1. holiday: a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation. [literally: holy day] Many years ago, Mr. Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction that grew to be an astonishing international bestseller. But his reputation is on the decline and he finds himself badly out of touch with the modern world. He decides to take a holiday and comes to the historic village of Great Calne, hoping to use the opportunity to bring his great work up to date. But he soon finds that events take over his plans and that the themes he has written on are being strangely replicated in the lives of the villagers around him. Standort: IV/ E Vick Schlagworte:Englisch, Roman Umfang: 352 S.
Inhalt: Bruce Sterling has called his Shaper/Mechanist novel Schismatrix "my favorite among my books." It is a detailed history of a spacefaring humanity divided into two camps: The Shapers, who prefer genetic enhancements, and the Mechanists, who rely on prosthetics. Sterling also published five Shaper/Mechanist stories between 1982-84, which have been collected with the novel in this compendium volume. This book represents the definitive collection of what is arguably Sterling's most intense work, offering a hard, gritty look at humanity as it pushes and claws its way to the stars. Standort: IV/ E Ster Schlagworte:Englisch, Roman, Science Fiction Umfang: 321 S.
Inhalt: Nach der Scheidung von seiner ersten Frau heiratet Professor Moses Herzog die schöne, aber neurotische Madeleine und bezieht mit ihr ein entlegenes Landhaus in Massachusetts. Hier schreibt Herzog mit Schwierigkeiten an seinem Buch über die europäische Romantik, die er wegen ihrer Lebensfeindlichkeit immer kritischer betrachtet. Herzog und seine Frau lernen ein anderes junges Pärchen, die Gersbachs, kennen. Der egozentrischen Madeleine gefällt das ländliche Leben bald nicht mehr, sie will wieder in einer großen Stadt leben. Mit ihrem Töchterchen ziehen sie nach Chicago, wo Herzog den Gersbachs Arbeit besorgt. Kurz nach der Ankunft lässt sich Madeleine von Herzog scheiden, woraufhin er fast zusammenbricht. Standort: IV/ E Bell Schlagworte:Englisch, Roman Umfang: 540 S.
Inhalt: Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them...' So begins this irresistible voyage into the dark side of Victorian London. Amongst an unforgettable cast of low-lifes, physicians, businessmen and prostitutes, meet our heroine Sugar, a young woman trying to drag herself up from the gutter any way she can. Be prepared for a mesmerising tale of passion, intrigue, ambition and revenge. Standort: IV/ E Fabe Schlagworte:Englisch, Historisches, Roman Umfang: 837 S.
Inhalt: Depicts the rise and fall of one family in Ireland, from the end of the war to the collapse of communism. Micks is 45 and lives with his mother in Limerick. Frustrated by her constant demands for tea, but to idle too leave, he describes his life. By the author of "The Meat Eaters". Standort: IV/ E Coll Schlagworte:Englisch, Familienchronik, Familiengeschichte, Roman Umfang: 242 S.
Inhalt: Troy Phelan, ein 78-jähriger Exzentriker und zehntreichster Mann der USA, ist im Begriff, sein Testament vorzulesen, in dem es um die Aufteilung eines Besitzes im Wert von elf Milliarden Dollar geht. Phelans drei Ex-Frauen, ihr habgieriger Nachwuchs, eine Legion von Rechtsanwälten, einige Psychiater und eine Ansammlung von Tontechnikern warten gebannt, ihre Augen auf digitale Monitoren fixiert, während der alte Mann sein Urteil verliest. Aber Phelan schockiert jeden, indem er -- in den letzten Zügen liegend -- eine bizarre Umverteilung der Beute verkündet und damit eine Geschichte von rechtsjuristischer Moral über ein angefochtenes Testament, Sünde und Erlösung in Gang setzt. Standort: IV/ E Gris Schlagworte:Englisch, Spannung, Testament Umfang: 533 S.
Inhalt: The twenty-third book in the hugely popular Peter Decker and Rina Lazarus series from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman It has been almost a year since Greenbury's last murder. Detective Peter Decker has enjoyed the slower pace of his new job with the upstate police department. Then he receives a phone call from his captain. A male body has been found in the local woods. It appears to be a suicide - single shot to the head, gun by his side - but until the coroner makes the final determination, Decker and his partner Tyler McAdams must treat the scene as a suspicious crime. Identifying the body takes Decker and McAdams into the indecipherable upper echelons of mathematics at Kneed Loft College - a sphere of scheming academics, hidden cyphers and most dangerous of all, a realm of underworld crime where even the most conscientious students can become cold and calculating. It will take all of Decker's wits and McAdams's brains to penetrate enigmatic formulas and codes to solve a dark, twisted tale created by depraved masterminds. Standort: IV/ E Kell Schlagworte:Englisch, Krimi Umfang: 409 S.
Inhalt: Wie schon im 'Alchemist', greift Paulo Coelho erneut das Thema der Pilgerschaft auf, doch dieses Mal erzählt er eine ganz andere Geschichte, in der es um Liebe, Verlust und Leidenschaft und Obsession geht Standort: IV/ E Coel Schlagworte:Englisch, Leidenschaft, Liebe, Pilger, Roman Umfang: 342 S.
Phillip Kerr has been called "Michael Crichton's smarter brother" due to his wide- ranging intelligence and technical knowledge. Dave Delano, the protagonist of this lively thriller, is an American who's educated himself in prison--serving a sentence for a manslaughter he didn't commit. Newly fluent in Russian, he's intrigued by the idea of redistributing wealth, particularly the Mafia's. His plan is to hijack a transatlantic transport ferry/yacht being used to smuggle drug money and to divert the dollars into his very own bank in the former Soviet Union. It all seems flawless until he meets another Grand Duke passenger who's looking to score: Kate Fury, a gorgeous FBI agent who's been tracking cocaine from Colombia to Miami to the European playgrounds of the rich and expecting the biggest collar of her career. What happens when they cross paths is the stuff of a funny, violent and oddly romantic caper. The plot twists fast enough to satisfy even die-hard Elmore Leonard fans and turns on double-dealing, false identities and misunderstood motives, without letting the humour get in the way of the action. --Jane Adams -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels. Standort: IV/E Kerr Schlagworte:Englisch, Spannung, Thriller Umfang: 386 S.
Inhalt: Archangel tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives. One night, Kelso is visited in his hotel room by an old NKVD officer, a former bodyguard of the secret police chief Lavrenty Beria. The old man claims to have been at Stalin's dacha on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke, and to have helped Beria steal the dictator's private papers, among them a notebook. Kelso decides to use his last morning in Moscow to check out the old man's story. But what starts as an idle inquiry in the Lenin Library soon turns into a murderous chase across nighttime Moscow and up to northern Russia--to the vast forests near the White Sea port of Archangel, where the final secret of Josef Stalin has been hidden for almost half a century. Standort: IV/E Harr Schlagworte:Englisch, Russland, Thriller Umfang: 415 S.
Inhalt: They were predicting storms for the end of the day but the sky stayed blue and the wind died down. I went to take a look in the kitchen - make sure things weren't getting clogged up in the bottom of the pot. Everything was just fine. I went out onto the porch armed with a cold beer and stayed there for a while, my face in the sun. It felt good. It had been a week now that I'd been spending my mornings in the sun, squinting like some happy idiot - a week now since I'd met Betty. Standort: IV/E Djia Schlagworte:Englisch, Liebe, Liebesgeschichte Umfang: 341 S.
One that she's successfully kept for years. It's meant that she's had to give up her dreams of going to university and travelling the world to stay in her little village, living with her mum and working in the local teashop.
But then Sophie unexpectedly meets the gorgeous Billy Buskin - a famous actor with ambitions to make it to the top. As they begin to grow closer, Sophie finds herself whisked away from the comfort of her life into Billy's glamorous - but ruthless - world.
Their relationship throws Sophie right into the spotlight after years of shying away from attention, can Sophie handle the constant scrutiny that comes with being with Billy? And most of all, is she ready for her secret heartbreak to be discovered and shared with the nation? Standort: IV/E Flet Schlagworte:Englisch, Geheimnis, Liebe Umfang: 401 S.
Inhalt: Another bucolic fall in northern Hampshire and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of scholl has been less than ticks-cutting class, committing petty crimes, hrassing the teachers. The new headmaster has liberal ideas that the staff finds far from welcome. Standort: IV/E Doby Schlagworte:Englisch Umfang: 406 S.
Inhalt: Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia. Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy? Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to the hapless Cyrus T. Grant III from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, who's in England to see his horse run at Royal Ascot. Sebastian Clifton is now the Chief Executive of Farthings Bank and a workaholic, whose personal life is thrown into disarray when he falls for Priya, a beautiful Indian girl. But her parents have already chosen the man she is going to marry. Meanwhile, Sebastian's rivals Adrian Sloane and Desmond Mellor are still plotting to bring him and his chairman Hakim Bishara down, so they can take over Farthings. Harry Clifton remains determined to get Anatoly Babakov released from a gulag in Siberia, following the international success of his acclaimed book, Uncle Joe. But then something unexpected happens that none of them could have anticipated. Standort: IV/E Arch Schlagworte:Englisch, Krimi, Spannung Umfang: 512 S.
Inhalt: In the heart of a huge, beautiful new office building in downtown Los Angeles, something has gone totally, frighteningly wrong. The Yu Corporation Building, hailed as a monument to human genius, is quietly snuffing out employees it doesn't like. The brain of the building can't be outsmarted or unplugged -- if the people inside are to survive, they'll have to be very, very lucky. Standort: IV/E Kerr Schlagworte:Englisch, Spannung, Thriller Umfang: 465 S.
Inhalt: Alice Loudon seems to have everything: close friends, a loving boyfriend, a successful career. Then one day she meets a stranger while crossing the street and - impulsively, immediately - abadons her old, safe life for a passionate affair. It leads her into a dark, dangerous realm of eroticism and extreme experience that both entices and alarms her. Standort: IV/E Fren Schlagworte:Englisch, Spannung, Thriller Umfang: 358 S.
Inhalt: Yet another serial killer stalks the Internet, this one courtesy of the talented Iles (Black Cross; Spandau Phoenix). When futures trader Harper Cole, who moonlights as the systems operator of an erotic online services called EROS, contacts the New Orleans police with information about the murder of celebrated author-and EROS subscriber-Karin Wheat, he immediately becomes the prime suspect in six other murders of EROS subscribers across the country. Also on the FBI's short list is Cole's eccentric friend and EROS colleague Miles Turner, who has dubbed the killer "Brahma." When Cole learns that the man he thought was Brahma was killed a year ago and that his online identity was stolen, a tense cat-and-mouse game commences. Professional hunters, like FBI psychiatric profiler Arthur Lenz, have the online tables turned on them time and again by an insanely brilliant murderer, and it's up to Cole to render justice. His digging leads to an exciting payoff when he goes online and poses as a potential victim, using as bait a secret that endangers the mother of his child, as well as his wife. Standort: IV/E Iles Schlagworte:Englisch, Internet, Spannung, Thriller Umfang: 622 S.
Inhalt: Oliver Twist was Dickens's second novel and one of his darkest, dealing with burglary, kidnapping, child abuse, prostitution, and murder. Alongside this gallery of horrors are the corrupt and incompetent institutions of 19th-century England set up to address social problems and instead making them worse. The author's moral indignation drives the creation of some of his most memorably grotesque characters: squirming, vile Fagin; brutal Bill Sykes; the brooding, sickly Monks; and Bumble, the pompous and incorrigibly dense beadle. Clearly, a reading of this work must carry the author's passionate narrative voice while being flexible and broad enough to define the wide range of character voices suggested by the text. John Wells's capable but bland reading only suggests the rich possibilities of the material. Restraint and Dickens simply don't go together. The abridgment deftly and seamlessly manages to deliver all major characters and plot lines, but there are many superior audiobook versions of this material, both abridged and unabridged. Not recommended. Standort: IV/E Dick Schlagworte:Englisch, Klassiker Umfang: 511 S.
Inhalt: In this superb novel by the beloved auther of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life after divorce by opening up her house and her heart. Standort: IV/E Berg Schlagworte:Englisch Umfang: 241 S.
Inhalt: British bestseller Katie Fforde serves up a delicious romantic comedy about cherished friends, dreaded ex-husbands, and the joy of ... cooking. Standort: IV/E Ffor Schlagworte:Englisch Umfang: 372 S.
Inhalt: Close your eyes imagine idyllic white sands and coral gardens.' Richard arrives in Thailand. He hears about the beach', a secret island. It is paradise on earth. He goes there, but paradise soon turns into hell. Standort: IV/E Garl Schlagworte:Englisch, Thailand Umfang: 438 S.
Inhalt: When Deborah Monroe's car hits and kills a man on a deserted road on a dark and rainy night, questions of who is to blame muddy the already complicated life of a woman who is newly divorced and struggling with emotions that are rampant in a house with two vulnerable children. Deborah's daughter, 16-year old, Grace, was behind the wheel but, desperate to protect her daughter, Deborah covers for her and takes responsibility for the death of the man. But, when it seems that the victim may or may not have been suicidal, issues of guilt and responsibility, truth and honesty, are all brought into sharp focus. Standort: IV/E Deli Schlagworte:Englisch, Geheimnis, Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung, Schuld, Spannung Umfang: 343 S.
Inhalt: Aus Mitleid mit einem jungen Mann, dessen Verlobte spurlos verschwunden ist, macht sich Privatdedektiv Monk auf die Suche nach ihr. Bei seinen Nachforschungen stößt er auf ein düsteres Geheimnis. Standort: IV/E Perr Schlagworte:Englisch, Krimi, Originalsprache, Roman Umfang: 407 S.
Inhalt: Unlike most people Matt Beckford is actually looking forward to turning thirty. After struggling through most of his twenties, he thinks his career, finances and love life are finally sorted. But when he splits up with his girlfriend, he realises that life has different plans for him amd Matt temporarily moves back home to his parents. Standort: IV/E Gayl Schlagworte:Englisch, Heiteres, Lebensabschnitt Umfang: 350 S.
Inhalt: Vor genau zehn Jahren ist Carolyns Bruder Mack spurlos verschwunden. Er war einfach aus seinem Studentenzimmer in Manhattan weggegangen und nie wiedergekehrt. Doch gibt es ein Lebenszeichen: Jedes Jahr am Muttertag lässt er seine Familie per Telefon wissen, dass es ihm gut geht - und legt panischen Nachfragen zum Trotz einfach auf. Die Mutter ist an dem Schmerz fast zerbrochen, und auch Carolyn spürt, dass sie nie ihr eigenes Leben führen kann, solange das große Geheimnis um Mack nicht gelüftet ist. Sie beginnt, den Fall zu recherchieren. Gleichzeitig wird eine junge Frau in Manhattan entführt. Ausgerechnet am Muttertag lässt der Entführer sie ein verzweifeltes Telefonat mit ihrer Familie führen. Und es gibt noch weitere beunruhigende Verbindungen zu Mack. Ist er am Ende nicht ein Opfer, sondern der Täter? Immer bestürzendere Wahrheiten fördert Carolyn zutage. Zu spät merkt sie, dass der Täter sie längst beobachtet - und nur noch darauf wartet, zuzuschlagen. Standort: IV/E Clar Schlagworte:Englisch, Familientragödie, Spannung, Thriller Umfang: 289 S.
Inhalt: It´s been three years since the devastating accident... Three years since Mia walked out of Adam´s life forever. Now living on opposite coasts, Mia is a rising star at Juilliard and Adam is a bona fide rock star, complete with tabloid headlines an a celebrity girlfriend. Then change brings them together again, for one night. As they explore the city that has become Mia´s home, Adam and Mia Revisit the past and open their hearts to the future - and to each other. Standort: IV/E Form Schlagworte:Liebe, New York, alte Liebe Umfang: 264 S.
Inhalt: Frightening, funny, fast and furious. Zodiac is thrilling speculative fiction torn straight from today's headlines. Standort: IV/E Step Schlagworte:Englisch, Spannung, Thriller Umfang: 308 S.
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