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Liebesgeschichte, Kriminalroman, Entwicklungsgeschichte, Politthriller furios zu einem Roman verwoben - das ist das Buch von Juli Zeh, einem der uberragenden Talente der deutschen Literatur. Fur ihre Geschichte um den Volkerrechtsexperten Max, der nach dem Selbstmord seiner einzigen Liebe Jessie ins Bodenlose sturzt, wurde die Autorin mit dem Deutschen Bucherpreis, mit dem Rauriser Literaturpreis und dem Bremer Literaturpreis ausgezeichnet, die Kritik lag ihr zu Fuen. Juli Zeh erzahlt lakonisch und doch voller Poesie vom Schicksal einer Liebe, die sich im Geflecht von Politik und Profit verfangt. Ihr Roman entwirft das eindrucksvolle Szenario einer Welt nach dem Zusammenbruch der Ideologien - und das in einer Sprache, die rasant und absolut zeitgema ist.

Londres, 1871.Sus almas estaban atormentadas, sus cuerpos pedían a gritos amar y ser amados.Alice es la mayor de las hermanas Atwood. Han pasado tres años desde que Alice fuera presentada en sociedad, desde que se encaprichara de un noble y desde que este mancillara su honor, tomandola a la fuerza. Desde ese dia, Alice no esta interesada en el amor, no desea tener un marido. Su alegria, esa que siempre irradio, poco a poco se ha ido ensombreciendo.Anthony McLaine, marques de Dumfries, habia sido un crapula. El y Thomas, el duque de Riderland, se conocieron en la Universidad de Eton y, desde el primer dia, se hicieron inseparables. Habian compartido correrias nocturnas e incluso alguna que otra mujer. Sin embargo, nada queda en Anthony de aquel hombre despreocupado y libertino que un dia fue. La muerte de su hermano y el hecho de figurar como la cabeza visible de su familia, que se desmorona a pasos agigantados, lo han sumido en una lacerante amargura que lo mantiene prisionero.Al igual que Bella y Thomas, Alice y Anthony tambien se conocieron en el baile del duque de Wakefield, un año atras. Ambos afirmaron no estar interesados en encontrar pareja si no era para compartir un simple baile. La postura de Alice no ha cambiado. Su interes en conocer a un hombre con el que poder plantearse una vida en comun continua siendo nulo. Anthony, quien ha pasado de comerse el mundo a ser devorado por el, tampoco esta interesado en el amor.Un inesperado viaje a Escocia, orquestado por Bella, hara que sus caminos se vuelvan a cruzar. ¿Encontrara Alice una razon para romper con su pasado, vivir su presente con esperanza y poder mirar al futuro con optimismo? ¿Sera Anthony capaz de aceptar quien es, de irse desprendiendo de ese tormento que lacera su alma y de abrir las puertas de su corazon? ¿Podran soñar, el uno de la mano del otro, con un mañana en el que no haya cabida para la soledad?

ADVENTURES IN TOYLAND:WHAT THE MARIONETTE TOLD MOLLYBY EDITH KING HALL

Lorsqu’Angèle, divorcée, la quarantaine bien entamée et mère de deux enfants, saute le pas pour s’inscrire sur un site de rencontres, elle enclenche sans le savoir un jeu de manipulation qui prend la

Its 1895. Amid laundry and bruises, Rina Pierangeli Faccio gives birth to the child of the man who raped her and who she has also been forced to marry. Unbroken, she determines to change her name; and her life, alongside it. 1902. Romaine Brooks sails for Capri. She has barely enough money for the ferry, nothing for lunch; her paintbrushes are bald and clotted... But she is sure she can sell a painting and is fervent in her belief that the island is detached from all fates she has previously suffered.... In 1923, Virginia Woolf writes: I want to make life fuller and fuller.Sarah Bernhardt Colette Eleanora Duse Lina Poletti Josephine Baker Virginia Woolf... these are just a few of the women sharing the pages of a book as fierce as it is luminous. Lush and poetic; furious and funny; in After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz has created a novel that celebrates the women and trailblazers of the past their constant efforts to push against the boundaries of what it means, and can mean, to be a woman that also offers hope for our present, and our futures.

A stunning psychological thriller about loss, sisterhood, and the evil that men do, for readers of Ruth Ware and S.K. TremeyneA little girl is abducted during the darkness of a solar eclipse. Her older sister was supposed to be watching her. She is never seen again.Sixteen years later and in desperate need of a fresh start, journalist Cassie Warren moves back to the small town of Bishops Green to live with her ailing grandmother. When a local girl goes missing just before the next big eclipse, Cassie suspects the disappearance is connected to her sister that whoever took Olive is still out there. But she needs to find a way to prove it, and time is running out.

In a world where the dead move among the living, there is a family that shoulders a curse. Together with their ancestors and neighboring spirits, they will try to do away with it, but once introduced to the world of the dead, the juveniles of the family discover that not everything is fair in life after death, and a revolution begins to loom in the horizon.

A unique collection of brand-new spy stories from world-class writers. An instant classic for thrill addicts everywhere.Features a brand new short story from Lee ChildFrom a secretive soldier on the eve of the Normandy landings to a golf-playing gun fanatic in a suburb of modern Britain, everybody has something to hide in this brilliant collection of original spy fiction that brings together the distinctive voices of the genre for the very first time. In Lee Childs Section 7, a Top Secret operational meeting is given a sly twist, while David Morrells tale of an interrogators techniques in a world where the tables might turn at any moment is dark, sinister and frighteningly real. In a business where one countrys traitor is another countrys hero, how far would you go to get to the truth? With an introduction from Otto Penzler, these thrilling tales of intrigue and deception, heroism and betrayal, courage and cowardice will push your adrenaline to dangerous new levels.With contributions from: Charles McCarry, Lee Child, James Grady, Joseph Finder, John Lawton, John Weisman, Stephen Hunter, Gayle Lynds, David Morrell, Andrew Klavan, Robert Wilson, Dan Fesperman, Stella Rimington, Olen Steinhauer.

A turbulent black comedy about love, loneliness and how we shape our future.Lucy thinks shes finally cracked the love thing. Joe, her handsome American boyfriend, is moving to London. So how come he seems to be heading for the emergency exit? Lucys best friend Scarlet is on an endless carousel of losers, users and married men. Her dad just thinks were all better off flying solo.But when a mysterious New Zealander arrives in their midst and starts showing an unhealthy interest in Lucy, it seems that everyones baggage is finally coming out on display...Emma Frosts play Airsick was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2003.

Una obra de teatro del Premio Nobel Mario Vargas Llosa.Sin duda el escenario es el espacio privilegiado para representar aquella magia de que está hecha también la vida de la gente: esa otra vida que inventamos porque no podemos vivirla de verdad, solo soñarla gracias a las esplendorosas mentiras de la ficcion.Chispas Bellatin y Raquel Saavedra, ambos peruanos y miraflorinos, se encuentran en una habitacion de hotel, en Londres. Aparentemente no se conocen y, sin embargo, tienen un pasado comun: Raquel dice ser la hermana de Pirulo, gran amigo de la infancia y juventud de Chispas. En este universo cerrado, se emprendera un extenso viaje interior, a veces doloroso y tenso, a veces tierno y ligero. La conversacion entre ambos sera como una caja china donde detras de una historia se esconde otra.En esta obra de teatro, el dialogo ininterrumpido llevara de la mano al lector por caminos insospechados. Sera testigo de la construccion de una identidad, donde la frontera entre la realidad y la ficcion es tan difusa como la niebla. Las mentiras que Chispas Bellatin contara en esta habitacion, al pie del Tamesis, iluminaran y sacaran a flote su verdad mas recondita.

In a warren of crumbling buildings called the Old City, a hospital echoes with the screams of the poor souls inside. Inside, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesnt remember why shes in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and bloodThen, one night, a fire at the hospital gives the woman a chance to escape, leaving her free to uncover the truth about what happened to her all those years ago.

Um inimigo misterioso invade o reino de Copas. Estranhos acontecimentos tiram o sono das autoridades inglesas e Alice no tem mais uma noite de sono depois que um misterioso ser invade os seus sonhos. Ha algo acontecendo nessas noites frias. Algo muito ruim.

Misteriosos fenômenos continuam enchendo de dúvidas as cabeças das autoridades e dos chefes do submundo. Alice ainda corre perigo. Acredita que o que lhe aconteceu foi apenas um delírio até novamente

Alice enfim consegue se livrar da influência mental da Imperatriz do Tabuleiro Negro com a ajuda de Coelho Branco e à ela é dada a difícil decisão de se esconder para sobreviver ou lutar para consegu

Alices Adventures in Wonderland (1865) is a novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells the story of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit-hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar and anthropomorphic creatures.The tale is filled with allusions to Dodgsons friends (and enemies), and to the lessons that British schoolchildren were expected to memorize. The tale plays with logic in ways that have made the story of lasting popularity with adults as well as children. It is considered to be one of the most characteristic examples of the genre of literary nonsense, and its narrative course and structure has been enormously influential, mainly in the fantasy genre.

The critically acclaimed author of Alien: The Cold Forge takes readers to a rogue colony where terror lurks in the tunnels of an abandoned Weyland-Yutani complex."Shy" Hunt and the tech team from McAllen Integrations thought it was an easy jobset up environmental systems for the brand new Hasanova Data Solutions colony, built on the abandoned ruins of a complex known as "Charybdis.:There are just two problems: the colony belongs to the Iranian state, so diplomacy is strained at best, and the complex is located above a series of hidden caves. Charybdis has a darker history than any could imagine, and its depths harbor deadly secrets. Until their ship can be refueled, the McAllen team is trapped there.The deeper they dig, the more Shy is convinced theres no one they can believe. When a bizarre ship lands on a nearby island, one of the workers is attacked by a taloned creature, and trust evaporates between the Iranians and Americans. The McAllen integrations crew are imprisoned, accused as spies, but manage to send out a distress signal... to the Colonial Marines.

In her old house by the fjord, Signe lies on a bench and sees a vision of herself as she was more than twenty years earlier: standing by the window waiting for her husband Asle, on that terrible late November day when he took his rowboat out onto the water and never returned. Her memories widen out to include their whole life together, and beyond: the bonds of family and the battles with implacable nature stretching back over five generations, to Asles great-great-grandmother Aliss. In Jon Fosses vivid, hallucinatory prose, all these moments in time inhabit the same space, and the ghosts of the past collide with those who still live on. Aliss at the Fire, is a visionary masterpiece, a haunting exploration of love and loss that ranks among the greatest meditations on marriage and human fate.

The official novelization to the highly anticipated movie, Alita: Battle Angel. A young woman with no memory of her past uncovers her incredible destiny in Alita, a groundbreaking new experience from visionary filmmakers James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez.From visionary filmmakers James Cameron (Avatar) and Robert Rodriguez (Sin City), comes Alita: Battle Angel, an epic adventure of hope and empowerment.When Alita (Rosa Salazar) awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido (Christoph Waltz), a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past. As Alita learns to navigate her new life and the treacherous streets of Iron City, Ido tries to shield her from her mysterious history while her street-smart new friend Hugo (Keean Johnson) offers instead to help trigger her memories.But it is only when the deadly and corrupt forces that run the city come after Alita that she discovers a clue to her past she has unique fighting abilities that those in power will stop at nothing to control. If she can stay out of their grasp, she could be the key to saving her friends, her family and the world shes grown to love.

Drama Classics: The Worlds Great Plays at a Great Little Price Drydens 1677 play All for Love is a version of the Antony and Cleopatra story, told as a heroic tragedy.Antony and Octavius Caesar are struggling for control of what was to become the Roman Empire. Antony and Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, are lovers and political allies, but their forces have been defeated at the battle of Actium. The play is set in Alexandria, under siege by Octavius Caesar.This edition in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series is edited and introduced by Trevor R. Griffiths.

"David Quantick is one of the best kept secrets in the world of writing. Hes smart, funny and unique. You should let yourself in on the secret." Neil GaimanIt is March 1979 in DeKalb Illinois. Todd Milstead is a wannabe writer, a serial adulterer, and a jerk, only tolerated by his friends because he throws the best parties with the best booze. During one particular party, Todd is showing off his perfect recall, quoting poetry and literature word for word plucked from his eidetic memory. When he begins quoting from a book no one else seems to know, a novel called All My Colors, Todd is incredulous. He can quote it from cover to cover and yet it doesnt seem to exist.With a looming divorce and mounting financial worries, Todd finally tries to write a novel, with the vague idea of making money from his talent. The only problem is he cant write. But the book All My Colors is there in his head. Todd makes a decision: he will "write" this book that nobody but him can remember. After all, if nobodys heard of it, how can he get into trouble?As the dire consequences of his actions come home to both Todd and his long-suffering friends, it becomes clear that there is a high and painful price to pay for his crime."A morality tale, a comedy, a horror story rolled into one. All My Colors has it all." The Sun"Really rich, funny, unsettling and just very alive. A brilliant premise executed with total confidence and authority." John Niven, author of Kill Your Friends