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Nach Herkunft endlich neue Erzählungen des SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautors und Deutschen Buchpreisträgers. Was wäre, wenn man nicht diese eine Entscheidung getroffen hätte, sondern diese ganz andere? Was wäre, hätte man der Erwartung getrotzt? Und: Wäre es nicht schön, könnte man ein Leben probeweise erfahren, bevor man es wirklich lebt? Manchmal fürchten wir uns, feige gewesen zu sein, zu lange gezögert und etwas verpasst zu haben, das uns ein besseres Ich beschert hätte, ein größeres Glück und die besser aussehenden und lustigeren Haustiere und Partner.

Nathan Carter, a man in his 20s, moves from Boston to Eden, Vermont, following the death of his father and the end of yet another failed romance. When Carter's Jeep goes off the road in a snowstorm, 79-year-old Wallace Fiske nurses him back to health and the two become unlikely friends.

人生にあるいくつかの大事な分岐点。そして私は今ここにいる。ビートルズのLPを抱えて高校の廊下を歩いていた少女。同じバイト先だった女性から送られてきた歌集の、今も記憶にあるいくつかの短歌。

Digyen Burmah is a forensic auditor and corporate spy. An old friend needs his help in finding his wife and coworker, who mysteriously vanished during an official tour. Apparently, the company is also frantically trying to find his elusive wife.

"À quelques mois d'intervalle, la vie m'a rendu témoin des deux événements qui me font le plus peur au monde : la mort d'un enfant pour ses parents, celle d'une jeune femme pour ses enfants et son mari. Quelqu'un m'a dit alors : tu es écrivain, pourquoi n'écris-tu pas notre histoire ? C'était une commande, je l'ai acceptée. C'est ainsi que je me suis retrouvé à raconter l'amitié entre un homme et une femme, tous deux rescapés d'un cancer, tous deux boiteux et tous deux juges, qui s'occupaient d'affaires de surendettement au tribunal d'instance de Vienne (Isère)."

In a darkened room a young man sits telling the macabre and eerie story of his life - the story of a vampire, gifted with eternal life, cursed with an exquisite craving for human blood. Anne Rice's compulsively readable novel is arguably the most celebrated work of vampire fiction since Bram Stoker's Dracula which was published in 1897.

La historia de la huida desesperada de una madre y su hijo desde Acapulco rumbo a Estados Unidos, perseguidos por un cartel de narcos. Lydia Quijano Pérez vive en Acapulco, México, donde regenta una librería. Tiene un hijo de ocho años, Luca, el amor de su vida, y un maravilloso esposo que es periodista. Y aunque la situación en Acapulco comienza a agrietarse debido a los cárteles de la droga, Lydia lleva una vida confortable.

Roman prinadlezhit k chislu samyh izvestnyh i populyarnyh proizvedeniy amerikanskoy literatury HKH veka. Istoriya sem'i Dzhordahov, predstavlennoy v neskol'kih pokoleniyah, razrastaetsya do panoramy vsego amerikanskogo obshchestva. Pisatel' proslezhivaet vozmozhnosti, otkryvayushchiesya pered "tipichnymi" amerikancami, lyud'mi bez korney, stremyashchimisya probit'sya, dostich' uspekha i bogatstva.

Hierdie aangrypende roman oor ’n ongeletterde Nama-vrou van die Richtersveld speel af in die 1950’s. Katryn Jonis word van moord aangekla, maar sy kom agter die pro deo advokaat glo nie in haar onskuld nie en besluit dan om haar eie verdediging in die hof te behartig. Die vindingryke en berekende wyse waarop die reguit en passievolle Katryn die waarheid uit die staat se getuies in die hof trek, boei die leser deurgaans. Daar is baie vrae: Wie het dan die moord gepleeg, en hoekom?

Brígida y Justino viven en El Espejuelo, un pueblo de la Mancha, junto con sus dos hijos adolescentes: Carlos y Francisca. Mientras Justino le enseña a Carlos el oficio de alfarero para que le ayude en el tejar, Francisca se rebela, abandona a su familia y huye a la ciudad donde encuentra un trabajo en un hotel del puerto. Pero las cosas distan mucho de salir como esperaba cuando el dueño, un hombre casado y con hijos, se fija en ella.

A first-date dud, socially awkward, and overly fond of quick-dry clothes, genetics professor Don Tillman has given up on love, until a chance encounter gives him an idea. He will design a questionnaire to uncover the perfect partner. She will most definitely not be a barmaid, a smoker, a drinker or a late-arriver. Rosie is all these things. She is also fiery and intelligent, strangely beguiling, and looking for her biological father - a search that a DNA expert might just be able to help her with.

ひょっとしたら、と彼女は思う、世界は本当に終わりかけているのかもしれない。

Der furiose Abschluss der Großen Freiheit-Trilogie von Schriftsteller-, Schauspieler- und Musikerlegende Rocko Schamoni. Sommer ‘86, ein junger Mann fährt nach Hamburg, um dabei zu sein. Er ist 19 und will Musik machen, die Jugend feiern, Künstler sein. Es zieht ihn nach St. Pauli, auf den Fixstern der Verrückten. Er will hinein in den Abgrund, »wo Feuchtigkeit und dunkle Wärme merkwürdige Organismen zum Tanzen bringen«. Er trifft die Zitronen, die Ärzte, die Hosen, die Neubauten – und sucht seinen eigenen Platz in dieser Welt.

Songwriter, poet, and best-selling author Travis Hunter was named Author of the Year by readers of the Atlanta Daily World. In The Hearts of Men, a reformed player, a workaholic trying to overcome his past, and a faithful husband diagnosed with lung cancer all struggle to be the men they hope to be. But life and human frailty have a way of throwing stumbling blocks before the best of intentions.

В этот сборник вошли известный цикл рассказов Бабеля "Конармия" и его бессмертные, разобранные на цитаты "Одесские рассказы". В конармейском цикле автор страстно и правдиво рассказывает о Гражданской войне, о "стихии революции", где нашлось место победам и поражениям, великодушию и жестокости. "Одесские рассказы" – ироничные истории о неунывающих бандитах с Молдаванки и их неотразимом предводителе Бене Крике. Бабель мастерски изображает воров, налетчиков и контрабандистов в рождении, любви и смерти.

Dans la Barcelone de 1945, le jeune Daniel Sempere est conduit par son père dans un lieu mystérieux : le cimetière des livres oubliés. Là, il est soumis à un étrange rituel : "adopter" un livre, qu'il aura mission de "sauver". Ce sera "L'Ombre du vent" d'un certain Julien Carax.

Most of the big money belongs to Torquil Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American millionaire – but that doesn’t stop him wanting more out of it. His niece, the beautiful Ann Moon, is engaged to ‘Biscuit’, Lord Biskerton, who doesn’t have very much of the stuff and so he has to escape to Valley Fields to hide from his creditors. Meanwhile, his old schoolfriend Berry Conway, who is working for Frisby, himself falls for Ann – just as Biscuit falls for her friend Kitchie Valentine.

ひとつの死をきっかけに膨れ上がる人々の悪意。それに抗し、真実を求める生徒たちを描いた、現代ミステリーの最高峰。

Of Bees and Mist centers on Meridia, who, at age 16, tries to escape her alienating childhood and her mysterious parents by running away to marry a tenderhearted young man, whose family is harboring secrets of their own. There is a grave hidden in the garden. There are two sisters groomed from birth to despise each other. And there is Eva, the formidable matriarch whose grievances swarm the air in an army of bees

The recent death of one of the descendants of Dr. Watson has brought to light his personal papers. These include a number of stories that Dr. Watson suppressed at the time for various reasons. As all involved are long dead, the inheritor has agreed to the publication of a set of eight of the most interesting adventures.