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Hvor dårlig var Arne Andersens danseoptræden ved Gylling Gymnasiums traditionsrige Lanciers, der efterfølgende lukkede undervisningsinstitutionen permanent? Hvad blev den elskede brugsuddeler Arnoldi Sivertsen overrasket i færd med at udføre i boksen med krogmodnet kød? Løste den...

Im Winter 1884 versammeln sich auf Einladung Bismarcks die großen Mächte zu einer Konferenz, auf der ein ganzer Kontinent mit all seinen Reichtümern aufgeteilt werden soll: Afrika. Es geht um die Errettung der Eingeborenen aus Heidentum und Sklaverei – doch wer sagt, dass man an guten Taten nicht auch bestens verdienen darf? Österreich wird von Legationsrat Strinetzky vertreten, denn der Botschafter ist verhindert: Franz Liszt hat ihm ein Pianostück gewidmet, er muss üben.

The rug bites. The suit of armor breathes. The woman in the painting gets closer every second. At Giselle’s Sundries, nothing is quite as it seems—but Nadia doesn’t know that. After messing up her freshman year of college, she’s sent to work at her aunt’s dinky little thrift shop...

He spent six months looking for the beautiful, bookish girl who dropped a patch. Finding her was the easy part. Logan I grip too hard. My pitch. My family. Even the memory of Georgie, the girl I met six months ago at a Spring Training fan event. The girl with the dimpled smile, the coffee-shop...

Their engagement produces the highest ratings in show history, and legions of fans are obsessed with their every move. While Noah returns to work as a lawyer, Olivia dives into influencing, trying to parlay her fame into a Hollywood career. Soon the in-demand pair are offered another reality show, brand deals, exotic vacations, and invited to high-profile events.

Filmfan, Mutters Liebling und völlig gelangweilt Coming-of-Age in Brandenburg — nach Art von Marvin KaminskiMarvin Kaminski lebt ein Leben, das vor allem eins ist: durchschnittlich. Seine Arbeit im Rathaus ist öde, das Haus mit Mutter zu eng, sein Alltag langweilig – bis eine merkwürdige Webseite und ein ebenso merkwürdiger Auftrag sein Leben komplett auf den Kopf stellen. Plötzlich steckt Marvin mittendrin in einer Welt aus verschwundenen Bauern, dubiosen Gestalten, einer zwielichtigen Gaststätte, überraschender Waffenkenntnis – und einem Mord. Oder war es doch nur ein Unfall?

Einfühlsame, lustige, politische, satirische, zum Nachdenken anregende, traurige Gedichte zu vielen Bereichen des Lebens. An meine Leser Wird man meine Verse lesen, sich an meinem Lied erfreun? Oder soll umsonst gewesen alle Müh' und Arbeit sein? Hab geschrieben, hab gedichtet, wie's mir eingab mein Gefühl, hab geschrieben, hab gedichtet und gewahrt den strengen Stil.

The demons who once ran amok down there, torturing lost souls, were easy enough to subdue. The damned, left without their tormentors, have been put to work on cotton and tobacco plantations. As for the colonists, it takes all sorts to give up the comforts of home and make new lives on the infernal frontier.

When Annie Meyers wakes up in a made-for-TV Christmas movie starring her ex-situationship and a now not-so-dorky childhood neighbor, her plans to swear off love—and Christmas—begin to unravel. Perfect for fans of A Merry Little Meet Cute, this holiday rom-com will enchant listeners who have...

Eager to try her hand at activism, a young woman in London moves in with her "friend" who is devoted to social issues, only for things to go awry, in this rediscovered queer Victorian novel. After her beloved father passes away, Althea Vane is adrift. Her mother is selling the beautiful home she...

The adventures of a poor gentleman who, inspired by reading novels of chivalry, sets out in the company of his faithful squire Sancho Panza to help the poor, weak and oppressed, as well as to fight against evil. Driven by the desire to achieve immortal fame and the love of Dulcinea - a peasant girl whom he named lady of his heart - Don Quixote becomes entangled in successive adventures and, in his attempt to fix the world, he will fight more than one heroic battle against windmills that, in his eyes, take the form of dangerous giants...

She's back again for a third time in the author's Maine-based Two Seasons series of humor novels. And this time, Ma's in trouble! 'Ma' and the other eccentric residents of East Puddleduck, Maine, invite you to join them at Ma's Diner for a series of silly misadventures. This time Ma ends up in court, she goes skiing, she gets a Halloween scare and, of course, she holds her dreaded Bucksnort competition once again. Only this time the real law shows up! East Puddleduck will also welcome a new doctor and even a new junior officer apprentice for Constable Bob.

It's not been a good morning for Thraxas. A vindictive judge has just fined him every guran he has, and two old enemies have threatened his life. And to cap it all, the rainy season has started and it's as wet as a mermaid's blanket in the magical city of Turai. He desperately needs a winner in the big chariot race. And he needs a job. But not even Thraxas with his sorcerous investigating skills could have predicted that his two requirements might just be connected in a strange and potentially disastrous way.

“[Vonnegut] at his wildest best.”—The New York Times Book Review Eliot Rosewater—drunk, volunteer fireman, and President of the fabulously rich Rosewater Foundation—is about to attempt a noble experiment with human nature . . . with a little help from writer Kilgore Trout. God Bless...

“A funny, savage appraisal of a totally automated American society of the future.”—San Francisco Chronicle Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a supercomputer and run completely by machines...

“Relentlessly fun to read.”—Dave Eggers A collection of fourteen previously unpublished short stories from one of the most original writers in all of American fiction In this series of perfectly rendered vignettes, written just as he was starting to find his comic voice, Kurt Vonnegut...

A dead body on their first day of work would horrify most people — not Hilda. When she arrives at Doran and Sarn’s solicitors, she says, 'Are we playing a murder game? I'm terribly good at those.' Some might wish there were only one murder. The second victim for a start. But Hilda is happy to help her old friend Chief Superintendent Humblecut of the Yard. Whether or not he wants it. Murders, missing wills, and secret societies — this is a case that would baffle many. Hilda and Pearl are back together in this third book in the Hilda Mystery Novellas.

Out of the blue, vain and naive former drama teacher, Tristram Randolph, is offered the job of headmaster at a new school in Diskebapisbad, dysfunctional capital of a despotic post-Soviet state. Little does he know--although the signs are obvious to all but him--that the school is the pet project of the ruthless president's spoilt daughter. Randolph hires a motley crew of teachers, each of whom embodies one of the seven deadly sins.

You're smarter than Plato. So why is your life still a mess? You know the Earth goes around the sun. You know where babies come from. You're walking around with more accurate facts about the universe than the greatest minds of antiquity could have dreamed of. And you still can't figure out why you feel hollow after a good week, still fall for the wrong people, still lie awake at 3 a.m. wondering what you're doing with your one shot at this. Here's the uncomfortable news. That's not new. Every problem wrecking your life right now was already wrecking somebody's life 2,400 years ago.

Der amerikanische Prosa-Künstler Washington Irving hat einen prägenden Einfluss auf die amerikanische Literatur ausgeübt. Das liegt an seiner sehr angenehmen Sprachgestaltung und seiner genreübergreifenden Virtuosität.