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Akis Mutter ist seit Jahren in Tokio, abgehauen, mit ihrem Neuen. Im Nachtleben trifft bürgerliche Welt auf Wiener Untergrund, für Aki gibt es endlich Fluchtorte. Nina ist eine Ausnahme: Sie beendet Akis lähmende Einsamkeit, gleichzeitig ist sie damit seine größte emotionale Herausforderung. Akis Psychose wird stark durch den Zustand der Welt und die Gefährdung der Demokratie getriggert. Proteste am Wiener Karlsplatz und Gürtel und der Klimaaktivismus eskalieren in einem apokalyptisch anmutenden Bürgerkrieg.

PRAISE FOR BELLA MACKIE: 'Delicious' JOJO MOYES 'Super-sharp, lethally witty' NIGELLA LAWSON ‘Wonderfully wicked’ RED 'Very funny… I inhaled it' JOE LYCETT ‘Taut, pacy, seamless… a huge pleasure to read’ MARIAN KEYES 'You know Diana Leyland… she climbed the ladder by marrying a...

Hamburg, 1941. Het leven van de achttienjarige Joodse Anna staat al jaren op zijn kop. Haar vader mag niet meer werken, hun prachtige huis is onder dwang verkocht en nu wordt ze met haar ouders en broertje op transport naar het oosten gezet. Haar hoop op een betere toekomst verdwijnt als ze in Minsk aankomen en in het overvolle getto worden opgesloten. Al snel merkt Anna wat haar nieuwe leven inhoudt. Als ze na vele ontberingen de kans krijgt om zich aan te sluiten bij het verzet, grijpt ze die met beide handen aan. Amstelveen, 2000.

À l'université de Nevaeh, tout n'est qu'illusion. Derrière les façades couvertes de lierre et les sourires parfaits, les secrets s'amoncellent : des étudiants disparaissent, et ceux qui posent les mauvaises questions ne sont plus jamais les mêmes. Quand Ashley, une étudiante qui vient...

Zachary Whitlock knows sheep. He knows farming and knows what it's like to have his best friend forced into an internment camp for Japanese Americans. What he does not know much about is goats and traveling by sea on cargo ships, yet he makes a decision to go with a group of volunteers to Japan to help deliver a herd of more than two hundred goats, many of which are pregnant, to survivors of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Goats will provide much-needed milk and nutrition, and people living in the bombed ruins are sick and hungry.

Trata la vida de cuatro niñas que, tras pasar la adolescencia con la Guerra Civil en los Estados Unidos como fondo, entre 1861 y 1865, se convierten en mujeres. Está basada en las vivencias de la autora. Mujercitas supone una auténtica revolución tanto dentro de la literatura decimonónica como dentro de la literatura norteamericana de esos tiempos.

On his sixteenth birthday, Zach Neely learns a family secret. A secret that steers him on a mission of life and death, teaching him about true friendship and commitment along the way.

A romance about a storm that separates a family.

Seventeen-year-old Akane has everything she could ever want: friends, a boyfriend, and an all-round perfect life. No one knows that her every move is a calculated performance, dictated by a compulsive need to be liked. Her flawless act is disrupted when she meets a man named Ai, who looks and sounds exactly like the protagonist of Akane's favorite novel. Can this be a coincidence? And if not, what does it mean? From Yoru Sumino, bestselling author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, comes this ensemble drama of fragile hearts and intersecting fates.

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ∙ A radiant escape to the lake from #1 New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After and This Summer Will Be Different As featured in The New York Times ∙ People ∙ Good Morning America ∙ The Washington Post ∙ Cosmopolitan ∙ TODAY ∙ USA...

열아홉 수지는 소리를 듣지 못해도 불행하다고 느낀 적은 없다. 어렸을 때부터 엄마와 수지만 아는 수화로 완벽한 대화가 가능했고, 상상 속에서 모든 소리를 만들어 낼 수 있었으니까. 그런데 어느 날 인공 와우 수술을 받게 되면서 모든 게 달라진다. 완벽했던 침묵의 세계에서 불완전한 소음의 세계로 옮겨진 수지는 낯선 세상에 적응해 나가기 위해 새로운 발걸음을 준비한다. 눈이나 귀가 아닌 마음으로 세상을 바라보는 수지를 통해 독자들은 있는 그대로의 나 자신과 마주하는 법을 배우게 된다.

If throwing a stone into a well brings joy, some pigeons’ lives must be disrupted—that’s the harsh reality of Aahil’s world. Born and raised in a modest home in a small village, Aahil’s journey is shaped by pain and hatred, leading him to a perspective vastly different from ours. This book offers a glimpse into that world. For Aahil, the world comprises two kinds of people: those who walk a path to reach a destination and those who take any path just to escape where they are.

FINALIST FOR THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR GAY FICTION "That rarest phenomenon: a war novel that feels at once timeless and precisely of the moment…" —Washington Post A poignant coming-of-age story with the sensitivity and haunting power of What Belongs to You and Swimming in the Dark, about...

Mann und Frau. Mutter und Tochter. Freunde und Freundinnen. In zwölf Stories erkundet Kristen Roupenian das Lebensgefühl von Menschen in einer schönen neuen Welt. Fragile Hierarchien und prekäre Lebenssituationen auf der einen, das Bedürfnis nach Sicherheit und Spaß auf der anderen Seite: Alles ist möglich, aber wer sind wir, wenn wir alles sein können? Mit so viel Einsicht in die Wünsche und Ängste des Einzelnen hat man noch nicht über das Zusammenleben in dieser neuen Zeit gelesen - einer Zeit, in der alles greifbar ist, und es doch immer schwerer wird, auch nur das Geringste davon zu erreichen.

WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE A big and big-hearted novel—one enthralling, transformative year in the life of a child actor coming of age in a bygone Manhattan, from the critically acclaimed author of Mr. Peanut NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl “Tender...

A girl takes on a series of identities to survive, shrouding herself in layers of secrets, until years later when she is forced to reckon with her past. On an ordinary day in an upscale Atlanta suburb, Maya is making breakfast for her two sons, when her husband drops a letter on the counter and asks a devastating question: Who is Sunny?

A haunting and heartbreaking novel narrated from heaven as a young girl watches over her family and killer. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for – except what she...

Brought to you by Penguin. Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature A witty, moving philosophical novel, Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums is a journey of self-discovery through the lens of Zen Buddhist thought. This Penguin Modern Classics...

"Pinball 1973" handelt von einem jungen Mann, der in Tokio lebt, während sein Freund "Ratte", bereits bekannt aus "Wenn der Wind singt", immer noch in "J.'s Bar" darauf wartet, dass das Leben losgeht. Ein melancholischer, atmosphärisch dichter Roman, der zudem die wohl besten Flipperszenen der Literaturgeschichte enthält. Nach langem Zögern hat Haruki Murakami die Bitten seiner Fangemeinde erhört und der Veröffentlichung dieses außerhalb Japans nie erschienenen Frühwerks zugestimmt.