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Debut novel from someone firmly entrenched in the LA arts scene. Jepsen has acted in the Emmy-Award winning show Transparent and a web series with Beth Lisick on ( Transparent creator) Jill Soloway's site, wifey.tv. She's also appeared in music videos for Peaches and the band Two Gallants. Jepsen's novel is from the point of view of a female skater, the culture of female skaters in particular was recently covered in the New York Times . Tara Jepsen's prose is fresh,...
| Автор | Tara Jepsen |
For readers of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner comes a ”pacy Lebanese mystery. A man is haunted by his father’s disappearance in this acclaimed debut novel set against the backdrop of Middle Eastern politics" ― The Guardian Samir leaves the safety and comfort of his family’s new homeland, Germany, for volatile Beirut in an attempt to find his missing father. The only clues Samir has are an old picture of his father and the memory of the bedtime stories he used to tell. The...
| Автор | Pierre Jarawan |
The author grew up in the only mixed-race family in an all-white suburb; with Mostly White , she speaks to mixed-race experiences many have but do not see widely depicted in literature. A strong theme of institutionalized racism ties in to current nationwide discussions of race and class. The author is well-established in the California literary scene; she has been a featured reader at the LA Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival, the Works/San Jose Art and Performance Center, Oakland Beast...
| Автор | Alison Hart |
"Llorona was no harmless little pigeon. She was the lechuza, the owl you see just before someone is about to die, the one that haunts you in your dreams and you never want to see in real life because it means you are about to lose someone you love." Llorona is the only girl Guero has ever loved. A wounded soul, she has adopted the name of a ghost from Mexican folklore. True to her namesake, Llorona cast Guero away with the coldness of the apparition she has become. But Guero–though he...
| Автор | Rubén Degollado |
Zahia Rahmani was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and as a member of the College of the Diversity. She was awarded Special Mention Prize by the Prix Wepler-Fondation La Poste for Muslim: A Novel ; the prize is given annually to a book that displays an «audacity, an excess, a singularity that escapes commercial purviews.» She is considered one of France’s leading art historians and writers, and is currently a visiting professor at NYU’s Gallatin Faculty. Muslim: A Novel is the second...
| Автор | Zahia Rahmani |
A man in his early forties is unable to sleep as he contemplates the decision of running for mayor of his small town. While considering his options, his thoughts drift to his wife and their devoted relationship. As he reflects on his good fortune, one fact becomes apparent—his relationship with his wife originated even before it began. In 1992, life is anything but predictable for fifteen-year-old Scott Furman as he comes of age in his Midwestern small lower-class town of South Hillside. An...
| Автор | A. S. Peterson |
Big Hig gehört zu den Wenigen, die eine verheerende Epidemie überlebt haben. Ebenso wie sein einziger Nachbar, ein menschenfeindlicher Waffennarr mit dem Herz auf dem rechten Fleck, der ihn – brutal, aber verlässlich – beschützt. Hig lebt im Hangar eines verwilderten Flughafens und tuckert mit einer alten Cessna übers Gelände, sein Hund Jasper ist sein treuer Copilot. Eines Tages empfängt er plötzlich ein Funksignal von weit her. Gibt es doch noch weitere Überlebende, jenseits seines kleinen...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Der arme Spielmann Als Sohn eines hohen und einflussreichen Staatsbeamten versagt Jakob, weich, träumerisch und nach innen gewandt, vor den Anforderungen der Wirklichkeit. Er wird vom ehrgeizigen und jähzornigen Vater von der Schule genommen und muss als kleiner Schreiber in einem Büro arbeiten. Aber auch hier entzieht er sich der lauten und rohen Umwelt; nur sein Geigenspiel und Barbara, die Tochter eines Kuchenbäckers, die er schüchtern liebt, sind ihm Zuflucht und Lebensinhalt. Barbara ist...
| Автор | Franz Grillparzer |
Mark Twains Tom Sawyers Abenteuer ist als klassisches Jugendbuch in die Weltliteratur eingegangen und wird von den meisten Menschen wohl zweimal entdeckt: einmal im Alter Toms, wenn man selbst auf gefährliche Abenteuer auszieht, und irgendwann in späteren Jahren, wenn man auf diese Zeit zurück schaut. Mit Musik von Moondog aus seinen Veröffentlichungen Elpmas und Sax Pax For A Sax Die Produktion wurde im November 2002 auf die hr2-Hörbuch-Bestenliste gewählt "Mit jungenhafter...
| Автор | Mark Twain |
England, Ende des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Lord Henry Wotton, ein geistreicher englischer Aristokrat und Dandy, ist fasziniert vom Aussehen des jungen Dorian Gray. Im Atelier seines Freundes, dem Maler Basil Hallward, versucht Henry, den noch knabenhaften Dorian zu manipulieren, um ihn letztendlich als Jünger für seine hedonistischen Ideale zu gewinnen.Durch den Einfluss des Lords wird sich der junge Mann der eigenen Schönheit als auch deren Vergänglichkeit bewusst. Dies lässt ihn im Angesicht...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Beeinflußt durch die Ereignisse der französischen Revolution und die aufkeimende Freundschaft zu Schiller reifte blickt dieser Roman auf die Lehrzeit eines poetisch gesonnenen Bürgermanns in der vorrevolutionären Gegenwart. Als Finacier einer Schauspielertruppe bricht Wilhelm aus seiner engen bürgerlichen Herkunft aus und blickt hinein in die Welt des Theaters. Was als Irrweg erscheint, entwickelt sich zum Lebensweg; immer wieder neues Irren lehrt Wilhelm zu leben. Lebendige Darstellung der...
| Автор | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
* The Believer Book Awards, 2019: Editors' Longlists in Fiction *The Northern California ‘Golden Poppy’ Book Awards 2019, Fiction longlist*A Best Book of 2019 — Vulture, Entropy, Buzzfeed, Thrillist "Etter brilliantly, viciously lays bare what it means to be a woman in the world, what it means to hurt, to need, to want, so much it consumes everything.” —Roxane Gay, author of Bad Feminist "I loved every page of this gorgeous, grotesque, heartbreaking novel." —Carmen Maria...
| Автор | Sarah Rose Etter |
Disc one includes: Gwen's Adventure in the Snow; Rosa's Tale; What Polly Found in Her Stocking; A Hospital Christmas. Disc two includes: A Hospital Christmas (continued); A Country Christmas. Disc three includes: A Country Christmas (continued); Mrs. Podgers' Teapot; Peace from Heaven; The Quiet Little Women. Disc four includes: The Quiet Little Women (continued); A Christmas Dream, and How It Came True; A Song; Kate's Choice; Bertie's Box. Disc five includes:...
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
Der Deichgraf Hauke Haien hat den kühnen Plan, einen neuen, besseren Deich zu bauen. Doch die Dorfbewohner stehen dem Vorhaben skeptisch gegenüber. Ihr Aberglaube wird noch genährt, als der Deichgraf einen lahmen Schimmel kauft, der unter seinen Händen prächtig gedeiht. In einem Oktober jagt der Deichgraf auf seinem Schimmel zum Deich hinaus, der von einem schweren Unwetter bedroht wird. Um den alten Damm zu retten, müsste er den neuen einreißen, was er aber verweigert. Da bricht der alte Damm,...
| Автор | Theodor Storm |
In Heart of Darkness, Polish-British author Joseph Conrad deploys atmosphere, ambiguity and nuance to spin a languid tale of intrigue and madness in late 19th-century Colonial Africa. The story's narrator, Marlow, tells of a trip up the Congo River to rescue a legendary ivory trader, Kurtz, from a mysterious illness. Considered Conrad's masterpiece, and one of the greatest novels of the 20th century (it was written and serialized in 1899 but not published in book form until 1902),...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
Burdened by poverty and spiritually dulled by a loveless marriage to Zeena, his older and ailing wife, Ethan Frome is emotionally stirred by the arrival of their youthful cousin, Mattie Silver, who becomes employed as household help. Mattie's presence not only brightens a gloomy house but also stirs long-dormant feelings in Ethan. However, their growing love for each other is discovered by the embittered Zeena, and it presages an ending to the tale that is both shocking and savagely ironic.
| Автор | Edith Wharton |
In this Christmas story, a poor girl named Tilly finds an injured bird in the snow and takes it home to care for it, believing in the lessons her mother has taught her concerning the golden rule and Christ's commandment to love our neighbors. Although her friends think she shouldn't take care of the bird, her kindness is rewarded unexpectedly on Christmas Eve. This version of Tilly's Christmas is included as a part of Dreamscape's The Christmas Stories of Louisa May Alcott.
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
6,12,1912, Amarna, Ägypten: Im Auftrag des Berliner Mäzens James Simon erforschen deutsche Archäologen im Winter 1912/13 Amarna, die Stadt des Pharaos Echnaton und seiner Frau Nofretete, Am Nikolaustag stoßen sie im Haus des Bildhauers Thutmose auf einen sensationellen Fund: Ein farbig gefasster Frauenkopf von außerordentlicher Schönheit und Qualität tritt ans Licht, Der Grabungsleiter Ludwig Borchardt notiert in sein Tagebuch: «Arbeit ganz hervorragend, Beschreiben nützt nichts, ansehen!» Der...
| Автор | Borchardt Ludwig |
In 1642, a pregnant Hester Prynne is found guilty of adultery, shunned by her neighbors, and forced to wear a scarlet letter 'A' on her dress. Meanwhile, Hester's husband – long thought to be lost at sea – has returned to Boston under the assumed name 'Roger Chillingworth' and plots to uncover her lover's identity. After her daughter Pearl is born, Hester is frequently visited by both Reverend Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, but always refuses to name her lover. As...
| Автор | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Anne Elliot lives at Kellynch Hall with her two sisters and vain father Sir Walter. When financial struggles begin to affect the Elliot family, they decide to move to Bath. Anne decides to visit before the move, and runs into many old friends. Most surprisingly she is reunited with Fredrick Wentworth, a past fiance who under advice from her father and friend Lady Russell never married. Wentworth's lack of wealth and rank in the community were their main concerns and therefore eight years...
| Автор | Джейн Остин |
In Kate's Choice a young English girl inherits a financial windfall when she is suddenly orphaned. Per her father's wish, she is sent to America to live with the families of each of her four uncles in order to choose where she will live. Each family is full of wonderful, prosperous interesting people, all of them anxious that Kate should choose their family to stay with. But at Christmastime, Kate surprises them all by announcing whom she shall stay with.
| Автор | Louisa May Alcott |
These vivid, tightly focused observations about the life of Dublin's poorer classes originally made publishers uneasy: the stories contain unconventional themes and coarse language, and they mention actual people and places. Today, however, the stories are admired. They are considered to be masterful representations of Dublin done with economy and grace-representations, as Joyce himself once explained, of a chapter in the moral history of Ireland that give the Irish a good look at...
| Автор | James Joyce |
"Ich lebe mein Leben in wachsenden Ringen …" Dieses Hörbuch präsentiert die beliebtesten Werke Rainer Maria Rilkes. Geschichten und Gedichte passend zu den vier Jahreszeiten begleiten den Hörer durch Frühling, Sommer, Herbst und Winter. Der bekannte Schauspieler und Sprecher Christian Berkel bringt Rilke mit einzigartigen Interpretationen zum Klingen. Neben Gedichten wie «Der Panther» und «Das Karussell» sind u. a. Auszüge aus «Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge», «Die Weise von...
| Автор | Rainer Maria Rilke |
"The Blue Carbuncle": Der blaue Karfunkel – ein berühmter Diamant von unschätzbarem Wert – findet sich seltsamerweise im Kropf einer Weihnachtsgans wieder. Doch wie gelangte er aus der Schmuckschatulle der Gräfin Morcar dorthin? Keine einfache Aufgabe für den berühmtesten Detektiv aller Zeiten, zumal sich einige der von ihm befragten Personen nicht als besonders auskunftsfreudig erweisen … «The speckled Band»:Eine junge Frau trifft eines Morgens völlig verstört und verängstigt bei Sherlock...
| Автор | Артур Конан Дойл |