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Diese Auswahl internationaler weihnachtlicher Geschichten und Gedichte bietet eine einzigartige Mischung aus stimmungsvollen Texten und großartigen Sprechern (Ulrike Hübschmann und Frank Arnold). Autoren (u.a.): Charles Dickens, Alphonse Daudet, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Peter Rosegger, Oscar Wilde.
| Автор | Diverse Autoren |
Wenn im Herbst langsam die Teiche zufrieren, beginnen sich die Buben besonders auf das Eislaufen zu freuen. Mit Steinen prüfen sie die Dicke des Eises … Christian Rode liest diese winterliche Kindheitserinnerung «Endlich Eislaufen» von Wladimir Korolenko.
| Автор | Wladimir Korolenko |
From the author of ‘Freedom’, a richly realistic and darkly hilarious masterpiece about a family breakdown in an age of easy fixes.After fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity, and their children have long since fled for the catastrophes of their own lives. As Alfred’s condition worsens and the Lamberts are forced to face their secrets and failures, Enid sets her heart on one last family Christmas.Bringing...
| Автор | Jonathan Franzen |
Winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY is a heart-wrenching story of escape, love and comic-book heroes set in Prague, New York and the Arctic.One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay’s cramped New York bedroom, his nerve-racking escape from Prague finally achieved. Little does he realise that this is the beginning of an extraordinary friendship and even more fruitful business partnership. Together, they create a...
| Автор | Michael Chabon |
Soon to be a major motion picture, this heart-warming and inspirational tale follows Enzo, a loyal family dog, tells the story of his human family, how they nearly fell apart, and what he did to bring them back together.Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: he thinks and feels in nearly human ways. He has educated himself by watching extensive television, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo realizes...
| Автор | Garth Stein |
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHOR‘The most successful novelist on Planet Earth’ – Washington PostThe MacKade brothers – the embodiment of tall, dark, and dangerous – are back by popular demand.Bad boy Rafe has returned home after ten years, appealing as ever. And not even lovely Regan Jones, reserved antiques dealer, is immune to Rafe MacKade.Praise for Nora Roberts‘A storyteller of immeasurable diversity and talent’ – Publisher’s Weekly‘You can’t bottle wish fulfilment, but Nora Roberts...
| Автор | Nora Roberts |
Wenn der Kakao bereits eine sonderbare Farbe hat und dann auch die Stubenfliege, die davon gekostet hat, tot umfällt, könnte das wohl am billigen Kakao liegen? Frau Döllmer bestellt besonders gerne die billigen Dinge aus dem Katalog, diese halten allerdings nicht immer, was sie versprechen … Stefan Kaminski liest einen lustigen Text von Hermann Löns.
| Автор | Löns Hermann |
Publisher’s Weekly hailed the “wit and subtlety” in Gerald Duff’s fiction as “simply satisfying as a tall cold one on a hot Gulf Coast afternoon,” and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazetter said “Gerald Duff’s dialogue is among the best being written, and his sense of the absurd is Portis-like.” This new collection of short stories by the author of Coasters (2001) features the Ploughshares Cohen Prize-winning story “Fire Ants.”
| Автор | Gerald Duff |
A murderer’s confession – devastating, unblinking, poignant, unforgettable – which reveals a story of class, education and the inescapable workings of destiny.Ah Hock is an ordinary, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises riches and security to everyone, but delivers them only to a chosen few. With Asian society changing around him, like many he remains trapped in a world of poorly paid jobs that just about allow him to keep...
| Автор | Tash Aw |
From the international, million-copy bestselling author comes another addictive psychological thriller!‘B A Paris has done it again! The Breakdown is a page turning thriller that will leave you questioning the family you love, the friends you trust, and even your own mind’ Wendy WalkerIf you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?It all started that night in the woods.Cass Anderson didn’t stop to help the woman in the car, and now she’s dead.Ever since, silent calls have been plaguing Cass and...
| Автор | B A Paris |
An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering.At the very edge of England, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the land and visitors flock in with the summer like seagulls, there is a Cornwall that is not shown on postcards.It is a place where communication cables buzz deep beneath the sand; where satellite dishes turn like flowers on clifftops, and where people drift like flotsam,...
| Автор | Lucy Wood |
The first ever story collection from the inimitable Lionel Shriver‘Genius’ Stylist‘Phenomenal’ Observer‘Brilliant’ The TimesIn her first ever story collection, Lionel Shriver illuminates one of the modern age’s most enduring obsessions: property.A woman creates a deeply personal wedding present for her best friend; a thirty-something son refuses to leave home; a middle-aged man subjugated by service to his elderly father discovers that the last place you should finally assert yourself is airport...
| Автор | Lionel Shriver |
This new collection of short stories by Charles Rose, author of In the Midst of Life: A Hospice Volunteer’s Story, features works previously published in The Sewanee Review, The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, Southern Humanities Review, Willow Springs, Crazyhorse, The Chattahoochee Review, Alabama Literary Review, Blackbird, and Shenandoah, among others.
| Автор | Charles Rose |
“ The Magician’s Study is a sparkling tour de force. Seamon leads us through the odd memorabilia belonging to Robert ‘The Great’ Rouncival and along the way gives us his marvelously bizarre and convoluted biography. . . . If anything is more astounding than Rouncival’s trickery, it’s the endless inventiveness of the author.”—Eugene Mirabelli
| Автор | Tobias Seamon |
A madman recalls his first erotic encounter, a priest loses sleep over a heretic, a scholar searches for the anomaly that inspired the Hindu divinities, a spinster hallucinates her own seductions, a pope suckles a wet nurse. Erotic and fiercely funny, these stories range across many centuries and cultures, from Algeria to Egypt to Italy to France, and all demonstrate time and again why Rikki Ducornet has been called «one of the most interesting American writers around» (Nation).
| Автор | Rikki Ducornet |
Children think we make them, but we don’t … They come into the world and make us. They make us by breaking us first. ‘Utterly gripping’ Karin Slaughter ‘Impossible to put down’ Booklist ‘Undeniable, brilliantly written’ Theodore Wheeler ‘Thrilling’ Lydia KangThe world is mostly water when Pearl is born. The floods have left America a cluster of small islands with roving trade ships and raiders.Pearl knows little of her father Jacob and elder sister Row, who left her mother Myra when she was...
| Автор | Kassandra montag |
‘Brilliant. Among the best novels I know about the fate of American innocence abroad’ Garth GreenwellSo. We were Americans abroad. We weren’t the doomed travellers in a Paul Bowles novel, and we weren’t the idealists or the malarial, religion-damaged burnouts in something by Greene; but we were people far from home nevertheless. Our naivety didn’t have political consequences. We had G.P.S. in our smartphones. I don’t think we were alcoholics. Our passports were in the same drawer as our...
| Автор | Ian Mackenzie |
Scotland, 1940 In a house on the east coast, Jane faces motherhood alone. With her husband away at war, there is no one to protect her from small town suspicions and she must learn to keep her secrets to herself.Three decades later her daughter Felicity leaves their life behind for Montreal, glad to flee the unknowns that have plagued her so far. But her personal battles are nothing compared to the unrest here, where a commune in rural Quebec and a child of her own might be her saviours.The...
| Автор | Katie Munnik |
THE DEBUT NOVEL FROM THE COSTA SHORT STORY AWARD WINNERA BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK‘A sharp, funny, wonderful writer’ Diana Evans, bestselling author of Ordinary People‘Compelling…finely crafted, compassionate’ Guardian‘A warm, confident writer with the lightest of touches’ Observer‘Pacey and powerful’ Mail on Sunday‘The type of story that will stay with you long after you’ve read the last page’ Closer‘Brilliant…touches on race, mental health and community in a fresh way’ Good Housekeeping‘Costa...
| Автор | Luan Goldie |
An urgent literary phenomenon sold in over 22 languages before publication, a gripping tale of one woman’s desperate battle to survive the dangerous, sometimes deadly, turbulence of modern Venezuela.In Caracas, Venezuela, Adelaida Falcon stands over an open grave. Alone, except for harried undertakers, she buries her mother – the only family Adelaida has ever known.Numb with grief, Adelaida returns to the apartment they shared. Outside her window tear gas rains down on protesters in the streets....
| Автор | Karina Sainz Borgo |