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Richard Ford returns with four deftly linked Christmas stories narrated by the iconic Frank Bascombe. Now 68, Frank resides again in the New Jersey suburb of Haddam and has thrived - seemingly but not utterly - amidst the devastations of Hurricane Sandy. The desolations of Sandy, which left countless lives unmoored, are the perfect backdrop for Ford - and Bascombe.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of The House of Lincoln, an “enthralling” novel that brings “the buried truths of the ill-starred relationship of Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright to light” (The New York Times Book Review). “Masterful.”—People “A...

Georg Dengler und Olga treffen auf ihren mächtigsten Gegner. Wolfgang Schorlaus neues Hörbuch handelt von der Frage, was für uns alle auf dem Spiel steht, von den Schatten der Vergangenheit und von den brutalen Arbeitsbedingungen der Zukunft – oder ist es längst die Gegenwart? Ein Dengler-Krimi auf der Höhe der Zeit. Georg Dengler vermisst Olga, sie ist wieder einmal verschwunden. In Rumänien entdeckt sie ein schreckliches Familiengeheimnis.

Ex-priest DI Farrell is called on to investigate a gruesome death in rural Scotland. All evidence points to suicide, except for one loose end: every light in the cottage was switched off. Why would he kill himself in the dark? The question sparks a murder investigation that leads to the mysterious Ivy House, home of ‘The Collective’, a sinister commune of artists who will do anything to keep their twisted secrets hidden. And when the remains of a young girl are uncovered on a barren stretch of coastline, Farrell realises that there is something rotten in this tight-knit community.

Barbarossa und Heinrich der Löwe, ein Reich vor dem Zerbrechen und ein unvergesslicher Held: Berengar ist ein brillanter Stratege und ein junger hitzköpfiger Kämpfer an der Seite der mächtigsten Männer des Reiches - und auf einer persönlichen Mission, die ebenso gefährlich ist wie seine Schlachten. Die faszinierende Erfolgsserie ist perfekter Hörstoff für Fans von Bernard Cornwell und Daniel Wolf. Italien, 1159. Das Reich ist ein Pulverfass. An der Seite von Kaiser Barbarossa und Heinrich dem Löwen zieht Berengar, Hitzkopf und Stratege zugleich, gegen die rebellierenden lombardischen Städte.

For some boys fitting in means standing out. Meet Frank - he isn't like other kids. Intrepid explorer, sartorial connoisseur; he's as strange as he is brilliant. But Frank discovers the hard way that people don't like brilliant, and they hate strange. What Frank longs for - aside from a father - is a friend.

These eight new stories from the celebrated novelist and short-story writer Nathan Englander display a gifted young author grappling with the great questions of modern life, with a command of language and the imagination that place Englander at the very forefront of contemporary American fiction...

Brought to you by Penguin. Sometimes the truth lies in the things you cannot see. In 1830 a young novice called Catherine Labouré was granted a vision of the Virgin Mary. Nearly 200 years later, Sister Anne is also waiting for a sign. Which is why she accepts a mission to go to a tiny community...

Frank is eighty-one. He lives on his own, his daughter and her young family are living in America. He watches DVDs, keeps an eye on the neighbours, eats tinned spaghetti, and has a cat called Bill (which made more sense before Ben died). It was tough enough to fill the hours of the day when he...

Time: 2047. Place: Washington DC. A loner. A teacher. A killer. A preacher. On the streets of the capital city, four lives may be about to collide. And if they do, a nation once regarded as “the greatest country in the world” will begin to self destruct. President Sally W. Campbell can see the danger coming. But can her plan to end America's misery come to fruition before it's too late? The power, of course, is not in her hands. The power lies in the hands of those who control the narrative to the American people: the media.

Nature or nurture? The impact of traumatic childhood experiences reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry – children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father. Alice, physically handicapped and frustrated. Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents. From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them.

Die wilde Schönheit der Nordseeküste, ein geheimnisvolles Schiffswrack und zwei Frauen, verbunden durch das Meer. St. Peter, 1955: Tillas Welt ist das Meer. Sie will nicht heiraten, sondern tauchen. Nicht eingeengt werden, sondern die Freiheit der Wellen spüren. Dabei entdeckt sie in der Tiefe der Nordsee ein altes Schiffswrack, von dem sich die Fischer seit Generationen Legenden erzählen. In Tilla wächst der unbändige Wunsch, seine Geheimnisse zu lüften. Auf einer Nordseeinsel, 1633: Die junge Nes sucht mit ihrer Mutter in einem Beginenkonvent Zuflucht vor ihrer Vergangenheit.

Charlie Roy and pale, skinny Sir Arthur, an English gentleman, arrive at the Crown B ranch, north of Cheyenne, which is owned by the sir's sister, Elizabeth, who was widowed just the past winter and left with a ranch that lost nearly all its beef stock from the brutal '86-'87 winter freeze. Additionally, Elizabeth's dead husband's former partner, Justin Harper, is hell-bent on taking over her ranch. But what Harper and his boys don't figure on is interference by the likes of Charlie and the fierceness of the Sir.

Kill... or be killed. Frank Quinn is a decorated ex-cop. A former homicide detective specializing in tracking serial killers. Now his niece, Carlie Clark, needs help. Someone is stalking her, and the NYPD can’t stop him. A blonde, blue-eyed beauty, Carlie fits the victim type of the killer who’s been terrorizing women — leaving them bound, gagged, and tortured with surgical precision. To win against the most personal adversary of his career, Quinn will have to set the perfect trap. All he needs is the perfect bait….

Detective Inspector Frank Elder's first case was unsolved. A dead woman, lying on a bed, immaculately dressed. The murderer was never found: free to kill again. Eight years later, Elder's estranged wife contacts him in his Cornish hideaway. Her friend's sister Claire has mysteriously disappeared. Elder reluctantly agrees to help. Then Claire is found dead, arranged with meticulous detail on her bed, and it doesn't take long for Elder to make the connection.

In der Weite der Steppe am Unterlauf der Wolga siedeln seit dem achtzehnten Jahrhundert Deutsche.1916 führt Jakob Bach in dem kleinen Dorf Gnadental ein einfaches Leben als Schulmeister, das geprägt ist von den Rhythmen der Natur. Sein Leben ändert sich schlagartig, als er sich in Klara verliebt, eine Bauerntochter vom anderen Ufer der Wolga. Doch ihre Liebe kann sich den Ereignissen nicht entziehen, die die Revolution und die Gründung der Deutschen Republik an der Wolga mit sich bringen.

"Las dos doncellas" desarrolla las andanzas, incidentes y vicisitudes de dos muy jóvenes y hermosas damas a las que prometió matrimonio un mismo joven, apasionado y apuesto caballero; la una, enamorada y con la promesa escrita y firmada de ser desposada; la otra, además de enamorada, tomada por esposa en el lecho y con el compromiso de hacerlo ante el altar.