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Vor der Kulisse der großen norddeutschen Schneekatastrophe um die Jahreswende 1978/79 erzählt Jan Christophersen eine packende Familiengeschichte. Darin schafft er unvergessliche Figuren und entwirft das beeindruckende Bild einer rauen Gegend voller Wasser, Sand und Schnee. Er erzählt von der Suche nach Identität in einer Familie, in der das Schweigen den Weg zueinander zu einer langen Reise werden lässt.

For Joanna and Ted Kramer, building a life in New York City is tough but full of joy thanks to their lovely little boy, Billy. Or so it seems, until one day Joanna walks out, unable to manage the burdens of family life and her own unfulfilled ambitions. Alone with Billy, Ted begins to navigate the challenges of single parenthood and forms a bond with his son that no one can break - except the courts.

Sechs Astronauten schweben in einer Raumstation durchs All. Den Planeten Erde umkreisen sie in 90 Minuten, sechzehnmal in 24 Stunden. Die zwei Frauen und vier Männer aus ganz unterschiedlichen Nationen arbeiten, essen und schlafen auf engstem Raum – und doch ist alles losgelöst vom Alltag, Schwerkraft und Zeitempfinden sind außer Kraft gesetzt. Was passiert, wenn man seine Heimat nur aus weiter Ferne durch ein kleines Fenster sieht? Wie verändern sich Denken und Fühlen?

Eine dunkle Nacht im Dezember, ein Mord im vornehmen Hotel Palace de Verbier in den Schweizer Alpen. Doch der Fall wird nie aufgeklärt. Einige Jahre später verbringt der bekannte Schriftsteller Joël Dicker seine Ferien im Palace. Während er die charmante Scarlett Leonas kennenlernt und sich mit ihr über die Kunst des Schreibens unterhält, ahnt er nicht, dass sie beide in den ungelösten Mordfall hineingezogen werden. Was geschah damals in Zimmer 622, das es offiziell gar nicht gibt in diesem Hotel.

「今はまちがった時間です。あなたは今ここにいてはいけないのです」しかし綿谷ノボルによってもたらされた深い切り傷のような痛みが僕を追いたてた。

1995年1月、地震はすべてを一瞬のうちに壊滅させた。

I walk slowly to the kitchen counter, staring out the window as Ceci rocks back and forth on the swing. My beautiful darling girl has been through so much already. How can I tell her that her life is about to change forever? When the woman from the hospital tells me that my husband Drew is in a coma my world comes crashing down. In an instant, I see our whole married life flashing before my eyes: the way our children ran into his arms when he came home from work, the way his face lit up when he read to them.

Les thought that playing minder to Peregrine Normanhurst III sounded like a dead-set snack: Les would keep Peregrine out of trouble. So what if he was on the run from the IRA? They’d never follow him to Australia… But Les quickly finds himself thrust into an adventure that moves at breakneck speed from the corridors of power in Canberra to the grimy tenements of Belfast, to climax in a nerve-shattering, blood-spattered shoot out on a survivalist fortress in the Tweed Valley.

David Storey's This Sporting Life, set in the industrial north, brilliantly conveys 21-year-old steelworker Arthur Machin's love of his rugby league, his success on the field, and his feelings towards his widowed landlady, as well as his bouts of doubt and anxiety.

Norton needed a holiday - anywhere - as long as it was out of Bondi. Price was only too willing to oblige - Les could have his house at Terrigal. All he had to do was look after George Brennan's nephew for a week while he was there. Sounded okay to Norton, and it was better than spending his own money. Jimmy Rosewater was young, cool and the original brown-eyed handsome man. He loved good wine, going to restaurants, going line-dancing, and the ladies loved him. This suited Les nicely.

Der Roman "Die Wohlgesinnten" ist die fiktive Autobiografie des SS-Offiziers Maximilian Aue, Sohn eines deutschen Vaters und einer französischen Mutter, promovierter Jurist und frühes NSDAP-Mitglied. Es sind die beklemmenden und verstörenden Erinnerungen an die Schauplätze des Zweiten Weltkriegs und an das Grauen der Judenvernichtung, an die Einsatzkommandos und Massenhinrichtungen in der Ukraine und im Kaukasus, an Babi Jar, den Kessel von Stalingrad, Auschwitz und Krakau, das besetzte Paris und das kriegszerstörte Berlin, an die Begegnungen mit Himmler, an Abendessen mit Eichmann, an Heydrich, Höß und Speer.

Sunny's mundane country life is changed overnight when handsome, stylish Gray's Bentley breaks down outside her parents' cottage in Rushington. It seems that he may have fallen in love with her. Sunny herself remains unconvinced.

The Heart of Midlothian: Gerda Stevenson's dramatisation of Walter Scott's classic.

Part One: A mob storms the Tolbooth Prison where young Effie Deans awaits trial for murder. Part 2: While her sister awaits execution, Jeanie decides to walk to London to plead for her life.

On Easter day in 1918, Frances Kemp looked out at the little thatched village and promised that, one day, she'd come back...Long before Miss Kemp became headmistress of the village school, she had reason to know and love Burracombe. Sent to stay with family, young Frances treasured her summers there and the friends she made. But as she grows up, she admits that there is someone there who is more than just a friend.

住宅地の奥にひっそりと佇む、おひとりさま専用カフェ「喫茶ドードー」。この喫茶店には、がんばっている毎日からちょっとばかり逃げ込みたくなったお客さんが、ふらりと訪れる。

Sono gli anni Quaranta del Novecento. I Blood vivono nelle campagne del Vermont, quasi ignari dei tumulti che attraversano il mondo, e cercano disperatamente di resistere e mandare avanti una fattoria che di anno in anno diventa sempre meno redditizia. Ma all’improvviso nella vita del maggiore dei figli, Loyal, succede qualcosa che cancella di colpo i suoi progetti, costringendolo ad abbandonare tutto ciò che ha. Senza dare spiegazioni Loyal lascia la casa paterna – che in sua assenza non ha alcuna possibilità di sopravvivere – e si mette in viaggio.

Two worlds, two timelines and one person's impact. Manhattan, 1963: weeks before the assassination of President Kennedy, fresh-faced Raymond Wallace lands in the New York Times newsroom on a three-month bursary from Cambridge University. He soon discovers his elusive boss, Bukowski, is being covertly blackmailed by an estranged wife, and that he himself is to assist the straight-laced Doty on an article about the ‘explosion of overt homosexuality’.

Das eigene Leben offen, schonungslos und radikal zum Gegenstand des Schreibens zu machen - dies ist das Konzept, zu dem sich Karl Ove Knausgård in einem furiosen Mammutprojekt entschlossen hat. Radikal ehrlich und mit unglaublicher sprachlicher Kraft nähert er sich in "Sterben", dem ersten Roman einer sechsbändigen Serie, seinem schwierigen Verhältnis zum Vater, das ihn grundlegend geprägt hat.

Everything changes for Kate, Moya and Romy when they receive word that Maeve Dillon, their mother, is critically ill. It is time to return from Dublin, London and New York to Rossmore and the old stone house overlooking the Irish Sea where they grew up. But ancient jealousies surface as each sister confronts the past and the decisions they have made.

England, 1852: William, Biologe, Samenhändler und Vater von acht Kindern, verlässt seit Wochen das Bett nicht. Das Geschäft liegt brach. Doch eine Idee könnte alles verändern: ein völlig neuartiger Bienenstock. Ohio, 2007: Der Imker George arbeitet hart für seinen Traum. Der Hof soll größer werden, sein Sohn Tom eines Tages übernehmen. Der aber träumt vom Journalismus. Plötzlich geschieht das Unglaubliche: Die Bienen verschwinden.