Inhalt: **The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England**
'As good as anything he's written - a novel to cherish' Observer _______________________________________________________
In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good.
While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realisation that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his new film with German money, and when Calista follows him to Munich for the shooting of further scenes, she finds herself joining him on a journey of memory into the dark heart of his family history.
In a novel that is at once a tender coming-of-age story and an intimate portrait of one of cinema's most intriguing figures, Jonathan Coe turns his gaze on the nature of time and fame, of family and the treacherous lure of nostalgia. When the world is catapulting towards change, do you hold on for dear life or decide it's time to let go? Umfang: 245 S. Standort: Engl. Coe ISBN: 978-0-241-98971-5
Inhalt: High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion, home to three people, each dreaming of another time.
The judge, broken by a world too messy for justice, is haunted by his past. His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor, despite their different backgrounds and ideals. The cook's heart is with his son, who is working in a New York restaurant, mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home.
Around the house swirl the forces of revolution and change. Civil unrest is making itself felt, stirring up inner conflicts as powerful as those dividing the community, pitting the past against the present, nationalism against love, a small place against the troubles of a big world. Umfang: 432 S. Standort: Engl. Des ISBN: 978-0-14-102872-9
Inhalt: Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, The Great Gatsby depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan. The novel was inspired by a youthful romance Fitzgerald had with a socialite, and by parties he attended on Long Island's North Shore in 1922. After its publication in 1925, The Great Gatsby received mixed reviews from literary critics who believed that it did not hold up to Fitzgerald's previous writing and thus signaled the end of the author's literary achievements. However, during World War II the novel faced a critical and scholarly re-examination, and it soon became a core part of most American high school curricula and a focus of American popular culture. Numerous stage and film adaptations followed in the subsequent decades. The novel was most recently adapted to film in 2013 by director Baz Luhrmann, while modern scholars emphasize the novel's treatment of social class, inherited wealth compared to those who are self-made, race, environmentalism, and its cynical attitude towards the American dream. The Great Gatsby is widely considered to be a literary masterwork and a contender for the title of the Great American Novel. Umfang: 187 S. Standort: Engl. Fit ISBN: 978-0-14-000746-6
Inhalt: Bei einem Einbruch im vornehmen Londoner West End wird nicht nur ein wertvolles Diamantendiadem gestohlen, sondern auch geheimes NATO-Material, das weit kostbarer ist. Eine undichte Stelle im Verteidigungsministerium? Was bedeutet das Codewort »Aurora«? Und wer ist »Chelsea«? Als Topagent John Preston sich ans Werk macht, scheint sich in einem dramatischen Höhepunkt das Geheimnis zu enthüllen. In Moskau hecken derweil ein ehemaliger britischer Meisterspion und der mächtigste Mann im Kreml hinter dem Rücken des KGB einen teuflischen Plan aus ... Umfang: 447 S. Standort: Engl. For ISBN: 978-0-09-158630-0
Inhalt: Die Reihe bietet vereinfachte und gekürzte Texte in engl. sprache, sowohl für Anfänger als auch für Fortgeschrittene.
Anne Frank was 13 years old when she and her family went into hiding in a secret room in Amsterdam in order to escape the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. For two years they hid and Anne wrote her diary, providing us with a moving account of a Jewish life in hiding. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the pleasures of reading in English. Originally designed for teaching English as a foreign language, the series' combination of high interest level and low reading age makes it suitable for both English-speaking teenagers with limited reading skills and students of English as a second language. Many titles in the series also provide access to the pre-20th century literature strands of the National Curriculum English Orders. "Penguin Readers" are graded at seven levels of difficulty, from "Easystarts" with a 200-word vocabulary, to Level 6 (Advanced) with a 3000-word vocabulary. In addition, titles fall into one of three sub-categories: "Contemporary", "Classics" or "Originals". At the end of each book there is a section of enjoyable exercises focusing on vocabulary building, comprehension, discussion and writing. Some titles in the series are available with an accompanying audio cassette, or in a book and cassette pack. Additionally, selected titles have free accompanying "Penguin Readers Factsheets" which provide stimulating exercise material for students, as well as suggestions for teachers on how to exploit the Readers in class.
In engl. Sprache Systematik: EYB 23 Umfang: 56 S. : Ill Standort: EYB 23 Fra ISBN: 978-0-582-41776-2
Inhalt: The SUNDAY TIMES Bestseller Kurzinhalt: GIRLCRUSH is a dark feminist retelling of Jekyll & Hyde by bestselling author Florence Given. In Given's debut novel, we follow Eartha on a wild, weird and seductive modern-day exploration as she commences life as an openly bisexual woman whilst also becoming a viral sensation on Wonderland, a social media app where people project their dream selves online. The distance between her online and offline self grows further and further apart until something dark happens that leads her into total self-destruction, forcing Eartha to make a choice; which version of herself should she kill off? Florence Given is a 23-year-old international, bestselling, feminist author and illustrator based in London. She grew up in Plymouth and attended London College of Fashion for one year, leaving to pursue art and writing. Boasting over 600k followers on Instagram, her work confronts oppressive attitudes towards women and their bodies and she uses her platform to raise awareness of issues surrounding sexuality, consent, race and gender.
Kurzinhalt auf Deutsch: Florence Given ist längst nicht mehr ausschließlich ein Internetphänomen. Ihr erstes Buch Frauen schulden die gar nichts war ein großer Bestseller. Girlcrush ist ihr erster Roman, der gleich auf Platz 1 der Sunday-Times-Bestsellerliste einstieg. Eine heiße und wahnsinnig aktuelle Geschichte über sexuelle Befreiung und das Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Millennials im 21. Jahrhundert. Eartha befindet sich auf einer verrückten und verführerischen Erkundungstour durch das heutige London, nachdem sie ihren toxischen Boyfriend endlich verlassen hat. Sie beginnt ihr Leben als offen bisexuelle Frau und wird gleichzeitig zu einer viralen Sensation auf Wonderland, einer Social-Media-App, auf der Menschen ihr Traum-Selbst online projizieren. Nur: Die Distanz zwischen ihrem Online- und ihrem Offline-Ich wird immer größer, bis etwas passiert, das sie in die totale Selbstzerstörung führt und Eartha vor die Wahl stellt. Welche Version von sich selbst soll sie auslöschen? Umfang: 367 S. Standort: Engl. Giv ISBN: 978-1-914240-52-2
Inhalt: The Best Thriller Writer Alive' Ken Follett
John Grisham's newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that shouldn't exist.
They were three young law students. They dreamed of changing the world. But they were duped. They took out massive student loans and have no hope of graduating with a good job.
Now the three friends have given up studying and spend a lot of time plotting in a bar. There is only way out of their crushing debt: pretend to be real lawyers and expose the crooked hedge fund operator who owns both the school and the bank that arranged their student loans.
They are taking a desperate risk. After all, they are going to war with a billionaire and the might of the FBI. Umfang: 407 S. Standort: Engl. Gri ISBN: 978-1-5247-9884-0
Inhalt: Besprechung bei Amazon.co.uk: An intelligent, low-key thriller. The Summons continues John Grisham's exploration of the common decencies of a strain of American commercial story-telling in literature and film that we often link to the work of Frank Capra or O Henry. He is not afraid of parable or of setting up situations that are at once archetypal and attractively specific. This is a tale of two brothers--one is righteous, more or less, and one is not--and a question of their inheritance. Ancient Mississippi judge Atlee summons his two sons to his deathbed, but dies before he can explain himself, leaving Ray, who arrives on time unlike his drunkard brother Forest with the difficult problem of the three million dollars in used notes which are lying around the house in shoe-boxes. Ray worries about his father's posthumous reputation, about the Inland Revenue Service and about how quickly Forrest could drink himself to death with unlimited funds. Grisham is very acute indeed on how the best of intentions lead Ray not to any significant crime or atrocity but to quietly unconscionable behaviour. And then he realises he is being followed... Grisham can build suspense out of remarkably little and has a real gift for understanding the quiet anxieties of an ordinary man. (Roz Kaveney) Umfang: 341 S. Standort: Engl. Gri ISBN: 978-0-7126-8426-2
From Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country
Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris's commitment to speaking truth is informed by her upbringing. The daughter of immigrants, she was raised in an Oakland, California community that cared deeply about social justice; her parents--an esteemed economist from Jamaica and an admired cancer researcher from India--met as activists in the civil rights movement when they were graduate students at Berkeley. Growing up, Harris herself never hid her passion for justice, and when she became a prosecutor out of law school, a deputy district attorney, she quickly established herself as one of the most innovative change agents in American law enforcement. She progressed rapidly to become the elected District Attorney for San Francisco, and then the chief law enforcement officer of the state of California as a whole. Known for bringing a voice to the voiceless, she took on the big banks during the foreclosure crisis, winning a historic settlement for California's working families. Her hallmarks were applying a holistic, data-driven approach to many of California's thorniest issues, always eschewing stale "tough on crime" rhetoric as presenting a series of false choices. Neither "tough" nor "soft" but smart on crime became her mantra. Being smart means learning the truths that can make us better as a community, and supporting those truths with all our might. That has been the pole star that guided Harris to a transformational career as California's attorney general, as a United States senator, and now as vice president-elect, grappling in every role with an array of complex issues, from health care and the new economy to immigration, national security, the opioid crisis, and accelerating inequality.
By reckoning with the big challenges we face together, drawing on the hard-won wisdom and insight from her own career and the work of those who have most inspired her, Kamala Harris offers in THE TRUTHS WE HOLD a master class in problem solving, in crisis management, and leadership in challenging times. Through the arc of her own life, on into the great work of our day, she communicates a vision of shared struggle, shared purpose, and shared values. In a book rich in many home truths, not least is that a relatively small number of people work very hard to convince a great many of us that we have less in common than we actually do, but it falls to us to look past them and get on with the good work of living our common truth. When we do, our shared effort will continue to sustain us and this great nation, now and in the years to come.
Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 2019 Systematik: EYB 23, , EPL 112 Umfang: XV, 320 p. : Ill. Standort: Engl. EYB 23 Har ISBN: 978-1-5291-1446-1
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