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    Shadowed Souls , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 663min
    In this dark and gritty collection - featuring short stories from Jim Butcher, Seanan McGuire, Kevin J. Anderson, and Rob Thurman - nothing is as simple as black and white, light and dark, good and evil.... Unfortunately, that's exactly what makes it so easy to cross the line. In number-one New York Times best-selling author Jim Butcher's "Cold Case", Molly Carpenter - Harry Dresden's apprentice-turned-Winter Lady - must collect a tribute from a remote Fae colony and discovers that even if you're a good girl, sometimes you have to be bad. New York Times best-selling author Seanan McGuire's "Sleepover" finds half-succubus Elsie Harrington kidnapped by a group of desperate teenage boys. Not for anything weird. They just need her to rescue a little girl from the boogeyman. No biggie. In New York Times best-selling Kevin J. Anderson's "Eye of Newt", Zombie PI Dan Shamble's latest client is a panicky lizard missing an eye who thinks someone wants him dead. But the truth is that someone only wants him for a very special dinner.... And New York Times best-selling author Rob Thurman's infernally heroic Caliban Leandros takes a trip down memory lane as he deals with some overdue - and nightmarish - vengeance involving some quite nasty "Impossible Monsters". Also includes stories by Tanya Huff, Kat Richardson, Jim C. Hines, Anton Strout, Lucy A. Snyder, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and Erik Scott de Bie. Full cast of narrators includes Jon Lindstrom, Sumalee Montano, Mozhan Marno, Karissa Vacker, and Macleod Andrews. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jim Butcher, Julia Whelan, Emily Rankin, Justine Eyre, David de Vries, Mia Barron, Jon Lindstrom, Sumalee Montano, Mozhan Marno, Karissa Vacker, MacLeod Andrews. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002891/bk_peng_002891_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Die Launen des Lebens
    Der Bestseller aus den USA: erzählt warmherzig, klug und mit feinem Humor von dem, was Familie und Beziehungen ausmacht.Es ist ein durch und durch normaler Tag in einer Kleinstadt in Upstate New York, als das Leben von Astrid Strick sich schlagartig ändert. Eine Bekannte wird vor Astrids Augen überfahren, und obwohl Astrid diese nicht einmal mochte, bringt sie der Vorfall zum Nachdenken. Das Leben kann so schnell vorbei sein - hat Astrid ihres gut genutzt? Ist es zu spät, Neues zu wagen? Und war sie wirklich eine gute Mutter? Astrid wollte immer das Beste für ihre Kinder, und doch scheint keines richtig angekommen im Leben. Elliott ist unglücklich in seiner Bilderbuchfamilie. Tochter Porter ist Single, gewollt schwanger und doch überfordert. Und Nicky lebt trotz Frau und Kind ein Vagabundenleben - aber zu welchem Preis? Astrid und ihre Kinder waren immer gut darin, ihre wahren Leben voreinander zu verbergen. Doch dann zieht Cecilia, Nickys Teenager-Tochter, bei Astrid im großen Haus am Fluss ein und stellt das ganze sorgsam gehegte Konstrukt auf den Kopf. »Ein wahnsinnig einnehmendes, schlaues Buch über das großartige Chaos, das Familie ausmacht. Wirklich ein wunderbarer Roman!« Bestsellerautorin Elizabeth Strout
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    Holding Up the Universe , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 543min
    From the author of the New York Times best-seller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone - and love someone - for who they truly are. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed "America's Fattest Teen". But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to know who she really is. Following her mom's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for every possibility life has to offer. In that moment I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything. Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin, too. Yes, he's got swagger, but he's also mastered the impossible art of giving people what they want, of fitting in. What no one knows is that Jack has a newly acquired secret: He can't recognize faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. He's the guy who can reengineer and rebuild anything in new and badass ways, but he can't understand what's going on with the inner workings of his brain. So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming. Be hilarious. Don't get too close to anyone. Until he meets Libby. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game - which lands them in group counseling and community service - Libby and Jack are both pissed, and then surprised. Because the more time they spend together, the less alone they feel. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it changes the world, theirs and yours. Jennifer Niven delivers another poignant, exhilarating love story about finding that person who sees you for who you are - and seeing them right back. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jorjeana Marie, Robbie Daymond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/lili/002145/bk_lili_002145_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Rebellion: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1163min
    Reminiscent of Elizabeth Strout and Jane Smiley, Rebellion is a powerful debut novel by Molly Patterson, weaving together the stories of four women unafraid to challenge the boundaries of their lives, spanning generations and taking listeners across the globe. In 1890, a young missionary, Addie, has traveled to the town of Lu-cho Fu with her husband, dreaming of making her mark on the world. But Addie's desires change after meeting a brash and thoroughly modern woman, Poppy, who offers to transform Addie's destiny. All the while, letters from Addie reach her sister, Louisa, recently married and struggling with the quiet isolation of being a farmer's wife. When violence erupts overseas between the Chinese and their unwelcome Christian intruders, Addie's life takes a mysterious and haunting turn strongly felt by Louisa back home. By 1958 Louisa's daughter, Hazel, is fighting to maintain control of her land and family in the aftermath of her husband's untimely death. Reeling from the tragedy, she finds herself drawing closer to the neighboring Hughes family and in the process learns that grief takes on many forms. One hundred years after Addie's disappearance, Juanlan returns to her hometown with no job and no options. She finds her father ailing and her pregnant sister-in-law restless and angry. While her family and town are rapidly changing, Juanlan feels frozen in place. In search of an outlet for the live wire she feels buried inside, she starts up a love affair with a married man. Interconnected by action and consequence, each woman's tale brilliantly displays the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligation of family, and the dramatic consequence of charting your own destiny. A vibrant story of compassion and discovery set against a century of complicated relations between China and America, Rebellion celebrates those who fight against expectation in pursuit of their own thrilling fate and introduces a rising ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Angela Dawe, Nan McNamara. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006314/bk_harp_006314_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 251min
    Number-one New York Times best sellerA simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.Named one of the best books of the year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, NPR, BookPage, LibraryReads, Minneapolis Star Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two daughters. Knitting this powerful narrative together is the brilliant storytelling voice of Lucy herself: keenly observant, deeply human, and truly unforgettable. Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize “A quiet, sublimely merciful contemporary novel about love, yearning, and resilience in a family damaged beyond words.” (The Boston Globe)“It is Lucy’s gentle honesty, complex relationship with her husband, and nuanced response to her mother’s shortcomings that make this novel so subtly powerful.” (San Francisco Chronicle)“A short novel about love, particularly the complicated love between mothers and daughters, but also simpler, more sudden bonds... It evokes these connections in a style so spare, so pure and so profound the book almost seems to be a kind of scripture or sutra, if a very down-to-earth and unpretentious one.” (Newsday)“Spectacular.... Smart and cagey in every way. It is both a book of withholdings and a book of great openness and wisdom.... [Strout] is ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Kimberly Farr. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004417/bk_rand_004417_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Mit Blick aufs Meer (eBook, ePUB)
    Ausgezeichnet mit dem Pulitzerpreis Crosby, eine kleine Stadt an der Küste von Maine. Hier ist nicht gerade sehr viel los. Doch sieht man einmal genauer hin, ist jeder Mensch eine Geschichte und Crosby die ganze Welt. Elizabeth Strout fügt diese Geschichten mit liebevoller Ironie und feinem Gespür für Zwischenmenschliches zu einem unvergesslichen Roman.Sie kann manchmal eine rechte Nervensäge sein: Olive Kitteridge, die pensionierte Lehrerin. Weil sie zu allem, was in dem Städtchen Crosby geschieht, eine dezidierte Meinung hat, halten sie einige für überkritisch. Dann wieder überrascht sie durch Selbstlosigkeit und Mitgefühl. Sie mischt sich ein und macht sich ihre Gedanken über ihre Mitmenschen: die schrille Barpianistin, die insgeheim einer verlorenen Liebe nachtrauert, einen ehemaligen Schüler, der keinen Sinn mehr im Leben sieht, ihren eigenen Sohn, der sich von ihren Empfindlichkeiten bevormundet fühlt, ihren Mann Henry, der die Ehe mit ihr nicht nur als Segen, sondern manchmal auch als Fluch empfindet. Und während sich die Menschen in Crosby mit ihrem ganz normalen Leben herumschlagen, den Problemen wie den Freuden, lernt Olive auf ihre alten Tage, das Leben zu lieben. Elizabeth Strouts Roman erzählt von Liebe und Kummer, von Toleranz und Aufbegehren. »Mit Blick aufs Meer« ist ein weises und anrührendes Buch über die Natur des Menschen in all seiner Verletzlichkeit und Stärke, erfrischend ehrlich und unglaublich schön.
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    Apeirogon
    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX FEMINA AND THE PRIX MEDICIS SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD WINNER OF THE PRIX DU MEILLEUR LIVRES ETRANGER WINNER OF THE 2020 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARDS CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2020 BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, i PAPER, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, SCOTSMAN, IRISH TIMES, BBC.COM, WATERSTONES.COM 'A wondrous book. It left me hopeful; this is its gift' Elizabeth Strout 'An empathy engine ... It is, itself, an agent of change' New York Times Book Review 'A quite extraordinary novel' Kamila Shamsie How do we continue living once we have lost our reason to live? Rami and Bassam live in the city of Jerusalem - but exist worlds apart, divided by an age-old conflict. And yet they have one thing in common. Both are fathers; both are fathers of daughters - and both daughters are now lost. When Rami and Bassam meet, and tell one another the story of their grief, the most unexpected thing of all happens: they become best of friends. And their stories become one story, a story with the power to heal - and the power to change the world. 'The book goes anywhere and everywhere. It is a delirious and thrilling improvisation, a jazz solo spun out of that meeting . A spectacular structure of stories about everything' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times
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    Oh William!
    THE TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker-longlisted, bestselling author returns to her beloved heroine Lucy Barton in a luminous novel about love, loss, and the family secrets that can erupt and bewilder us at any point in life Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recalling their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage, and the lives they built with other people, Strout weaves a portrait, stunning in its subtlety, of a tender, complex, decades-long partnership. Oh William! captures the joy and sorrow of watching children grow up and start families of their own; of discovering family secrets, late in life, that alter everything we think we know about those closest to us; and the way people live and love, against all odds. At the heart of this story is the unforgettable, indomitable voice of Lucy Barton, who once again offers a profound, lasting reflection on the mystery of existence. 'This is the way of life,' Lucy says. 'The many things we do not know until it is too late.' 'A superbly gifted storyteller and a craftswoman in a league of her own' Hilary Mantel 'A terrific writer' Zadie Smith 'She gets better with each book' Maggie O'Farrell 'One of America's finest writers' Sunday Times
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    Holding Up the Universe
    From the author of the New York Times bestseller All the Bright Places comes a heart-wrenching story about what it means to see someone - and love someone - for who they truly are. Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, the girl once dubbed 'America's Fattest Teen'. But no one's taken the time to look past her weight to get to see who she really is. Since her mum's death, she's been picking up the pieces in the privacy of her home, dealing with her heartbroken father and her own grief. Now, Libby's ready: for high school, for new friends, for love, and for EVERY POSSIBILITY LIFE HAS TO OFFER. I know the part I want to play here at MVB High. I want to be the girl who can do anything. Everyone thinks they know Jack Masselin too. Yes, he's got swagger, but he's also mastered the art of fitting in. What no one knows is that Jack has a secret: he can't recognize faces. Even his own brothers are strangers to him. He's the guy who can re-engineer and rebuild anything, but he can't understand what's going on with the inner workings of his own brain. So he tells himself to play it cool: Be charming. Be hilarious. Don't get too close to anyone. Until he meets Libby. When the two get tangled up in a cruel high school game which lands them in group counseling, Libby and Jack are both angry, and then surprised. Because the more time they spend together, the less alone they feel. Because sometimes when you meet someone, it changes the world - theirs and yours.
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    Das Leben, natürlich (eBook, ePUB)
    Das Leben könnte so einfach sein - doch die Menschen sind es nicht In einer Kleinstadt in Maine zu leben, mag romantisch klingen, aber die Wirklichkeit sieht meist anders aus. Die Brüder Jim und Bob Burgess sind deswegen so bald wie möglich nach New York gezogen. Als ihre Schwester Susan, die zu Hause geblieben ist, ihre Hilfe braucht, kehren ihre Brüder widerstrebend in die Heimatstadt zurück. Mit ungeahnter Macht holt sie dort jedoch die Vergangenheit wieder ein ... Eine aufwühlende Familiengeschichte, vollkommen unsentimental und dabei tief berührend - eine echte Strout eben.Shirley Falls ist eine typische Kleinstadt in Maine: hohe Arbeitslosigkeit, viele Alte, wenige Junge, wirtschaftlicher Niedergang, in neuester Zeit auch noch Aufnahmeort für muslimische Flüchtlinge aus Somalia. Als einzige der drei Burgess-Geschwister ist Susan hiergeblieben, ihr Mann hat sie schon lang verlassen, der 19-jährige Sohn Zachary wohnt bei ihr in dem eiskalten, ungemütlichen Häuschen. Als der verschlossene, einsame Junge eines Tages einen halb aufgetauten Schweinekopf in die behelfsmäßige Moschee rollen lässt, ist die kleine Gemeinde erschüttert. Ein rassistisches Verbrechen? Auf jeden Fall ein Skandal, mit dem Susan allein nicht fertig wird. Und so bittet sie ihre Brüder Jim und Bob um Hilfe, die als Anwälte in New York arbeiten. Unterschiedlicher könnten diese beiden Brüder nicht sein: Jim, der reiche Karriere-Jurist, lebt mit seiner Frau Helen in einem schönen großen Haus. Bob hingegen war noch nie besonders erfolgreich, ist geschieden, und seine beste Freundin ist immer noch die Exfrau. Nichts zieht die Brüder mehr nach Shirley Falls zurück. Aber natürlich folgen sie dem Hilferuf der Schwester, nicht ahnend, dass ihre Rückkehr nach Maine ihr bisheriges Leben vollkommen umkrempeln wird ...
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