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Zwischen Liebe, Aufbegehren und Punkrock: Eine Nahaufnahme von der Entstehung des modernen Sloweniens.
Als bei einer politischen Kundgebung ein zögerlicher Konformist einer entschlossenen Rebellin auf die blauen Samtschuhe tritt, nimmt eine verzwickte Liebesgeschichte ihren Lauf. Die beiden gehen Eis essen, besuchen Punk-Konzerte und reden, reden, reden. Wortreich begleitet auch der Vater des jungen Mannes die Umwälzung der späten Achtzigerjahre....
82) Caught
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The acclaimed author of February “combin{es} the complexity of the best literary fiction with the page-turning compulsive readability of a thriller” (National Post).
Lisa Moore, a “Canada Reads” winner and a New Yorker Best Book of the Year author, introduces a dangerously appealing new protagonist unlike any she’s imagined before: a modern Billy the Kid . . .
Caught begins with a prison break. Twenty-five-year-old David Slaney, locked...
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The American master Louis Auchincloss offers an intimate look behind the closed doors of a prominent New York law firm. Nearing the end of his days, Adrian Suydam, half the partnership of the law firm of Suydam & Saunders, reflects on his lifelong friendship and business relationship with Ernest Saunders, a tragic and complicated man incapable of properly loving anyone. In this perceptive novel, set against the backdrop of old New York, Auchincloss...
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A war criminal returns to the scene of the crime.
It's 1999 and Emile Poulquet awaits sentencing in a Paris court for deporting thousands to almost certain death during World War II. But, haunted by ghosts from his past, and determined to confront his dark legacy, he escapes and heads toward his beloved Finier, a rural town in the south of France where he once served as prefect. His return will have explosive consequences.
In Finier, Poulquet...
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Welcome to the House of Journalists. Who are you and what is your story?
These are the questions that confront newcomers to the House of Journalists, the internationally renowned refuge for writers in exile at the center of this haunting Orwellian novel. Home to a select group of fellows, the House is located in a fashionable London terrace. But just how stable is this hallowed institution? Julian Snowman, the obsessive founder and chair, sees the...
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A devout woman finds herself adrift in late 19th century Central America in this novel of "deep imagination, stylistic verve, and psychological acuity" (The Washington Post).
Set in late nineteenth century Central America and New York City, The Divine Husband tells the story of María de las Nieves Moran, whose brief career as a nun is ended in the wake of revolution. Forced to make her way in the secular world, María is surrounded by an unforgettable...
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In this ingenious satire, Solita, the not quite ten-year-old daughter of refugees from Franco's Spain, is whisked from the urban ghetto of Galmeda to El Topaz, the lush hacienda of a wealthy eccentric, which her mother assures her will be paradise. But behind its beautiful façade, El Topaz is a quagmire of social subterfuge, from its politicking adults to its spiteful children, and Solita finds herself alone in a glittery world where you couldn't...
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A foreign film importer, Gi-yeong is a family man with a wife and daughter. An aficionado of Heineken, soccer, and sushi, he is also a North Korean spy who has been living among his enemies for twenty-one years. Suddenly he receives a mysterious email, a directive seemingly from the home office. He has one day to return to headquarters. He hasn't heard from anyone in over ten years. Why is he being called back now? Is this message really from Pyongyang?...
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Cyrla's neighbors have begun to whisper. Her cousin, Anneke, is pregnant and has passed the rigorous exams for admission to the Lebensborn, a maternity home for girls carrying German babies. But Anneke's soldier has disappeared, and Lebensborn babies are only ever released to their father's custody- or taken away.
A note is left under the mat. Someone knows that Cyrla, sent from Poland years before for safekeeping with her Dutch relatives, is Jewish....
90) Marine Dreams
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Marine Dreams chronicles the lives of two graduate students at a small marine laboratory in Monterey Bay, California in the 1970's. In a light, humorous way it describes the adventures of marine research at remote locations around the world, while weaving in a romantic story line involving the main characters, Will and Sandra.
91) Awful People
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When a secret government agency called the Federal Paranormal/Psychological Investigation Bureau, whose soul purpose is to funnel money to defense contractors until the next war, accidentally discovers a telepath who can create undead rage-monsters from violent acts, they set out to recreate the circumstances which made it possible. Awful People follows a group of friends as they live out the moments that lead each one of them to being kidnapped and...
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When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide case from twenty years earlier. As police officer Ramón "el Macetón" Cabrera discovers, Blanco had been writing a book about a 1970s case dealing with the murder of several young schoolgirls in Paracuán by a man known as el Chacal. Cabrera realizes that whoever...
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THE STUNNINGLY ORIGINAL, ICONOCLASTIC, AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE BUDDHA OF SUBURBIA RETURNS WITH HIS FINEST, MOST EXUBERANT NOVEL.
In the early 1980s Hanif Kureishi emerged as one of the most compelling new voices in film and fiction. His movies My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and his novel The Buddha of Suburbia captivated audiences and inspired other artists. In Something to Tell You, he travels back to those days of hedonism,...
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Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force. It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called "the Age of F***ed Up Shit." A sentient glacier has wiped out most of North America. Medical care is supplied by open-source nanotechnology, and human nervous systems can be hacked. Abby Fogg is a film archivist with a niggling feeling that her life is not really her own. She may be right. Al Skinner is a former...
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The author uses amusement park attractions (themed for Disney World) to gently introduce new paradigms to a wide audience. His sources include experts in nutrition, economics, technology, and psychology.BACK COVER - "The world of tomorrow exists today, but only for those who can spot the true experts." ... And never before in human history has it been so crucial to spot these experts sooner rather than later. You see, "progress" is accelerating---our...
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HOW FAR WILL WE GO TO DENY THE DARKER SIDE OF OUR RELATIONSHIPS? HOW MUCH WILL WE RISK TO BE HAPPY?
After many lonely years and alarming Internet dates, Claire Kessler, an artist and self-proclaimed homebody, believed she had found the perfect man. Jay was earnest, romantic, and gainfully employed, and within a year they were married.
Less than two years later, Jay had killed himself.
On Valentine's Day.
Happy Now? follows Claire's chaotic and...
97) Sommerfrische
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Ein Sommer am Rand der Welt
Irgendwo am Rande der Welt und doch mitten in Europa träumen Menschen von der Liebe und der Freiheit. Esther Kinsky erzählt die betörende Geschichte eines drückend heißen Sommers und einer tragisch scheiternden Liebe, dort, wo sich im Rhythmus der Jahreszeiten alles ändert und doch gleich bleibt.
Üdülő, eine Feriensiedlung am Fluss, wird alljährlich zum Zufluchtsort vor der unerträglichen Hitze. Es ist der Ort...
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The twenty-eight-year-old mixed-race son of a Samoan immigrant, Paul Tusifale is desperate to find his place in an American culture that barely acknowledges his existence. Within the Silicon Valley landscape of grass-roots activists and dotcom headquarters, where the plight of migrant workers is ever-present, Paul drifts on and off the radar.
An unemployed drifter who defiantly-even violently-defends those in need, Paul soon discovers that life as...
99) Skorpionfisch
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Im Anschluss an die Reise von Genf nach Afghanistan (»Die Erfahrung der Welt«) durchquert Nicolas Bouvier in seinem Fiat Topolino den indischen Subkontinent und lässt sich im März 1955 vorübergehend auf Ceylon nieder. Unverhofft wird die Etappe zum Moment des Innehaltens. Er ist einsam und geschwächt, zudem träge vom feuchtheißen Klima der Insel, doch seine Sinne für die Wahrnehmung der Umgebung sind geschärft: Die Reise wird zur geistigen...
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In a weaving together of contradictory realms-past and present, rustbelt city and rural/urban South, old-world Catholicism and backwoods Protestantism-Joseph Bathanti draws readers into the 1970s as protagonist George Dolce faces major upheaval in The Life of the World to Come. George aspires to leave his blue collar, Catholic neighborhood of East Liberty in Pittsburgh. He is on the cusp of graduation from college and headed for law school when he...
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