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Wir befinden uns in der Zeit des Wirtschaftswunders, ganz Deutschland ist von dem Gedanken an ökonomischen Erfolg beherrscht...

Malta 1565 - die Insel Malta wird von den Türken belagert. Nur ein Mann, so scheint es, kann den Christen noch helfen: Der Deutsche Mattias Tannhäuser wurde als Zwölfjähriger von den Türken entführt und ist bei ihnen aufgewachsen. Er kennt ihre Kultur und ihre Waffen. Um ihn auf die Insel zu locken, schickt der Großmeister des Malteser Ordens die schöne Contessa Clara nach Sizilien, wo Tannhäuser mit einem jüdischen Freund erfolgreich Handel treibt.

Vor mehr als dreißig Jahren feierte Star Wars seinen Durchbruch auf den großen Leinwänden dieser Welt und gilt seither als einzigartiges Phänomen. Das langersehnte nächste Abenteuer der Blockbuster-Saga begeistert alte und neue Fans gleichermaßen - beginnend mit "Das Erwachen der Macht", dem erfolgreichsten Kinoereignis aller Zeiten, das Alan Dean Foster nun auch als Hörbuch zum Leben erweckt.

Divertida y trepidante novelización de la vida de la primera actriz del cine de acción de la India: Mary Evans, más conocida en el ambiente artístico como Nadia. Narrada desde el punto de vista de su protagonista, que le cuenta su propia historia a un becario mientras viaja al festival de cine de Locarno, la novela está llena de anécdotas tan hilarantes como increíbles, y resulta un delicioso repaso por los inicios del S. XX en la India Británica.

Romance, humor, glamour y mucho cine se dan cita en la historia de una mujer inolvidable...

Mike's best years are behind him. There was a time when he was the best rider in the circuit, but a divorce and years of hard living have worn his body down. After an accident, his career comes to an abrupt end, but his boss gives him one last job: He must cross the border into Mexico, kidnap his boss’ son, Rafo, from his boss’ ex-wife, to be used as leverage in their ongoing divorce. Mike arrives to find the boy has already run away, and his plan is immediately exposed to the local police.

In Come to the Garden, the main character, Jenn, wakes up on her birthday to discover an angel in her backyard garden. The angel, who calls herself Margaret, is charming and funny, and she knows that Jenn has been questioning a lot of things about God recently. Is he really there? How is anyone supposed to believe that God truly cares for us when we see so many bad things happening in our world, and we experience the disappointments and tragedies of life? But Jenn suspects that God has been trying to speak to her in mysterious ways.

An all-too-plausible terrorist plot to destroy the Houses of Parliament brings into focus much greater problems than the differences between two cultures in this gripping thriller from a former commissioned officer in the Parachute Regiment.

A man who has lost his voice befriends the dogs of the city of Barcelona, one of which helps him mend his broken heart and find his soul once more.

"Seefahrt ist not!", das ausdrucksstarke Epos über die See erschien 1913 und ist bis heute ein Meilenstein maritimer Literatur. Johann Kinau, 1880 als Sohn eines Fischers in Finkenwerder geboren, schrieb als "Gorch Fock" Erzählungen über die See und das Leben an Bord. Er selbst wurde zunächst Buchhalter. Im Krieg zu den Waffen gerufen, setzte er alles daran, in der Marine zu dienen. 1916 fiel er - erst 36-jährig - in der größten Seeschlacht der Geschichte, der Skagerrakschlacht. Gorch Focks Bücher werden bis heute gelesen.

Jack is an author who was on his way to literary success when his life was blown apart by the horrific suicide of his fiancee. Devastated, Jack went on a fifteen-month alcoholic spiral into near oblivion before eventually working past his demons and becoming best-selling crime novelist. Just as Jack is finishing his fourth book, the LAPD interrupts his routine with news of what appears to be a copycat murder from his first book. There's just one problem - the murder took place before Jack's book was published.

Set at the New Jersey Shore, a gambling oil mogul meets a mysterious woman during the peak hours of Hurricane Sandy.

Giovanni Segantini und Luigia Bugatti: Er malte sie, als sie fast noch ein Kind war. Er liebte sie leidenschaftlich, solange er lebte. Als siebenjährigen Waisen steckt man Giovanni Segantini in eine Besserungsanstalt. Mit zwanzig wird er an der Mailänder Akademie aufgenommen. Er ist hungrig und hat kein Geld. Trotzdem wird er der engste Freund Carlo Bugattis, eines reichen Mailänder Bürgersohnes, der auch an der Brera studiert und schon einen Namen als Möbelbauer hat.

In the Apuseni mountain range in Romania, it’s said that a fabled Keep made from the bones of Vlad the Impaler’s victims stands high enough to touch the sky. At night, things run through the forest claiming those who get too close to the truth. Some people call them demons and trolls known as the Vladorians; others say they don’t exist at all but are the creations of imagination. So, when Kimball Hayden and his team of Vatican Knights are called to investigate, they discover a horror that’s far greater than folklore.

The year is 1996—a time before cell phones, status updates, and location tags—when you could still travel to a remote corner of the world and disappear. This is where we meet Gina and Duncan, a young couple madly in love, traveling around Europe on a romantic adventure. It’s a time both thrilling and dizzying for Gina, whose memories are hazy following a head injury—and the growing sense that the man at her side is keeping secrets from her.

Theodosia and her bestie, Sam, are former high school outcasts who find escapism in a popular TV show called Suffer about a victims’ rights advocate named Marcia Suffer. When the TV network that owns Suffer announces a contest—the chance to meet the show’s star, actress Roxy DeVine—Theo and Sam pull out all the stops to win. These days, Theo needs a win—any win—because lately life has been dealing her nothing but suffering.

Listen in as Wisecrack breaks down the philosophy behind popular indie horror films like Midsommar, Hereditary, and Jordan Peele’s social thriller Get Out. You’ll also hear interesting takes on why motherhood is so terrifying in horror movies, how production company Blumhouse cracked the genre by being cheap, and more in this curated collection, available for the first time in audio.

By providing the essence and important points of No Country for Old Men, you can finish it without worrying about time! Not only do we summarize the book, but we give context to Cormac McCarthy and the origins of the book as well! We discuss the importance of the book’s main points, and how these points may be interpreted in order to give you a good understanding of this novel.