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Once upon a time in an enormous forest lived a woodcutter and his wife. The woodcutter is very poor and a war rages around them, making it difficult for them to put food on the table. Yet every night, his wife prays for a child. A Jewish father rides on a train holding twin babies. His wife no longer has enough milk to feed both children. In hopes of saving them both, he wraps his daughter in a shawl and throws her into the forest. While foraging for food, the wife finds a baby wrapped in a shawl. Although she knows harboring this baby could lead to her death, she takes the child home.

Set against the backdrop of the both optimistic and violent 1950s and 1960s, Affections traces the Ertls's slow and inevitable breakdown through the various erratic trajectories of each family member: Hans's undertakings of colossal, foolhardy projects and his subsequent spectacular failures; his daughter Monika, heir to his adventurous spirit, who joins the Bolivian Marxist guerrillas and becomes known as "Che Guevara's avenger"; and his wife and two younger sisters left to pick up the pieces in their wake.

A strong, self-reliant woman who was born in Somalia but brought up in North America, Cambara returns to Mogadiscio to escape a failed marriage and an overweening mother. Her journey back to her native home is a desperate attempt to find herself on her own terms-however ironically, in a country where women are expected to wear veils.

Vietnam, 1969. Tweede luitenant Waino Mellas is eenentwintig jaar en net aangekomen op Matterhorn: een Amerikaanse vesting diep in de Vietnamese jungle. Vlak na zijn aankomst krijgt zijn eenheid het bevel in vijandig gebied op zoek te gaan naar een Noord-Vietnamese legerunit. Mellas en zijn mannen zullen ziekte, honger, bloedzuigers, tijgers en een vrijwel onzichtbare vijand moeten trotseren, maar het zijn de raciale spanningen en de valse loyaliteiten die hen ten val dreigen te brengen.

Die kunstvolle Lesung von Gudrun Landgrebe und Mario Schneider bringt uns die Figuren und Schauplätze nahe und lässt uns eintauchen in die Paradiese von gestern. Ihre Stimmen erzählen mit Leichtigkeit und Kraft von der Liebe, dem Tod und den Verlockungen unserer neuen Zeit. Ella und René sind jung und frisch verliebt. Sie kommen aus Ostdeutschland und verbringen, kaum dass die Mauer gefallen ist, ihren ersten gemeinsamen Urlaub in Südfrankreich. Dabei geraten sie auf das heruntergekommene Weinschloss der Madame de Violet. Als deren Sohn Alain auftaucht, ein aalglatter Geschäftsmann, stoßen drei Weltanschauungen aufeinander.

Tvillingbröderna Nat och Fletcher skiljs åt vid födseln och växer upp i två helt olika familjer, ovetandes om varandras existens. Nat växer upp med deras biologiska föräldrar under blygsamma förhållanden. Fletcher däremot växer upp som den enda sonen till en mångmiljonär och hans hustru. Fletcher och Nat möts när de båda kandiderar för rollen som guvernör i Connecticut, den ena som demokrat och den andra som republikan.

In remote Pakistan, Nick Bright awaits his fate. A successful financial trader, Nick is kidnapped by an Islamic militant group, but with no one negotiating his release, he agrees to an unusual plan. He will earn his own ransom by helping his captors manipulate and master the world commodities and currency markets.

This novel offers a unique point of view on the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine 2014, through four intertwining narratives: a guilt-ridden doctor trying to exorcise his demons by exposing himself to war; a young woman tending to her ailing father as the bombs fall around them in Russian-occupied Slovyansk; a mysterious sociopath playing a cat-and-mouse game; and a forensic expert solving a murder case while trying to save her marriage with a discharged soldier.

Among these biographies, listeners will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. The exceptional men featured include artist Aaron Douglas, civil rights leader John Lewis, dancer Alvin Ailey, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, musician Prince, photographer Gordon Parks, tennis champion Arthur Ashe, and writer James Baldwin.

Легендарный роман о городе Санта-Тереза, расположенном на мексикано-американской границе, где сталкиваются заключенные и академики, американский журналист, сходящий с ума философ и таинственный писатель-отшельник. Этот город скрывает страшную тайну. Здесь убивают женщин, количество погибших растет с каждым днем, и вот уже многие годы власти ничего не могут с этим поделать. Санта-Тереза охвачена тьмой, в городе то ли действует серийный убийца, то ли все связала паутина масштабного заговора, и чем дальше, тем большая паранойя охватывает его жителей.

In this striking, enormously affecting novel, Joyce Carol Oates tells the story of two very different yet intimately linked American families. Luther Dunphy is an ardent Evangelical who envisions himself as acting out God's will when he assassinates an abortion provider in his small Ohio town while Augustus Voorhees, the idealistic doctor who is killed, leaves behind a wife and children scarred and embittered by grief.

Vinder af Edgar Award 2012 - "Lev om natten er en knivskarpt fortalt, stilsikker og medrivende amerikansk tragedie." - Information Joe Coughlin er ung i de brølende tyvere, hvor sprutten flyder og kuglerne flyver i Bostons hårdkogte gangstermiljø. Selv om han er søn af en højtstående politimand, er det længe siden, han har været på den rigtige side af loven. I forbudstidens Amerika når brutaliteten i gangsternes magtkampe nye højder. Joe kan ikke stole på et eneste menneske, heller ikke dem, han elsker - en lektie han må lære på den hårde måde.

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Here is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Henry, novelist and former 'angry young man' turned grumpy old reactionary, decides to fight the will and prove their father was insane. Younger brother Fred, a mild-mannered country doctor, takes a different approach, quietly digging in Simeon's past, only to uncover an entirely unexpected explanation for the legacy.

The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years, a tumultuous time for that country and the surrounding world. In late 2015, a year and a half after the 2014 Revolution swept away the Moscow-leaning kleptocratic President Viktor Yanukovich, Davidzon and his wife founded a literary journal, The Odessa Review. This eagerly anticipated debut tells the real story of what happened in Ukraine from the keen and resilient perspective of an observer at its center.

On the ground in Kabul, Malko reconnects with an old flame and hires a South African mercenary to assist with his mission. But Malko doesn't know whom he can trust. His every move is monitored by President Karzai's entourage, Taliban leaders, a seductive American journalist - and a renegade within the CIA itself. Before he can pull off his plan, Malko is kidnapped and nearly killed. When he finally manages to escape, he finds himself alone and running for his life in a hostile city.

Cuando el narrador de esta novela conoce a Mirko Bevilacqua, un hombre extravagante que frecuenta de manera intermitente y clandestina a Clara, una joven que cuida de una anciana y elegante dama croata, su percepción de la realidad cambia irreversiblemente.

Hélène ist fast vierzig, hat in Paris Karriere gemacht, und lebt nun mit Philippe und ihren beiden gemeinsamen Töchtern in einem Architektenhaus in der Nähe von Nancy. Sie hat sich ihre Jugendträume erfüllt: raus aus der Provinz, dem Kleinbürgerdasein der Eltern entkommen, erfolgreich sein. Christophe hingegen hat die kleine Stadt im Osten Frankreichs, in der er und Hélène aufgewachsen sind, nie verlassen. Er ist Vertreter für Hundefutter und führt ein unentschlossenes Leben als Teilzeitpapa und alternder Eishockeyspieler.

Eine junge Frau sitzt in ihrer Wohnung und blickt auf die kleinen Dramen, die sich in ihrer Nachbarschaft abspielen. Nur ihr eigenes Leben steht still. Nachdem der Bürgerkrieg in ihrer syrischen Heimat ausbrach, ist die Journalistin dem Versprechen von Sicherheit gefolgt und nach Europa geflüchtet. Betäubt von den Kriegstraumata verstummt sie. Aber sie beginnt, zu schreiben - über ihr Zuhause, die Flucht und die Einsamkeit im britischen Exil.

Matschuchy, Ukraine, 1933: Die junge Jawdocha versucht verzweifelt, sich und ihre Familie am Leben zu halten – doch der Hunger setzt nicht nur ihren Körpern zu, sondern immer mehr Menschen in ihrer unmittelbaren Umgebung greifen zu verzweifelten, unmenschlichen Maßnahmen im Kampf um das nackte Überleben.