Inhalt: Arbella Stuart is confined behind the towering windows of Hardwick Hall. Niece to Mary, Queen of Scots, and presumed successor to Elizabeth I, she is held here for her protection. But those in the crown's shadow are never safe. Arbella seeks a means of escape. A woman trapped in a man's world, she is about to learn that even the smallest choices we make may save or destroy us. Schlagworte:Historisches, englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 464 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Frem / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-4059-2004-9
Inhalt: In an elegant Regency house near the Brighton seafront, three tenants have more in common than they know . . . A shocking revelation has led Rosa to start over as a sous chef. The work is gruelling but it's a distraction . . . until she comes up against the stroppy teenager next door who challenges her lifestyle choices. What if Rosa's passion for food could lead her to more interesting places? Having followed her childhood sweetheart down south, Georgie is busily carving out a new career in journalism. Throwing herself into the city's delights is fun, but before she knows it she's sliding headlong into all kinds of trouble . . . Nursing a devastating loss, Charlotte just wants to keep her head down. But Margot, the glamorous older lady on the top floor, has other ideas. Like it or not, Charlotte must confront the outside world, and the possibilities it still holds. As the women find each other, hope surfaces, friendships blossom and a whole new chapter unfolds for them all. Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 470 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Diam / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-4472-9912-7
Inhalt: Tess Gerritsen's new book The Killing Place is markedly different from her usual fare, but sports all her usual narrative acumen. The well-established page-turning abilities that marked out such earlier Gerritsen novels as The Mephisto Club and The Bone Garden are fully in evidence here, and the characters remain as sharply defined as ever - welcome news for followers of Gerritsen's much-loved series heroines, forensic anthropologist Maura Isles and detective Jane Rizzoli. In Wyoming, the quaintly-named village of Kingdom Come is snowed in, and twelve identical houses are abandoned and in darkness. Cars, similarly, are abandoned. Where are all the human inhabitants? The snowstorm has marooned Maura Isles - and the private road that took her to the village has also led her into a frightening and disturbing puzzle. Subsequently, Jane Rizzoli arrives to find a car containing four bodies, all burnt to a crisp. Is one of the corpses Maura Isles?
Rizzoli and Isles often find themselves investigating gruesome and baffling murder mysteries - very much the case here, but with Isles missing from the investigative team. As the tension is screwed ever tighter, it's clear that, as ever, Tess Gerritsen has the full measure of the crime genre at her fingertips. Both her heroines - women who have to fight to remain at the top of their professions - are capable, but it's Jane Rizzoli who is, in The Killing Place , stretched to her limits. --Barry Forshaw -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels. Tess Gerritsen war erfolgreiche Internistin, bevor ihr mit dem Thriller "Kalte Herzen" der internationale Durchbruch gelang. Seither hat sie weitere Medizinthriller geschrieben, die alle zu Bestsellern wurden. Tess Gerritsen lebt mit ihrem Mann, dem Arzt Jacob Gerritsen, und ihren beiden Söhnen in Camden, Maine. Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 443 S. Standort: $L-Engl Gerr / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-553-82481-0
Inhalt: On the night that Carla Reid plans on celebrating her wedding anniversary with her husband Kevin and their grown son Jack, their New Zealand farmstead has never felt more like home. But when Ben Toroa and another aspiring gang member brutally force their way into the house with robbery and more on their minds the night and the rest of both their lives take a radically different direction.As Carla struggles to come to terms with the aftermath and bereavement of different kinds, and Ben faces the consequences in prison, their stories continue to interweave. Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 350 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Suss / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-7490-2064-4
Inhalt: Brett Bohlinger seems to have it all: a plum job, a spacious loft, an irresistibly handsome boyfriend. All in all, a charmed life. That is, until her beloved mother passes away, leaving behind a will with one big stipulation: In order to receive her inheritance, Brett must first complete the life list of goals she'd written when she was a naïve girl of fourteen. Grief-stricken, Brett can barely make sense of her mother's decision-her childhood dreams don't resemble her ambitions at age thirty-four in the slightest. Some seem impossible. How can she possibly have a relationship with a father who died seven years ago? Other goals (Be an awesome teacher!) would require her to reinvent her entire future. As Brett reluctantly embarks on a perplexing journey in search of her adolescent dreams, one thing becomes clear. Sometimes life's sweetest gifts can be found in the most unexpected places. Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 335 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Spie / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-09-958015-7
Inhalt: A stark but uplifting story of bullying and redemption, for anyone who's ever been a weirdo. Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 340 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Allen / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-78577-038-8
Inhalt: Mariah Lyons findet ihren Vater Jonathan, einen bedeutenden Bibelforscher, erschossen in seinem Arbeitszimmer, ihre geistig verwirrte Mutter mit einer Waffe daneben. Kurz zuvor hatte Jonathan einigen Kollegen von seinem Fund berichtet, einem Brief Jesu von Nazareth. Ist einer von ihnen der Mörder?
Inhalt: The world had forgotten Mr Crowe and his mysterious gifts. Until he killed the poet. He lived a secluded life in the fading grandeur of his country estate. His companions were his faithful manservant and his ward, Clara, a silent, bookish girl who has gifts of her own. Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 336 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl O'Don / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-4746-0103-0
Inhalt: A picture hides a thousand words ... Seductive, exhilarating and suspenseful,The Muse is an unforgettable novel about aspiration and identity, love and obsession, authenticity and deception ... Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 445 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Burt / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-5098-4523-1
Inhalt: Every family has its problems - but the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional ... Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 382 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Sween / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-06-266642-0
Inhalt: 1920: eleven-year-old Prudence feels tensions rising as her architect father launches an eccentric plan to redesign the Holy City. When he employs a British pilot, William Harrington, to take aerial photographs of the city, Prue is uncomfortably aware of the attraction that sparks between Harrington and Eleanora, the English wife of a famous Jerusalem photographer - a nationalist, intent on removing the British. Years later, in rain-soaked Sussex, Prue opens her door to an unwelcome visitor. What he reveals unravels her world, and she must follow the threads back to secrets buried long ago in Jerusalem... Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 338 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Join / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-4088-4080-1
Inhalt: Das Silmarillion erzählt die Götter- und Heldensagen Mittelerdes von der Erschaffung der Welt bis zum Beginn des Dritten Zeitalters, in dem die Hobbits leben. »Das Silmarillion« erzählt von den Ereignissen des Ersten Zeitalters - jener fernen Epoche von Mittelerde, auf welche die Helden des »Herrn der Ringe« immer wieder in Ehrfurcht zurückblicken. (Und manche von ihnen, wie Elrond und Galadriel, aber auch Sauron, haben sie miterlebt.) Es ist die Zeit der Elben, der Langlebigen, deren Liebe zu den Dingen so weit ins einzelne geht, dass sie allem Namen geben. Die Menschen (die Kränklichen, die Nachtfürchtigen, die Unbegreiflichen) kommen eben erst aus den Wildnissen des Ostens hervor.
In dieser Welt, in der noch nicht alle Wege krumm sind, entwickelt sich auch die Erzählung in mächtigeren Bahnen, als wir es seither kennen. Melkor, der Meister des Verrats, raubt die Silmaril, in denen das Licht verschlossen liegt, das älter ist als Sonne und Mond; und Feanor und seine Söhne, um sie zurückzugewinnen, sagen ihm einen hoffnungslosen Krieg ohne Ende an. Ein Erdteil von Geschichten kommt in Bewegung, Geschichten, die in den Liedern der Elben besungen und hier im »Silmarillion« erzählt werden. Schlagworte:Fantastisches Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 443 Seiten : Illustrationen Standort: $L-Engl Tolk / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-00-752322-1
Inhalt: It is late summer in East Sussex, 1914. Amidst the season's splendour, fiercely independent Beatrice Nash arrives in the coastal town of Rye to fill a teaching position at the local grammar school. There she is taken under the wing of formidable matriarch Agatha Kent, who, along with her charming nephews, tries her best to welcome Beatrice to a place that remains stubbornly resistant to the idea of female teachers. But just as Beatrice comes alive to the beauty of the Sussex landscape, and the colourful characters that populate Rye, the perfect summer is about to end. For the unimaginable is coming - and soon the limits of progress, and the old ways, will be tested as this small town goes to war. Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 592 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Simon / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-4088-3766-5
Inhalt: Flora is forced to move back to the tiny island of Mure from the bright lights of London. It's tough: even the beautiful landscapes and bright blue sea can't lift her spirits - she's too busy looking after her dad and her feckless brothers. Then she chances upon her mum's collection of recipes and begins to cook her way through it. As she she reconnects with her family, and the place she was born, might she also find herself? Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 419 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Colg / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-7515-6772-4
Inhalt: The latest bestseller from the international star. Are you taking your life for granted? Lucy Silchester is. And she's lost sight of everything important. Because Lucy's lying to herself -- and to everyone else -- about what's going on. Her friends are cut short, her family cold-shouldered and her work colleagues tricked. Only Lucy herself knows the truth. Time for a wake-up call -- an invitation to an appointment with life. Her life. Who in this case turns out to be a kindly, run-down man in a bad suit, who is determined to change things, and won't let Lucy off the hook. She's going to have to make time for him.
Eigentlich wundert sich Lucy über gar nichts mehr: dass ihre große Liebe sie verlassen hat, dass sie aus ihrem Job geflogen ist und dass sie eine Einladung bekommen hat - von ihrem eigenen Leben. Doch als sie zu dem Treffen geht, ist Lucy doch überrascht: so hat sie sich ihr Leben nicht vorgestellt! Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 492 S. Standort: $L-Engl Ahern / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-00-743395-7
Inhalt: Led by her yapping corgis to the Westminister travelling library outside Buckingham Palace, the Queen finds herself taking out a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Duff read though it is, the following week her choice proves more enjoyable and awakens in Her Majesty a passion for reading so great that her public duties begin to suffer. And so, as she devours work by everyone from Hardy to Brookner to Proust to Beckett, her equerries conspire to bring the Queen's literary odyssey to a close. Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 121 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Benn / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-78125-014-3
Inhalt: One spring, five retirees embark on a flatshare. So begins a new chapter in friendship, love and all the joys and challenges that life has to offer ... Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 327 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Meier / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-349-14176-3
Inhalt: In this love story in reverse, Tim Parks recounts what happens when youthful devotion has long given way to dog walking, separate bed times, and tensions over who left the fridge door open. Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 368 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Parks / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-1-78470-200-7
Inhalt: The electric atmosphere of late 1950s New York and a cut-throat publishing world are superbly evoked through the voices of three memorable characters. Schlagworte:englisch Systematik: $L-Engl Umfang: 350 Seiten Standort: $L-Engl Rind / fremdsprachige Literatur ISBN: 978-0-7490-2079-8
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