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London : Vintage Books, 2020
Titel / Autor: Machines like me / Ian McEwan
Veröffentlichung: London : Vintage Books, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 303 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781529111262
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine understand the human heart?
The narrow road to the deep north / Matsuo Bashō ; translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
London : Penguin, 2020
Penguin classics
Titel / Autor: The narrow road to the deep north / Matsuo Bashō ; translated by Nobuyuki Yuasa
Veröffentlichung: London : Penguin, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 133 S. : Ill., Kt. ; 19 cm
Reihen: Penguin classics
ISBN: 9780241382615
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: When the Japanese haiku master Basho composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North, he was an ardent student of Zen Buddhism, setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. He writes of the seasons changing, the smell of the rain, the brightness of the moon and the beauty of the waterfall, through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe. These writings not only chronicle Basho's travels, but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him.
The giver of stars / Jojo Moyes
London : Penguin, 2020
Titel / Autor: The giver of stars / Jojo Moyes
Veröffentlichung: London : Penguin, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 470 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780718183240
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: 'Alice had come halfway across the world to find that, yet again, she was considered wanting. Well, she thought, if that was what everyone thought, she might as well live up to it.' England, late 1930s, and Alice Wright - restless, stifled - makes an impulsive decision to marry wealthy American Bennett Van Cleve and leave her home and family behind. But stuffy, disapproving Baileyville, Kentucky, where her husband favours work over his wife and is dominated by his overbearing father, is not the adventure - or the escape - that she hoped for. That is, until she meets Margery O'Hare, a troublesome woman - and daughter of a notorious felon - the town wishes to forget. Margery's on a mission to spread the wonder of books and reading to the poor and lost - and she needs Alice's help. Trekking alone under big open skies, through wild mountain forests, Alice, Margery and their fellow sisters of the trail discover freedom, friendship - and a life to call their own. But when Baileyville turns against them, will their belief in one another - and the power of the written word - be enough to save them?
London : Piatkus, 2020
Titel / Autor: Under currents / Nora Roberts
Veröffentlichung: London : Piatkus, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 531 S. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9780349421940
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: From the outside, the house in Lakeview Terrace looks perfect and the Bigelows seem like the perfect family: the respected surgeon father, the glamorous, devoted mother and two beautiful children. A perfect family, in a perfect house living their perfect lives. But perfect surfaces can hide dark undercurrents and behind closed doors lies a very different story. Teenager Zane and his younger sister, Britt, are terrorised by their violent father and dysfunctional mother. Too afraid to speak out, Zane does his best to protect his sister and counts the days until they can finally be free. One dark, brutal night when their father's temper takes a horrifying turn for the worse, the perfect facade is exposed for the lie it is and Zane and Britt manage to escape. With the help of their beloved aunt, they rebuild their lives a day at a time, creating new families and putting their past behind them. But a childhood like that can cast a shadow the length of a lifetime. Can Zane and Britt ever be free of their past? Or will those dark undercurrents rise to the surface, forcing them to fight for their lives once again..
Summer of '69 / Elin Hilderbrand
London : Hodder and Stoughton, 2020
Titel / Autor: Summer of '69 / Elin Hilderbrand
Veröffentlichung: London : Hodder and Stoughton, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 421S. ; 20 cm
ISBN: 9781529374766
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century . . . Every year the Levin children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic island home, but this year it's not to be. Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby is caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests with her friend Mary Jo Kopechne. And Tiger, the only son, has just been deployed to Vietnam. Thirteen-year-old Jessie, the youngest of them all, suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother who is hiding secrets of her own . . .
London : HarperCollins, 2020
Titel / Autor: Postscript / Cecelia Ahern
Veröffentlichung: London : HarperCollins, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 383 S. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780008125165
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died - six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. She's proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, approaches Holly asking for help, she finds herself drawn back into a world that she worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, Holly begins a relationship with the club, even as their friendship threatens to destroy the peace she believes she has achieved. As each of these people calls upon Holly to help them leave something meaningful behind for their loved ones, Holly will embark on a remarkable journey - one that will challenge her to ask whether embracing the future means betraying the past, and what it means to love someone forever..
London : Penguin books, 2020
Titel / Autor: The poison squad : one chemist's single-minded crusade for food safety at the turn of the tweentieth century / Deborah Blum
Veröffentlichung: London : Penguin books, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 453 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780143111122
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: By the end of nineteenth century, food was dangerous. Lethal, even. "Milk" might contain formaldehyde, most often used to embalm corpses. Decaying meat was preserved with both salicylic acid, a pharmaceutical chemical, and borax, a compound first identified as a cleaning product. This was not by accident; food manufacturers had rushed to embrace the rise of industrial chemistry, and were knowingly selling harmful products. Unchecked by government regulation, basic safety, or even labelling requirements, they put profit before the health of their customers. By some estimates, in New York City alone, thousands of children were killed by "embalmed milk" every year. Citizens--activists, journalists, scientists, and women's groups--began agitating for change. But even as protective measures were enacted in Europe, American corporations blocked even modest regulations. Then, in 1883, Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley, a chemistry professor from Purdue University, was named chief chemist of the agriculture department, and the agency began methodically investigating food and drink fraud, even conducting shocking human tests on groups of young men who came to be known as, "The Poison Squad." Over the next thirty years, a titanic struggle took place, with the courageous and fascinating Dr. Wiley campaigning indefatigably for food safety and consumer protection. Together with a gallant cast, including the muckraking reporter Upton Sinclair, whose fiction revealed the horrific truth about the Chicago stockyards; Fannie Farmer, then the most famous cookbook author in the country; and Henry J. Heinz, one of the few food producers who actively advocated for pure food, Dr. Wiley changed history. When the landmark 1906 Food and Drug Act was finally passed, it was known across the land, as "Dr. Wiley's Law." Blum brings to life this timeless and hugely satisfying "David and Goliath" tale with righteous verve and style, driving home the moral imperative of confronting corporate gree
The book of boro : techniques and patterns inspired by traditional Japanese textiles / Susan Briscoe
Exeter : David & Charles, 2020
Titel / Autor: The book of boro : techniques and patterns inspired by traditional Japanese textiles / Susan Briscoe
Veröffentlichung: Exeter : David & Charles, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 127 S. : zahlr. Ill. ; 28 cm
ISBN: 9781446308325
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: The word boro comes from the Japanese boroboro meaning something tattered or repaired. It refers to textiles that have been mended or patched together for utilitarian, not decorative, purposes to make the fabric stronger and warmer, and to mend torn and threadbare areas. Learn about the history of boro and how it is being revived for a new audience using contemporary fabrics including denim, linen and shibori tie dye as well as sashiko and other embroidery stitches.
The shape of night : a novel / Tess Gerritsen
New York : Ballantine books, 2020
Titel / Autor: The shape of night : a novel / Tess Gerritsen
Veröffentlichung: New York : Ballantine books, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 350 S. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9780593159866
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: After an unspeakable tragedy in Boston, Ava Collette flees to a remote village in Maine, where she rents an old house named Brodie’s Watch. In that isolated seaside mansion, Ava finally feels at peace . . . until she glimpses the long-dead sea captain who still resides there. Rumor has it that Captain Jeremiah Brodie has haunted the house for more than a century. One night, Ava confronts the apparition, who feels all too real, and who welcomes her into his world—and into his arms. Even as Ava questions her own sanity, she eagerly looks forward to the captain’s ghostly visits. But she soon learns that the house she loves comes with a terrible secret, a secret that those in the village don’t want to reveal: Every woman who has ever lived in Brodie’s Watch has also died there. Is the ghost of Captain Brodie responsible, or is a flesh-and-blood killer at work? A killer who is even now circling closer to Ava?
Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah
London : Bloomsbury, 2020
Titel / Autor: Afterlives / Abdulrazak Gurnah
Veröffentlichung: London : Bloomsbury, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 275 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781526615893
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: While he was still a little boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents by the German colonial troops. After years away, fighting in a war against his own people, he returns to his village to find his parents gone, and his sister Afiya given away. Another young man returns at the same time. Hamza was not stolen for the war, but sold into it; he has grown up at the right hand of an officer whose protection has marked him life. With nothing but the clothes on his back, he seeks only work and security - and the love of the beautiful Afiya. As fate knots these young people together, as they live and work and fall in love, the shadow of a new war on another continent lengthens and darkens, ready to snatch them up and carry them away..
Mantel Pieces. Royal bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books / Hilary Mantel
London : 4th Estate, 2020
Titel / Autor: Mantel Pieces. Royal bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books / Hilary Mantel
Veröffentlichung: London : 4th Estate, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 329 S. : Ill. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780008430009
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman.
London : Hodder, 2020
Titel / Autor: The guardians / John Grisham
Veröffentlichung: London : Hodder, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 373 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781473684621
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
London : Arrow books, 2020
Titel / Autor: Miss Austen / Gill Hornby
Veröffentlichung: London : Arrow books, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 387 S. ; 18 cm
ISBN: 9781787462830
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Throughout her lifetime, Jane Austen wrote countless letters to her sister. But why did Cassandra burn them all? 1840: twenty three years after the death of her famous sister Jane, Cassandra Austen returns to the village of Kintbury, and the home of her family's friends, the Fowles. She knows that, in some dusty corner of the sprawling vicarage, there is a cache of family letters which hold secrets she can never allow to be revealed. As Cassandra recalls her youth and her relationship with her brilliant yet complex sister, she pieces together buried truths about Jane's history, and her own. And she faces a stark choice: should she act to protect Jane's reputation, or leave the contents of the letters to go unguarded into posterity?
So long, my queen : 4 Kurzgeschichten / Nygel G Harrot ; Alison Romer ; Sarah Trenker
München : Circon, 2020
Compact Sprachwelten : Englisch - Compact Sprachwelten 4 Kurzgeschichten
Titel / Autor: So long, my queen : 4 Kurzgeschichten / Nygel G Harrot ; Alison Romer ; Sarah Trenker
Veröffentlichung: München : Circon, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 127 S. ; 19 cm
Reihen: Compact Sprachwelten : Englisch - Compact Sprachwelten 4 Kurzgeschichten
ISBN: 9783817425488
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: Guinea-Bissau
Abstract: Ein pensionierter Rosenzüchter fürchtet aufgrund neuer Nachbarn um sein grünes Paradies. Ein skrupelloser Immobilienmakler rechnet bei seinem neuesten Bauvorhaben nicht mit dem Widerstand einer rüstigen alten Frau und rege Vorbereitungen laufen in einem viktorianischen Herrenhaus, denn königlicher Besuch hat sich angemeldet …
Ghosts : a novel / Dolly Alderton
London : Fig tree, 2020
Titel / Autor: Ghosts : a novel / Dolly Alderton
Veröffentlichung: London : Fig tree, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 337 S. ; 23 cm
ISBN: 9780241465332
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Nina Dean has arrived at her early thirties as a successful food writer with loving friends and family, plus a new home and neighbourhood. When she meets Max, a beguiling romantic hero who tells her on date one that he's going to marry her, it feels like all is going to plan. A new relationship couldn't have come at a better time - her thirties have not been the liberating, uncomplicated experience she was sold. Everywhere she turns, she is reminded of time passing and opportunities dwindling. Friendships are fading, ex-boyfriends are moving on and, worse, everyone's moving to the suburbs. There's no solace to be found in her family, with a mum who's caught in a baffling mid-life makeover and a beloved dad who is vanishing in slow-motion into dementia.
The liberation of Brigid Dunne : a novel / Patricia Scanlan
New York : Atria, 2020
Titel / Autor: The liberation of Brigid Dunne : a novel / Patricia Scanlan
Veröffentlichung: New York : Atria, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 433 S. ; 22 cm
ISBN: 9781501181054
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Marie-Claire has just made the shocking discovery that her boyfriend (and business partner) is cheating on her. Reeling, she leaves her apartment in Toronto to travel home to Ireland, hoping the comfort of her family and a few familiar faces will ground her. She arrives just in time to celebrate her beloved great-aunt Reverend Mother Brigid's retirement and eightieth birthday. It will be a long-awaited and touching reunion for three generations of her family, bringing her mother Keelin and grandmother Imelda--who have never quite gotten along--together as well.
The man in the red coat / Julian Barnes
London : Vintage Books, 2020
Titel / Autor: The man in the red coat / Julian Barnes
Veröffentlichung: London : Vintage Books, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 266 S. : Ill. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9781529112313
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent's greatest portraits. The commoner was Samuel Pozzi, society doctor, pioneer gynaecologist and free-thinker - a scientific man with a famously complicated private life.
The Night manager / John Le Carré ; retold by Anna Trewin
New ed.
Harlow : Pearson Education, 2020
Penguin readers. Level 5
Titel / Autor: The Night manager / John Le Carré ; retold by Anna Trewin
New ed.
Veröffentlichung: Harlow : Pearson Education, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 96 S. : Ill. ; 20 cm
Reihen: Penguin readers. Level 5
ISBN: 978024143096
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: Jonathan Pine is the Night Manager of a hotel in Egypt. When he is shown some secret information, he passes it to a man in the British government. But things go wrong and the woman he loves dies. Pine is very angry and agrees to work with others to catch Richard Roper - the "worst man in the world".
London : Penguin, 2020
Titel / Autor: The Europeans / Orlando Figes
Veröffentlichung: London : Penguin, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 551 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780141979434
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Girl, woman, other / Bernadine Evaristo
London : Penguin books, 2020
Titel / Autor: Girl, woman, other / Bernadine Evaristo
Veröffentlichung: London : Penguin books, 2020
Physische Beschreibung: 453 S. ; 19 cm
ISBN: 9780241984994
Datum:2020
Sprache: Englisch (Sprache des Textes, der Filmmusik usw.)
Land: xx
Abstract: From Newcastle to Cornwall, from the birth of the twentieth century to the teens of the twenty-first, Girl, Woman, Other follows a cast of twelve characters on their personal journeys through this country and the last hundred years. They're each looking for something - a shared past, an unexpected future, a place to call home, somewhere to fit in, a lover, a missed mother, a lost father, even just a touch of hope . . .
