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English Novel and Mystery
Als ihr verwitweter, 85-jähriger Vater sich in eine blondierte, üppige ukrainische Goldgräberin verguckt und sie auch noch heiraten will, schrillen bei Vera und Nadeshda, den zwei sonst so verschiedenen Schwestern, alle Alarmglocken.
Autor_innen: Lewycka, Marina
One September morning, elderly Ruth Wesemann wakes to the sound of a parcel being delivered to her door. Inside she finds a tattered little notebook. Opening its delicate pages she meets with a flood of memories… It's 1933 and she is back in her light- filled flat in Berlin. Hans is making caipirinhas, snow falls outside the kitchen ....
Autor_innen: Funder, Anna
As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they can. The self-assured Ifemelu departs for America. There she suffers defeats and triumphs, finds and loses relationships, all the while feeling the weight of something she never thought of back ....
Autor_innen: Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi
When Mona Gray is ten, her father contracts a mysterious illness. His gradual withdrawal from everyday life marks a similar change in Mona, who removes herself from anything - or anyone - that might bring her happiness. Numbers provide a kind of solace, and help her make sense of the world: she counts words in her head, adds her steps, ....
Autor_innen: Bender, Aimee
With the turn of each page, the characters that roam across these pages go astray. They are emigrants, runaways, drifters; gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross borders of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, under duress or incognito. A sequence of fourteen fact-inspired fictions about ....
Autor_innen: Donoghue, Emma
As the first international anthology of Filipina writers published in the United States, Babaylan reflects the complex history of a people whose roots have stretched to both sides of the globe. The voices represented in this collection offer a broad and varied perspective on the Filipina writer whose diasporic existence can be traced to a ....
Autor_innen: Carbó, Nick; Tabios, Eileen (Ed.)
It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment and agony. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter Beloved, ....
Autor_innen: Morrison, Toni
Feminist Bicycle Science Fiction Stories in Extreme Futures (Bikes in Space)
This anthology of science fiction short stories features strong heroines using bicycles to navigate their utopian and dystopian future realities.
Autor_innen: Blue, Elly
Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clan. Now, she's out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack-and her relationship with its sexy Alpha-it's not Mercy's blood Marsilia is after...
Autor_innen: Briggs, Patricia
Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow ....
Autor_innen: Woodson, Jacqueline
"Changes" is a spirited and poignant story about Esi, an independent woman who leaves her husband, Oko, because he intrudes on her time and personal space. Confronted with the difficulty of finding love and companionship on acceptable terms, Esi meets Ali and falls in love, but she must decide if she is willing to make the changes ....
Autor_innen: Aidoo, Ama Ata
Claire goes missing the night her father agrees to give her up for adoption. Her mother died when she was born. In the tiny fishing town of Ville Rose, Haiti, she and her father are not the only ones to have experienced loss. As the poor townspeople search by moonlight for the seven-year-old girl, each remembers what death has stolen from ....
Autor_innen: Danticat, Edwidge
