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Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -The official tie-in book of the compulsive TV phenomenon Gogglebox. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut Leichte Lagerspuren -'Chilling and poised, I loved it' MAGGIE O'FARRELLThe Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to follow: she is the greatest blessing in their lives of Manhattan luxury. But as Heather grows, her radiance attracts a dark interest and their perfect existence starts to fracture. A very different life, one raised in poverty and in violence, is beginning its own malign orbit around Heather. 144 pp. Englisch.

Gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -In California her name was Aden Grace Sawyer. In Pakistan she must choose a different name - Suleyman - and take on a new identity as a young man. She has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she'll travel further to protect her secret.But once she is on the ground, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have dreamed. Faced with violence and loss, she must make intense and unimaginable choices that will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is.Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a subtle masterpiece of empathy: a study of what it means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far they will go from home to find a place to belong. 226 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut leichte Lagerspuren -WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY FIRST BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR WALES BOOK OF THE YEARAN OBSERVER 'NEW FACE OF FICTION 2018'This is a story of something like survival.Sal planned it for almost a year before they ran. And now Sal knows a lot of stuff. Like how to build a shelter and start a fire. How to estimate distances, snare rabbits and shoot an airgun. And how to protect her sister, Peppa. Because Peppa is ten, which is how old Sal was when Robert started on her.Told in Sal's distinctive voice, and filled with the silent, dizzying beauty of rural Scotland, Sal is a disturbing, uplifting story of survival, of the kindness of strangers, and the irrepressible power of sisterly love; a love that can lead us to do extraordinary and unimaginable things. 234 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut Lagerspuren -'Gripping' Guardian 'Pacy and stylish . . . what a read' Jeremy Vine 'It was never meant to be like this. Sabotage, yes. Propaganda, yes. All of that and more - but not this. Not murder.'South Africa has become a powder keg. Its precious land is being sold off to the highest bidders while the country's corrupt elite pocket the profits. As the dreams and hopes of its people are threatened, frustration turns to violence. With the shocking murder of one of the country's bright young hopes, the fuse is well and truly lit. When conflict mediator Lindi returns home to the country of her birth she is reunited with her childhood friend Kagiso. Suddenly the professional becomes deeply personal and they find themselves at the heart of the chaos. They have just days to save themselves and the country they love, even as events are set in motion that no one, least of all they, can control. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -'Full of colourful characters, with a charming raconteur at its center' Kirkus Reviews'Action-packed . . . Readers will eagerly await David's next adventure' Publishers Weekly'A driving, torrential narrative' STEPHEN KING on Michael Grant's series, Gone CAN ONE GOOD DEED REDEEM A CRIMINAL David Mitre has a very unusual set of skills, skills he has acquired over a long criminal career. Skills that make him an irritant for people like the FBI. Hiding among the ex-pat community of the Greek islands, his cover is blown when he is witness to a stabbing on a Cyprus beach.The FBI want answers and David is given an ultimatum; solve the murder or face imprisonment for his own crimes. Coerced into playing detective, David unwittingly uncovers a criminal enterprise far worse than anything he could have imagined. 345 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut leichte Lagerspuren -A JERWOOD FICTION UNCOVERED PRIZE 2014 WINNERShe's online.'I booked a hotel,' I say. 'Near Marble Arch.''That sounds great, hon. I can't wait to see you.''Yeah. Me too.''I'm vaguely nervous.''Don't be.'Do be. I'm a child.Lolito is a love story about a fifteen year-old boy who meets a middle-aged woman on the internet. When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong . . . Hilarious, fearless and utterly outrageous, Lolito is a truly twenty-first century love story. 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -When a man is found stabbed and floating beneath the cliffs of the Newfoundland coast, the small outpost of Hampden is swept up in a storm of suspicion and paranoia.Grief-stricken and still struggling to cope with the death of one of their own a year earlier, the troubled Now family are among the first to be suspected of the killing. As the mystery around the murdered man unfolds, the lies spiral, the stakes rise and the once close-knit town becomes a prison that no one can escape. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut Leichte Lagerspuren -Aden Grace Sawyer has travelled a long way to begin her new life, and she'll travel further to protect her secret. But once she's in Pakistan, Aden finds herself in more danger than she could have imagined. Faced with violence and loss, she must make choices that will test not only her faith, but her understanding of who she is. Compelling, unnerving and timely, Godsend is a study of what it means for a person to give themselves to their faith, and how far they will go to find a place to belong. 240 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -Nothing else comes so I set the notebook beside me. What else is here I ask myself and listen. This section of stream purls and riffles amid small stones. What word might be made for what I hear . . .Les Clary's final case has broken the still surface of his backwater town.Becky, a park ranger with her own mysterious past, shares Les's consolation in the natural world that lies just beyond their hopelessly broken town. As Les and Becky explore of the county's lyrically beautiful landscape, they finds themselves led deeper into the heart of the town's corruption, and into the darkness of their own ruptured histories.This haunting novel is a poetic journey into the wilderness of the heart. 272 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -Selected as a Best Book of 2021 by the Observer, Stylist, Cosmopolitan, Red and the Daily Mail Halfway through her PhD and already dreaming of running her own lab, computer scientist Asha has her future all mapped out. Then a chance meeting and whirlwind romance with her old high-school crush, Cyrus, changes everything.Dreaming big, together with their friend Jules they come up with a revolutionary idea: to build a social networking app that could bring meaning to millions of lives. While Asha creates an ingenious algorithm, Cyrus' charismatic appeal throws him into the spotlight. When the app explodes into the next big thing, Asha should be happy, shouldn't she But why does she feel invisible in the boardroom of her own company Why are decisions being made without her Gripping, witty and razor-sharp, The Startup Wife is a blistering novel about big ambitions, speaking out and standing up for what you believe in. 304 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -'Cooper . . . is no ordinary thriller writer, but one who asks big questions . . . Gripping' Daily Mail'Incandescent and explosive' JAMES ROLLINSAbruzzo, Italy: a young priest suffers the stigmata of the crucifixion. The Vatican, Rome: the Pope calls on Harvard professor Cal Donovan to investigate the truth of the priest's claim. Berlin, Germany: a neo-Nazi organisation believes the priest is the key to an earth-shattering secret. A secret that can be used as a deadly weapon.When the priest is abducted, a perilous race against the clock begins. Only Cal can track down the ruthless organisation and stop it, before an apocalyptic catastrophe is unleashed. 280 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -Winner of the 2019 Wellcome Book PrizeWinner of the 2019 Republic of Consciousness PrizeShortlisted for the 2018 Goldsmiths PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 James Tait Black PrizeLonglisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio PrizeTaking its cue from the arrest and legally enforced chemical castration of the mathematician Alan Turing, Murmur is the account of a man who responds to intolerable physical and mental stress with love, honour and a rigorous, unsentimental curiosity about the ways in which we perceive ourselves and the world.Formally audacious, daring in its intellectual inquiry and unwaveringly humane, Will Eaves's Murmur is a rare achievement. 192 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -You can't fall in love for the first time twice . . .Kate's husband Luke - the man she loved from the moment she met him twenty-eight years ago - died suddenly. Since then she has pushed away her friends, lost her job and everything is starting to fall apart.One day, she wakes up in the wrong room and in the wrong body. She is eighteen again but remembers everything. This is her college room in 1992. This is the first day of Freshers' Week. And this is the day she first meets Luke.But Luke is not the man that she lost: he's still a boy - the annoying nineteen-year-old English student she first met. Kate knows how he died and that he's already ill. If they can fall in love again she might just be able to save him. She's going to try to do everything exactly the same . . . 304 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -His whole nation is celebrating what is the worst day of his lifeNineteen-year-old Billy Lynn is home from Iraq. And he's a hero. Billy and the rest of Bravo Company were filmed defeating Iraqi insurgents in a ferocious firefight. Now Bravo's three minutes of extreme bravery is a YouTube sensation and the Bush Administration has sent them on a nationwide Victory Tour.During the final hours of the tour Billy will mix with the rich and powerful, endure the politics and praise of his fellow Americans - and fall in love. He'll face hard truths about life and death, family and friendship, honour and duty.Tomorrow he must go back to war. 328 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -It is 1953, a heat wave is sweeping across America and the Grossmans - Ben, Addie and their two children - are moving their lives from the political heart of Washington DC to suburban Long Island. With their future uncertain, life in Long Island starts to cause problems for Ben and Addie. Both begin to wonder if they were meant for more, whether their lives might look different than they planned, and whether their marriage - their family - is worth fighting for. A Long Island Story is a portrait of a couple in crisis, of a unique and fascinating period in US history and of a seemingly perfect family fighting their demons behind closed doors. 320 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren, Cover leicht verschmutzt -It is four years since the virus came, killing every adult in its path. Not long after that the electricity failed. Food and water started running out. Fires raged across the country. Now Anna cares for her brother alone in a house hidden in the woods, keeping him safe from 'the Outside'. But, when the time comes, Anna knows they must leave their world and find another. By turns luminous and tender, gripping and horrifying, Anna is a haunting parable of love and loneliness; of the stories we tell to sustain us, and the lengths we will go to in order to stay alive. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -Dr James Darke has expelled himself from the world. He writes compulsively in his 'coming of old age' journal; he eats little, drinks and smokes a lot. Meditating on what he has lost - the loves of his life, both dead and alive - he tries to console himself with the wisdom of the great thinkers and poets, yet finds nothing but disappointment. But cracks of light appear in his carefully managed darkness; he begins to emerge from his self-imposed exile, drawn by the tender, bruised filaments of love for his daughter and grandson.Rich in ideas and feeling, Rick Gekoski's debut novel is provocative and timely. With scalding prose, ruthless intelligence and an unforgettably vivid protagonist, it faces some of the greatest, most uncomfortable questions about how we choose to live, and how to die. 299 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut starke Lagerspuren -The Fortunate Brother is a dark, atmospheric and compelling novel about the aftermath of a murder in a claustrophobic rural community in Newfoundland. When a body is found in the lake suspicion falls on the troubled Now family. As the mystery unfolds other, far deeper, secrets are revealed. Compassionate and wise, beautiful and brutal, The Fortunate Brother is the story of a family and a community in turmoil and confirms Donna Morrissey's place as one of Canada's foremost storytellers. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren. -'I have no idea why everyone thinks nature is so benign and glorious and wonderful. All nature is trying to do is kill us as efficiently as possible.' Great Aunt Oleander is dead. To each of her nearest and dearest she has left a seed pod. The seed pods might be deadly, but then again they might also contain the secret of enlightenment. Not that anyone has much time for enlightenment. Fleur, left behind at the crumbling Namaste House, must step into Oleander's role as guru to lost and lonely celebrities. Bryony wants to lose the weight she put on after her botanist parents disappeared, but can't stop drinking. And Charlie struggles to make sense of his life after losing the one woman he could truly love. A complex and fiercely contemporary tale of inheritance, enlightenment, life, death, desire and family trees, The Seed Collectors is the most important novel yet from one of the world's most daring and brilliant writers. As Henry James said of George Eliot's Middlemarch , The Seed Collectors is a 'treasurehouse of detail' revealing all that it means to be connected, to be part of a society, to be part of the universe and to be human. 384 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -'Fast-paced, with more twists and turns than a high-octane roller coaster' New York Journal of Books'Nail-biting suspense, high-octane action and a keep-'em-guessing plot . . . Superb!' Booklist'One of the most entertaining writers of British spy fiction currently operating' Deadly Pleasures Mystery MagazineFOUR WASHED-UP SPOOKS. TWO DEAD CIVILIANS. ONE REMOTE AND DEADLY OUTPOST.Harry Tate is a loyal MI5 officer and a servant of the State. But when two civilians are shot dead during a drugs intercept gone wrong, he is forced to take an immediate posting to the Red Station. What he doesn't know is that this remote Balkan outpost is a punishment and he won't be going home. With an assassination team coming for him and invading Russian forces heading straight for the Red Station, Harry does whatever he can to save himself. But with few allies and enemies everywhere, Harry's chances of survival shrink with each passing day . . . 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -In Letters of Note: Fathers, Shaun Usher collects together remarkable correspondence by and about fathers, including proud parental words of love, advice from experienced dads to new ones, as well as letters from both frustrated and adoring offspring.Includes letters by:Anne Frank, W.E.B. Du Bois,Jawaharlal Nehru, Groucho Marx,Che Guevara, Ted HughesKatherine Mansfield, Fergal Keane,Arthur Conan Doyle, Samuel Bernstein& many more 161 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Wie neu Leichte Lagerspuren, -Zubaida is on a journey to unearth the past. It will lead her from the corridors of Harvard to the scorching deserts of Pakistan, and the bones of an ancient whale. It will carry her back to Bangladesh, and the dark horrors of a ship-breaking yard. Here - deep inside a beached ocean liner, steeped in mystery and tragedy - lies the key to her story. And a lifeline to the man she loves, but whose heart she may never win back.Echoing with loneliness and longing, The Bones of Grace is a story of lost love and conflicted identity; of the urgent need to discover who we are, before we can truly belong anywhere and truly love anyone. 432 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -An extraordinary account of what it means to stand up for justice, and for yourself, no matter the cost; now with a new epilogue'It is when things feel the most uncertain, and we are at our most tired, frustrated and worn out, that we must dig deep. That's when we need to find it within ourselves not to turn away and hide in our bunkers, but to rise up and be even more vocal . . . If we hide, when we emerge from our hiding places the world might be transformed into a hostile, alien environment in which we have no say at all and where the things we love and value no longer exist.' 224 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Gut leichte Lagerspuren -'Ms. O'Connell is, quite simply, a hell of a storyteller, a master of plot, a tart observer of the social scene' FRANK McCOURT'Few pages are turned without revealing new, surprising twists . . . a clever, enjoyable read' The TimesSIX FRIENDS. THREE SECRETS. ONE MURDER. Maggie is set to marry the man of her dreams. Desperate for one wild last night out on the town before her big day, she gathers her closest girlfriends to hit the bars and party until dawn.Only things go wrong - horribly wrong.When Angie's body is found in the park the following morning, their night to remember quickly becomes a nightmare they all wish they could forget. Under police scrutiny, how far will Maggie and her friends go to keep their secrets Far enough to protect a killer 296 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -Antoni Libera is a literary critic, translator and theatre director, noted especially for his collaborative work with Samuel Beckett. Madame is his first novel. He lives in Warsaw, Poland. 438 pp. Englisch.

paperback. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut -'No author has ever brought Rome so alive for me - nor made it seem so sinister' Peter James'David Hewson's Rome is dark and tantalizing, seductive and dangerous, a place where present-day crimes ring with the echoes of history' Tess GerritsenAn ancient ritual. A modern-day crime.A body is found in a peat bog near the banks of the River Tiber. Teresa Lupo, a maverick pathologist, believes it was a young woman sacrificed long ago in an ancient Roman ritual. But she's wrong. Whilst the method of killing is ancient history, this murder happened very recently. The horror of these ritualistic killings is very much alive and it's up to Nic Costa to get to the bottom of it. 480 pp. Englisch.

hardcover. Zustand: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren 357 pp. Englisch.

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.