Inhalt: Jane Eyre was first published in 1847 as the early work of an unknown author under the pen name Currel Bell. Charlotte Brontë's first novel revolutionised the art of fiction with social modernism and an intensity that was by the time only known from poetry. The story is set in the north of England, during the reign of George III (1760-1820). It depicts the development of Jane Eyre. Orphaned as a baby, Jane struggles through her loveless childhood and becomes governess to the young ward of Edward Fairfax Rochester, the Byronic and attractive master of Thornfield Hall. Trying to find a way between libertinage and bigotry, she realises that without the means to be an independent woman, she is bound to either struggle through life trying to make a living or become dependent on a man. We do not hesitate to say that the tone of mind and thought which has overthrown authority and violated every code human and divine abroad, and fostered Chartism and rebellion at home, is the same which has also written Jane Eyre. -Elizabeth Rigby, The Quarterly Review, 1848. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 447 S. Standort: Englisch Brontë ISBN: 978-0-14-062011-5
Inhalt: Basierend auf Charlotte Brontes persönliche Erfahrungen als Lehrerin in Brüssel. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 474 S. Standort: Englisch Bronte ISBN: 978-1-85326-072-8
Inhalt: As Harry well knows, there's hardly a place on earth cozier than Crozet, Virginia, at Christmastime. Snowflakes, carolers, it's all picture-perfect until Harry and her husband, Fair, find the tree they've chosen grimly decorated with a corpse. The tree farm is run by the Brothers of Love, a semimonastic organization whose members live atop the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains. Now, as the season grows merrier, a murderer is growing bolder. One by one, prominent men of Crozet are being crossed off Christmas shopping lists and added to the morgue. And if Harry and her four-legged helpers aren't very good-and very careful-this Christmas will be her last. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 237 S. Standort: Englisch Brown ISBN: 978-0-553-80706-6
Inhalt: Bill Bryson set off to hike through the vast tangled woods which have been frightening sensible people for three hundred years on the longest continuous footpath in the world, the Appalachian Trail, almost 2,200 miles long. The result ist a view of the world that is uniquely, hilariously, his own. Systematik: Pyk Biografie Umfang: 320 S. Standort: Englisch Pyk Bryson ISBN: 978-0-385-40816-5
Inhalt: Never, even in his most optimistic moments, had he visualised a scene of this naturehimself in one arm-chair, a police officer in another, and between them . . . a mystery.? So thinks the Reverend Doddvicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen and a reader of detective novelswhen an actual mystery unexpectedly lands on his doorstep inThe Cornish Coast Murder. Julius Tregarthan, a secretive and ill-tempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen, shot through the headand the local police investigator is baffled by the complete absence of clues. Fortunately for the inspector, the Reverend Dodd is at hand, ready to put his lifetime of vicarious detecting experience to the test. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 286 S. Standort: Englisch Bude ISBN: 978-0-7123-5715-9
Inhalt: Q Pootle 5 is on his way to a moon party but one of his rocket boosters won't boost and his spaceship just won't fly. The worried little alien enlists some help. But will a small green frog, three birds and a cat calles Colin really be able to fix the spaceship and get Q Pootle 5 to his party on time? Systematik: 1.10 Bilderbuch Umfang: ca 24 S. Standort: BiBu 1.10 Butter ISBN: 978-0-00-198344-1
Inhalt: Orphan Molly Moon wurde als kleines Baby in einer Box gefunden. Für zehn miserable Jahre litt sie unter den Händen von Miss Adderstone. Aber ihr Leben wechselte über Nacht als sie ein mysteriöses Buch über Hypnose fand und ein großartiges Talent entwickelte, indem sie die Kraft hat Menschen zu sagen was sie zu tun haben. Systematik: 5.4 Fremdsprachig Umfang: 330 Standort: 5.4 Byng ISBN: 978-0-330-39985-2
Inhalt: Highly acclaimed and wildly successful, Ethan Canin's first book combines exquisite precision, humor, and a rare maturity of observation, capturing those miraculous moments when life opens up and presents itself to us. Here are short stories by a writer under thirty that aren't about existential emptiness. Full of life, rich with personal history, plot, and revelation, the stories in Empeor of the Air are the work of an extraordinarily gifted young writer. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 179 S. Standort: Englisch Canin ISBN: 978-0-395-42976-1
Inhalt: Frank McAllister has become wealthy in England, where he has lived for thirty years, but more and more he feels alienated in the land that made him rich. As the book opens, he is preparing to go to South Africa with his lover, Nellie, and his daughter, Lucinda. Frank is decended from the Boer leader, Piet Retief, who was murdered by the Zulu king Dingane, along with all his followers, in 1838. Retief has been an icon for Afrikaners ever since. Frank's cousin, Jaco, is now in America, having joined the Scientologists. His chaotic life spills over onto Frank, who is soon drawn into a world of violence and delusion that is to threaten the family. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 238 S. Standort: Englisch Cartwright ISBN: 978-1-4088-5822-6
Inhalt: Creating Stylized Characters gives readers a valuable insight into the popular art of character design. Professional illustrators, animators and cartoonists, well versed in creating characters for video games, comics and film, guide the reader through accessible tutorial projects packed with images and advice. Any budding artist will soon be able to draw characters of all ages, shapes and sizes! This entertaining, beginner-friendly book is applicable to both digital and traditional media, and delves into many essential aspects of the character development process, from real-world research, to sketching gestures and poses, to exploring different genres, personalities and styles. Systematik: Rdl Kunst Umfang: 259 S. Standort: Rdl Charaktergestaltung ISBN: 978-1-909414-74-7
Inhalt: Art Bechstein may be too young to know what he wants to do with his life, but he knows what he doesn't want: the life of his father, a man who laundered money for the mob. He spends the summer after graduation finding his own way, experimenting with a group of brilliant and seductive new friends: erudite Arthur Lecomte, who opens up new horizons for Art; mercurial Phlox, who confounds him at every turn; and Cleveland, a poetry-reciting biker who pulls him inevitably back into his father's mobbed-up world. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 297 S. Standort: Englisch Chabon ISBN: 978-0-06-097212-7
Inhalt: The scene: a junkie with a suspiciously good chess game is dead in a seedy hotel room. Enter homicide detective Meyer Landsman, broken-hearted and rough round the edges, complete with a murdered sisteer, an ex-wife for a boss, and a liquor and nicotine diet. This long-time member of the Yiddish Policemen's Union is already bent under the weight of a tower of unsolved cases, but is set on solving this one - despite a serious frost coming down from above, matsched flake for flake by the weather in this chilly Jewish homeland. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 414 S. Standort: Englisch Chabon ISBN: 978-0-00-715093-9
Inhalt: Immortalized in these famous stories, G. K. Chesterton's endearing amateur sleuth has entertained countless generations of readers. For, as his admirers know, Father Brown's cherubic face and unworldly simplicity, his glasses and his huge umbrella, disguise a quite uncanny understanding of the criminal mind at work. This edition includes seven tales from a number of G. K. Chesterton's 'Father Brown' books. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 411 S. Standort: Englisch Chestert ISBN: 978-0-14-062130-3
Inhalt: Nothing ever happens in the sleepy village of Lymstock. Until letters accusing the villagers of unspeakable acts start to appear. They try to dismiss them as a cruel hoax, but then one of the recipients is found dead. The letter next to her body reads simply, 'I can't go on'. As fear spreads among the villagers, Jane Marple must uncover who is writing these letters - before anyone else is hurt. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 234 S. Standort: Englisch Christie ISBN: 978-0-00-819654-7
Inhalt: Natalie Raines, one of Broadway's brightest stars, accidentally discovers who killed her former roommate and sets in motion a series of shocking events that puts more than one life in extreme peril. While Natalie and her roommate, Jamie Evans, were both struggling young actresses, Jamie had been involved with a mysterious married man to whom she referred only by nickname. Natalie comes face to face with him years later and inadvertently addresses him by the nickname Jamie had used. A few days later, Natalie is found in her home in Closter, New Jersey, dying from a gunshot wound. Immediately the police suspect Natalie's theatrical agent and soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. He had long been a "person of interest" and was known to have stalked Natalie to find out if she was seeing another man. But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when Jimmy Easton, a career criminal, suddenly comes forward to claim that Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill his wife. Easton knows details about the Aldrich home that only someone who had been there -- to plan a murder, for instance -- could possibly know. The case is a plum assignment for Emily Wallace, an attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor. As she spends increasingly long hours preparing for the trial, a seemingly well-meaning neighbor offers to take care of her dog in her absence. Unaware of his violent past, she gives him a key to her home... As Aldrich's trial is making headlines, her boss warns Emily that this high-profile case will reveal personal matters about her, such as the fact that she had a heart transplant. And, during the trial, Emily experiences sentiments that defy all reason and continue after Gregg Aldrich's fate is decided by the jury. In the meantime, she does not realize that her own life is now at risk. A compelling novel that probes the mysteries of the human heart and mind, Just Take My Heart is Mary Higgins Clark's most spellbinding tale. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 322 S. Standort: Englisch Clark ISBN: 978-1-84737-542-1
Inhalt: Just weeks after discovering a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ himself, biblicial scholar Jonathan Lyons is found shot to death in his study. Police suspect his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's, murdered him in a jealous rage. But the priceless parchment is missing, and Jonathan had recently confided to a family friend his suspicions that he once trusted had designs on acient document. It is up to his daughter, Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real mystery behind her father's death------before her own revelations become her last. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 375 S. Standort: Englisch Clark ISBN: 978-1-4516-6892-6
Inhalt: Young Fanny Hill is tricked into a life of prostitution, but she quickly learns the power of her own body as she learns the ways of physical passion. She soon escapes her fate for the loving arms of a wealthy young man, but misadventure and fate conspire to keep her from domestic bliss. Instead, Fanny discovers that sex need not be just for love; that it can be had for pleasure. She then sets out to explore those pleasures in as wide a variety as she can. With old men and young, and women as well; in positions of power, and situations where she has none; either watching or participating, Fanny's journey through the realms of sexual pleasure is a literary tour-de-force. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 221 S. Standort: Englisch Cleland ISBN: 978-0-14-062088-7
Inhalt: The story of the treasures Santiago finds along the way teaches us, as only a few stories can, about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, learning to read the omens strewn along life's path, and, above all, following our dreams. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 196 S. Standort: Englisch Coelho ISBN: 978-0-06-112241-5
Inhalt: Veronika has everything she could wish for - young and pretty, with plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet Veronika is not happy and one winter's morning she takes an overdose of sleeping pills, only to wake up some time later in the local hospital. There she is told that her heart is now irreparably damaged and she has only a few days to live ... Trough these intense days Veronika comes to realize that every second of existence is a choice we all make between living and dying. This is a moving and uplifting song to life, one that reminds us that every moment in our lives is special and precious. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 191 S. Standort: Englisch Coelho ISBN: 978-0-00-710346-1
Inhalt: The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival Glyde and his 'charming' friend Count Fosco, who has a taste for white mice, vanilla bonbons and poison. Pursuing questions of identity and insanity along the paths and corridors of English country houses and the madhouse, The Woman in White is the first and most influential of the Victorian genre that combined Gothic horror with psychological realism. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 648 S. Standort: Englisch Coll ISBN: 978-0-14-043096-7
Inhalt: Die weltberühmte Geschichte des weißen Kundschafters Lederstrumpf, auch Falkenauge oder Lange Büchse genannt, der als Weißer unter Indianern aufwuchs und zwischen seiner Freundschaft und der Liebe zu einer Weißen aufgerieben wird. Für den zweiten Band der Lederstrumpf-Romane ist bezeichnend, daß Cooper nicht an das Ende, sondern an den Beginn von Die Ansiedler anknüpft. Nicht Alter und Tod, sondern die jungen Mannesjahre Natty Bumppos interessieren ihn: Lederstrumpf erscheint hier als erprobter, berühmter Kundschafter und Krieger von etwa dreißig Jahren, als Falkenauge und Lange Büchse. Diese Gestalt hat Besitz ergriffen von der Phantasie des Autors, der, als Salonlöwe in Paris lebend, sich in die einfache, zivilisationsferne Welt der amerikanischen Wildnis zurückträumte. Dieser Traum bewirkte einen Welterfolg, beflügelte die Phantasie der europäischen Literaten: In Balzacs Le dernier Chouan (1829) schleichen aufständische Bauern wie Indianer durch bretonische Wiesen, und Dumas Pere gibt 1854 einem Roman über die Pariser Unterwelt den Titel Les Mohicans de Paris. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 415 S. Standort: Englisch Cooper ISBN: 978-0-14-062045-0
Inhalt: Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man...It's 1954 and Adam Carter is twelve years old, an only child with no friends nor any self confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man. A successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear into the heart of his family. Adam's mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so Adam's only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last drop of the day, Phil decides to accompany him along the darkening wood land to his house, never suspecting that as they chat innocently, in the house at the end of the track a terrible tragedy is unfolding which will change Adam's life forever. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 392 S. Standort: Englisch Cox ISBN: 978-0-00-741991-3
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