Inhalt: Nicolas Fox is a charming con man and master thief. Kate O'Hare is the FBI agent on his trail. At least that's what everyone thinks. In reality, they're secretly working together to bring down super-criminals. Criminals like brutal casino magnate Evan Trace. Evan Trace is running a money-laundering operation through his casino. Some of his best customers are mobsters, dictators, and global terrorists. Nick and Kate are going deep undercover as high-stakes gamblers, wagering millions of dollars - and their lives - in an attempt to topple Trace's empire. The scam will take Fox and O'Hare from the Las Vegas strip, to the sun-soaked beaches of Hawaii, and into the dark back alleys of Macau. Their only backup - a self-absorbed actor, a Somali pirate, and an ex-soldier who believes a rocket launcher is the best way to solve every problem. What could possibly go wrong? Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 342 S. Standort: Englisch Evano ISBN: 978-1-4722-3592-3
Inhalt: Eine Sammlung von über 500 englischen Witzen: pfiffig, hintergründig, naiv, frech und auch mal um die Ecke gedacht. Eine tolle Möglichkeit, sein Englisch zu verbessern und dabei jede Menge Spaß zu haben. Systematik: 5.4 Fremdsprachig Umfang: 160 S. Standort: 5.4 Feilhauer ISBN: 978-3-473-53019-9
Inhalt: What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had invaded Britain in 1940? What if Nazi Germany had defeated the Soviet Union? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What if there had been no American Revolution? And what if John F. Kennedy had lived? In this acclaimed book, leading historians from Andrew Roberts to Michael Burleigh challenge the complacency of traditional accounts, exploring what might have been if nine of the most decisive moments in modern history had never happened. Systematik: Ek Geschichte Umfang: 548 S. Standort: Englisch Ek Fiktivgeschichte ISBN: 978-0-330-35132-4
Inhalt: Narrated by Charlie Kilworth, whose birth is an echo of his mother's own illegitimate beginnings, The Piano Man's Daughter is the lyrical, multilayered tale of Charlie's mother, Lily, his grandmother Ede, and their family. Lily is a woman pursued by her own demons, "making off with the matches just when the fires caught hold," "a beautiful, mad genius, first introduced to us singing in her mother's belly." It is also the tale of people who dream in songs, two Irish immigrant families facing a new and uncertain future in turn-of-the-century Toronto. Finally, it is a richly detailed tribute to a golden epoch in our history and of a generation striking the last, haunting chord of innocence. The Piano Man's Daughter is a symphony of wonderful storytelling, unforgettable characters, and a lilting, lingering melody that plays on long after the last page has been turned. (less) Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 461 S. Standort: Englisch Findley ISBN: 978-0-00-224379-7
Devil's Food Cake Murder A Hannah Swensen Mystery (Band 1) A Hannah Swensen Mystery with Recipes Kensignton Publishing Corp., New York (2012)
Standort: Englisch Fluke
Inhalt: Hannah Swensen has to admit life is pretty sweet. Things are going well in the romance department and her bakery's delectable confections are selling as fast as she can bake them. Even her good friend Claire is head over heels with her new husband, Reverend Bob Knudson. If only they could find time to take their honeymoon!
When Bob's childhood friend, Matthew Walters, comes to town, it seems like divine intervention. Matthew, like Bob, is a Lutheran minister with a stubborn sweet tooth. Since he's on sabbatical, Matthew is happy to fill in for Bob while he and Claire take that long-awaited honeymoon. It sounds like the perfect plan--until Hannah finds Matthew face-down in a plate full of Devil's Food Cake, a single bullet in his head. It will take some sleuthing to sift out the killer, but Hannah is sure of one thing: even the most half-baked murder plot can be oh so deadly. . . Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 341 S. Standort: Englisch Fluke ISBN: 978-0-7582-3492-6
Inhalt: Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nic. Amy´s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn´t true. ... Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 475 S. Standort: Englisch Flynn ISBN: 978-0-7538-2766-6
Inhalt: In a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key... The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open? So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of friends, relatives and complete strangers. He gets heavy boots, he gives himself little bruises and he inches ever nearer to the heart of a family mystery that stretches back fifty years. But will it take him any closer to, or even further from, his lost father? Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 326 S. Standort: Englisch Foer ISBN: 978-0-14-102518-6
Inhalt: Three days that could change the world's political landscape . . . A man wakes up to find himself lying on the ground in a railway station, his mind stripped bare of all recollection. He has no idea how he got there. He does not even know his own name. Convinced he is a drunken down and out, it isn't until a newspaper report about a satellite launch catches his eye that he begins to suspect all is not what it seems . . . The year is 1958, and America is about to launch its first satellite, in a desperate attempt to match the Soviet Sputnik and regain the lead in the space race. As Luke Lucas gradually unravels the mystery of his amnesia, he realizes that his fate is bound up with that of the rocket that stands ready on launch pad 26B at Cape Canaveral. And as he relearns the story of his life, he uncovers long-kept secrets about his wife, his best friend and the woman he once loved more than life itself . . . Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 374 S. Standort: Englisch Follett
Inhalt: Five families are brought together through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the struggle für votes for women. It is 1911, and the coronation day of King George V. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams begins his first day at work in a coal mine. The Williams family is connected by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy in the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of Gus Dewar, ambitious young aide to U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. Two orphaned Russian brothers soon become involved, but Grigori and Lev Peshkov's plan to emigrate to America falls foul of war, conscription and revolution. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 941 S. Standort: Englisch Follett ISBN: 978-0-330-53544-1
Inhalt: Jeannie Ferrami, a scientific researcher investigating the behaviour of identical twins who have been raised separately, uncovers a perplexing mystery: identical twins who were born on different days, to different mothers, in different places. One of the twins, Steve, is a law student. The other, Dennis, is a convicted murderer. Jeannie works with Steve on her research project and finds herself falling in love with him - but their world is shattered when he is accused of a monstrous crime. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 632 S. Standort: Englisch Follett ISBN: 978-0-330-34837-9
Inhalt: On the day after Halloween, in the year 1327, four children slip away from the cathedral city of Kingsbridge. In the forest they see two men killed. As adults, their lives become braided together by desire, determination, avarice and retribution. They will see prosperity and famine, plague and war. Yet they will always live under the shadow of the unexplained killing on that fateful childhood day. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 1237 S. Standort: Englisch Follett ISBN: 978-0-330-49070-2
Inhalt: Spezialagent Tweed ermittelt in einem besonders brutalen Fall von Serienmord. Schon bald stößt er auf einen ungeheuerlichen politischen Hintergrund.
Inhalt: When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there's an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 369 S. Standort: Englisch Forman ISBN: 978-1-84941-566-8
Inhalt: Ten years later, they're still talking about the weather! Kate Fox, the social anthropologist who put the quirks and hidden conditions of the English under a microscope, is back with more biting insights about the nature of Englishness. This updated and revised edition of Watching the English--which over the last decade has become the unofficial guidebook to the English national character--features new and fresh insights on the unwritten rules and foibles of "squaddies," bikers, horse-riders, and more. Fox revisits a strange and fascinating culture, governed by complex sets of unspoken rules and bizarre codes of behavior. She demystifies the peculiar cultural rules that baffle us: the rules of weather-speak. The ironic-gnome rule. The reflex apology rule. The paranoid pantomime rule. Class anxiety tests. The roots of English self-mockery and many more. An international bestseller, Watching the English is a biting, affectionate, insightful and often hilarious look at the English and their society. Systematik: Epl 14 Geschichte Umfang: 424 S. Standort: Englisch Epl 14 Verhalten ISBN: 978-0-340-81886-2
Erläuterungen zu Francis Scott Fitzgerald, "Der große Gatsby (The great Gatsby)" Königs Erläuterungen und Materialien ; 389 Bange, Hollfeld (2003)
Standort: Pyk Frau
Inhalt: Interpretationshilfe in deutscher und englischer Sprache zu dem 1925 erschienenen Roman. Systematik: Pyk Biografie Umfang: 107 S. Standort: Pyk Frau ISBN: 978-3-8044-1792-2
Inhalt: On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation is preparing for the most important event in its calendar: its annual lecture. This year they have secured a major star: Dr Norman Wilfred, the worldfamous authority on the scientific organisation of science. When he arrives he turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. Meanwhile, at the other end of the island, a young woman waits for the notorious chancer she has rashly agreed to gon on holiday with and who has only too characteristically failed to turn up. Trapped in the villa with her instead, by an unfortunate chain of misadventure, is a balding old gent called Dr Norman Wilfred, who has lost his whereabouts, his luggage, his temper and increasingly all normal sense of reality ... And as the time draws ever nearer for one or other Dr Wilfred - or possibly both - to give the eagerly awaited lecture, so Skios - Greece - Europe - career off their appointed track. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 278 S. Standort: Englisch Frayn ISBN: 978-0-571-28142-8
Inhalt: A great & outstanding book about life and love for men and women, portraying rural life at the end of the 19th century. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 299 S. Standort: Englisch Fredriks ISBN: 978-0-7528-1427-8
Inhalt: Wörterbuch mit rund 55.000 Stichwörtern und Wendungen aus der Alltagssprache sowie zu schüler- und schulrelevanten Sachgebieten. Systematik: Ofk 5 Sprache Umfang: 767 S. Standort: Ofk 5 Lang ISBN: 978-3-468-13213-1
Inhalt: Through a mirror ... is a dangerous world. For years, Jacob Reckless has enjoyed its secrets and treasures. Not any more. His younger brother has followed him. Now dark magic will turn the boy to beast, break the heart of the girl he loves, and cause chaos to rule forever ... Unless Jacob can find a way to save them. Systematik: 5.4 Fremdsprachig Umfang: 344 S. Standort: 5.4 Funke ISBN: 978-1-905294-85-5
Stone Fox Ravensburger Taschenbuch ; 1846 : RTB-Abenteuer [englische Ausgabe mit vielen Vokabeln und Lautschrift] Maier, Ravensburg (1993)
Standort: 5.4 Gardin
Inhalt: Der 10jährige Will nimmt an einem Schlittenhunderennen teil, weil er mit dem Preisgeld die verschuldete Farm des Grossvaters retten will; sein Hund bricht kurz vor dem Ziel zusammen, aber die sportliche Fairness des Zweitschnellsten, eines Indianers namens Stone Fox, verhilft ihm doch noch zum Sieg. Die Personen dieser Geschichte verkörpern alle vorbildlichen typisch amerikanischen Tugenden, beträchtlich übersteigert zwar, aber auch sympathisch und rührend. Die deutsche Ausgabe unter dem Titel "Steinadler" (BA 4/86) wurde sehr empfohlen; das englische Original (mit Vokabelhilfe) kann etwa ab 3. Unterrichtsjahr, d.h. ab 13 Jahren, ohne Schwierigkeiten gelesen werden. - Allen Jugend- und Schulbibliotheken sehr empfohlen.
Dt. Ausg. u.d.T.: Gardiner, John R.: Steinadler Systematik: 5.4 Fremdsprachig Umfang: 124 S. : zahlr. Ill. Standort: 5.4 Gardin ISBN: 978-3-473-51846-3
Inhalt: Fat, unlovely Roberta Teys is found beside her father's headless corpse, wearing her best dress and with an axe in her lap. Her first words are: 'I did it. And I am not sorry' and she refuses to say more. Inspector Thomas Lynley and DS Barbara Havers are sent by Scotland Yard to solve this particularly gruesome murder. And as they navigate their way around the dark labyrinth of secret scandals and appalling crimes, they uncover a series of shocking revelations that shatter the facade of the peaceful Yorkshire village.
in engl. Sprache Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 332 S. Standort: Englisch George ISBN: 978-1-4447-3826-1
Inhalt: Die zehnjährige Charlotte ist spurlos verschwunden. Und sofort hat ihre Mutter, die konservative junge Politikerin Eve Browen, einen Verdacht. Nur Dennis Luxford kommt als Täter in Frage, der Chef eines berüchtigten Skandalblattes und Vater ihrer unehelichen Tochter Chalotte. Ein abgekartertes Spiel, um ihre Karriere zu ruinieren und Luxford riesige Auflagen zu verschaffen? Inspektor Lynley ermittelt - und sticht in ein Wespennest aus Affären, Lügen und schmutzigen Geheimnissen. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 477 S. Standort: Englisch George
Inhalt: Their parents gone, their lives drained of care and affection, the Campbell kids rely on their wits to survive. And in a world where cruelty is commonplace and protection comes at a price, twelve-year-old Joel is about to learn that keeping your family safe means committing the ultimate crime. Systematik: Belletristik Umfang: 643 S. Standort: Englisch George ISBN: 978-0-340-93557-6
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