Anna Gavalda ist eine Art literarische Fachfrau fürs Verlassen und Verlassenwerden, für missglückte Leben und Lieben -- Lieben, in denen sich nicht zuletzt die Dinge selbst gegen zwischenmenschliche Beziehungen verschwören. In ihrem Überraschungserfolg Ich wünsche mir, daß irgendwo jemand auf mich wartet waren es unter anderem ein Handy, ein Sportwagen und ein IKEA-Bett, die das Zusammenleben zwischen

In this text, particular focus is given to functional language, with units on areas such as greetings, excuses, directions and descriptions, agreeing and disagreeing. This gives students a wider view of grammar and vocabulary in context in a variety of immediately useful everyday situations.

\'Remarkable... beautiful\' - National Public Radio These are the tales of an extraordinary journey: from the small towns of Sweden to the deserts of Nevada to the bitter chill of Siberia. A journey where children make friends with abandoned robots... in a world where dinosaurs roam freely. These are the Tales from the Loop. Stories told in both words and haunting illustrations, TALES FROM THE LOOP

Robert Fagles\'s latest achievement completes the magnificent triptych of Western epics. A sweeping story of arms and heroism, The Aeneid follows the adventures of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to embark upon a tortuous course that brings him to Italy and fulfills his destiny as founder of the Roman people. Retaining all of the gravitas and humanity of the original, this powerful blend of poetry

Featuring character designs from the 1985 release of Super Mario Brothers\', these die-cut notecards are just the thing for sending an old-school message. Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach and Toad are represented with bold pixel graphics. Each character is die-cut and can be mailed flat, but with a few simple folds, the card transforms into a self-standing paper sculpture. The cards are packaged in a sturdy

Several new books have focused on the portrait, none with as much clarity as Face. —American Photo\"Highly recommended for all collections.\"—Library JournalThis groundbreaking publication announces the death of the conventional portrait. In an age when we are bombarded with flawless images of youthful beauty, when rejuvenation is available through a jar of cream or a scalpel, artists and photographers

From rural Japan to international icon - Yayoi Kusama has spent her remarkable life immersed in her art. Follow her incredible journey in this vivid graphic biography which details her bold departure from Japan as a young artist, her embrace of the buzzing New York art scene in the 1960s, and her eventual return home and rise to twenty-first-century super-fame.

Acclaimed children\'s author and illustrator Michael Foreman blends humour, sadness and romance in these irresistible retellings of classic stories that children will return to again and again. Dreamlike castles, mystical forests, inspiring heroes and terrifying villains are all brought to life in stunning watercolour illustrations full of vivid detail and enchantment. From the masterful cunning of

In \"Colditz: The Full Story\", Major Pat Reid brings together the many dramatic discoveries resulting from research that has covered the five continents. From all walks of life, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, French, German and Polish prisoners - as well as those from the British Commonwealth and USA - were incarcerated in suffocating intimacy for five years in an alien and hostile land. Under these conditions,

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY’S WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘A delicious, important novel’ The Times ‘Alert, alive and gripping’ Independent ‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.’ Guardian As teenagers in Lagos, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love. Their Nigeria is under military dictatorship, and people are fleeing the country if they

The manga adaptation of the hit movie and light novel will enthrall both new and old readers! Mitsuha, a high school girl from a town deep in the mountains, dreams of an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy from Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As the two change places in their dreams, their encounter sets a miraculous story into motion.

Disaster! Jess tried to hide her horror. Her mum frowned. ´What´s wrong, sweetheart? It´s what you´ve always wanted!´ Jess´s mum has finally capitulated and arranged a trip to see Jess´s dad. But this is so the wrong moment: Jess has just got it together

A treasury of selected quotations from one of the world\'s best-loved and best-selling writers and the author of The Alchemist. / Paulo Coelho is seen by millions as an alchemist of words. The ideas and philosophies in his internationally renowned boo ks touch the aspirations of readers searching for their own path and for new ways of understanding the world. / This uplifting compilation of Paulo Coelho\'s

The boy on the mortuary slab is dead; so why doesn\'t he act like it? Forensic sorcerer Frank Sampson reckons it\'s something to do with the bizarre magic symbols carved into his flesh. He thinks he knows the sorcerer behind it; but the trouble is, he also thinks he may be in love with her. Or not...Life can get confusing when your loyalties are divided, you\'re on the run, and the Inquisition are

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Ginny Carter was once a rising star in TV news, married to a top anchorman, with a three-year-old son and a full and happy life in Beverly Hills—until her whole world dissolved in a single instant on the freeway two days before Christmas. In the aftermath, she pieces her life back together and tries to find meaning in her existence as a human rights worker in the worst

RomanErscheinungsjahr: 2007Gewicht: 340 gr / Abmessung: 19 cmVon Zweig, StefanieIn Form einer Romanbiographie erzählt Stefanie Zweig, Jahrgang 1932, die Geschichte ihrer Familie. 1938 können sich die Redlichs, Juden aus Oberschlesien, nach Ostafrika retten. Auf einer einsam gelegenen Farm, versuchen sie zu überleben. Was dem Vater, der an seiner Liebe zu Deutschland leidet, nicht gelingt, schafft Regina,

Horris Kew, conjuror and confidence-trickster, has returned to the Magic Kingdom of Landover, and a chorus of disapproval immediately assaults Ben Holiday\'s ears. Both Questor Thews, the Court Wizard, and Abernathy, the Court Scribe (currently, magically transformed into a dog) urge Ben to lock him up or exile him. Fair as ever, Ben decides to consider the problem rather than act immediately. Alas,

V etoj knige sobrany rasskazy i novelly T Tolstoj, v osnovnom obedinennye temoj vody i sna. V sbornik voshli kak uzhe izdavavshiesja teksty, tak i novye.

New in paperback. As cities have grown, housing has had to be provided to accommodate the increasing population. Driven primarily by the need to provide housing as cheaply and efficiently as possible, the ideas developed by the early Modernists have informed housing schemes worldwide. Today, in the context of a very different urban landscape, architects optimistic about high- density living are revisiting

Best known as the creator of the world\'s most famous equation, E=mc2, Albert Einstein\'s theories of relativity challenged centuries of received wisdom dating back to Newton. Without his groundbreaking work in relativity and quantum physics, our knowledge of the cosmos might lag decades behind where it is today. But Einstein was not only an extraordinary scientific thinker. He was a humanitarian who