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Set in both the fractured world of Jewish Harlem and the bohemian maelstrom of the Village, Mercy of a Rude Stream echoes Nabokov in its portrayal of sexual deviance, and offers a harrowing and relentless family drama amid a grand panorama of New York City in the 1910s and Roaring 20s.

Wenn man sein Herz verliert, ohne es zu merken ... "Denk an den Finderlohn! Sei großzügig und prüfe, ob dein Herzchen bei demjenigen, der es gefunden hat, in guten Händen ist." Leichter gesagt als getan, denkt Julie-Marie Sommer. Sie hat sich geschworen, nie wieder ihr Herz zu verschenken und will auf der ostfriesischen Insel Norderney alt werden. Seit sie jedoch den attraktiven Lehrer Sven kennengelernt hat, tanzen Seepferdchen in ihrem Bauch und sie ist drauf und dran, ihre Vorsätze über Bord zu werfen. Doch dann taucht ihr alter Freund Leon auf und mit ihm dunkle Wolken am Horizont.

Dan Jones’s life of Henry V stands out for the generous amount of space it allots to the critical first 26 years of his life before he became king. Both standalone biography and a completion of Dan’s sequence of English medieval histories that began with The Plantagenets and The Hollow Crown, Henry V is a thrilling and unmissable life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

Der Marquess of Roth besitzt einen berüchtigten Club in London - das Bild eines treusorgenden Ehemannes würde dazu nicht passen. Deshalb bemüht er sich das Bild des Schürzenjägers um jeden Preis aufrechtzuerhalten, was dazu führt, dass er seine Ehefrau weit entfernt auf seinem Landsitz zurücklässt. Es war eh keine Heirat aus Liebe, sondern der Schlüssel zu seinem Erbe. Und er hat keinerlei Interesse an dieser Frau.

Brought to you by Penguin. The American psyche is channelled into the gripping story of one man. This is the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth at his very best. It is 1998, the year America is plunged into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president. In a small New England...

The New York Times bestselling author and entrepreneur investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing—and yet you are somehow happy. When Carol Roth first heard that one of the World Economic Forum’s...

Zehn Monate - so lang hat sich Henrys Bewusstsein nach dem brutalen Mord an seiner Frau in einen Zustand der dissoziativen Erstarrung zurückgezogen. Nun ist er wieder da. Erwacht in einer Realität, die anders ist. Der Drogenfahnder ist körperlich geschwächt und verzweifelt. Er erfährt Unterstützung durch enge Freunde, doch seinen Weg muss er alleine gehen. Der Kampf um eine Rückkehr zur DEA, und seine Zerrissenheit zwischen tiefer Trauer und Rachedurst, werden zur Belastungsprobe für Henry und alle, die ihm helfen wollen. Ein Buch über Freundschaft, Verlust und den Weg zurück ins Leben.

Der Untergang der Habsburger Monarchie – ein zentrales Thema für den unnachahmlichen Joseph Roth. In "Radetzkymarsch" beschreibt er die Geschichte der Familie Trotta durch drei Generationen. Unmöglich, von Joseph Roth nicht gefesselt zu werden.

En los años treinta, en plena crisis económica, un niño judío crece en Nueva York. A la vez que se enfrenta al entorno cerrado del gueto y a las peculiaridades de su familia, realiza su propio descubrimiento de un mundo demasiado hostil.

Roth Masters is a protector to the bone. Driven by the losses of his past, he fights side-by-side with Hell Squad to protect the human survivors of the alien invasion. As leader of Squad Nine, he and his team are known for their perfect timing in a firefight. But Roth knows they need more intel on the raptor invaders - something to turn the tide of the battle. And he knows the woman he rescued from an alien facility is hiding secrets he desperately wants to uncover.

Un americano vuelve a presentarnos al álter ego de Roth, Ira, que abandona a su dictatorial amante por una pianista rubia y aristocrática. El conflicto que eso produce entre sus raíces en el gueto judío y sus aspiraciones literarias le obliga a abandonar temporalmente a su familia y dirigirse al prometedor lejano oeste. La obra póstuma de Roth no sólo es el último testimonio personal de la Depresión, sino también una desgarradora novela sobre la reinvención y la trascendencia del amor.

Sir Ian McKellen, William Squire, Trevor Nunn and Gary Watson perform Shakespeare's play that tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years' War.

LAUGH NOW. CRY LATER. Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere... It’s London, 2014, and Hal Lancaster, son and heir of Henry, Duke of Lancaster, is in a holding pattern: his mother is dead, his father is dying or remarrying or both, his siblings are fighting, his internship is pointless...

While King Henry's England is threatened by rebellion, the king's scapegrace son Hal haunts the taverns of London, his companions a crew of rogues and thieves let by Falstaff. The earl of Northumberland and his fiery son Hotspur scheme to overthrow the crown. Can Hal be brought to a sense of duty as Prince of Wales? Or will the influence of Falstaff prove too strong? The issue is decided when Hal, Hotspur, and Falstaff come together at the climactic battle of Shrewsbury.

Was macht ein tapsiger Labrador-Welpe in einem Fernseh-Studio? Genau das fragt sich auch Henry, als er am 9.11.2009 - gerade mal neun Wochen alt - seinen 'Dienst' in der täglichen BR-Sendung 'Wir in Bayern' antritt. Die Premiere, turbulentes Chaos: Henry verwechselt den Finger des Moderators mit einem Knabberknochen, stibitzt der Studioköchin den Knödelteig und bringt Promigast Jutta Speidel aus der Fassung. Vom ersten Tag an erobert Henry die Herzen der Zuschauerinnen und Zuschauer. Es hagelt Fanpost: "Henry, du bist der STAR der Sendung!" DER war er elfeinhalb Jahre lang.

Young King Henry VI has married the beautiful Margaret of Anjou but the new queen is ruthless and ambitious. Supported by the powerful Duke of Suffolk, Margaret plots the overthrow of her enemies, chief among them the Duke of Gloucester. But the Duke of York also aspires to the crown, and the common people, led by Jack Cade, are in rebellion. To the despair of the mild young king, England descends into civil war.

Rebellion still simmers in England and King Henry's health is failing. Prince Hal has proved his courage but the king still fears that his son's pleasure-loving nature will bring the realm to ruin. Meanwhile, Falstaff and his ribald companions waste the nights in revelry, anticipating the moment when Hal will ascend the throne. Falstaff is in Gloucestershire when news arrives that the king has died. Has the dissolute old knight's hour come at last?

Henry V, which dates from 1599, is the last in Shakespeare's series of plays based on English history. It is also, of course, among the Bard's best-known and most-performed works. It's given rich new life here by a full-cast presentation that combines classic literature with classical music.

Henry V is a study of kingship, patriotism, and heroic determination tempered by tender comedy as Henry courts Katherine, princess of France. Henry, the noble and courageous young king of England, decides to invade France, believing he has a rightful claim to the throne. At Agincourt he leads his army into battle against the powerful French forces and, against all the odds, wins a famous victory.

The Yorkists have been temporarily victorious and the Duke of York has assumed the throne, but the Lancastrians, led by Queen Margaret, counter-attack. As the fortunes of war shift, both the innocent and the guilty are swept up in the maelstrom. And increasingly dominant amid the chaos is the sinister figure of the crook-backed Richard, Duke of Gloucester.