Ergebnis für "Art" in Literatur & Belletristik

Julius Fischer hat sich wieder ziemlich aufgeregt. Angefangen bei der eigenen Ehefrau. Familie geht auch gar nicht. Noch ätzender sind eigentlich nur Freunde. Die sind am schlimmsten. Aber nichts im Vergleich zu allen anderen. Dann gewinnt er auch noch den Pirnaer Backstein (na ja fast, als Dritter von dreien) und sein Verleger findet, er solle Influencer werden - #makeeastgermanygreatagain. Als er eine wertlose Kneipe in Sucknitz, irgendwo im Erzgebirge, erbt, ist das Fass schon längst übergelaufen.

‘Sensational’ OBSERVER ‘Terrific’ JONATHAN FRANZEN ‘Exceptional’ GUARDIAN ‘Pure fun’ JOHN IRVING ‘Outstanding’ THE TIMES A disastrous error on the field sends five lives into a tailspin in this widely acclaimed debut novel of love, life and baseball. Henry Skrimshander, a shy...

Tony Award winner for Best Play and Olivier Award winner for Best Comedy. How much would you pay for a painting with nothing on it? Would it be art? Marc's best friend Serge has just bought a very expensive - and very white - painting. To Marc, the painting is a joke, and as battle lines are drawn, old friends use it to settle scores.

Comedy-Queen Martina Hill hat seit Jahren eine große Fangemeinde - auch in China. Sie selbst erfährt allerdings erst davon, als sie nach Peking eingeladen wird, um in einer Comedy-Serie mitzuspielen. Plötzlich steht sie vor dem größten Abenteuer ihres Lebens, denn die Sache hat einen Haken: Martina leidet unter extremer Flugangst und hatte bisher mit China - abgesehen von "Die 71 süß-sauer, aber bitte mit Tofu!" - nicht besonders viel zu tun.

A classic guide to tricks and tactics for winning arguments, with commentary on the use of and defense against each tactic. The best summary of this audiobook is "being right doesn’t mean you’re gonna win, and this is why". It’s the ultimate guide to spotting the many different kinds of bull people pull in order to win over the crowd, rather than argue the point at hand. There’s very few of them that don’t immediately bring examples to mind, and having it laid out clearly like this is the perfect armour to stop people derailing you.

Grace's life is perfectly fine, thank you very much. A widow of seventy-two, she lives quietly, and although hearing a little more from her daughter and granddaughter would be nice, she has her health, her friends, her octogenarian yoga (however reluctantly attended) and most of all her weekly club where she creates exquisite miniature train sets. However, when her estranged daughter rings her in shock, about to lose her home, Grace invites Amelia and her daughter Charlotte to live with her.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOVEL EVERYONE WILL BE TALKING ABOUT and NOVEL EVERYONE WILL BE READING THIS SUMMER "Is anything more dangerous than a fragile male ego?” - The New York Times “Nervewrackingly fun.”—Vogue, Best Books of the Year So Far A Boston Globe, Seattle Times, Town & Country, New...

“Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of that word.” —Carl Hiassen “[Moore’s novels] deftly blend surreal, occult, and even science-fiction doings with laugh-out-loud satire of contemporary culture.” —Washington Post “If there’s a funnier writer out...

'Punchily provocative and often bitingly funny' THE TIMES, Book of the Month ‘Binge-worthy, real, really funny’ KILEY REID ‘Spiky, smart and so original’ CLAIRE DAVERLEY 'Entertaining and very timely… One of the most enjoyable novels I’ve read in a long time' GUARDIAN 'Unputdownable'...

A comic thriller following Claire, a hammer-wielding serial killer, who takes a job in a pub—a place where people are literally lining up to get hammered—only to learn another murderer is encroaching on her turf, from the author of You'd Look Better as a Ghost What use is a part-time serial...

Named one of the Best LGBTQ+ Books of 2023 by Vogue Named a Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2023 by Buzzfeed, Electric Lit, and Them Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by Our Culture, Yahoo!, The Millions, LitHub and SPY.com Named a Most Anticipated Debut of 2023 by Debutiful and Goodreads An...

A darkly funny story of two adults looking back on their intense teenage friendship, in a queer, trans, and early-Internet twist on the Manhattan prep school novel Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no...

From critically acclaimed author Barbara Bourland, comes an "impressively intelligent thriller," nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award, about a young painter who tracks the mysterious life and death of her role model, uncovering strange secrets that lead to the truth of her demise (Refinery29)...

Elfriede Greismanns erster Fall um einen verschwundenen Stoffesel mit YouTube-Kanal. Während Frauke Pläne schmiedet, wie sie das Herz ihres Spanischlehrers erobern kann, hat ihre Mutter - Oma Greismann - ganz andere Sorgen: Ihr Stoffesel Klausmüller ist spurlos verschwunden und das führt zur Gründung einer Klausmüller-Senioren-Soko im Altenheim. Zusammen mit Hundespürnase Tessa lässt der Senioren-Soko-Trupp nichts unversucht, um Klausmüller auf die Spur zu kommen.

I thought I’d done such a good job of forgetting my old life and moving on, but it was all right there, cued up, like a movie in my mind. Ready for whenever I would tune in. For when I would turn around and stare directly at the sun. Ten years ago, Arna blew up her life, moved countries and...

A contemporary dystopian elegy narrated by a cat imprisoned in a Schrödinger’s box, by the prizing-winning poet and memoirist whose writing "cuts to the core with electrifying force" (The Free-Lance Star). “Notes from Underground meets Kafka's ‘The Burrow,’ only it's an experiment with...

Featuring an exclusive conversation with Logic and Steve Blum From #1 New York Times bestselling author Logic comes the highly anticipated second novel set in the far future as two friends uncover if the utopian planet Paradise lives up to its name. In the year 2115, when the Earth is no longer...

A precisely observed black comedy of manners, Nature and Fortune is a twenty-first-century Cinderella story, awash in new money and bad choices. December 2012, New York City: Becca, a sculptor, is by her own admission not excelling when she meets Sean, an asset manager who is. It’s love, or at...

Internationally bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane delivers a funny, romantic, heartfelt novel perfect for fans of Josie Silver or Sally Thorne, and anyone who loves Bridget Jones! You always remember your first love... don’t you? If there’s anything worse than being fired from the lousiest...

In 1922, Paul Beckermann arrives at the Bauhaus art school and is immediately seduced by both the charismatic teaching and his fellow students. Eccentric and alluring, the more time Paul spends with his new friends the closer they become, and the deeper he falls in love with the mesmerising...