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Über 600.000 verkaufte Exemplare in Südkorea: Der Kultroman endlich auf Deutsch! Der Überraschungserfolg aus Südkorea! Eine ergreifende Geschichte darüber, wie Liebe, Freundschaft und der Mut, sich anderen zu öffnen, ein Leben für immer verändern können. Der Junge Yunjae ist ein Außenseiter. Eine angeborene Erkrankung macht es ihm schwer, Gefühle wie Angst, Freude oder Wut zu empfinden. Als er von einem Tag auf den anderen auf sich allein gestellt ist, wächst er über sich hinaus, schließt überraschend Freundschaft und weckt Kräfte in sich, die er nie für möglich gehalten hätte ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art...

Der neue mitreißende Roman der gefeierten Autorin - ungekürzt gelesen. Ein Luxushotel an der westlichen Küste Kanadas, jenseits der großen Fenster das Meer, Inseln, die Vegetation des Nordens. Ein Refugium für gestresste Städter, für die junge Barkeeperin Vincent aber ein Ort mit schmerzhaften Erinnerungen. Als eine alle Anwesenden erschütternde Botschaft auf eine der Scheiben der Lobby geschmiert wird, ergreift sie die Gelegenheit und geht mit dem Investor Jonathan Alkaitis nach New York.

Als Katharina Nicklas die Jugendstilvilla ihrer Familie an der pfälzischen Weinstraße entrümpelt, findet sie im Keller Aufzeichnungen ihrer Urgroßmutter Marie. Die sensible Ehefrau eines gnadenlosen Großunternehmers schreibt darin über den Aufstieg und Fall einer Kaffeeröster-Dynastie in der ersten Hälfte des letzten Jahrhunderts – und über ihre geheime Liebe zu einem naturverbundenen Mandelbauern.

Werden wir die Erde vermissen? Die Menschheit kommt nicht zur Ruhe. 1912 wird Edwin St. Andrew, Adelsspross aus England mit einer ketzerischen Haltung zum britischen Imperialismus, in die britische Kolonie Kanada exiliert und sucht dort sein Glück. 2203 bricht die berühmte Schriftstellerin Olive Llewellyn eine weltweite Lesereise ab, um zurück zu ihrer Familie auf den nun kolonialisierten Mond zu fliegen, als erste Meldungen über eine Pandemie laut werden.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story—and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, an exhilarating novel set at the glittering intersection of two seemingly disparate events—the exposure of a massive criminal enterprise and the mysterious disappearance of a woman from a ship at...

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—when Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city...

From the bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility—Gavin Sasaki was a promising young journalist in New York City until the day he was fired for plagiarism. The last thing he wants is to sell foreclosed real estate for his sister Eilo’s company in their Florida hometown...

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, “a gripping story, full of moral ambiguities, where deception and betrayal become the norm, and where the expression ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’ is lifted to new heights” (St. Louis...

Finaliste du National Book Award aux États-Unis. Le roman qui a inspiré la série HBO. Dans un monde où la civilisation s'est effondrée suite à une pandémie foudroyante, une troupe d'acteurs et de musiciens nomadise entre de petites communautés de survivants pour leur jouer du Shakespeare. Un répertoire qui en est venu à représenter l'espoir et l'humanité au milieu de la désolation.

The triumphant return of New York Times bestselling author Sally Mandel presents an intimate multigenerational portrait of the troubles and triumphs of a 20th century family. Lily Adams is the animating spirit of those around her, even in her twilight years. Perhaps none is more touched by her presence than her granddaughter, Amy, whom Lily saves from a teenage crisis. The family saga of three generations of the Adams clan is filled with crises of identity and the pains of romance, with Lily's presence profoundly felt throughout.

In 1943, a deep undercover Allied agent within the German military command structure is captured and taken prisoner by the SS before she can make her final data drop. She had discovered the existence of Projekt Regenschirm, a top secret major Nazi science effort to win the war by two different means: raising an army of any and all dead they can find whose sheer numbers will overwhelm their enemies, and by creating enhanced monstrous supersolders to lead them.

Barengaria, Thane, and Yardena live with an abusive stepfather in the basement of a shabby house on the coast of Maine. After they discover the addresses of relatives in a cache of rotting Christmas presents, they begin writing to them secretly. But it seems like escaping from the prison their stepfather has constructed for them will not be easy, and anyone who even attempts to help them faces grave danger. With their stepfather's presence looming over them like a deadly shadow, can they find their way to freedom...and at what cost?

Ce roman a pour cœur la crise de 2008. Entre Canada et États-Unis, les destins s'entremêlent et l'effet papillon cause des ravages... "Et si vous avaliez du verre brisé ? " Comment cet étrange graffiti est-il apparu sur l'immense paroi transparente de la réception de l'hôtel Caiette, havre de grand luxe perdu au nord de l'île de Vancouver ? Et pourquoi précisément le soir où on attend le propriétaire du lieu, le milliardaire américain Jonathan Alkaitis ? Ce message menaçant semble lui être destiné.

In celebration of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists, Audible is illuminating the art of storytelling with a unique work, The Audlib Project. This Audible Original is an ad-lib collaborative short story, written collectively by all of the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize finalists: Gil Adamson (Ridgerunner), David Bergen (Here the Dark), Shani Mootoo (Polar Vortex), Emily St. John Mandel (The Glass Hotel), and Souvankham Thammavongsa (How to Pronounce Knife).

Sayed Kashua has been praised by The New York Times as "a master of subtle nuance in dealing with both Arab and Jewish society". An Arab-Israeli who lived in Jerusalem for most of his life, Kashua started writing with the hope of creating one story that both Palestinians and Israelis could relate to, rather than two that cannot coexist together. He devoted his novels and his satirical weekly column published in Haaretz to telling the Palestinian story.

Named a Book You Need to Read in 2021 by Harper’s Bazaar A “moving, astounding, and totally unsettling” (Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author) literary debut following two patients in recovery after an experimental memory drug warps their lives. Lucien moves to Los Angeles...

You are Dr. James Healey and last week you were a genius that was before the DNA experiments. Before the accident you said could never happen since then you have felt your mind decaying a little more each day. You have watched your wife slip into imbecility. You have seen the crowds growing murderous with animal terror, the president of the United States babbling and drooling on tv only one thing separates you from them.