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Danny ist gerade zehn Jahre alt, als sein Leben aus den Fugen gerät. Ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag veranlasst seine Familie, aus den Vereinigten Staaten nach Deutschland zu ziehen. Dannys Vater ertränkt seinen Kummer in Alkohol und fällt zurück in Verhaltensmuster, von denen er glaubte, sie vor der Ehe endgültig abgelegt zu haben. Danny ist seinem Vater schutzlos ausgeliefert. Aber er gibt nicht auf.

Golden Globe-winning actor Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) performs Truman Capote's masterstroke about a young writer's charmed fascination with his unorthodox neighbor, the "American geisha" Holly Golightly. Holly - a World War II-era society girl in her late teens - survives via socialization, attending parties and restaurants with men from the wealthy upper class who also provide her with money and expensive gifts. Over the course of the novella, the seemingly shallow Holly slowly opens up to the curious protagonist.

Als Maya Jacobs und Cameron Bridge sich nach fünf Jahren zum ersten Mal wieder begegnen, ist es, als ob die Welt um sie herum zum Stillstand kommt. Damals waren sie ein Paar gewesen, verliebt und so glücklich. Aber als Cameron um Mayas Hand anhielt, musste sie die schwerste Entscheidung ihres Lebens treffen - und Nein sagen. Als sie sich jetzt erneut gegenüberstehen, sind die Gefühle von damals augenblicklich wieder da. Und auch die Leidenschaft.

Vanessa Hawkins braucht dringend eine Auszeit. Sie arbeitet Tag und Nacht, und ihren letzten Urlaub hatte sie vor einer Ewigkeit - von ihrem letzten Date ganz zu schweigen. Auf der Hochzeit ihrer besten Freundin kommt sie dem attraktiven Darren Bridge näher. Noch nie hat jemand ein solches Verlangen in ihr geweckt. Doch alle warnen Vanessa vor dem Bad Boy, der ein Frauenherz nach dem anderen bricht und nur für seinen Job beim New York Fire Department lebt.

Hailed by The New York Times as "a marvel of storytelling", The Things They Carried’s portrayal of the boots-on-the-ground experience of soldiers in the Vietnam War is a landmark in war writing. Now, three-time Emmy Award winner-Bryan Cranston, star of the hit TV series Breaking Bad, delivers an electrifying performance that walks the book’s hallucinatory line between reality and fiction and highlights the emotional power of the spoken word.

Collected for the first time anywhere, the nine tales in The Egg and Other Stories highlight Andy Weir's trademark wit and unexpected twists. For the few who have yet to experience The Martian, it's a perfect appetizer. For passionate Weir fans, it's a delicious dessert.

A collection of 98 enthralling and pulse-quickening stories, spanning five decades, venerates the remarkable imagination of J. G. Ballard. With a body of work unparalleled in twentieth-century literature, J. G. Ballard is recognized as one of the greatest and most prophetic writers in the world. With the much-hailed release of The Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard, readers now have a means to celebrate the unmatched range and mesmerizing cadences of a literary genius.

The Legend of Drizzt: The Collected Stories expands upon the epic legend of the dark elf with 12 tales performed by the all-star cast of Felicia Day, Dan Harmon, Greg Grunberg, Tom Felton, Danny Pudi, Sean Astin, Melissa Rauch, Ice-T, Wil Wheaton, Al Yankovic, Michael Chiklis, and David Duchovny!

Em Beatriz, a personagem que se tornou conhecida do público em Um erro emocional acompanha agora o autor em situações originais. Composto por sete histórias longas e um prólogo revelador, em que o autor confessa suas fraquezas, o livro de contos traz a marca do romancista: em todos está presente a mesma personagem, Beatriz, em momentos diferentes de sua vida, e às vezes Paulo Donetti, o escritor que é sua difícil paixão. Sete histórias entrelaçadas que são também a história da construção de uma personagem — alguém que quer falar, trabalhar e caminhar com as próprias pernas.

Brutale Reality-Live-Shows in der Zukunft, Flugmaschinen, die gnadenlose Jagd auf Menschen machen, ein Tierarzt, der seine Familie auslöscht, um ihr Proben aus dem Rückenmark zu entnehmen, und der erfinderische Testpilot Ian Goodwin, der auf einem merkwürdigen Asteroiden notlandet und nur noch zwei Stunden zum Überleben hat. In Grubers Fantasien liegt die Côte d'Azur in Schutt und Asche.

Cold Hand in Mine stands as one of Aickman's best collections and contains eight stories that show off his powers as a 'strange story' writer to the full. The listener is introduced to a variety of characters, from a man who spends the night in a Hospice to a German aristocrat and a woman who sees an image of her own soul. There is also a nod to the conventional vampire story ("Pages from a Young Girl's Journal") but all the stories remain unconventional and inconclusive, which perhaps makes them all the more startling and intriguing.

William Gibson's dark visions of computer cowboys, bio-enhanced soldiers of fortune, and hi-tech lowlifes have won unprecedented praise. Included here are some of his most famous short fiction and novellas by the author of Count Zero and Neuromancer.

Acclaimed actress Claire Danes burnishes an epic story of heroes, gods, and monsters in a groundbreaking translation of The Odyssey, the first great adventure story in the Western literary tradition. When the wily warrior-king Odysseus sets off for home after the Trojan War, he doesn’t realize this simple undertaking will become a perilous journey of 10 years. Beset at every turn, he encounters obstacles, detours, and temptations—both supernatural and human—while his wife Penelope fends off would-be suitors desperate to take the throne.

Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.

Born from Bukowski's columns, the LA underground press of the 1960s, Bukowski defined his early alter ego, Hank Chinaski, as a self-described dirty old man who eyes his defeatist attitude about himself with his clarity to see humor and holiness in others. Addictive and instructive listening, Bukowski delivers the humanity and intelligence of all the unseen. Filled with his usual obsessions - sex, booze, gambling - Notes features Bukowski's offbeat insights into politics and literature, and his tortured, violent relationships.

Olivia Bridge hat immer nach den Regeln gespielt - ein guter Abschluss, keine One-Night-Stands und ein sicherer Job. Doch damit ist jetzt Schluss, Liv will endlich etwas riskieren, will ihr Leben in vollen Zügen genießen. Da kommt ihr das Angebot, ihren Brüdern in New York bei der Eröffnung ihrer Fitnessstudios zu helfen, gerade recht. Doch sie hat nicht mit Will Donovan gerechnet. Schon bei ihrer ersten Begegnung zieht der Investor Liv den Boden unter den Füßen weg.

The title story of this collection - a devilishly ironic riff on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model" - was nominated for a World Fantasy Award, while "Probiscus" was nominated for an International Horror Guild award and reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror 19. In addition to his previously published work, this collection contains an original story.

Last year, Night Shade Books unleashed The Book of Cthulhu onto an unsuspecting world. Critically acclaimed as the ultimate Cthulhu anthology” and a must read’ for fans of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu mythos,” The Book of Cthulhu went where no collection of mythos tales had gone before: to the very edge of madness and beyond. For nearly a century, H. P. Lovecraft’s tales of malevolent Great Old Ones existing beyond the dimensions of this world, beyond the borders of sanity, have captured and held the imaginations of writers and aficionados of the dark, the macabre, the fantastic, and the horrible. Now, because you demanded more, anthologist Ross E. Lockhart has risked all to dive back into the Cthulhu canon, combing through mind-shattering manuscripts and moldering tomes to bring you The Book of Cthulhu 2, with even more tales of tentacles, terror, and madness.

Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams, and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. The Earthman conquers Mars...and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race.

Die sechs Stories dieses Bandes, angesiedelt auf drei verschiedenen Kontinenten, handeln von Erinnerung und Liebe. In jedem Augenblick, sagt Anthony Doerr, verschwinden überall auf der Welt unzählige Erinnerungen, dabei sind sie es, die unserem Leben Sinn und Zusammenhang verleihen. Gleichzeitig erforschen Kinder neues, unbekanntes Terrain, formen frische Erinnerungen, erfinden die Welt neu. In "Die Memel" zieht ein verwaistes Mädchen zu ihrem Großvater nach Litauen und entdeckt eine Welt, in der Mythen real werden. In "Dorf 113" geht es um den Bau des Drei-Schluchten-Damms und um die Samenhüterin, die auch die Geschichte des Dorfes bewahrt, das bald überflutet werden wird.