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Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Mathew Baynton, known for his roles in Vanity Fair, Horrible Histories, Gavin and Stacey and Ghosts. Nils Holgersson is a naughty boy who tortures animals and never listens to his parents - until one day he wakes up as an elf...

In seinem neuen Roman erzählt Christian Berkel die Geschichte von Ada: Mit ihrer jüdischen Mutter aus Nachkriegsdeutschland nach Argentinien geflohen, vaterlos aufgewachsen in einem katholischen Land, kehrt sie 1955 mit ihrer Mutter Sala nach Berlin zurück. In eine ihr fremde Heimat, deren Sprache sie nicht spricht. Dort trifft sie auf den lange ersehnten Vater Otto, doch das Familienglück bleibt aus. In einer noch immer sehr autoritär geprägten Gesellschaft wächst Adas Sehnsucht nach Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit. Die Studentenbewegungen der sechziger Jahre werden ihre Rettung.

August 1999. Sengende Hitze liegt über Bodenstein, dem Heimatort des 15-jährigen Pascal. Eigentlich könnte er den Sommer genießen. Doch seit er nicht mehr schwimmen geht, mag er den Sommer nicht mehr. Wieso, das kann er nicht erzählen. Auch nicht, weshalb er sich nicht verlieben darf. Sein Geheimnis und seine Geschichten hütet er wie einen Schatz. Doch dann kracht Jacky in seine Welt: ein furchtloses Zirkusmädchen mit roten Haaren und wasserblauen Augen. Zusammen verbringen sie den letzten Sommertag, der alles für immer verändert.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “Bittersweet, sexy, morally fraught.” –The New York Times Book Review "Fantastic… a book that feels alive on the page." –The Washington Post From the New York-Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, the beloved novel about young love and a big...

Doch die Verhältnisse, in die Eugene Gant hineingeboren wird, sind alles andere als heimelig. Der Vater, ein jähzorniger Alkoholiker, die Mutter, eine berechnende Krämerseele...

There was another South in the 1960s, one far removed from the marches and bombings and turmoil in the streets that were broadcast on the evening news. It was a place of inner turmoil, where ordinary people struggled to right themselves on a social landscape that was dramatically shifting beneath their feet. This is the world of Valerie Fraser Luesse's stunning debut, Missing Isaac.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury, known for her heart-stirring stories of faith and family comes the first book in the Bailey Flanigan series. Praised by Library Journal as "emotionally charged" with "well-drawn characters struggling with their faith," Leaving is perfect...

Magisch, romantisch, geheimnisvoll: Spiegelstadt 2. Gefangen in Purpur und Schatten ist die Fortsetzung von Spiegelstadt. Tränen aus Gold und Silber und der Abschluss der queeren Urban-Fantasy-Dilogie von Andreas Suchanek und Christian Handel. Nach seiner Flucht aus der Spiegelstadt findet sich Max in einer dritten Version von Berlin wieder: Statt Prunk und Glamour der 20er-Jahre herrschen hier Verfall und Zerstörung. Um in dieser Gefängniswelt zu überleben, muss Max mit einem neuen Feind zusammenarbeiten.

Der große Bestsellerroman aus Irland – warmherzig, witzig und wahnsinnig authentisch schreibt Caroline O’Donoghue über das Lebensgefühl der Millennials in Cork. Eine außergewöhnliche Geschichte über Freundschaft, die Suche nach sich selbst und den Rausch der ersten Beziehungen. Als die junge Studentin Rachel während ihres Nebenjobs im Buchladen auf James trifft, ist es Freundschaft auf den ersten Blick. Der temperamentvolle James lädt Rachel sofort ein, seine Mitbewohnerin zu werden.

Sie ist ungebildet, unreflektiert, manipulierbar, von vordergründigen Bedürfnissen getrieben und entbehrt jedes Weitblickes jene Masse, an der sich Politiker aller Lager orientieren und die so letztlich bestimmt, wo es im Staat langgeht. Christian Ortner widmet sich in seiner Streitschrift mit pointierter Polemik den Folgen dieser Vorherrschaft der bildungsfernen, aber grundsicherungsaffinen Schichten, und gelangt zur Einsicht: Die Demokratie ist früher oder später zum Bankrott verurteilt, denn die Masse regiert den Staat in den Untergang.

Eat Post Like is a heartwarming debut novel of self-discovery, resilience, and the transformative power of food. Cassie Brooks has her life all figured out. Make partner at the prestigious law firm she works at by age 35 Put in as much work as required to make goal #1 happen Spend as much time...

From highly acclaimed, award-winning author Christopher Meades comes a magical, provocative tale of forbidden love and one girl's struggle for liberation Hanna has never been outside her secluded community of Clearhaven. She has never questioned why her father has four wives or why she has...

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Nine years old, Andy embarks on the trip by bus, alone for the first time. He decides it will be a rite of passage and his first step into manhood. Sometimes a handful at home, Andy was a good boy when visiting his Grandparents’ houses, and he looked forward to the little spoiling certain to come his way.

Millions of readers around the world have followed the story of the gentle wood-carver and carpenter who was first introduced in 1983 in Joseph Girzone’s beloved parable, Joshua. In Joshua's Family, Girzone travels back in time, painting a captivating portrait of the mother and father who nurtured Joshua, and of the friends and neighbors who viewed the unusually precocious child with an uneasy balance of wonder and skepticism.

In this sequel to Gibbons’s beloved classic Ellen Foster, Ellen, now fifteen, is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a salvation for herself, she still feels ill at ease. But while she holds fast to the...

To those who matter in 1950s Hollywood, Lena Scott is the hottest rising star to hit the silver screen since Marilyn Monroe. Few know her real name is Abra. Even fewer know the price she' s paid to finally feel like she' s somebody. To Pastor Ezekiel Freeman, Abra will always be the little girl who stole his heart the night he found her, a wailing newborn abandoned under a bridge on the outskirts of Haven.

Jillian (Jewels) Whitman lives with her mistakes and tries to move past the biggest one of her life—Dillon Bleu—rocker and once best friend. After saying goodbye to the lakeside trailer park of his youth, Dillon sets out to make something of himself only to discover all he needs is his Jewel. After hitting it big in the music industry, Dillon heads back to ask for a second chance. Only … nothing is ever as easy as it seems …

Seventeen-year-old Maddie is left reeling after the unexpected passing of her beloved father. No one has any idea why he betrayed them all so spectacularly, but that’s exactly what his death feels like: a betrayal. With their world shattered, Maddie’s grieving mother sends her to spend a few months with her grandparents, thinking a change of scenery will do her good. Susan and Frank, Maddie’s grandparents, are heartbroken over the loss of their son, but they welcome Maddie as an addition to their long-empty nest.

Sixteen-year-old Olive Alexander has lived on a ranch in the Jornada del Muerto region of southern New Mexico her entire life. But when World War II begins, the government seizes her family’s land for the construction of a new, top secret Army post. While her mother remains behind, Olive is forced to live in nearby Alamogordo with her grandmother and find a place in a new school. When Jo Hawthorne crosses her path, Olive sees a chance for friendship—until she learns that Jo’s father is the Army sergeant who now occupies her beloved ranch.