Showing results for "Sisi" in Coming of Age

2015 kam er kurz vor der großen Flüchtlingswelle nach Österreich. Inzwischen lebt Omar Khir Alanam gut integriert mit seiner österreichischen Frau und einem kleinen Kind in Graz. In den vergangenen fünf Jahren hörte er sich von den Österreichern an, wie Araber sind und wie sie nicht sind. In diesem Buch vertauscht er die Rollen und erzählt den Österreichern, wie er selbst sie erlebt hat und was er über sie und die österreichische Seele herausgefunden hat.

In the brutal Ice Age caused by the ancient Jemen war, many archaic human species, including Denisovans and Homo erectus, hover on the verge of extinction. There seems no way out, until the greatest Neandertal holy man, Trogon, has a vision. Legends say the truce that ended the old war left one hostage in the hands of the victorious rebels: the godlike Jemen leader known as the Old Woman of the Mountain. According to Trogon’s vision, only one person knows the location of that burial cave.

The Mockingbird family has always lived peacefully in Jubilee, Kentucky, despite the divisions that mark their small town. Until the tense summer of 1963, when their youngest child, Isaac, falls gravely ill. Middle sister Grace, nearly fourteen, is determined to do whatever it takes to save her little brother. With her father and mother away at the hospital, Grace is left under the loving but inexperienced eye of her aunt June, with little to do but wait and worry. Inspired by a young teacher’s mission for change, she begins to flirt with danger—and with a gifted boy named Golden.