Vanny Gani
The Awakening of the Stars, a novel in the mystical fiction category & Aerial Roots a drama and comedy about the author grandmother.
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 1997Understanding the mafia
by Joe Farrell
An anthology of writings in Italian which examine the origins, nature and culture of the Sicilian mafia. Separate chapters are devoted to the culture from which the mafia emerged, the economic and business activities in which it is now engaged, its relations with politics and politicians, as well as its structure and historical evolution. There are portraits of prominent mafiosi as well as of the people and organizations that have struggled against mafia crime. The individual pieces come from a diverse range of sources, including newspapers, historical and sociological works. There is an introduction in English, as well as a full vocabulary and a glossary of terms associated with the mafia.
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1991Birdie, Bully, Bananenflanke
Sportregeln und Begriffe - und was Sie schon immer wissen wollten
by Scheunig, Rolf; Poppen, Helmuth
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Children's & YAThe Sparkling Ponies (3). Luna and the Moonstones
by Emily Palmer/ Josephine Llobet
The four friends Fiona, Aurelia, Jana and Leni thoroughly enjoy their friendship with their sparkling ponies and they’re looking forward to the festival that’s about to take place at Funfield Pony Farm. But there’s a lot to be done first. Only Aurelia can’t really enjoy the prospect because the problem she has to solve with the mare Luna is really giving her a tough time. Suddenly Fiona and Sunny are also given a tricky task. And when the secret of the sparkling ponies is then in danger of being exposed, everything goes topsy-turvy. Will the friends end up enjoying the pony festival or not?
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February 2004Die Rückkehr des Hooligan
Ein Selbstporträt
by Manea, Norman / Übersetzt von Aescht, Georg
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December 2025Beautiful Venom (Vipers, Band 1)
Dark Hockey-Romance von Bestsellerautorin Rina Kent - Gefährliches Spiel aus Verlangen, Rache und Macht - Exklusives Lesezeichen und Farbschnitt in der 1. Auflage
by Rina Kent, Emma Gillette, Sara Riffel
In einer Höhle voller Vipern ist Rache das tödlichste Gift. „ Sie haben meine Welt zerstört und jetzt werde ich ihre zum Einsturz bringen .“ Ein Elite-College-Hockeyteam, das das Eis und die Schatten dahinter beherrscht – die Vipers sind Dahlias einzige Spur, um die Strippenzieher, die hinter ihrem Unglück stecken, aufzuspüren. Unter ihnen befindet sich Kane Davenport, eine einsame Green Flag in einem Nest voller Schlangen – und die einzige Möglichkeit, um an die Mannschaft heranzukommen. Doch zu spät wird klar, hinter seiner Fassade schimmern die giftigen Schuppen eines Raubtiers. Der Auftakt der heißbegehrten Dark-Romance-Reihe von Rina Kent und der Start in ein neues Kapitel des Renaverse! Die Infiltration einer Eishockey -Mannschaft – Rina Kents heißerwartete Dark Romance mit giftiger Rache, eiskalten Geheimnissen und leidenschaftlicher Erotik ! Eishockey-Dark-Romance mit Revenge : Ein College-Team mit dunklen Geheimnissen und eine Heldin, die alles riskiert, um sie zu Fall zu bringen. Eine Undercover-Mission mit Konsequenzen : Was als kalkulierter Racheplan beginnt, wird zu einem brandgefährlichen Spiel aus Verlangen, Macht und tödlicher Anziehung. Mit edlem Farbschnitt und passendem Lesezeichen in der Erstauflage - Nur solange der Vorrat reicht!
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceFebruary 2013Ramon J. Sender's 'Cronica del alba'
by Catherine Davies, Anthony Trippett
Crónica del alba is a novel by Sender with a Civil War background, like the popular Réquiem por un campesino español, also in this series. The author evokes his childhood in rural Aragón at the beginning of the twentieth century in a book which has a charm and something of the character of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The young Pepe fights to believe in himself as a hero in the face of a world, and a father bent on putting him down. He is supported by his girlfriend, Valentina, who believes in him implicitly and often ends up in as much trouble as him. But there is something more here than scrapes and mischief-making. It is written by an older and disillusioned Pepe who has known real heroism and is now detained in a prison camp for Spanish Civil War refugees in southern France. The novel raises challenging questions about the loss of hope, how people cope with disillusionment, and the place of writing in that process. Moreover, since the novel reflects Sender's own childhood it sheds light on the complex relationship of fact and fiction in autobiographical novels. ;
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December 2024Royal Scandal - A Crown to Kill for
Spannende YA in royalem Setting von Animox-Autorin Aimée Carter
by Aimée Carter
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September 2023Royal Blood - A Scandal To Die For
Deutsche Ausgabe. Eine amerikanische Teenagerin mischt das britische Königshaus auf - Skandal vorprogrammiert!
by Aimée Carter
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2023Poison on the early modern English stage
Plants, paints and potions
by Lisa Hopkins, Bill Angus
Many early modern plays use poison, most famously Hamlet, where the murder of Old Hamlet showcases the range of issues poison mobilises. Its orchard setting is one of a number of sinister uses of plants which comment on both the loss of horticultural knowledge resulting from the Dissolution of the Monasteries and also the many new arrivals in English gardens through travel, trade, and attempts at colonisation. The fact that Old Hamlet was asleep reflects unease about soporifics troubling the distinction between sleep and death; pouring poison into the ear smuggles in the contemporary fear of informers; and it is difficult to prove. This book explores poisoning in early modern plays, the legal and epistemological issues it raises, and the cultural work it performs, which includes questions related to race, religion, nationality, gender, and humans' relationship to the environment.
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May 2023How Philosophers Fail Themselves
The somewhat different historyof philosophy
by Otto A. Böhmer
— Philosophy for beginners — For philosophy enthusiasts — A pleasant read This truly brilliant book tells of the sometimes sublime, sometimes exhilarating efforts of philosophers to maintain their attitude in everyday life without forgetting the meaning of their own words – and how they ultimately failed to do so. The minor, sometimes bizarre events in the lives of the great philosophers fit so aptly in the picture of the respective philosophy that one has to assume they could have been conceived to keep the associated intellectual giant in a strange and memorable mood. A book of cheerful science, full of wit, narrative and linguistic eloquence.
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FictionSeptember 2017A Vision of Battlements
by Anthony Burgess
by Andrew Biswell, Paul Wake
A Vision of Battlements is the first novel by the writer and composer Anthony Burgess, who was born in Manchester in 1917. Set in Gibraltar during the Second World War, the book follows the fortunes of Richard Ennis, an army sergeant and incipient composer who dreams of composing great music and building a new cultural world after the end of the war. Following the example of his literary hero, James Joyce, Burgess takes the structure of his book from Virgil's Aeneid. The result is, like Joyce's Ulysses, a comic rewriting of a classical epic, whose critique of the Army and the postwar settlement is sharp and assured. The Irwell Edition is the first publication of Burgess's forgotten masterpiece since 1965. This new edition includes an introduction and notes by Andrew Biswell, author of a prize-winning biography of Anthony Burgess.
