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    Vielleicht ist es doch zu was gut, dass sie fertig studiert hat, Hörbuch, Digital, 77min
    Lea Streisand wurde in Berlin geboren, eingeschult und immatrikuliert. Sie hat Abitur, einen Magisterabschluss und einen Freischwimmerschein. Lea ist Mitglied der Berliner Lesebühne "Rakete 2000" und Gastgeberin der Minilesebühne "Hamset nich kleina?" Ihre monatliche Kolumne im Berlinteil der taz heißt "Immer bereit", ihre Radiokolumne am Montagmorgen bei Radio Eins heißt "War schön jewesen". Dies ist nach "Wahnsinn in Gesellschaft" und "Berlin ist eine Dorfkneipe" ihr drittes Werk bei Periplaneta. Es enthält Texte über Texte von Joachim Ringelnatz, Mary Shelley, Erich Kästner, Kurt Tucholsky, Jeffrey Eugenides, Theodor Storm, Friedrich Schiller, Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, Stieg Larsson, Alfred Hitchcock, Jurek Becker, Reinhard Lakomy u.v.a. deutsch. Lea Streisand. https://samples.audible.de/bk/fine/000356/bk_fine_000356_sample.mp3.
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    The Interestings , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 941min
    “Remarkable.... With this book [Wolitzer] has surpassed herself.” (The New York Times Book Review)"A victory.... The Interestings secures Wolitzer's place among the best novelists of her generation.... She's every bit as literary as Franzen or Eugenides. But the very human moments in her work hit you harder than the big ideas. This isn't women's fiction. It's everyone's." (Entertainment Weekly)A New York Times best-selling novel by Meg Wolitzer that has been called "genius" (Chicago Tribune), “wonderful” (Vanity Fair), "ambitious" (San Francisco Chronicle), and a “page-turner” (Cosmopolitan), which The New York Times Book Review says is "among the ranks of books like Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot." The summer that Nixon resigns, six teenagers at a summer camp for the arts become inseparable. Decades later the bond remains powerful, but so much else has changed. In The Interestings, Wolitzer follows these characters from the height of youth through middle age, as their talents, fortunes, and degrees of satisfaction diverge. The kind of creativity that is rewarded at age 15 is not always enough to propel someone through life at age 30; not everyone can sustain, in adulthood, what seemed so special in adolescence. Jules Jacobson, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. Her friend Jonah, a gifted musician, stops playing the guitar and becomes an engineer. But Ethan and Ash, Jules’s now-married best friends, become shockingly successful - true to their initial artistic dreams, with the wealth and access that allow those dreams to keep expanding. The friendships endure and even prosper, but also underscore the differences in their fates, in what their talents have become and the shapes their lives have taken. Wide in scope, ambitious, and populate ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Jen Tullock. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/peng/002079/bk_peng_002079_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Das große Experiment
    Spätestens seit seinem Weltbestseller "Middlesex" wissen wir, dass Jeffrey Eugenides über Liebe, Ehe und Identitätskrisen wie kaum ein Zweiter schreiben kann. Die Sammlung von Erzählungen, in Amerika seine erste überhaupt, zeigt ihn nun wieder auf der Höhe seiner Kunst. "Das große Experiment " handelt von Menschen, die in Schwierigkeiten stecken - meist sind es Ehepaare, Paare. Da ist ein Familienvater, der im Garten an der Feuerstelle sitzt und auf sein Haus schaut, das er nach einem Seitensprung nicht mehr betreten darf. Da ist ein junges Mädchen, das von den indischen Eltern an einen Unbekannten verheiratet werden soll; um dem zu entgehen, verführt sie einen Mann, der nicht weiß, dass sie noch minderjährig ist, und wirft ihn dadurch aus der Bahn. Da ist ein Lektor, der viel arbeitet und trotzdem so wenig verdient, dass seine beiden Kinder oft woanders übernachten müssen, weil zu Hause das Geld fürs Heizen fehlt; also beschließt er, sich das dringend Benötigte selbst zu beschaffen, und veruntreut das Vermögen seines Chefs. Da ist die 88-jährige Della, die mit einer Demenz-Diagnose in ein Pflegeheim kommt; ihre langjährige Freundin entführt sie trotz Schneesturm-Warnung aus der Stadt. Und schließlich ist da noch die junge Frau, die sich per Bratenspritze ihren Kinderwunsch erfüllen will. Verkappte Romane oder doch eher nicht? Jeffrey Eugenides, der "Epiker" unter den amerikanischen Romanautoren, ist auch ein Meister der kleineren Form - das zeigen diese virtuos komponierten und mit großer Menschenkenntnis erzählten Geschichten.
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    Herzschmerz
    Intensives emotionales Chaos, unklare Verhältnisse, Versprechen, Kopfkino/Projektion/ Wunschträume, Unerreich- und Unberührbare - Herzschmerz gibt es. In ihrem zweiten Buch betrachtet Anna-Lena Wenzel diesen Zustand und seine Begleiterscheinungen. Es geht also auch um Angst, Narzissmus und Depression, Schmerz, Unglück, Sehnsucht - kurz: Unsicherheit. Und um das Warten, dass es vorbeigeht oder dass es sich (unwahrscheinlicherweise) in Glück auflöst. Das »Liebesleid ist für jeden komisch, außer für den, der an der Liebe leidet«, bemerkt Jeffrey Eugenides. Es wird von anderen höchstens eine Zeit lang toleriert, dann aber für lächerlich erklärt und als romantische Verklärung abgetan. In diesem Buch hat es seinen eigenen Ort.
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    The Thief , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 461min
    Discover and rediscover the world of the Queen's Thief, from the acclaimed series launch The Thief to the thrilling, 20-years-in-the-making conclusion, The Return of the Thief. New York Times best-selling author Megan Whalen Turner’s entrancing and award-winning Queen’s Thief novels bring to life the world of the epics. This first book in series introduces one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief. The Queen’s Thief novels are rich with political machinations and intrigue, battles lost and won, dangerous journeys, divine intervention, power, passion, revenge, and deception. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Patrick Rothfuss, and George R. R. Martin. Eugenides, the queen's thief, can steal anything - or so he says. When his boasting lands him in prison and the king's magus invites him on a quest to steal a legendary object, he's in no position to refuse. The magus thinks he has the right tool for the job, but Gen has plans of his own. The Queen's Thief novels have been praised by writers, critics, reviewers, and fans, and have been honored with glowing reviews, "best of" citations, and numerous awards, including the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, a Newbery Honor, the Andre Norton Award shortlist, and the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. A Newbery Honor BookAn ALA Notable BookA YALSA Best Book for Young AdultsA Horn Book Fanfare BookA New York Public Library Book for the Teen AgeA Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books Blue Ribbon BookA Junior Library Guild Selection“The Queen’s Thief books awe and inspire me. They have the feel of a secret, discovered history of real but forgotten lands. The plot-craft is peerless, the revelations stunning, and the characters flawed, cunning, heartbreaking, exceptional. Megan Whalen Turner’s books have a permanent spot on my favorites sh ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Steve West. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006049/bk_harp_006049_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Virgin Suicides
    First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters-beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys-commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family's fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
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    Return of the Thief
    ?A bravura performance by one of our finest writers.??The Horn Book (starred review) ?This series finale has everything readers could hope for from a conclusion 20 years in the making.?? School Library Journal (starred review) The thrilling, twenty-years-in-the-making conclusion to the New York Times?bestselling Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner. The epic novels set in the world of the Queen's Thief can be read in any order. This beloved and award-winning series began with the acclaimed novel The Thief. It and four more stand-alone volumes bring to life a world of epics, myths, and legends, and feature one of the most charismatic and incorrigible characters of fiction, Eugenides the thief. Now more powerful and cunning than ever before, Eugenides must navigate a perilous future in this sweeping conclusion. Perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo, Marie Lu, Patrick Rothfuss, and Sarah J. Maas. Neither accepted nor beloved, Eugenides is the uneasy linchpin of a truce on the Lesser Peninsula, where he has risen to be high king of Attolia, Eddis, and Sounis. As the treacherous Baron Erondites schemes anew and a prophecy appears to foretell the death of the king, the ruthless Mede empire prepares to strike. The New York Times?bestselling Queen's Thief novels are rich with political machinations, divine intervention, dangerous journeys, battles lost and won, power, passion, and deception. Features a cast list of the characters in the Queen's Thief novels, as well as two maps?a map of the world of the Queen's Thief, and a map exclusive to this edition. ?The Queen's Thief books awe and inspire me. They have the feel of a secret, discovered history of real but forgotten lands. The plot-craft is peerless, the revelations stunning, and the characters flawed, cunning, heartbreaking, exceptional. Megan Whalen Turner's books have a permanent spot on my favorites shelf, with space waiting for more books to come.??Laini Taylor, New York Times-bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone novels and Strange the Dreamer "Unforgettable characters, plot twists that will make your head spin, a world rendered in elegant detail?you will fall in love with every page of these stories. Megan Whalen Turner writes vivid, immersive, heartbreaking fantasy that will leave you desperate to return to Attolia again and again."?Leigh Bardugo, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom "Megan Whalen Turner has constructed a clever world filled with suspense and intrigue and characters that will never be forgotten. Once you dive into the world of the Queen's Thief, prepare to have your life stolen from you until you finish them all." ?Joelle Charbonneau, New York Times?bestselling author of the Testing trilogy ?Megan Whalen Turner's Queen's Thief books are like the characters she creates: endlessly entertaining, deeply deceptive, and very, very clever.??Garth Nix, New York Times?bestselling and award-winning author of the Old Kingdom, Keys to the Kingdom, and Seventh Tower series
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    Innocents and Others: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 497min
    From "a major, unnervingly intelligent writer" (Joy Williams), "rich, funny, learned, and tonally fresh" (Jeffrey Eugenides), comes a novel about aspiration, film, work, and love. Dana Spiotta's new novel is about two women, best friends, who grow up in LA in the '80s and become filmmakers. Meadow and Carrie have everything in common - except their views on sex, power, moviemaking, and morality. Their lives collide with Jelly, a loner whose most intimate experience is on the phone. Jelly is older, erotic, and mysterious. She cold calls powerful men and seduces them not through sex but through listening. She invites them to reveal themselves, and they do. Spiotta is "a wonderfully gifted writer with an uncanny feel for the absurdities and sadnesses of contemporary life, and an unerring ear for how people talk and try to cope today" (The New York Times). Innocents and Others is her greatest novel - wise, artful, and beautiful. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: January LaVoy. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/sans/007367/bk_sans_007367_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Die Liebeshandlung
    Über die Wege der Liebe und die Liebe zu Büchern.Amerika, Anfang der achtziger Jahre, ein College an der Ostküste. Madeleine Hanna studiert die «Liebeshandlung» viktorianischer Romane. Während sie über den uralten Beweggründen des Herzens brütet, bricht das wirkliche Leben in Gestalt zweier junger Männer über sie herein. Leonard taucht Tabak kauend in einem Seminar auf, und schon bald verstrickt sich Madeleine in eine erotisch und intellektuell aufgeladene Beziehung. Zur selben Zeit lässt sich ihr alter Freund Mitchell wieder blicken, besessen von dem Gedanken, Madeleine sei für ihn bestimmt und er für sie. «Ein Buch über all die großen Themen: Liebe, Hoffnung, Verzweiflung, Glauben, dazu ein Roman über die Geschichte des Romans, über Abend- und Morgenland, über das Erwachsenwerden, das Denken und das Lesen. Nur Jeffrey Eugenides konnte daraus etwas so schwebend Schönes komponieren, ein so helles, vollkommenes Werk.» (Daniel Kehlmann)Der neue große Roman vom Autor desWelterfolgs «Middlesex».
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    Cassandra at the Wedding , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 421min
    Cassandra Edwards is a graduate student at Berkeley: gay, brilliant, nerve-racked, miserable. At the beginning of this novel, she drives back to her family ranch in the foothills of the Sierras to attend the wedding of her identical twin, Judith, to a nice young doctor from Connecticut. Cassandra, however, is hell-bent on sabotaging the wedding. Dorothy Baker's entrancing tragicomic novella follows an unpredictable course of events in which her heroine appears variously as conniving, self-aware, pitiful, frenzied, absurd, and heartbroken - at once utterly impossible and tremendously sympathetic. As she struggles to come to terms with the only life she has, Cassandra reckons with her complicated feelings about the sister who she feels owes it to her to be her alter ego; with her father, a brandy-soaked retired professor of philosophy; and with the ghost of her dead mother. First published in 1962, Cassandra at the Wedding is a work of enduring freshness, insight, and verve. Like the fiction of Jeffrey Eugenides and Jhumpa Lahiri, it is the work of a master stylist with a profound understanding of the complexities of the heart and mind. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Morgan Hallett. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/reco/012687/bk_reco_012687_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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