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  1. Spy of the first person
    Author: Shepard, Sam
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Alfred A. Knopf, New York

    In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work,... more

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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    In searing, beautiful prose, Sam Shepard's extraordinary narrative leaps off the page with its immediacy and power. It tells in a brilliant braid of voices the story of an unnamed narrator who traces, before our rapt eyes, his memories of work, adventure, and travel as he undergoes medical tests and treatments for a condition that is rendering him more and more dependent on the loved ones who are caring for him. The narrator's memories and preoccupations often echo those of our current moment...for here are stories of immigration and community, inclusion and exclusion, suspicion and trust. But at the book's core, and his, is family...his relationships with those he loved, and with the natural world around him. Vivid, haunting, and deeply moving, Spy of the First Person takes us from the sculpted gardens of a renowned clinic in Arizona to the blue waters surrounding Alcatraz, from a New Mexico border town to a condemned building on New York City's Avenue C. It is an unflinching expression of the vulnerabilities that make us human...and an unbound celebration of family and life

     
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  2. Death of a She Devil
    Author: Weldon, Fay
    Published: 2017; © 2017
    Publisher:  Head of Zeus, London

  3. Nelly Dean
    a return to Wuthering Heights
    Author: Case, Alison A.
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Pegasus Books, New York ; London

    "A gripping and heartbreaking novel that re-imagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws loyal servant, Nelly Dean. Young Nelly Dean has been Hindleys closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely at the... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    "A gripping and heartbreaking novel that re-imagines life at Wuthering Heights through the eyes of the Earnshaws loyal servant, Nelly Dean. Young Nelly Dean has been Hindleys closest companion for as long as she can remember, living freely at the great house, Wuthering Heights. But when the benevolence of the master brings a wild child into the house, Nelly learns she must follow in her mothers footsteps, be called "servant" and give herself over completely to the demands of the Earnshaw family. But Nelly is not the only one who finds her life disrupted by this strange newcomer. As death, illness, and passion sweep through the house, Nelly suffers heartache and betrayals at the hands of those she cherishes most, tempting her to leave it all behind. But when a new heir is born, a reign of violence begins that will test even Nellys formidable spirit as she finds out what it is to know true sacrifice. Nelly Dean is a wonderment of storytelling and an inspired accompaniment to Emily Brontes adored work. It is the story of a woman who is fated to bear the pain of a family she is unable to leave, and unable to save"...Publisher's website

     
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  4. Buckle and Squash - The perilous princess plot
    Author: Courtauld, Sarah
    Published: 2015; 2014
    Publisher:  Feiwel and Friends, New York

    This is the story of two very different sisters...Eliza, who longs to ride into battle against villains and dragons, and Lavender, who would give anything to be a pampered princess. Before the end of the story both of them have had a chance to... more

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    Internationale Jugendbibliothek
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    This is the story of two very different sisters...Eliza, who longs to ride into battle against villains and dragons, and Lavender, who would give anything to be a pampered princess. Before the end of the story both of them have had a chance to fulfill their dreams, though not quite in the way they intended. Accompanied by their depressed goat, Gertrude, with their granny's warnings about the Black Death ringing in their ears, they head out into the forest and come face to face with an evil count who definitely does not have their best interests at heart

     
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  5. Ban this book
    Author: Gratz, Alan
    Published: 2017; © 2017
    Publisher:  Starscape, New York

    A fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't mess with her... more

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    Internationale Jugendbibliothek
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    A fourth grader fights back when From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg is challenged by a well-meaning parent and taken off the shelves of her school library. Amy Anne is shy and soft-spoken, but don't mess with her when it comes to her favorite book in the whole world. Amy Anne and her lieutenants wage a battle for the books as they start a secret banned books locker library, make up ridiculous reasons to ban every single book in the library to make a point, and take a stand against censorship

     
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  6. The Shadow City
    Author: Jolley, Dan
    Published: [2017]
    Publisher:  Harper, New York, NY

    Gabe and his friends are challenged to use the powers of the five elements to destroy Arcadia and prevent a sinister cult from tearing down the barrier between the worlds more

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    Internationale Jugendbibliothek
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    Gabe and his friends are challenged to use the powers of the five elements to destroy Arcadia and prevent a sinister cult from tearing down the barrier between the worlds

     
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  7. Death at the Voyager Hotel
    Author: Quartey, Kwei
    Published: [2014]
    Publisher:  Afram Publications (Ghana) Limited, Accra, Ghana

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bayreuth
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9789964705220; 9964705220
    RVK Categories: HP 9999
    Subjects: Fiction / fast / (OCoLC)fst01423787; Murder / Investigation / fast / (OCoLC)fst01029788; Murder; Murder
    Scope: vii, 156 pages, illustration, 19 cm
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    Novel
  8. Sky dancer
    Author: Lewis, Gill
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, Oxford

    When the whole community is divided over the fate of the hen harriers that nest in the heather of the moorlands, Joe finds himself stuck right in the middle, with a choice to make, and a huge secret to keep. Joe can't do what's right for everyone.... more

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    Internationale Jugendbibliothek
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    When the whole community is divided over the fate of the hen harriers that nest in the heather of the moorlands, Joe finds himself stuck right in the middle, with a choice to make, and a huge secret to keep. Joe can't do what's right for everyone. But can he find the strength to fight for what he really believes in? Includes factual information about hen harriers

     
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  9. Love and freindship and other youthful writings
    Author: Austen, Jane
    Published: 2015; © 2014
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, United Kingdom

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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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  10. After the parade
    a novel
    Author: Ostlund, Lori
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Scribner, New York; London; Toronto; Sydney; New Delhi

    After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits in his youth more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg, Hauptbibliothek
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    After leaving his partner in New Mexico to start a new life in San Francisco, ESL teacher Aaron Englund seeks closure from a rejection-marked childhood and his own questionable choices by exploring his relationships with fellow misfits in his youth

     
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  11. Future home of the living god
    a novel
    Author: Erdrich, Louise
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  Harper, New York

    The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of... more

     

    The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe

     
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  12. Surveys
    Author: Stagg, Natasha
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Semiotext(e), South Pasadena, CA

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781584351788
    Series: Semiotext(e) native agents series
    Subjects: Fiction / fast / (OCoLC)fst01423787; Man-woman relationships / fast / (OCoLC)fst01007080; Online dating / fast / (OCoLC)fst01045952; Online dating; Man-woman relationships; Man-woman relationships; Online dating
    Scope: 175 Seiten, 23 cm
  13. The ruined house
    a novel
    Author: Namdar, Reʾuven
    Published: [2017]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York

    Andrew P. Cohen, a successful NYU professor of comparative culture, is suddenly plagued with strange and inexplicable visions of an ancient religious ritual. As his superficially perfect world begins to unravel, he is forced to question his beliefs.... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Andrew P. Cohen, a successful NYU professor of comparative culture, is suddenly plagued with strange and inexplicable visions of an ancient religious ritual. As his superficially perfect world begins to unravel, he is forced to question his beliefs. Interspersed throughout the novel are pages from an ancient (pseudo)Talmudic text, harking back to the golden age of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Hidden in this frenzied, semi-opaque other narrative lies the mysterious key to understanding the drama of Andrew's life

     
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  14. Private novelist
    fiction
    Author: Zink, Nell
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, New York

    Nell Zink took on the challenge of reading a novel by a friend, Hebrew-language writer Avner Shats. Unable to make sense of his work, she resolved to rewrite it for him from scratch. Her tongue-in-cheek homage is available for the first time,... more

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    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum
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    Nell Zink took on the challenge of reading a novel by a friend, Hebrew-language writer Avner Shats. Unable to make sense of his work, she resolved to rewrite it for him from scratch. Her tongue-in-cheek homage is available for the first time, accompanied by a dazzling and imaginative novella that ingeniously explores questions of art, language, and life

     
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  15. Baltimore
    or, the steadfast tin soldier and the vampire
    Author: Mignola, Michael; Golden, Christopher
    Published: July 2015
    Publisher:  Dark Horse Books, Milwaukie, OR

    Infected by a demonic vampire while fighting in the Ardennes forest during World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore summons three friends and prepares himself for a final showdown with the Red King more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Infected by a demonic vampire while fighting in the Ardennes forest during World War I, Lord Henry Baltimore summons three friends and prepares himself for a final showdown with the Red King

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781616558031
    Edition: First Dark Horse books edition
    Subjects: Fiction / fast / (OCoLC)fst01423787; Vampires / fast / (OCoLC)fst01163968; Vampires; World War, 1914-1918; Vampires
    Other subjects: Array
    Scope: 275 Seiten, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    "The original prose novel featuring multiple illustrations by Hellboy artist Mike Mignola, plus the one-shot comic The Widow and the Tank"...Dark Horse website
  16. Mikhail and Margarita
    Author: Himes, Julie Lekstrom
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Europa Editions, New York, N.Y.

    It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of the secret police has developed... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    It is 1933 and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile, a mysterious agent of the secret police has developed a growing obsession with exposing Bulgakov as an enemy of the state. To make matters worse, Bulgakov has fallen in love with the dangerously candid Margarita. Facing imminent arrest, and infatuated with Margarita, he is inspired to write his masterpiece, The Master and Margarita, a scathing novel critical of both power and the powerful. Ranging between lively readings in the homes of Moscow's literary elite to the Siberian Gulag, Mikhail and Margarita recounts a passionate love triangle while painting a portrait of a country whose towering literary tradition is at odds with a dictatorship that does not tolerate dissent. Margarita is a strong, idealistic, seductive woman who is fiercely loved by two very different men, both of whom will fail in their attempts to shield her from the machinations of a regime hungry for human sacrifice. Debut novelist Julie Lekstrom Himes launches a rousing defense of art and the artist during a time of systematic deception, and she movingly portrays the ineluctable consequences of love for one of history's most enigmatic literary figures

     
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  17. After disasters
    Author: Dinh, Viet
    Published: [2016]
    Publisher:  Little A, Seattle

    Beautifully and hauntingly written, "After Disasters" is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India. An intricate story of love and loss weaves together the emotional and intimate narratives of Ted, a... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Beautifully and hauntingly written, "After Disasters" is told through the eyes of four people in the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India. An intricate story of love and loss weaves together the emotional and intimate narratives of Ted, a pharmaceutical salesman turned member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team; his colleague Piotr, who still carries with him the scars of the Bosnia conflict; Andy, a young firefighter eager to prove his worth; and Dev, a doctor on the ground racing against time and dwindling resources. Through time and place, hope and tragedy, love and lust, these four men put their lives at risk in a country where danger lurks everywhere.O. Henry Prize winning author Viet Dinh takes us on a moving and evocative journey through an India set with smoky funeral pyres, winding rivers that hold prayers and the deceased, and the rubble of Gujarat, a crumbling place wavering between life and death. As the four men fight to impose order on an increasingly chaotic city, where looting and threats of violence become more severe, they realize the first lives they save might be their own. ... Provided by publisher Recounts the experiences of four rescue workers who put their lives at risk to save others after a life-shattering earthquake in India In the wake of a life-shattering earthquake in India four men fight to impose order on an increasingly chaotic city. Ted is a pharmaceutical salesman turned member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team; his colleague Piotr, still carries with him the scars of the Bosnia conflict. Andy, a young firefighter, is eager to prove his worth; and Dev, a doctor on the ground races against time and dwindling resources

     
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