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  1. Grasping at straws
    Author: Maphosa, Yvonne
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  [Yvonne Maphosa], [South Africa]

    Born in the village of Matombo, Lwezi finds herself questioning the traditions and culture which seem to favour men at the detriment of women, Girls are excluded from school and are groomed for marriage from a very young age. Women are seen as sub... more

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    Born in the village of Matombo, Lwezi finds herself questioning the traditions and culture which seem to favour men at the detriment of women, Girls are excluded from school and are groomed for marriage from a very young age. Women are seen as sub humans who are born to serve men. At initiation school, as she prepares for her transition from childhood to womanhood, Lwezi makes a thoughtless sacrifice in an attempt to save her friend. She's taken to Chief Nxumalo's homestead to answer for her crime in front of the Dale (Gathering of Elders). Circumstances take an unexpected twist and she finds herself tangled deeper into the Nxumalo web of secrets. She's offered a deal she cannot refuse. Will she choose the city and the liberation it offers or will she stay in the patriarchal society she knows and save those that need her help?

     
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  2. Out of print
    mediating information in the novel and the book
    Author: Panko, Julia L.
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  University of Massachusetts Press, Amherst

    "Through technological experiments, readers have seen the concept of the book change over the years, and the novel reflects these experiments, acting as a kind of archive for information. Out of Print reveals that the novel continues to shape popular... more

     

    "Through technological experiments, readers have seen the concept of the book change over the years, and the novel reflects these experiments, acting as a kind of archive for information. Out of Print reveals that the novel continues to shape popular understandings of information culture, even as it adapts to engage with new media and new practices of mediating information in the digital age. This innovative study chronicles how the print book has fared as both novelists and the burgeoning profession of information science have grappled with unprecedented quantities of data across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. As the novel's archival project took a critical turn from realism to an investigation of the structures, possibilities, and ideologies of information media, novelists have considered ideas about how data can best be collected and stored. Julia Panko pairs case studies from information history with close readings of modernist works such as James Joyce's Ulysses and Virginia Woolf's Orlando and contemporary novels from Jonathan Safran Foer, Stephen King, and Mark Z. Danielewski that emphasize their own informational qualities and experiment with the aesthetic potential of the print book"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781625345608; 9781625345592
    RVK Categories: HG 660 ; AN 17950 ; EC 6661 ; EC 6666 ; EC 6667
    Series: Page and screen
    Subjects: Roman; Druckwerk; Neue Medien; Information; Geschichte 1920-2020;
    Other subjects: Books / History / 20th century; Books / History / 21st century; Books / Format / History; Fiction / 20th century / History and criticism; Fiction / 21st century / History and criticism; Experimental fiction / History and criticism; Modernism (Literature); Digital media / History; Literature and technology; Books and reading / Technological innovations; Books / Format; Digital media; Experimental fiction; Fiction; Literature and technology; Modernism (Literature); 1900-2099; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: xiv, 295 Seiten, Illustrationen, 24 cm
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    Enthält Literaturangaben

    Information Beyond the Book : Scale, Mediation, and the Novel Since Modernism -- Information Shock : Systematic Management and the Modernist Novel -- Form in the Cloud : Computational Mediation and the Contemporary Novel -- Haptic Storage : Disembodied Information, Textual Materiality, and the Representation of the Subject -- Bodies of Information : Digital Immortality and the Corporeality of Books -- Shelf Life : Media Transition, The Death of the Novel, and the Futures of the Book
  3. <<The>> accidental
    Author: Smith, Ali
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, [London]

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 0241989116; 9780241989111
    RVK Categories: HN 9990
    Series: Penguin Essentials
    Subjects: Social conditions; Fiction
    Scope: 305 Seiten, 18 cm
  4. <<The>> spill
    Author: Neeme, Imbi
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, [Australia]

    "In 1981, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades. Nicole and Samantha Cooper both remember the summer day when their mother, Tina, lost control of their car - but not in quite the same... more

     

    "In 1981, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades. Nicole and Samantha Cooper both remember the summer day when their mother, Tina, lost control of their car - but not in quite the same way. It is only after Tina's death, almost four decades later, that the sisters are forced to reckon with the repercussions of the crash. Nicole, after years of sabotaging her own happiness, seems finally content but still can't get through to her sister. And Samantha is hiding something that might just tear apart the life she's worked so hard to build for herself. The Spill explores the cycles of love, loss and regret that can follow a family through the years - moments of joy, things left unsaid, and things misremembered. Above all, it is a deeply moving portrait of two sisters falling apart and finding a way to fit back together."_-Provided by publisher

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781760893767; 1760893765
    Subjects: Traffic accidents; Life change events; Sisters; Families; Australian fiction; Families; Life change events; Traffic accidents; Domestic fiction; Fiction; Domestic fiction
    Scope: 332 Seiten, 24 cm
  5. Linh điểu
    tiểu thuyết
    Author: Nguyễn, Văn Học
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Nhà xuất bản Dân Trí, Hà Nội

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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    5 A 302900
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: Vietnamese
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9786048887636; 6048887639
    Subjects: Vietnamese fiction; Birds; Wildlife conservation; Environmental protection; Birds ; Conservation; Environmental protection; Vietnamese fiction; Wildlife conservation; Novels; Fiction
    Scope: 303 pages, 21 cm
  6. Silence is my mother tongue
    a novel
    Author: Addonia, Sulaiman S. M. Y.
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    A searing novel of immigration, judgement and sacrifice and the powerful bonds forged in the crucible of refugee camp life from an internationally-acclaimed writer, Silence is My Mother Tongue dissects society's ability to wage war on its own women... more

     

    A searing novel of immigration, judgement and sacrifice and the powerful bonds forged in the crucible of refugee camp life from an internationally-acclaimed writer, Silence is My Mother Tongue dissects society's ability to wage war on its own women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment "On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice." --

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781644450338
    Subjects: Refugee camps; Women refugees; Eritreans; Refugees; Refugees; Eritreans; Refugee camps; Women refugees; Social problem fiction; Fiction; Social problem fiction
    Scope: 194 Seiten, 21 cm
  7. Fields of joy
    Author: Zhou, Daxin
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Sinoist Books, London

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    Contributor: Hebert, Justin (ÜbersetzerIn); Zhou, Dan (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781910760949; 1910760943
    Subjects: Parent and child; Parental grief; Bereavement; Terminally ill; Bereavement; Parent and child; Parental grief; Terminally ill; Fiction
    Scope: iv, 310 pages, Illustrationen, 23 cm
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    Translated from Chinese
  8. El hombre mal vestido
    Author: Fadanelli, Guillermo
    Published: mayo 2020
    Publisher:  Almadía Ediciones, Ciudad de México

    "Esteban Arévalo es un hombre que se viste mal. Esto no tendría mayor importancia de no ser porque la apariencia desaliñada de su gastada ropa vieja que sigue usando por convicción, no por necesidad despierta la más profunda desconfianza entre sus... more

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    "Esteban Arévalo es un hombre que se viste mal. Esto no tendría mayor importancia de no ser porque la apariencia desaliñada de su gastada ropa vieja que sigue usando por convicción, no por necesidad despierta la más profunda desconfianza entre sus vecinos del barrio de Tacubaya: los rumores lo señalan como el principal sospechoso de haber cometido ocho asesinatos. Blaise Rodríguez, el narrador de esta historia, está empeñado en demostrar la inocencia de Esteban Arévalo. Contrario a la tosquedad que la gente espera de un tipo con tan poco esmero en su indumentaria, el protagonista es más bien amable, educado y bastante culto. ¿Sería posible que un hombre sin mayores aspiraciones existenciales y que permanece gentil aun cuando es tratado con rechazo se convierta en un cruel asesino? ¿Cuáles serían sus razones para matar? El hombre mal vestido plantea una reflexión crítica sobre el asesinato, la intolerancia y el miedo a la diferencia, en un presente de extrema violencia donde la apariencia física cobra radical importancia como crisol de estatus, identidad y aspiraciones de clase. Esteban Arevalo is a man who dresses badly. The disheveled appearance of his worn out old clothes arouses the deepest mistrust among his neighbors in the Tacubaya neighborhood: rumors indicate him as the main suspect in having committed eight murders. Blaise Rodríguez, the narrator of this story, is determined to demonstrate the innocence of Esteban."--Amazon

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: Spanish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 6078667408; 9786078667406
    Edition: Primera edición
    Series: Narrativa
    Subjects: Fiction; Novels; Novels
    Scope: 254 Seiten, 21 cm
  9. Tyll
    Author: Kehlmann, Daniel
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  riverrun, London

    "He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a village like every other village in Germany, a... more

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    Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Zentralbibliothek
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    Englisch S Kehl
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    "He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone when you turn. Tyll Ulenspiegel is here! In a village like every other village in Germany, a scrawny boy balances on a rope between two trees. He's practising. He practises by the mill, by the blacksmiths; he practises in the forest at night, where the Cold Woman whispers and goblins roam. When he comes out, he will never be the same. Tyll will escape the ordinary villages. In the mines he will defy death. On the battlefield he will run faster than cannonballs. In the courts he will trick the heads of state. As a travelling entertainer, his journey will take him across the land and into the heart of a never-ending war. A prince's doomed acceptance of the Bohemian throne has European armies lurching brutally for dominion and now the Winter King casts a sunless pall. Between the quests of fat counts, witch-hunters and scheming queens, Tyll dances his mocking fugue; exposing the folly of kings and the wisdom of fools. With macabre humour and moving humanity, Daniel Kehlmann lifts this legend from medieval German folklore and enters him on the stage of the Thirty Years' War. When citizens become the playthings of politics and puppetry, Tyll, in his demonic grace and his thirst for freedom, is the very spirit of rebellion - a cork in water, a laugh in the dark, a hero for all time."--Provided by publisher

     
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  10. The soul of Jade Mountain
    Author: Vava, Husluman
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Cambria Press, Amherst, New York

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 1604979941; 9781604979947
    Series: Literature from Taiwan series
    Subjects: Bunun (Taiwan people); Bunun (Taiwan people); Fiction
    Scope: xx, 415 Seiten, 24 cm
  11. Doktor Bogumił
    Author: Grabowska, Ałbena
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Marginesy, Warszawa

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    Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Zentralbibliothek
    Signature:
    Polnisch S Grab
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: Polish
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9788366500631
    Edition: Wydanie pierwsze
    Series: Uczniowie Hippokratesa
    Subjects: Physicians; Medicine; Medicine; Physicians; Fiction; Historical fiction; Historical fiction
    Scope: 508 Seiten, 22 cm
  12. Lesbians on Television : New Queer Visibility & the Lesbian Normal
    Author: Smith, Kate McNicholas
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Intellect

    The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America, "Lesbians on Television"... more

     

    The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. Focusing on the small screens of Europe and North America, "Lesbians on Television" maps the contemporary shifts in lesbian visibility within popular media and, from this, extracts a figure of the new 'lesbian normal' that both helps and hinders those it represents. This book offers a unique and layered account of the complex dynamics in the modern moment of social change, drawing together critical social and cultural theory as well empirical research, which includes interviews and multi-platform media analyses. Structured around five central case studies of popular British and American television shows featuring lesbian, bisexual and queer women characters – "The L Word", "Skins", "Glee", "Coronation Street" and "The Fosters".

     
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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Television; Adventure; Gay & Lesbian studies
    Other subjects: Performing Arts; Television; History & Criticism; Fiction; Action & Adventure; Social Science; LGBTQ+ Studies; Lesbian Studies
  13. Medial bodies netween fiction and faction
    reinventing corporeality
    Contributor: Butnaru, Denisa (Publisher)
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  transcript, Bielefeld

    In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media... more

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    In the past decades, developments in the fields of medicine, new media, and biotechnologies challenged many representations and practices, questioning the understanding of our corporeal limits. Using concrete examples from literary fiction, media studies, philosophy, performance arts, and social sciences, this collection underlines how bodily models and transformations thought until recently to be only fictional products have become a part of our reality. The essays provide a spectrum of perspectives on how the body emerges as a transitional environment between fictional and factual elements, a process understood as faction

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Butnaru, Denisa (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783839447291
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    Series: Body cultures
    Subjects: Biotechnology; Body; Corporeality; Digital Media; Disability; Enhancement; Faction; Fiction; Media Aesthetics; Media Studies; Media Theory; Media; Technology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies; Medien; Körper; Biotechnologie; Medizin; Technischer Fortschritt; Verbesserung; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (266 Seiten), Illustrationen
  14. The Self-Help Compulsion
    searching for advice in modern literature
    Author: Blum, Beth
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York, NY

    Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence,... more

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    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day.Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and practical use that serious literature was reluctant to supply. Blum unearths a series of unlikely cases of the love-hate relationship between serious fiction and commercial advice, from Gustave Flaubert's mockery of early DIY culture to Dear Abby's cutting diagnoses of Nathanael West and from Virginia Woolf's ambivalent polemics against self-improvement to the ways that contemporary global authors such as Mohsin Hamid and Tash Aw explicitly draw on the self-help genre. She also traces the self-help industry's tendency to popularize, "e, and adapt literary wisdom and considers what it might have to teach today's university. Offering a new history of self-help's origins, appeal, and cultural and literary import around the world, this book reveals that self-help's most valuable secrets are not about getting rich or winning friends but about how and why people read

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231551083
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    Subjects: HISTORY / United States / 20th Century; Books and reading; Fiction; Fiction; Psychological literature; Psychology and literature; Psychology in literature; Reading interests; Self-help techniques; Lektüre; Literatur; Lebenshilfe
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 328 Seiten), Illustrationen
  15. When Novels Were Books
    Author: Stein, Jordan Alexander
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

    The novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein... more

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    The novel was born religious, alongside Protestant texts produced in the same format by the same publishers. Novels borrowed features of these texts but over the years distinguished themselves, becoming the genre we know today. Jordan Alexander Stein traces this history, showing how the physical object of the book shaped the stories it contained

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780674243415
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    RVK Categories: HG 660 ; HG 680
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Books and reading; Books; Early printed books; Fiction; Printing
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
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    Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
  16. The Novel Art
    Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James
    Author: McGurl, Mark
    Published: [2020]; © 2002
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate... more

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    Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist fiction than ever before. Moving deftly from James to Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, and Djuna Barnes among others, McGurl argues that what unifies this diverse group of ambitious writers is their agonized relation to a middling genre rarely included in discussions of the fine arts. He concludes that the new product, despite its authors' desire to distinguish it from popular forms, never quite forsook the intimacy the genre had long cultivated with the common reader. Indeed, the ''art novel'' sought status within the mass market, and among its prime strategies was a promotion of the mind as a source of value in an economy increasingly dependent on mental labor. McGurl also shows how modernism's obsessive interest in simple-mindedness revealed a continued concern with the masses even as it attempted to use this simplicity to produce a heightened sophistication of form. Masterfully argued and set in elegant prose, The Novel Art provides a rich new understanding of the fascinating road the American novel has taken from being an artless enterprise to an aesthetic one

     
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  17. Extraterritorial
    a political geography of contemporary fiction
    Author: Hart, Matthew
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  Columbia University Press, New York

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    Universität Potsdam, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780231547802
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    Subjects: Fiction; Political geography; Grenze <Motiv>; Englisch; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 315 Seiten), Illustrationen
  18. Progenie
    Author: Martín Gijón, Susana
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Negra Alfaguara, Barcelona, España

    "Sevilla, ola de calor. Todo el que puede huye a la playa. No así Camino Vargas, jefa accidental del Grupo de Homicidios desde el tiroteo que dejó en coma al inspector Arenas. Alguien ha atropellado salvajemente a una mujer y se ha dado a la fuga.... more

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    Spanisch S Mart
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    "Sevilla, ola de calor. Todo el que puede huye a la playa. No así Camino Vargas, jefa accidental del Grupo de Homicidios desde el tiroteo que dejó en coma al inspector Arenas. Alguien ha atropellado salvajemente a una mujer y se ha dado a la fuga. Este asesinato se va a transformar en el foco de atención mediática cuando se filtre un dato aún más perturbador: el homicida introdujo un chupete en la boca de la víctima antes de desaparecer de la escena del crimen. Todos los indicios apuntan a la expareja, un maltratador psicológico, y las estadísticas no están de su lado. Sin embargo, cuando la autopsia desvele que la víctima estaba embarazada y los asesinatos comiencen a sucederse, Camino comprenderá que se halla ante el caso más duro de su carrera"--Page 4 of cover

     
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  19. Are you watching?
    Author: Ralph, Vincent
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Penguin Books, London

    You have to murder at least three people to be called a serial killer. the Magpie Man got there when I was nine. Ten years ago, Jess lost her mother to the Magpie Man. She was the first of his victims but not the last. Now Jess is the star of a... more

     

    You have to murder at least three people to be called a serial killer. the Magpie Man got there when I was nine. Ten years ago, Jess lost her mother to the Magpie Man. She was the first of his victims but not the last. Now Jess is the star of a YouTube reality series and she's using it to catch the killer once and for all. The whole world is watching her every move. And so can the Magpie Man

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780241367421; 0241367425
    Subjects: Murder; Serial murderers; Social media; Reality television programs; Grief; Justice; Suspense fiction; Young adult fiction; Social media; Serial murderers; Justice; Grief; Murder; Reality television programs; Suspense fiction; Young adult fiction; Young adult works; Thrillers (Fiction); Fiction; Thrillers (Fiction)
    Scope: 373 pages, 20 cm
    Notes:

    "1 killer. 13 victims ... a million viewers"--Cover

    American edition published as: 14 ways to die. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2021]

    Includes a Q & A with Vincent Ralph

    Zielgruppe - Audience: For young adults
  20. The memory monster
    a novel
    Author: Sarid, Yishay
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Restless Books, Brooklyn, New York

    "The English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a fierce and harrowing tale of reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust, and how memory and the effort to preserve it can become an all-consuming monster. The narrator of... more

     

    "The English-language debut of celebrated Israeli novelist Yishai Sarid is a fierce and harrowing tale of reckoning with the horror of the Holocaust, and how memory and the effort to preserve it can become an all-consuming monster. The narrator of Yishai Sarid's powerful novel is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he soon becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II, and guides tours through the camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He hungrily devours every detail of life and death in the camps and takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives, and the process by which enslaved Jews were forced to dispose of the remains. The job becomes a mission, and then an addiction. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He resents the students lost in their iPhones, singing sentimental songs, not expressing sufficient outrage at the mass murder committed by the Germans. In fact, he even begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers--their efficiency, audacity, and determination. Force is the only way to resist force, he comes to think, and one must be prepared to kill."--Provided by publisher Our narrator is a young, initially reluctant Holocaust scholar working at Yad Vashem, Israel's memorial to the victims of the Holocaust. A diligent historian, he becomes a leading expert on Nazi methods of extermination at concentration camps in Poland during World War II, and guides tours through the camps for students and visiting dignitaries. He takes pride in being able to recreate for his audience the excruciating last moments of the victims' lives, and the process by which enslaved Jews were forced to dispose of the remains. Spending so much time immersed in death, his connections with the living begin to deteriorate. He begins to detect, in the students as well as himself, a hint of admiration for the murderers-- their efficiency, audacity, and determination. -- adapted from jacket

     
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  21. Catherine House
    a novel
    Author: Thomas, Elisabeth
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Custom House, New York, NY

    Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable... more

     

    Catherine House is a school of higher learning like no other. Hidden deep in the woods of rural Pennsylvania, this crucible of reformist liberal arts study with its experimental curriculum, wildly selective admissions policy, and formidable endowment, has produced some of the world's best minds: prize-winning authors, artists, inventors, Supreme Court justices, presidents. For those lucky few selected, tuition, room, and board are free. But acceptance comes with a price. Students are required to give the House three years--summers included--completely removed from the outside world. Family, friends, television, music, even their clothing must be left behind. In return, the school promises a future of sublime power and prestige, and that its graduates can become anything or anyone they desire

     
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  22. Woman at point zero
    Author: Saʻdāwī, Nawāl
    Published: 2015; 2020
    Publisher:  Zed Books, London, England ; Bloomsbury Publishing, [London, England]

    Location:
    Hochschulbibliothek der Fachhochschule Aachen
    Signature:
    21 OGX 7
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    No inter-library loan
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781783605941; 9781783605958
    Other subjects: Array; Array; Array; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Array
    Scope: XIII, 142 Seiten
    Notes:

    Originally published in English in 1983

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte als Nachdruck behandelte Auflagen
  23. Truel1f3
    Author: Kristoff, Jay
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY

    Genesis -- Exodus -- Lamentations -- Revelation. Best friends have become enemies. Lovers have become strangers. And deciding whose side you're on could be the difference between life and death. For Eve and Lemon, discovering the truth about... more

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf
    Inter-library loan:
    Unlimited inter-library loan, copies and loan

     

    Genesis -- Exodus -- Lamentations -- Revelation. Best friends have become enemies. Lovers have become strangers. And deciding whose side you're on could be the difference between life and death. For Eve and Lemon, discovering the truth about themselves--and each other--was too much for their friendship to take. But with the country on the brink of a new world war--this time between the BioMaas swarm at CityHive and Daedalus's army at Megopolis, loyalties will be pushed to the brink, unlikely alliances will form and with them, betrayals. But the threat doesn't stop there, because the lifelikes are determined to access the program that will set every robot free, a task requiring both Eve and Ana, the girl she was created to replace. In the end, violent clashes and heartbreaking choices reveal the true heroes . . . and they may not be who you think they are

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781524714000; 1524714003; 9781524714017; 1524714011
    Edition: First edition
    Series: Lifel1k3 ; 3
    Subjects: Imaginary wars and battles; Betrayal; Friendship; Robots; Betrayal; Androids
    Other subjects: Imaginary wars and battles; Friendship; Betrayal; Androids; Artificial intelligence; Cyborgs; Robots; Young adult works; Dystopian fiction; Fiction; Juvenile works; Science fiction; Young adult fiction; Young adult fiction
    Scope: 453 pages, maps, 22 cm
    Notes:

    Sequel to: Dev1at3
  24. A bed for the king's daughter
    stories
    Author: ʻUjaylī, Shahlā
    Published: [2020]; ©2020
    Publisher:  Center for Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas Press, Austin

    A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King's Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as... more

    Location:
    Orientalisches Seminar, Seminarbibliothek mit Malaiologischem Apparat, Schiabibliothek und Max Freiherr von Oppenheim Stiftung
    Signature:
    414/Arab/Nb790
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    No inter-library loan

     

    A groundbreaking collection of experimental short fiction by award-winning Syrian author and Booker International Prize for Arabic Fiction nominee Shahla Ujayli, A Bed for the King's Daughter uses surrealism and irony to examine such themes as women's agency, the decline of collective life and imagination under modernity, and the effects of social and political corruption on daily life. In "The Memoir of Cinderella's Shoes" Cinderella uses her famous glass slipper as a weapon in order to take justice into her own hands. In "Tell Me About Surrealism", an art history professor's writing assignment reveals the slipperiness of storytelling, and in "Merry Christmas", the realities of apartheid interfere with one family's celebration. Through twenty-two short stories, Ujayli animates with brevity and inventiveness themes relevant to both the particularities of life in the Arab world and life outside it

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Hussain, Sawad (Übersetzer)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781477322284; 1477322280
    Series: Emerging voices from the Middle East
    Subjects: Women; Families
    Other subjects: Syria; Short stories; Fiction; History; Short stories
    Scope: viii, 62 pages, 22 cm
  25. Fantasies of Time and Death
    Dunsany, Eddison, Tolkien
    Author: Vaninskaya, Anna
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

    Location:
    Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781137518385
    Subjects: Fiction; Literature—Philosophy; Film genres; Fantastische Literatur
    Other subjects: Eddison, Eric Rücker (1882-1945); Dunsany, Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett (1878-1957); Tolkien, J. R. R. (1892-1973)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 262 Seiten), Illustration