Charlie Asher is a pretty normal guy with a normal life, married to a bright and pretty woman who actually loves him for his normalcy. They're even about to have their first child. Yes, Charlie's doing okay—until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets. Charlie Asher, it...more
'Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through the tiny community of Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit. But not everybody is feeling the joy. Little Joshua Barker is in desperate need of a holiday miracle. No, he's not on his deathbed; no, hi...more
Is this new land a place where magics really happen?From Gregory Maguire, the acclaimed author of Wicked, comes his much-anticipated second novel, a brilliant and provocative retelling of the timeless Cinderella tale.In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings.... When we grow up, we learn that it's far...more
Zwei Wochen Überlebenstraining in Nahost. Diese zündende Geschäftsidee verwirklichen ein Jude, ein Araber und ein Christ in Zeiten wirtschaftlicher Rezession. Denn Religion ist Religion, aber Geschäft bleibt Geschäft. Die Zielgruppe, die das Business-Trio erreicht, besteht wie erwartet aus “Blutrünstigen, Verrückten, Gelangweilten“. Höh...more
Mann, sind die alle blöd! Henryk M. Broder, bekannt für seine scharfzüngigen Glossen im Spiegel, hat diesmal 180 Seiten gebraucht, um diese Erkenntnis zu formulieren. Ein Buch, in dem deutsche Tageszeitungen, französische Politiker, sächsische Entführungsopfer, Peter Zadek und noch viele mehr den immergleichen Vorwurf einstecken müssen: Ihr ...more
A beloved classic since its initial publication in 1947, this vivid, insightful journal is a fitting memorial to the gifted Jewish teenager who died at Bergen-Belsen, Germany, in 1945. Born in 1929, Anne Frank received a blank diary on her 13th birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. Her marvelous...more
At the end of the fifteenth century, the Spanish Inquisition forced many Jews to flee the country. The most adventurous among them took to the high seas as freewheeling outlaws. In ships bearing names such as Prophet Samuel, Queen Esther, and Shield of Abraham, they attacked and plundered the Spanish fleet while forming alliances with other Europea...more
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