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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A moving, timely letter about the struggle for racial equality by Ruby Bridges, the first black child to integrate an all-white school in the United States, featuring stunning photographs throughout.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Dragt, Tonke (illustrator). Neuware - Laurenzo and Jiacomo are identical twins, as alike as two drops of water. No one can tell them apart (which comes in very handy for playing tricks on their teachers). And no one can split them up.But when tragedy strikes their carefree young lives, they must make their own way in the world. As each brother chooses his own path - hardworking Laurenzo to make beautiful objects from gold and silver, and fearless Jiacomo to travel, explore and become an unlikely thief - it is the start of a series of incredible escapades that will test them to their limits.Along the way they will face terrible danger, solve cunning riddles, become prisoners in a castle, sail across the ocean, fall in and out of love, stay at an enchanted inn, help save a priceless pearl, even become kings by mistake.They must use all their talents, wiles and wisdom to survive.Are you ready to join them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Alfa and Mademba are two of the many Senegalese soldiers fighting in the Great War. Together they climb dutifully out of their trenches to attack France's German enemies whenever the whistle blows, until Mademba is wounded, and dies in a shell hole with his belly torn open. Without his more-than-brother, Alfa is alone and lost amidst the savagery of the conflict. He devotes himself to the war, to violence and death, but soon begins to frighten even his own comrades in arms. How far will Alfa go to make amends to his dead friend Winner of the International Booker Prize 2021.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 145 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He's on the run from himselfPittsburgh, 1995. Twenty-two year old Bobby Saraceno is a biracial black man, passing for white. Bobby has hidden his identity from everyone, even his best friend and fellow comic-book geek, Aaron, who has just returned from prison a newly radicalized white supremacist. During the night of their reunion, Bobby witnesses Aaron mercilessly assault a young black man with a brick. In the wake of this horrifying act of violence, Bobby must conceal his unwitting involvement in the crime from the police, while battling his own personal demons. This is a harrowing story about racism and brutality that is more urgent now than ever.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 189 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An accident. A kiss. A bite. Some mistakes change everything.When Lainey, Margaret, Ji Sun and Alice find themselves sharing a dorm in their freshman year at college, it feels like fate. They are young, transcendent, in love.As their lives become braided together, both at college and into adulthood as young mothers, their friendships are forced to endure dangerous threats from the dark forests of their childhood, from each other, and from themselves. For each of them will make a terrible mistake.A compulsive page-turner of a novel, The Other's Gold is a bittersweet ode to lifelong friendship, and to what it means to forgive another even when you can't forgive yourself.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An intricately plotted mystery and an engrossing story imbued with the foggy atmosphere of post-Communist Prague, the third book in the Walter Presents Library is a bewitching mystery about a woman who claims to transcribe music from the ghost of Chopin.Prague, 1995: Vera Foltynova, a widow in her late 50s, claims to receive visits from the ghost of great composer Frederic Chopin. What's more, she declares that Chopin has dictated dozens of compositions to her, to allow the world to hear the sublime music he was unable to create in his own short life. Many dismiss her story as a ridiculous hoax, while others swear that the music has the same beauty and refinement as the work of the dead master.Ludvik Slany, a secret police agent-turned-television journalist, is assigned to make a documentary debunking Vera's claims. He arrives in Prague ready to uncover a scam, but the more he subtly tries to trick her into giving herself away, the more he begins to think he may be witnessing a genuine miracle.The Ghost of Frederic Chopin is an engrossing story of music, faith and the ghosts of the past.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When We Cease to Understand the World shows us great minds striking out into dangerous, uncharted terrain. Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schroedinger: these are among the luminaries into whose troubled minds we are thrust as they grapple with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, they alienate friends and lovers, they descend into isolated states of madness.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden plots and allegiances in her girls' school, reissued for the first time in decades.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Transporting stories of intrigue, superstition and rivalry from a European master, in English for the first time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware 145 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware 189 pp. Englisch.