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Stell dir vor, auf dem Weg ins Jenseits gäbe es eine riesige Bibliothek, gesäumt mit all den Leben, die du hättest führen können. Buch für Buch gefüllt mit den Wegen, die deiner hätten sein können. Hier findet sich Nora Seed wieder, nachdem sie aus lauter Verzweiflung beschlossen hat, sich das Leben zu nehmen. An diesem Ort, an dem die Uhrzeiger immer auf Mitternacht stehen, eröffnet sich für Nora plötzlich die Möglichkeit herauszufinden,...
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Wie weit geht ein Vater, um seine Tochter zu beschützen?
Nach dem tragischen Tod seines Sohnes Reuben scheint es dem Antiquitätenhändler Terence Cave endgültig, als sei seine Liebe verflucht: Seine Mutter hat den Freitod gewählt, seine Frau starb als Mordopfer. Einzig Reubens Zwillingsschwester Bryony ist noch übrig - und Terence schwört sich, seine wunderschöne Tochter mit all seiner Kraft vor den Gefahren dieser Welt zu schützen. Koste...
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Wie weit geht ein Vater, um seine Tochter zu beschützen?
Nach dem tragischen Tod seines Sohnes Reuben scheint es dem Antiquitätenhändler Terence Cave endgültig, als sei seine Liebe verflucht: Seine Mutter hat den Freitod gewählt, seine Frau starb als Mordopfer. Einzig Reubens Zwillingsschwester Bryony ist noch übrig - und Terence schwört sich, seine wunderschöne Tochter mit all seiner Kraft vor den Gefahren dieser Welt zu schützen. Koste...
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Der wunderbar einfühlsam erzählte Roman vom Autor des SPIEGEL-Bestsellers und der TikTok-Sensation Die Mitternachtsbibliothek
Ein kleiner Junge, eine Nachricht aus dem Jenseits und ein ungewöhnlicher Auftrag ...
Philip Noble ist erst elf Jahre alt, doch sein Leben ist voller Probleme. Sein Vater ist bei einem Autounfall ums Leben gekommen und seine Mutter lässt sich auf die Annäherungsversuche seines schmierigen Onkels ein. Als Philip der Geist...
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A TRULY WILD ADVENTURE! Twelve-year-old Evie has a talent. She can HEAR what animals are thinking and she can TALK to them with her mind. When Evie goes on a trip to the Amazon rainforest, her powers are put to the test. She makes friends with pink river dolphins, must save an injured sloth, and discovers the secret life of a jaguar. Soon she sees that the jungle is in serious and deadly danger, and comes up with a rather risky plan to help save it...
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Der zauberhaft versponnene Roman vom Autor des großen SPIEGEL-Bestsellers und der TikTok-Sensation Die Mitternachtsbibliothek
Zuhause ist es am schönsten. Oder vielleicht doch nicht?
Prince ist ein junger Labrador, der fest entschlossen ist, der perfekte Familienhund zu sein. Doch das sehen nicht alle Hunde so, und im Hundepark gibt es Gerüchte über eine Revolte der Sprinter Spaniel. Und auch bei Princes' Familie, den Hunters, geht es bergab:...
7) Die Radleys
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Die Radleys
gelesen von Sascha Rotermund
Auf den ersten Blick wirken sie wie eine ganz normale Familie: Vater Peter ist Arzt, Mutter Helen kümmert sich um ihre beiden pubertierenden Kinder Clara und Rowan. Doch warum erstickt Peter fast am thailändischen Salat, warum nimmt jedes Tier vor Clara Reißaus und warum kann Rowan nachts nicht schlafen und hat trotz Lichtschutzfaktor 60 Probleme mit der Haut? Das Geheimnis der Radleys ist so unfassbar...
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
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"The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan....
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom has moved back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
12) The humans
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Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected.
13) The comfort book
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"A small book for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of encouragement. "Happiness occurs when you forget who you're expected to be. And what you're expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are." Years ago, Matt Haig began writing notes to his future self. These notes were meant as gifts to his future self: offerings of...
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"What was Santa Claus like as a kid? Eleven-year-old Nikolas--nicknamed "Christmas"-- has received only one toy in his life: a doll carved out of a turnip. But he's happy with his turnip doll and the simple life he leads in a cottage with his father. When his father goes missing, Nikolas races to the North Pole to save him. Along the way, he befriends a surly reindeer, bests a troublesome troll, and discovers a hidden world of enchantment in the frozen...
15) The Radleys
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Dr. Peter Radley and his wife, Helen, have fled wild London for the village of Bishopthorpe, where they live an outwardly ordinary life. The Radleys, who follow the rules of The Abstainer's Handbook (e.g., "Be proud to act like a normal human being"), haven't told their 15-year-old vegan daughter, Clara, and 17-year-old son, Rowan, who's troubled by nightmares, that they're really vampires. A crisis occurs when a drunken classmate of Clara's, Stuart...
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A "chilling, riveting, heartbreaking" (The New York Times Book Review) novel of parental turmoil, from Matt Haig, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library and How to Stop Time.
Don’t miss Matt Haig’s new novel The Life Impossible, coming September 2024
Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the dual tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's...
Don’t miss Matt Haig’s new novel The Life Impossible, coming September 2024
Terence Cave, owner of Cave Antiques, has already experienced the dual tragedies of his mother's suicide and his wife's...
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"A follow-up to Matt Haig's internationally bestselling memoir, Reasons to Stay Alive, a broader look at how modern life feeds our anxiety, and how to live a better life. The societies we live in are increasingly making our minds ill, making it feel as though the way we live is engineered to make us unhappy. When Matt Haig developed panic disorder, anxiety, and depression as an adult, it took him a long time to work out the ways the external world...
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Eleven-year-old Philip Noble has a big problem: His dad, who was killed in a car accident, appears as a bloodstained ghost at his own funeral and introduces Philip to the Dead Fathers Club. The club, whose members were all murdered, gathers outside the Castle and Falcon, the local pub that Philip's family owns and lives above. Philip's father tells him that Uncle Alan killed him and he must avenge his death. When Philip realizes that Uncle Alan has...
19) The truth pixie
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"From number one bestselling author Matt Haig comes a hilarious and heartwarming story, brilliantly illustrated throughout by Chris Mould. Wherever she is, whatever the day, She only has one kind of thing to say. Just as cats go miaow and cows go moo, The Truth Pixie can only say things that are true."--