Tara Westover was 17 the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag". In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent. Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.

Oliver Marks has just served ten years in jail - for a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he's released, he's greeted by the man who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know what really happened a decade ago. As one of seven young actors studying Shakespeare at an elite arts college, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingenue, extra. But when the casting changes, and the secondary characters usurp the stars, the plays spill dangerously over into life, and one of them is found dead. The rest face their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, and themselves, that they are blameless.

A memoir about growing up Korean American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity. Michelle Zauner tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the East Coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, and performing gigs with her fledgling band—and meeting the man who would become her husband—her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live. It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Obwohl Rassismus in allen Bereichen der deutschen Gesellschaft wirkt, ist es nicht leicht, über ihn zu sprechen. Keiner möchte rassistisch sein, und viele Menschen scheuen sich vor dem Begriff. Das Buch begleitet die Leser*innen bei ihrer mitunter ersten Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus und tut dies ohne erhobenen Zeigefinger. Vielmehr werden die Leser*innen auf eine rassismuskritische Reise mitgenommen, in deren Verlauf sie nicht nur konkretes Wissen über die Geschichte des Rassismus und dessen Wirkungsweisen erhalten, sondern auch Unterstützung in der emotionalen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema. Übungen und Lesetipps eröffnen an vielen Stellen die Möglichkeit, sich eingehender mit einem bestimmten Themenbereich zu befassen. Über QR-Codes gelangt man zu weiterführenden Artikeln, Videos und Bildern. Ergänzend dazu finden sich in fast jedem Kapitel Auszüge aus sogenannten Rassismus-Logbüchern – anonymisierte Tagebücher, die ehemalige Student*innen von Tupoka Ogette in ihrer eigenen Auseinandersetzung mit Rassismus geführt haben und in denen sie über ihre Emotionen und Gedankenprozesse berichten. Auch Handlungsoptionen kommen nicht zu kurz. Ziel des Buches ist es, gemeinsam mit den Leser*innen eine rassismuskritische Perspektive zu erarbeiten, die diese im Alltag wirklich leben können. Spieldauer 4 Std 27 Min

Die perfekte Idylle. Die perfekte Falle. Cecilia arbeitet als Housesitterin und hangelt sich von Auftrag zu Auftrag. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter hat sie den Boden unter den Füßen verloren, kann nicht einmal mehr ein WG-Zimmer bezahlen. Nun wird sie an der Villa der einflussreichen Familie Waldner abgesetzt, einsam gelegen auf einer winzigen Ostseeinsel. Die perfekte Idylle – die perfekte Falle. Denn Cecilia ist nicht zufällig Eine machtvolle Anziehung verbindet sie mit Johannes Waldner, dem Sohn des verstorbenen Besitzers. Während Cecilia sich noch allein im Haus wähnt, machen sich vier Menschen auf den Weg zur Insel. Mit dunklen Geheimnissen und eigener Agenda. Aber würden sie dafür auch töten?Der neue aufregende Pageturner der SPIEGEL-BestsellerautorinPerfider Nervenkitzel, psychologisch austarierte Figuren, raffinierter Plotaufbau und Twists, die immer überraschen.In diesem Haus kann alles geschehen. Und immer wenn du zu wissen glaubst, wer welche Rolle spielt, hast du dich getäuscht.

Der »Känguru-Chroniken« dritter Teil. Das Beuteltier und der Kleinkünstler auf der Jagd nach dem mysteriösen Pinguin. Haltet euch bereit: »Dies ist die Offenbarung des Kängurus, dem Asozialen Netzwerk zu zeigen, was in der Kürze geschehen soll; und sie wurde gesandt durch eine E-Mail zu seinem Knecht Marc-Uwe, der bezeugt hat das Wort des Kängurus und das Zeugnis vom Asozialen Netzwerk, was er gesehen hat. Selig ist, der da liest und die da hören die Worte der Weissagung, denn die Zeit ist nahe.« Halleluja.

An “evocative, sensitive, and compelling novel” (Delia Owens, New York Times bestselling author of Where the Crawdads Sing) that explores the deadly consequences of a love triangle in an English farming village as dangerous secrets from the past resurface—perfect for fans of The Paper Palace and Where the Crawdads Sing.“The farmer is dead. He is dead and all anyone wants to know is who killed him.” When her brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn’t realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager—the man who broke her heart all those years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son Bobby, who died a few years earlier. As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel and Leo’s lives, tensions around the village rise, and jealousy rears its ugly head. Beth and her gentle and kind husband Frank are happily married, but they have their fair share of secrets, and their relationship relies on the past staying buried. And when the truth begins to come out, events spiral out of control, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice—between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become. A sweeping, sexy love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.

A woman risks everything to end her family’s centuries-old curse, solve her mother’s disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Spells for Forgetting. In the small mountain town of Jasper, North Carolina, June Farrow is waiting for fate to find her. The Farrow women are known for their thriving flower farm—and the mysterious curse that has plagued their family line. The whole town remembers the madness that led to Susanna Farrow’s disappearance, leaving June to be raised by her grandmother and haunted by rumors. It’s been a year since June started seeing and hearing things that weren’t there. Faint wind chimes, a voice calling her name, and a mysterious door appearing out of nowhere—the signs of what June always knew was coming. But June is determined to end the curse once and for all, even if she must sacrifice finding love and having a family of her own. After her grandmother’s death, June discovers a series of cryptic clues regarding her mother’s decades-old disappearance, except they only lead to more questions. But could the door she once assumed was a hallucination be the answer she’s been searching for? The next time it appears, June realizes she can touch it and walk past the threshold. And when she does, she embarks on a journey that will not only change both the past and the future, but also uncover the lingering mysteries of her small town and entangle her heart in an epic star-crossed love. With The Unmaking of June Farrow, Adrienne Young delivers a brilliant novel of romance, mystery, and a touch of the impossible—a story you will never forget.