In an alternate United States, love has been declared a dangerous disease, and the government forces everyone who reaches eighteen to have a procedure called the Cure. Living with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in Portland, Maine, Lena Haloway is very much looking forward to being cured and living a safe, predictable life. She watched love destroy her mother and isn't about to make the same mistake. But with ninety-five days left until her treatment, Lena meets enigmatic Alex, a boy from the "Wilds" who lives under the government's radar. What will happen if they do the unthinkable and fall in love?

»Laternenlicht fällt auf Sommergras, wie mein Herz dir vor die Füße fiel. Ich wollte dir nah sein, mehr als deine beste Freundin sein, wollte mehr, mehr, mehr. Doch dein Mund, er ist so weit weg. Weg wie eine Unendlichkeit.« Authentisch und berührend schreibt Sophie Bichon in ihrem ersten Gedichtband über das Suchen und Finden, über Liebe, Glück und Hoffnung. Ihre Verse machen Mut und zeigen, dass es nicht nur einen Weg gibt, der zu einem tieferen Verständnis für sich selbst und für andere führt. In ihren Texten feiert sie die Liebe in all ihren Formen und Farben und lässt uns durch ihre einfühlsamen Worte daran teilhaben.

An intimate memoir of the flamboyant Queen singer by the man who knew him best. Peter Freestone was Freddie Mercury’s Personal Assistant for the last 12 years of his life. He lived with Mercury in London, Munich and New York, and he was with him when he died. In this book, the most intimate account of Mercury’s life ever written, he reveals the truth behind the scandalous rumours, the outrageous lifestyle and Mercury’s relationships with men, women and the other members of Queen. From the famous names – including Elton John, Kenny Everett, Elizabeth Taylor and Rod Stewart – to the shadowy army of lovers, fixers and hangers-on, Peter Freestone saw them all play their part in the tragi-comedy that was Freddie Mercury’s life. Freestone lived with Mercury in Europe and America for over a decade. From the East 50s apartment in New York to Kensington Lodge, the house in London where Mercury died – not to mention innumerable international hotel rooms and apartments in between – Freestone was always on hand to serve and protect the man he had first met in the Biba department store in the early 1970s. Then Queen was a largely unknown band. Soon it would be the most glitzy of glam rock bands. Freestone saw the fame arrive and with it the generosity, the excess, and the celebrity friends who came and went. “I was chief cook and bottle washer, waiter, butler, valet, secretary, amanuensis, cleaner, baby-sitter… and agony aunt,” he writes. “I shopped for him both at supermarkets and art markets, I travelled the world with him, I was with him at the highs and came through the lows with him. I saw the creative juices flow and I also saw the frustration when life wasn’t going well. I acted as his bodyguard when needed and in the end, of course, I was one of his nurses.” Freestone’s bet-selling account of a talented and extravagant star’s life and death is compelling, entertaining and ultimately, very touching. Illustrated with many photos from personal and Freestone’s own archives.

Frühlings Erwachen (Untertitel „Eine Kindertragödie“) ist ein 1891 erschienenes gesellschaftskritisch-satirisches Drama von Frank Wedekind. Das Stück ist die Geschichte mehrerer Jugendlicher, die im Zuge ihrer Pubertät mit den Problemen psychischer Instabilität und der gesellschaftlichen Inakzeptanz ihrer sexuellen Neugier konfrontiert sind. Die Uraufführung fand erst am 20. November 1906 an den Berliner Kammerspielen unter der Regie von Max Reinhardt und - ungenannt - von Hermann Bahr statt.

Iphigenie auf Tauris.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9783257230451 »Claire Zachanassian, eine amerikanische Multimillionärin, kehrt in ihr Heimatdorf Güllen zurück, um sich zu rächen: Vor Jahrzehnten hat sie aus dem Dorf fliehen müssen, denn sie bekam ein Kind von Ill, ihrem Geliebten, und dieser Ill hat damals Zeugen bestochen, die beschworen, daß auch sie etwas mit Claire gehabt hätten. Sie bietet der Stadt eine Milliarde, wenn man ihr den noch lebenden Ill tot vor die Füße legt.«

Ethan Allen Hawley, the protagonist of Steinbeck’s last novel, works as a clerk in a grocery store that his family once owned. With Ethan no longer a member of Long Island’s aristocratic class, his wife is restless, and his teenage children are hungry for the tantalizing material comforts he cannot provide. Then one day, in a moment of moral crisis, Ethan decides to take a holiday from his own scrupulous standards. Set in Steinbeck’s contemporary 1960 America, the novel explores the tenuous line between private and public honesty that today ranks it alongside his most acclaimed works of penetrating insight into the American condition. This edition features an introduction and notes by Steinbeck scholar Susan Shillinglaw.

Die junge Drehbuchautorin Leila hat ihren ersten Vertrag bei einer großen Produktionsfirma unterschrieben. Ihre tägliche und mäßig gelingende Schreibroutine kompensiert sie mit Nächten in Eckkneipen und auf Dinnerparties, die sie insgeheim langweilen. Man hält sich gegenseitig mit Erfolgsgeschichten am Leben — doch wie überlebt man wirklich?Ausgerechnet Leilas Erzfeindin Aischa schreibt auch gerade an einem Drehbuch und wird zu einer ernsthaften Konkurrenz. Und dann stellt Leila auch noch fest, dass ihre nicht ganz öffentliche Affäre Leon zur wichtigsten Inspirationsquelle für ihr Schreiben geworden ist — Witz, Verzweiflungstaten, Glamour, Selbstüberschätzung und Sinnsuche in einer scheinbar oberflächlichen Welt, deren Untiefen sich Stück für Stück beim Lesen auftun.

Now a Netflix Series It’s here, in the first volume of Patricia Highsmith’s five-book Ripley series, that we are introduced to the suave Tom Ripley, a young striver seeking to leave behind his past as an orphan bullied for being a “sissy.” Newly arrived in the heady world of Manhattan, Ripley meets a wealthy industrialist who hires him to bring his playboy son, Dickie Greenleaf, back from gallivanting in Italy. Soon Ripley’s fascination with Dickie’s debonair lifestyle turns obsessive as he finds himself enraged by Dickie’s ambivalent affections for Marge, a charming American dilettante, and Ripley begins a deadly game. “Sinister and strangely alluring,” (Mark Harris, Entertainment Weekly) The Talented Mr. Ripley serves as an unforgettable introduction to this smooth confidence man, whose talent for self-invention is as unnerving—and unnervingly revealing of the American psyche—as ever.

Off the easternmost corner of India, in the Bay of Bengal, lies the immense labyrinth of tiny islands known as the Sundarbans, where settlers live in fear of drowning tides and man-eating tigers. Piya Roy, a young American marine biologist of Indian descent, arrives in this lush, treacherous landscape in search of a rare species of river dolphin and enlists the aid of a local fisherman and a translator. Together the three of them launch into the elaborate backwaters, drawn unawares into the powerful political undercurrents of this isolated corner of the world that exact a personal toll as fierce as the tides.