Author: johanna willkommen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711553761
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 82
Book Description
Alles um dich herum ist dunkel. Dunkel, weil die Dunkelheit das Licht in dir überschattet hat. Deine Augen haben schon lange ihren Glanz verloren. Doch trotzdem stehst du jeden Morgen mit einem Lächeln auf. Mit einem Lächeln, damit keiner sieht, wie sehr du leidest. Aber tief in dir ist alles zerbrochen. Du bist am Boden, gefangen in deinem Gedankenkarussell, aus dem es kein sichtbares Entkommen gibt. Alles dreht sich. Dreht sich auf ewig nur im Kreis. Dreht sich immer um das eine, dreht sich immer um dasselbe. Alles, was du willst ist, dass es endlich endet. Dass endlich all das endet, was dich in den Wahnsinn treibt. Endet, weil das leise Echo der Stimmen in deinem Kopf dann endlich verstummen würde. Endet, weil deine Seele hier nicht zu Hause ist, weil das Licht in dir schon lange erloschen ist. Doch dann flimmt da irgendwo ein kleines Licht auf - ein kleines Licht, das irgendwann auch wieder deins entfacht. Ein Licht, das zu deinem wird, weil sein Funke auf dich übergesprungen ist.
Wo viel LICHT ist, da ist auch viel SCHATTEN.... Life is a Story - story.one
Author: johanna willkommen
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711553761
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 82
Book Description
Alles um dich herum ist dunkel. Dunkel, weil die Dunkelheit das Licht in dir überschattet hat. Deine Augen haben schon lange ihren Glanz verloren. Doch trotzdem stehst du jeden Morgen mit einem Lächeln auf. Mit einem Lächeln, damit keiner sieht, wie sehr du leidest. Aber tief in dir ist alles zerbrochen. Du bist am Boden, gefangen in deinem Gedankenkarussell, aus dem es kein sichtbares Entkommen gibt. Alles dreht sich. Dreht sich auf ewig nur im Kreis. Dreht sich immer um das eine, dreht sich immer um dasselbe. Alles, was du willst ist, dass es endlich endet. Dass endlich all das endet, was dich in den Wahnsinn treibt. Endet, weil das leise Echo der Stimmen in deinem Kopf dann endlich verstummen würde. Endet, weil deine Seele hier nicht zu Hause ist, weil das Licht in dir schon lange erloschen ist. Doch dann flimmt da irgendwo ein kleines Licht auf - ein kleines Licht, das irgendwann auch wieder deins entfacht. Ein Licht, das zu deinem wird, weil sein Funke auf dich übergesprungen ist.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3711553761
Category : Fiction
Languages : de
Pages : 82
Book Description
Alles um dich herum ist dunkel. Dunkel, weil die Dunkelheit das Licht in dir überschattet hat. Deine Augen haben schon lange ihren Glanz verloren. Doch trotzdem stehst du jeden Morgen mit einem Lächeln auf. Mit einem Lächeln, damit keiner sieht, wie sehr du leidest. Aber tief in dir ist alles zerbrochen. Du bist am Boden, gefangen in deinem Gedankenkarussell, aus dem es kein sichtbares Entkommen gibt. Alles dreht sich. Dreht sich auf ewig nur im Kreis. Dreht sich immer um das eine, dreht sich immer um dasselbe. Alles, was du willst ist, dass es endlich endet. Dass endlich all das endet, was dich in den Wahnsinn treibt. Endet, weil das leise Echo der Stimmen in deinem Kopf dann endlich verstummen würde. Endet, weil deine Seele hier nicht zu Hause ist, weil das Licht in dir schon lange erloschen ist. Doch dann flimmt da irgendwo ein kleines Licht auf - ein kleines Licht, das irgendwann auch wieder deins entfacht. Ein Licht, das zu deinem wird, weil sein Funke auf dich übergesprungen ist.
Knight's Shadow
Author: Sebastien de Castell
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
ISBN: 1623653991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Following his beloved debut, Traitor's Blade, Sebastien de Castell returns with volume two of his fast-paced fantasy adventure series, inspired by the swashbuckling action and witty banter of The Three Musketeers. Knight's Shadow continues the series with a thrilling and dark tale of heroism and betrayal in a country crushed under the weight of its rulers' corruption. A few days after the horrifying murder of a duke and his family, Falcio val Mond, swordsman and First Cantor of the Greatcoats, begins a deadly pursuit to capture the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies. As chaos and civil war begin to overtake the country, Falcio has precious little time left to stop those determined to destroy his homeland.
Publisher: Jo Fletcher Books
ISBN: 1623653991
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Following his beloved debut, Traitor's Blade, Sebastien de Castell returns with volume two of his fast-paced fantasy adventure series, inspired by the swashbuckling action and witty banter of The Three Musketeers. Knight's Shadow continues the series with a thrilling and dark tale of heroism and betrayal in a country crushed under the weight of its rulers' corruption. A few days after the horrifying murder of a duke and his family, Falcio val Mond, swordsman and First Cantor of the Greatcoats, begins a deadly pursuit to capture the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in mortal danger from a poison administered as a final act of revenge by one of his deadliest enemies. As chaos and civil war begin to overtake the country, Falcio has precious little time left to stop those determined to destroy his homeland.
The Walls Around Us
Author: Nova Ren Suma
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616205733
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
SPECIAL PREVIEW! “Ori’s dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She’s dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me.” The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement. On the inside, within the walls of a girls’ juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom. Tying these two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries. We hear Amber’s story and Violet’s, and through them Orianna’s, first from one angle, then from another, until gradually we begin to get the whole picture--which is not necessarily the one that either Amber or Violet wants us to see. Nova Ren Suma tells a supernatural tale of guilt and innocence, and what happens when one is mistaken for the other. Praise for Imaginary Girls: “A surreal and dreamy world where magical thinking is carried to a chilling extreme.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise for 17 & Gone: “Suma’s exquisite sentence-level writing and fine eye for creepy detail are in abundant evidence.” —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Algonquin Books
ISBN: 1616205733
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
SPECIAL PREVIEW! “Ori’s dead because of what happened out behind the theater, in the tunnel made out of trees. She’s dead because she got sent to that place upstate, locked up with those monsters. And she got sent there because of me.” The Walls Around Us is a ghostly story of suspense told in two voices--one still living and one long dead. On the outside, there’s Violet, an eighteen-year-old dancer days away from the life of her dreams when something threatens to expose the shocking truth of her achievement. On the inside, within the walls of a girls’ juvenile detention center, there’s Amber, locked up for so long she can’t imagine freedom. Tying these two worlds together is Orianna, who holds the key to unlocking all the girls’ darkest mysteries. We hear Amber’s story and Violet’s, and through them Orianna’s, first from one angle, then from another, until gradually we begin to get the whole picture--which is not necessarily the one that either Amber or Violet wants us to see. Nova Ren Suma tells a supernatural tale of guilt and innocence, and what happens when one is mistaken for the other. Praise for Imaginary Girls: “A surreal and dreamy world where magical thinking is carried to a chilling extreme.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Praise for 17 & Gone: “Suma’s exquisite sentence-level writing and fine eye for creepy detail are in abundant evidence.” —Kirkus Reviews
A Slap in the Face
Author: Abbas Khider
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857425355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now in paperback, the touching, timely story of an Iraqi refugee in Germany. In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Hussein's defeat. But Hussein wasn't the only reason Karim left, and as Abbas Khider unfolds his story, we learn both the secret struggles he faced in his homeland and the battles with prejudice, distrust, poverty, and bureaucracy he has to endure in his attempts to make a new life in Germany. As he erupts in frustration at his caseworker and finally forces her to listen to his story, we get an account of a contemporary life upended by politics and violence, told with warmth and humor that, while surprising us, does nothing to lessen the outrages Karim describes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857425355
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now in paperback, the touching, timely story of an Iraqi refugee in Germany. In our era of mass migration, much of it driven by war and its aftermath, A Slap in the Face could not be more timely. It tells the story of Karim, an Iraqi refugee living in Germany whose right to asylum has been revoked in the wake of Saddam Hussein's defeat. But Hussein wasn't the only reason Karim left, and as Abbas Khider unfolds his story, we learn both the secret struggles he faced in his homeland and the battles with prejudice, distrust, poverty, and bureaucracy he has to endure in his attempts to make a new life in Germany. As he erupts in frustration at his caseworker and finally forces her to listen to his story, we get an account of a contemporary life upended by politics and violence, told with warmth and humor that, while surprising us, does nothing to lessen the outrages Karim describes.
Fury
Author: Elizabeth Miles
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857072021
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Sometimes sorry isn't enough. Em Winters and Chase Singer discover that a little guilt isn't the only consequence of doing wrong. After Em hooks up with her best friend's boyfriend and Chase's secret harassment of a social outcast spirals out of control, three mysterious Furies - paranormal creatures that often assume the form of beautiful women - come to town to make sure that Em and Chase get what they deserve. Not everyone will survive - and those who do will discover there are worse punishments than death. But when Em befriends outcast Drea and learns more about who and what the Furies really are, she becomes resolved above all to take them down and stop their plans. Little does Em know that, by confronting the Furies, she could become inextricably bound to them for life. "Achingly gorgeous, Fury seduced me" - Lauren Kate, author of the bestselling Fallen series. Book 1 in the Fury trilogy
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0857072021
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
Sometimes sorry isn't enough. Em Winters and Chase Singer discover that a little guilt isn't the only consequence of doing wrong. After Em hooks up with her best friend's boyfriend and Chase's secret harassment of a social outcast spirals out of control, three mysterious Furies - paranormal creatures that often assume the form of beautiful women - come to town to make sure that Em and Chase get what they deserve. Not everyone will survive - and those who do will discover there are worse punishments than death. But when Em befriends outcast Drea and learns more about who and what the Furies really are, she becomes resolved above all to take them down and stop their plans. Little does Em know that, by confronting the Furies, she could become inextricably bound to them for life. "Achingly gorgeous, Fury seduced me" - Lauren Kate, author of the bestselling Fallen series. Book 1 in the Fury trilogy
Songs & Poems
Author: Robert Burns
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description
The Flying Mountain
Author: Christoph Ransmayr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857424747
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Flying Mountain tells the story of two brothers who leave the southwest coast of Ireland on an expedition to Transhimalaya, the land of Kham, and the mountains of eastern Tibet--looking for an untamed, unnamed mountain that represents perhaps the last blank spot on the map. As they advance toward their goal, the brothers find their past, and their rivalry, inescapable, inflecting every encounter and decision as they are drawn farther and farther from the world they once knew"--Jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780857424747
Category : Brothers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The Flying Mountain tells the story of two brothers who leave the southwest coast of Ireland on an expedition to Transhimalaya, the land of Kham, and the mountains of eastern Tibet--looking for an untamed, unnamed mountain that represents perhaps the last blank spot on the map. As they advance toward their goal, the brothers find their past, and their rivalry, inescapable, inflecting every encounter and decision as they are drawn farther and farther from the world they once knew"--Jacket.
Fictions of Home
Author: Martin Mühlheim
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3772056377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. The book also maintains that postmodern celebrations of nomadism and exile tend to be incapable of providing an alternative to conservative, xenophobic appropriations of home. In detailed readings of one film and six novels, a view is developed according to which home, as a spatio-temporal imaginary, is rooted in our species being, and as such constitutes the inevitable starting point for any progressive politics.
Publisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3772056377
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
This study aims to counter right-wing discourses of belonging. It discusses key theoretical concepts for the study of home, focusing in particular on Marxist, feminist, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic contributions. The book also maintains that postmodern celebrations of nomadism and exile tend to be incapable of providing an alternative to conservative, xenophobic appropriations of home. In detailed readings of one film and six novels, a view is developed according to which home, as a spatio-temporal imaginary, is rooted in our species being, and as such constitutes the inevitable starting point for any progressive politics.
Sand
Author: Wolfgang Herrndorf
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Set in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time. North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara. Four people are murdered in a hippie commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. . . . This darkly sophisticated literary thriller, the last novel Wolfgang Herrndorf completed before his untimely death in 2013, is, in the words of Michael Maar, “the greatest, grisliest, funniest, and wisest novel of the past decade.” Certainly no reader will ever forget it.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
Set in the aftermath of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, this darkly sophisticated literary thriller by one of Germany's most celebrated writers is now available in the US for the first time. North Africa, 1972. While the world is reeling from the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, a series of mysterious events is playing out in the Sahara. Four people are murdered in a hippie commune, a suitcase full of money disappears, and a pair of unenthusiastic detectives are assigned to investigate. In the midst of it all, a man with no memory tries to evade his armed pursuers. Who are they? What do they want from him? If he could just recall his own identity he might have a chance of working it out. . . . This darkly sophisticated literary thriller, the last novel Wolfgang Herrndorf completed before his untimely death in 2013, is, in the words of Michael Maar, “the greatest, grisliest, funniest, and wisest novel of the past decade.” Certainly no reader will ever forget it.
German Culture through Film
Author: Robert C. Reimer
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 158510857X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
German Culture through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema is an English-language text that serves equally well in courses on modern German film, in courses on general film studies, in courses that incorporate film as a way to study culture, and as an engaging resource for scholars, students, and devotees of cinema and film history. In its second edition, German Culture through Film expands on the first edition, providing additional chapters with context for understanding the era in which the featured films were produced. Thirty-three notable German films are arranged in seven chronological chapters, spanning key moments in German film history, from the silent era to the present. Each chapter begins with an introduction that focuses on the history and culture surrounding films of the relevant period. Sections within chapters are each devoted to one particular film, providing film credits, a summary of the story, background information, an evaluation, questions and activities to encourage diverse interpretations, a list of related films, and bibliographical information on the films discussed.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 158510857X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
German Culture through Film: An Introduction to German Cinema is an English-language text that serves equally well in courses on modern German film, in courses on general film studies, in courses that incorporate film as a way to study culture, and as an engaging resource for scholars, students, and devotees of cinema and film history. In its second edition, German Culture through Film expands on the first edition, providing additional chapters with context for understanding the era in which the featured films were produced. Thirty-three notable German films are arranged in seven chronological chapters, spanning key moments in German film history, from the silent era to the present. Each chapter begins with an introduction that focuses on the history and culture surrounding films of the relevant period. Sections within chapters are each devoted to one particular film, providing film credits, a summary of the story, background information, an evaluation, questions and activities to encourage diverse interpretations, a list of related films, and bibliographical information on the films discussed.