Mutmassungen über Jakob
10 best books like Mutmassungen über Jakob (Uwe Johnson): Message in a Bottle, What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, Eclipse of the Crescent Moon, Die Physiker, Letter to a Christian Nation, Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon, Deutschland, ein Wintermärchen, Sansibar oder der letzte Grund, La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag
| Author | Nicholas Sparks |
| ISBN | 0446676071 |
Shimmering with suspense and emotional intensity - takes readers on a hunt for the truth about a man and his memories, and about both the heartbreaking fragility and enormous strength of love.
Nicholas Sparks is our very best chronicler of the human heart. His stunning first novel, The Notebook,...
What the Dog Saw and Other Adventures
| Author | Malcolm Gladwell |
| ISBN | 0316078573 |
What is the difference between choking and panicking? Why are there dozens of varieties of mustard but only one variety of ketchup? What do football players teach us about how to hire teachers? What does hair dye tell us about the history of the 20th century?
In the past decade, Malcolm Gladwell...
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
| Author | Stephen Brusatte |
| ISBN | 0062490451 |
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today,...
| Author | Géza Gárdonyi |
| ISBN | 9631333728 |
Géza Gárdonyi set his Hungarian children's classic in the 16th century during the 150-year Ottoman occupation. Besides the tales of several battles, the novel details the 1552 Siege of Eger, during which Captain István Dobó's 2,000 Hungarian men, women and children inside the county's castle,...
| Author | Friedrich Dürrenmatt |
Möbius, ein umworbener weil genialer Physiker, will eine gefährliche Verstrickung von Wissenschaft und Politik verhindern und täuscht darum vor, geisteskrank zu sein, damit er in einer Klinik verschwinden und die gewünschte Kooperation (oder Kollaboration) mit der Macht boykottieren...
Letter to a Christian Nation
| Author | Sam Harris |
| ISBN | 0307265773 |
In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....
Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
| Author | Henry Marsh |
| ISBN | 1250127262 |
Henry Marsh has spent a lifetime operating on the surgical front line. There have been exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but his love for the practice of neurosurgery has never wavered.
Following the publication of his celebrated New York Times bestseller Do No Harm, Marsh retired...
| Author | Heinrich Heine |
| ISBN | 3938484144 |
Heine war davon überzeugt, daß er mit seinem "Werkchen" Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen etwas verfaßt hatte, das "mehr Furore machen wird, als die populärste Broschüre, und das dennoch den bleibenden Wert einer klassischen Dichtung haben wird". Recht hatte er. Mit seinem Versepos sollte...
| Author | Alfred Andersch |
| ISBN | 3257200552 |
In einer kleinen Stadt an der Ostsee treffen zufällig sechs Gestalten zusammen: ›Der Junge‹; Gregor, der KPD-Funktionär; Judith, die Jüdin; am Ort selbst befinden sich der Pfarrer Helander; Knudsen, der Fischer und Kutterbesitzer; als letzter die Holzplastik des ›Lesenden Klosterschülers‹....
La morte indifferente. Proust nel gulag
| Author | Józef Czapski |
| ISBN | 8883251520 |
Settembre 1939. La Polonia è invasa. Come migliaia di polacchi, Joseph Czapski è fatto prigioniero dai russi e rinchiuso nel gulag di Griazowietz. Per vincere la prostrazione e l'angoscia della loro condizione, alcuni prigionieri organizzano incontri dove "ognuno di noi parlava di ciò che meglio...
| Author | Fannie Flagg |
| ISBN | 1400065933 |
The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future.
Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems...
| Author | Marc-Uwe Kling |
| ISBN | 3550050232 |
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An epic journey will challenge them both. But the enemy they left behind is growing stronger . . .
Dara and Siv flee through the treacherous snows of Vertigon, injured and defeated, with enemies in pursuit. They don’t know when they’ll return to the mountain they love. If they make it to safety,...
