The Prince of Soul and The Lighthouse
10 best books like The Prince of Soul and The Lighthouse (Fredrik Brouneus): The Pilot's Wife, The President's Hat, The Grand Design, Whose Body?, Mortal Engines, The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM, The Book of Ruth, The Goblin Mirror, Bretonisches Gold, Alte weiße Männer: Ein Schlichtungsversuch
| Author | Anita Shreve |
| ISBN | 0316601950 |
A pilot's wife is taught to be prepared for the late-night knock at the door. But when Kathryn Lyons receives word that a plane flown by her husband, Jack, has exploded near the coast of Ireland, she confronts the unfathomable-one startling revelation at a time. Soon drawn into a maelstrom of publicity...
| Author | Antoine Laurain |
| ISBN | 1908313471 |
Dining alone in an elegant Parisian brasserie, accountant Daniel Mercier can hardly believe his eyes when President François Mitterrand sits down to eat at the table next to him.
Daniel’s thrill at being in such close proximity to the most powerful man in the land persists even after the...
| Author | Stephen Hawking |
| ISBN | 0553805371 |
THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are...
| Author | Dorothy L. Sayers |
| ISBN | 0061043575 |
The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a...
| Author | Philip Reeve |
| ISBN | 0060082097 |
"It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea."
The great traction city London has been skulking in the hills to avoid the bigger, faster, hungrier cities loose in the Great Hunting Ground. But...
The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life: Before 8AM
What if you could miraculously wake up tomorrow and any—or every area of your life was transformed? What would be different? Would you be happier? Healthier? More successful? In better shape? Would you have more energy? Less Stress? More Money? Better relationships? Which of your problems would...
| Author | Jane Hamilton |
| ISBN | 0385265700 |
I am really surprised by all of the negative reviews of this book. I think it is so strange that the characters are discounted as "white trash", their story thus, uninteresting or too dreary. While the story is by no means a happy one it is highly engrossing and worth telling. Hamilton's narrator Ruth is...
| Author | C.J. Cherryh |
| ISBN | 0345384768 |
To the princes of Maggiar, over-mountain was a land they knew only from gran's stories; few people in their little kingdom had ever ventured so far from their valley. But now the wizard Karoly announced that he must make the journey there to seek advice from his witch-sister. For things hadn't been right...
In den spektakulären Salzgärten auf der Guerande-Halbinsel geht gerade die Sonne unter. Der Veilchenduft des Fleur de Sel liegt in der Luft, von dem die alten Salzbauern erzählen, er erzeuge Wahnvorstellungen. So kommt es Kommissar Dupin tatsächlich vor, als aus heiterem Himmel auf ihn geschossen...
Alte weiße Männer: Ein Schlichtungsversuch
| Author | Sophie Passmann |
| ISBN | 3462052462 |
»Beweis erbracht: Unbestechlichen Feminismus gibt es auch in lustig. Sogar in sehr lustig! Großartig!« Anne Will.
Sophie Passmann ist Feministin und so gar nicht einverstanden mit der Plattitüde, der alte weiße Mann sei an allem schuld. Sie will wissen, was hinter diesem Klischeebild...
| Author | Jean-Luc Bannalec |
| ISBN | 1250061741 |
At the Central Hotel in Pont-Aven, Brittany, ninety-one-year-old manager Pierre-Louis Pennec is found murdered. Commissaire Georges Dupin and his team take on the investigation and narrow the list of suspects down to five people, including a rising political star, a longtime friend of the victim...
For fans of Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, and Adriana Trigiani, The Witches of Cambridge reveals an astonishing world where the heart's deepest secrets give way to the magic of life-changing love.
"Be careful what you wish for. If you're a witch, you might just get it."
Amandine...
Hur man förälskar sig i en man som bor i en buske
Julia lever ensam med sin katt i Wien. En dag kommer hon att bli kompis med Elfriede Jelinek och sluta med att ständigt besvara enkäter som tidsfördriv. Till dess får hon arbeta som språklärare för överambitiösa företagsledare och underpresterande ungdomar.
På en parkbänk...
Lord Peter Views the Body
In this delightful collection of Wimsey exploits, Dorothy L. Sayers reveals a gruesome, grotesque but absolutely bewitching side rarely shown in Lord Peter's full-length adventures.Lord Peter views the body in 12 tantalizing and bizarre ways in this outstanding collection. He deals with such...
Was wissen wir wirklich über uns selbst? Und was vom anderen?
In dreizehn Kapiteln zerlegt Eva Menasse die Biografie einer Frau in ihre unterschiedlichen Aspekte, zeigt sie als Mutter und Tochter, als Freundin, Mieterin und Patientin, als flüchtige Bekannte und treulose Ehefrau. Aus diesem...
| Author | Jean-Luc Bannalec |
| ISBN | 3462044966 |
Zehn Seemeilen vor Concarneau: Die sagenumwobenen Glénan-Inseln wirken mit ihrem weißen Sand und kristallklaren Wasser wie ein karibisches Paradies – bis eines schönen Maitages drei Leichen angespült werden. Wer sind die Toten am Strand? Wurden sie Opfer des heftigen nächtlichen Unwetters?...
| Author | Jean-Luc Bannalec |
| ISBN | 3462048139 |
"Roll over Maigret. Commissaire Dupin has arrived." —M.C. Beaton on Death in Brittany
"Very satisfying…along the lines of Martin Walker’s novels set in Dordogne, or M.L. Longworth’s Aix-en-Provence mysteries." —Booklist on Murder on Brittany Shores
The Missing...
| Author | Jean-Luc Bannalec |
| ISBN | 3462049372 |
Hochseefischer, Delfinforscher, Schmuggler und eine sagenumwobene Insel mitten im rauen Atlantik
Nie wieder wollte Kommissar Dupin auf dem Meer ermitteln. Doch in seinem neuen Fall verschlägt es ihn vor die äußerste Westküste der Bretagne. Auf die einzigartige Île de Sein, wo mehr Kaninchen...
| Author | Arto Paasilinna |
| ISBN | 9510214159 |
Pirjeri Ryynänen toimii nosturinkuskina Helsingissä Kluuvikadulla. Opintojakin on takana, on epäonnistunut avioliitto ja ero. On reippaan suoranuottinen avovaimo – kipakan mustasukkainen nainen. Siitä viis, Pirjerin elämä olisi järjestyksessä, jollei maailmassa olisi niin...
| Author | Lars Lenth |
| ISBN | 8248911799 |
Den norske pasienten er en humoristisk og alvorlig roman om menneskeskjebner i Bærum – bygda alle elsker å hate.
Den en gang så lovende Leo Vangen har brakt seg selv i sikkerhet på Gåsøya på vestsiden av Snarøya i Bærum, der han lever et trygt, men begrenset liv. Da den uføretrygdede...
Musik! Über ein Lebensgefühl
Keine andere Kunst nahm Roger Willemsen so persönlich wie die Musik: Sie war von früh an Komplizin, als es darum ging, das Leben zu verdichten. Willemsens Liebeserklärungen an den Jazz, seine Verbeugungen vor den klassischen Komponisten, seine scharfe Verteidigung der künstlerischen Existenz,...
Dieses exklusive E-Book ist ein besonderes Dankeschön von Stephen King an seine Fans für den herzlichen Empfang in Deutschland und Frankreich im November 2013.
George Hallas sitzt im Gefängnis. In einer Woche soll das Todesurteil an ihm vollstreckt werden. Lange Zeit hat er geschwiegen,...
| Author | Julian Barnes |
| ISBN | 1473554799 |
Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.
First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship...
| Author | John Grisham |
| ISBN | 0385340540 |
In his final hours in the Oval Office, the outgoing President grants a controversial last-minute pardon to Joel Backman, a notorious Washington power broker who has spent the last six years hidden away in a federal prison. What no one knows is that the President issues the pardon only after receiving...
| Author | Joanna Trollope |
| ISBN | 0552998702 |
For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His mother and father, Josie and Tom, have divorced amicably enough, and are set to pursue their separate paths. But other people have had to become involved - like Matthew, who has just married Josie, and Elizabeth, Tom's new friend. And even...
| Author | Katy Gardner |
| ISBN | 0141005467 |
This is the story of Gemma and me: how I lost her, I suppose. I don't usually tell it to anyone but myself; I save it for the darkest moments.
Losing Gemma, Katy's Gardners debut novel about adventure, losing your best friend, and self-discovery, has been translated into twelve languages and...
A stunning collection of stories from one of New Zealand's favourite authors.
* A young woman utters her favourite mantras to take on the world.
* An old woman lives like a diva, re-enacting Casablanca.
* In a rewrite of a play, a singer becomes a rock chick in London.
* Moby Dick is...
| Author | Elizabeth Jane Howard |
| ISBN | 0330484052 |
Born in London in 1923, Elizabeth Jane Howard was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first acclaimed novel, The Beautiful Visit, in 1950. She has written twelve highly regarded novels, most recently Falling . Her Cazalet Chronicles...
| Author | Joanna Trollope |
| ISBN | 1509823476 |
She glanced at her phone again. There were appeals from the girls, from her colleagues, a text from Steve reading with uncharacteristic imperiousness, 'Call me.' She couldn't. She couldn't call anyone . . . She leaned forward, gripping the edge of the bench, and stared at the ground. God, she thought,...
| Author | Eva Rice |
| ISBN | 1782064486 |
Marnie FitzPatrick is a reclusive sixth-former from Hertfordshire with a dysfunctional family, a penchant for Pythagoras' Theorem and an addiction to doughnuts and gin. Julie Crewe is a disillusioned maths teacher who lives vicariously through the girls she teaches, yet who once danced barefoot...
