Duft und Pflege

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Winner of the Jugendbuchpreis Buxtehuder Bulle 2009
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Ages 14 and up
Gewicht: 340 gr / Abmessung: 20 cm
Von Collins, Suzanne

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. But Katniss has been close to death before - and survival, for her, is second nature. "The Hunger Games" is a searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present. Welcome to the deadliest reality TV show ever.

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Reece McBride left the south after the war with nothing but ashes and memories. He's built himself a new world around the credo, "Never care deeply about anything you can't bear to lose it." He didn't reckon on a lady journalist digging into his affairs or his past. Emma Parker is a journalist, and a journalist fights for the truth. And no sweet talking scoundrel is going to make her compromise her principles. Emma's determined quest for the salvation of Reece's soul is matched only by Reece's painful struggle to be the man Emma believes him to be.
"... a powerful story of love and grief. It brings to life the horrors that war veterans face, and particularly those veterans of the civil war. The narrative was smooth and did much to move the story forward. The dialogue, while not prolific, was well done and believable. The characters were well drawn and sympathetic. A must-read for fans of historical western romance. While the Civil War is a part of the internal conflict both protagonists face, it is in an historical perspective. I recommend Unforgiven for a fast, well-told story of love and redemption."--Romance Communications

"... an intense and thoroughly enjoyable read ... well-plotted and well written. Reece and Emma are well-matched. The minor characters are well-developed and add to the story. The conflict between Reece and Emma meshes with the external plot and brings the story to a conclusion that satisfies and is absolutely right. 5 Stars and Reviewers Choice!"--Scribes World Reviews

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Rhamin is the leader of a pack. His rival, who cannot depose him, resorts to doing bad things to try, which results in a young boy, his sister and their parents entering the story.
At a time when some wolves are in need of help to survive, one of the pack discovers that it can communicate with the boy and it is the relationship that builds between the wolves and the family that leads to a dangerous and exciting adventure for them all.
With a good element of the paranormal and a couple of humourous characters as well, the story is told from the wolves' perspective, taking readers inside the pack so that they see everything through a wolf's eyes.
Rhamin is a bestselling light, fantasy adventure with lots of danger, drama and suspense. It has an unusual twist and a knife edge climax that keeps you turning the pages to the very last page.

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A follow-up to the author?s Crossing the Cultural Divide: An Englishman in Italy, which recounted the adventures and misadventures of Hugh Stalwart over a time-span of more than 20 years among the Italians, this hilarious book presents us with a more mature, more reflective, though only slightly less accident-prone Stalwart, who on the occasion of his 50th birthday feels the need to weigh things up after all his time in Italy, to establish why he still resides there and why he left his native England in the first place. His reflections are hampered, however, by a hectic work schedule in Verona, Macerata and Rome, by wacky students, by his tendency to nod off, by his fixation with rugby, and by various human beings insensitively invading his personal space. A lively array of characters includes Ham, an outspoken, muscle-bound New Yorker, and Stalwart?s temperamental, unfathomable colleague Lucia, whose fascination with this Englishman appears to go well beyond mere cross-cultural issues?

Dominic Stewart has lived in Italy since 1987. He teaches English Language and Italian-English Translation at the University of Macerata, Italy.

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Famous and highly-successful author, Maxwell Tucker is screwed. For the first time in his life, he's blocked and his next book is overdue. He's always written in long hand and he's never seen the need to learn to type. Now there's nothing to type because Max is stuck. Then Nicole Miller sneaks into his penthouse, trying to get Max off her father's back and Max has a devious idea....
Nicole's lovable, doofus father always means well, but he doesn't really think things through. With the goal of improving the once-prosperous family's finances, Alton has written a book on how to succeed in business. But in writing his self-published manual, Alton has plagiarized large sections from major author, Max Tucker's highly-acclaimed fictional novel about business practices in the United States. And now Tucker is suing.
Not knowing Tucker's dilemma, Nicole--who has always looked after her dad--takes on the job of averting this disaster, but she's shocked when Max insists she become his typist for the summer...or he'll ruin her dad.
Can a snarling, unhappy genius finish his book and still win the girl?

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