by Jakob Arjouni (1998)
Ein Jugendfreund für sechshundert Mark, ein Killer ohne Perspektive, eine Geisel im Glück, eine Suppe für Hermann und ein Jude für Jutta, zwei Maschinengewehre und ein Granatwerfer gegen den Papst, ein letzter Plan für erste Ängste. Geschichten von Hoffen und Bangen, Lieben und Versieben, von zweifelhaften Triumphen und zweifelsfreiem Scheitern, von grauen Ein- und verklärten Aussichten. So ironisch wie ernst, so traurig wie heiter, so lustig wie trocken erzählt Arjouni davon, wie im Leben vieles möglich scheint und wie wenig davon klappt.
Rafik Schami
Ein Elefant namens Bobo liebt die Maus Susu, die immer so spannende Geschichten erzählt. Das weiße Schwein Albin rettet das Huhn Lila vor der Missgunst der anderen Hühner. Und der Junge Adel entführt das traurige Kamel aus dem Zoo, um es in seine Heimat, die Wüste, zu bringen. In Rafik Schamis Geschichten bestehen Liebe und Freundschaft gegen alle Widerstände - mithilfe der Fantasie!
Sarah Fletcher
Explains the need for and purpose of good manners and the benefits that can be derived from showing consideration for others.
Debbie Taylor
A troubled boy. A psychotherapist specializing in past life regression. An unsolved murder from 100 years ago that threatens to take another life. Twelve-year-old Ben believes he is a girl. When therapist Mary suggests hypnosis, he recalls a past life as herring girl Annie. The session ends abruptly and Mary begins to suspect that Annie might have been murdered. As the therapy continues, the events surrounding Annie's final days start to emerge: her secret affair with young fisherman Sam; the violent jealousy of his rival Tom; the illegitimate pregnancy of her best friend Flo; the emerging homosexuality of her brother Jimmy. Before long Mary and Ben discover that all of these people lived and died over a century earlier in the fishing port where they live. If reincarnation happens in clusters, perhaps Ben's friends and family were involved in the dramas of 1898, and the murderer is still among them. Can they solve the mystery before tragedy strikes again?
E.E. Cummings
At the time of his death in 1962 E.E. Cummings was, next to Robert Frost, the most widely read poet in America. Combining Thoreau's controlled belligerence with the brash abandon of an uninhibited Bohemian, Cummings, together with Pound, Eliot, and William Carlos Williams, helped bring about the twentieth-century revolution in literary expression. He is recognized on the one hand as the author of some of the most beautiful lyric poems written in the English language, and on the other as one of the most inventive American poets of his time. This is the first selection from the poems of E.E. Cummings to be published since 1959, three years before his death. The one hundred and fifty-six poems selected by Richard S. Kennedy, Cummings's biographer (Dreams in the Mirror), are arranged in twelve sections, with introductions by Kennedy for each section. Also included are thirteen drawings, oils, and watercolors by Cummings, most of them never before published. The selection includes most of the favorites plus many fresh and surprising examples of Cummings's several poetic styles. The corrected texts established by George J. Firmage have been used throughout.