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        April 2022

        Pinocchio

        by Attilio Cassinelli, Vivien Danne

        Der kleine Pinocchio gerät immer wieder in Schwierigkeiten. Gut, dass er die blaue Fee hat, die ihm immer im richtigen Moment hilft – zum Beispiel, wenn vom vielen Lügen seine Nase mal wieder viel zu lang geworden ist. Carlo Collodis weltbekannte Geschichten nacherzählt vom Star der italienischen Kinderbuchillustration. Die beliebtesten Märchen und Kindergeschichten, leicht und verständlich erzählt im unverwechselbaren Stil von Attilio: kurze Texte, klares Design und helle Farben. Perfekt zum Vorlesen für Kleinkinder.

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        Children's & YA
        December 2019

        The Middle

        by Richa Jha and Eva Sanchez Gomez

        The Middle is a story of a journey within a journey. A voracious reader, Azma, whose mind is full of questions as she reads, finds that the more books she consumes, the more the whys and hows in them consume her. One night, a torn scrap of paper floats into her room, carrying an incomplete line within its crinkles. She desperately searches for any missing words to complete the lonely phrase but failing at each attempt, she finally turns to writing her own beginning and end.  The pages of The Middle are filled with surreal creatures - formidable, terrifying, looming – and these represent the fears and doubts of a mind struggling to make sense of the worlds captured within those books that only partially satisfy her as a reader. Azma embarks on an incomplete journey, ready to create its origin and end, finally realising the answers to all her impossible questions can only come to her when she writes her own version of the story. It is only then that the haunting creatures begin to soften and harmlessly melt away into themselves. Richa Jha’s lyrical prose and Eva Sanchez Gomez’s breathtaking visual poetry come together to narrate a tale that is both stunning and thought-provoking. For all the restless creative souls out there, The Middle presents an all-familiar trajectory of creating something new.

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        The Arts
        March 2013

        Space and being in contemporary French cinema

        by James S. Williams

        This book brings together for the first time five French directors who have established themselves as among the most exciting and significant working today: Bruno Dumont, Robert Guédiguian, Laurent Cantet, Abdellatif Kechiche, and Claire Denis. Whatever their chosen habitats or shifting terrains, each of these highly distinctive auteurs has developed unique strategies of representation and framing that reflect a profound investment in the geophysical world. The book proposes that we think about cinematographic space in its many different forms simultaneously (screenspace, landscape, narrative space, soundscape, spectatorial space). Through a series of close and original readings of selected films, it posits a new 'space of the cinematic subject'. Accessible and wide-ranging, this volume opens up new areas of critical enquiry in the expanding interdisciplinary field of space studies. It will be of immediate interest to students and researchers working not only in film studies and film philosophy, but also in French/Francophone studies, postcolonial studies, gender and cultural studies. Listen to James S. Williams speaking about his book http://bit.ly/13xCGZN. (Copy and paste the link into your browser) ;

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        K u n s t / A n g s t

        by DAVID BAYLES & TED ORLAND

        K u n s t / A n g s t     EIN ÜBERLEBENSHANDBUCH FÜR DEN KÜNSTLER Von DAVID BAYLES & TED ORLAND   Worum geht es bei Kunst? Wohin bewegt sie sich? Welche Widerstände gibt es?   DAS SIND DIE FRAGEN, AUF DIE ES ANKOMMT, wiederkehrende Fragen, die sich in jedem Stadium der künstlerischen Entwicklung stellen. Sie sind der Ursprung für dieses Kompendium scharfsinniger Beobachtungen.   Kunst & Angst erforscht, wie Kunst geschaffen wird, die Gründe, warum Kunstwerke oft nicht entstehen und die Art der Schwierigkeiten, die so viele Künstler dazu bringt, auf der Wegstrecke aufzugeben. Dieses Buch handelt davon, was du fühlst, wenn du in deinem Atelier oder im Lehrsaal sitzt, du an der Töpferscheibe oder am Keyboard, vor der Staffelei oder hinter deiner Kamera stehst und du versuchst, das Werk, das dir bestimmt ist, zu schaffen. Es geht darum, dass du deine Zukunft in die Hand nimmst, den Freien Willen über Vorherbestimmung, die Wahl vor den Zufall stellst. Es geht darum, dein eigenes Werk zu finden.

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        The Wrecking Crew

        by Hugo N. Gerst

        g on for a wild ride! The craziest “coalition” in history is out to destroy ISIS!Forty years ago, Don Tommy Aiello was the most feared mafia leader in the United States. Each week, he counted the number of bodies he was responsible for killing. Each week, he counted the number of women he had slept with. But that was forty years ago. Today, he counts the number of pills he takes and the pennies left over from his small Social Security check so he might buy a cheap set of dentures – not covered by Medicare. Life is pretty awful. Twenty miles away, Pedro Sanchez, twenty, has already done two of his three strikes in prison. He can’t find a job. His seventeen-year-old girlfriend has just told him she’s pregnant. Life is pretty awful.Sister Maureen Richards is about to be dumped from her position as head of a prestigious private girls’ school. And FBI middle-manager Dennis O’Brien, 63, knows he’s on the way out the door. But he’s got an idea, which he shares with Ezra Caen, the hero of Gerstl’s Assassin. Five thousand miles away, a group of malcontents calling themselves the Islamic State (ISIS) is stirring up a worldwide bag of problems. Boots on the ground can’t stop them, aircraft in the air have no effect. The U.S. is spending $14 million a day and going nowhere.What if 15 “retired” Mafia Dons under the leadership of Sister Maureen are tasked with destroying ISIS? In exchange, their criminal records will be erased, and each will get $75,000 tax free a year for the rest of their lives. Their “army” will consist of young Hispanics who aren’t going anywhere except to the bottom … they’ll be given a four-year free college education and guaranteed government employment. Of course, the good, moral U.S. of A. can’t be seen to have a hand in this, so it will all be funded through La Società di Religione – the Vatican Bank.Hugo N. Gerstl, international bestselling author, steps into a wacky world that only his imagination could devise. Beneath the outrageous hilarity lies a much more serious message – how seniors we’ve put out to pasture, and those who are socially disadvantaged, become “invisible” in our world. As this splendidly entertaining novel makes clear, “Old age and treachery will defeat youth and vigor every time.” Published By Pangæa Publishing Group, 2019. 252 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm

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        January 1987

        Von Meister Eckardt bis Carlos Castaneda

        Reise durch eine andere Wirklichkeit

        by Ulrich, Hans E

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        October 2010

        I fiori campestri di Posidippo

        Ricerche sulla lingua e lo stile di Posidippo di Pella

        by Di Nino, Margherita Maria

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        The General History of Chinese Costume

        by Author: Liu Yonghua Illustrator: Liu Yonghua

        The General History of Clothing holds a large time span from the ancient Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the present, and the splendid clothing culture of China appears on the scroll of three meters. The scroll is designed to present on both sides. The front side shows the features of different clothes in different ages with the history of its handcraft, color blending, accessory and military. The back side shows the clothes features of each of china’s 56 nationalities. The Readers can lead the children to appreciate different culture charm and nourish the children’s cultural confident by researching different clothes.

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        April 2017

        Sonst knallt´s!

        Warum wir Wirtschaft und Politik radikal neu denken müssen

        by Werner, Götz W.

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        January 2017

        Abenteuer Freiheit

        Ein Wegweiser für unsichere Zeiten

        by Carlo Strenger

        Nachdem Carlo Strenger in »Zivilisierte Verachtung« gezeigt hat, weshalb es westlichen Gesellschaften heute oft schwerfällt, ihre Werte selbstbewusst zu verteidigen, wendet er sich in seinem neuen Buch der individuellen Seite dieser Verunsicherung zu: Warum leiden so viele Menschen unter Depressionen und einer erdrückenden Angst vor dem Scheitern? Warum boomen Heilslehren, die uns den Weg zum wahren Selbst weisen wollen? All das hat laut Strenger, damit zu tun, dass es sich bei der Idee, es gäbe so etwas wie ein Grundrecht auf müheloses Glück, um einen Mythos handelt. Ausgehend von Denkern wie Spinoza, Nietzsche und Freud legt er dar, dass lange die Überzeugung vorherrschte, Konflikte und Scheitern gehörten zur menschlichen Natur. Daher, so schließt er aus den Biografien von Künstlern wie James Joyce, Pablo Picasso und Francis Ford Coppola, müssen wir wieder lernen, dass Freiheit ein lebenslanges Abenteuer ist: riskant, aber zugleich viel interessanter, als und die Massenkultur heute weismachen will.

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        July 2001

        Iwan S. Turgenjew

        Eine Biographie

        by Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, V. A. Brobor, Peter Schwaar

        Peter Schwaar, geboren 1947 in Zürich, dort Gymnasium und Abitur, literatur- und musikwissenschaftliche Studien in Zürich und Berlin, Redakteur Kultur und Lokales beim Zürcher Tages-Anzeiger. Seit 1987 freier Übersetzer und Autor. Übertragungen aus dem Spanischen von Eduardo Mendoza, Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Tomás Eloy Martínez, Juan José Millás, David Trueba, Zoé Valdés, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Francisco Ayala, Javier Tomeo, Álvaro Mutis, Jorge Ibargüengoitia u.a. Lebt in Barcelona.

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        September 1993

        Die Liebe zur Mechanik

        Roman

        by Carlo Emilio Gadda, Marianne Schneider

        Wenige Jahre vor seinem Tod stimmte Carlo Emilio Gadda (1893 – 1973) der Veröffentlichung seines ersten in den Jahren 1928 und 1929 sorgfältig erarbeiteten, jedoch unvollendet gebliebenen Romans zu. Es ist eine Geschichte aus dem ersten Weltkrieg, deren drei Schlußkapitel der Autor noch geschrieben, aber nicht mehr in das Romanganze integriert hat.

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