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22. Juni 1996. Drei junge Leute feiern zusammen Mittsommer. Sie tragen Kostüme des 18. Jahrhunderts. Danach sind sie verschwunden. Etwa zur gleichen Zeit findet man Svedberg, einen Kollegen Wallanders, in seiner Wohnung mit zerschossenem Gesicht. Was hat das Verschwinden der drei Jugendlichen mit dem Mord an einem Polizisten zu tun? Und wer war dieser sympathisch unauffällige Svedberg eigentlich, der keine anderen Hobbys hatte, als die Sterne zu betrachten und Bücher über Indianer zu lesen?

Adam, der Sohn eines Schuldirektors und Vietnamveterans, kriegt nichts auf die Reihe. Er fliegt von allen Schulen, wandert von einem Psychiater zum anderen, bis die Eltern ihn aufgeben. Doch in Adam tickt eine Bombe. Überall wähnt er Feinde, gegen die es sich zu verteidigen gilt. In der Wildnis, wo er ein Schlafmohnfeld angelegt hat, hortet er Waffen. Aber es gibt jemanden, der sich in ihn verliebt. Sara, die auch gegen vieles steht: Globalisierung, Verschwörer und Staatsgewalt. Als sie ihn am Straßenrand aufgabelt, beginnt eine leidenschaftliche Liaison.

After a tumultuous first semester in seventh grade, Jed Rivers returns triumphant - or so he thinks. After embracing his undeadness to put his archenemy Robbie in his place, the 13-year-old zombie thought he'd have a much easier time surviving the second semester relatively intact. That was before he came across the antizombie propaganda published by the mysterious NZN Network, a group trying to push Hollywood stereotypes as the truth.

"Es war einmal": Grimms Märchen werden schon seit über 200 Jahren erzählt und nicht nur von Kindern geliebt. Besonders zur Weihnachtszeit, wenn es draußen kalt und drinnen besinnlich wird, erfreuen sich auch heute noch Jung und Alt an den Märchen der Brüder Grimm. Schneewittchen, Hänsel und Gretel, Sterntaler und Frau Holle gehören dann zum Weihnachtsprogramm.

Mail Order Bride: Lord, Please Heal My Sick Cowboy takes place shortly after the Civil War and is an inspirational story of love and faith in God’s healing touch. After responding to a mail order bride advertisement, Carissa can’t wait to meet her hopeful husband. She strongly feels that the Lord is leading her to the Californian cowboy (Joshua) and his large ranch. After finally arriving, Joshua shows her a love and happiness she has never felt before.

In addition to his work as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, and consultant, for the last 16 years August Turak worked alongside the Trappist monks of Mepkin Abbey, watching firsthand as they undertook new enterprises and sustained an incredibly successful business practice. Service and selflessness are at the heart of this 1,500-year-old monastic tradition’s remarkable business success, an ancient though immensely relevant economic model that preserves what is positive and productive about capitalism while transcending its ethical limitations and internal contradictions.

Jed's not your typical middle school geek. He is, to use the politically correct term, cardiovascularly challenged. And while his parents have attempted to shield him from the implications of being different for as long as they could (Jed was eight and at a friend's sister's birthday party when he blew his lips off onto the cake in front of everyone, finally prompting the "big talk" from his parents and an emergency superglue repair by his dad), seventh grade at Pine Hollow Middle School as a target of Robbie the supreme school bully and his pack of moronic toadies is rapidly becoming unbearable.

It’s 1895 in New York City. Hard times have hit, and life isn’t going to get noticeably better any time soon. Almost-13-year-old Chipper Carey is running with the Midnight Rats kid gang just to survive. Ma died of consumption when he was six. He knows Ma wouldn’t have approved. But what ultimately has to matter is reality, and without the Midnight Rats, Chipper would have nothing. He’d starve. Fortunately for Chipper, fate takes over and introduces him to the wealthy Miss Sibley.

At 14, Fergy is tired of his family’s lifestyle. He’s tired of living in a van. He’s sick of peddling pamphlets of his father’s writings. And most of all he hates stealing things, even though J. P. says it’s all right to "reclaim" necessities from society. Fergy listens to J.P. talk about the evils of "the system," and gradually Fergy realizes that he no longer respects his father. Early one morning, with Ooma in tow, Fergy runs away. Gussie’s wealthy parents live in Boston, and Fergy hopes that if he can find them, he and Ooma can have the "regular and normal" life he longs for.

Back before the stock market crash, Jack’s dad had been working steadily, and their family had had plenty of money. But now, in the middle of the 1930s depression, there isn’t much work for a trombone player - just a gig down in New York City once in a while. So 14-year-old Jack is doing his best to help out. He’s lucky enough to get a weekend job at the town boat club where the “rich folks” hang out, but Jack wishes his dad would at least try to get a regular job.

At 13, George Stable still hasn't made his mark on the world. Oh, he plays the guitar and sings a little. And he appeared on television for six whole seconds once. A couple of years ago, he even wrote a sort of book, called The Teddy Bear Habit. But nothing really exciting has happened to him. But now, it looks as if his big chance has finally come. This agent of his, Woody Woodward, who discovered him during his six-second TV career, has come up with a plan to make him a hot new guitar-playing teenage star.

Twelve-year-old George Stable wants to be a rock star someday, but he gets horrible stage fright - unless he has his old teddy bear with him. Hiding the teddy in his guitar seems like a brilliant idea. Then George discovers that someone has hidden stolen jewels in the stuffing of his beloved bear. George's embarrassing "teddy bear habit" becomes the center of a life-and-death chase through Manhattan. Can George survive long enough to make his first TV appearance?

Paulie Horvath is never going to be a good student like his brother, John, never going to follow his hardworking father into the plumbing trade, never going to ease his mother's mind by passing tests or cleaning up his room. But once he hears jazz by accident from the basement of a speakeasy, he knows exactly what he will do: learn that music and make it his life. Jazz is all around in gangland Chicago, but not so easy for a 12-year-old to find, especially when his father disapproves of it. Paulie has to lie, beg, and steal just to get time for lessons, time to practice, time to slip across town to see stars like King Oliver and Louis Armstrong.

Famous for taking her readers to undiscovered places, Susie Bright has changed the rules for writing about sex. Erotica is no longer under-the-covers reading; it's thrilling literature that showcases the best writing around.

In The Best American Erotica, Volume 11, we learn about the very first penis in science-fiction hotshot Geoffrey Landis's bawdy fairy tale; Touré's breathless prose poem sets us up with an evening's worth of erotic visitors; and in Jerry Stahl's story, a man recalls his boyhood fascination with his mother's friends and their elaborate undergarments.

In "The Time Machine", Davis offers us both the story of the reunion and the collectively remembered story of his classmates' senior year. In 1962, Waynesville, North Carolina, was that small town where the school principal also served as a teacher, the football coach, and the Sunday-school superintendent. One classmate spends his time in the bar wishing for a time machine, so he can go back to his teenage years with his accumulated experience.

Meet an earnest first-grader, intent upon convincing his hill-country parents that other children are treated to a party each year on their birthday, that they invite friends, eat cake - and receive presents. Meet also his equally intent mother, who is determined not to open this can of worms, not with the 128 cousins who might start doing the same thing. Both of them step out of this luminous story that turns the concept of "good neighbors" upside down.

Nein, Kleiner Pelz will nicht größer werden und dem Onkel zur Hand gehen, Latten sägen, nageln, anstreichen. Es ist viel schöner zu spielen, auf Bäume zu klettern und zusammen mit Konnipelz ein Floß zu bauen. Fast wäre er im Moor versunken, wenn da nicht die alte Trulla gekommen wäre. Sie kochen Allerleisuppe, unterhalten sich und schließlich geht Kleiner Pelz zum ersten Mal alleine nachts durch den Wald. Und dann - ganz unmerklich - wird aus Kleiner Pelz ein Kallepelz.

Das wohl bekannteste Märchen aus 1001 Nacht: Der Holzfäller Ali Baba sieht zufällig, wie eine Räuberbande ihr Diebesgut in einem Berg versteckt, der sich dank eines Zauberspruches öffnen und schließen lässt. Ali Baba und sein Bruder bedienen sich an dem Schatz, doch als der Bruder von den Räubern erwischt wird und sie nun auch hinter Ali Baba her sind, ist es nur der klugen und schönen Sklavin Mardschana zu verdanken, dass die Räuber bezwungen werden können.

Eine wunderbare Geschichte für die ganze Familie! In Drahtigistan lebt die Drachendame Gertrud, die schlechte Laune hat und deswegen die Bäume anzündet. König LIX weiß nicht mehr weiter, daher schickt er den Dorfschmied Joshua aus, der versuchen soll, dem Drachen Vernunft beizubringen. Joshua jedoch erkennt sehr bald, dass es nicht Vernunft ist, die Gertrud helfen wird. Stattdessen braucht sie ein Monokel, dass gegen ihre Kurzsichtigkeit helfen soll. Und auch die Einsamkeit der Drachendame möchte Joshua bekämpfen!