Matt Haig
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Stell dir vor, auf dem Weg ins Jenseits gäbe es eine riesige Bibliothek, gesäumt mit all den Leben, die du hättest führen können. Buch für Buch gefüllt mit den Wegen, die deiner hätten sein können. Hier findet sich Nora Seed wieder, nachdem sie aus lauter Verzweiflung beschlossen hat, sich das Leben zu nehmen. An diesem Ort, an dem die Uhrzeiger immer auf Mitternacht stehen, eröffnet sich für Nora plötzlich die Möglichkeit herauszufinden,...
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A TRULY WILD ADVENTURE! Twelve-year-old Evie has a talent. She can HEAR what animals are thinking and she can TALK to them with her mind. When Evie goes on a trip to the Amazon rainforest, her powers are put to the test. She makes friends with pink river dolphins, must save an injured sloth, and discovers the secret life of a jaguar. Soon she sees that the jungle is in serious and deadly danger, and comes up with a rather risky plan to help save it...
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Wie weit geht ein Vater, um seine Tochter zu beschützen?
Nach dem tragischen Tod seines Sohnes Reuben scheint es dem Antiquitätenhändler Terence Cave endgültig, als sei seine Liebe verflucht: Seine Mutter hat den Freitod gewählt, seine Frau starb als Mordopfer. Einzig Reubens Zwillingsschwester Bryony ist noch übrig - und Terence schwört sich, seine wunderschöne Tochter mit all seiner Kraft vor den Gefahren dieser Welt zu schützen. Koste...
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Wie weit geht ein Vater, um seine Tochter zu beschützen?
Nach dem tragischen Tod seines Sohnes Reuben scheint es dem Antiquitätenhändler Terence Cave endgültig, als sei seine Liebe verflucht: Seine Mutter hat den Freitod gewählt, seine Frau starb als Mordopfer. Einzig Reubens Zwillingsschwester Bryony ist noch übrig - und Terence schwört sich, seine wunderschöne Tochter mit all seiner Kraft vor den Gefahren dieser Welt zu schützen. Koste...
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A very special edition of Matt Haig's bestselling children's story, read by Olivia Colman. Proceeds from the sale of this exclusive Audible edition will be donated to Unicef UK. From number one bestselling author Matt Haig comes a hilarious and heartwarming story. Wherever she is, whatever the day, She only has one kind of thing to say. Just as cats go miaow and cows go moo, The Truth Pixie can only say things that are true. A very funny and lovable...
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Eleven-year-old Evie has a talent. A SUPERTALENT. A talent that can let her HEAR the thoughts of an elephant, and make friends with a dog and a sparrow. The only problem is, this talent is dangerous. VERY dangerous. That's what her dad says. So when she frees the school rabbit from its tiny hutch, she vows to keep her talent a secret. But after a face-to-face encounter with a lion, things start to go very wrong. Her dad - and every animal in town...
7) Die Radleys
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Die Radleys
gelesen von Sascha Rotermund
Auf den ersten Blick wirken sie wie eine ganz normale Familie: Vater Peter ist Arzt, Mutter Helen kümmert sich um ihre beiden pubertierenden Kinder Clara und Rowan. Doch warum erstickt Peter fast am thailändischen Salat, warum nimmt jedes Tier vor Clara Reißaus und warum kann Rowan nachts nicht schlafen und hat trotz Lichtschutzfaktor 60 Probleme mit der Haut? Das Geheimnis der Radleys ist so unfassbar...
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Academy Award winner Olivia Colman returns to tell the enchanting adventure of Aada and the Truth Pixie in the sequel to the bestselling children's story by Matt Haig. Proceeds from the sale of this audiobook will be donated to Unicef UK.
New school. New friends. Same old pixie.
'Don't try to be something
You really are not.
Your one true self
Is the best thing you've got.'
In this heartwarming adventure. the Truth Pixie and her human...
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It isn't always easy, growing up as a human in Elfhelm, even if your adoptive parents are the newly married Father Christmas and Mary Christmas. For one thing, Elf School can be annoying when you have to sing Christmas songs everyday - even in July - and when you fail all your toy-making tests. Also it can get very, very cold. But when the jealous Easter Bunny and his rabbit army launch an attack to stop Christmas, it's up to Amelia, her new family...
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Die hier versammelte Gedanken, Erinnerungen und Beobachtungen sind mal Ausdruck von Verzweiflung, mal voller Hoffnung - den Autor selbst haben sie durch die schwere Zeit seiner Depression getragen und ihm Halt gegeben. Dabei zeugen sie nicht nur von einem tiefen Verständnis seiner eigenen Gefühlswelt, sondern sind zugleich so berührende wie anregende Erkenntnisse darüber, was uns alle in unserem Innersten verbindet.
Matt Haigs Hörbuch ist ein...
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"'Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices ... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?' A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive...
12) How to stop time
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history -- performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher -- the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
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"When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan. Among the rugged hills and golden beaches of the island, Grace searches for answers about her friend's life, and how it ended. What she uncovers is stranger than she could have dreamed. But to dive into this impossible truth, Grace...
14) The comfort book
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"A small book for anyone in search of hope, looking for a path to a more meaningful life, or in need of encouragement. 'Happiness occurs when you forget who you're expected to be. And what you're expected to do. Happiness is an accident of self-acceptance. It's the warm breeze you feel when you open the door to who you are.' Years ago, Matt Haig began writing notes to his future self. These notes were meant as gifts to his future self: offerings of...
15) The humans
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xiii, 282 pages ; 24 cm
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Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected.
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256 pages ; 18 cm
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"Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live"--
Like nearly one in five people, Haig suffers from depression. Here he explains how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend, and eventually learned to appreciate life all the more for it. Both inspiring to those...
17) To be a cat
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289 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Twelve-year-old Barney Willow gets his wish to be a cat but soon discovers that not all felines are cute and cuddly -- some are downright evil -- and his life is in grave danger, but his missing father may be able to help.
18) Los humanos
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312 pages ; 23 cm
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"Un húmedo viernes por la noche el profesor Andrew Martin de la Universidad de Cambridge resuelve uno de los más grandes enigmas matemáticos de todos los tiempos: el secreto de los números primos, la clave que dará respuesta a los misterios del universo y garantizará el fin de la enfermedad y la muerte. Y entonces desaparece. Cuando finalmente lo encuentran, desnudo y desorientado en medio de una transitada carretera, el profesor Martin parece...
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"'Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrías haber vivido y de comprobar cómo habrían cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones ... ¿Habrías hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad?' Nora Seed aparece, sin saber cómo, en la Biblioteca de la Medianoche, donde se le ofrece una nueva oportunidad para...