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    <![CDATA[The Lovely Bones]]>
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    <![CDATA[When we first meet 14-year-old Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. This was before milk carton photos and public service announcements, she tells us; back in 1973, when Susie mysteriously disappeared, people still believed these things didn't happen.  In the sweet, untroubled voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and her own adjustment to the strange new place she finds herself. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets.  With love, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie watches her family as they cope with their grief, her father embarks on a search for the killer, her sister undertakes a feat of amazing daring, her little brother builds a fort in her honor and begin the difficult process of healing.  In the hands of a brilliant novelist, this story of seemingly unbearable tragedy is transformed into a suspenseful and touching story about family, memory, love, heaven, and living.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Lucky]]>
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    <![CDATA[In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped ad beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebold's indomitable spirit - as she struggles for understanding (&quot;After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes&quot;); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attacker's arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: &quot;You save yourself or you remain unsaved.&quot;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Almost Moon]]>
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    <![CDATA[A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky. <br/><br/><br/> For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours, this searing, fast-paced novel explores the complex ties between mothers and daughters, wives and lovers, the meaning of devotion, and the line between love and hate. It is a challenging, moving, gripping story, written with the fluidity and strength of voice that only Alice Sebold can bring to the page.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Best American Short Stories 2009]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;DIV&gt;<p>Edited by critically acclaimed, best-selling author Alice Sebold, the stories in this year's collection serve as a provacative literary &quot;antenna for what is going on in the world&quot; (<em>Chicago Tribune)</em>. The collection boasts great variety from &quot;famous to first-timers, sifted from major magazines and little reviews, grand and little worlds&quot; (<em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch)</em>, ensuring yet another rewarding, eduring edition of the oldest and best-selling Best American.</p>&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Lovely Bones &amp; The Looking Glass]]>
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    <![CDATA[Once in a generation a novel comes along that taps a vein of universal human experience, resonating with readers of all ages. <em>The Lovely Bones </em>is such a book. It is a story of unspeakable tragedy and loss, but also of abiding love and even joy. With its astonishing force, <em>The Lovely Bones</em> has captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. <br/><br/>In this limited edition boxed set, <em>The Lovely Bones </em>appears for the first time with a special companion volume, <em>Looking Glass.</em> This unique work integrates images of missing children with the opening chapters of <em>The Lovely Bones,</em> providing a powerful visual experience and honoring the thousands of children who go missing every year. Many of these children are recovered quickly, but others are still out there waiting, and the search continues. Alice Sebold is proud to support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, an organization working to prevent child abductions, find missing children, and ultimately to bring them home.  This attractive boxed set, with its beautifully rendered images, is a unique keepsake that will allow readers to experience <em>The Lovely Bones </em>in a powerful new way, while drawing attention to the cause of recovering missing children.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Lovely Bones]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;A heartbreaking but ultimately life-affirming tale of a young girl's tragic death at the hands of a serial killer, <strong>Alice Sebold's</strong> novel appeared in American bookstores just at the time several child abductions made its message painfully timely. Delve into the intricacies of this wrenching story through these questions:&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;How is Sebold's vision of heaven unique? Why have some readers criticized it?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Why does Susie haunt her friends and family after her death? What is she looking for?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Why has <em>The Lovely Bones</em> resonated so strongly with American readers?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Das Gesicht des Mondes: Roman]]>
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    <![CDATA[Der erste Satz trifft den unvorbereiteten Leser wie ein Hammerschlag: „Wenn ich zurückschaue, muss ich sagen, es fiel mir nicht leicht, meine Mutter zu töten.“ Und man ahnt es schon: Was uns Alice Sebold nach dieser fulminanten Eröffnung im weiteren Verlauf ihres Romans <em>Das Gesicht des Mondes</em> auftischt, ist gewiss keine leichte Kost. Abschrecken lassen aber sollte man sich davon nicht!<p>  Helen Knightly, 49, die Ich-Erzählerin dieser mörderischen Geschichte, hat es nicht leicht mit ihrer 88-jährigen demenzkranken Mutter. Über die Grenzen ihrer eigenen Belastbarkeit hinaus pflegt sie über Jahre die kranke Frau. Dank kann sie dafür nicht erwarten. Ganz im Gegenteil: Nichts kann sie der Mutter recht machen, so sehr sie sich auch bemüht. „Demenz“, glaubt Helen im Rückblick, „macht nach und nach das wahre Wesen des Betroffenen sichtbar, und meine Mutter war so ekelhaft geworden wie das faulige Wasser in einer Wochen alten Blumenvase.“ Und so musste es dann wohl unausweichlich passieren: Mit einem Handtuch erstickt sie die Frau, die ihr einst das Leben geschenkt hatte. Im Rückblick schildert Helen nicht nur die lange Vorgeschichte des Mordes, sondern minutiös vor allem auch die 24 Stunden danach, in denen sie nicht nur die Tat vertuscht und dabei der Mutter so nahe ist, wie niemals zuvor, sondern bei einer Irrfahrt durch die Nacht zwischendurch auch noch Sex mit dem Sohn ihrer Freundin hat…<p>  Vom Debüt der Autorin <em>In meinem Himmel</em>, von dessen Erfolg Alice Sebold selbst überrascht war, war aus berufenem Munde zu hören, es lasse „seine Leser nicht los“. Wie viel mehr gilt dies für <em>Das Gesicht des Mondes</em>, in dem uns die Autorin überdeutlich vor Augen führt wie schmal der Grat zwischen Liebe und Hass tatsächlich ist! -- <em>Freia Danz, Literaturanzeiger.de</em></p></p>]]>
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