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    <![CDATA[In meinem Himmel: Roman zum Film]]>
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    <![CDATA[When we first meet Susie Salmon, she is already in heaven. As she looks down from this strange new place, she tells us, in the fresh and spirited voice of a fourteen-year-old girl, a tale that is both haunting and full of hope. In the weeks following her death, Susie watches life on Earth continuing without her-her school friends trading rumors about her disappearance, her family holding out hope that she'll be found, her killer trying to cover his tracks. As months pass without leads, Susie sees her parents' marriage being contorted by loss, her sister hardening herself in an effort to stay strong, and her little brother trying to grasp the meaning of the word gone. And she explores the place called heaven. It looks a lot like her school playground, with the good kind of swing sets. There are counselors to help newcomers adjust and friends to room with. Everything she ever wanted appears as soon as she thinks of it-except the thing she most wants: to be back with the people she loved on Earth. With compassion, longing, and a growing understanding, Susie sees her loved ones pass through grief and begin to mend. Her father embarks on a risky quest to ensnare her killer. Her sister undertakes a feat of remarkable daring. And the boy Susie cared for moves on, only to find himself at the center of a miraculous event. The Lovely Bones is luminous and astonishing, a novel that builds out of grief the most hopeful of stories. In the hands of a brilliant new writer, this story of the worst thing a family can face is transformed into a suspenseful and even funny novel about love, memory, joy, heaven, and healing.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Die Dorfhexe = Astrid and Veronika]]>
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    <![CDATA[With extraordinary emotional power, Linda Olsson's stunningly well-crafted debut novel recounts the unusual and unexpected friendship that develops between two women. Veronika, a young writer from New Zealand, rents a house in a small Swedish village as she tries to come to terms with a recent tragedy while also finishing a novel. Her arrival is silently observed by Astrid, an older, reclusive neighbor who slowly becomes a presence in Veronika's life, offering comfort in the form of companionship and lovingly prepared home-cooked meals. Set against a haunting Swedish landscape, <em>Astrid &amp; Veronika</em> is a lyrical and meditative novel of love and loss, and a story that will remain with readers long after the characters' secrets are revealed.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Die Perlentaucherin]]>
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    <![CDATA[A first novel of rare beauty and sensitivity, Jeff Talarigo's <em>The Pearl Diver</em>  follows the harsh fate of a 19-year-old Japanese pearl diver who is diagnosed with leprosy.  It is 1948. There are trial medications for her condition, but a weight of prejudice against her. Her name is erased from the family register, and she is rowed to a lifelong exile at the island leprosarium on Nagashima. Ordered to give herself a new name, she decides on Miss Fuji, for the mountain she loves. The balance of the novel is delivered in poignant fragments that appear as notes to a modern-day anthropological study of the leprosarium.  Numbered artifacts like &quot;An old map of Honshu&quot; and &quot;A blank white urn&quot; spark stories of the patients Miss Fuji has known and cared for, most of whom were much sicker than she: crippled, blinded, deformed, but all the more human for their suffering.  The cruelties inflicted on the patients at Nagashima almost rival the cruelties of the disease itself.  Talarigo's novel could easily succumb to sentimentality, but he maintains the poise of Miss Fuji: one who watches, who does not forgive, but who will not be lowered by vengeance or despair.  <em>--Regina Marler</em>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Der Panama-Hut: oder Was einen guten Therapeuten ausmacht]]>
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    <![CDATA[Für alle Zeit. Roman]]>
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