false 718429 0 0 5999375 3498039296 9783498039295 0 <![CDATA[Einmal im Leben: Eine Liebesgeschichte]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5999375.Einmal_im_Leben_Eine_Liebesgeschichte 3.50 2
In the stunning title story, "Ruma," a young mother in a new city, is visited by her father who carefully tends her garden -- where she later unearths evidence of a love affair he is keeping to himself. In "A Choice of Accommodations," a couple's romantic getaway weekend takes a dark turn at a party that lasts deep into the night. In "Only Goodness," a woman eager to give her younger brother the perfect childhood she never had is overwhelmed by guilt, anguish and anger when his alcoholism threatens her family. And in "Hema and Kaushik," a trio of linked stories -- a luminous, intensely compelling elegy of life, death, love and fate -- we follow the lives of a girl and boy who, one fateful winter, share a house in Massachusetts. They travel from innocence to experience on separate, sometimes painful paths, until destiny brings them together again years later in Rome.

Unaccustomed Earth is rich with the author's signature gifts: exquisite prose, emotional wisdom and subtle renderings of the most intricate workings of the heart and mind. It is the work of a writer at the peak of her powers.]]> 3670 4.00 79832 10417 718429 4.40 5 0 2008 2050943 3833304901 9783833304903 0 <![CDATA[Brazzaville Beach.]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2050943.Brazzaville_Beach_ 0.0 0
]]> 8170 3.76 2908 455 718429 4.40 5 0 1990 1931398 344273116X 9783442731169 0 <![CDATA[Liebe usw.]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190503472m/1931398.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190503472s/1931398.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1931398.Liebe_usw_ 0.0 0 Talking It Over, last met--and a lot has changed. For starters, Oliver has married Gillian, and Stuart, his erstwhile best friend, hates him for it. Not just because Stuart was once married to Gillian, but because he still loves her and has never ceased to regard himself as her savior. Under the guise of repairing old friendships--"all blood under the bridge"--this mild-mannered third wheel insinuates himself into the couple's life by offering advice, providing support, and even giving Oliver a job. Once he's maneuvered his nemesis into a crippling depression, Stuart unveils his master plan.

In Love, Etc. Barnes adopts the same technique he used in the earlier installment, allowing his characters to speak their innermost thoughts and secrets directly to the reader--and just about everybody gets some good lines. (Oliver: "Yes, everything went swimmingly, which is a very peculiar adverb to apply to a social event, considering how most human beings swim.") But the book is also a bewitchingly intimate excursion into betrayal and jealousy. With painstaking detail, Barnes creates a vibrant portrait of a modern love triangle--as funny as it is cruel, as absurd as it is deep. Few contemporary writers can portray Middle England, with all its temptations, so darkly. --Matthew Baylis

]]> 1462 3.62 6921 903 718429 4.40 5 0 2000 1931378 3462036165 9783462036169 0 <![CDATA[Der Zitronentisch. Erzählungen]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190503418m/1931378.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190503418s/1931378.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1931378.Der_Zitronentisch_Erz_hlungen 0.0 0
The characters in The Lemon Table are facing the ends of their lives–some with bitter regret, others with resignation, and others still with defiant rage. Their circumstances are just as varied as their responses. In 19th-century Sweden, three brief conversations provide the basis for a lifetime of longing. In today’s England, a retired army major heads into the city for his regimental dinner–and his annual appointment with a professional lady named Babs. Somewhere nearby, a devoted wife calms (or perhaps torments) her ailing husband by reading him recipes.
In stories brimming with life and our desire to hang on to it one way or another, Barnes proves himself by turns wise, funny, clever, and profound–a writer of astonishing powers of empathy and invention.]]> 1462 3.62 6921 903 718429 4.40 5 0 2004 1931371 3442733952 9783442733958 0 <![CDATA[Fein gehackt und grob gewürfelt. Der Pedant in der Küche]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190503415m/1931371.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1190503415s/1931371.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1931371.Fein_gehackt_und_grob_gew_rfelt_Der_Pedant_in_der_K_che 0.0 0 1462 3.62 6921 903 718429 4.40 5 0 2001 1582683 325723371X 9783257233711 0 <![CDATA[Es wird alles anders bleiben.]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185475261m/1582683.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185475261s/1582683.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1582683.Es_wird_alles_anders_bleiben_ 5.00 1 Eva is alone with an empty heart in a big, empty house. Hutch fears he is falling in love with the neglected wife of his wealthy, philandering best friend. Charley, Eva's law school-bound daughter, forgets her plans for school to become a stand-up comedian. Steven, Hutch's son, harbors a secret that will rock his father's world. And into the mix strolls Isaiah Lonesome, Charley's ex-boyfriend, a handsome hunk of a twenty-eight-year-old jazz musician who will teach Eva to play some lusty new riffs on love's oldest song. And in the end, everyone learns that when it comes to living life to the fullest, and in the quest for true love, it ain't nobody's business how one goes about it.

Valerie Wilson Wesley's AIN'T NOBODY'S BUSINESS IF I DO is a delightful story of an African-American family in transition that is, at once, touching, sad, and funny, and that celebrates love, personal freedom, and the pursuit of happiness with charm, humor, and wisdom.

]]> 251642 4.02 389 36 718429 4.40 5 0 1999 1582682 3257065515 9783257065510 0 <![CDATA[Remember Celia Jones. Ein Fall für Tamara Hayle]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185475260m/1582682.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185475260s/1582682.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1582682.Remember_Celia_Jones_Ein_Fall_f_r_Tamara_Hayle 5.00 1 Valerie Wilson Wesley’s Tamara Hayle mystery series featuring Newark, New Jersey’s number one private investigator are loved for their smart, sexy protagonist who “has a way with a wisecrack that is positively lethal” (Washington Post). Now in Dying in the Dark, Hayle is entrenched in a sinister investigation that will demand her best detective work yet.

Tamara Hayle’s past has come back to haunt her–literally. She’s been plagued by terrifying dreams about Celia Jones, an old friend whose walk on the wild side led her to a horrible death. Celia’s teenage son, Cecil, begs Tamara to find his mother’s killer . . . only to end up dead himself, stabbed through the heart.

The search for Celia and her son’s killer pulls Tamara deep into her friend’s troubled love life, where everyone adored her but somebody held a murderous  grudge. There’s her bullying thug of an ex-husband; a handsome ex-lover who woos Tamara with charm and lies; and an angry, jealous woman who claims that Celia broke her heart. And those were just the obvious people with axes to grind.

Despite her better judgment and the admonitions of the police department, Tamara refuses to back away from the mystery surrounding her old friend’s death and the tragedy that met her son. All clues lead to the past Tamara shared with Celia Jones, and Tamara fears that that past will threaten her own son. But she uncovers more than she bargained for–and unearths secrets someone would kill to keep in the shadows.


From the Hardcover edition.]]> 251642 4.02 389 36 718429 4.40 5 0 2004 1582688 3257234589 9783257234589 0 <![CDATA[Off-Road-Kids. Ein Fall für Tamara Hayle]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185475273m/1582688.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185475273s/1582688.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1582688.Off_Road_Kids_Ein_Fall_f_r_Tamara_Hayle 5.00 1 The Devil Riding, the sixth outing for her series' heroine, Valerie Wilson Wesley turns in what may be her breakout book.

Tamara is working undercover in Atlantic City, looking for a missing teenager whose wealthy parents seem to have ambivalent feelings about finding her, and as Tamara gets closer to the action and more pretty young girls keep turning up dead, she begins to understand why. Gabriella Desmond is the stepdaughter of a wealthy businessman who's something of a hero in the African American community, and there are a few skeletons in the Desmond background he doesn't want exposed, regardless of his wife's concerns about Gabriella. And Gabriella's real father is a right-wing firebrand whose anti-abortion politics are as central to the plot as the Desmond family secrets. Amid the gaudy glitter of the casinos, Tamara befriends a scared girl who may know what happened to Gabriella, and she snags a lead to the other killings that are clearly tied into Gabriella's disappearance. She also runs into Basil Dupre, who she last saw lying in a pool of blood on a balcony in Jamaica. This fascinating, sexy, strong-willed man has the ability to bring Tamara's passion to life unlike anyone else. He may not be someone a girl can count on for the long haul, but before this well-written story is finished, you'll understand why he's worth it. If The Devil Riding is your first encounter with Tamara Hayle, you'll soon be searching for Wesley's backlist, starting with When Death Comes Stealing. --Jane Adams

]]> 251642 4.02 389 36 718429 4.40 5 0 2000 1582685 3257233280 9783257233285 0 <![CDATA[Auf dem Weg nach oben. Ein Fall für Tamara Hayle.]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185475269m/1582685.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1185475269s/1582685.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1582685.Auf_dem_Weg_nach_oben_Ein_Fall_f_r_Tamara_Hayle_ 0.0 0 Easier to Kill, the fifth novel in her increasingly popular Tamara Hayle series, continues to provide new twists to the classic gumshoe first-person narrative. Hayle is a Newark, New Jersey, PI, and also a struggling, young, African American single parent of a teenage boy, Jamal. In this outing, Hayle is summoned by Mandy Magic to take a case that could lead to a substantial contribution to Jamal's college fund. Magic (formerly Starmanda Jackson) has the most popular radio talk show in Essex County and a lifestyle that a struggling PI could only envy. But as Hayle probes the fears of her new client, she begins to see that this talk show host's world is hardly wine and roses. Magic's second "cousin" and stylist, Tyrone Mason, has just been murdered, and now Magic is particularly unnerved by a mysterious note reading simply "Movin' On Up." As Hayle digs deeper, she suspects that these and other events are hinged to Magic's misspent youth and her relationship to such characters as Rufus Greene, a former pimp. Unfortunately, Magic and her adopted daughter, Taniqua, are unwilling to cooperate in their own PI's investigation. What drives the mystery for Hayle (and the reader), then, is a profound curiosity about Mandy Magic's apparently sordid past. What is she hiding, and why would she hire a private detective if she didn't want her secrets revealed?

Wesley, a contributing editor to Essence magazine, has filled a major niche in the world of mystery fiction with her Hayle novels. Rendered with a down-to-earth realism and gritty charm reminiscent of Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels, Easier to Kill is a funky slice of life twisted around a mystery with a shockingly disturbing denouement. Other books in the Tamara Hayle series include When Death Comes Stealing, Devil's Gonna Get Him, Where Evil Sleeps, and No Hiding Place. --Patrick O'Kelley

]]> 251642 4.02 389 36 718429 4.40 5 0 1998 5196177 3803111390 9783803111395 0 <![CDATA[Byrons Tochter: Allegra]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5196177.Byrons_Tochter_Allegra 0.0 0 37947 3.83 59 17 718429 4.40 5 0 1993