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        September 2020

        It was always love

        by Hotel, Nikola

        She’s had enough of men, but he can’t get enough of her...   Away. Just get out of here. That's all Aubree thinks about when she gets kicked out of college after a party. She buys an incredibly old car, throws the few things she owns into the trunk and flees to her best friend Ivy in New Hampshire.    There, all she wants is to pull the blanket over her head and think of nothing else. Not about that night. Not about the party. And most of all, not that picture that's been circulating on the Internet ever since. But it doesn't work. Because instead of her friend, she meets Noah, Ivy's stepbrother. With his impulsive but surprisingly sensitive nature, Noah evokes feelings in her that she doesn't need right now. And which, nevertheless, sweep her away like a storm...     Second volume of a romantic and exciting dilogy with 20 lavishly illustrated hand-lettered pages by Carolin Magunia. Including a playlist that can be found on Spotify and contains songs which match perfectly with the story! It was always you (Vol. 1) entered the Spiegel bestseller list immediately after its publication. Both titles can be read separately. For all fans of Mona Kasten, Laura Kneidl and Kelly Moran! 30.000 copies of vol. 1 + 2 were sold since June 2020!

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        December 2018

        The Time-dislocated Hotel

        by Yang Peng

        Yang Peng's Award-winning Novels are a collection of the award-winning works of Yang Peng's many outstanding stories. Not only are the selected articles humorous, but also rich in imagination. They are also rich in profound educational philosophy that can enlighten the mind and help readers to reflect on themselves. Dr. Rome drove in the desert and stormed into a red abandoned hotel. He slept at the hotel and went up to the mirror to shave, only to find himself in the mirror turned into a seven-or-eight-year-old look. He was so scared! In panic, he broke into another room and found the room as strange as the previous one—the sun moved to the middle of the sky when it is night time! Since then, every time he enters a different room, something strange happens! Want to know what is going on? Welcome to the hotel where the time is time-dislocated!

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        August 2024

        Ireland and the Renaissance court

        by David Edwards, Brendan Kane

        Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cúirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of 'early modern' Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives. This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        January 2014

        Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1530

        by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small

        This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony.

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        Children's & YA

        Sherlock Holmes, the Master Detective (3). The Invisble Seventh Man

        by Oliver Pautsch/ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle/ Dominik Rupp

        What's going on in London? A mass breakout of prisoners, an attack on a hotel and a bank robbery - all that happens within a short while. Sherlock Holmes draws a rapid deduction: This cannot be an accident. He already has a theory what and most of all who is behind it. Remains to find out how his arch enemy managed to do that. But Sherlock is on his tracks because the thieves and their leader have left their fingerprints ...

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2002

        Leicester and the court

        Essays on Elizabethan politics

        by Simon Adams, Peter Lake, Anthony Milton, Jason Peacey, Alexandra Gajda

        Now back in print, this comprehensive collection of essays by Simon Adams brings to life the most enigmatic of Elizabethans--Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Adams, famous for the unique depth and breadth of his research, has gathered here his most important essays looking at the Elizabethan Court, and the adventures and legacy of the Earl. Together with his edition of Leicester's accounts and his reconstruction of Leicester's papers, Adams has published much upon on Leicester's influence and activities. His work has reshaped our knowledge of Elizabeth and her Court, Parliament, and such subjects of recent debate as the power of the nobility and the noble affinity, the politics of faction and the role of patronage. Sixteen essays are found in this collection, organized into three groups: the Court, Leicester and his affinity, and Leicester and the regions. This volume will be essential reading for academics and students interested in the Elizabethan Court and in early modern British politics more generally. ;

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        Social services & welfare, criminology
        October 2014

        Ireland's District Court

        Language, immigration and consequences for justice

        by Kate Waterhouse

        For the uninitiated, the Irish District Court is a place of incomprehensible, organised chaos. This comprehensive account of the court's criminal proceedings, based on an original study which involved observing hundreds of cases, aims to demystify the mayhem and provide the reader with descriptions of language, participant discourse and procedure in the typical criminal case. In addition, the book captures a recent and important change in the District Court: the advent of the immigrant or the Limited-English-proficient (LEP) defendant. It traces the rise of these defendants and explores the issues involved in ensuring access to justice across languages. It also provides an original description of LEP defendants and interpreters in District Court proceedings, ultimately considering how they have altered the institution and how the characteristics of the District Court affect how limited English proficient defendants access justice at this level of the Irish courts system.

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        May 2010

        Hotel Savoy

        Roman

        by Joseph Roth

        Nach seiner Kriegsgefangenschaft in Sibirien kehrt Gabriel Dan 1919 zurück in seine polnische Kleinstadt und nimmt sich ein Zimmer im Hotel Savoy. Während wenige Reiche weiterhin in Saus und Braus leben, darbt Gabriel vor sich hin und arbeitet auf dem Güterbahnhof. Die Heimkehrer revoltieren und organisieren einen Streik, und bald geht das Hotel in Flammen auf …

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        October 2019

        Das kleine Glück am Weihnachtsabend

        by Sheila O’Flanagan, Susann Urban

        Claire und Neil Archer führen ein kleines gemütliches Hotel in den Wicklow Mountains, die Sugar Loaf Lodge. Als in der Vorweihnachtszeit die Buchungen ausbleiben, versuchen es die beiden mit einer Annonce und nach und nach kommen die Anmeldungen: die junge Frau, die ein geheimes Treffen mit ihrem Geliebten plant; Andrew und Bridget, die sich endlich einmal etwas Schönes gönnen wollen, aber auch die jungen Eltern, die den Streitereien mit der Familie entfliehen möchten. Für sie alle sollen diese Weihnachtsfeiertage etwas ganz Besonderes werden.Die irische Bestsellerautorin Sheila O’Flanagan erzählt warmherzig und mit feinem Humor Geschichten von Liebe und Eifersucht, Beziehungskrisen und Familiengeheimnissen, und wie sich am Ende vieles fügt zum kleinen Glück am Weihnachtsabend.

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        October 2019

        Das kleine Glück am Weihnachtsabend

        by Susann Urban, Sheila O’Flanagan

        Claire und Neil Archer führen ein kleines gemütliches Hotel in den Wicklow Mountains, die Sugar Loaf Lodge. Als in der Vorweihnachtszeit die Buchungen ausbleiben, versuchen es die beiden mit einer Annonce und nach und nach kommen die Anmeldungen: die junge Frau, die ein geheimes Treffen mit ihrem Geliebten plant; Andrew und Bridget, die sich endlich einmal etwas Schönes gönnen wollen, aber auch die jungen Eltern, die den Streitereien mit der Familie entfliehen möchten. Für sie alle sollen diese Weihnachtsfeiertage etwas ganz Besonderes werden.Die irische Bestsellerautorin Sheila O’Flanagan erzählt warmherzig und mit feinem Humor Geschichten von Liebe und Eifersucht, Beziehungskrisen und Familiengeheimnissen, und wie sich am Ende vieles fügt zum kleinen Glück am Weihnachtsabend.

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        October 1990

        Hotel Memoria

        Erzählungen

        by Hermann Lenz

        Fünf Erzählungen von Hermann Lenz aus den Jahren 1952 bis 1962 sind hier versammelt; Erzählungen, die bisher nur als Privatdruck, an entlegenen Orten erschienen sind und nun erstmals, als Band der Insel-Bücherei, vorgelegt werden.»Hotel Memoria«, »Die Marmorbüste im Sumpf«, »Der Käfer«, »Frau im Dornbusch« und »Erinnerung an Europa«; dies sind Titel der Erzählungen, die auf uralte Mythen und moderne Zeiten verweisen.Um vertraute Melodien und Erinnerungen an verlorene Liebe geht es hier, um Fieberträume im Antlitz des Todes dort, um Schuld und Martyrium, für die es keine Erlösung zu geben scheint; kurzum: Auch hier ist von Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, von Grenzerfahrungen und Illusionen die Rede.Sind es Sinnestäuschungen oder Wachträume, wenn silberne Fische sich vor unseren Augen in Nichts auflösen? Wenn eine mühelos gebrochene Rose sich in einen Knochen verwandelt? Und welches Geheimnis verbirgt die Frau in schillerndem befleckten Gewand? Was hindert die Frau, die »in unserer Zeit« lebt, »in einer Zeit, da alle Menschen verhängt waren, schwarz verhängt«, sich aus dem Dornbusch zu befreien?Bedrängend realistisch und gleichsam parabelhaft sind die bizarren Bilder, die an vertraute Gemälde und Motive erinnern, in denen Zeit und Raum verschmelzen. Mit »magischem Realismus« führt uns Hermann Lenz auf die Suche nach der Erinnerung, nach der überwindung von Desillusionierung, nach Hoffnung und Vernunft.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2007

        Court and civic society in the Burgundian Low Countries c.1420–1520

        by Andrew Brown, Graeme Small, Rosemary Horrox, Simon Maclean

        This volume is the first ever attempt to unite and translate some of the key texts which informed Johan Huizinga's famous study of the Burgundian court, The Waning of the Middle Ages, a work which has never gone out of print. It combines these texts with sources that Huizinga did not consider, those that illuminate the wider civic world that the Burgundian court inhabited and the dynamic interaction between court and city. Through these sources, and an introduction offering new perspectives on recent historiography, the book tests whether Huizinga's controversial vision of the period still stands. Covering subjects including ceremonial events, such as the spectacles and gargantuan banquets that made the Burgundian dukes the talk of Europe, the workings of the court, and jousting, archery and rhetoric competitions, the book will appeal to students of late medieval and early modern Europe and to those with wider interests in court culture, ritual and ceremony. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2013

        The Intellectual and Cultural World of the Early Modern Inns of Court

        by Edited by Jayne Archer, Elizabeth Goldring and Sarah Knight

        This is a collection of essays on an important but overlooked aspect of early modern English life: the artistic and intellectual patronage of the Inns of Court and their influence on religion, politics, education, rhetoric, and culture from the late fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries. This period witnessed the height of the Inns' status as educational institutions: emerging from fairly informal associations in the fourteenth century, the Inns of Court in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries had developed sophisticated curricula for their students, leading to their description in the early seventeenth century as England's 'third university'. Some of the most influential politicians, writers, and divines - as well as lawyers - of Tudor and Stuart England passed through the Inns: men such as Edward Hall, Richard Hooker, John Webster, John Selden, Edward Coke, William Lambarde, Francis Bacon, and John Donne. This is the first interdisciplinary publication on the early modern Inns of Court, bringing together scholarship in history, art history, literature, and drama. The book is lavishly illustrated and provides a unique collection of visual sources for the architecture, art, and gardens of the early modern Inns ;

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        Crime & mystery
        2019

        The Great Prussia Hotel

        by Bohdan Kolomiychuk

        It’s 1905 in Europe. Russia is losing the war with Japan and is now concentrating its forces in the West. Specifically, hundreds of Russian entrepreneurs head to Austria-Hungary and Prussia to establish business relationships, agents of the Russian Okhranka secret police and members of Russia’s criminal underworld disguised among them. Meanwhile, in the Austrian city of Lviv, the career of Criminal Police Commissar Adam Wistowicz advances. He’s one of the best investigators in Halychyna (Galicia), whose reputation is well known even in the empire’s capital, Vienna. Wistowicz’s ex-wife Anna Kalisch, an actress of the Berlin Shauspielhaus, unexpectedly finds herself in the middle of the ruthless whirlpool. In despair, she sends the commissar a telegram, begging for help. Between two fires, in foreign Prussia, Wistowicz takes on the most dangerous case of his life. He finds himself in the Royal Opera House, among communists in a German pub, in the luxury Great Prussia Hotel in Posen, then one on one with a maniac in the middle of an empty square… Teetering at knifepoint between life and death, winning crazy amounts of money and subsequently losing it, and confronting a powerful enemy with only intelligence and adroitness, the commissar from faraway Halychyna brilliantly brings the case to a close… and proves victorious.

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