![]() ![]() Die Ergebnisse seiner Recherche zu den Manipulationen der Staatsschutzbehörden sind spektakulär. Gestützt auf die internen Unterlagen der Ermittler stellt Wolfgang Schorlau die entscheidenden Fragen. "Die schützende Hand" ist eine literarische Ermittlung im größten Kriminalfall der Nachkriegsgeschichte. Bis sich ihm zum Schluss eine Frage auf Leben und Tod stellt. Er beschafft sich die Ermittlungsakten zum angeblichen Selbstmord von Mundlos und Böhnhardt und deckt Schicht für Schicht die Anatomie eines Staatsverbrechens auf. Jetzt taucht Georg Dengler tief in das Netz von Neonazis und Verfassungsschutz ein. Dies ändert sich erst, als er erfährt, dass Harry Nopper, sein Gegenspieler aus der Zeit beim Bundeskriminalamt, nun Vizepräsident des Thüringer Verfassungsschutzes ist. Georg Dengler, notorisch pleite und von Geldnöten getrieben, nimmt den Auftrag an, ermittelt zunächst aber lustlos. "Wer erschoss Uwe Mundlos und Uwe Böhnhardt?", will der Unbekannte wissen. Was, wenn das kein bloßes Behördenversagen ist? Wer hält seine schützende Hand über die Mörder? Ein unbekannter Auftraggeber setzt den Privatermittler Georg Dengler auf die Spur. ![]() Die Sicherheitsbehörden ermitteln nicht gegen die Täter, sondern gegen das Umfeld der Opfer der NSU-Mordserie, Akten werden geschreddert, der Verfassungsschutz hat überall seine Finger im Spiel. Auf das Cover von Wolfgang Schorlaus neuestem Thriller 'Die schtzende Hand' gehrt eigentlich eine Warnung, hnlich wie bei Zigarettenpackungen: 'Das Lesen dieses Buches knnte dazu fhren, dass sie das gleiche mulmige Gefhl und die gleiche Angst vor Polizei, Geheimdiensten und Justiz beschleichen wie dessen Protagonist Georg Dengler. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first read of this novel is something that totally blew my mind. Hanif Kureishi – Writer of The Buddha of Suburbia © Sarah lee So, it comes as no surprise that the plot of The Buddha of Suburbia instantly charmed me: the story of Karim Amir, a 17-year-old “funny kind of Englishman”, living in the South London suburbs with a family that was soon to be collapsing, and who dreamt of the big city to escape the perspective of a boring existence. At the time, my biggest dream was to move to London: I wasn’t sure about what exactly I would’ve done there, but my love for that city was enough to make me put my whole heart and mind into something that I was fully believing in and that would’ve changed my life irreversibly (not even the most catastrophic consequences of Brexit seemed to change my thoughts). I was 17 and particularly enthusiastic about the coming-of-age genre books and films, perhaps because I needed some platonic friends to grow up with. It was a hot late-summer morning on September 4 th 2018 and I was lying in the bathtub. ![]() I still remember as if it was yesterday, the moment I started reading Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The pace picks up, everything moves a little faster, gets a little edgier when she’s on the page.” “I find it both anxiety-producing and yet really fun. ![]() “Sometimes I’m thinking, I’m getting stressed out because her role as character is to just come in and find different ways of tormenting Andy and Emily,” she says. Such wasn’t necessarily the case when reviving Miranda Priestly for the sequel - the character is inspired by Vogue editrix Anna Wintour, and Weisberger’s first post-graduation job was as her assistant at the fashion magazine. But it was nice working with the new Andy.” “She’s made a place for herself in the magazine world, she’s about to get married, she’s found a lot of security and success - of course, we all know that exactly when it seems that way, things come in to throw that all off balance. “She’s not that super naive 22-year-old who’s scared of her own shadow she’s a confident career woman now,” Weisberger says of Andy. She drew from her personal and professional growth to shape the updated Andy. ![]() Weisberger says the two have become “partners in crime, for better or for worse,” in covering celebrity nuptials and combating their common enemy in the book. STORY: Summer Preview: 11 Buzzy Books for Hollywood’s Reading Listįans will find Andy at the helm of her own high-fashion bridal publication, launched alongside her former nemesis at Runway, Emily Charlton. ![]() ![]() ![]() Read all the Hairy Maclary and Friends books by Lynley Dodd! She worked as a teacher before beginning to write her own books in 1974. She is enormously popular for her rhyming stories of the unforgettable HAIRY MACLARY and his friends. Lynley Dodd is an award-winning author/illustrator who lives in New Zealand. Here every dog-from big-as-a-horse Hercules Morse to Schnitzel von Krumm with the very low tum-tries to have his day with HAIRY MACLARY'S BONE, but guess who triumphs! With cumulative rhymes and sunny ink and watercolor illustrations, this international favorite chronicles the escapades of our hero Hairy and his crew of five kooky canines. ![]() Hairy Maclary's Bone is a hilarious rhyming story by Lynley Dodd. ![]() ![]() Caffeine-free teaĬoffee? Gisele doesn’t know her. “I start my day with meditation and the practice of asanas, which is movement in yoga, and I always light an incense or candle,” she says. Touting incense as a way to make her surroundings feel cozy and warm, it is also the perfect partner to her morning and nighttime rituals. From softening bruises to alleviating muscle ache and reducing inflammation, if you don’t already know about arnica, it’s a topical treatment to get acquainted with. ![]() “I am a very athletic person so arnica is great for that… if you have injuries, it’s very helpful,” she says. ArnicaĪ commonplace ingredient in beauty cabinets the world over, Gisele is also no stranger to arnica. “I have some with peppermint, but this is more ylang ylang and lavender.” 2. “I have a bunch of them for different reasons,” she says. The scent you use will impact this system in different ways, whether to calm or uplift. As well as smelling good, inhaling an aromatherapy oil can directly impact the brain’s limbic system, which is responsible for emotional and behavioral responses. Gisele knows all too well the power that our olfaction can have on our wellbeing. ![]() ![]() ![]() (And NO: I was not a collegiate athlete, but I lived with four division one athletes for two years, tutored MANY college athletes, dated a couple, and married one. The plot is also implausible and, as frequently happens in NA books featuring collegiate athletes, doesn’t portray collegiate athlete life in a way that seems authentic to me. This is definitely one of those books that’s setting up a whole series: there are a LOT of side characters which can be difficult to keep track of. ![]() I have to admit, I was unaware of this book (or this author) prior to reading Icebreaker. So apparently Icebreaker was a big hit on BookTok and is being re-released. An honest review was requested but not required. Grace for the opportunity to read an ARC of this title. Thank you to Netgalley, Atria Books, and Ms. ![]() ![]() Max Garland, the outgoing Wisconsin poet laureate and a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Featured presenters include:ĭeborah Blum, a leading American science writer and author of the forensic science history "The Poisoner's Handbook." Long a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Blum will take over the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015. "Rascal" was named a Newbery Honor book in 1964, and was adapted into the Disney movie "Rascal" (1969), starring Bill Mumy.Īpart from special guest Wiesner, the festival showcases Wisconsin authors. The free annual festival honors Sterling North, an Edgerton High School graduate whose books include "Rascal: A Memoir of a Better Era" (1963), the memoir of a year during which the young North raised a baby raccoon while also living through the loss of his mother and other changes. Wuffles!," which was a Caldecott Honor book this year. You may also know Wiesner for his recent picture book "Mr. Wiesner has won the medal for "Flotsam" (2007), "The Three Pigs" (2002) and "Tuesday" (1992). The Caldecott Medal is given annually by the Association for Library Service to Children for the year's best American picture book for children. Three-time Caldecott Medal winner David Wiesner tops the lineup for this year's Sterling North Book & Film Festival, which takes place Sept. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But society dictates a noble lady cannot perform such gruesome work.Īnnette Boucher, overlooked and overworked by her family, wants more from life than her humble beginnings and is desperate to be trained in magic. From the author of the Mask of Shadows duology comes this fast-paced YA fantasy, where two young women must trade lives, work together to stay alive, and end a war caused by magic and greedĮmilie des Marais is more at home holding scalpels than embroidery needles and is desperate to escape her noble roots to serve her country as a physician. ![]() ![]() The relationships unfold in the first couple of chapters thusly: Seth is in love with Dinah, but she’s not drawn to him or the notion of marriage (though she cares about Seth) and instead feels that she should leave Hayslope and go back to where she’s from and where she feels that she’s needed more urgently. Dinah preaches on the village green and many are drawn to her gentle and moving style, though others condemn the very idea of a woman preacher. The opening introduces the titular character but focuses more on his brother Seth, and the woman Seth is infatuated with, Methodist preacher Dinah Morris. It’s set in the fictional village of Hayslope, and focuses on several local families and their interwoven lives. Middlemarch remains a high point for me (I now consider it one of my favorite novels) but I also liked Daniel Deronda and The Mill on the Floss.Īdam Bede was apparently Eliot’s first published novel. I had already read Silas Marner in high school (I should reread it, actually) and hadn’t loved it. ![]() Since reading Middlemarch in 2010, I have been working my way through George Eliot’s fairly sparse backlist. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is the perfect compendium for plant-lovers, budding gardeners, and would-be botanists and nature-lovers alike. Children will also learn how to use their new-found knowledge of the plants natural environment to care for the plants around them and at home.įully researched, written, and vetted by expert botanists from around the world, this book teaches children about plants in the context of their natural environment, and is ideal for geography and biology curricular tie ins, as well as being a book that will inspire children to love and care for the plants around them. This stylish and informative introduction to plants sets out to cure plant blindness by introducing children to 66 amazing plants from the six major climactic zones around the world.įrom the smelliest, such as the massive Titan Arum of the Indonesian rainforest, which stinks of rotting flesh to attract insects, to the hardest-working, including peat moss, an overlooked bog plant that helps protect our planet by trapping carbon dioxide, readers will learn about the vital role of plants in Nature through detailed, vibrant illustrations and fascinating facts. Without plants there would be no life on Earth, but most people are blind to their impact. Journey across 40 incredible habitats around the world to discover the biggest, boldest, and stinkiest plants ![]() |