Christine Frauendorf-Mössel Knihy

Jeder Garten hat Schatten – einige Gärten liegen sogar vorwiegend im Schatten von Gebäuden, großen Bäumen oder Hecken. In diesem Buch stellt der Gartenexperte Keith Wiley alle Vorurteile unserer sonnensüchtigen Zeit auf den Kopf, indem er Schatten bewusst in die Gartengestaltung integriert. Sein Werk zeigt, dass der kreative Umgang mit den Nuancen des Schattens eine Fülle schöner Pflanzenkompositionen aus Schattengehölzen, Schattenstauden und Zwiebelpflanzen ermöglicht. Der Leser erfährt die Geheimnisse und Techniken des erfolgreichen Gärtnerns im Schatten, unabhängig von der Größe des Gartens oder den Standortbedingungen, sei es windig, feucht, trocken, nährstoffarm oder rau. Zahlreiche schöne Fotos und Fallbeispiele machen die Lektüre anregend und verwandeln die „lichtlosen Problemecken“ des Gartens in einen freundlicheren Raum. Der Autor beleuchtet die Eigenschaften schattenliebender Pflanzen und zeigt, wie man sie in Kombination pflanzen kann, um faszinierende Gartenbilder zu schaffen. Praktische Überlegungen zur Bodenvorbereitung, Pflanzung und Pflege in Schattengärten werden ebenfalls ausführlich behandelt.

Superintendent Duncan Kincaid und Gemma Jones entdecken die Leiche einer jungen Frau in den Londoner Docks. Der Mord ist mit einem Ereignis aus dem Jahr 1939 verbunden, als deutsche Bomber London bedrohten und zwei junge Männer sich trafen, was ihr Schicksal für immer veränderte.

After the heir to a frozen-food fortune gets iced, Nero Wolfe’s right-hand man becomes a suspect:“Goldsborough does a masterly job with the Wolfe legacy” (Booklist). When Lily Rowan doesn’t laugh at his jokes, Archie Goodwin knows something's wrong. Her niece Noreen has been running around with Sparky Linville, a club-hopping bad boy who's the terror of Manhattan nightlife, and the last time she went out with him, Noreen wasn’t herself when she came home. All she would tell her aunt was that she had been assaulted. Springing into action, Goodwin waits for Linville outside of Morgana’s, a chrome-and-glass palace that sits like a wart on Second Avenue. They nearly come to blows, but Linville’s bodyguard intervenes, and Goodwin retreats to plan his next move. In the morning, Linville is dead, and Goodwin is the chief suspect. For years he has helped rotund genius Nero Wolfe out of jams, and now it's time for the master detective to return the favor.

Charles Redfern is in a coma. As he lies motionless in hospital, his wife Anne and daughter Charlotte are forced to come together to confront their relationships with him - and with each other. Anne, once regarded as beautiful and clever, has felt herself disappearing for years, paling beside her husband's harsh brilliance. Anxious to fit in with the expectations of the people around her, she keeps her disillusionment buried inside, mechanically attending the endless round of drinks parties and dinners in her keenly social neighbourhood, and trying to ignore the guilt that trails behind her like a shadow. Charlotte, battling an inner darkness that threatens to overwhelm her, is desperate to prevent her relationship with not-yet-divorced Gabriel from disintegrating through her own self-sabotage. As the full truth of Charles's hold over them emerges into the light, both women must come to terms with the choices they have made, and the uncertainty of a future without the figure that has dominated them for so long. Elizabeth Day's debut novel speaks beautifully and frankly about the banal horror of fractured relationships and the uncomfortable truths behind smiling family photographs. Poetic, absorbing and deeply moving, Scissors, Paper, Stone is a story of damage, survival and restoration, and of the powerful ties that bind us together.

Lovely home, lovely husband, lovely family: apart from the envy of her less contented sister, everything in Dilys's rags-to-riches life is lovely, lovely, lovely. Until the day she meets a man at a railway station who is also - lovely. As she hurtles towards either her destruction or her liberation she discovers that deceit is in the blueprint of our birth, that ancient Aunts have their own dark secrets, that envious sisters have their reasons. And that when Brief Encounters meet Basic Instincts, the right choice, like truth, is rarely pure and never simple. 'Streets ahead of the usual run of romantic comedy . . . she draws real, three-dimensional characters, whose motives you can understand and whose emotions you care about.' Daily Mail

Carla Perrotti berichtet in ihrem Buch von drei außergewöhnlichen Reisen durch lebensfeindliche Räume. Sie beschreibt ihre Erlebnisse in einer Tuareg-Karawane, über den Salar de Uyuni und in der Kalahari, wo sie das Leben der Buschmänner erkundet. Es geht ihr um intensive Naturerlebnisse und die Verbindung zwischen Mensch und Natur.

Lawrence Tyler Durrant hat nur noch 47 Tage bis zu seiner Hinrichtung. Sein Anwalt Jac McElroy glaubt an seine Unschuld und kämpft um sein Leben, obwohl die Beweise eindeutig sind und Durrant ein Geständnis abgelegt hat. Es ist Jacs erster Fall als Strafverteidiger, den er nicht verlieren will.