Michelle Lovric Ordre des livres

This is going to be a little uncomfortable...

A stunning debut in which Venice is dying - and a long-ago prophecy of an enchanted child has been awakened from the canal's poisoned waters.

Im Sommer 1899 erfüllt sich Teos größter Wunsch. Sie reist mit ihrer Familie nach Venedig, in die Stadt der Gondeln, Kanäle und Palazzi. Doch der Anlass der Reise ist ernst: Venedig droht im Meer zu versinken und Teos Eltern, zwei Wissenschaftler, sollen nach einer Lösung des Problems suchen. Dass ihr Schicksal eng mit der Lagunenstadt verknüpft ist, ahnt Teo nicht - bis ihr der Schlüssel zur geheimen Stadt in die Hände fällt. Das Buch entführt Teo ins Reich der Meerjungfrauen, wo sie bei einer Tasse Seetangkakao schier Unglaubliches erfährt: Laut einer uralten Prophezeiung soll sie dazu auserwählt sein, Venedig zu retten. AUSZEICHNUNGEN: Buch des Monats 2010 (Volkacher Akademie für Kinder- und Jugendliteratur)

Mimosina Docezza, a Venetian actress and spy, and Valentine Greatrakes, leader of London's medical underworld, carry on a turbulent love affair and find themselves involved with a mysterious young girl, Pevenche, whose true identity is a secret.

Elusive and fantastical, Venice is a many-layered confection of history. The writers here have captured what is most important to them in pieces ranging from the city's foundation up to the present time. The voices, entirely diverse, are both international and native: here we meet Hans Christian Andersen, Paolo Barbaro, Bernard Berenson, Mary Braddon, Casanova, Chekov, Thomas Coryate, Gabriele D'Annunzio, John Evelyn, Hans Habe, Hermann Melville, Claude Monet, Margaret Oliphant, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Francesco Sansovino, Frances Trollope and Elio Zorzi. Variously a City of the Soul, The Watery City, The Merchant City, City Afloat, City at Play, The Cruel City, City of Courtesans, City of Arts, City of Flavours, The Haunted City and City of the Future, Venice is captured here in all her moods.

A potted version of Ambrose Bierce's deliciously wicked Devil's Dictionary. Written almost a 100 years ago, Bierce's work remains a masterpiece of cynicism and emotional depravity. Who said it was a modern malaise? B: BORE: A person who talks when you wish him to listen D: DISTANCE: The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep M: MARRIAGE: The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, two slaves, making in all two S: SAUCE: The one infallible sign of civilization and enlightenment. A people with no sauces has a thousand vices. A people with one sauce has only nine hundred and ninety nine. For every sauce invented and accepted, a vice is renounced and forgiven

This historical novel recreates the human drama behind a pivotal moment in western culture.

Christmas began with a good but harassed woman giving birth in difficult domestic circumstances. Somewhere between then and now, the circumstances have changed, but for women today, Christmas is still a time of joys garnered against the odds. We have moved on from stables and mangers to supermarkets and microwaves; palm fronds and shepherds have given way to a spangled conifer and a fat man in a red suit. In this anthology, reflecting the experiences of more than 50 women at Christmas, Ntozake Shange and Agatha Christie rub shoulders with Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf. Curl up with a tantalizing volume that gives full reign to the seditious humor, peculiar discomforts, and exquisite social tortures of the season.