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(0)Nick Hornby
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Language
Deutsch
Description
Ein warmherziges und unterhaltsames Hörbuch über Kunst, Kreativität und die überraschenden Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen dem viktorianischen Romancier Charles Dickens und dem modernen amerikanischen Rockstar Prince.
Mit der Bewunderung eines Fans und seinem typischen Humor und Witz zeigt uns Nick Hornby die kuriosen Ähnlichkeiten zwischen zwei auf ihre Art genialen Künstlern, die bis heute gelesen oder gehört, bewundert und nachgeahmt werden.
Hornby...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down comes a highly anticipated new novel. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Annie initiates an e-mail correspondence with Tucker Crowe, a reclusive Dylanish singer-songwriter, and a connection is forged between two lonely people who are looking for more out of what they've got. What happens when a washed-up musician looks for another chance? And a childless woman looks for a change?
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A shooting script for the film tells the story of Jenny, who is tired of teen life until she meets David, an older suitor who introduces her to urban nightlife and provides a new "education" that could prove to be her awakening or her undoing.
8) Slam
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Tom and Louise meet in a pub before their couple's therapy appointment. Married for years, they thought they had a stable home life--until a recent incident pushed them to the brink. Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their appointment, they begin to wonder: what if marriage is like a computer? What if you take it apart to see what's in there, but then you're left with a million pieces? Unfolding in the minutes...
12) Fever pitch
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
A young woman is caught between her boyfriend and his love of the Boston Red Sox.
14) A long way down
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When four strangers meet on New Year's Eve, they form a surrogate family to help one another.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Canada
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
About a boy : Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.
American dreamz : a wildly...
16) About a boy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.
17) High fidelity
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Rob Gordon's Chicago record store is semi-failing, and his long-time girlfriend has just walked out on him. In order to figure out where things went wrong, he examines his past relationships with other women.
18) Juliet, naked
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The story of Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, and her unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession.
19) Funny woman
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara...
20) Brooklyn
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.