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The story of Stormy Ferret traces her turbulent mission from Seattle to Salinas flying her FDC-4 SkyFreighter through the roughest flight in the history of airway Victor 23, during which she survives through the intervention of ferret angels.

Exotische Paläste, seidengeschmückte Frauen, das britische Empire und die sagenumwobene Welt der Rajas: die Geschichte einer Liebe, die nicht sein darf und die doch die Kluft zwischen zwei mächtigen Kulturen überbrücken muss.

When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils... Pagford is not what it first seems. And the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations? A big novel about a small town, The Casual Vacancy is J.K. Rowling's first novel for adults. It is the work of a storyteller like no other.

Indien im Jahre 1942. Die Partei Mahatma Gandhis verlangt die sofortige Freiheit Indiens. „Raus aus Indien!“, lautet die Forderung an die englische Kolonialmacht. Gandhi wird verhaftet und mit ihm viele andere. Spannend, beeindruckend und differenziert erzählt der dreizehnjährige Babu vom Erwachen des Tigers, dem gewaltlosen Widerstand des indischen Volkes im Kampf um seine Unabhängigkeit.