Eine überraschende Geschichte - über Langeweile. Ausgezeichnet mit dem Not The Booker Prize des britischen Guardian. Ein junger Londoner beschließt eines Morgens, nicht wie gewohnt zur Arbeit zu gehen, sondern sich auf eine Bank am Regent's Canal zu setzen: Aus Langeweile. "Manche Leute halten Langeweile für etwas Schlechtes, das vermieden werden sollte, und meinen, dass man das Leben mit allem möglichen Zeug anfüllen sollte, nur um die Langeweile in Schach zu halten. Das denke ich nicht. ...

After two decades spent in the US, L-J is on a flight back to his native Suffolk to visit family and his childhood coastal home. His flight is straightforward, as per design, until it hits a glitch - an unexpected and dramatic cabin decompression - which suggests that all that L-J expects from this trip cannot be counted on.

11 hard-boiled crimes featuring a cast of memorable anthropomorphic animals.New Growl has always had too much crime. From the 20s until its inevitable collapse, eleven authors are exposing the city's seedy underbelly.The upper echelon, the lower class, and all of the animals in between have their share of problems. Some hire the private detectives or jet to a private island to escape, while others are the ones on-call and in the trenches.It's famili...

Das mairisch E-Book - ein Best-of aller Kurzgeschichten und Romanauszüge von allen mairisch-Autoren! Von Istanbul bis Berlin, von Südafrika bis in den Harz, von London bis an die Elbe reichen die Geschichten, es geht um Liebe, ums Erwachsenwerden, ums Reisen und ums Kochen. Unter anderem mit den Erzählungen "Zeit der Witze" von Finn-Ole Heinrich, "Nachtschichten" von Stevan Paul, "Avocado" von Michael Weins und "Alleinstehende Herren" von Andreas Stichmann. Außerdem mit dabei: Benjamin Maa...

The boy has lost his eraser. He has to look all around the classroom for it. Can you help him find his eraser?

Look at the boy’s family in the photo. Find out who each person is and what they enjoy doing with the boy.

Maclay School's Journal of Creative WritingOn our title: We take the title of this journal from a novella of the same name by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The novella is an existential piece, written before Dostoyevsky's greatest works and before Existentialism had really taken root in literature. The unnamed narrator is frequently named an anti-hero and is described by the note on the back of the Dover edition as a "profoundly alienated individual in whose brooding self-an...

Learn about Rebecca Lee Crumpler’s fascinating life, the first African American woman to become a doctor in the United States, in the kids book Rebecca Lee Crumpler, part of the Leaders Like Us African American childrens books series.Learn about Crumpler’s early life and greatest accomplishments as an important African American leader in medicine.Storybook Features:This children’s book includes reading/teaching tips, discussio...

Brody needs to rake the leaves but Rex keeps making a mess. Will Rex learn to stop or will Brody have to rake forever?

Wally and Molly go to the beach. Molly puts on sunscreen but Wally does not. Who will have a better day?

Jake and Lucy are at the park. They hear some hungry baby birds. Who is going to feed the birds and where is their mother?

Zoe and Zak clean the house. However, Zak keeps making a mess. Will they ever get the house clean?