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In a stunning follow-up to her best-selling debut, Mrs. Kimble, Jennifer Haigh′s second novel, BAKER TOWERS, is a compelling story of love and loss in a western Pennsylvania mining town in the years after World War II.

Bakerton is a company town, built on coal; a town of church festivals and ethnic neighborhoods, hunters′ breakfasts and firemen′s parades. Its children are raised in company houses - three rooms upstairs, three rooms down. Its ball club leads the coal company league. The twelve Baker mines offer good union jobs, and the looming black piles of mine...

In May 1977, the cricket world awoke to discover that a thirty-nine-year-old Sydney Businessman called Kerry Packer had signed thirty-five elite international players for his own televised 'World Series'. The Cricket War is the definitive account of the split that changed the game on the field and on the screen.

In helmets, under lights, with white balls, and in coloured clothes, the outlaw armies of Ian Chappell, Tony Greig and Clive Lloyd fought a daily battle of survival. In boardrooms and courtrooms Packer and cricket's rulers fought a bitter war of nerves.

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Eine große Liebe in dunkler Zeit, eine mutige junge Frau und die Liebe zur Kunst: der neue Roman von Bestsellerautorin Tara Haigh.

Wohin mein Weg mich führt ...

Berlin in den dreißiger Jahren: Die junge Apothekertochter Luise Rosenbaum träumt von einem Leben für die Kunst. Ihre Expertise ermöglicht es ihr zum Schein mit den Machthabern zu kollaborieren, um nicht nur Werke sogenannter entarteter Künstler von unschätzbarem Wert zu retten, sondern auch das Leben ihrer Landsleute. Die damit verbundenen Privilegien brandmarken sie aber als Verräterin. Es ist...

Acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh returns to the Pennsylvania town at the center of her iconic novel Baker Towers in this ambitious, achingly human story of modern America and the conflicting forces at its heart--a bold, moving drama of hope and desperation, greed and power, big business and small-town families.

Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of...