Wer mit 'Flipper' Kind war, in Person von Ekel Alfred und seiner 'dussligen Kuh' auch über die eigenen Eltern lachte, wer schon ein bisschen mit schlechtem Gewissen keine Folge 'Dallas' versäumte, der teilt die Generationenerfahrung der Baby Boomer. Wer hingegen die 'Lindenstraße' zur Nachbarschaft zählt, mit den 'Twin Peaks' die Eltern verprellte und ganz ohne Skrupel die 'Sopranos' goutiert, der ist eine halbe Menschengeneration und mehrere Fernsehalter jünger. Fernsehserien prägen Mediengenerationen und bleiben manchmal unvergesslich. Der Band versammelt die großen Klassiker des Genres und stellt sie in einlässlichen Artikeln dar, die Serien mit Kultstatus, die Serien mit gesellschaftsgeschichtlicher Aussagekraft, die Serien, die wir nicht vergessen, von 'Mit Schirm, Charme und Melone' bis zu 'Sex and the City' und '24'.

Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author and journalist, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the last decade—guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. And then things really start to get strange—and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of this generation.

Kerstin GierAuf der anderen Seite ist das Gras viel grünergelesen von Irina von BentheimWas würden Sie ändern, wenn Sie die letzten fünf Jahre noch einmal leben könnten?Kati ist mit Felix glücklich, aber inzwischen hat sich der Alltag in ihr Liebesleben geschlichen - und damit die Zweifel: Ist es überhaupt eine gute Idee, mit ihm alt werden zu wollen? Als sie Mathias kennen lernt und sich in ihn verliebt, wird Katis Leben plötzlich kompliziert. Und turbulent. Besonders, als sie von einer Straßenbahn erfasst wird und im Krankenhaus wieder zu sich kommt. Exakt einen Tag, bevor sie Felix das erste Mal begegnet ist - fünf Jahre zuvor. Dieses Mal möchte Kati alles richtig machen - und sich für den richtigen Mann entscheiden ...Ein Hörbuch über die große Liebe und das kleine Glück. Und über die Schwierigkeiten, das Schicksal zu überlisten.Mit Irina von Bentheim, der Synchronstimme von Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie in SEX AND THE CITY)!

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer! VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish 's stripped-down, non-stop style. The final volume of Banana Fish contains the same dichotomy of darkness and light that characterizes both Ash and Eiji. Harsh reality and soft dreamlike memories find themselves hand-in-hand with heartbreak and hope, sentiment and cynicism, love and murder.

Aristophanes' Lysistrata is one of the great surviving comedies of ancient Greek theatre, a bold political satire of war, sex, civic power, and domestic rebellion. First staged in Athens in 411 BCE, during the long strain of the Peloponnesian War, the play imagines a coalition of women from rival Greek city-states who withhold sexual relations from their husbands and seize the Acropolis in order to force an end to the conflict. The result is outrageous, theatrical, sharp, and still remarkably modern in its handling of public folly and private leverage. As a work of Old Comedy, Lysistrata combines farce, obscenity, political criticism, gender conflict, and civic argument with a clarity that has kept it alive on stage for more than two thousand years. Aristophanes turns a comic premise into a durable attack on militarism and political vanity, while giving its title character a commanding place among the memorable women of classical literature. For readers of Greek drama, ancient comedy, classical satire, women in literature, anti-war drama, and the history of theatre, Lysistrata remains both a comic landmark and a serious work of political imagination.

Hidden somewhere, in nearly every major city in the world, is an underground seduction lair. And in these lairs, men trade the most devastatingly effective techniques ever invented to charm women. This is not fiction. These men really exist. They live together in houses known as Projects. And Neil Strauss, the bestselling author, spent two years living among them, using the pseudonym Style to protect his real-life identity. The result is one of the most explosive and controversial books of the year -- guaranteed to change the lives of men and transform the way women understand the opposite sex forever. On his journey from AFC (average frustrated chump) to PUA (pick-up artist) to PUG (pick-up guru), Strauss not only shares scores of original seduction techniques but also has unforgettable encounters with the likes of Tom Cruise, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Heidi Fleiss, and Courtney Love. And then things really start to get strange -- and passions lead to betrayals lead to violence. The Game is the story of one man's transformation from frog to prince -- to prisoner in the most unforgettable book of the year.

Chicky Diaz stands on his little patch of the earth, the clean quiet sidewalk in front of the Bohemia Apartments, thinking: there sure are a lot of great places to kill someone in this city. Chicky is a doorman at New York City's world-famous apartment block, housing celebrities, financiers and the cultural elite. Gathered in its basement, the almost entirely Black and Hispanic staff is reeling. Just a few miles away, a Black man has been killed by the police, leading to a long night of violence across the city. But these rising tensions aren't what most concern Chicky. There's more going on within the rooms of the Bohemia than anyone's aware of. In fact, ahead of tonight's shift, he bought a gun even before he knew of the rising pandemonium. Tonight, enemies will clash, loyalties will be tested, secrets will be revealed - and lives will be lost. A thriller about a city set to boil over that explores themes of class, privilege, sex, and murder from the New York Times bestselling author of Two Nights in Lisbon and The Expats. 'Boy, what a book... Essential reading.' 5* Reader Review 'Fantastic! This is my first book by Chris Pavone. It will not be my last.' 5* Reader Review 'I've enjoyed Chris Pavone's other books, but this one is the best yet.' 5* Reader Review 'A mesmerising unforgettable story.' 5* Reader Review Praise for THE DOORMAN 'A state-of-the-city novel, a kaleidoscopic portrait of New York at a singularly strange moment.' New York Times 'Sensationally good.' Lee Child 'The kind of novel that wins book awards.' Stephen King 'Near perfect.' John Grisham 'Smart, twisty, and sharply written.' Karin Slaughter 'Moves at breakneck speed... to its shocking conclusion.' Jenny Jackson

An astonishing debut examining women’s lives in Pakistan and interrogating the burdens, and freedom, of love. In twelve electric, potent stories, Mahreen Sohail explores the facets of women’s lives, as daughters, siblings, and mothers, in marriage, and alone. She writes of women who are fluent in the language of grief, but refuse to be confined by it; of lives that are full of desire and betrayal; of a world in which menace lurks just under the surface of the ordinary. Neighbors spy on each other; estranged families reunite at a funeral; schoolgirls are caught up in a murder. “A flawless eye for detail meets a daring instinct to tack and swerve and startle in stories that are wonderful on sisterhood, on sex, on Pakistan, on coming of age. Small Scale Sinners offers the same thrill as celebrated first collections by Jamel Brinkley and Colin Barrett and Yoon Choi: the pleasure of watching a singular sensibility awaken to its own expression” (Garth Risk Hallberg, editor of The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant, and author of City on Fire).

Bloomsbury presents A Very Nice Girl by Imogen Crimp, read by Olivia Forrest.A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA GRAZIA BOOK OF THE YEARSELECTED FOR MALALA'S BOOK CLUB'Tender, devastating, witty. And deeply true. Sweetbitter meets Normal People' MEG MASON, author of SORROW AND BLISS'Haunting and bleakly compelling ... A writer of promise' SUNDAY TIMES'An absorbing debut about sex and power' GUARDIAN'Elegant and witty ... A precursor to great things' THE TIMES'One of the buzziest debut novels this spring' VOGUECHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY VOGUE AND ESQUIRE_____________________________________________________________________________A bitingly honest, darkly funny debut about love, sex, power and desire, by a major new British talentAnna is struggling to afford life in London as she trains to be a singer. During the day, she vies to succeed against her course mates with their discreet but inexhaustible streams of cultural capital and money, and in the evening she sings jazz at a bar in the City to make ends meet.It's there that she meets Max, a financier fourteen years older than her. Over the course of one winter, Anna's intoxication oscillates between her hard-won moments on stage, where she can zip herself into the skin of her characters, and nights spent with Max in his glass-walled flat overlooking the city.But Anna's fledgling career demands her undivided attention, and increasingly – whether he necessarily wills it or not – so does Max…_____________________________________________________________________________'Touching on feminism, power, finances and the pleasures and dangers of a new relationship, this book is an assured debut' CLAIRE FULLER, author of the Women's Prize-shortlisted UNSETTLED GROUND'Imogen Crimp captures the glittering thrill of being young and choosing your own life with a dark, unflinching undercurrent of desire, power and control' JESSICA ANDREWS, author of SALTWATER'A blazing, darkly funny debut that captures a young woman's search to find herself ... It has an honesty and tenderness that will stay with me for a long time' RACHEL JOYCE

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Hachi hasn't seen Nana or the rest of Blast since she moved in with Takumi, and Shin and Reira's joint birthday party seems like the perfect chance for a little reunion. But Takumi is furious at Hachi for crashing the event, and she is forced to choose Takumi over Nana one more time. But was this Hachi's last chance to get back in Nana's life?

Wenn das Liebesleben eines Paares nicht mehr so funktioniert, wie es sollte, an wen wendet sich eine aufgeklärte Frau in New York? Nein, sie geht nicht zu einem Therapeuten, und sie sieht auch nicht eine Folge nach der anderen von „Sex and the City“. Agatha Dennhurst ruft Devon Monroe an, einen der größten Frauenhelden in Manhattan, um ihr bei ihren Problemen mit ihrem Verlobten mit Rat (und Tat) zur Seite zu stehen. Das Fatale an der Sache ist, dass Devon schon seit einiger Zeit heimlich in Agatha verknallt ist. Und als sie sich mit der ungewöhnlichen Bitte an ihn wendet, gerät er an seine emotionalen Grenzen. Und auch Agatha kann nicht leugnen, dass sie sich enorm zu Devon hingezogen fühlt. Als aus ein paar zufälligen Berührungen mehr wird, gerät sie völlig in seinen Bann. Doch die aufkeimende Liebe der beiden fordert einen verdammt hohen Preis. Sind sie wirklich bereit, ihn zu zahlen?

US-Fernsehserien erleben seit einigen Jahren einen beachtlichen Boom und werden auch vom Feuilleton gefeiert: Werke wie "The Sopranos", "Desperate Housewives", "The Wire" oder "24" brauchen den Vergleich mit dem Kino nicht zu scheuen und sind vielen Filmen in Erzählkunst und Ästhetik, in Innovation und Experimentierfreude weit voraus. "True Blood" etwa vermengt unbekümmert ein Familiendrama mit Horrorelementen, "Dexter" macht einen Serienmörder zum Titelhelden, und die heute schon legendäre Serie "Sex and the City" zeigte das Beziehungs- und Sexleben New Yorker High-Society-Frauen mit gelassener Freizügigkeit. Solchen Tabubrüchen, die häufig als subversiv gewertet werden, widmet sich dieser Band. Welche formalen und inhaltlichen Grenzen überschreiten zeitgenössische US-Serien? In welchen Kontexten stehen sie, und wie gehen Zensurbehörden, Sender und gesellschaftliche Institutionen mit ihnen um? Wie ist die Situation bei uns im Vergleich zu den USA? Und können Massenprodukte wie TV-Serien überhaupt subversiv sein?

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024 FOYLE'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 LONGLISTED FOR BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S BEST IDEAS BOOKS OF 2023 ONE OF THE TELEGRAPH'S FIFTY BEST BOOKS OF 2023 ONE OF PROSPECT'S BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2023 ONE OF DUA LIPA'S SERVICE95 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR '5 INSPIRING READS TO KICK START THE NEW YEAR' 'Funny and very important' Chris van Tulleken, bestseling author of Ultra-Processed People 'Educates and emboldens' Bonnie Garmus, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry 'Should revolutionise our understanding of human life' George Monbiot, bestselling author of Regenesis 'A vast and revolutionary history of female evolution' Sunday Times How did wet nurses drive civilization? Are women always the weaker sex? Is sexism useful for evolution? And are our bodies at war with our babies? In Eve, Cat Bohannon answers questions scientists should have been addressing for decades. With boundless curiosity and sharp wit, she covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex. Eve is not only a sweeping revision of human history, it's an urgent and necessary corrective for a world that has focused primarily on the male body for far too long. Bohannon's findings, including everything from the way C-sections in the industrialized world are rearranging women's pelvic shape to the surprising similarities between pus and breast milk, will completely change what you think you know about evolution and why Homo sapiens have become such a successful and dominant species, from tool use to city building to the development of language.

England, Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts: Inmitten der Wirren des Hundertjährigen Krieges gegen Frankreich und der unerbittlich wütenden Pest stürzt in der Stadt Kingsbridge die wichtigste Zugangsbrücke ein. In dem anschließenden Chaos versuchen Heilerin Caris und Zimmermann Merthin sich mit ihren modernen Ansichten zu Medizin und Architektur zu behaupten, und ihre junge Liebe zueinander zu bewahren.Der deutsch-kanadische Vierteiler ist die packende Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Romans von Bestsellerautor Ken Follett (DIE NADEL) und die Fortsetzung von DIE SÄULEN DER ERDE. Der BAFTA-nominierte Regisseur Michael Caton-Jones (ROB ROY) inszenierte das Historiendrama als opulentes Epos, das sowohl mit einem Emmy als auch einem Bayerischen Fernsehpreis ausgezeichnet wurde, und versammelte dafür einen internationalen Cast aus u.a. Cynthia Nixon (SEX AND THE CITY), Ben Chaplin (DER SCHMALE GRAT), Charlotte Riley (PEAKY BLINDERS) und Nora Waldstätten (EBERHOFERKRIMIS).

Endlich! Hier ist sie, die deutsche Antwort auf „Queer As Folk“ und „SEX And The City“! Kathrin (Unternehmensberaterin), Lisa (Friseursalonbesitzerin), Stefan (Industriedesigner) und Lukas (Journalist) sind vier Freunde, die das Leben in der Hauptstadt in vollen Zügen genießen und dabei stets ein großes Ziel vor Augen haben: den Mann ihres Lebens zu finden. Dabei nutzen sie alle Möglichkeiten und stürzen sich an den Wochenenden in das Partyleben der Stadt. Voller Esprit, Charme und mit einer gewissen Portion Ironie erzählt Lukas die Alltagsgeschichten der Vier und zaubert dadurch nicht selten ein beherztes Lachen auf unsere Lippen. Ihre Geschichten wirken authentisch, denn sie sind vom wahren Leben inspiriert und halten uns liebevoll und mit einem verschmitzten Zwinkern den Spiegel vors Gesicht. Begleiten Sie die vier Freunde auf ihrer großen Suche nach dem Traummann ihres Lebens und erleben Sie dabei unsere Hauptstadt in ihrer Vielfalt und Schönheit, am Tage und auch in der Nacht!

England, Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts: Inmitten der Wirren des Hundertjährigen Krieges gegen Frankreich und der unerbittlich wütenden Pest stürzt in der Stadt Kingsbridge die wichtigste Zugangsbrücke ein. In dem anschließenden Chaos versuchen Heilerin Caris und Zimmermann Merthin sich mit ihren modernen Ansichten zu Medizin und Architektur zu behaupten, und ihre junge Liebe zueinander zu bewahren.Der deutsch-kanadische Vierteiler ist die packende Verfilmung des gleichnamigen Romans von Bestsellerautor Ken Follett (DIE NADEL) und die Fortsetzung von DIE SÄULEN DER ERDE. Der BAFTA-nominierte Regisseur Michael Caton-Jones (ROB ROY) inszenierte das Historiendrama als opulentes Epos, das sowohl mit einem Emmy als auch einem Bayerischen Fernsehpreis ausgezeichnet wurde, und versammelte dafür einen internationalen Cast aus u.a. Cynthia Nixon (SEX AND THE CITY), Ben Chaplin (DER SCHMALE GRAT), Charlotte Riley (PEAKY BLINDERS) und Nora Waldstätten (EBERHOFERKRIMIS).

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer! VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish 's stripped-down, non-stop style. Ash has only one hand of cards--a loyal posse of street thugs, an investigative reporter, and a sympathetic cop, as he plays his one draw with tricks, trumps, and the hand jive from a .357 Magnum...

"[A] fiendish, gorgeously written descent into hell. . .This is the noir novel for our times." -The New York Times This epic crime novel tells a story of Los Angeles power brokers and those at the edge-and a single shattering incident that threatens to bring it all crashing down. Los Angeles, right now. America with its back up against the wall. This Frankenstein's monster of crimes and lurid dreams sewn together into something like a city. A city ready to explode: A Hollywood pedophile is arrested, and is ready to tear down the city to get his freedom. A young woman goes missing-and men in black rubber gloves who look like cops clean out her apartment in the middle of the night. And the serial killer known as the LA Ripper is on the loose, leaving tragic/graphic/brutal crime scenes in his wake. Three people trying to keep their heads above the dirty water will find themselves coming together to unite these strands into one enormous, unspeakable crime ... Jake Deal is a gonzo live-streaming nightcrawler, beaming the city's chaos straight to his audience of blood-hungry subscribers, giving them the view from the top of the mushroom cloud-until a job he can't refuse drags him back into his old life of Hollywood glamour, drugs, sex and sleaze. Armed with cameras and hidden mics, he'll infiltrate private clubs, gather high-class dirt-and stumble onto a conspiracy woven into the center of LA's most powerful men, who call themselves "The Kids in the Candy Store." Doug Gibson is a street lawyer, who fights for his clients against the army of cops, prosecutors and judges-he is the knife they bring to the gunfight. But when he's hired by a Hollywood pedophile ready to sell out his friends for a chance for freedom, he'll take on a fight bigger than he could have imagined. And when his client "commits suicide" in prison, Gibson will have to stop being a weapon-and become a warrior. Kara Delgado works for an underground private concierge company-a make-a-wish foundation for the terminally rich. She scores drugs, makes connections, and plans multi-million dollar sex parties.She has learned the secret truth of this world: there are no rules, only prices. Her best friend Phoebe has gone missing, and Kara's the only person who knows that Phoebe's place was wiped clean of evidence by men in black rubber gloves. But when she begins to unravel the mystery of what happened to Phoebe, and its connection to the killer known as the LA Ripper, it will drag her into the dark heart of the city. As Jake, Doug and Kara all investigate these crimes, they'll encounter ketamine-addled sitcom stars, bloody riots, homeless gangsters, a killer cop on death row, secret vaults in Beverly Hills, tech-bro orgies, medical cannibals, true crime junkies, private security wet-work teams, reality shows, street takeovers, car chases, coyotes, a sadistic Tarzan, and a three day, fifty million dollar wedding, before everything is revealed and they must each make their choice about how to fight back in this violent world before the bloody, blazing conclusion.

'Sex and the City' meets 'The Great Gatsby' - das vergessene Meisterwerk aus den 1920ern von Ursula Parrott Patricia ist 24, als ihr Mann beschließt, die Ehe mit ihr zu beenden. Vor den Kopf gestoßen von dieser Entscheidung versucht sie zunächst, um ihren Mann zu kämpfen, merkt dann aber schnell, dass sie auch ohne ihn ein Leben führen und viel glücklicher sein kann. Zwischen Freundschaften, Affären, schmerzhaften Schicksalsschlägen und dem ekstatischen Leben in der flirrenden Metropole New York City in den goldenen 1920ern erlebt Patricia, was es bedeutet, als Frau mit den konventionellen Rollen zu brechen, zu trinken, zu flirten und das Leben ungeniert zu feiern. Doch auch der Gegenwind bleibt nicht aus: Was ist, wenn man die Erwartungen nicht erfüllt? Warum fällt ein Neuanfang umso schwerer, wenn man ständig allein für die Vergangenheit verurteilt wird? 'Wilde Skandale, misogyne Machtstrukturen und eine vergessene Starautorin: Dieses Buch hat ein fulminantes Comeback verdient.' Mareike Fallwickl 'Umwerfend aktuell!' The Guardian 'Ein bewegendes, witziges und manchmal beunruhigendes Porträt einer Frau, die schockiert ist über das Ende einer Beziehung, von der sie dachte, sie würde ewig dauern. Beim Lesen war ich erstaunt über die Ähnlichkeit unserer Erfahrungen, trotz der fast 100 Jahre, die zwischen Patricias und meiner Scheidung liegen.' Monica Heisey, The Guardian

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer! VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish 's stripped-down, non-stop style. Ash squares off with Arthur in a final showdown, but can Arthur be trusted to stick to the rules that he has set up? This showdown has Ash and Arthur surf a sea of blood through the bowels of the New York subway system.