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Ein Mädchen, das für seinen Traum kämpft und ein Vater, der für seine Tochter alles aufs Spiel setzt - »Fantasievoll, spannend und berührend« EmotionDie elfjährige Nedda träumt davon, Astronautin zu werden - ein Traum, der in ihrem Heimatort nahe einer Raketenbasis an der Küste Floridas fast realistisch erscheint. Sie muss nur möglichst schnell erwachsen werden - doch genau das möchte Neddas geliebter Vater, ein genialer, aber vom Leben überfo...

As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the women in his family, he learns strange and fascinating secrets about their past. A tale full of magic and family mystery, The Book of Speculation will keep you up all night reading."-Isaac Fitzgerald, BuzzFeedSimon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are lo...

Ein Mädchen, das für seinen Traum kämpft, ein Vater, der für seine Tochter alles aufs Spiel setzt, und eine Stadt, in der die Zeit stehengeblieben ist.Die elfjährige Nedda Pappas träumt davon, Astronautin zu werden - ein Traum, der in Neddas Heimatort nahe einer Raketenbasis an der Küste Floridas fast realistisch erscheint. Sie muss nur möglichst schnell erwachsen werden - doch genau das möchte Neddas geliebter Vater, ein genialer, aber vom Le...

A Long Island Reads 2020 Selection * A Real Simple Best Book of 2019 From the bestselling author of The Book of Speculation, a "tender and ambitious" (Vulture) novel about time, loss, and the wonders of the universe.Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within reach--if she can just grow up fast enough. Theo, the scientist father she idoli...

A Long Island Reads 2020 Selection * A Real Simple Best Book of 2019 From the bestselling author of The Book of Speculation, a "tender and ambitious" (Vulture) novel about time, loss, and the wonders of the universe.Eleven-year-old Nedda Papas is obsessed with becoming an astronaut. In 1986 in Easter, a small Florida Space Coast town, her dreams seem almost within reach--if she can just grow up fast enough. Theo, the scientist father she idoli...

Um einen Fluch zu bannen, musst du seine Quelle finden.Simon Watson lebt allein in einem verwitterten Haus an der Küste Long Islands. Eines Tages findet er ein altes Buch auf seiner Türschwelle, das ihn sofort in seinen Bann zieht. Die brüchigen Seiten erzählen von einer großen Liebe, vom dramatischen Tod einer Schwimmerin und vom tragischen Schicksal einer ganzen Familie - Simons eigener Familie. Denn wie es scheint, finden die Watson-Frauen ...

Simon Watson fa il bibliotecario in un minuscolo paesino di Long Island. Ogni giorno, la sua unica compagnia sono il canto rabbioso dell'oceano e i suoi amati libri antichi. Ma Simon non immagina certo che proprio un libro possa riuscire a salvare la vita. Abita da solo in una grande casa che è della sua famiglia da generazioni. Sua madre è morta da molti anni e sua sorella Enola è sempre in viaggio per il mondo. Un giorno, mentre sale gli sca...

Simon Watson lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a cliff that is slowly crumbling into the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a travelling carnival and seldom calls. On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious book from an antiquarian bookseller, it has been sent to him because it is inscribed...

One of BuzzFeed's 24 Best Fiction Books of 2015**Includes a bonus short story by Erika Swyler, "The Mermaid Girl"**"As Simon, a lonely research librarian, searches frantically for the key to a curse that might be killing the women in his family, he learns strange and fascinating secrets about their past. A tale full of magic and family mystery, The Book of Speculation will keep you up all night reading."-Isaac Fitzgerald, BuzzFeed Simon Watson...

A sweeping and captivating debut novel about a young librarian who discovers that his family labours under a terrible curse - for generations, the women in his family have died on the same date in July. Simon must set out to unravel the mystery of this curse, before his beloved sister suffers the same fate.

Dazzling...[a] quirky, raucous, and bewitching family saga." --Sara Gruen, author of Water for ElephantsSimon Watson, a young librarian, lives alone in a house that is slowly crumbling toward the Long Island Sound. His parents are long dead. His mother, a circus mermaid who made her living by holding her breath, drowned in the very water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, ran off six years ago and now reads tarot cards for a trave...

Simon Watson fa il bibliotecario in un minuscolo paesino di Long Island. Ogni giorno, la sua unica compagnia sono il canto rabbioso dell'oceano e i suoi amati libri antichi. Ma Simon non immagina certo che proprio un libro possa riuscire a salvare la vita. Abita da solo in una grande casa che è della sua famiglia da generazioni. Sua madre è morta da molti anni e sua sorella Enola è sempre in viaggio per il mondo. Un giorno, mentre sale gli sca...