Samantha Larsen: A novel disguise. New York: Crooked Lane 2023 (A Lady Librarian Mystery)
Anthony McCarten: Going zero. New York: HarperCollins 2023 ("unassuming Boston librarian")
Beata Lakeberg, Hans-Christian Pust (Hrsg.): Atom.Strom.Protest. 50 Jahre Wyhl und anderswo. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag 2023 (Begleitband zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung in der Württembergischen Landesbibliothek)
Cyndy Cypress: Librarians & Larceny. Twisted Hazel 2023 (A rebel librarian crime fighter mystery)
Angela M. Sanders: Bait and Witch. Kensington Publishing 2021 (Witch Way Librarian Mysteries 1)
Pepper Basham: Authentically, Izzy. Thomas Nelson 2022
Stacy Russo: Stella Peabody's wild librarian bakery and bookstore. A novel-in-stories. Wild librarian 2021
J. New: Death at the duck pond. Eigenverlag 2019 (Finch & Fischer Mysteries 2)
J.A. Holder: Ghosts, alibis, and apple pies. Eigenverlag 2022 (Michelle Bishop Cozy Mysteries 1)
Rachel Rafferty: Urgently required. Rewriting the book of love. Eigenverlag 2023
Ellery Adams [= J.B. Stanley] / Rosemary Stevens: Pasta Mortem. Beyond the page 2018 (Supper Club Mysteries 7)
Ellery Adams: Murder in the storybook cottage. Kensington Books 2020 (Book Retreat Mysteries 6)
Elisabeth Waterfeld: Weinbergmond. Ein Kasselkrimi. tredition 2016
Freya Sampson: The last library. Zaffre 2022 (USA: "The last chance library") - "Lonely library assistant June is much more comfortable with books than people. When her mum - the beloved local librarian - passed away, June stepped into her shoes. But shy June has always felt that she could never live up to her mum's legacy. Instead, she's retreated into herself, surviving on takeaways-for-one and her favourite stories. When the library is threatened with closure, June is distraught. Yet when a ragtag band of eccentric but dedicated locals establish the Friends of Chalcot Library campaign, June is forbidden from joining their cause. If June wants to save the place that means so much to her, she'll have to make some bold changes to her life: opening up her heart to friendship, opportunities and maybe even more..."
Ruth Ozeki: The book of form & emptiness. Canongate 2022 - "After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. So Benny seeks refuge in the silence of a large public library. There he meets a mesmerising street artist with a smug pet ferret; a homeless philosopher-poet; and his very own Book, who narrates Benny's life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter."
Bella Osborne: The library. Head of Zeus 2022 - "Teenager Tom has always blended into the background of life. After a row with his dad and facing an unhappy future at the dog food factory, he escapes to the library. Pensioner Maggie has been happily alone with her beloved novels for ten years – at least, that's what she tells herself. When they meet, they recognise something in each other that will change both their lives for ever. Then the library comes under threat of closure, and they must join forces to prove that it's not just about books – it's the heart of their community."
Alison Donald / Alex Willmore [Ill.]: The new liBEARian. Maverick Books 2016
Werner Boschmann [Hrsg.]: Lexikon der Alltagssprache des Ruhrgebiets mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. 1000 Worte Bottropisch. 3. Aufl. Essen: Verlag Rainer Henselowsky 1984
Friedhelm Hinze: Die deutschen Lehnwörter im Pomoranischen (Kaschubischen). Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1963 (Sitzungsberichte der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin; Klasse für Sprachen, Literatur und Kunst; Jahrgang 1963, Nr. 2)
Julian Meyer [Ill.] / Timon Meyer: Heute nicht. Diogenes 2020
Frederic Vester: Ein Baum ist mehr als ein Baum. Ein Fensterbuch. Kösel-Verlag 1985
Laura Cowan / Sam Baer / Wesley Robins [Ill.]: Mein Geschichts-Bilderbuch: Rückwärts durch die Zeit. Von den Goldenen Zwanzigern bis in die Steinzeit. Usborne-Verlag 2020
Silke Trojahn, Andreas Wittenberg: Die Prinzessinnenbibliothek. Die Bücher der Sofia Albertina von Schweden. Insel-Verlag 2019
Diana Amft / Martina Matos [Ill.]: Die kleine Spinne Widerlich. Baumhaus Verlag 2011
Anita Bijsterbosch [Ill.] / Maria Höck [Übers.]: Alle müssen gähnen. Das besondere Gute-Nacht-Buch mit großen Klappen. arsEdition 2015
Karen Wallace / Barbara Firth [Ill.]: Bears in the forest. Candlewick Press 2009
Thorsten Saleina: Oho, wem gehört der Tierpopo? arsEdition 2015
Chris Hadfield / Eric and Terry Fan [Ill.]: The darkest dark. Tundra Books 2018
Zana Hart: Bad Weather, Bad Man. 2. ed. Hartworks 2018 (The curious librarian cozy mystery, 2)
Camilla Chafer: Jeopardy in January (Neuauflage unter dem Titel "Murder in the Library"). Selbstverlag 2021 (A Calendar Mystery, 1)
Laurie Cass: Checking out Crime. Berkley Prime Crime 2021 (A bookmobile cat mystery, 9)
Michael Campeta: The late Mr. Cary. A 1920s Mystery. Eigenverlag 2021 (Hauptfigur ist "young and stylish librarian")
Matt Haig: The midnight Library. Canongate 2021
Editors of the New York Times Magazine: The Decameron Project. 29 new Stories from the Pandemic. Scribner 2020
Sofie Kelly: A night's tail. Berkley Prime Crime 2019 (A magical cats mystery, 11)
Laurie Cass: Booking the crook. Berkley Prime Crime 2019 (A bookmobile cat mystery, 7)
Meg Perry: Resigned to death. Selbstverlag 2021 (A Jamie Brodie mystery, 21)
Meg Perry: Obsessed to death. Selbstverlag 2019 (A Jamie Brodie mystery, 18)
Norbert Gstrein: Als ich jung war. 3. Aufl. Hanser 2019
Olga Tokarczuk: Die Jakobsbücher. Übersetzt von Lisa Palmes und Lothar Quinkenstein. Kampa Verlag 2019 [Księgi Jakubowe]
Mathias Nordvig: Norse mythology for kids. Tales of gods, creatures, and quests. With Norse glossary. Illustrations by Meel Tamphanon. Rockridge Press 2020
Friedrich Steinbauer (Compiler): Concise dictionary of New Guinea Pidgin (Neo-Melanesian) with translations in English and German [Titel am Cover: Neo-Melanesian Dictionary]. Madang: Kristen Pres 1969 [Geschenk einer Freundin für meine Wörterbuchsammlung - gefunden bei Carla Nord]
Radek Knapp: Reise nach Kalino. München: Piper 2014 [ein Volltreffer aus dem offenen Bücherschrank in Föhrenau - sehr zu empfehlen]
Michael Bünker / Peter Karner: Der Gestank des Todes und der Duft der Auferstehung: 10 Visionen zur Osternacht. Styria 2009
Powers, Richard: The Overstory - "about nine Americans whose unique life experiences with trees bring them together to address the destruction of forests" (Wikipedia)Miller, Madeline: Circe - "told from the perspective of Circe, a character in the Odyssey" (Wikipedia)
Sullivan, Matthew: Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore - "When a bookshop patron commits suicide, his favorite store clerk must unravel the puzzle he left behind" (GoodReads)
Deakin, Roger: Wildwood: A Journey Through Trees - "In Deakin's glorious meditation on wood, the 'fifth element' as it exists in nature, in our culture, and in our souls the reader accompanies Deakin through the woods of Britain, Europe, Kazakhstan, and Australia in search of what lies behind man's profound and enduring connection with trees" (GoodReads)
Ich hoffe, mein Bewichtelter ist mit meiner Auswahl auch zufrieden.
I like science fiction and social fiction; british "classics" (Austen, Brontë, Shelley, Wilde, Maugham and the like); books with librarians as characters or in a library setting (I already have a lot, e.g. cozy mysteries); books about forests/forestry/wood; LGBTIQ literature; language dictionaries - and any combination of these, e.g. an utopian novel with a lesbian lumberjack-turned-librarian ;-) - I would like to expand my library with steampunk and satire, but I am also happy to be surprised by my secret santa with something completely different - maybe you think I should definitely read your personal favourite book? :-)Und bekommen habe ich folgende Bücher (*):
(*) Man bezahlt einen selbstgewählten Betrag - das Geschenk besteht also in der Auswahl und der Überraschung, nicht in den Büchern selbst.
So Hugo, amused as always by Sir Bernard in commanding mode, had hidden a grin and gone off to find Mrs Clutton, the Archivist who worked as his assistant. She, as always, had been one step ahead of him, and several files were already on his desk, flagged with her comments and notes. Her mind was a miracle of minutiae with everything indexed and cross-referenced on cards stored in narrow wooden drawers in her office. Her capacious memory linked people and places and events in a way that Hugo found extraordinary. Mrs Clutton could probably do his job better than he did, he reflected, as he opened the first of the files. (...) Letters, telegrams, secret messages from embassies. Photographs of places, some of them reduced to ruins during the war. Photographs of people, strangers smiling into the camera or caught unawares. Typed reports on flimsy paper, handwritten notes; all the paraphernalia meticulously preserved and filed by Mrs Clutton.
Als Hugo Zeitungsartikel zu einem bestimmten Fall sucht:
Mrs Clutton was, as usual, standing in front of her rack of index cards, sorting with nimble fingers. 'Do we still keep old newspapers at the Hall?' he asked. Mrs Clutton looked round in surprise. She pushed a drawer back in its place and said, 'Such as the back copies of The Times? We do. There's a plan afoot to get rid of them, London saying there's no need for us to have duplicate copies here, but we're fighting them. I don't want to have to ask Archives every time I need to look something up in a newspaper, thank you. Is there anything in particular you're looking for?' (...) Mrs Clutton's face took on the eager attentiveness of a truffle hound who has just spotted a fine example of that delectable root under a tree. 'I do indeed remember the case. Would you like me to go and find the relevant newspapers?' She hardly waited for an answer but was off out of the room.
Mehr dazu auf www.meetup.com/de-DE/The-Vienna-Girly-Book-Club/ (Wien) und girlybookclub.com (allgemein).
 | Hebrew and Aramaic Dictionary of the Old Testament / Der homosexuelle Wortschatz im Russischen / Wörterbuch von Mittelfranken / Glossary of the old Northumbrian gospels |
 | Es sind auch einige Sachbücher und belletristische Werke rund um das Thema Wald und Jagd dabei :-) |
Sonst in letzter Zeit gekauft:
Der Nachteil (und irgendwie schon eh auch ein Vorteil): Direkt vorm 22Beans gibt es einen Offenen Bücherschrank, an dem ich selten vorbeigehen kann, ohne reinzuschauen. Gestern fiel mein Blick auf ein Buch von Karl E. Jezek mit dem Titel "Ist das ein Buch" (Januskopf Autorenreihe 1978). Das konnte ich doch unmöglich dort lassen! Im Vorwort schreibt Jezek: "Wenn man dieses Buch, um die technischen Angaben lückenlos zu halten, verbrennt (was nicht ausgeschlossen scheint), entwickelt es ungefähr den Heizwert um einen Liter Instantsuppe herzustellen". :-)
