Ulrike Wasel Książki

Słynna powieść o średniowiecznym balwierzu, kt�ry został wielkim lekarzem. Anglia, XI wiek. Rob J. Cole, syn cieśli i hafciarki, po śmierci rodzic�w zostaje pomocnikiem wędrownego balwierza parającego się r�wnież leczeniem. Wykazuje nie tylko zapał do nauki, ale też ową szczeg�lną wrażliwość, kt�ra pozwala czytać w chorym organizmie, dostrzegać w nim wolę walki lub chęć poddania się. Punktem zwrotnym w jego życiu staje się spotkanie z żydowskim lekarzem, kt�rego kunszt przewyższa nikłe umiejętności średniowiecznych medyk�w. Odtąd każdym krokiem Roba kieruje jedno tylko pragnienie: dotrzeć do Isfahanu i zostać uczniem sławnego perskiego lekarza, Ibn Siny, w świecie zachodnim zwanego Awicenną.

An engrossing, multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic yet utterly entertaining and candid saga, bringing to life through a host of characters – historical and imagined – nearly fifty years of this secretive and powerful organization. Intelligent and ironic, Littell tells it like it was: CIA agents fighting not only the ‘good fight’ against foreign enemies, but sometimes the bad fight too. The ends justify such means as CIA-organized assassinations, covert wars, kidnappings, and the toppling of legitimate governments. Behind every manoeuvre and counter-manoeuvre, however, one question remains, which spans the length of the book . . . Who is the mole within the CIA? An astonishing novel that captures the life-and-death struggle of an entire generation of CIA operatives during a long Cold War. ‘The best American spy writer currently at work’ Daily Telegraph

Eine amüsante, charmante, nostalgische Zeitreise durch die Welt der Stars, ein Karussell der Eitelkeiten, voller komischer oder auch wehmütiger Anekdoten und haarsträubender gesellschaftlicher Katastrophen. 101 Begegnungen zwischen den Großen ihrer Zeit: Dichter, Politiker, Popstars, Schauspieler, Komponisten; gekrönte Häupter, die sich wie auf einer glanzvollen Dinnerparty sozusagen die Klinke in die Hand geben, denn nach einem ersten Zusammentreffen zweier Giganten wird einer von ihnen in einer zweiten Begegnung gezeigt, dessen Gegenüber dann wieder den nächsten Prominenten trifft, und so fort, dabei wild zwischen den Zeiten springend, bis zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert. Alles, was hier so großartig erzählt wird von dem genialen britischen Satiriker Craig Brown, ist wahr und basiert auf Memoiren, Tagebüchern und anderen Zeugnissen. Eine Auswahl der Partygäste: Rudyard Kipling, Mark Twain, Martha Graham, Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Alec Guinness, Evelyn Waugh, Igor Strawinsky, Walt Disney, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marilyn Monroe, Nikita Chruschtschow, Frank Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsburg, Truman Capote, Richard Nixon, Elvis Presley, Paul McCartney, Grigori Rasputin, Zar Nikolaus II, Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, Leo Tolstoi, Harpo Marx, J.D. Salinger, Ernest Hemingway, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Mick Jagger, Gustav Mahler ...

In »Half Broke Horses« erzählt die Journalistin und Schriftstellerin Jeannette Walls die Lebensgeschichte ihrer Großmutter Lily Casey Smith. In locker aneinandergereihten Kapiteln lernen wir zunächst die unerschrockene kleine Lily, 1901 geboren, kennen und verfolgen dann ihren in mancher Hinsicht abenteuerlichen Lebensweg, das harte Leben einer beachtlichen Frau, die ihrer Zeit voraus ist und sich trotz einer ganzen Reihe von Nackenschlägen nie entmutigen lässt. Jeannette Walls Buch über ihre eigene desolate Kindheit und Jugend, »The Glass Castle« (2005), hielt sich fast zwei Jahre auf der Bestenliste der New York Times und wurde in mehr als zwanzig Sprachen übersetzt. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

Inspector Fenwicks gefährlichster Fall: Die Polizistin Louise Nightingale wird als Lockvogel für einen Vergewaltiger eingesetzt. Nachdem der Täter gefasst wird, erhält sie bedrohliche Mails von "Pandora" und findet ein Bild ihrer eigenen Leiche. Spannung und Nervenkitzel sind garantiert.

Dave Eggers kann fast alles, sogar undankbare Säugetiere zeichnen! Dave Eggers ist einer der bemerkenswertesten Schriftsteller seiner Generation. Bücher wie »Ein Hologramm für den König«, »Zeitoun«, »Weit gegangen«, und »Der Circle« wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet und von der Kritik gefeiert. Bevor Dave Eggers seine Karriere als Schriftsteller begann, hat er eine Ausbildung in klassischem Zeichnen absolviert. Er verbrachte viele Jahre als professioneller Illustrator und Grafiker, bevor er sich ganz dem Schreiben zuwandte. In jüngerer Zeit kehrte er zur bildenden Kunst zurück, und die Ergebnisse wurden in amerikanischen Galerien und Museen ausgestellt. Meist handelt es sich dabei um die Paarung eines Tieres mit einem humorvollen oder biblischen Text. Die Ergebnisse dieser Kompositionen sind ironische, seltsam anthropomorphe Tableaus, die einen sehr unterhaltsamen und exzentrischen Blick auf das Werk eines der führenden Kulturschaffenden von heute bieten. Mit »Undankbare Säugetiere« legt Dave Eggers das ultimative Geschenkbuch vor.

Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the increasingly unstable Dr Gregory Dudden sees sleep as a life-shortening disease which must be eradicated . A group of students sharing a house. They fall in and out of love, they drift apart. Yet a decade later they are drawn back together by a series of coincidences involving their obsession with sleep - and each other ...

Die überlastete Polizeidetektivin Deb Ralston aus Fort Worth sieht sich mit einer dramatisch erhöhten Arbeitslast konfrontiert, als ein brutaler Axtmörder sein Unwesen treibt, der es darauf abgesehen hat, Computer und deren Nutzer zu töten.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered.

In the summer of 1984, mothers called their children home as soon as dusk fell on the Dublin suburbs. But on this warm evening, the three children did not return from the dark and quiet woods. The police found only one child, scared to death, in bloody sneakers... Twenty years have passed. Homicide detective Ryan keeps his past a secret. However, when a twelve-year-old girl is found dead in a notorious forest, Ryan, along with his partner Cassie Maddox, sets out to investigate a case surprisingly similar to an ancient mystery. Will a shred of supposedly erased memories come in handy when the chance arises to untangle a tangle of serial murders?

In This Stunning Novel Andre Dubus Iii Set In Present-Day California A Story Of Human Conflict That Has The Power And Resonance Of A Classical Tragedy.Working On A Road Crew In California, A Former Colonel In The Shah'S Air Force Yearns To Restore His Family'S Dignity. When An Attractive Bungalow Comes Up At A Country Auction For A Fraction Of Its Value, He Sees An Opportunity To Dream His Own American Dream, For Himself, His Wife And Children. But For The House'S Former Owner, A Recovering Alcoholic And Addict Down On Her Luck, The Loss Of Her Father'S House Is The Latest In A Series Of Insults Life Has Dealt Her. When He Becomes Involved With A Married Policeman Who Takes Up Her Cause, The Stage Is Set For A Gut-Wrenching Tragedy, Which Keeps The Reader Gripped And Moved To The Last Page.Dubus Has An Extraordinary Ability To Get Us Inside Each Of His Characters, To See The World As It Is For Each Of Them. These Are Ordinary People, People Just Looking For A Small Piece Of Ground To Stand On, Driven By The Same Ordinary Needs Into Inevitable Conflict - A Conflict In Which Even The Reader, Rooting For All Of Them, Has No Safe Haven.Unfolding Relentlessly From Its Opening Pages, House Of Sand And Fog Is A Narrative Triumph. It Turns Both The Traditional Immigrant Success Story And A Modern Love Story Upside Down With A Heartrending Outcome, Combining American Realism With A Shak

Perfect for fans of Tana French, Jane Casey and Gillian Flynn 'Truly first class. Just knock-out' C. J Tudor, author of The Chalk Man 'Fantastic . . . Compelling, chilling and brilliant' Karen Hamilton, author of The Perfect Girlfriend 'A hard-boiled take on Tana French . . . a talent to watch' Irish Times TOO SOON TO SEE Polished. Professional. Perfect. Dead. Respected scientist Dr Eleanor Costello is found hanged in her immaculate home: the scene the very picture of a suicide. TOO LATE TO HIDE DCS Frankie Sheehan is handed the case, and almost immediately spots foul play. Sheehan, a trained profiler, is seeking a murderer with a talent for death. TOO CLOSE TO BREATHE As Frankie strives to paint a picture of the killer, and their victim, she starts to sense they are part of a larger, darker canvas, on which the lines between the two blur. Olivia Kiernan's debut is a bold, brilliant thriller that will keep you guessing and leave you breathless.

The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of grog shops and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease—or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those ruthless enough to make it. Word in port is that a galleon, fresh from New Spain, is awaiting repairs in a nearby harbor. But Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on its shores. . . . With all the page-turning suspense that readers have come to expect from one of the best-loved authors of all time, Pirate Latitudes is an irresistible adventure of swashbuckling pirates in the New World, a classic story of treasure and betrayal.

"Toby is a happy-go-lucky charmer who?s dodged a scrape at work and is celebrating with friends when the night takes a turn that will change his life?he surprises two burglars who beat him and leave him for dead. Struggling to recover from his injuries, beginning to understand that he might never be the same man again, he takes refuge at his family?s ancestral home to care for his dying uncle Hugo. Then a skull is found in the trunk of an elm tree in the garden?and as detectives close in, Toby is forced to face the possibility that his past may not be what he has always believed. A spellbinding standalone from one of the best suspense writers working today, The Witch Elm asks what we become, and what we?re capable of, when we no longer know who we are"--Amazon.com

Kate Mosse is back with a haunting story from the French mountains

Eine indianische Legende erzählt von einem Schamanen der Quinault, der lebendig begraben und dessen Kopf mit einer Zeder bepflanzt wurde. 1994 droht der Regenwald der Quinault abgeholzt zu werden, was zu Unheil und Krankheiten führt. Nur Joan Tidewater, eine moderne Indianerin und Polizistin, kann den Fluch brechen.

When Mae is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Run out of a sprawling California campus, the Circle links users' personal emails, social media, and finances with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of transparency. Mae can't believe her great fortune to work for them - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public ...

Welcome to our genetic world. Fast, furious, and out of control. This is not the world of the future --- it's the world right now. Is a loved one missing some body parts? Are blondes becoming extinct? Is everyone at your dinner table of the same species? Humans and chimpanzees differ in only 400 genes; is that why an adult human being resembles a chimp fetus? And should that worry us? There's a new genetic cure for drug addiction --- is it worse than the disease? We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars; test our spouses for genetic maladies and even frame someone for a genetic crime. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their chromosomes ... Devilishly clever, Next blends fact and fiction into a breathless tale of a new world where nothing is what it seems, and a set of new possibilities can open at every turn. Next challenges our sense of reality and notions of morality. Balancing the comic and bizarre with the genuinely frightening and disturbing, Next shatters our assumptions, and reveals shocking new choices where we least expect. The future is closer than you think. Get used to it.

Deb Ralston, Polizistin und Adoptivmutter, erwartet ihr erstes Kind und navigiert zwischen brutalen Verbrechen in Fort Worth, Texas, und ihrem komplizierten Privatleben. In drei Kriminalromanen (Mörderisches Dreieck, Tödlicher Ausflug, Keine Milch für Cameron) erleben wir ihre Herausforderungen bis zur Geburt ihres Sohnes.