Auke Leistra Książki

For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His explorations of fear, despair, and death continue to exert a strong visual and psychological impact on modern viewers. Among all of Munch's paintings, The Scream (1893), which depicts a figure tormented by horror, is the most famous and certainly one of the most expressive. The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work: In reality, my art is a free confession, an attempt to clarify my own relationship with life. Although Edvard Munch cannot be clearly assigned to a single movement, he is considered a pioneer of Expressionism.

In een verre toekomstwereld komt de werker Kain met behulp van een magische ring in opstand tegen de wrede heersers.

Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke had resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a suave Englishman to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses. But after another investigator dies mysteriously, Roke agrees to fill his shoes--and learns that men who would give drugs to horses are capable of doing much worse to human beings.

A revelatory collection of letters from the nation's favourite storyteller.

Ostatnia odsłona doskonałego KWARTETU LOS ANGELES mistrza czarnego kryminału! PIEKŁO W MIEŚCIE ANIOŁÓW! Los Angeles, rok 1958. Zabójstwa, pobicia, łapówki i szantaże to standardowe procedury porucznika Kleina z policji w Los Angeles. W swoim piekiełku rządzi niepodzielnie aż do chwili, gdy federalni zarządzają przeprowadzenie śledztwa w sprawie korupcji wśród miejscowej policji. Dla podgrzania atmosfery Klein zostaje wystawiony jako przynęta. Gorączce poddają się wszyscy: lokalni politycy, szefowie policji, gangsterzy oraz narkotykowi bossowie. Wszyscy są mocno zdeterminowani, by fakty nie ujrzały światła dziennego. Ucieczka ze świata bezwzględnych ambicji, zachłanności i wszelkiego wypaczenia może okazać się bardzo trudna. Klein jednak za wszelką cenę próbuje się z niego wydostać... Przykuwająca uwagę, wciągająca powieść kryminalna, która nikogo nie pozostawi obojętnym! ` Biała gorączka przepełniona jest realizmem i dbałością o szczegół. James Ellroy w najlepszym wydaniu`. The Plain Dealer `To najlepsza książka Ellroya`. Associated Press

In this mystery in the bestselling Cat Who series, there’s something rotten in the small town of Pickax—at least to the sensitive noses of newspaperman Jim Qwilleran and his Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum. An accident has claimed the life of the local paper’s eccentric publisher, but to Qwilleran and his feline friends it smells like murder. They soon sniff out a shocking secret, but Koko’s snooping into an unusual edition of Shakespeare may prove CATastrophic... because somewhere in Pickax, a lady loves not wisely but too well, a widow is scandalously merry, and a stranger has a lean and hungry look. The stage is set for Qwilleran, Koko, Yum Yum, and the second act of murder most meow...

Tamara Chalabi's memoir chronicles her return to Iraq after years in exile, exploring her family's tumultuous history. Through her powerful narrative, she reveals the rich tapestry of Middle Eastern life and the impact of war on Iraq's identity, offering a unique perspective on a country and its people.

A collection of personal essays whch lift the corner of everyday life, revealing the absurdity teeming below its surface.

Tim Cahill reports on the road trip to end all road trips: a journey that took him from Tierra del Fuego to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, in a record-breaking twenty three and a half days.

'Brace yourself. I'm going to be accused of murder and rape. A beautiful young girl i've never seen before...' Target of a ruthless frame-up, Tweed is forced to flee into snow-bound europe. Paula Grey insists on accompanying him on his journey into the unknown. The relentless manhunt is directed by Lance Buckmaster, newly appointed Minister for External Security. Europe's top security chiefs, once Tweed's friends, are alerted to arrest the fugitive. The unknown enemy hires Armand Horowitz, Europe's top assassin. His mission: kill Tweed. Racing down Germany's authobahns, Tweed and Paula face lethal ambushes. Why is it vital Tweed never returns alive? Is the key to these bizarre events Shockwave, sheet anchor of Western Europe's defence? Transported abroad the Lampedusa, sailing Britain, the giant computer could guarantee the safety of the world. And Tweed was in charge of its uninterupted passage. Joined by foreign correspondent Bob Newman, Tweed seeks desperately to elude his mysterious pursuers. Arriving at his Swiss sanctuary via the ice-cole Black Forest, Tweed hears of the catastrophe. The Lampedusa has been hijacked.... Colin Forbes 'has no equal' Sunday Mirror

'I pore over Beatles albums with the same obsessive and forensic scrutiny that I'd applied to Rodgers and Hammerstein, only now I have a guitar. I have an instrument that can reproduce the practical magic of the chord structures and the network of riffs that their songs are built on. And what songs, one after the other, album after album. I learn to play them all, confident that if I persevere, what I can't play immediately will yield its secret eventually. I will reapply the needle of the record player again and again to the bars of music that seem beyond my analysis, like a safecracker picking a lock, until the prize is mine. No school subject ever occupies as much of my time or energy. I'm not claiming that any kind of prescience about the future was at work here, but there was something in the driven and compulsive nature of this obsession that was unusual, something in the unconscious saying, "This is how you escape." "This is how you escape.'''

Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honor of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa. Roxanne Coss, opera's most revered soprano, has mesmerized the international guests with her singing. It is a perfect evening -- until a band of gunwielding terrorists takes the entire party hostage. But what begins as a panicked, life-threatening scenario slowly evolves into something quite different, a moment of great beauty, as terrorists and hostages forge unexpected bonds and people from different continents become compatriots, intimate friends, and lovers.

Halley is looking into a nobleman's permanent losing streak when he discovers a murdered jockey.

A return to the epic romance, heroism, history and warm and eccentric cast of characters that made CAPTAIN CORELLI'S MANDOLIN such an extraordinary hit (2.5 million copies sold). In the brief golden years before the outbreak of World War I, Rosie McCosh and her three very different sisters are growing up in an eccentric household in Kent, with their neighbours the Pitt boys on one side and the Pendennis boys on the other. But their days of childhood adventure are shadowed by the approach of the conflict that will engulf them on the cusp of adulthood. When the boys end up scattered along the Western Front, Rosie is left confused by her love for two young men - one an infantry soldier and one a flying ace. Can she, and her sisters, build new lives out of the opportunities and devastations that follow the Great War?

Lea, Avishag and Yael are school friends in a small town in northern Israel. During dull lessons they play the game Exquisite Corpse and daydream about the boys they fancy. When they hit eighteen they are conscripted into the army.

In a New York City made phantasmagorical by the events of 9/11, Hans--a banker originally from the Netherlands--finds himself marooned among the strange occupants of the Chelsea Hotel after his English wife and son return to London. Alone and untethered, feeling lost in the country he had come to regard as home, Hans stumbles upon the vibrant New York subculture of cricket, where he revisits his lost childhood and, thanks to a friendship with a charismatic and charming Trinidadian named Chuck Ramkissoon, begins to reconnect with his life and his adopted country.--From publisher description.

Książka obfituje w żywe, niczym nie skrępowane historie miłosnych intryg, związków i zdrad w środowisku manhattańskiej elity. Na podstawie powieści nakręcono serial "Jak upolować mężczyznę, czyli seks w wielkim mieście", emitowany przez telewizje na całym świece.

Owen Mackenzie�s life story abounds with sin and seduction, domesticity and debauchery. His marriage to his college sweetheart is quickly followed by his first betrayal and he embarks upon a series of affairs. His pursuit of happiness, in a succession of small towns from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts, brings him to the edge of chaos, from which he is saved by a rescue that carries its own fatal price.

'A wonderfully constructed and gripping novel about betrayal and shadows in South Africa' AS Byatt, Guardian, 'Books of the Year' Following the critical acclaim for his astonishing debut novel, Flanery has confirmed himself as one of the brightest rising literary stars

Keuze uit de verhalen van de Amerikaanse schrijver (1962- ).

Born to the sound of one of the very earliest experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions, whose very air seems filled with cryptic and poetic signals of all kinds. When personal loss strikes him in his adolescence, this world takes on a darker and more morbid aspect.

The novel that inspired the major motion picture Nocturnal Animals, directed by Tom Ford and starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Amy Adams, is a dazzling, eerie, riveting thriller of fear and regret, blood and revenge.

Fargo meets Undone and the result is a gripping first novel of psychological suspense and mystery set on a snow-bound island in northern Minnesota.

Een ex-soldaat en oorlogsfotograaf gelooft niet dat de jongeman, wiens lijk hij vindt op zijn landgoed, zelfmoord heeft gepleegd en gaat op onderzoek uit.

Autobiografisch relaas van de Amerikaanse begrafenisondernemer en dichter over zijn werk en dichterschap.

Een architect wordt door zijn zes zonen bijgestaan wanneer hij met gevaar voor eigen leven de ondergang van een renbaan probeert te voorkomen.

De dood van een lifter in een paardentransportwagen heeft vérstrekkende gevolgen.

Een liberale joodse vrouw uit New York keert terug naar de orthodox-joodse gemeenschap van Noord-Londen waar haar net overleden vader rabbi was.

De vriendschap van vier vrouwen in een Amerikaans provinciestadje.

Het hoofd van een onderzoeksteam krijgt opdracht een cel van Al Quaida, die een aanval op Europa voorbereidt, te ontmantelen.

Kroniek van de paringsriten van een groep welgestelde New Yorkers.