Freitag, 18. April 2014
Martin Suter - Allmen und die Dahlien
Ein Dahliengemälde von Henri Fantin-Latour, einige Millionen wert, wurde
entwendet. Die steinreiche alte Dame, der es gehörte, Dalia Gutbauer,
hat ein auffallend emotionales Verhältnis zu diesem Bild. Johann
Friedrich von Allmen soll es wiederbeschaffen – um jeden Preis. Fall
Nummer drei führt ihn und Carlos in das Labyrinth eines
heruntergekommenen Luxushotels. Und damit in die Welt der Reichen und
Schönen – umschwirrt von all denen, die auch dazugehören wollen.
Annemarie Selinko - Desiree
"On Napoleon's desk there was a death sentence waiting to be signed, and I was going to say to him - well, what was I going to say to him? One could no longer talk to him as one talks to ordinary people..."
All the passions and intrigues of Bonaparte's court are seen through the eyes of the merchant's daughter from Marseilles, a young woman who became Napoleon's fiancee and ultimately, the Queen of Sweden.
All the passions and intrigues of Bonaparte's court are seen through the eyes of the merchant's daughter from Marseilles, a young woman who became Napoleon's fiancee and ultimately, the Queen of Sweden.
Montag, 14. April 2014
Max Scharnigg - Vorläufige Chronik des Himmels über Pildau
Die magische Welt des Jasper Honigbrod: Ein Einsiedlerhof in den Hügeln,
drei Generationen unter einem Dach und ein sehr alter Fisch im Weiher -
das ist das Dorf Pildau. Wer hier aufwächst, kann entweder sehr
glücklich oder sehr unglücklich werden. Jasper Honigbrod entscheidet
sich mit sechs Jahren für das Glück. Was er noch nicht weiß:
Fehlentscheidungen sind in seiner Familie ausgesprochen häufig. In
Pildau geht jeder auf seine Weise mit dem Leben und dem Zeitverflug um.
Die größte gemeinsame Sorge gilt der Hofstange, die nach alter Tradition
jedes Jahr höher in den Himmel wachsen muss. Als nach einem nächtlichen
Unfall das Waisenkind Lada auf dem Hof landet, beginnen sich die Dinge
zu verändern, nicht nur für Jasper, der zu einer Schwester und einer
ersten Liebe kommt.
Freitag, 11. April 2014
Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns
Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed.
Nearly two decades later, a friendship grows between Mariam and a local
teenager, Laila, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter. When
the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against
starvation, brutality and fear. Yet love can move a person to act in
unexpected ways, and lead them to overcome the most daunting obstacles
with a startling heroism.
Freitag, 7. März 2014
Frank Schätzing - Limit
2025: Bahnbrechende Technologien haben die Raumfahrt revolutioniert. In
einem atemlosen Wettlauf fördern Amerikaner und Chinesen auf dem Mond
Helium-3, ein Element, das sämtliche Energieprobleme der Welt zu lösen
verspricht. Zur selben Zeit soll Detektiv Owen Jericho in Shanghai die
untergetauchte Dissidentin Yoyo ausfindig machen. Was nach Routine
klingt, entwickelt sich zu einer albtraumhaften Jagd, denn die ebenso
schöne wie anstrengende Chinesin ist im Besitz streng gehüteter
Geheimnisse und ihres Lebens nicht mehr sicher. Die Spur führt rund um
den Erdball - und zum Mond, wo eine Gruppe Weltraumtouristen eine
bedrohliche Entdeckung macht.
Montag, 16. Dezember 2013
Chris Kuzneski - The Lost Throne
Hewn into the towering cliffs of central Greece, the
Metéora monasteries are all but inacessible. The Holy Trinity is the
most isolated, its sacred brotherhood the guardians of a long-forgotten
secret.
In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top - the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves.
Halfway across Europe, a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders - the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Byrd's search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda...
In the dead of night, the sanctity of the holy retreat is shattered by an elite group of warriors, carrying ancient weapons. One by one, they hurl the silent monks from the cliff-top - the holy men taking their secret to their rocky graves.
Halfway across Europe, a terrified academic fears for his life. Richard Byrd has nearly uncovered the location of one of the Seven Ancient Wonders - the statue of Zeus and his mighty throne. But Byrd's search has also uncovered a forbidden conspiracy, and there are those who would do anything to conceal its dark agenda...
Samstag, 30. November 2013
P.J. Tracy - Live bait
When elderly Morey Gilbert is found, lying dead in the grass by his
wife, Lily, it's a tragedy, but it shouldn't have been a shock - old
people die. But when she finds a bullet hole in his skull, the blood
washed away by heavy rain, sadness turns to fear. It looks like an
execution . . .
Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless.
Detectives Gino and Magozzi, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past.
Soon a whole city is fearful as new victims are found, killed with the same cold precision. All elderly. All apparently blameless.
Detectives Gino and Magozzi, race to uncover a connection and their best hope of doing so may be Grace McBride, beautiful, damaged survivor of an earlier killing spree. And the answers, it seems, are buried in a terrible past.
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