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Published by Harper Perennial Harpercollins UK Aug 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007162510ISBN 13: 9780007162512
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet. Pregnant and secretly married, Cheryl Anway scribbles her last will and testament - and erie premonition - on a school binder shortly before a rampaging trio of misfit classmates gun her down in a high school cafeteria. Overrun with paranoia, teenage angst and religious zeal in the ensuing massacre's wake, this sleepy Vancouver neighbourhood declares its saints, brands its demons and finally moves on. But for a handful of people still reeling from that horrific day, life remains perpetually derailed. Four dramatically different characters tell their stories in their own words: Cheryl, who calmly narrates her own death; Jason, the boy no one knew was her husband, still marooned ten years later by his loss; Heather, the woman trying to love the shattered Jason; and Jason's father Reg, a cruelly religious man no one suspects is still worth loving. Each wrestles with God, self-defeat and a crippling inability to hold on to those they love. Coupland's most surprising and soulful novel yet, rich with his trademark cultural acuity and dark humour, Hey Nostradamus! ties themes of alienation, violence and misguided faith into a fateful and unforgettable knot from which four people must untangle their lives. 244 pp. Englisch.
Published by Harpercollins UK, Harper Perennial Okt 2011, 2011
ISBN 10: 184115458XISBN 13: 9781841154589
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'March' and 'People of the Book'. A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village. In 1666, plague swept through London, driving the King and his court to Oxford, and Samuel Pepys to Greenwich, in an attempt to escape contagion. The north of England remained untouched until, in a small community of leadminers and hill farmers, a bolt of cloth arrived from the capital. The tailor who cut the cloth had no way of knowing that the damp fabric carried with it bubonic infection. So begins the Year of Wonders, in which a Pennine village of 350 souls confronts a scourge beyond remedy or understanding. Desperate, the villagers turn to sorcery, herb lore, and murderous witch-hunting. Then, led by a young and charismatic preacher, they elect to isolate themselves in a fatal quarantine. The story is told through the eyes of Anna Frith who, at only 18, must contend with the death of her family, the disintegration of her society, and the lure of a dangerous and illicit attraction. Geraldine Brooks's novel explores love and learning, fear and fanaticism, and the struggle of 17th century science and religion to deal with a seemingly diabolical pestilence. 'Year of Wonders' is also an eloquent memorial to the real-life Derbyshire villagers who chose to suffer alone during England's last great plague. 336 pp. Englisch.
Published by Harpercollins UK, Harper Perennial, 2007
ISBN 10: 0007198493ISBN 13: 9780007198498
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Clandestine chemistry and the LA underworld provide the atmosphere for this kaleidoscopic tale of lost memories and the heartbreak of finding them, from the author of 'The Contortionist's Handbook'. When Eric Ashworth wakes in jail, he has no idea how he got there, or why. His only memory is a woman's name: Desiree. Released on bail and holed up in a low-rent motel, Eric starts to piece together his former life as a chemist at the centre of a desert drug ring with the help of a powerful new hallucinogen which simultaneously loosens his grip on the present. As the events of his past begin to emerge from the confusion of his fragmented memory, Eric must contend with a gnawing paranoia and the need for ever-increasing fixes - not to mention disturbing visits from an intimidating police detective, his former associate Manhattan White and the ominously named Toe Tag. As his grip on reality becomes more tenuous, past and present, reality and fantasy begin to bleed into each other, bringing this visceral, shifting novel of love and loss to its climax. Englisch.
Published by Harpercollins UK, Harper Perennial, 2005
ISBN 10: 0007190409ISBN 13: 9780007190409
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Als die zehnjährige Rosie verschwindet, legt sich ein tiefer Schatten über das walisische Dorf, in dem Eve Green Zuflucht gefunden hat, nachdem ihre Mutter in Birmingham gestorben ist. Sie lebt auf der Farm ihrer Großeltern, als das Verbrechen die kleine Gemeinschaft im ländlichen Wales erschüttert. Aber auch sie sucht nach den Geheimnissen ihrer Familie, nach ihrem verschwundenen Vater.Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter wird die achtjährige Eve ins ländliche Wales gebracht, auf die Farm ihrer Großeltern. Das Dorf ist ein schattiger, winderfüllter Ort, wo jemand ihr Blumen vor die Tür legt und die Leute sie misstrauisch betrachten. Es gibt ein Geheimnis in der Geschichte ihrer Mutter, und sie versucht, dieses Rätsel zu lösen. Dann aber stößt sie das Verschwinden eines Mädchens in eine viel tiefere Dunkelheit. Im Rückblick erzählt von der erwachsenen, nun schwangeren Eve Green, zeichnet dieser leidenschaftliche Roman ein unvergessliches Bild eines zerrissenen Dorfes, eines Verbrechens, für das ein unschuldiger Mann büßt. Eves eigener Zorn, ihre unterdrückte Trauer um die Mutter, ihre Freundschaft zu einem scheuen Herumtreiber, hindern sie, das Verbrechen aufzuklären. Sie findet den Mann ihres Lebens, aber sie bringt ein paar harte Lektionen hinter sich - über Vertrauen, Schuld und Lüge und darüber, wie man überlebt, wenn die Liebe aus dem Leben verschwunden ist. 281 pp. Englisch.
Published by Harpercollins UK, Harper Perennial, 2010
ISBN 10: 0007225652ISBN 13: 9780007225651
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The gripping true story of the Israeli-led hunt for the men responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972, which has inspired Steven Spielberg's forthcoming film epic 'Munich'. 'Avner' was an agent of only twenty-six when he was summoned out of relative obscurity to head a specialist Israeli team crack team and track down the men responsible for the massacre of eleven Israeli athletes at the Munch Olympics in 1972. Vengeance is the awesome account of this operation: it retells how the team set about their task with ruthless application, stalking their Palestinian targets and carrying out precisely timed executions. But it also reveals the other side of the coin: the terrible paradox that results when those in power, in a desperate bid against terrorism, resort to the very tactics of their enemies. 388 pp. Englisch.
Published by Harpercollins UK, Harper Perennial Mär 2012, 2012
ISBN 10: 0007140975ISBN 13: 9780007140978
Seller: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - An entertaining, impassioned polemic on the retreat of reason in the late 20th century. An intellectual call to arms, Francis Wheen's Sunday Times bestseller is one of 2004's most talked about books. In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In Britain, an era of weary consensualist politics was displaced by the arrival of Margaret Thatcher, whose ambition was to reassert 'Victorian values'. In Iran, the fundamentalist cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set out to restore a regime that had last existed almost 1,300 years ago. Between them they succeeded in bringing the twentieth century to a premature close. By 1989, Francis Fukuyama was declaring that we had now reached the End of History. What colonised the space recently vacated by notions of history, progress and reason Cults, quackery, gurus, irrational panics, moral confusion and an epidemic of mumbo-jumbo. Modernity was challenged by a gruesome alliance of pre-modernists and post-modernists, medieval theocrats and New Age mystics. It was as if the Enlightenment had never happened. Francis Wheen, winner of the George Orwell prize, evokes the key personalities of the post-political era - including Princess Diana and Deepak Chopra, Osama Bin-Laden and Nancy Reagan's astrologer - while charting the extraordinary rise in superstition, relativism and emotional hysteria over the past quarter of a century. From UFO scares to dotcom mania, his hilarious and gloriously impassioned polemic describes a period in the world's history when everything began to stop making sense. 368 pp. Englisch.
Published by Harpercollins UK, Harper Perennial, 2005
ISBN 10: 1841156345ISBN 13: 9781841156347
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The compelling biography of the beautiful, talented Garman sisters and the glittering, romantic era in which they lived. Each of the seven Garman sisters were strikingly beautiful, artistic and wild. Born around the turn of the nineteenth century, most of the siblings were to become involved in the radical literary and political circles of British life between the First and Second World Wars. Their morals were unconventional: bisexuality, unfaithfulness and illegitimate children were a matter of course. Nevertheless they were high-minded and intensely loyal. They were the last muses: women who were prepared to sideline their own talent, friendships, material comforts - even their own children - in order to beguile and inspire the men they loved. Cressida Connolly's family biography delves into the lives of three of the sisters in intense and revealing detail. Kathleen Garman, the father's favourite, ran away to London to study music. She was spotted by the American sculptor Jacob Epstein, who promptly fell in love with her, and remained his muse until his death. They had three children, she was shot in the shoulder by his first wife and she finally became Lady Epstein in 1955. Mary Garman came to London with Kathleen and studied art at the Slade. She married poet Roy Campbell, who was to become the scourge of the literary establishment by espousing General Franco's side during the Spanish Civil War. Finally there was Lorna Garman, the youngest and most beautiful of all the family. At sixteen she married the wealthy Ernest Wishart, a landowner, communist and founder of the socialist publishing house Laurence & Wishart, who spent most of his life turning a blind eye to his wife's infidelities. Lorna was the love of Laurie Lee's life and they had a daughter. Lucian Freud painted several pictures for her. Through Cressida Connolly's skilfull retelling of these remarkable lives, we get an intimate portrait of a golden age of romance, passion and art that is an original, beguiling read.
Published by Harper Perennial Harpercollins UK, 2005
ISBN 10: 0007205163ISBN 13: 9780007205165
Seller: AHA-BUCH, Einbeck, Germany
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Published by HarperCollins UK|Harper Perennial, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007206992ISBN 13: 9780007206995
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Introducing Israel Armstrong, one of literature s most unlikely detectives in the first of a series of novels from the author of the critically acclaimed Ring Road.Der Traum vom irischen Lebensglueck: froehliche Menschen, gruene Wiesen, dunkel glaenzendes G.
Published by HarperCollins UK|Harper Perennial, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007286244ISBN 13: 9780007286249
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
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Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Sex, money and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany.Sex, money and politics are the driving forces of society in this new novel from bestselling author Alaa al Aswany. .
Published by HARPER Perennial/HarperCollins Pubvishers, London Uk, 2008
ISBN 10: 0007219814ISBN 13: 9780007219810
Seller: Lower Beverley Better Books, Lyndhurst, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edtion Thus. An offering of 2 WW II books. 1.) Nemesis: 22 chapters, 598 pp. plus: A Brief Chronology of the Japanese War, Acknowledgements, Notes and Sources, Index. book has faint crease on spine. 2.) Armageddon: first edition thus, 3rd printing, First Vintage Books Edition, October 2005, ISBN 9780375714221, Introduction by author, dated January 2004 at Hungerford England, The Principal Commanders and Their Forces, 514 pp. plus: Acknowledgements, Sources and References, Notes, Index, Photo Permissions. Book has spine edge wear and slight edge/shelf wear/soiling. Books together weigh over 2 lb. and may incur extra shipping costs. Bookseller's Inventory # 230688.