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Platäa, 500 v. Chr: Arimnestos ist noch ein Kind, als sein Vater ermordet und er ins ferne Ephesos verschleppt wird. Nach Jahren der Sklaverei erlangt er, zum Mann gereift, die Freiheit. Von Rache beseelt macht er sich auf, den Mörder seines Vaters zu finden. Dabei gerät er in den aufbrechenden Konflikt zwischen Athenern und Persern und geht den Weg des Kriegers. Und wie sein Vorbild Achilles kennt er keine Gnade. Bald nennt man ihn erfurchtsvoll den >>Menschenschlächter
| Автор | Christian Cameron |
Das alte Ägypten ist ein Phänomen für die Wissenschaft und ein beständiger Quell neuer Hypothesen und abenteuerlicher Theorien. Die vorliegende Hördokumentation beschäftigt sich mit dem Alltag des Pharaonenvolkes, von der Einigung unter- und Oberägyptens über den Pyramidenbau bis zum Einfluss der Römer. Wir betrachten eingehend die Ägyptomanie Bonapartes und die Wiederkehr dieses Kultes durch Carters Weltsensation, der Entdeckung des unberührten Königsgrabes Tutenchamuns.
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
When Laurie Spencer said 'I do,' she never realized she'd be trading one pair of shackles for another – until her husband's unexpected death leaves her with an opportunity to escape her controlling family for good. Determined to be independent, Laurie approaches sexy rancher Jared Smith with an offer she hopes he can't refuse. When unconsciously sensual Laurie offers a partnership, and she throws herself in as part of the deal, Jared's not sure he'll be able to...
| Автор | Leigh Greenwood |
Platäa, 500 v. Chr: Arimnestos ist noch ein Kind, als sein Vater ermordet und er ins ferne Ephesos verschleppt wird. Nach Jahren der Sklaverei erlangt er, zum Mann gereift, die Freiheit. Von Rache beseelt macht er sich auf, den Mörder seines Vaters zu finden. Dabei gerät er in den aufbrechenden Konflikt zwischen Athenern und Persern und geht den Weg des Kriegers. Und wie sein Vorbild Achilles kennt er keine Gnade. Bald nennt man ihn erfurchtsvoll den >>Menschenschlächter
| Автор | Christian Cameron |
Norwegen, Anfang des des 20. Jahrhunderts: Signe ist jung und ambitioniert, an der Seite ihres Onkels Edvard Munch lernt sie das schillernde Leben der Osloer Bohème kennen. Edvard fördert sie, erkennt er doch in ihr sein Talent wieder. Signes Vater hat jedoch ganz andere Pläne für seine Tochter, um seine Erwartungen zu erfüllen, stimmt sie einer Ehe zu. Doch schon bald weiß Signe, dass sie mit ihrem Mann nicht glücklich werden wird, denn er verbietet ihr zu malen. Als sie den Widerstandskämpfer...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Johnny Paynter flees Denver to escape being hanged for a murder he didn't commit. At his brother's ranch in Texas, where he thought he could take refuge, he finds his brother, Mark – dead. Taking advantage of his strong resemblance to his brother, Johnny assumes Mark's identity. Soon Johnny discovers that Mark had been corresponding with a widow named Sally in St. Louis, and she's en route to be a mail-order bride to Mark. Seeing no other option, Johnny makes a fateful...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
"Lynne Golding knows how to tell a story. With yarns she gathered at her great aunt’s knee, she has woven a compelling story that harkens back to a time of pre-war innocence in a town I’ve always been proud to call my own." – Former Premier the Honorable William G. Davis In the year 1907, all of Brampton is present at the sod-turning ceremony for the Carnegie Library. At the end of the event, the crowd rises as one to walk to the Presbyterian Church for a consecration service… Everyone...
| Автор | Lynne Golding |
"A wonderful exercise in humanism . . . [by] a prodigious and impressive storyteller".—[i]Jakarta GlobeAn epic saga of «families and friends entangled in the cruel snare of history» ([i]Time magazine), [i]Home combines political repression and exile with a spicy mixture of love, family, and food, alternating between Paris and Jakarta in the time between Suharto's 1965 rise to power and downfall in 1998, further illuminating Indonesia's tragic twentieth-century history...
| Автор | Leila S. Chudori |
Two friends, one a budding writer home from Europe, the other an ambitious racketeer, meet in the only nightclub, the Tram 83, in a war-torn city-state in secession, surrounded by profit-seekers of all languages and nationalities. [i]Tram 83 plunges the reader into the modern African gold rush as cynical as it is comic and colorfully exotic, using jazz rhythms to weave a tale of human relationships in a world that has become a global village. [b]Fiston Mwanza Mujila (b. 1981, Lubumbashi,...
| Автор | Fiston Mwanza Mujila |
Awarded the Prix Femina in 2014, a prestigious annual French literary prize chosen by an all-female jury of 22 writers from the magazine Femina (they don't just pick women authors to win).A rare example of a work of Haitian literature published in the US, this is a PERFECT starting point for anyone curious about where to start in reading not just Haitian literature, but all Caribbean literature (from Junot Diaz to Gabriel Garcia Marquez).An important glimpse into the lives of the voiceless...
| Автор | Yanick Lahens |
<P>Gerald Vizenor weaves an engrossing historical portrayal of Native American soldiers in World War I. Blue Ravens is set at the start of the twentieth century in the days leading up to the Great War in France, and continues in combat scenes at Ch&#226;teau-Thierry, Montbr&#233;hain, and Bois de Fays. The novel contains many of Vizenor's recurrent cultural themes—the power and irony of trickster stories, the privilege of survivance over victimry, natural...
| Автор | Gerald Vizenor |
In the early 20th century, with Russia full of intense social strife and political struggle, Vladimir Yevgenyevich (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky (1880–1940) was a Revisionist Zionist leader and Jewish Public intellectual. Although previously glossed over, these years are crucial to Jabotinsky's development as a thinker, politician, and Zionist. Brian Horowitz focuses on Jabotinsky's commitments Zionism and Palestine as he embraced radicalism and fought against antisemitism and the suffering...
| Автор | Brian J. Horowitz |
With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including...
| Автор | Francis Musoni |
A singer in an evening dress, a grand piano. A modest-sized audience, mostly well-dressed and silver-haired, equipped with translation booklets. A program consisting entirely of songs by one or two composers. This is the way of the Lieder recital these days. While it might seem that this style of performance is a long-standing tradition, German Song Onstage demonstrates that it is not. For much of the 19th century, the songs of Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, and Brahms were heard in the home,...
| Автор | Laura Tunbridge |
England zur Tudor-Zeit: Als Sekretär und erster Minister von König Henry VIII. hat Thomas Cromwell 1535 den Zenit seiner Macht erreicht. Er ist zusammen mit der neuen Königin Anne Boleyn aufgestiegen. Nun wartet ganz England ungeduldig auf die Geburt eines männlichen Erben. Doch Anne Boleyn vermag dem König keinen Thronfolger zu schenken und henry verliebt sich in die schüchterne Jane Seymour. Erneut liegen die Geschicke Englands in Thomas Cromwells Händen.
| Автор | Hilary Mantel |
Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as «a thrilling discovery … a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog … [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts.» J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no...
| Автор | José Manuel prieto |
Rom, im Jahr 30 n. Chr.: Vespasian hat einen schier unlösbaren Auftrag. Er soll heimlich den thrakischen Priester Rotheces in seine Gewalt bringen, aus einer Festung unter Belagerung der römischen Legion. Denn der Mann könnte Sejanus zerstören, den Kommandeur der Prätorianergarde, der alle Macht in Rom an sich gerissen hat. Vespasian überwindet Hinterhalte: verschneite Berge, Piraten auf hoher See und Sejanus' Spione. Doch die schlimmste Gefahr lauert im Herzen des römischen Reiches selbst,...
| Автор | Robert Fabbri |
Das Jahr 26 n. Chr.: Der 16-jährige Vespasian verlässt Familie und Hof in Richtung Rom. Er will einen Schutzherrn suchen und sich der Armee anschließen. Doch Rom ist in der eisernen Gewalt von Sejanus, Kommandeur der Prätorianergarde. Seine Spione sind überall. Jedes falsch gesprochene Wort kommt einem Todesurteil gleich. Vespasian flieht aus der Stadt: Blutjung und unerfahren nimmt er einen Posten als Tribun an der Grenze zum Balkan an. Rebellion liegt in der Luft – und Vespasian begreift, dass...
| Автор | Robert Fabbri |
Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence to a man's hardened wariness is captured in lyrical, emotionally raw episodes. He navigates the minefields of American masculinity in a series of disturbing, yet strangely...
| Автор | Don Bajema |
One of the most sensational incidents in the history of France, the Dreyfus Affair was a landmark federal case involving treason and antisemitism. A controversial documentary about the trial by pioneering filmmaker Georges Méliès caused riots when it was shown in 1899, and was banned from any screening in France for the next three quarters of a century. Who engineered Dreyfus's conviction? Was the man who played him in the film actually murdered by a mob of enraged...
| Автор | Susan Daitch |
Das Fremde so nah. Sir Richard Burton (1821-1890), britischer Offizier, bricht aus den englischen Kolonien auf, um fremde Länder zu erkunden. Wie besessen lernt er die Sprachen, beschäftigt sich mit Religionen und betritt mittlerweile zum Islam übergetreten als erster Europäer inkognito die heiligen Stätten von Mekka und Medina. Dieser zu Recht hochgelobte Roman fasziniert durch die sprachliche Eleganz, in der die Biographie Burtons mit der Kulturgeschichte dreier Kontinente verbunden wird.
| Автор | Ilija Trojanow |
It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer’s night, she believes him. But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as Lieutenant in a New South Wales penal colony and she has no choice but to go....
| Автор | Kate Grenville |
‘Essex Farm, Never Forgotten’ tells the story of Essex Farm and Calvaire (Essex) two First World War cemeteries in Belgium that will forever bear the Essex name. ‘Essex Farm’ is not a comprehensive history of the First World War or a detailed account of the Essex Regiment. However we do try and give concise background to the momentous events of the time and to the best of our ability hope our facts and summaries are accurate. World War One, or the Great War, was the war described as the war...
| Автор | Andrew Summers |
Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks  represents some of his most important work. Fanon’s masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a...
| Автор | Frantz Fanon |