Welcome to the real and imagined worlds of D. R. Belz, where you’ll find: a practicing white witch kindergarten teacher whose practical joke brings a strange consequence; a young priest-in-training who encounters a literal femme fatale; a homeless man who finds a baby in a trash bin on Christmas morning-and something more; a catalog of bizarre mail-order products you won’t find anywhere else in the universe; an agency in Washington where a million monkeys type out Shakespeare; a suburban doctor...
When a child’s skeleton is discovered during the excavation of the site for a new charter school being built in the Bronx, former teacher Sylvia Jensen is certain of only two things. She is sure that the remains are those of eight-year-old Markus LeMeur, her third-grade student who disappeared in the violent and tumultuous fall of 1968. And she is sure that his death was no accident. Determined to find out who killed Markus and why, Sylvia again joins forces with investigative reporter J. B....
No one knows the true motives of Kees vaan Loo-Macklin. He's a mastermind criminal who gave up his place at the head of the dark underworld to become a legitimate member of Evenwaith's cities. But soon he was reaching out to powerful enemies-the slimy aliens called the Nuel. Loo-Macklin negotiates an illusory peace agreement and gains precious alien secrets in the process. Is he after peace, power or pure evil? With enemy starships beginning to amass, we won't have to wait long to...
Banjo Man tells the story of Susan Willson Reese, a widow, retired schoolteacher, and accomplished bluegrass and old-time banjo picker. A native of the fictional community of Willson’s Cove in the North Carolina mountains, she has been trying to find one of the many handcrafted fretless banjos her grandpa, Luther Willson, built back in the early 1900s. Her quest has been a twenty-year search of futility. Grandpa had been a well-known luthier and musician in the mountains of North Carolina,...
Am Anfang steht ein Rätsel. Die verwitwete Marquise von O… ist schwanger. Nur weiß sie nicht von wem. Ohne ihr Wissen, sagt sie, sei sie in andere Umstände gekommen. Ein Skandal, finden nicht nur die Verwandten. Die Marquise droht am Widerspruch zwischen ihren Gefühlen und den gesellschaftlichen Konventionen zu zerbrechen. Meisterhaft erzählt Kleist die Geschichte ihrer schuldlosen Verstrickung. Eine Novelle, die bis heute beispiellos in der Literaturgeschichte ist.
"Das ist mir lange nicht passiert: Ich blätterte die letzte Seite um und fing gleich mit der ersten wieder an." Roger Willemsen Sechs Sommer lang beobachtet der Gärtner eines Herrenhauses über dem Meer das Kommen und Gehen seiner wohlhabenden, jungverheirateten Besitzer Francesc und Rosamaria. Sie empfangen ihre Clique aus Barcelona, fahren Wasserski, feiern ausgelassene Partys und leben einen von ihren Bediensteten beneideten Sommernachtstraum. Doch dem Gärtner entgehen die feinen Risse...
Kommissarin Gottberg und ihr Geliebter, Commissario Guerrini, verbringen ihren ersten gemeinsamen Urlaub miteinander. Doch die Idylle im Nobel-Ressort Il Bosco an der toskanischen Küste wird schon bald gestört: Bei einem morgendlichen Bad im Meer stößt Laura mit einer Leiche zusammen. Weil sie im Urlaub sind, weigert sich Guerrini zunächst, den Vorfall näher zu untersuchen. Als jedoch nicht nur die Leiche, sondern auch ein Wärter des Ressorts ohne jede Spur verschwindet, bleibt den beiden keine...
Born on his grandfather’s farm in Virginia, seventeen-year-old Jeff Nelson and his father are compelled to fight for their civil rights. They join the Army at the onset of the Civil War. His father soon falls in battle, but Jeff, by his wits, survives. After the war, Jeff Nelson, still young in years and tempered by war, returns to his beloved farm in Virginia, planning on continuing his life as a farmer but finds his land, that has belonged to the Nelsons for three generations, has been sold...
Die Berliner Songwriterin als Liebes-Desillusionistin: Christiane Rösinger weiß, dass «Menschen, die wie Steine nebeneinander sitzen», Paare genannt werden und dass damit alles Unglück der Welt beginnt. Ihre langjährige theoretische und praktische Forschung auf dem «Arbeitsfeld Liebe» bringt es an den Tag: «Die Liebe macht Menschen zu Idioten», und das Pärchen ist eine «unterentwickelte Lebensform, bei deren Anblick man nur immer wieder 'Nein, danke' ausrufen will». Dennoch umgibt uns...
Francis Bacon walks the streets of World War II London, employed as a warden for the ARP to keep watch for activities that might tip off the Axis powers. Before the war, Bacon had travelled to Berlin and Paris picking up snatches of culture from a succession of middle-aged men charmed by his young face. Known for his flamboyant personal life and expensive taste, Bacon has returned home to live with his former nanny in a cramped bohemian apartment. But one night, death intrudes on his after-hours...