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Heyne Friedhof der KuscheltiereStephen King,Hinter dem idyllisch wirkenden weißen Haus am Rande der Kleinstadt Ludlow liegt ein uralter indianischer Begräbnisplatz voll umgestürzter Grabmale: ein Ort, an dem es umgeht, ein Ort absurder, gottloser Versuchungen. Als die Katze der Familie Creed überfahren wird, begräbt Louis den Kater auf dem Friedhof und erzählt seiner Tochter Ellie nichts vom Tod des geliebten Tieres. Und schon bald ist die Katze wieder da, etwas aggressiver und sehr lebendig. Doch Louis weiß genau, dass er sie in einem Müllbeutel beerdigt hat. Welche Kräfte hat der alte Friedhof hinter dem Haus? Und wird eine derart wunderbare Erweckung auch bei einem Menschen möglich sein?608 Seiten, Maße: 11,8 x 18,7 cm, Taschenbuch, Deutsch |
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Bantam Life ExpectancyLife Expectancy confirms that one of the pleasures of reading Dean Koontz is that he is never especially likely to do the same thing twice in a row. Here he gives us a suspense novel with a supernatural element--Jimmy's dying grandfather prophesies at his birth that he will have five really bad days in his twenties and we watch these with real concern that he may not survive them. Even on the day of Jimmy's birth things go badly--a mad clown loses his wife in childbirth and massacres hospital staff; a bizarre feud between clowns and aerialists is a significant part of what follows. One of the strengths of Koontz's writing is that he works out in finely-blocked detail precisely how his average characters get themselves out of desperate situations by ingenuity and pluck, and without suddenly becoming super-powerful; even at his most wildly inventive, he remembers to be plausible. And this is one of his best books for a while simply because he has fewer axes to grind--this is pure story-telling of the smoothest kind. --Roz Kaveney. |
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Polar-Film Wilsberg - Schuld und Sünde / Wilsberg - TodesengelWilsberg 5. DVD-Video AV Wilsberg - Schuld und Sühne / Todesengel. Der ZDF Kult-Krimi aus Münster |
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Random House Large Print The Litigators (Random House Large Print)Seiten: 560, Ausgabe: Lrg, Taschenbuch, Random House Large Print |
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Lehmanns Media Irrsinn ist menschlich: Ein Entzug auf der geschlossenen PsychiatrieSeiten: 178, Ausgabe: 1, Broschiert, Lehmanns Media |
14,95 €* |
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Bastei Lübbe (Lübbe Audio) SchuldigAusgabe: 2, Audio CD, Bastei Lübbe (Lübbe Audio) |
19,99 €* |
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Festa Verlag Erweckung: Fantastischer ThrillerErweckung |
13,95 €* |
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HarperCollins Publishers Sahara, English editionSeiten: 656, Ausgabe: New edition, Taschenbuch, Harpercollins UK |
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HarperCollins Publishers Pirate LatitudesFor many years, Michael Crichton's name was a byword for intelligent, cutting edge fiction, frequently utilising striking new developments in science as the basis of his narratives, or (most famously in Jurassic Park) extrapolating scientific possibilities into highly exciting (if implausible) tales of adventure. After his recent death (at a relatively young age), it was salutary to remember that his writing career had been a very long one -- so that when he took a concept that he might have used before (i.e., high tech amusement park goes disastrously wrong with fatal consequences for visitors) he could ensure that there was a lengthy gap so that people barely noticed (look at the plots of Westworld (1973) and the aforementioned Jurassic Park). And now we have his final book, published posthumously, Pirate Latitudes. For once, though, it looks as if Crichton were following the pack rather than leading it -- but things are not that clear cut as they might initially have seemed.Pirate Latitudes takes the reader back to 1665, when Charles II’s Jamaican colony is under serious threat, besieged on every side by the voracious Spanish empire. At the centre of this troubled outpost is its crowded capital, Port Royal, a lively (if festering) hangout for criminal dregs, who inhabit its taverns and brothels. This is the time of the privateer, when (with tacit royal sanction), ship's captains could make sorties against Spanish ships and outposts, plundering at will -- just so long as the Governor and King Charles are taken care of. Michael Crichton's protagonist in this colourful mix is Captain Charles Hunter, educated at Harvard and a man with keenly developed survival instincts. He is made aware a treasure galleon, which is at anchor in the heavily fortified Spanish island of Matanceros, and Hunter’s interest is piqued -- not least because this means he will be able to take on Philip of Spain's most ruthless enforcer, Cazalla. The stage is set for what will either be a glorious bit of naval smash-and-grab or that will end in the ignominious death of Charles Hunter and his motley crew.All of this, of course, suggests that Crichton (always a man aware of the commercial possibilities of any material) had been looking at the phenomenal success of the Pirates of the Caribbean series of films, and there is no doubt that some of the spirit of fun to be found here echoes that of the Johnny Depp-starring movies. But Crichton clearly remembered an earlier era, and the swashbuckling style of the (less parodic) Errol Flynn adventues is actually the template here (you'll notice the comparisons drawn here are cinematic rather than literary -- but Michael Crichton always straddled the two fields, and was a successful film director as well as novelist). Perhaps Pirate Latitudes isn't the final triumphant legacy we might wish for from Crichton, but (taken in the right spirit) it's uncomplicated, fast-moving fun. --Barry Forshaw |
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Harper TripleSeiten: 512, Ausgabe: Reprint, Taschenbuch, Harper |
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