Comics

Inhaltsangabe zu "Floodgate"

Andy Destra is a mostly honest cop in the most notoriously corrupt and crime-ridden city in America: Auction City. After discovering explosive information that reveals corruption within the highest levels of the police department, Andy is kicked off the force, framed, and disgraced, left to wage a lonely one-man crusade against conspiracies he can’t prove.

Andy’s investigation plunges him into a blackly comic maelstrom of one-armed gang members, slick pickpockets, criminal syndicates, hired mercenaries, escaped convicts, sewer dwellers, and one sinister ice cream truck. At the same time, he must contend with a mystery closer to home: the true identity of his parents, his most unshakeable obsession. Understanding their past may be the key to Auction City’s future as it teeters on the brink of chaos.

If Andy can’t solve this case, the Floodgate will fail…and his city will burn.

Inhaltsangabe zu "Blutmond (Basaltblitz 3)"

Das neue Fantasy-Buch des preisgekrönten Autors

Was würdest du tun, wenn eine Geheimorganisation es auf dich abgesehen hat?

Seit Nick versehentlich einen Kometen gegessen hat, ist er der Superheld Basaltblitz!

Nicks Freund Be vermisst nicht nur seinen Vater, sondern auch seinen Gartenteich. Ein dreister Fall von Teichdiebstahl.
Das mysteriöse Verschwinden schreit nach einem Superhelden.

Eine Mission für Basaltblitz!

Basaltblitz!

Hochspannung & Rätsel zwischen Schule und der Zentrale des Blutmondes

In dieser Kabine der Schülerklos war Lena Heckenreiter aus der Zwölften geschwängert geworden.
Auf der Innenseite der Tür sah man noch immer das Herzchen mit Lena & Leander darin. Nick überlegte kurz, ob er Oskar hinzufügen sollte. Der kleine Oskar konnte es schließlich noch nicht selbst einritzen, gehörte aber nun zweifellos dazu.
Nick setzte sich auf den Klodeckel.
Generationen von Schülern hatten sich auf den Wänden verewigt. Neben Lena & Leander hatte ein anonymer Künstler mit schwarzem Filzer geschrieben: Leander ist öde, Leander ist blöde, Lena, mach´s mit mir, ich kack auch hier.
Auszug Basaltblitz – Blutmond

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Die Basaltblitz-Reihe

Basaltblitz - Geburt eines Helden

Basaltblitz - Monsterjagd

Basaltblitz - Blutmond

Basaltblitz - Superhelden (in Vorbereitung)



Die Luzifer-Chroniken (3 Bände):

Teufel: Fantasy-Thriller
Band I der Luzifer-Chroniken

Teufel: Engel des Todes
Band II der Luzifer-Chroniken

Teufel: Die Rache Gottes
Band III der Luzifer-Chroniken



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Inhaltsangabe zu "Das Nichts und Gott"

Inhaltsangabe zu "Stephen Kings N."

SPANNUNG UND GÄNSEHAUT

Psychiater Johnny Bonsaint behandelt den von Zwangsstörungen geplagten Patienten "N". Als sich dieser wegen seiner Wahnvorstellungen selbst tötet, begibt sich Johnny an den Ort der düsteren Visionen und beginnt sich zu fragen, ob es sich wirklich nur um grausame Wahnvorstellungen gehandelt hat.

Die Comic-Adaption der King'schen Kurzgeschichte verspricht reichlich Spannung und Gänsehaut.

Inhaltsangabe zu "Care of Wooden Floors"

A bold and brilliant debut from a darkly funny new voice.

Oskar is a minimalist composer best known for a piece called Variations on Tram Timetables. He is married to a Californian art dealer named Laura and he lives with two cats, named after Russian composers, in an Eastern European city.

But this book isn't really about Oskar. Oskar is in Los Angeles, having his marriage dismantled by lawyers. He has entrusted an old university friend with the task of looking after his cats, and taking care of his perfect, beautiful apartment.

Despite the fact that Oskar has left dozens of surreally detailed notes covering every aspect of looking after the flat, things do not go well.

Care of Wooden Floors is about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of consequences. It's about a friendship between two men who don't know each other very well. It's about alienation and being alone in a foreign city. It's about the quest for perfection and the struggle against entropy. And it is, a little, about how to take care of wooden floors.

Inhaltsangabe zu "Wicked Charms"

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Lizzy and Diesel are back in an all-new wicked adventure from Janet Evanovich and Emmy Award–winning co-author Phoef Sutton.
 
Murdered and mummified nearly a century ago, notorious bootlegger Collier “Peg Leg” Dazzle discovered and re-hid a famous pirate’s treasure somewhere along the coast of New England. A vast collection of gold and silver coins and precious gems, the bounty also contains the Stone of Avarice—the very item reluctant treasure seeker Lizzy Tucker and her partner, Diesel, have been enlisted to find. While Lizzy would just like to live a quiet, semi-normal life, Diesel is all about the hunt. And this hunt is going to require a genuine treasure map and a ship worthy of sailing the seven seas . . . or at least getting them from Salem Harbor to Maine.
 
Greed is eternal and insatiable, and Lizzy and Diesel aren’t the only ones searching for the lost pirate’s chest. People who have dedicated their entire lives to finding it are willing to commit murder or make a deal with the devil just to hold the fortune in their hands. One of those people may even be Wulf, Diesel’s deceptively charming and enigmatic cousin. Wulf desires the Stone of Avarice. He also desires Lizzy. It’s hard to say how far he’s willing to go to gain either one.
 
Wicked Charms is a swashbuckling adventure full of raiders, monkeys, minions, and mayhem. Lizzy and Diesel are going to have to do everything they can to keep their heads above water and hope they’re living a charmed life.

Praise for Wicked Charms
 
“Delivers what Evanovich’s readers have come to expect: laughs, oddball situations, quirky supporting characters, and a dash or two of romance.”—Examiner.com


From the Hardcover edition.

Inhaltsangabe zu "Funny Girl: A Novel"

Inhaltsangabe zu "The Rosie Project"

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobster every Tuesday...

'Marvellous' John Boyne

'Original, clever and perfectly written' Jill Mansell

'Adorable' Marian Keyes

'An upbeat, quirky, impertinent gem of a read' Chris Cleave

'I'm not good at understanding what other people want.'

'Tell me something I don't know . . .'

Love isn't an exact science - but no one told Don Tillman. A thirty-nine-year-old geneticist, Don's never had a second date. So he devises the Wife Project, a scientific test to find the perfect partner. Enter Rosie - 'the world's most incompatible woman' - throwing Don's safe, ordered life into chaos. But what is this unsettling, alien emotion he's feeling?

'Don Tillman is one of the most endearing, charming and fascinating literary characters I have met in a long time' The Times

'Hilarious, unlikely and heartbreaking' Easy Living

'Touching and laugh-out-loud funny - think The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time meets Silver Linings Playbook' Stylist

'Funny, endearing, and pure, wonderful escapism' Independent

'A sweet, funny rom-com . . . You'll be willing Don and Rosie on every step of the way' Marie Claire

'Original, charming and very funny' Woman & Home

'A comic triumph: clever, humane and tears-in-your-eyes funny. But best of all, The Rosie Project is a madly romantic love story' Liz Jensen, author of The Rapture

'I couldn't put this book down. It's one of the most quirky and endearing romances I've ever read. I laughed the whole way through. And now I want to meet Don' Sophie Kinsella

With the charm of Mark Haddon's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and the romance of David Nicholls' One Day, The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is both funny and endearing - and is set to become the paperback of 2014.

Graeme Simsion is a full-time writer. Previously an IT consultant and educator, he wrote his first book in 1994 (the standard reference on data modelling, now entering its fourth edition), and is married to Anne, a professor of psychiatry who writes erotic fiction. They have two children.

Inhaltsangabe zu "The Comedy Hotel (English Edition)"

Max Hadfield is surprised to learn that his voluptuous wife is expecting a baby. After all, he has secretly had a vasectomy. This is just the first of a series of blows that start to rain upon him. His chain of dress shops that was intended to lift him to the heights of prosperity that he had always dreamed about is feeling the chill winds of recession, and his teenage son has decided to make a mysterious trip to Spain instead of launching himself on the career that his parents expected.

‘Life is a tease,’ Max decides, ‘a series of receding targets designed to keep you on the move, like a laboratory experiment with rats.’

His two drinking companions, Alec, a headmaster, and Laurie, a swashbuckling businessman, also find that middle age doesn’t bring peace. Alec for years has secretly being living in sin; putting the matter right doesn’t bring its expected happiness. And Laurie is married to an aggressive lady who thinks nothing of clipping off his moustache while he sleeps, or serving him a dog-food omelette.

Worst of all, the three of them discover that the years spent being devoted parents have not produced the fine young offspring that they had set their hearts on. So what can the future hold for Max, with a child of unknown provenance on the way?

At least there is always the solace of the Comedy Hotel.

"A jolly good read…a man’s humorist in the Amis pere vein."
Time Out

"A great black comedy, strongly spiced with hilarious one-liners."
Northern Echo

"The best-selling novelist whose books are compulsory holiday reading."
Independent

"Riotously funny story of men, money and midlife crisis. "
Publishing News

Inhaltsangabe zu "Everything is Illuminated"

The simplest thing would be to describe Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer's accomplished debut, as a novel about the Holocaust. It is, but that really fails to do justice to the sheer ambition of this book. The main story is a grimly familiar one. A young Jewish-American--who just happens to be called Jonathan Safran Foer--travels to the Ukraine in the hope of finding the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his search by Alex Perchov, a naïve Ukrainian translator, Alex's grandfather (also called Alex) and a flatulent mongrel bitch, named Sammy Davis JR JR. On their journey through Eastern Europe's obliterated landscape they unearth facts about the Nazi atrocities and the extent of Ukrainian complicity that have implications for Perchov as well as Safran Foer. This narrative is not, however, recounted from (the character) Jonathan Safran Foer's perspective. It is relayed through a series of letters that Alex sends to Foer. These are written in the kind of broken Russo-English normally reserved for Bond villains and Latka from the US television series Taxi. (Sentences such as "It is mammoth honour for me write for a writer, especially when he is American writer, like Ernest Hemingway"; "It is bad and popular habit for people in Ukraine to take things without asking" are the norm.) Interspersed between these letters are fragments of a novel by "Safran Foer"--a wonderfully imagined, almost magical realist, account of life in the Shetl before the Nazis destroyed it. These are in turn commented on by Alex creating an additional metafictional angle to the tale.

If all this sounds a little daunting don't be put off; Safran Foer is an extremely funny as well as intelligent writer. Admittedly he has an annoying habit of capitalising great chunks of text, but minor typographical nuances are easy to ignore in a book that combines some of the best Jewish folk yarns since Isaac Bashevis Singer with a quite heartbreaking meditation on love, friendship and loss. --Travis Elborough