"Hunger nach dem großen Leben" ist ein Stück afrikanischer Geschichte. Was sonst als weltpolitische Schlagzeile aus der dritten Welt zu uns kommt, wird hier konkret, sinnfällig und eindringlich am Schicksal eines afrikanischen Jungen erfahrbar: die Übermacht der aufgesetzten kolonialen Zivilisation, errichtet auf den Trümmern zerstörter, jahrtausendealter dörflicher Gemeinschaft und Kultur.
ISBN: 978-3-257-21536-6
Издательство:
Diogenes
Дата выхода: июль 2011
The Brodricks of Clonmere gain great wealth by harnessing the power of Hungry Hill and extracting the treasure it holds. The Donovans, the original owners of Clonmere Castle, resent the Brodricks` success, and consider the great house and its surrounding land theirs by right. For generations the feud between the families has simmered, always threatening to break into violence…
ISBN: 978-1-84408-452-4
Издательство:
Little, Brown and Company
Дата выхода: июль 2012
A novel for those who loved Behind the Scenes at the Museum, The Poisonwood Bible and The Lovely Bones. Raped then murdered in Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in 1942, Lin Shui`s `Hungry Ghost` clings tenaciously to life. Holing up in a hospital morgue, which is destined to become a school, just in time she finds a host off whom to feed. It is twelve-year-old Alice Safford, the deeply-troubled daughter of a leading figure in government. The parasitic ghost follows her to her home on the Peak. There, the lethal mix of the two, embroiled in the family`s web of dark secrets and desperate lies, unleashes chaos. All this unfolds against a background of colonial unrest, riots, extremes of weather and the countdown to the return of the colony to...
ISBN: 978-0-00-730338-0
Издательство:
Collins
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Wilbur Smith sets his vividly realistic novels on the razor`s edge between human courage and nature`s wrath. InHungry As The Sea, this master storyteller takes us to the frigid South Atlantic, where one man fights for his life - and for redemption. Nicholas Berg is steaming out of Cape Town aboard the salvage tug Warlock. Once Berg ruled an ocean-going empire. Now, his future has come down to a powerful boat and a daring rescue mission. One of his former ships is being lashed against the cliffs of Cape Alarm, surrounded by deadly icebergs and survivors clinging to their boats. Berg has gambled everything on reaching the Golden Adventurer before a competitor and a violent storm - to win a fortune in salvage fees. But if Nick Berg...
ISBN: 978-0-312-97107-6
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2012
Ten hungry monsters visit school today. They`re here to learn the alphabet the hungry monster way. Watch out! The ten naughty visitors from the bestselling One Hungry Monster counting book have escaped! When they sneak into school, will they sit quietly at their desks to study? Not a chance! As a young boy tries to teach his unusual classmates (and keep himself out of trouble), the alphabet comes to life in a mischievously monstrous way. Though the lesson starts out innocently, soon the desks get soaked in bubbles, they bring the trampoline into the classroom, and the most difficult letters in the alphabet (X, Y & Z) are visited by an X-ray man, a yeti, and a zombie. This hilarious classroom rumpus is A-B-C-Dee-lightful!
ISBN: 978-0-316-01667-4
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Following in the tradition of Clive Cussler and Matthew Reilly, Andy McDermott takes us a roller-coaster ride in search of the legendary Atlantis. Archaeologist Nina Wilde believes she hasfound the location of the lost city of Atlantis andnow she wants the opportunityto prove her theory. Someone else though wants her dead! With the help of ex-SAS bodyguard Eddie Chase and beautiful heiress Kari Frost, Nina faces a breakneck race against time around the world, pursued at every step by agents of the mysterious and murderous Brotherhood of Selasphoros. From the jungles of Brazil to the mountains of Tibet, from the streets of Manhattan to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, the hunt for Atlantis leads to a secret hidden for 11,000 years which...
ISBN: 978-0-7553-3912-9
Издательство:
Headline Publ.
Дата выхода: август 2011
"My name is unimportant, but you can call me Jack. I`m a musician by choice, a magician by profession, and a bastard by disposition. I`d been doing the magic thing for about five years when they found me. They said I had a talent, that I was smart enough and fit enough and enough of a shit that I could serve my country in a way most people never even get to hear about. And I did want to serve my country, didn`t I? I didn`t really want to contemplate what might happen if I said no." And so Jack found himself on the front line of a secret war that most people simply wouldn`t believe was possible. Working for a secret organisation tasked with defending our country from whatever supernatural threat faces it. MI5 know nothing about and would...
ISBN: 978-0-575-08224-3
Издательство:
Orion Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
