Kirjahaku

Allan Evans's groundbreaking biography of Ignaz Friedman gives the reader the behind and the between of the life and career of this extraordinary pianist. Friedman's repertory emphasized the major works of Beethoven, Schumann, Liszt, and Brahms, but he was perhaps best known for his interpretation of the Chopin mazurkas, which by all accounts he played with the same rhythmic nuance as their composer. Evans examines Friedman's life as a cultured Jewish musician from Poland; his studies in Leipzig and Vienna; his marriage to Manya Schidlowsky—a Russian countess and relative of Tolstoy; and his performing career, teaching, and retirement in Australia.

One killer was bad enough.After famously stopping a serial killer, a detective makes a disturbing discovery: a dark website for serial killers has targeted him.Summoned to a mysterious meeting, detective Cade Dawkins is confronted with his past. A University of Minnesota computer science professor has discovered a disturbing website on the dark web. Made up of serial killers, they use the site to share exploits, brag and offer challenges to one another. But it gets worse. After Cade famously stopped a serial killer in the Twin Cities-and nearly lost the two women closest to him-a new site-wide challenge is issued: Come to Minnesota and outsmart the detective who stopped the Blonde Killer. Come and kill.With two killers from the site terrifying the public, the media turning on him and the governor threatening to fire him, time isn't Cade's friend. But then, neither are the serial killers.

14-year-old Abbey's ability to talk to ghosts has saved both friends and strangers in need. But it's also attracted the wrong sort of attention.That attention arrives in the form of a domineering federal agent who insists that Abbey help her with something dangerous. She tells the story of a roguish fellow, Manfred Krug, who traveled the world as a fabled trader in the 1920s. As his diary details, Krug returned from Shanghai with artifacts holding the power to gather and focus otherworldly energy. The agent warns that if the relics fell into the wrong hands, it would be a disaster of biblical proportions.Enlisting her ride-or-dies, Abbey, Kelly, and Lexi search some of the most haunted places in Minnesota. But someone else-someone dangerous-is after those same artifacts, and they're right behind Abbey and her spook squad.

14-year-old Abbey has always been a spook magnet, but the summer camp her dad sends her to is something else. In addition to dealing with the troubled kids, clueless camp counselors, and spirits of the dead-yeah, they found her there too-a strange symbol keeps appearing at all the worst moments.Abbey is not a happy camper.Soon Abbey realizes that someone is trying to send her a message. The mystery catches her attention, and no one-alive or dead-is going to stop Abbey and her new friends from uncovering its secrets. This girl ain't afraid of no ghosts.