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1000 tulosta hakusanalla M.K. Murphy
From critically acclaimed, bestselling author MK Lobb comes a noir romantic fantasy set in a world in which sin is a fatal disease, and the rich hire the poor to carry out their basest instincts—until the forbidden romance between a sinner and a mysterious figure threatens to destroy everything. In Valestadt, everything has a price. Sinning leaves its mark in the form of the Bloodrot, a slow-creeping disease that leads to madness, then death. Most sins are negligible, but murder—committed enough—can be fatal. For the rich, violence is something to be outsourced. For the poor, it’s a paycheck that comes with a cost. Talin Keller is a sinner. Employed by the holiest man in the city, the Prophet, she gets her hands dirty so his can stay clean. And with her Bloodrot rapidly advancing, Talin knows her next job could be her last. But when a new assignment puts Talin on a collision course with a shadowy figure known as “the Warden,” she begins to see a future for herself that doesn’t involve a body bag. If she can get close enough to the Warden, she can trade his life for her own freedom. That is, if she can keep her balance on the knife’s edge. The closer Talin gets to the Warden, though, the more she finds herself falling for his sharp edges and twisted sense of justice. As savior and sinner bleed together, Talin finds the real threat isn’t either man – but a conspiracy tied to the past she hoped was dead.
A series of copycat crimes end in absurd messages meant specifically for Chicago's FBI Special Agent in Charge Kerry O'Malley. Just as a direct connection to Kerry's brother is uncovered, Kerry falls seriously ill. Neil secludes her in a secret Group facility and forges a desperate alliance to provide her with life-saving treatment. However, the sacrifice of his most valuable asset may be her only hope. A child with a neural connection to the Choice system was at the center of Neil's plan to unravel the Group's global conspiracy. As he scrambles to salvage his life's work and faces morally ambiguous, heartrending decisions, Russian insurrectionist Mikhail Kovanov escapes captivity and begins to destabilize the fragile peace that had quieted the world. Civil unrest erupts and war with China looms. The front-running US presidential candidate Reilly McGuinty is targeted for assassination with cutting-edge Group technology. Alliances are forged between demagogues, ideologues, and ruthless mercenaries. While the world teeters on the brink of mutually assured destruction, Kerry struggles for survival and Neil fights to secure freedom from permanent destruction.
In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, two women seek to preserve the small treasury of books available to them - a gift of knowledge and hope for future generations. "[A] poignant expression of the durability, grace, and potential of the human spirit." —Jean M. Auel, author of the Earth's Children series In the 21st Century, civilization is crumbling under the burden of overpopulation, economic chaos, petty wars, a horrific pandemic, and finally, a nuclear war that inevitably results in a deadly nuclear winter. On the Oregon Coast, two women, writer Mary Hope and painter Rachel Morrow, scratch out a minimal existence as farmers. In what little time is available to them, they embark on the project that they hope will offer the gift of knowledge to future generations of survivors—the preservation of the books: those available from their own collections and any they find at nearby abandoned houses. For years, Mary and Rachel are satisfied to labor at this task in their solitude, but a day comes when they encounter a young man who comes from a group of survivors on the southern coast. They call their community the Ark. An incredibly hopeful meeting, it might seem, until Rachel and Mary realize that the Arkites believe in only one book—the Judeo-Christian bible—and regard all other books as blasphemous. "Wren's post-nuclear world rings true, as do her compelling depictions of the subsistence-level daily life." —Publisher's Weekly "[Wren's] passionate concern with what gives life meaning carries the novel." —Library Journal
'Twas the night before Christmas, and with no end, Gar's excitement could be felt while he looked for a friend. Dad decorated a tree with lots of effort and care, only for a cat to get quite a scare.
It's mid-Winter in the Cornish seaside town of St Foy. In the midst of a family birthday party Emily Duggan, missing for three years and presumed dead after murdering her best friend Star Bright, arrives unannounced. To the bewilderment and shock of her family, Emily insists she didn't do it and has an alibi, but refuses to answer any questions.Led by Belle Harrington, the Curiosity Club, including Emily's aunt Bette, start their own investigation to find the real culprit, as the police re-open the unsolved mystery of Star Bright's murder.As the case progresses, old, uncomfortable secrets re-surface. Who was the real Star Bright? Could finding the truth about her past reveal her killer? If her killer wasn't Emily, could it have been one of the four students with whom Emily and Star shared accommodation at the eerie, now abandoned house on the Moor nicknamed 'Withering Heights'. Or was it another family member? Or someone from Star's bizarre past?Belle and the Curiosity Club pose these and many more uncomfortable questions, as certain residents of the town become quietly but increasingly determined the case will never be solved.
Elias Canetti sammelte diverse soziokulturelle Erfahrungen durch seinen standigen Wechsel der Wohnorte in vielen Landern und scheint eine oszillierende Beziehung zu den diversen Kulturen entwickelt zu haben. Es ist dieser Aspekt in seinen Werken, der ein interessantes hermeneutisches Problem der kulturellen Vielfalt einer Gesellschaft darstellt. Mit dieser immanenten Beschaffenheit von Canettis Leben und literarischem Werk befasst sich diese Forschungsstudie, die im einzelnen die verschiedenen Aspekte der Andersheit beleuchtet, die fur das Verstandnis Canettis im Rahmen der interkulturellen Hermeneutik wichtig sind. Vor allem geht es um die Identitatsproblematik bei Elias Canetti, gehoerte er doch zu den deutschsprachigen Schriftstellern, deren Muttersprache nicht Deutsch war.
Agathiyar's Legacy
M K Vijayalakshmi; Puniparthi Sunitha; K Pooja
Lap Lambert Academic Publishing
2025
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