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Hvem kjenner egentlig Alex? Hun er vakker. Sexy. Tøff. Er det derfor hun er blitt kidnappet, innesperret og utsatt for det utenkelig? Overbetjent Camille Verhoeven og hans menn famler i blinde: ingen mistenkte, ingen ledetråd, og håpet svinner fra time til time. Det eneste de vet, er at en kvinne er blitt revet vekk fra fortauet på en gate i Paris og kastet inn i en hvit varebil. Men når politiet finner ut av hvor hun har vært innestengt, er situasjonen langt ifra den de trodde. "Alex" er thrilleren som får det til å gå iskaldt nedover ryggen din. Det handler om morderisk galskap og er drevet av en djevelsk logikk. Du legger den ikke fra deg. "Ja, jeg vet det er en klisjé, men søren heller: Jeg må være så ærlig å si at denne franske kriminalromanen var det svært vanskelig å legge fra seg før den var ferdiglest. (...) Det er en frivol galskap i denne typen krim som gjør en blasert anmelder henrykt og optimistisk: Det går an å fornye krimlitteraturen. (...) Ah, det er godt å få en pause fra nordisk krim, engelske landsbymord og amerikanske superhelter." Lars Helge Nilsen, Bergens Tidende "Mørk, fransk juvel. (...) en perfekt syntese av et enkelt, impresjonistisk språk og en genialt uttenkt intrige. (...) «Alex» er en smart roman, en klok roman. (...) Franske Pierre Lemaitres første krim er nesten nødt til å bli en av 2015s beste." Ola A. Hegdal, Dagens Næringsliv
Uuden tasavallan presidentin elämäntarina lapsuudesta pääministeriksi. Alexander Stubb on yksi sukupolvensa valovoimaisimmista poliitikoista. Tässä henkilökohtaisessa kirjassaan hän kertoo itseään säästelemättä, miltä tuntui varttua kansainvälisen sporttiperheen rasavillistä pojasta Suomen pääministeriksi. Tarina on täynnä yllätyksiä, onnistumisia, epäonnistumisia, luottamusta, ystävyyttä, iloa, surua ja rakkautta. Täynnä elämää.
Alex: At leve med ensomheden. En personlig fort lling om traumer, h b og heling. For tre r siden blev jeg psykiatrisk patient med diagnosen PTSD. Denne bog er min livshistorie, en r og rlig beretning om traumer, indl ggelser i psykiatrien og de mange kampe, der f lger, n r livet rammer h rdest. Som barn bar jeg p hemmeligheder om, hvordan livet var derhjemme, og derfor blev jeg overset af skolen, mens jeg l rte at skjule sandheden for at beskytte min familie. Et opr b til at gribe svigtede b rn og et h b til dem, der k mper.
New York Times BestsellerThe remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas. "You be good. I love you," were Alex's final words to his owner, research scientist Irene Pepperberg, before his premature death at age thirty-one on September 6, 2007. An African Grey parrot, Alex had a brain the size of a shelled walnut, yet he could add, sound out words, understand concepts like bigger, smaller, more, fewer, and none, and he disproved the widely accepted idea that birds possess no potential for language or anything remotely comparable to human intelligence.Alex & Me is the incredible story of an amazing, irascible parrot and his best friend who stayed together through thick and thin for thirty years--the astonishing, moving, and unforgettable story of a landmark scientific achievement and a beautiful relationship.
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence--And Formed a Deep Bond in the Process
Irene Pepperberg
William Morrow Large Print
2008
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Alex & Me is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an African Grey parrot who proved scientists and accepted wisdom wrong by demonstrating an astonishing ability to communicate and understand complex ideas. A New York Times bestseller and selected as one of the paper's critic's Top Ten Books of the Year, Alex & Me is much more that the story of an incredible scientific breakthrough. It's a poignant love story and an affectionate remembrance of Pepperberg's irascible, unforgettable, and always surprising best friend.
This doesn't happen ...does it? Two vampire attacks in his first three days at boarding school and Alex Van Helsing realizes there's more to the family name than he thought-and more to this area of Switzerland than meets the eye. Lurking underneath Lake Geneva lies a secret vampire university called the Scholomance. And somehow the vampires know a Van Helsing has arrived. Special agent Sangster of the Polidorium-an undercover, international vampire-hunting organization-wants to train Alex in the tricks of the trade, but when two innocent teens are kidnapped, rehearsal is over. It's up to Alex to infiltrate the Scholomance and rescue his friends ...if he can survive the zombies, bullets, and fangs heading his way!
As a lawyer in early-twentieth-century Washington DC, Ben Corbett represents the toughest cases. Fighting against oppression and racism, he risks his family and his life in the process. When President Theodore Roosevelt asks Ben to return to his hometown to investigate rumours of the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan there, he cannot refuse.
The Alex Cross series proves it.' LEE CHILD, international bestselling author of the Jack Reacher seriesDetective Alex Cross has three killers to hunt â?? and one to escape. Washington D.C.
The hilarious new fantasy adventure from the author of Charlie Changes Into a Chicken.Alex is a normal, everyday kid, living in a normal, everyday city. Axel is a monster-slaying hero, living in a world of magic. Unfortunately, when the two boys mysteriously swap places, each of them ends up being mistaken for the other.With zero experience of heroism, Alex is thrust into an epic quest to defeat the evil Felonius Gloam, who has stolen the Book of Lifetales and is using it to unravel the very fabric of the world of Aërth.Meanwhile, Axel is faced with double maths, a gran who's six months behind on the rent, and a crucial chess tournament he's got to win – when he doesn't even know how to play.Can the two boys complete their Impossible Quests and find a way back to their own lives, or will they both discover they don't have a life to come back to . . . ?'Brilliantly written and very, very funny' - Ross Montgomery, author of I Am Rebel.
In the English countryside and beyond from the 1600s to the 1800s, when travel was hazardous due to lack of good roadways, no one rode alone for fear of being robbed by a highwayman.Highwaymen scoured the countryside, waylaying carriages, on their trusty means of transport, the horse.These individuals were known to be socially superior to those who robbed on foot, called Footpads.Highwaymen, to some, were romantically know as Gentlemen of the Road, or Knights of the Road.
Alex got two presents for his 13th birthday: a rugby ball and a whale bone carving from his grandmother. But nothing from his father - yet again. Nothing in the thirteen years of his life. Alex's life is suddenly turned upside-down when he is transported back in time and finds himself mixed up in a French plot to blow up the Rainbow Warrior - the flagship of the environmental group Greenpeace. Travel with Alex as he tries to discover the secret of time travel. Can he use this power to find his father and can he stop the French bombers?
Alexander Edwin Sweet (1841-1901) is Texas's own "Sifter," whose humorous columns appeared in the Galveston Daily News in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In his wickedly funny, tongue-in-cheek sketches, readers learned of an astonishing variety of frontier phenomena, some familiar, others downright odd. For example, there was the typical nineteenth-century custom of New Year's Day receptions for bachelor guests only, with refreshments consisting largely of strong drink and equally strong fruitcake. Imbibing a bit more cheer at each stop, according to Sweet, the bachelors brought the last prospective sweethearts they visited New Year's greetings as incoherent as they were heartfelt. At times Sweet parodied the Yankee image of the typical Texan, whom he described as "half alligator, half human," eating raw buffalo and toting an arsenal of weaponry like a "perambulating gun-rack." But he also did as much as any writer to establish and enlarge upon the national image of Texas and Texans. Even the irascible red ant and the other "critters" in Sweet's column were Texas big and Texas-fabulous! In 1881 Sweet co-founded Texas Siftings, a humor magazine that moved from Austin to New York to become one of the most popular periodicals of its kind in the United States. From Texas Siftings, from Sweet's two published books (one called by John Jenkins in Basic Texas Books the "best volume of 19th century Texas humor"), and from many never-before-collected newspaper columns, editor Virginia Eisenhour has assembled an Alex Sweet sampler that presents the very best of the timeless humorist's work. The result-Alex Sweet's Texas-clearly demonstrates why the New York Journal pronounced Sweet "second to no living writer in freshness, originality, sparkling wit, and refined humor." A century later, that wit still sparkles and is guaranteed to delight Texans present as it once did Texans past.
When a ten-year-old boy befriends a mysterious hobo in his southern Colorado hometown in the early 1940s, he learns about evil in his community and takes his first steps toward manhood by attempting to protect his new friend from corrupt officials. Though a fictional story, Alex and the Hobo is written out of the life experiences of its author, José Inez (Joe) Taylor, and it realistically portrays a boy's coming-of-age as a Spanish-speaking man who must carve out an honorable place for himself in a class-stratified and Anglo-dominated society. In this innovative ethnography, anthropologist James Taggart collaborates with Joe Taylor to explore how Alex and the Hobo sprang from Taylor's life experiences and how it presents an insider's view of Mexicano culture and its constructions of manhood. They frame the story (included in its entirety) with chapters that discuss how it encapsulates notions that Taylor learned from the Chicano movement, the farmworkers' union, his community, his father, his mother, and his religion. Taggart gives the ethnography a solid theoretical underpinning by discussing how the story and Taylor's account of how he created it represent an act of resistance to the class system that Taylor perceives as destroying his native culture.
Most sports watchers' projections for Alex Rodriguez's final stats rank him with men such as Lou Gehrig, Ted Williams, Babe Ruth, and Hank Aaron. A veritable baseball wunderkind, this Dominican-American ball player has broken records from the moment he stepped on the diamond. In this engaging biography author Wayne Stewart describes the highlights of A-Rod's record-setting career and examines the reasons for the unprecedented impact he has had on the game. Recruited right out of high school in 1993, his first year in pro ball was a whirlwind with Rodriguez making not only his minor league debut, but getting his first taste of big-league ball as a Seattle Mariner—all by the age of just 18. Fast forward to 2000 when A-Rod signed a 10-year deal with the Texas Rangers calling for a total salary of $252 million, the most lucrative deal in baseball. In 2003 he became the youngest player ever to reach the 300 home run circle. Just two years later became the youngest player ever to reach the 400 home run strata. If baseball history is any indication, A-Rod's days of record-breaking performances are far from over. This fair-minded and well-researched biography traces A-Rod from his childhood growing up in Miami to his career with the New York Yankees. Personal interests, such as his donations of both time and money to such causes as the Boys and Girls Club, are covered in detail. Also included is a timeline, photographs, and career statistics, which will give the reader insight into Rodriguez's place in the history of the game as well as how he stacks up against baseball's all-time greatest players.