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Armer Heinrich, reicher Heinrich - Deutscher Heinrich: Die literarische Karriere eines Namens im neunzehnten Jahrhundert
by Rebecca RichterDer Eigenname ist als sprachliches Phänomen Gegenstand vielfältiger wissenschaftlicher Betrachtung. In der Literatur erfüllt er seine Funktion unter anderem durch sein assoziatives Potenzial, das im Einzelwerk herauszuarbeiten eine literaturwissenschaftliche Grunddisziplin darstellt. Nun wird die deutsche Literatur des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts von einem einzelnen Namen in auffälliger Weise dominiert, nicht nur ob seiner Häufigkeit, sondern vor allem durch die prominente Platzierung in den großen und größten Werken dieser Zeit. Heinrich von Ofterdingen steht neben Heinrich Faust, der grüne Heinrich neben der Königlichen Hoheit Klaus Heinrich. Dabei ist der Eigenname per definitionem zu keiner Zeit ein unbeschriebenes Blatt. Rebecca Richter zeigt, dass der deutsche Herrschername schlechthin durch das neunzehnte Jahrhundert zum deutschen Dichtermythos erweitert wird, dem Künstler-Ich, das in einer sich modernisierenden und ökonomisierenden Welt entweder flüssig wird, oder sich verflüchtigt: Die Anlage zu beidem bringt Heinrich bereits im Namen mit.
Armi & bagagli (serie Armi & bagagli #1)
by Cornelia Grey Abigail Roux Madeleine UrbanSerie Armi & bagagli, Libro 1Una serie di omicidi affligge la città di New York. L'FBI e la polizia brancolano nel buio: si sospetta che il killer sia uno solo, ma gli indizi sono talmente scarsi e indecifrabili da non fornire alcuna pista. Quando a rimetterci le penne sono due agenti del Bureau, però, il caso diventa di importanza vitale per l'FBI. L'agente speciale Ty Grady è reduce da un incarico sotto copertura finito molto male. È arrogante e litigioso, ma è anche il migliore in quello che fa. Quando però lo mettono in coppia con l'agente speciale Zane Garrett, è odio a prima vista. Garrett è l'agente modello: serio, sobrio e devoto -- il che rende la loro collaborazione la classica accoppiata 'sbirro buono-sbirro cattivo', gli opposti complementari. Entrambi gli agenti capiscono, da subito, che la vera difficoltà del caso non sarà l'assenza di indizi, quanto il dover lavorare insieme. Appena arrivati sul posto, però, l'assassino colpisce ancora -- e questa volta il mirino è puntato su di loro. Costretti a fuggire e a nascondersi, e al tempo stesso decisi a scovare l'uomo che li ha presi di mira, Grady e Garrett devono trovare il modo di lavorare insieme -- e alla svelta, se non vogliono diventare altre due tacche sul coltello dell'assassino.
The Armies: Winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
by Evelio RoseroIn a small town in the mountains of Colombia, Ismael, a retired teacher, spends his mornings gathering oranges in the sunshine and spying on his neighbour as she sunbathes naked in her garden.Returning from a walk one morning he discovers that his wife has disappeared. Then more people go missing, and not-so-distant gunfire signals the approach of war. Most of the villagers make their escape, but Ismael cannot leave without his Otilia. He becomes an unwilling witness to the senseless civil war that sweeps through his country with a tragic inevitability. In The Armies Rosero has created a hallucinatory, relentless, captivating narrative often as violent as the events it describes, told by an old man battered by a reality he no longer recognizes.
The Armies
by Evelio Rosero Anne McleanAn elderly retired teacher is caught up in drug wars which slowly destroy his small town. Ismail, the profesor, is a retired teacher in a small Colombian town where he passes the days pretending to pick oranges while spying on his neighbor Geraldina as she lies naked in the shade of a ceiba tree on a red floral quilt. The garden burns with sunlight; the macaws laugh sweetly. Otilia, Ismail's wife, is ashamed of his peeping and suggests that he pay a visit to Father Albornoz. Instead, Ismail wanders the town visiting old friends, plagued by a tangle of secret memories: Where have I existed these years? I answer myself: up on the wall, peering over. When the armies slowly arrive, the profesor's reveries are gradually taken over by a living hell. His wife disappears and he must find her. We learn that not only gentle, grassy hillsides surround San José but landmines and coca fields. The reader is soon engulfed by the violence of Rosero's narrative that is touched not only with a deep sadness, but an extraordinary tenderness.
The Armies of Daylight (The Darwath Series #3)
by Barbara HamblyThe bestselling author&’s epic fantasy trilogy comes to a dramatic end. The &“cold, tense, creeping dread lasts right up until the final confrontation&” (Tor.com). Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land&’s wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered in terror, and few have witnessed more of the destruction than Rudy and Gil—two ordinary Californians who found their way across the Void, and took up arms in defense of a strange and magical world. She learned the ways of war, while he found within himself the powers of a great wizard. Both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge. Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart. Finally, Rudy, Gil, and the rest of mankind&’s survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
The Armies of Daylight: The Time Of The Dark, The Walls Of Air, And The Armies Of Daylight (The Darwath Series #3)
by Barbara HamblyThe bestselling author&’s epic fantasy trilogy comes to a dramatic end. The &“cold, tense, creeping dread lasts right up until the final confrontation&” (Tor.com). Since the Dark Ones returned, the world has been laid to waste. The land&’s wizards have been slaughtered, its cities destroyed, and its people scattered in terror, and few have witnessed more of the destruction than Rudy and Gil—two ordinary Californians who found their way across the Void, and took up arms in defense of a strange and magical world. She learned the ways of war, while he found within himself the powers of a great wizard. Both of them will need all their strength to survive this final challenge. Ingold, the master wizard, has devised a spell to hide the user from the deathly stare of the Dark, and he intends to use it to strike at their very heart. Finally, Rudy, Gil, and the rest of mankind&’s survivors will take the offensive, bringing an end to this terrible war, for better or for worse. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Barbara Hambly, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author&’s personal collection.
The Armies of Heaven
by Jane KindredFull-scale war has broken out in Heaven, and Anazakia must embrace her destiny, leading an army of Virtues into battle against a Host of enemies to restore the House of Arkhangel'sk. Furious with her for putting her trust in the angel who has done them all irreparable harm, Vasily tries to ignore his growing resentment, while Belphagor returns to the world of Man with a cadre of beautiful androgynous Virtues to restore the sundered alliance between the Fallen and the gypsy underground. Without their help in enlisting the terrestrial forces of Grigori and Nephilim, Anazakia's Virtues are hopelessly outnumbered. But there are more things in Heaven and Earth than any of them have dreamt of, and those they cannot see will mean the difference between victory and losing everything.
The Armies of Herobrine: An Unofficial Overworld Adventure, Book Five (Unofficial Overworld Adventure)
by Danica DavidsonThe portal between Minecraft and the real world may have been restored, but Herobrine is still at large-and Stevie knows that a confrontation is inevitable. While Stevie, Alex, and their friends try to awaken humanity to the reality of Herobrine’s threats, the Overworld’s armies prepare for an epic battle.When Herobrine creates his own portal to the human world and releases vicious zombies at the middle school Halloween party, the students are convinced the attack is just an elaborate prank-until the night takes a violent turn. With war breaking out around them, it’s up to Stevie and his friends to defeat Herobrine and restore peace.The epic, world-spanning battle that follows will test friendships, reveal the group’s true allies and their most dangerous foes, and decide the fate not just of the Overworld, but of all humanity.
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
by Norman MailerOctober 21, 1967. Washington DC. Protesters are marching to end the war in Vietnam, Mailer among them. From his perception of the day comes a work that shatters traditional reportage. <P><P> Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.<P> Winner of the National Book Award
Arminius: The Limits of Empire
by Robert FabbriAD 9: In the depths of the Teutoburg Wald, in a landscape riven by ravines, darkened by ancient oak and bisected by fast-flowing streams, Arminius of the Cherusci led a confederation of six Germanic tribes in the annihilation of three Roman legions. Deep in the forest almost 20,000 men were massacred without mercy; fewer than 200 of them ever made it back across the Rhine. To Rome's shame, three sacred Eagles were lost that day. But Arminius wasn't brought up in Germania Magna—he had been raised as a Roman. This is the story of how Arminius came to turn his back on the people who raised him and went on to commit a betrayal so great and so deep, it echoed through the ages.
Armistice: Book 2 In The Amberlough Dossier (Amberlough Dossier #2)
by Lara Elena DonnellyArmistice returns to Donnelly’s ravishing 1930s Art Deco-tinged fantasy world of the Nebula and Lambda Award-nominated Amberlough with a decadent, tumultuous mixture of sex, politics, and spies“A hefty novel full of fascinating characters exploring oversized topics such as sexuality, music, culture, fascism, nationalism, class wars, revolution and love.” —Shelf AwarenessIn a tropical country where shadowy political affairs lurk behind the scenes of its glamorous film industry, three people maneuver inside a high stakes game of statecraft and espionage: Lillian, a reluctant diplomat serving a fascist nation,Aristide, an expatriate film director running from lost love and a criminal past,—and Cordelia, a former cabaret stripper turned legendary revolutionary. Each one harbors dangerous knowledge that can upturn a nation. When their fates collide, machinations are put into play, unexpected alliances are built, and long-held secrets are exposed. Everything is barreling towards an international revolt...and only the wiliest ones will be prepared for what comes next.For Amberlough: “James Bond by way of Oscar Wilde.”—Holly Black“Astonishing!” —World Fantasy Award-winning author Ellen Kushner“Beautiful, all too real, and full of pain. Read it. It will change you.” —Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette KowalAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Armistice
by Nick StaffordPhilomena Bligh's fiancé, Dan, has been shot. The First World War claimed many lives and so his death is not, in its own way, surprising. But Dan was shot in the minutes after the Armistice. The war was over.She cannot understand how this could have happened, or why they were still fighting that morning anyway. So, in March 1919, over Dan's birthday, Philomena travels to London to meet the men who were with him when he died. What she discovers is more shocking than she'd ever imagined. Dan's best friend, Jonathan, tells her that Dan was shot by a British officer over a gambling debt. There is no proof and all records of Jonathan's accusation have been destroyed.Refusing to accept anything less than justice for the man she loved, Philomena decides to take on the Establishment. Worried that she may cause his own downfall and feeling guilty for his mysterious part in Dan's death, Jonathan decides to accompany her on her mission.Set against a backdrop of London in the aftermath of the Great War, a time of upheaval, grief and wanton escapism, this is not just an inspirational book about what it means to be a hero, but also a breathtaking love story.
Armistice
by Nick Stafford11 a.m., 11th November 1918. Just when Philomena thinks Dan's going to make it home, her fiancé's slain on a battlefield in France.Four months later, grieving Philomena travels to London to meet three soldiers who fought with Dan. Soon she discovers a terrible possibility: Dan's death wasn't at the hands of the enemy. But there is no proof, no witness, only an accusation by one man and the threat of ruin by another should he ever repeat it.Alone in an alien city traumatised by the aftershocks of the war, whom should Philomena believe, who can she trust, in her attempt to discover if Dan was murdered? And this isn't her only challenge. Whilst inching ever closer to the truth Philomena finds herself falling for one of the men...
Armistice
by Nick Stafford Quercus11 a.m., 11th November 1918. Just when Philomena thinks Dan's going to make it home, her fiancé's slain on a battlefield in France.Four months later, grieving Philomena travels to London to meet three soldiers who fought with Dan. Soon she discovers a terrible possibility: Dan's death wasn't at the hands of the enemy. But there is no proof, no witness, only an accusation by one man and the threat of ruin by another should he ever repeat it.Alone in an alien city traumatised by the aftershocks of the war, whom should Philomena believe, who can she trust, in her attempt to discover if Dan was murdered? And this isn't her only challenge. Whilst inching ever closer to the truth Philomena finds herself falling for one of the men...
Armistice
by Nick Stafford Quercus11 a.m., 11th November 1918. Just when Philomena thinks Dan's going to make it home, her fiancé's slain on a battlefield in France.Four months later, grieving Philomena travels to London to meet three soldiers who fought with Dan. Soon she discovers a terrible possibility: Dan's death wasn't at the hands of the enemy. But there is no proof, no witness, only an accusation by one man and the threat of ruin by another should he ever repeat it.Alone in an alien city traumatised by the aftershocks of the war, whom should Philomena believe, who can she trust, in her attempt to discover if Dan was murdered? And this isn't her only challenge. Whilst inching ever closer to the truth Philomena finds herself falling for one of the men...(P)2010 Quercus Editions Ltd
Armistice: The Hot War (The Hot War #3)
by Harry TurtledoveIn the final book of the blistering trilogy The Hot War, old hatreds and new chances for revenge are unleashed on an already devastated world—as the Cold War becomes a roaring inferno.In 1952 American cities lie in ruins. President Harry Truman, in office since 1945, presides over a makeshift government in Philadelphia, suffering his own personal loss and fearing for the future of democracy. In the wake of Hitler’s reign, Germany and America have become allies, and Stalin’s vise hold on power in the USSR persists. Unwilling to trust the Soviet tyrant, Truman launches a long-planned nuclear strike on the city of Omsk—killing Stalin and plunging the Red Army into leaderless, destructive anarchy. Meanwhile, the Baltic states careen toward rebellion, and Poland is seized by rebels bred on war. In a world awash with victims turned victors, refugees, and killers, has Truman struck a blow for peace or fueled more chaos? As these staggering events unfold, the lives of men and women across battle lines, ethnicities, and religions play out across the globe. In Los Angeles, an extended Jewish family builds a future, while the foul smell of a refugee camp in Santa Monica blows in on the ocean breeze. In Korea, a U.S. fighter struggles to bring his Korean interpreter stateside as a full American. In Siberia, two German women fight for their survival in a gulag—and begin a strange, harrowing journey home. From the terrifying global chess match between superpowers to the strength of individual human conscience, Armistice captures a world that’s been split to its core by the violence only mankind can create. Through the thunder of battle, the clashes of armies, and the whispers of lovers, how humanity will be rebuilt, and who will do it, are the questions that resound in this marvelous work of imagination and history. PRAISE FOR HARRY TURTLEDOVE “Turtledove is the standard-bearer for alternate history.”—USA Today Fallout “No one writes alternate-history novels quite like Turtledove. . . . Expect epic political stakes as well as personal and heartfelt stories of war.”—BookTrib Bombs Away “Turtledove’s thorough research and grounded imagination work to create a frighteningly realistic past where world leaders act out of desperation and fatalism and a large cast of common folk suffer the consequences. . . . The vicarious sense of eschatological dread is always powerful.”—Booklist Last Orders “All quite plausible . . . Turtledove’s focus on the characters serves to fill out the big picture with patient, nitty-gritty detail. . . . Armchair warriors will have much to ponder.”—Kirkus Reviews Two Fronts “A you-are-there chronicle of battle on land and sea and in the air.”—Tor.com
Armitage
by Don NigroMystery / 6 m., 6 f. / Unit set / Zachary Pendragon rages among the tombstones of the family burial plot. Filled with hatred and waiting for him to die, his stepdaughter Margaret watches from their Gothic mansion in the east Ohio woods. So begins the dark and labyrinthine tale of a family with a complex and terrible history. Through Margaret's journal, Zach's memories, the batty poetry of Margaret's mother, and the memories of Zach's tormented son John, a Gothic tale woven back and forth in time and space emerges. It is a tale of desperate love and suspicious deaths, of desire, murder, madness, grief and terror. Having the richness and beauty of a complex Gothic novel or a Jacobean nightmare, this remarkable saga of happenings in the Pendragon mansion builds to a stunning conclusion that is guaranteed to surprise. Perhaps the most haunting of the author's cycle of Pendragon Plays, this mystery is both funny and grotesque, moving and hypnotic.
Armitage Shanks and the Footballer's Bones: Western Wildcats 4
by John LarkinThe Wildcats are in trouble again! Down on the ground, there?s got to be some way of raising funds, and their coach comes up with health food bars. Only trouble is they?re inedible, and whoever sells the most gets an all-expenses-paid trip to Canberra. Up in the air, though, Splinters and Nuke are on their way to London to retrieve their best player, Gazza, who?s been deported back to England with her mum, and the two boys get up to the sort of in-flight antics that have made travelling footballers notorious. Grappling as always with the problem of how to make up the numbers, someone remembers a genius footballer called Armitage Shanks who registered for the Under 6s, but never turned up for training or played a single game. Then the obvious question: how do you know he was a genius? And (to Splinters) the equally obvious answer: he had great boots! But when Armitage Shanks turns up, it?s a bigger surprise than the Wildcats have bargained for. A crazy adventure with an unexpectedly moving conclusion, this is one of John Larkin?s funniest books in the series - but it also offers a little insight into success and fame.
Armonia: Una raccolta
by Maki StarfieldMaki Starfield è una poetessa giapponese. L’energia dei suoi scritti, che vanno dalla poesia ai componimenti haiku, è straordinaria. In tre anni ha pubblicato circa venti libri, diciannove dei quali scritti in collaborazione con poeti di tutto il mondo, come Narlan Matos, Luca Benassi, Helen Cardona, John Fitsgerald, Lidia Chiarelli, Huguette Bertrand, Yesim Agaoglu, Bill Wolak, Dileep Jhaveri, Sarah Thilykou, Willem M. Roggeman, Ylorgos Vajs, Xiao Xiao, Dumu Luofei, Ajei-Ajei-Bhaa, Ikuyo Yoshimura, Michael Augustin, Konstantinos Bouras, Paddy Bushe, Yao Yuan, Yu Xiu, Chuang, Yun-Hui, Stathis Gourgouris e John W. Sexton. Starfield ha allargato il proprio orizzonte poetico giorno per giorno, approfittando di ogni secondo vissuto. Questo volume costituisce la sua prima raccolta di componimenti.
Armonía letal
by Lincoln ChildUna gran empresa te busca la pareja ideal a través de la informática. Pero se producen una serie de suicidios inexplicables. A los ojos de todo el mundo, los Thorpe eran la pareja perfecta: jóvenes, atractivos, totalmente compatibles... Sus vidas se habían cruzado gracias a la ayuda de Eden, una prestigiosa empresa dedicada a la búsqueda de la pareja ideal y que guarda celosamente la fórmula secreta que garantiza el éxito. Sin embargo, a la repentina y misteriosa muerte de los Thorpe le siguen otras, al parecer todas ellas suicidios. A Richard Silver, brillante fundador de la próspera empresa, no le quedará más remedio que permitir al investigador que se encarga del caso, Christopher Lash, el acceso a los secretos de la empresa, que le llevarán a descubrir un asombroso laberinto de inteligencia, genio creativo y tecnología. Pero también, poco a poco, se verá implicado en una trama mucho más personal y peligrosa de lo que Lash jamás hubiera podido imaginar.
Armonía letal
by Lincoln ChildA los ojos de todo el mundo, los Thorpe eran la pareja perfecta: jóvenes, atractivos, totalmente compatibles... Sus vidas se habían cruzado gracias a la ayuda de Eden, una prestigiosa empresa dedicada a la búsqueda de la pareja ideal y que guarda celosamente la fórmula secreta que garantiza el éxito.Sin embargo, a la repentina y misteriosa muerte de los Thorpe le siguen otras, al parecer todas ellas suicidios. A Richard Silver,brillante fundador de la próspera empresa, no le quedará más remedio que permitir al investigador que se encarga del caso, Christopher Lash, el acceso a los secretos de la empresa, que le llevarán a descubrir un asombroso laberinto de inteligencia, genio creativoy tecnología. Pero también, poco a poco, se verá implicado en una trama mucho más personal y peligrosa de lo que Lash jamás hubierapodido imaginar.
Armonía rota (Bestseller Oro Ser.)
by Barbara WoodRomance, intriga y acción se dan cita en esta apasionante novela de Barbara Wood. Charlotte Lee, nieta de la fundadora de Armonía Biotec, una empresa especializada en fármacos naturales procedentes de China, está horrorizada. Alguien está tratando de chantajearla envenenando sus productos. Es entonces cuando acude a su rescate Jonathan, un viejo amor de la infancia y experto en informática que la ayudará a revelar la identidad del extorsionador. Al tiempo que ambos tratan de dar caza al misterioso y despiadado criminal, resurgen, imparables, los recuerdos de un pasado de amor y ternura; un pasado marcado por las predecesoras de Charlotte, dos mujeres tan enérgicas como desdichadas en el amor. La crítica ha dicho...«Wood demuestra ser una maestra entremezclando acción y romance, y manteniendo el ímpetu y la chispa de ambos.»Kirkus Reviews «Wood crea personajes genuinos y cautivadores, cuyas historias son fascinantes.»Library Journal
Armonizando las relaciones en tu vida con mandalas: una guia angelical
by Diana CadenaTu camino de vida está lleno de maravillosas oportunidades para que recuerdes quién eres realmente, tu razón de estar aquí y la grandeza de tu alma, y así encuentres paz, tranquilidad y plenitud en tu diario transitar. Hay una infinidad de seres celestiales, ángeles, arcángeles, maestros ascendidos y todo un universo dispuesto a acompañarte y ayudarte en tu camino de vida. Con ellos podrás sanar y cerrar en amor los espacios que te causan dolor. También con los mándalas, dibujos mágicos y sagrados que aquietan tu mente para conectarte con tu corazón, podrás armonizar tu mundo interior con el exterior, despertar tus sentidos y estimular tu creatividad. Este libro es una invitación a armonizar las relaciones de tu vida apoyándote en los ángeles y en los mándalas, permitiéndote ver y entender el alto propósito de todo lo que te rodea para que te reconectes con tu paz interior y vivas en plenitud. Te brinda las herramientas para comunicarte con tus ángeles, e incluye mándalas para colorear y meditar que te ayudarán a conectarte con tus emociones.
Armor
by John SteakleyThe planet is called Banshee. The air is unbreathable, the water poisonous. It is the home of the most implacable enemies that humanity, in all its interstellar expansion, has ever encountered. Body armor has been devised for the commando forces that are to be dropped on Banshee-the culmination of ten thousand years of the armorers' craft. A trooper in this armor is a one-man, atomic-powered battle fortress-but he will have to fight a nearly endless horde of berserk, hard-shelled monsters-the fighting arm of a species which uses biological technology to design perfect, mindless, war minions. Felix is a scout in A-teamTwo. Highly competent, he is the sole survivor of mission after mission. Yet he is a man consumed by fear and hatred. And he is protected, not only by his custom-fitted body armor, but by an odd being which seems to live within him, a cold killing machine he calls "The Engine." This is Felix's story-a story of the horror, the courage, and the deadliness of combat, and the story of how strength of spirit can be the greatest armor of all.
Armor
by John SteakleyThe military sci-fi classic in a striking new packageFelix is an Earth soldier, encased in special body armor designed to withstand Earth's most implacable enemy-a bioengineered, insectoid alien horde. But Felix is also equipped with internal mechanisms that enable him, and his fellow soldiers, to survive battle situations that would destroy a man's mind.This is a remarkable novel of the horror, the courage, and the aftermath of combat--and how the strength of the human spirit can be the greatest armor of all.