Dying St. Louis is turned inside-out by the appointment of a charismatic young woman from Bombay, India, as police chief, an act which launches the city's prominent citizens into careening political conspiracy. Franzen's wry, exhuberant first novel is already a classic of contemporary fiction.
In the second installment of the MacNeice Mysteries series, Detective Superintendent MacNeice and his team return to face off against a gang of violent bikers and a bloodthirsty serial killer targeting successful young women of colour on the streets of Dundurn.
The publishing phenomenon that began with the astonishing worldwide bestseller THE PASSAGE now comes to its epic conclusion. Soon to be an explosive drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens and executive producer Ridley Scott.
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Wie ein "Aufprall" wird die Ankunft der Jazzmusik in den 1920er Jahren in Europa wahrgenommen. Entsprechend heftig ist die Debatte um ihre Bedeutung.Die Studie von Johanna Rohlf widmet sich diesem "Jazzaufprall" in den Jahren zwischen 1924 und 1929 in Berlin mit Blick auf einhergehende Veränderungen im Stadtleben. Dazu werden Akteure, Räume und Handlungspraktiken untersucht und nach der Herausbildung einer urbanen Identität der Stadt, nach globalem Transfer und kulturellem Austausch gefragt.
Suzys third adventure to the Impossible Places is quickly plunged into mayhem as a mysterious overdue book begins sucking the knowledge from the entire Ivory Tower library. With the heat on to save all the information from disappearing, Suzy and Wilmot must venture through a void storm, and dive down into the depths of a secret underwater city housed in a gigantic snail shell to return the book