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In So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the life and work of Edvard Munch. Setting out to understand the enduring power of Munch’s painting, Knausgaard reflects on the essence of creativity, on choosing to be an artist, experiencing the world through art and its influence on his own writing. As co-curator of a major new exhibition of Munch's work in Oslo, Knausgaard visits the landscapes that inspired him, and speaks with contemporary artists, including Vanessa Baird and Anselm Kiefer.

Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass die talentierte Jungschauspielerin Susan Dempsey abends zum Vorsprechen aufbrach - aber nie ankam. Am nächsten Tag wird sie ermordet im Park gefunden, mit nur noch einem Schuh an den Füßen. Zu den Verdächtigen gehören einflussreiche Hollywoodgrößen, aber der Mordfall wird nie aufgeklärt. Bis Laurie Moran, die als TV-Journalistin auf Cold Cases spezialisiert ist, sich des Falls annimmt - und sie sich zur Zielscheibe des Täters macht.

This book is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a father, the mundane struggles of family life, ridiculously unsuccessful holidays, the emotional strains of children's birthday parties and pushing a pram around Stockholm when all you really want to do is write. This is a book about one man's life but, somehow, about everyone else's, too.

In an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Pacquaea glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and cafés. And somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Pacquaea eternally falls, a great voice has begun speaking. As its cold words reach from space to the city walls—and as outlying towns and travelers' ships start to mysteriously disappear—only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance.

The embarrassment of a young man is all too obvious when he gets an erection during a physical examination. The older doctor isn’t complaining though and the thrill of the moment is too much for him to resist. He takes control and is allowed to do so much more as he lavishes attention on a willing, young virgin.

Would you like to discover your own true happiness? Right now, you spend 24 hours a day searching for happiness. It's the single motive behind absolutely every action you take. But are you experiencing enough genuine happiness in your daily life? If not, you need to take action. This book is a mini-course in mega-happiness. It unveils 18 simple secrets that you can use to begin enjoying profound happiness and freedom in your life.

On his first day of work for a new company, Oliver is given a warning about his boss by one of the girls in the office. It seems Mr. Bradley's preference is for younger men. That only gets Oliver's interest though, so when he works late one night and gets an offer of a lift home from the man in question, he jumps at the opportunity. It gets him an invitation for a drink that leads to so much more when the kinky perversions of the older man are unleashed on him.

In den Kordilleren endet der am Rio de la Plata begonnene Ritt...

A motorcycle road trip turns to more when Sean stops one night at a remote bar. The place is almost deserted. When he asks if he can have a room for the night, the two MC biker owners agree. He quickly finds out why they want him there when they close up the bar to show him the room. Payment for it is his body, and he finds himself being used by two strapping bikers and their collection of sex toys.

An der spanischen Atlantikküste beginnt die Handlung dieses Romans mit einem heimtückischen Mord und einer Kindesentführung. Viele Jahre später enthüllt sich. das Schicksal des jungen Fährtensuchers und Pferdebändigers Tiburcio Arellano in den Weiten der mexikanischen Sonora-Wüste. Ihm zur Seite stehen der legendäre Waldläufer Bois-Rosé und sein Begleiter Pepe Dormilón sowie der Komantschenkrieger Falkenauge.

Se trata de un manifiesto encargado por la Liga de los Comunistas a Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels entre 1847 y 1848, y publicado por primera vez en Londres el 21 de febrero de 1848. Se trata de un texto temprano de Marx y Engels, en el que se reflejan ya las bases del marxismo, incluyendo la concepción materialista de la historia.

Das Basispaket zum Verständnis fremder Religionen. Es sprechen Referenten, die den Ruf ihrer Fachrichtung mitbegründet haben.

Wie digitale Spiegelbilder wissen Mirrors stets, was ihre Besitzer wollen, fühlen, brauchen. Sie steuern subtil das Verhalten der Menschen und sorgen dafür, dass jeder sich wohlfühlt. Als die Journalistin Freya bemerkt, dass sich ihr Mirror merkwürdig verhält, beginnt sie sich zu fragen, welche Macht diese Geräte haben. Dann lernt sie den autistischen Andy kennen und entdeckt, dass sich die Mirrors immer mehr in das Leben ihrer Besitzer einmischen - auch gegen deren Willen. Als sie mit ihrem Wissen an die Öffentlichkeit geht, hat das unabsehbare Folgen...

In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother, Joar, on his own, he no longer has time or space for lofty speculations.

The Communist Manifesto (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in German as "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei") just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognized as one of the world's most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.

Being caught in a rainstorm after a baseball game has Andy cursing his luck. That changes when his friend's step-father unexpectedly passes by to give him a ride. An offer of a towel and a t-shirt gets him stripped to the waist and it isn't long before the rest of his clothes are removed by a dominant, older man who's intent on having some kinky spanking fun.

Virtua - kann eine KI die Welt zerstören? Weil er als Psychologe gescheitert ist, bewirbt Daniel sich bei dem Konzern Mental Systems, der führend in der Entwicklung künstlicher Intelligenz ist. Wider Erwarten bekommt er den Job - und ist gleich fasziniert von der virtuellen Welt, in die er eintaucht. Besonders beeindruckt ist er von Virtua, der neuesten Entwicklung von künstlicher Intelligenz. Doch dann lernt er den Entwickler Chen kennen, der seine Vorgesetzten warnt, die KI sei unkontrollierbar.

Unmittelbar an "Schloss Rodriganda" knüpft dieses Hörbuch an. Anfangs spielt es in Deutschland, dann geht es wieder nach Mexiko, Hauptschauplatz ist die wilde Mapimi, eine Wüste im Nordosten des Landes. Eine alte geheimnisvolle Pyramide steht im Mittelpunkt der hochdramatischen Handlung. Die bösartigen Brüder Gasparino und Pablo Cortejo lassen noch lange nicht davon ab, der Familie Rodriganda und nun auch deren Helfer und Verbündetem Karl Sternau zu schaden, wo sie nur können. Damit nicht genug mischt nun auch noch der gefürchtete Pirat Henrico Landola mit im finsteren Geschehen.

Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter, showing her what to expect of the world. He writes one short piece per day, describing the material and natural world with the precision and mesmerising intensity that have become his trademark. With acute sensitivity he describes daily life with his wife and children in rural Sweden, drawing upon memories of his own childhood to give an inimitably tender perspective on the precious and unique bond between parent and child. Nothing is too small or too vast to escape his attention; this is a personal encyclopaedia on everything from chewing gum to the stars.

Karl Marlantes left University at 22 to serve in the Vietnam War. Matterhorn was the bestselling novel based on his experiences. Now Marlantes takes us back to Vietnam, but this time there is no fictional veil. It is part exorcism of Karl's own experiences of combat, part confession, part philosophical primer for the young man about to enter combat. It is also a devastatingly frank answer to the questions ‘What is it like to face death?' and 'What is it like to kill someone?'