Jana FREUDENBERGER
Martina WOLFF
Kurzbeschreibung: Schmeicheln ist, das hat der amerikanische Journalist und Politikberater Richard Stengel herausgefunden, der Kitt, der die Gesellschaft zusammenhält. Aber – man muß wissen, wie! Sonst wird es gefährlich, oder noch schlimmer: Es wird peinlich … In seinem amüsanten Streifzug durch die Geschichte dieser alten Kunst zeigt Stengel, wie man es richtig macht. Ob Pharao, Kaiser, Staatschef oder unser Boß: Niemand ist immun, alle brauchen sie die geschickte und intelligente Schmeichelei. Und: Wir brauchen die Chefs! Also – rauf auf die Schleimspur und nicht ausrutschen! »Stengels facettenreiche Kulturgeschichte der Schmeichelei schafft die selbstironische Gratwanderung zwischen unterhaltsam Informieren und fundiert Ratgeber-Spielen. Mein Kompliment!« Norddeutscher Rundfunk
Joanna Scott
Arrogance
Product Description: In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature until at the age of twenty-eight, the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic. Told from a crosscurrent of voices, viewpoints and times, this stunning novel won Scott a nomination for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award.
Robert D. Kaplan
Mediterranean Winter
A Journes through History
John UPDIKE
The Witches of Eastwick
Product Description: The air of Eastwick breeds witches - women whose powerful longings can stir up thunderstorms and fracture domestic peace. Jane, Alexandra and Sukie, divorced and dangerous, have formed a coven. Into the void of Eastwick breezes Darryl Van Horne, a charismatic magus of a man who entrances the trio, luring them to his mansions...
Verfilmt wurde John Updikes' Roman 1987 mit Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon und Jack Nicholson:
Oona FRAWLEY (Editor)
New Dubliners
Stephenie MEYER
Eclipse
From Publishers Weekly: The legions of readers who are hooked on the romantic struggles of Bella and the vampire Edward will ecstatically devour this third installment of the story begun in Twilight, but it's unlikely to win over any newcomers. Jake, the werewolf met in New Moon, pursues Bella with renewed vigilance. However, when repercussions from an episode in Twilight place Bella in the mortal danger that series fans have come to expect, Jake and Edward forge an uneasy alliance. The plot patterns have begun to show here, but Meyer's other strengths remain intact. The supernatural elements accentuate the ordinary human dramas of growing up. Jake and Edward's competition for Bella feels particularly authentic, especially in their apparent desire to best each other as much as to win Bella. Once again the author presents teenage love as an almost inhuman force: "[He] would have been my soul mate still," says Bella, "if his claim had not been overshadowed by something stronger, something so strong that it could not exist in a rational world."