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  Elkins, Charles: Robert Silverberg's Many Trapdoors

  Erscheinungsdatum: 24.11.1992, Medium: Buch, Einband: Gebunden, Titel: Robert Silverberg's Many Trapdoors, Titelzusatz: Critical Essays on His Science Fiction, Autor: Elkins, Charles, Redaktion: Elkins, Charles L. // Greenberg, Martin Harry, Verlag: Greenwood Press, Sprache: Englisch, Schlagworte: LITERARY CRITICISM // Science Fiction & Fantasy // Science-Fiction // Fantasyliteratur, Rubrik: Literaturwissenschaft // Gattungen u. Methoden, Seiten: 170, Informationen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Gewicht: 428 gr, Verkäufer: averdo

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  Robert Silverberg's Many Trapdoors

  Robert Silverberg's Many Trapdoors ab 82.49 € als gebundene Ausgabe: Critical Essays on His Science Fiction. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Gebundene Ausgaben,

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  Peaces (eBook, ePUB)

  'Intoxicating.' New York Magazine'Oyeyemi is a master.' New York Times'Welcome back to the magical, maddening milieu of Oyeyemi's singular fiction, in which trapdoors spring open and revelations emerge like Russian nesting dolls.' O, the Oprah MagazinePeaces is the story of Otto and Xavier Shin, a couple who embark on a mysterious train journey that takes them far beyond any destination they could have anticipated. As the carriages roll along they discover each is more curious and fascinating than the last, becoming embroiled in this strange train and its intrigue. Who is Ava Kapoor, the sole full-time inhabitant of the train, and what is her relationship to a man named Prem? Are they passengers or prisoners? We discover who orchestrated the journey, hurtling them all into their past for clues.

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  The Phantom of the Opera (AmazonClassics Edition) , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 508min

  A phantom has haunted the Paris Opera House for years. Now he is infatuated with singer Christine Daaé. Despite an astonishing debut performance, Christine fails to win the lead in Faust, and the Phantom’s cursed retaliation on the opera house is spectacularly fatal. As the chandelier falls, he kidnaps Christine, and through hidden passages and behind trapdoors, shares his life story with her. To secure her escape, Christine promises to stay true to him forever. But when the Phantom learns of the prima donna’s intention to flee, his passion turns terrifying. With its complex and victimized antihero, a man at once evil and misjudged, Gaston Leroux’s Grand Guignol has become a fixture of romantic popular culture and the dark absolute of obsessive love. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling. Ideal for anyone who wants to read a great work for the first time or rediscover an old favorite, these new editions open the door to literature’s most unforgettable characters and beloved worlds. Revised edition: Previously published as The Phantom of the Opera, this edition of The Phantom of the Opera (AmazonClassics Edition) includes editorial revisions. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tim Campbell. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/010546/bk_brll_010546_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Behold the Dreamers (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 734min

  A compulsively listenable debut novel about marriage, immigration, class, race, and the trapdoors in the American dream - the unforgettable story of a young Cameroonian couple making a new life in New York just as the Great Recession upends the economy. Named one of BuzzFeed's "Incredible New Books You Need to Read This Summer". Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself; his wife, Neni; and their six-year-old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers. Clark demands punctuality, discretion, and loyalty - and Jende is eager to please. Clark's wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at the Edwardses' summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last gain a foothold in America and imagine a brighter future. However, the world of great power and privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers' façades. When the financial world is rocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Jongas are desperate to keep Jende's job - even as their marriage threatens to fall apart. As all four lives are dramatically upended, Jende and Neni are forced to make an impossible choice. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Prentice Onayemi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/004680/bk_rand_004680_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Imperium: A Fiction of the South Seas , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 323min

  An outrageous, fantastical, uncategorizable novel of obsession, adventure, and coconuts. In 1902, a radical vegetarian and nudist from Nuremberg named August Engelhardt set sail for what was then called the Bismarck Archipelago. His destination: the island Kabakon. His goal: to found a colony based on worship of the sun and coconuts. His malnourished body was found on the beach on Kabakon in 1919; he was 43 years old. Christian Kracht's Imperium uses the outlandish details of Engelhardt's life to craft a fable about the allure of extremism and its fundamental foolishness. Engelhardt is at once a sympathetic outsider - mocked, misunderstood, physically assaulted - and a rigid ideologue, and his misguided notions of purity and his spiral into madness presage the horrors of the mid-20th century. Playing with the tropes of classic adventure tales like Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe, Kracht's novel, an international best seller, is funny, bizarre, shocking, and poignant - sometimes all in the same minute. His allusions are misleading, his historical timelines are twisted, his narrator is unreliable - and the result is a novel that is also a mirror cabinet and a maze pitted with trapdoors. Both a provocative satire and a serious meditation on the fragility and audacity of human activity, Imperium is impossible to categorize, and utterly unlike anything you've heard before. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/028853/bk_adbl_028853_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Heart of the Curiosity , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 573min

  The secret lies with the Heart.Born with a magical knack for manipulating emotions, Leodora's only dream is to ensure her talented little sister dances on the biggest, brightest stage in the Republic: The Curiosity, a grand old theater of tradition and innovation. After escaping a cruel carnival, Leo secures her sister a place in The Curiosity’s chorus line and herself a job as a professional audience member, swaying the crowd's mood with her magic. The girls have a home for the first time in their lives.Then, a tragic accident darkens the theater. A greedy businessman begins blackmailing Leo, and financial woes threaten to close the show forever. The Curiosity's sole hope lies in a mythical power source hidden beneath the maze-like passages and trapdoors of the theater - the Heart. And Leo’s only friend Paxton, nephew of the theater's stagemistress, is the key to finding it.While Leo and Paxton hunt for the Heart, the blackmailer’s threats loom larger. Mysterious figures, cryptic clues, and deadly traps hinder the search at every turn. If the friends cannot recover the Heart in time, Leo and her sister will be cast out of the only home they’ve ever known, and the final curtain will fall on The Curiosity.Enter a world reminiscent of The Greatest Showman, with a puzzle worthy of Sherlock Holmes and National Treasure, in this new steampunk fantasy from H. L. Burke. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Theresa Bakken. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/230410/bk_acx0_230410_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  The First Date Ninja: How to Be the Best Date She Ever Had , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 57min

  You have done the hard work. You have attracted her enough to get her number and arrange to go on a date. What happens over that single hour of your life can be the start of an amazing sexual adventure or simply the abrupt end of what might have been. All too often guys go home after a date thinking that they have hit a home run, only to get frustrated and confused when they never hear from the girl again. In this book, I will tell you why this happens and how you ensure it never happens to you again. You are about to discover the seven things you must always do on a first date - plus, just as important, the five biggest mistakes guys make. Unless you know about these common trapdoors, you are going to repel your date faster than you ever dreamed possible. Most men are hopeless at first dates because our brains are wired differently than women's. To leave women desperate to see you again, you have to become a master at understanding what women want. Make no mistake: The first date is a giant test! Do not even think about going on another date until you learn the secrets of being a first date ninja. Discover: The best way to make a powerful first impression How to control the conversation Three ways to avoid awkward silence How to build attraction The five things that men do that women hate How to escalate to kissing and sex What to do after the date ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Seventy Seven. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/049010/bk_acx0_049010_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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  Never Me: TAT: A Rocker Romance, Book 5 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 471min

  There is no way to really start this story. My story really has no beginning and no ending. It's like I was plucked from nonexistence and dropped smack-dab into the worst possible nightmare. I am not sure if I ever felt a moment of comfort or love from my parents; my sister I have, but from the ones that created me I don't think I did. When you go your entire life not feeling the shelter of a parent's love, I think even if for only a second if it was present it would be unforgettable, even to an infant. I cannot move forward without going back. I do not want to go back. I am scared of very few things in this world, but my past is something to bring on the cold sweats and break me into a ball of rage and pain. The trapdoors, I call them, the ones containing all of the fury and pain, they need to be broken open. I have fought against it for too long, and now I face my own death or my own redemption. I face the fact she will never be back and I accept the moment I broke. That's one of the many doors I fear opening. Doors that are closed and locked and barricaded in for a reason. What I share with you will make your skin crawl, and sadly I haven't even scratched the surface. My name is Noah Beckett, and this is my story. There will be moments I disgust you; I will undoubtedly break your heart. I am a master of making ugly even worse, but I can bring out beauty in the worst of all things. I do not judge, I would have answered to a bullet a long time ago if I did. You may not like my choices or the things I say and the way I live, but you will respect it because I have earned it. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Amber Reed. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/inbl/000245/bk_inbl_000245_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.

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• Ghosts

  "I've got phantoms and ghosts waiting in line." - Phantom GhostFORT wurde 2008 von Alberta Niemann (geb. 1982 in Bremen, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) und Jenny Kropp (geb. 1978 in Frankfurt/Main, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin) gegründet. Der zentrale Gegenstand ihrer künstlerischen Arbeit sind alltägliche Objekte des privaten und öffentlichen Raums, die neu arrangiert, nachgebaut oder verfremdet werden. Die Skulpturen, Installationen und Fotografien bewegen sich dabei stets auf dem schmalen Grat zwischen Vertrautem und Unheimlichem, Ernsthaftem und Humorvollem. Bewusst spielt das Duo mit Erinnerungs- und Sehnsuchtsbildern und lässt einen emotionalen Resonanzraum entstehen, in dem die Intimität des Bekannten durch Falltüren ins Beklemmende oder Absurde gestört wird.Für das Künstlerinnenbuch Ghosts hat FORT alte Puppenhäuser gesammelt und die verschiedenen leeren Zimmer fotografiert. Jedes Haus trägt eine individuelle Handschrift, ist als Porträt der ehemaligen Bewohner*innen und ihrer Vorstellungen von Eigenheim lesbar. Aber auch spätere Eingriffe wie kindliche Verschönerung und Modernisierung sind in den Fotografien spürbar. So wirken die Puppenhäuser wie Geister der Kindheit verschiedener Generationen und Gesellschaftsschichten und in ihrer Verlassenheit doch merkwürdig lebendig.I've got phantoms and ghosts waiting in line." - Phantom GhostFORT was founded in 2008 by Alberta Niemann (b. Bremen, 1982; lives and works in Berlin) and Jenny Kropp (b. Frankfurt/Main, 1978; lives and works in Berlin). The focus of their creative practice is on everyday objects from private and public settings, which they rearrange, reconstruct, or defamiliarize, producing sculptures, installations, and photographs that walk the fine line between the familiar and the uncanny, solemnity and humor. The duo deftly plays with half-forgotten visual memories and visions of happiness, lending the works an emotional depth; the intimacy of domestic contentment is marred by trapdoors behind which deep-seated anxieties or the absurd loom.For the artists' book Ghosts, FORT collected vintage dollhouses and photographed the various empty rooms. Each house shows the hand of an individual owner and can be read as a portrayal of the erstwhile residents and their ideas on how to live. But the photographs also capture later alterations such as a child's efforts to embellish or modernize the objects. Abandoned and desolate yet haunted by the ghosts of the childhoods of different generations and social classes, the dollhouses awaken to a peculiar second life.

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