Showing results for "Brunner" in Literature & Fiction

In a near future, the air pollution is so bad that everyone wears gas masks. The infant mortality rate is soaring, and birth defects, new diseases, and physical ailments of all kinds abound. The water is undrinkable - unless you're poor and have no choice. Large corporations fighting over profits from gas masks, drinking water, and clean food tower over an ineffectual, corrupt government.

Ford’s love life isn’t non-existent, it’s just hopelessly one-sided. And the only woman he’s ever wanted—his childhood best friend, Amber—doesn’t reciprocate his feelings. So why bother dating? When Amber’s fiancé leaves her pregnant without health insurance, she’s prepared to do it all alone—until childbirth causes complications with her heart and she needs minor heart surgery. Ford proposes a plan: a quickie wedding, insurance for Amber and her baby girl, and two years of platonically wedded bliss.

This imagined retelling of Jho Low’s story, based on real events, gives listeners an insider’s view of the glitzy, glamorous world of wealth and privilege, as well as a close-up look at this enigmatic protagonist’s high-stakes fall from grace. The narrator is quirky yet eloquent, at times thoughtful and other times brash, as he leads readers through the corridors of power, where the line between friend and foe blurs. As secrets unravel and fortunes teeter on the edge, readers get a front-row seat to the dark underbelly of high finance and the price of unchecked ambition and greed.

Nickie Haflinger had lived several lifetimes...but technically never existed. He was originally a fugitive from Tarnover, the incredibly powerful government think tank that educated him. First he had broken his identity code - then he made his escape. Now he needed to find a way to restore sanity and freedom to the computerized masses and save a world nearing the brink of disaster. He didn’t care how he accomplished this - but the government did. That’s when his Tarnover teachers took him back into their labs, where Nickie Haflinger was set up to receive a whole new education.

Desde tiempos inmemoriales, el ser humano ha proyectado sus fantasías en el norte, convirtiendolo ora en una gelida tierra de nadie repleta de peligrosos vikingos, ora en el escenario de un modo de vida más puro en el seno de la naturaleza virgen. Bernd Brunner analiza los relatos históricos de viajeros sobre los gelidos y sobrecogedores paisajes nórdicos, el severo clima, los exóticos tesoros y el encuentro con los pueblos indígenas, así como las sagas literarias que parecían ofrecer un relato fundacional alternativo a la pagana Antigüedad clásica y la moralista tradición cristiana.

I lost a bet to my older brother. My evil, life-ruining older brother, and now I can't go on a date for FOUR months. I can't even touch a woman. No hand holding. Forget kissing. I'm walking the straight and narrow (AKA dateless and lonely) just fine. Until my best friend (the woman I've been pining over since college) gets her heart broken.

Sixth in the magical, action-packed shared-world series: Thieves' World has grown into a real presence in the fantasy genre" (Fantasy-Faction). Under the rule of a humanoid race, the city of Sanctuary finds itself divided. Rebels and assassins stalk the shadows, bringing chaos to the streets—which is nothing new to the lawless locals. But even they will have to put aside their differences to unite against their common enemy. An accomplishment easier said than done in a city where everyone is out for themselves.

War looms over Sanctuary in the fifth Thieves' World anthology compiled by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Phule's Company series. The invasion by the Beysibs, an amphibious humanoid race, brings unusual prosperity to the city of Sanctuary. But underneath the glittering façade lies a ticking time bomb, for the nefarious residents of Sanctuary don't take kindly to an invasion—well-meaning or otherwise.

Die Autorin Katja Brunner war erst 18 Jahre alt, als sie "von den beinen zu kurz" schrieb. 2013 gewann sie damit den renommierten Mülheimer Dramatikerpreis. "Die Autorin überschreitet Tabus, ohne dabei je reißerisch zu sein", heißt es in der Begründung der Jury. Nach internationalen Bühnenerfolgen hat der Regisseur Erik Altorfer den Text bearbeitet und für den WDR als Hörspiel inszeniert.

Das Altersheim - eine Zwischenwelt an der Grenze von Leben und Tod. Katja Brunner lässt sie zu Wort kommen: die Unbetuchten und die Unbesuchten, die, die nicht vom Leben lassen können, und die, die man nicht aus dem Leben lässt. Sie alle haben noch Bedürfnisse: Denn Geister sind auch nur Menschen. Abgeschirmt von einer Welt, der sie sich tatkräftig hingaben, betrachten sie verwundert die Scherben ihres gutbürgerlichen Lebens: Erlebtes steht neben unwiederbringlich Verpasstem, Träume mutieren zu Albträumen.

10 Jahre ist es her, seit die Tür des Buchparadies Rahel-Medea Ruoss in Winterthur das erste Mal aufgegangen ist. Was in diesen zehn Jahren alles geschah, was nötig ist, um ein Buchgeschäft zu führen, ja wie es überhaupt so weit kam, dass Rahel-Medea Lang sich mit 27 Jahren in die Selbstständigkeit wagte, dieses und Vieles mehr, erfahren Sie in diesem Buch. Ob Amüsantes, Trauriges oder Ergreifendes, das Leben in einem Buchgeschäft hat es in sich.