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Klaus Berr

    The Undertaker's Widow
    Bones are forever
    Novelas de Cine: Parque Jurásico
    206 Bones
    Triptych
    El último judío
    • El último judío

      • 896 páginas
      • 32 horas de lectura

      El último judío toma como punto de partida la expulsión de los judíos en la España del siglo XV y como protagonista al joven Yonah Toledano. Cuando Yonah es separado de los únicos miembros de su familia que quedan con vida, se ve forzado a abandonar su hogar en búsqueda de un nuevo lugar donde poder establecerse sin tener que renunciar a sus creencias. Contrario a la conversión e involucrado además en la investigación del robo de reliquias, inicia un largo periplo por la España de la Inquisición, durante el cual deberá recurrir a su ingenio para salvaguardar su secreto. Los cambios continuos de identidad y de oficio serán duros de encajar, pero las dificultades no harán sino forjar su personalidad y reafirmar sus orígenes. Desde sus días de pobreza y soledad hasta sus últimos años como reputado médico, seguimos la vida de este extraordinario personaje y de un no menos interesante periodo histórico, en el que las traiciones e intrigas estaban a la orden del día. El viaje iniciático de Yonah le sirve a Noah Gordon, autor de El médico y La bodega, como eje central de una novela que, a modo de tapiz, abarca desde la descripción minuciosa de los acontecimientos históricos y el análisis de la compleja convivencia entre judíos y cristianos, hasta la disección de la vida interior de un hombre sometido a unas circunstancias excepcionales.

      El último judío2015
      4,2
    • The gripping new Temperance Brennan novel from the world class forensic anthropologist and Number 1 bestselling author. A newborn baby is found wedged in a vanity cabinet in a rundown apartment near Montreal. Dr Temperance Brennan, forensic anthropologist to the province of Quebec, is brought in to investigate. While there, she discovers the mummified remains of two more babies within the same room. Shocked and distressed, Tempe must use all her skills and inner strength to focus on the facts. But when the autopsies reveal that the children died of unnatural causes, the hunt for the mother - a young woman with a seedy past and at least three aliases - is on. The trail leads Tempe to Yellowknife, a cold, desolate diamond-mining town on the edge of the Arctic Circle, where her quest for the truth only throws up more questions, more secrets, and more dead bodies. Taking risks and working alone, Tempe refuses to give up until she has discovered why the babies died. But in such a hostile environment, can she avoid being the next victim?

      Bones are forever2014
      3,9
    • 206 Bones

      • 308 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      The #1 New York Times bestselling author and producer of the Fox television hit, Bones, returns with a spectacular new Tempe Brennan novel. There are 206 bones in the human body. Forensic anthropologists know them intimately, can read in them stories of brief or long lives and use them to reconstruct every kind of violent end. 206 Bones opens with Tempe regaining consciousness and discovering that she is in some kind of very small, very dark, very cold enclosed space. She is bound, hands to feet. Who wants Tempe dead, or at least out of the way, and why? Tempe begins slowly to reconstruct... Tempe and Lieutenant Ryan had accompanied the recently discovered remains of a missing heiress from Montreal to the Chicago morgue. Suddenly, Tempe was accused of mishandling the autopsy -- and the case. Someone made an incriminating phone call. Within hours, the one man with information about the call was dead. Back in Montreal, the corpse of a second elderly woman was found in the woods, and then a third. Seamlessly weaving between Tempe's present-tense terror as she's held captive and her memory of the cases of these murdered women, Reichs conveys the incredible devastation that would occur if a forensic colleague sabotaged work in the lab. The chemistry between Tempe and Ryan intensifies as this complex, riveting tale unfolds. Reichs is writing at the top of her game.

      206 Bones2010
      4,0
    • Triptych

      • 560 páginas
      • 20 horas de lectura

      In the city of Atlanta, women are dying at the hands of a cunning killer who signs his work with a single, chilling act of mutilation. Leaving behind enough evidence to fuel a frenzied police hunt, this madman brings together investigators, bystanders, and one very guilty man in a harrowing drama.

      Triptych2008
      4,0
    • A Coney Island of the Mind / A Far Rockaway of the Heart

      Gedichte

      • 272 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      Lawrence Ferlinghetti wurde 1958 zum populären Klassiker amerikanischer Gegenwartslyrik; seine subversiven freien Verse fanden weltweit mehr als eine Million Leser. Seine bedeutendste Gedichte sind in dieser Leseausgabe zum ersten Mal vereint, die meisten erstmals auf Deutsch zugänglich.

      A Coney Island of the Mind / A Far Rockaway of the Heart2005
    • The Undertaker's Widow

      • 324 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      A cold-blooded murder. A beautiful suspect. An honest judge forced to do the unthinkable. New York Times bestselling author Phillip Margolin is a master of legal suspense. In this explosive novel, a simple case of self-defense becomes a nightmare in which justice itself is held hostage. Judge Richard Quinn is young, idealistic, and honest to a fault. That's why he's handed the most sensational homicide case in Oregon history. Locked in a race for the U.S. Senate, Ellen Crease gunned down the intruder who murdered her wealthy husband. In a single, brutal instant she became a widow, a victim, and a hero. Yet disturbing questions remain. What secrets did the man who started his fortune running mortuaries keep that might have cost him his life? What about the son frozen out of his will? Or his wife's political enemies? And what about Ellen Crease herself? Soon it becomes clear that a deadly plot of murder, blackmail, passion, and double cross is unfolding around Judge Richard Quinn. And unless he breaks the rules, justice will not only be blind, it will be the final victim.

      The Undertaker's Widow2001
      3,7
    • Novelas de Cine: Parque Jurásico

      • 465 páginas
      • 17 horas de lectura

      En esta espectacular novela, los dinosaurios vuelven a conquistar la Tierra. En una isla remota, un grupo de hombres y mujeres emprende una carrera contra el tiempo para evitar un desastre mundial provocado por la desmedida ambición de comercializar la ingeniería genética. Pero todos los esfuerzos resultarán vanos cuando el inescrupuloso proyecto quede fuera de control y el mundo a merced de unas bestias monstruosas... Parque Jurásico, la novela más célebre de Michael Crichton y una de las más leídas en los últimos años, fue adaptada al cine por Steven Spielberg en una película que se convirtió en el gran acontecimiento cinematográfico de 1993 y en el origen del fenómeno de masas llamado "dinomanía".

      Novelas de Cine: Parque Jurásico1993
      3,9