Dirk van Gunsteren Libros

Diese Auswahl umfasst fünf Short Stories der Psychologin Patricia Highsmith, die eindrucksvoll zeigt, dass es für die Erkundung seelischer Untiefen keinen Mord braucht. Mit unerwarteten Wendungen und tiefen Einsichten ins Allzumenschliche beleuchtet der Erzählband eine besondere Facette der Autorin.

A young man arrives in the Ukraine with a tattered photograph, a bad translator, a man haunted by memories and an undersexed guide dog - he is looking for the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. What they find turns all their worlds upside down.

In this charming little book, Thoreau treats his subject as if it were a walk itself. As he wanders, so do his thoughts. Thoreau walked both for exercise of mind and body and as a way of exploring his inner and outer worlds.

A dazzlingly written and wickedly sexy read from one of the giants of American contemporary fictions; 'Boyle just gets better and better' (Daily Mail) In 1939, on the campus of Indiana University, a revolution has begun. The stir is caused by Alfred Kinsey, a zoologist who is determined to take sex out of the bedroom. John Milk, a freshman, is enthralled by the professor's daring lectures and over the next two decades becomes Kinsey's right hand man. But Kinsey teaches Milk more than the art of objective enquiry. Behind closed doors, he is a sexual enthusiast of the highest order and as a member of his 'inner circle' of researchers, Milk is called on to participate in experiments that become increasingly uninhibited ...

They call themselves the Brethren, three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison: one for tax evasion, another for skimming bingo profits, and the third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library these judges-turned-felons use their time in prison fine-tuning a brilliant extortion scam. While events outside their prison walls begin to erupt, with a bizarre presidential election holding the nation in its grips and a powerful government figure pulling some hidden strings, these three judges couldn''t have had better timing, because they''ve just found the perfect victim.