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      • Petra Schier

        Petra Schier, Jahrgang 1978, lebt mit Mann und Hund in einer kleinen Gemeinde in der Eifel. Sie studierte Geschichte und Literatur an der Fernuniversität Hagen und arbeitet seit 2003 freie Autorin. Ihre sehr erfolgreichen historischen Romane erscheinen u.a. im Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, ihre ebenfalls sehr beliebten Weihnachts- sowie Liebesromane bei Rütten Loening, MIRA Taschenbuch, HarperCollins und Weltbild.Unter dem Pseudonym Mila Roth veröffentlicht die Autorin verlagsunabhängig verschiedene erfolgreiche Buchserien.

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      • Kerstin Schulze

        Ein angesehener Privatbankier wird erpresst. In einem Luxushotel wird ein Escort-Girl brutal ermordet und die Vereinten Nationen sind Ziel eines Anschlagplans islamistischer Terrorristen.    In dem ersten Teil der Thriller-Trilogie »Geneva Girl – Todesursache unbekannt« geht es um Schwarzgeld, Mord und Terrorgefahr in einer der teuersten Städte der Welt: Genf. Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht eine deutsche Praktikantin bei den Vereinten Nationen, die an Angststörungen und Klaustrophobie leidet, und zwischen die Fronten von Geheimdienst und Diplomatie gerät. Es handelt sich um eine brisante Mischung aus Psycho- und Politthriller. Die Idee zu dem Roman lieferte der nie aufgeklärte Tod des ehemaligen Ministerpräsidenten von Schleswig-Holstein Uwe Barschel im Genfer Hotel Beau-Rivage.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 1998

        Toni Morrison

        by Jill Matus, John Thieme

        An illuminating study of one of the best-selling, most widely studied black authors today. Explains Morrison's relation to the American civil rights and Black Consciousness movements. Places Morrison in a political and historical context . ;

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        Children's & YA

        Terra (4). Afterglow

        by Jennifer Alice Jager

        Humankind’s battle against Nature is entering its decisive stage. Once more the explosive showdown of the apocalyptic TERRA series keeps the reader in breathless suspense. Humanity appears to be on the brink of destruction. Vast areas of land have been wiped off the face of the Earth, vegetation has reconquered its living space, but Terra Mater has by no means finished with the human bacillus. The hate-filled spirit of Nature that is claiming Younes’ body for itself, and wants to see all humans destroyed, gives him undreamt-of powers, but it also threatens to set him, his little sister and Chloe against one another. But there is even more at stake: if Younes and the other children from his visions (he had dreams about the other kids) do not stop Terra Mater soon from fulfilling her plans, every single human being will disappear from the planet. In order to prevent that from happening, they must come face to face with raging Mother Earth, and must not only conquer their fear but must also look Death in the eye.

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        Children's & YA
        July 2022

        StoryWorld - Amulett der Tausend Wasser (Band 1)

        by Sabrina Kirschner

        StoryWorld – Amulet of a Thousand Waters (Vol. 1) A theme park like you've never seen before ... This is where stories come true! • Gripping adventure quests and a tribute to reading and storytelling• Westworld for children: Attractive setting in an amusement park, a new adventurous theme world in each volume• Realistically anchored in children's lives – with a fantastic twist• Opulent b/w illustrationsWhat happens in Volume 1:Apart from their love of books and their pets, arch-enemies Sascha and Chloe have nothing in common - Sascha, the unappreciated loner, and Chloe, idolized by her classmates. Of all people, these two rivals win the main prize at the reading competition: a ticket to the brand-new adventure park StoryWorld.The park is surrounded by all sorts of rumors, and no one really knows what awaits visitors there. Their journey takes Sascha and Chloe by seaplane to a secluded island. At the heart of the park is a huge library, from which the girls can look down on seven fantastic theme worlds. The library is filled with spotless white books, each of which stands for a story to be experienced in the worlds - that's the only way to fill the pages.Sascha and Chloe choose The Realm of Thousand Waters and are to have their own adventure there under the spell of the sea dragon. This park has nothing in common with an ordinary amusement park - in this park, between fantasy and reality, a dark secret is guarded, which is to be explored in the further volumes.

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        Colonialism & imperialism
        July 2013

        Race and empire

        by Chloe Campbell

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 2014

        A critical reader of the romantic grand tour

        by Chloe Chard

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2014

        Making and unmaking in early modern English drama

        by Chloe Porter

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2014

        Chinua Achebe

        by Jago Morrison, John Thieme

        Chinua Achebe has long been regarded as Africa's foremost writer. In this major new study, Jago Morrison offers a comprehensive reassessment of his work as an author, broadcaster, editor and political thinker. With new, historically contextualised readings of all of his major works, this is the first study to view Achebe's oeuvre in its entirety, from Things Fall Apart and the early novels, through the revolutionary Ahiara Declaration - previously attributed to Emeka Ojukwu - to the revealing final works The Education of a British Educated Child and There Was a Country. Contesting previous interpretations which align Achebe too easily with this or that nationalist programme, the book reveals Achebe as a much more troubled figure than critics have habitually assumed. Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students of Achebe's work in the twenty-first century. ;

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        November 2023

        Céleste - »Gewiss, Monsieur Proust«

        Die Erinnerungen von Prousts Haushälterin als Graphic Novel

        by Chloé Cruchaudet

        Im Jahr 1914 ist Céleste Albaret 23 Jahre alt, sie stammt aus der französischen Provinz und ihr Mann ist Taxifahrer in Paris. Einer seiner Stammkunden ist der Schriftsteller Marcel Proust. Céleste kann nicht kochen und erst recht keinen Haushalt führen, nie hätte sie sich träumen lassen, für Proust zu arbeiten. Und doch kommt es so - und eine folgenreiche Beziehung nimmt ihren Lauf. Céleste wird bald unentbehrlich für Proust. Sie bewundert und bemuttert ihn, erträgt seine Spleens, bereitet seinen Milchkaffee zu, vertröstet Besucher und erfindet schließlich die berühmten »Paperolles« für seine überbordenden Korrekturen in den Druckfahnen seines siebenbändigen Lebenswerks À la recherche du temps perdu. Bis zu seinem Tod 1923 bleibt sie an seiner Seite.Die vielfach ausgezeichnete französische Zeichnerin Chloë Cruchaudet erweist mit ihrer Graphic Novel zwei außergewöhnlichen, gegensätzlichen Persönlichkeiten Hommage. In ihrem einzigartigen Stil, zärtlich, witzig, originell, lässt sie zentrale Episoden dieser berühmt gewordenen Beziehung Revue passieren. Ihre feine Ironie bei aller Proust-Verehrung tut gut. Und mit leichter Hand entsteht nebenbei ein farbiges Porträt der Pariser Belle Époque.

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        Infectious & contagious diseases
        December 2012

        Pandemic Influenza

        by Jonathan Van-Tam, Chloe Sellwood.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        July 2024

        Thomas Nashe and literary performance

        by Chloe Kathleen Preedy, Rachel Willie

        As an instigator of debate and a defender of tradition, a man of letters and a popular hack, a writer of erotica and a spokesman for bishops, an urbane metropolitan and a celebrant of local custom, the various textual performances of Thomas Nashe have elicited, and continue to provoke, a range of contradictory reactions. Nashe's often incongruous authorial characteristics suggest that, as a 'King of Pages', he not only courted controversy but also deliberately cultivated a variety of public personae, acquiring a reputation more slippery than the herrings he celebrated in print. Collectively, the essays in this book illustrate how Nashe excelled at textual performance but his personae became a contested site as readers actively participated and engaged in the reception of Nashe's public image and his works.

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        The Arts
        November 2018

        Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde

        by Jonathan P. Eburne, Catriona McAra

        Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. This volume approaches Carrington as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary and artistic currents that animate her contribution to experimental art movements throughout the Western Hemisphere, including surrealism and magical realism. The book contains nine chapters from scholars of modern literature and art, each focusing on a major feature in Carrington's career. It also features a visual essay drawn from the 2015 Tate Liverpool exhibition Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, and two experimental essays by the novelist Chloe Aridjis and the scholar Gabriel Weisz, Carrington's son. This collection offers a resource for students, researchers and readers interested in Carrington's works.

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        History of Art / Art & Design Styles
        January 2017

        Leonora Carrington and the international avant-garde

        by Edited by Jonathan P. Eburne, Catriona McAra

        Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was an English surrealist artist and writer who emigrated to Mexico after the Second World War. As the first comprehensive examination of Carrington's writing and art, this volume approaches her as a major international figure in modern and contemporary art, literature and thought. It offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the intellectual, literary and artistic currents that animate her contribution to experimental art movements throughout the Western Hemisphere, including surrealism and magical realism. In addition to a substantive editorial introduction, the book contains nine chapters from scholars of modern literature and art, each focusing on a major feature in Carrington's career. It also features a visual essay drawn from the 2015 Tate Liverpool exhibition Leonora Carrington: Transgressing Discipline, and two experimental essays by the novelist Chloe Aridjis and the scholar Gabriel Weisz, Carrington's son. This collection offers a resource for students, researchers and readers interested in Carrington's works, and contributes to her continued rise in global recognition.

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        The Arts
        September 2024

        Cases of citation

        On literature in art

        by Chloe Julius, Michael Green, Matthew Holman

        Cases of citation presents a history of artists who incorporated literary references into their work from the 1960s onwards. Through a series of object-focused chapters that each take up a singular 'case of citation', the collection considers how literary citation emerged as a viable and urgent strategy for artists during this period. It surveys eleven artworks by a diverse group of artists - including David Wojnarowicz, Lis Rhodes, Romare Bearden and Silvia Kolbowski - whose citations draw on works as varied as Karl Marx's Das Kapital and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The book also features an interview with pioneering feminist artist Elaine Reichek that discusses her career-long commitment to working with text. Together, the artworks and cited texts are approached from various critical angles, with each author questioning and complicating the ways in which we can 'read' textual citations in art.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2024

        Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure

        by Larry D Carver

        Rochester and the pursuit of pleasure provides a reading of Rochester's poems, dramatic works, and letters in a biographical context. In doing so, it sheds light on a central vexed issue in Rochester criticism, the relationship of the poet to his speaker. It also reveals that Rochester's work clusters about a central theme, the pursuit of pleasure, a pursuit motivated by a courtship of purity that grew out of Rochester's Christian and God-fearing upbringing. This rhetoric of courtship, in turn, reveals the unity of Rochester's work as the courtier and his various personae try to persuade his audiences, secular and divine, of his worth.

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