Results for 'vern'

1. Nicoletta Verna

De dagen van Glas

De dagen van Glas is het woest meeslepende verhaal van twee bewogen vrouwenlevens, wier paden elkaar kruisen gedurende drie noodlottige dagen ten tijde van het Italiaanse fascisme en het partizanenverzet. Redenta wordt geboren in armoede in 1924, op de dag die het tijdperk van Mussolini inluidt. In haar dorp wordt gefluisterd dat ze het ‘onheil over zich heeft’. Ze beleeft korte momenten van geluk met haar beste vriend Bruno, totdat hij op een dag spoorloos verdwijnt. Op achttienjarige leeftijd wordt ze door haar ouders uitgehuwelijkt aan de eenogige officier ‘Glas’, een sadistische fascist. Ondertussen groeit Iris op in een naburig dorp in betere omstandigheden. Ze vertrekt naar de stad en wordt hopeloos verliefd op de partizaan Diaz, bij wiens verzetsgroep ze zich aansluit. Wanneer ze hoort dat de fascisten haar familie op gruwelijke wijze hebben omgebracht, zint ze op wraak.

1. Eoin , Colfer

Highfire

“True Detective meets Swamp Thing in the Artemis Fowl author’s neo-noirish thriller about a curmudgeonly dragon in Louisiana.”—The GuardianFrom The New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-octane adult novel about a vodka-drinking, Flashdance-loving dragon who lives an isolated life in the bayous of Louisiana, and the raucous adventures that ensue when he crosses paths with a fifteen-year-old troublemaker on the run from a crooked sheriff—now available as a limited limited Olive Edition from Harper Perennial.In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs; now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his La-Z-Boy recliner. Wyvern, Lord Highfire, of the Highfire Eyrie, who once struck fear in hearts far and wide, is reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binge-watching Netflix in a fishing shack. He is the last of his kind, the last dragon, yet no amount of vodka can drown the loneliness in his molten core.Vern’s glory days are long gone—or are they? A canny Cajun swamp rat, young Everett “Squib” Moreau does what he can to survive. He’s finally decided to work for a shady smuggler—but on his first night, he witnesses his boss murdered by crooked constable Regence Hooke.When Hooke goes after his hidden witness with a grenade launcher, Squib finds himself most unexpectedly rescued by a real live dragon.The swamp can make strange bedfellows, and Squib strikes a deal with the scaly apex predator. He can act as Vern’s go-between in exchange for protection from Hooke. Soon the three are careening headlong toward a combustible confrontation in which dragons either finally become extinct—or Vern’s glory days are back. The full set of books in the 2026 Olive Editions series include:Guards! Guards! by Terry PratchettChanging Planes by Ursula K. Le GuinIsland by Aldous HuxleyAlas, Babylon by Pat FrankThe Princess Bride by William GoldmanThe Hidden Palace by Helene WeckerHighfire by Eoin ColferThe World Wasn’t Ready for You by Justin Key

1. Almudena , Grandes

Il ragazzo che leggeva Verne

Non è vero che in Andalusia il tempo è sempre bello, né che la Guerra di Spagna è finita nel 1939. Ne sa qualcosa Nino, figlio di una guardia civile di stanza nella provincia montuosa di Jaén. Ancora nel 1947, il leggendario partigiano Cencerro imperversa sui monti e Nino, che vive con la famiglia nella caserma del suo piccolo paese, non potrà mai dimenticare quell'estate: il giorno in cui Cencerro si è suicidato per sfuggire alla cattura; il mulino accanto al fiume dove va a pesca di granchi con Pepe il Portoghese; il podere delle Bionde, famiglia di sole donne, vedove e orfane, che resistono orgogliose al franchismo. Mentre scopre un mondo nuovo grazie ai romanzi di avventura di cui è avido lettore, Nino impara a interpretare il proprio, il mondo violento della caserma, quello di un paesino dove convivono omertà e tradimenti di due fazioni opposte. E capisce perché in quella 'guerra interminabile' i nemici di suo padre non sono i suoi. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

The Devil's Done Come Back

"This book has everything: the sudden haunting chill in the air, the garrulous severed head, and those campfire-scary-as-all-get-out twist endings that only ghost stories can get away with these days."—Daniel Wallace, Beneath the Moon and Long Dead Stars and Big Fish

1. Sigrid , Drübbisch

Blut-Art

Zwei Leichen, eine Kunstgalerie, null Spuren - der gefährliche Kampf zwischen Polizei und KunstfälscherbandeAuf der idyllischen Nordseeinsel Föhr sollte Karla Lang endlich zur Ruhe kommen. Doch kaum übernimmt die erfahrene Hauptkommissarin des KK11 die Leitung ihrer Dienststelle, erschüttern zwei Morde das Ruhrgebiet. Die Opfer verbindet nur eine mysteriöse Spur: Beide hatten kurz vor ihrem Tod Kontakt zur neuen Kunstgalerie ARTStern.Als die Ermittlungen sie ausgerechnet nach Föhr führen, wo eine weitere ARTStern-Filiale eröffnet hat, verschwimmen die Grenzen zwischen Urlaub und Mordermittlung. Zwischen Strandidylle und Großstadthektik entfaltet sich ein Katz-und-Maus-Spiel um gefälschte Kunst, skrupellose Geschäftemacher und ein tödliches Geheimnis, das tiefer reicht als jedes Gemälde.Für alle Fans atmosphärischer Regionalkrimis, die raffinierte Verbindungen zwischen scheinbar unvereinbaren Welten lieben und mit einer scharfsinnigen Ermittlerin mitfiebern wollen, deren Urlaub zum Albtraum wird.

1. Paul Vernon Bruce

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