Ergebnis für "Libra" in Literatur & Belletristik

In this powerful, eerily convincing fictional speculation on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Don DeLillo chronicles Lee Harvey Oswald's odyssey from troubled teenager to a man of precarious stability who imagines himself an agent of history. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of the president will galvanize the nation against communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped.

Shots ring out. A president dies. And a nation is plunged into psychosis. Don DeLillo's extraordinary Libra is a brilliant reimagining of the events and people surrounding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Concentrating on the lives of Lee Harvey Oswald, some rogue former spooks unhappy with Kennedy's presidency, and Nicholas Branch, a CIA archivist trying to make sense of or draw inferences from the mass of information after the assassination, Libra presents an apologetically provocative picture of America.

“Have you ever felt different from everyone else?” “Do people gravitate toward you but you don't know why?” “Do you feel like you have special abilities?” “Ever have a dream of the future?” “Do you ever think you can hear thoughts?” The popular and cool but still reserved Hassan Gardner feels all this. When he was born, his late father told him he would change the world. On his 15th birthday, Hassan realizes he must be different after discovering he has the ability to read minds.

Poetic impressions and natural photography that soothe and explore a forested, flowery land in Beaver Creek, Oregon.

Sur son lit de mort, le roi Sanche de Tolosà demande à Briann de veiller à ce que Raymon, son fils cadet, mais surtout Ysabel, la veuve d’Henri, son fils aîné récemment assassiné, puissent lui succéder sans heurts. En réalité, s’il craint que Manuel Gutiérrez, duc de la puissante Barcelona, conteste cette passation de pouvoir, ce sont avant tout les mystérieux estrahñats, indétectables et invulnérables à la magie, qui l’inquiètent, car il sent les royaumes christiens du Nord prêts à lancer leur nouvelle Croisade contre la Géminie tout entière.

True love lives on. A sheriff in a small town on the Indian Territories suddenly finds the man he’s looking for in a circuit judge - but then their lives separate drastically when the Packards come to town.

A sudden, violent snowstorm and an arranged marriage gone wrong sends Nicol careening into the arms of a grumpy, violent ex-convict hiding from his past deep in the Alaskan wilderness. Zedekiah "Zed" Strangeway hasn’t touched a woman in years. He can't allow himself another life-ruining entanglement. He prefers life on his own in the deep woods and the deep winter. Most women can’t handle Zed's presence.