Regions & Cultures

Ein Geschichtenschatz mit zweitausendjähriger Aura.'Stilvoller kann man kaum in Weihnachtsstimmung kommen.'- Welt am Sonntag'Diese Sammlung weist den Weg von vorchristlicher Zeit bis in unsere Gegenwart. Sie stellt weithin Bekanntes neben nahezu Vergessenes und schafft es, den üppigen Reigen heiter zu beschließen mit Robert Gernhardts Die Falle.'- DeutschlandfunkGeschichten und Gedichte, Lieder und Legenden, Erzählungen, Sagen und Novellen: Heinz Rölleke ordnet mit profunder Kennerschaft den Geschichtenschatz. Entstanden ist eine reiche Gabe, ein Lesebuch zu den Festtagen.

"As much as Scalzi has the scientific creativity of a Michael Crichton, he also has the procedural chops of a Stephen J. Canell to craft a whodunit with buddy-cop charm and suspects aplenty-most of them in someone else's body." -USA TodayJohn Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed Lock In. Chilling near-future SF with the thrills of a gritty cop procedural, Head On brings Scalzi's trademark snappy dialogue and technological speculation to the future world of sports.Hilketa is a frenetic and violent pastime where players attack each other with swords and hammers. The main goal of the game: obtain your opponent's head and carry it through the goalposts. With flesh and bone bodies, a sport like this would be impossible. But all the players are "threeps," robot-like bodies controlled by people with Haden's Syndrome, so anything goes. No one gets hurt, but the brutality is real and the crowds love it.Until a star athlete drops dead on the playing field.Is it an accident or murder? FBI agents and Haden-related crime investigators, Chris Shane and Leslie Vann, are called in to uncover the truth-and in doing so travel to the darker side of the fast-growing sport of Hilketa, where fortunes are made or lost, and where players and owners do whatever it takes to win, on and off the field.

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American anti-communist purges led by Senator McCarthy in the 1950s. The story of how the small community of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terrifying power of false accusations.A depiction of innocent men and women destroyed by malicious rumour, The Crucible is also a powerful indictment of McCarthyism and the 'frontier mentality' of Cold War America.

For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries…<BR><BR>As the nineteenth century comes to a close, the illustrious Vanderbilt family dominates Newport, Rhode Island, high society. But when murder darkens a glittering affair at the Vanderbilt summer home, reporter Emma Cross learns that sometimes the actions of the cream of society can curdle one's blood. . .<BR><BR>Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895: She may be a less well-heeled relation, but as second cousin to millionaire patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt, twenty-one-year-old Emma Cross is on the guest list for a grand ball at the Breakers, the Vanderbilts' summer home. She also has a job to do--report on the event for the society page of the Newport Observer. <BR><BR>But Emma observes much more than glitz and gaiety when she witnesses a murder. The victim is Cornelius Vanderbilt's financial secretary, who plunges off a balcony faster than falling stock prices. Emma's black sheep brother Brady is found in Cornelius's bedroom passed out next to a bottle of bourbon and stolen plans for a new railroad line. Brady has barely come to before the police have arrested him for the murder. But Emma is sure someone is trying to railroad her brother and resolves to find the real killer at any cost. . .

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books<BR><BR>'Assuming that I was sane and awake, my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before'<BR><BR>After five years of 'strange amnesia', Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee remains haunted by madness and memories that cannot be real. Desperate for answers he travels to Western Australia, joining an archaeological excavation into Earth's deep past.<BR><BR>Journey with Peaslee to discover his fate in the story described by author Lin Carter as 'Lovecraft's single greatest achievement in fiction'.

Gedichte für alle Jahreszeiten - genial illustriert von Dirk Schmidt 'Der Sinn der Jahreszeiten übertrifft den Sinn der Jahrhunderte', schreibt Erich Kästner in seinem Vorwort zu diesem verblüffenden Klassiker, in dem er jedem Monat ein Gedicht widmet - und seinen Leserinnen und Lesern als Dreingabe sogar noch einen dreizehnten spendiert. So entsteht ein zeitloser, amüsanter und herzerwärmender Begleiter für jede Jahreszeit. Diese schöne Neuausgabe im Geschenkbuchformat ist hintergründig und humorvoll illustriert von Dirk Schmidt, dem Illustrator des SZ-Magazins .

Um Gilgamesch, den König der sumerischen Stadt Uruk in Mesopotamien, rankt sich ein Bestand mythisch-sagenhafter Erzählungen, die berichten, wie er nach allerhand großen Heldentaten dem Schicksal seiner Endlichkeit zu entgehen versucht. Unsterblichkeit aber, das muss der Held einsehen, ist nur den Göttern gegeben, Sterben dagegen Teil der menschlichen Natur. Das Gilgamesch-Epos stammt aus dem babylonischen Raum und ist eine der ältesten überlieferten Dichtungen der Menschheit. Hier geht es gewaltige viertausend Jahre zurück in die Vergangenheit und hinab zu den tiefsten Wurzeln literarischer Gestaltungskraft.- Die älteste Dichtung der Welt- Das Gilgamesch-Epos ist das bekannteste Werk der akkadischen und der sumerischen Literatur. Es stammt vor allem aus dem babylonischen Raum und ist eine der ältesten überlieferten, schriftlich fixierten Dichtungen - Thomas Mann hat in 'Joseph und seine Brüder' Elemente der Gilgamesch-Mythologie in die Josephs-Legende verwoben

In "The Snow's Heart," embark on a breathtaking journey through the frost-kissed landscapes of emotion and memory. This collection of poems weaves together the delicate threads of winter's embrace, exploring themes of love, loss, and the quiet resilience that emerges from the coldest of seasons. Each verse captures the ethereal beauty of snowflakes as they dance through the air, mirroring the complexities of the human experience. The poet's voice invites readers to reflect on the transient nature of life, where moments of warmth and sorrow coexist, much like the fleeting beauty of a snow-covered world. With evocative imagery and poignant language, "The Snow's Heart" invites you to lose yourself in its snowy reverie. Discover the hidden stories within each flake and allow the chill of winter to awaken the warmth of your own heart. This collection is a gentle reminder that even in the depths of winter, hope and love can bloom anew.

With calm elegance and precise language, Rivers in My Veins is a work of lyric courage celebrating the connection we all share to the earth. Kara Briggs' poems sing her people, Sauk-Suiattle and Yakama, onto the pages. "Land we live on land," she writes, calling us to embrace our kinship with the earth. As a career journalist, Briggs uses documentary poetry to expose the false settler-colonial narratives while innovating rhythms from the social dances of her tribes in poems that take the reader to the dance circle. She received the 2024 James Welch Prize for Indigenous Poetry for "Acknowledgement Two," a poem in this collection about her uncle who fought for fishing rights. Her fierce love of lands, waters, and stories of her peoples are carried in familiar poetic forms-sonnet, pantoum, and haiku-as vehicles to carry the readers on a journey through our shared world of literary - and deeply alive - landscapes.In groundbreaking forms of her ancestors and for future generations, Briggs introduces profiles of a Yakama treaty fisherman, a great-great-grandmother basket maker, and a Sauk-Suiattle leader calling for accountability, sharing the humanity and modernity of Native peoples. She uses sonnets, pantoums, and haiku as familiar vehicles for readers as she carries them into unfamiliar history and perspectives. She questions our relationship with words about Indigenous peoples by exploring their etymologies. She engages literary ancestors, poets Carolyn Kizer and Janice Gould, re-examining their poetics in her own. Kara Briggs works on environmental issues with tribes on the West Coast and has a background in journalism and higher education. She is a former president of the Native American Journalists Association. She graduated in 2024 with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. This is her first poetry collection and her first publication with St. Julian Press.

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With the attention of a field botanist, Ethereal Flowers explores healing plants, plants in mythology, plants that inspired van Gogh paintings, plants that are poisonous, and plants discovered by Lewis and Clark. By honoring plants and trees, we honor the source of life, and we acknowledge that we are mutually connected, that the survival of one impacts the other. Poet Martin Willitts Jr. gets on his hands and knees to notice the detail of petals, pistils, leaf formation, lateral and bilateral stems, the smell of earth, the bees shuttling in the garden, unearthing a deeper meaning to plants, while planting them firmly in imagination.

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Lenard D. Moore and African American Haiku analyzes the ways in which Moore combines haiku with other traditions: African American storytelling, jazz poetry, ekphrasis, and elegies. The author argues that Moore’s engagement with haiku and his prolific publication history solidify haiku as an established form in African American poetry.