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Verlag: Penguin LLC US Sep 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0451458443ISBN 13: 9780451458445
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wizard for hire Harry Dresden gets mixed-up with the dead in this haunting, fantastical novel (Publishers Weekly) in the #1New York Times bestselling series.Harry Dresden s faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory, when you re the only professional wizard in the Chicago area phone book.But in all Harry s years of supernatural sleuthing, he s never faced anything like this: the spirit world s gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting variety. These ghosts are tormented, violent, and deadly. Someone or something is purposely stirring them up to wreak unearthly havoc. But why And why do so many of the victims have ties to Harry If Harry doesn t figure it out soon, he could wind up a ghost himself. 464 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin LLC US Sep 2001, 2001
ISBN 10: 0141002050ISBN 13: 9780141002057
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of LitHub s '365 Books to Start Your Climate Change Library' Fiction about ecological disaster tends to be written in a tragic key. Boyle, by contrast, favors the darkly comic. Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction Originally published in 2000, T. C. Boyle s prescient novel about global warming and ecological collapseIt is the year 2025. Global warming is a reality. The biosphere has collapsed and most mammals not to mention fish, birds, and frogs are extinct. Tyrone Tierwater is eking out a bleak living in southern California, managing a pop star's private menagerie that 'only a mother could love' scruffy hyenas, jackals, warthogs, and three down-at-the-mouth lions.It wasn't always like this for Ty. Once he was a passionate environmentalist, so committed to saving the earth that he became an eco-terrorist and, ultimately, a convicted felon. as a member of the radical group Earth Forever!, he unwittingly endangered both his daughter Sierra and his wife Andrea. Now, just when he's trying to survive in a world torn by obdurate storms and winnowing drought, Andrea comes back into his life.T. C. Boyle's eighth novel blends idealism and satire in a story that addresses the ultimate questions of human love and the survival of the species.