Barnes: 1105 books

Julian Barnes' meisterhafter Roman über Dmitri Schostakowitsch Im Mai 1937 wartet ein Mann jede Nacht neben dem Fahrstuhl seiner Leningrader Wohnung darauf, dass Stalins Schergen kommen und ihn abholen. Der Mann ist der Komponist Schostakowitsch, und er wartet am Lift, um seiner Familie den Anblick...

Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday) Sunsets and Glories is set in the late thirteenth-century Italy where power struggles between Church and State inspire such...

What to expect from this bookThe second Volume of the “Embroidery Business from Home” course, is designed to train you in digitizing embroidery designs, and help you calculate cost of embroideries in detail, in order to set end user prices. You will first learn about basic digitizing like...

Julie Barnes quickly draws the reader into this emotionally vivid drama, which is all the more powerful because it's based on a true story. Eight-year-old Andrea is determined to survive in her abusive home. She learns that she was adopted, beginning a journey that leads her into the depths of hell...

The Salt Lake City Tribune has called Lee Barnes “one of the finest writers of short stories in the contemporary West.” Minimal Damage contains seven stories and a novella that depict veterans of several wars in search of dignity and purpose in a civilian life that has no need for men who were...

What happens when one day you walk through the doors of your life and without any warning you are blindsided, left hurting and wounded? Emotional scars so deep that the idea of moving forward seems impossible. What can take away this pain that makes every breath so difficult? As the vibrance of each...

This book examines the historical genealogy of the torture taboo. The dissonance between the absolute prohibition against torture and its widespread violation raises important questions about the torture taboo in world politics. Does the torture taboo matter? Or are political realists correct in arguing...

Um piloto de caça, sobrevoando o Canal da Mancha, em 1941, assiste ao nascer do sol. Então, desce três mil metros e, para seu espanto, vê o sol começando a nascer outra vez. Com essa imagem impressionante, Julian Barnes puxa o fio de uma narrativa que vai revelar Jean Serjeant, uma jovem ingênua...

Kayaking next to open water swimmers, elite and novice, has given Beth Barnes a chance to blend two lifelong passions into one explosive one. Helping others fulfill a dream and being on the open water is where she feels that she reaches her own full potential. During the 2010-11 Catalina Channel Swim...

After being told, “You’re stupid and incapable of achieving anything,” by her ex-husband, Peggy decided she would do something different. “But what?” she asked herself and set off for the public library where she searched all the agencies and charities who were looking for volunteers....

American author William C. Barnes, born on the anniversary of the Titanic disaster, has been plagued since childhood by memories that were not part of his life experience. As an adult, he underwent regression therapy and discovered his memories belonged to Irish shipbuilder, Thomas Andrews, a man who...

Julian Barnes´ kunstvoller Roman über eine unkonventionelle erste Liebe, die zur lebenslangen Herausforderung wird."Würden Sie lieber mehr lieben und dafür mehr leiden, oder weniger lieben und weniger leiden? Das ist, glaube ich, am Ende die einzig wahre Frage." Die erste Liebe hat lebenslange...

Das Buch, das Julian Barnes' Weltruhm begründete Geoffrey Braithwaite, englischer Arzt im Ruhestand, hat eine große Leidenschaft: Gustave Flaubert. Im Laufe seiner Untersuchungen über Leben und Werk des großen französischen Schriftstellers und darüber, welcher ausgestopfte Papagei denn nun tatsächlich...

Ein Klassiker von Julian Barnes – genial und witzig In 10½ miteinander korrespondierenden Episoden schreibt Julian Barnes davon, wie es ist, wenn man sich in die Fluten des Lebens stürzt. Auf den Spuren des Arche-Noah-Mythos nagt er sich, einem seiner kleinsten Protagonisten gleich, durch das...