Widmer: 50 books

From the author of the McCoy and Brinker crime series comes a novel of treachery and greed on Florida’s luxury coast. In the tony resort town of Spanish Point, sea levels are rising. So is the body count. Both threaten the lifeblood of the Gulf Coast, the real estate industry, and its agents....

The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracy The first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic...

Es sollte eine Reise entlang der Seidenstraße werden. Sie endete in der Gewalt pakistanischer Taliban. Achteinhalb Monate lang lebte ein Schweizer Paar in Todesangst. Nun erzählen sie ihre eindrucksvolle Geschichte. Sie führt in eine Region, von der zwar in den Medien viel die Rede ist, die aber...

Brinker’s back. Can the advertising world survive?Brinker has lost his magic. The agency’s CEO wants him to ace the competition. His former girlfriend wants him in detox. And as rival advertising executives disappear, an ambitious state trooper wants him in jail.If this keeps up,...

The day is Friday, May 22, 2032. On this day, the day after his ninety-fourth birthday, a man is sitting in a beautiful garden. It is a paradise where he often played during his childhood, and it is here that he is recording the story of his adventures with Mr. Adamson. In the course of this compelling...

From Ferguson to Baltimore to Hattiesburg, police officers face an unprecedented challenge—how to keep the law while maintaining public trust, as well as their own safety. Theirs is a balancing act that largely goes on behind closed doors.With its Citizens Academy, the Sarasota Police Department...

On the 50th anniversary of Woodstock comes a gripping story of love and obsession, set in one of the most turbulent times in American history. It is 1969, capstone of a tumultuous decade, and life in the rural town of Pennsboro, Pa. is about to explode. A dam that would flood the valley pits...

Kuno, a male nurse in a Swiss retirement home, has a new inmate: his father. In the confines of their new home, the pair does something surprising—they finally begin to talk. Kuno had always regarded his father as a boring man without a history or a destiny, until they are thrust together and he...

Königs Erläuterungen - Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und Abituraufgaben In einem Band bieten dir die neuen Königs Erläuterungen alles, was du zur Vorbereitung auf Referat, Klausur, Abitur oder Matura benötigst. Das spart Zeit bei der Vorbereitung! Alle wichtigen...

It’s Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful, and rich. In contrast, he can barely support himself and is interested only in music. By the end of their lives, he is a famous conductor and the richest man in the country, but she is penniless. And most important...

In this companion to Urs Widmer’s novel My Mother’s Lover, the narrator is again the son who pieces together the fragments of his parents’ stories. Since the age of twelve, Karl, the father, has observed the family tradition of recording his life in a single notebook, but when his book is...

Alleinerziehende Mütter und Väter sind ganz besonderen Belastungen ausgesetzt. Um sich davon nicht unterkriegen zu lassen, brauchen sie innere Flexibilität, um sich auf die neue Situation einzulassen - und einen festen Glauben an sich selbst. Alexandra Widmer zeigt in diesem Ratgeber mit vielen...

Voilà quatre ans que le journaliste suisse Jacques-André Widmer s'est plongé dans l'exploration de certaines médecines parallèles. Il ne se doute pas encore que cette incorrigible curiosité va le faire basculer dans l'horreur. Suite à un acte psycho-criminel revendiqué par une adepte de la...

To mark John F. Kennedy's centennial, celebrate the life and legacy of the 35th President of the United States. In July 1962, in an effort to preserve an accurate record of Presidential decision-making in a highly charged atmosphere of conflicting viewpoints, strategies and tactics, John F....