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The Last Policeman: A Novel (The Last Policeman Trilogy #1)
by Ben WintersWinner of the 2013 Edgar® Award Winner for Best Paperback Original!<P> What’s the point in solving murders if we’re all going to die soon, anyway?<P> Detective Hank Palace has faced this question ever since asteroid 2011GV1 hovered into view. There’s no chance left. No hope. Just six precious... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2012 -
Countdown City: The Last Policeman Book II (The Last Policeman Trilogy #2)
by Ben WintersThe Last Policeman received the 2013 Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original--along with plenty of glowing reviews. Now Detective Hank Palace returns in Countdown City, the second volume of the Last Policeman trilogy. There are just 77 days before a deadly asteroid collides with Earth, and Detec... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
World of Trouble: The Last Policeman Book III (The Last Policeman Trilogy #3)
by Ben WintersCritically acclaimed author Ben H. Winters delivers this explosive final installment in the Edgar Award winning Last Policeman series. With the doomsday asteroid looming, Detective Hank Palace has found sanctuary in the woods of New England, secure in a well-stocked safe house with other onetime mem... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
Music, Performance, and the Realities of Film: Shared Concert Experiences in Screen Fiction (Routledge Research in Music)
by Ben WintersThis book examines the relationship between narrative film and reality, as seen through the lens of on-screen classical concert performance. By investigating these scenes, wherein the performance of music is foregrounded in the narrative, Winters uncovers how concert performance reflexively articula... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2014 -
Bedbugs: A Novel of Infestation
by Ben WintersFOR RENT: Top two floors of beautifully renovated brownstone, 1300 sq. ft., 2BR 2BA, eat-in kitchen, one block to parks and playgrounds. No broker's fee.Susan and Alex Wendt have found their dream apartment.Sure, the landlady is a little eccentric. And the elderly handyman drops some cryptic remarks... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
Golden State
by Ben WintersFrom award-winning, New York Times bestselling novelist Ben H. Winters comes a mind-bending novel set in a world governed by absolute truth, where lies are as dangerous as murder.In a strange alternate society that values law and truth above all else, Laszlo Ratesic is a nineteen-year veteran of the... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
Underground Airlines
by Ben Winters<P>It is the present-day, and the world is as we know it: smartphones, social networking and Happy Meals. Save for one thing: the Civil War never occurred. <P>A gifted young black man calling himself Victor has struck a bargain with federal law enforcement, working as a bounty hunter for the US Ma... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2016 -
Music, Modern Culture, and the Critical Ear
In his 1985 book The Idea of Music: Schoenberg and Others, Peter Franklin set out a challenge for musicology: namely, how best to talk and write about the music of modern European culture that fell outside of the modernist mainstream typified by Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern? Thirty years on, this co... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2018 -
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Paranormal (Worst-case Scenario Ser.)
On hit TV shows, in best-selling books, blockbuster films, video games, and comics, pop culture has been overrun by hordes of vampires, zombies, werewolves, ghosts, wizards, and other paranormal creatures. Luckily, the authors of the Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook series are back with all-new... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
The Worst-Case Scenario Pocket Guide: San Francisco
How to stop a runaway cable car, stay warm in the summer, park on a hill, eat sushi, escape from Alcatraz, and tell if you've gone too "green."... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
The Worst-Case Scenario Pocket Guide: Cars
Learn to reattach a bumper, drive down a flight of stairs, and survive road rage--your own and other people's. The essential driver's manual!... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
The Worst-Case Scenario Pocket Guide: Cats
The ultimate survival guide for dealing with all things feline, from hairballs and litter box malfunctions to catnip overdoses, apathy, and bossiness.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
The Worst-Case Scenario Pocket Guide: Meetings
Fake your way through a presentation, slip out of the room unnoticed, stay awake through agenda overload, and video conference from the beach.... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound
The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound provides a detailed and comprehensive overview of screen music and sound studies, addressing the ways in which music and sound interact with forms of narrative media such as television, videogames, and film. The inclusive framework of "screen music a... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2017 -
The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Middle School (Worst-case Scenario Ser.)
Homework, hormones, heartache...middle school has no shortage of perils. Never fear, the authors of the best-selling Worst-Case Scenario series return with a survival guide for those who are facing--or just about to face--this big transitional time in school and life. The handbook is packed with fun... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
Android Karenina
It's been called the greatest novel ever written. Now, Tolstoy's timeless saga of love and betrayal is transported to an awesomer version of 19th-century Russia. It is a world humming with high-powered groznium engines: where debutantes dance the 3D waltz in midair, mechanical wolves charge into bat... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman
Ms. Finkleman is just our boring old music teacher. Or is she? It all starts with a Special Project in Mr. Melville's Social Studies class: Solve a mystery in your own life. For seventh grader Bethesda Fielding, one mystery is too tempting to ignore: Ms. Finkleman. Bethesda is convinced that ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2010 -
The Mystery of the Missing Everything
There has been a shocking crime at Mary Todd Lincoln Middle School. In a glass case in the front hall, a trophy-the trophy, the first trophy ever won in the school's lackluster competitive history-has been stolen. Even more horrifying, an outraged Principal Van Vreeland has canceled everyth... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011 -
The Quiet Boy
From the "inventive...entertaining and thought-provoking" (Charles Yu) New York Times-bestselling author of Underground Airlines and Golden State, this sweeping legal thriller follows a sixteen-year-old who suffers from a neurological condition that has frozen him in time—and the team of lawyers, do... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2021 -
Android Karenina
"Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters" co-author Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Tolstoy, and the result is an enhanced edition of the classic love story set in a dystopian world of robots, cyborgs, and interstellar space travel. ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monstersexpands the original text of the beloved Jane Austen novel with all-new scenes of giant lobsters, rampaging octopi, two-headed sea serpents, and other biological monstrosities. As our story opens, the Dashwood sisters are evicted from their childhood home and ... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2009 -
Literally Disturbed #2
More scary stories from Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Ben H. Winters!Chased by wolves,no escape.Monsters screeching,changing shape.Dusty tombstones,bones beneath.Swooping dragons,giant teeth--all things awful, all things wrong,all these nightmares, all night long!Ben H. Wi... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
Romantically Disturbed: Love Poems to Rip Your Heart Out
Love Poems to Rip Your Heart OutFind a love to die for with Edgar Award winner Ben H. Winters's 30 haunting love poems. Accompanied by Adam F. Watkins's beautifully horrifying illustrations, these eerie poems reveal that love is not always what it seems to be . . .... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2015 -
The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Dating & Sex (Worst-case Scenario Ser.)
Blind dates, bad kissers, breakup texts, nightmare hook ups--it's a jungle out there! Luckily, the authors of the bestselling Worst-Case Scenario series have created the most comprehensive handbook for surviving the wilds d'amour through every phase of a relationship, from courting and getting hitch... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2013 -
The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook: Man Skills (Worst-Case Scenario)
Following the success of The Complete Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, this ruggedly handsome hardcover collection brings together new and classic advice from Worst-Case experts to help readers master the manly artsfrom wrestling an alligator to calming a crying child to extinguishing backyard... More
Language: ENGDerechos de autor: 2011