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  1. The captain and the Glory
    an entertainment
    Autor*in: Eggers, Dave
    Erschienen: 2019
    Verlag:  Alfred A. Knopf, New York

    "When the decorated Captain of the great ship Glory descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime... mehr

    Standort:
    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
    Signatur:
    GE 2020/2577
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    Standort:
    Brechtbau-Bibliothek
    Signatur:
    PQe 218.208
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    "When the decorated Captain of the great ship Glory descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law, and though he has often remarked he doesn't much like boats, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain thrills his passengers, writing his dreams and notions on the cafeteria wipe-away board, boasting of his exemplary anatomy, devouring cheeseburgers, and tossing overboard anyone who displeases him. Until one day a famous pirate, long feared by passengers of the Glory but revered by the Captain for how phenomenally masculine he looked without a shirt while riding a horse, appears on the horizon... Absurd, hilarious, and all too recognizable, The Captain and the Glory is a wicked farce of contemporary America only Dave Eggers could dream up."--Provided by publisher

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    ISBN: 9780525659082; 0525659080
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First edition
    Schriftenreihe: A Borzoi book
    Schlagworte: Ship captains; Pirates; Swindlers and swindling; Sailing ships; FICTION / Humorous; FICTION / Political; FICTION / Satire; Swindlers and swindling; Political satire, American; Pirates; Sailing ships; Ship captains; Ship captains ; Fiction; Pirates ; Fiction; Swindlers and swindling ; Fiction; Political satire; Satire; Humorous fiction; Satirical literature; Satirical fiction; Humorous fiction; Fiction; Satirical fiction; Humorous fiction
    Umfang: 114 Seiten, Illustrationen, 20 cm
    Bemerkung(en):

    "This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."
  2. Prime minister
    Autor*in: Stewart, John
    Erschienen: 2010
    Verlag:  Shepheard-Walwyn, England

    Standort:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Standort:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 085683274X; 0856833223; 0856833231; 9780856832741; 9780856833229; 9780856833236
    Schlagworte: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; FICTION / Political; Political science; Prime ministers; Politische Wissenschaft; Prime ministers
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (214 p.)
    Bemerkung(en):

    Includes bibliographical references

    Britain is in crisis. Unrest and inner city tensions feed on unemployment. And as the Government struggles to contain the soaring debt, no one listens. Most are tired of ‘PR-savvy' words, tired of the ‘blame-game' that poses as debate. Divisions in the Cabinet force the premier's resignation. Because circumstances are too dire to afford the luxury of an election, the Queen calls a meeting of the three main party leaders. Some days previously, the Leader of the Opposition had received a letter that intrigued him. The writer, in fact, had held little hope of making contact. For him, it was one last try. Yet much to his amazement he received a phone call from the opposition leader's secretary. When they met, the Leader of the Opposition was polite, but blunt: ‘Why should you see the answer when all the experts down the ages have ignored it?' he asked - yet, his interest had been aroused. Following the meeting with the Queen, it was announced that the Leader of the Opposition had been asked to form a national government. With the support of the other two party leaders, he sets out to win over the cabinet, parliament and the country to implement the reform recommended by the letter writer
  3. The human jungle
    a novel
    Autor*in: Cho, Chŏng-nae
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Chin Music Press Inc., Seattle, WA

    "This sprawling novel was consolidated into one volume from three novels in original Korean. It follows a large cast of characters through business, manufacturing, and university life in China as the country shifts from a manufacturing to consumer... mehr

    Standort:
    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    "This sprawling novel was consolidated into one volume from three novels in original Korean. It follows a large cast of characters through business, manufacturing, and university life in China as the country shifts from a manufacturing to consumer economy. Most of the characters are Koreans trying to make their way in China, providing a unique viewpoint on the superpower"...

     
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    Beteiligt: Fulton, Bruce
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9781634059107
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First edition
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Political; FICTION / Classics; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian; Wirtschaft; Koreans; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Political; FICTION / Classics; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Asian
    Umfang: 405 pages, 23 cm
  4. Torn from the nest
    Autor*in: Matto de Turner, Clorinda
    Erschienen: 1998
    Verlag:  Oxford University Press, New York

    Standort:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Standort:
    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0195110056; 0195110064; 0199770387; 9780195110050; 9780195110067; 9780199770380
    Schriftenreihe: Library of Latin America
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Political; Indianer; Klerus; Indians of South America
    Weitere Schlagworte: Matto de Turner, Clorinda (1852-1909): Aves sin nido
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xlix, 174 pages)
    Bemerkung(en):

    Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvii-xlix)

    In the Andean mountain community of Killac, Lucia and Don Fernando Marín become advocates for the local Indians who are being exploited by the priest, the governor, and the gentry. "After a romance blossoms between a member of the gentry and the peasant girl that Lucia and Don Fernando have adopted, a dreadful secret prevents their marriage and brings to a climax the novel's exposure of degradation."--Jacket
  5. The rope
    a novel
    Autor*in: Makiya, Kanan
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Pantheon, New York

    "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam... mehr

     

    "From the best-selling author of Republic of Fear, a gritty, unflinching, haunting novel about Iraqi failure in the wake of the 2003 American war. Told from the perspective of a Shi'ite militiaman whose participation in the execution of Saddam Hussein changes his life in ways he could not anticipate, the novel examines the birth of sectarian politics out of a legacy of betrayal and victimhood. A nameless narrator stumbles upon a corpse on the day of the fall of Saddam Hussein. Swept up in the tumultuous politics of the American occupation, he is taken on a journey that concludes with the discovery of what happened to his father who disappeared in the tyrant's Gulag in 1991. His questions about his father, like those surrounding the mysterious corpse outside his house, were ignored by his mother, and by his uncle, in whose house he was raised. But he is older now, and a fighter in his uncle's Army of the Awaited One, which is leading an insurrection against the occupation. Clues accumulate: a letter surreptitiously delivered to his mother during his father's imprisonment; stories told by his dying grandfather. Not until the last hour before the tyrant's execution, is the narrator given the final piece of the puzzle. It comes from Saddam Hussein himself. It is a story about loyalty and betrayal; victims turned victimizers; secrecy and loss. And about identity...the haste with which it is cobbled together, or undone, always at terrible cost. It is a story that will stay with readers long after they finish the final page"...

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781101870471
    RVK Klassifikation: HU 9800
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Historical / bisacsh; FICTION / Political / bisacsh; FICTION / Literary / bisacsh; FICTION / Historical; FICTION / Political; FICTION / Literary
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource Seiten)
  6. The Lamentations of Zeno
    Autor*in: Trojanow, Ilija
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Verso, London

    "Bavarian glaciologist Zeno Hintermeier is taking his last voyage to the Antarctic as a lecturer on board an international cruise ship. He attends to the curiosity of a privileged few as they marvel at the least explored continent and pay witness to... mehr

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    Universitätsbibliothek der LMU München
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    "Bavarian glaciologist Zeno Hintermeier is taking his last voyage to the Antarctic as a lecturer on board an international cruise ship. He attends to the curiosity of a privileged few as they marvel at the least explored continent and pay witness to its rapid degradation. In his early sixties, Zeno mourns the loss of his beloved glaciers, the disintegration of his loveless marriage, and the crumbling of his increasingly irrelevant career (he compares giving lectures on glaciers to "teaching veterinarians who had specialized in the subject of dinosaurs.") The desperate Zeno hatches a horrifying plan, and driven to the brink, he is convinced that his only option is to shake his fellow passengers out of their complacency and send a wake-up call to the world. With poignant, playful prose, The Lamentations of Zeno is a portrait of a man in extremis, a haunting tale that looks at the greatest challenge of our age from a uniquely human angle"...

     
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Beteiligt: Boehm, Philip
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9781784782191
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Political / bisacsh; Glaciologists; Glaciers; FICTION / Political
    Umfang: viii, 164 Seiten, 22 cm
  7. Future home of the living god
    a novel
    Autor*in: Erdrich, Louise
    Erschienen: [2017]; © 2017
    Verlag:  Harper, New York

    The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of... mehr

     

    The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Twenty-six-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her. But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. Though she wants to tell the adoptive parents who raised her from infancy, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation, to understand both her and her baby's origins. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in. Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: a shaken Cedar witnesses a family wrenched apart when police violently drag a mother from her husband and child in a parking lot. The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe

     
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    http://books.google.com/books?vid=isbn0062694057 (Additional Information at Google Books)
  8. Spymaster
    a thriller
    Autor*in: Thor, Brad
    Erschienen: July 2018
    Verlag:  Emily Bestler Books/Atria, New York

    "The newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling series! Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of... mehr

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    Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig
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    "The newest thriller in the #1 New York Times, #1 Wall Street Journal, and #1 Publishers Weekly bestselling series! Across Europe, a secret organization has begun attacking diplomats. Back in the United States, a foreign ally demands the identity of a highly placed covert asset. In the balance hang the ingredients for all-out war. With his mentor out of the game, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath must take on the role he has spent his career avoiding. But, as with everything else he does, he intends to rewrite the rules--all of them. In Spymaster, Scot Harvath is more cunning, more dangerous, and deadlier than ever before. If you have never read a Brad Thor novel, this is the place to start!" --

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9781476789415; 9781476789422; 9781982103743
    RVK Klassifikation: HU 9800
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Political; FICTION / Thrillers
    Umfang: 327 Seiten
    Bemerkung(en):

    Maps on lining papers
  9. Future home of the living god
    a novel
    Autor*in: Erdrich, Louise
    Erschienen: [2017]; ©2017
    Verlag:  HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York

    A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive... mehr

    Standort:
    Württembergische Landesbibliothek
    Signatur:
    67/16721
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    A tale set in a world of reversing evolution and a growing police state follows pregnant thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, who investigates her biological family while awaiting the birth of a child who may emerge as a member of a primitive human species Evolution has reversed itself: woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. For Cedar Hawk Songmaker, this change is profound and deeply personal: she is four months pregnant. As society begins to disintegrate, Cedar first feels compelled to find her birth mother, Mary Potts, an Ojibwe living on the reservation. There are rumors of martial law, and rewards for those who turn pregnant women in. It will take all Cedar has to keep her baby safe

     
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    Sprache: Englisch
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    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 0062694057; 9780062694058; 9780062695338; 0062695339
    Weitere Identifier:
    9780062695338
    RVK Klassifikation: HU 3554
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First Harperluxe edition
    Schlagworte: Pregnant women; Adoptees; Ojibwa Indians; FICTION / Dystopian; FICTION / Political; FICTION / Visionary & Metaphysical; Adoptees; Dystopias; Ojibwa Indians; Pregnant women
    Umfang: 418 Seiten, 24 cm
    Bemerkung(en):

    Auf dem Titelblatt fälschlicherweise: Louis Erdrich
  10. Ideal
    the novel and the play
    Autor*in: Rand, Ayn
    Erschienen: July 2015; © 2015
    Verlag:  New American Library, New York, New York

    "Originally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run, and she turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her,... mehr

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    Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden
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    Standort:
    Universitätsbibliothek Greifswald
    Signatur:
    310/HU 4802 I19.2015
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    Standort:
    Universitätsbibliothek Kiel, Zentralbibliothek
    Signatur:
    Bw 4964
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    Standort:
    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    Signatur:
    500 HU 4802 I19
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    "Originally conceived as a novel but then transformed into a play by Ayn Rand, Ideal is the story of beautiful but tormented actress Kay Gonda. Accused of murder, she is on the run, and she turns for help to six fans who have written letters to her, each telling her that she represents their ideal a respectable family man, a far-left activist, a cynical artist, an evangelist, a playboy, and a lost soul. Each reacts to her plight in his own way, their reactions a glimpse into their secret selves and their true values. In the end, their responses to her pleas give Kay the answers she has been seeking. Ideal was written in 1934 as a novel, but Ayn Rand thought the theme of the piece would be better realized as a play and put the novel aside. Now both versions of Ideal are available for the first time ever to the millions of Ayn Rand fans around the world, giving them a unique opportunity to explore the creative process of Rand as she wrote first a book, then a play, and the differences between the two"--

     
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    Beteiligt: Peikoff, Leonard (VerfasserIn einer Einleitung)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 9780451473172; 9780451475558
    RVK Klassifikation: HU 4802
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First printing
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Political; FICTION / Psychological; DRAMA / American; DRAMA; FICTION; FICTION
    Umfang: 246 Seiten, 24 cm
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    "With an introduction by Leonard Peikoff" - vom Schutzumschlag
  11. Gold fame citrus
    Autor*in: Watkins, Claire Vaye
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Riverhead Books, New York, New York

    Standort:
    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
    Signatur:
    500 HV 98000 W335 G618
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    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 1594634246; 9781594634246
    Auflage/Ausgabe: First Riverhead trade paperback edition
    Schlagworte: Droughts; Interpersonal relations; Droughts; Interpersonal relations; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Political; California; Romance fiction; Apocalyptic fiction; Apocalyptic fiction; Romance fiction; Fiction; Dystopias
    Umfang: 339 Seiten, Illustrationen, 21 cm
  12. Radio Free Vermont
    a fable of resistance
    Autor*in: McKibben, Bill
    Erschienen: [2017]
    Verlag:  Blue Rider Press, New York

    "A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont..."underground,... mehr

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    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    "A book that's also the beginning of a movement, Bill McKibben's debut novel Radio Free Vermont follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. As the host of Radio Free Vermont..."underground, underpowered, and underfoot"...seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an "undisclosed and double-secret location." With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. In Radio Free Vermont, Bill McKibben entertains and expands upon an idea that's become more popular than ever...seceding from the United States. Along with Vern and Perry, McKibben imagines an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerilla warfare, which includes dismissing local middle school children early in honor of 'Ethan Allen Day' and hijacking a Coors Light truck and replacing the stock with local brew. Witty, biting, and terrifyingly timely, Radio Free Vermont is Bill McKibben's fictional response to the burgeoning resistance movement"...

     
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  13. The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean nuclear attacks against the United States
    a speculative novel
    Autor*in: Lewis, Jeffrey
    Erschienen: 2018
    Verlag:  Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston

    "America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020. This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity.<BR /><BR /> "The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21,... mehr

    Standort:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    uneingeschränkte Fernleihe, Kopie und Ausleihe

    Standort:
    Informationszentrum der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V.
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    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    "America lost 1.4 million citizens in the North Korean attacks of March 2020. This is the final, authorized report of the government commission charged with investigating the calamity.

    "The skies over the Korean Peninsula on March 21, 2020, were clear and blue."So begins this sobering report on the findings of the Commission on the Nuclear Attacks against the United States, established by law by Congress and President Donald J. Trump to investigate the horrific events of the next three days. An independent, bipartisan panel led by nuclear expert Jeffrey Lewis, the commission was charged with finding and reporting the relevant facts, investigating how the nuclear war began, and determining whether our government was adequately prepared for combating a nuclear adversary and safeguarding U.S. citizens. Did President Trump and his advisers understand North Korean views about nuclear weapons? Did they appreciate the dangers of provoking the country's ruler with social media posts and military exercises? Did the tragic milestones of that fateful month...North Korea's accidental shoot-down of Air Busan flight 411, the retaliatory strike by South Korea, and the tweet that triggered vastly more carnage...inevitably lead to war? Or did America's leaders have the opportunity to avert the greatest calamity in the history of our nation?

    Answering these questions will not bring back the lives lost in March 2020. It will not rebuild New York, Washington, or the other cities reduced to rubble. But at the very least, it might prevent a tragedy of this magnitude from occurring again. It is this hope, more than any other, that inspired The 2020 Commission Report"... "The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States"...

     
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    Quelle: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin; Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    ISBN: 9781328573919
    Schriftenreihe: A Mariner Original
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Political / bisacsh; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control / bisacsh; Nuclear terrorism; Nuclear weapons; FICTION / Political; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control
    Umfang: x, 294 Seiten, Karten
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    Includes bibliographical references
  14. The negro grandsons of Vercingetorix
    Autor*in: Mabanckou, Alain
    Erschienen: [2019]; ©2019
    Verlag:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington

    "Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful... mehr

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    Universität Mainz, Bereichsbibliothek Rechts- und Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Ethnologie und Afrikastudien
    Signatur:
    JG4 195 043
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    "Set in the imaginary African Republic of Vietongo, The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix begins when conflict breaks out between rival leaders and the regional ethnic groups they represent. Events recorded in a series of notebooks under the watchful eye of Hortense Lloki show how civil war culminates in a series of outlandish actions perpetrated by the warring parties' private militias - the Anacondas and the Romans from the North who have seized power against Vercingetorix (named after none other than the legendary Gallic warrior who fought against Caesar's army) and his Little Negro Grandsons in the South who are eager to regain control. Award-winning author Alain Mabanckou is at his satiric best in this novel that catalogues the pain and suffering caused by the ravages of civil war. Translated into English for the first time, this novel provides a gritty slice of life in an active war zone"--Back cover

     
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    Beteiligt: Johnston, Bill (Übersetzer)
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Buch (Monographie)
    Format: Druck
    ISBN: 0253043883; 9780253043887
    Schriftenreihe: Global African voices
    Schlagworte: Civil war; FICTION / Political; FICTION / Satire; FICTION / War & Military; Civil war; Politics and government
    Umfang: xiii, 203 Seiten, 22 cm.
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    Original publication in French.
  15. The Eastern Shore
    Autor*in: Just, Ward
    Erschienen: 2016
    Verlag:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers, s.l.

    From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title... mehr

    Standort:
    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
    Signatur:
    Online-Ressource
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    From an American master comes another "beautifully languid, emotionally intense tale" (Entertainment Weekly), this time of a newspaper editor's fateful decision to expose a small-town fugitive Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Other Books by this Author -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 1. UNCLE RALPH -- 2. JOKE TOWN -- 3. ELAINE -- 4. THE HABERDASHER -- 5. MILO PASSAREL -- 6. THE GOLDEN TABLE -- 7. FERRIS WHEEL -- Back Flap -- Back Cover -- Spine

     
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    ISBN: 9780544836617
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Political
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (213 pages)
  16. Moving kings
    Autor*in: Cohen, Joshua
    Erschienen: 2017
    Verlag:  Fitzcarraldo Editions, London

    "A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, "a major American writer" (The New York Times)"-- "This is a novel about two young Israeli soldiers who travel to New York after fighting... mehr

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    Stadtbibliothek Bremen, Zentralbibliothek
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    Englisch S Cohe
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    Universitätsbibliothek Freiburg
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    "A propulsive, incendiary novel about faith, race, class, and what it means to have a home, from Joshua Cohen, "a major American writer" (The New York Times)"-- "This is a novel about two young Israeli soldiers who travel to New York after fighting in the Gaza War and find work as eviction movers. It's an incendiary story of the eviction crisis in poor African-American neighborhoods in America that also shines new light on the world's oldest conflict in the Middle East. 21-year-olds Yoav Tsarkhan and Uri Halifi have just completed their compulsory stint in the Israeli army, fighting in the 2014 Gaza War. In keeping with national tradition, they're entitled to a year of R&R: a gap-year spent abroad. They come to America and begin working for Yoav's distant cousin, David King--a proud American, Republican, Jew, and owner and operator of Moving King Inc., a heavyweight in the Tri-State area's moving and storage industry. Yoav and Uri now must struggle to become reacquainted with civilian life, but it's not easy to move past their militarized selves when their days are spent kicking down doors: Yoav and Uri work as eviction-movers in Brooklyn and Queens, dispossessing delinquent tenants and homeowners who've defaulted on their mortgages. And what starts off as a profitable if eerily familiar job quickly turns violent when they encounter one homeowner who refuses to leave"--

     
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    ISBN: 9781910695494
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Jewish; FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Political
    Umfang: 237 Seiten
  17. I am no one
    a novel
    Autor*in: Flanery, Patrick
    Erschienen: [2016]
    Verlag:  Tim Duggan Books, New York

    "A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us. After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York... mehr

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    Universitätsbibliothek Mannheim
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    "A mesmerizing novel about memory, privacy, fear, and what happens when our past catches up with us. After a decade living in England, Jeremy O'Keefe returns to New York, where he has been hired as a professor of German history at New York University. Though comfortable in his new life, and happy to be near his daughter once again, Jeremy continues to feel the quiet pangs of loneliness. Walking through the city at night, it's as though he could disappear and no one would even notice. But soon, Jeremy's life begins taking strange turns: boxes containing records of his online activity are delivered to his apartment, a young man seems to be following him, and his elderly mother receives anonymous phone calls slandering her son. Why, he wonders, would anyone want to watch him so closely, and, even more upsetting, why would they alert him to the fact that he was being watched? As Jeremy takes stock of the entanglements that marked his years abroad, he wonders if he has unwittingly committed a crime so serious that he might soon be faced with his own denaturalization. Moving towards a shattering reassessment of what it means to be free in a time of ever more intrusive surveillance, Jeremy is forced to ask himself whether he is 'no one', as he believes, or a traitor not just to his country but to everyone around him"--

     
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    ISBN: 9781101905852; 9781101905876
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    Auflage/Ausgabe: First U.S. edition
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Literary; FICTION / Political; FICTION / Suspense; FICTION; FICTION; FICTION
    Umfang: 343 Seiten
  18. Ghost Fleet
    A Novel of the Next World War
    Autor*in: Singer, P. W.
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston, MA

    Two authorities on future warfare join forces to create a taut, convincing novel-set in 2026-about a besieged America battling for its very existence Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Author's Note --... mehr

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    Two authorities on future warfare join forces to create a taut, convincing novel-set in 2026-about a besieged America battling for its very existence Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Author's Note -- Foreword -- Part 1 -- Part 2 -- Part 3 -- Part 4 -- Back Matter -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Back Flap -- Back Cover -- Spine

     
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    ISBN: 9780544145979
    Schlagworte: FICTION / Political
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (419 pages)