DVD "Time Traveler's Wife" af Time Traveler's Wife. På engelsk. Genre: Drama. Udgivet 9. feb. 2010 Vejer 72 g.
Summary: Forced to live with her wealthy, estranged grandparents in New York City after her mother dies, sixteen-year-old Michele retreats to her room where she finds a diary that transports her back to 1910 - with life-changing consequences. Titel: Timeless Forfatter: Alexandra Monir Forlag: Ember Udgivelsesår: 2011 Sider: 290 Sprog: Engelsk
Da Elspeth Noblin dør af kræft, testamenterer hun sin lejlighed i London til sine amerikanske tyveårige niecer. Pigerne er tvillinger og hun har aldrig mødt dem, men nu bliver de kontaktet fra "den anden side". Det er Elspeth, der nu som ånd stadig vil bestemme over begivenhederne, hvilket forårsager en meget dramatisk udvikling Forlag: Lindhardt og Ringhof Udgivelsesår: 2010 Sider: 428 Sprog: Dansk
I år 2025 har den tidligere elitesoldat Hugh "Guts" Stanton mistet sin familie under tragiske omstændigheder og ønsker ikke selv at leve videre. En mystisk organisation giver ham tilbuddet om at rejse tilbage i tiden, forhindre mordet på ærkehertug Franz Ferdinand og derved forhindre første verdenskrig. Men kan man bare ændre på historien? Titel: I kamp mod tiden Genre: Historisk Sammendrag: Den berømte eventyrer og tidligere elitesoldat Hugh 'Guts' Stanton rejser tilbage i tiden til 1914. Hans mission er at forhindre mordet på ærkehertug Franz Ferdinand – det mord, der startede verdens hidtil værste krig. Men kan et enkelt mord virkelig ødelægge et helt århundrede? Og kan et andet mord så forhindre det? Hvad er konsekvenserne af at ændre historiens gang? Type: Hardcover
A Novel "One of the best novels I've read this century. Kate Atkinson is a marvel. There aren't enough breathless adjectives to describe LIFE AFTER LIFE: Dazzling, witty, moving, joyful, mournful, profound."--Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born, the third child of a wealthy English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in any number of ways. Ursula's world is in turmoil, facing the unspeakable evil of the two greatest wars in history. What power and force can one woman exert over the fate of civilization -- if only she has the chance? Wildly inventive, dark
Tempest, fanget i fortiden af Julie cross (Bog)
Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy 'Global Shift just keeps on getting better. There is no other source that gives you the full story on globalization in such a fluent and authoritative way. Not just recommended but essential' - Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, The University of Warwick 'Impressive in the extent of empirical research, Global Shift successfully captures the historical continuities and basic changes marking the world economy. Peter Dicken's new edition is a vividly written guide to globalizing processes' - James H. Mittelman, Professor, School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC 'With this edition of Global Shift, Professor Dicken confirms his mastery as one of the preeminent authorities in the study of globalization. If you wish to explore beyond "flatland", I can't recommend a better source' - Professor William E. Halal, George Was
NATIONAL BESTSELLER After nursing a broken engagement with Jane Austen novels and Absolut, Courtney Stone wakes up and finds herself not in her Los Angeles bedroom or even in her own body, but inside the bedchamber of a woman in Regency England. Who but an Austen addict like herself could concoct such a fantasy? Not only is Courtney stuck in another woman’s life, she is forced to pretend she actually is that woman; and despite knowing nothing about her, she manages to fool even the most astute observer. But not even her level of Austen mania has prepared Courtney for the chamber pots and filthy coaching inns of nineteenth-century England, let alone the realities of being a single woman who must fend off suffocating chaperones, condom-less seducers, and marriages of convenience. This looking-glass Austen world is not without its charms, however. There are journeys to Bath and London, ball
