Hollywood detective Toby Peters does a job for one of Tinseltown's finest. It's been four years since security guard Toby Peters got fired from the Warner Brothers lot for breaking a screen cowboy's arm. Since then he's scratched out a living as a private detective - missing persons and bodyguard work, mostly - but now his old friends, the Warners, have a job for him. Someone has mailed the studio a picture of Errol Flynn caught in a compromising position with a very young girl. Although Flynn insists it's a fake, the studio is taking no chances. Toby is to deliver the blackmailer §5,000 and return with the photo negative. It should be simple, but Flynn, a swashbuckler on and off the screen, has a way of making things complicated. Though he isn't impressed by movie stars, if Toby Peters isn't careful he may end up dying for one. About the Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema - two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life. Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009. Review quote: "For anyone with a taste for old Hollywood B-movie mysteries, Edgar winner Kaminsky offers plenty of nostalgic fun . . . The tone is light, the pace brisk, the tongue firmly in cheek." - Publishers Weekly. "Marvelously entertaining." - Newsday. "Makes the totally wacky possible . . . Peters [is] an unblemished delight." - Washington Post. "Impressive. . . . Kaminsky has staked a claim to a piece of the Russian turf. . . . He captures the Russian scene and characters in rich detail." - The Washington Post Book World. "Quite simply the best cop to come out of the Soviet Union since Martin Cruz Smith's Arkady Renko in Gorky Park." - The San Francisco Examiner. "Stuart Kaminsky's Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written." - The San Diego Union-Tribune.
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Looking for trouble, Ellery Queen descends on a small town At the tail end of the long summer of 1940, there is nowhere in the country more charming than Wrightsville. The Depression has abated, and for the first time in years the city is booming. There is hope in Wrightsville, but Ellery Queen has come looking for death. The mystery author is hoping for fodder for a novel, and he senses the corruption that lurks beneath the apple pie façade. He rents a house owned by the town's first family, whose three daughters star in most of the local gossip. One is fragile, left at the altar three years ago and never recovered. Another is engaged to the city's rising political star, an upright man who's already boring her. And then there's Lola, the divorced, bohemian black sheep. Together, they make a volatile combination. Once he sees the ugliness in Wrightsville, Queen sits back - waiting for the crime to come to him. Review quote: "The best mystery produced by Ellery Queen." - The New York Times "A psychologically complex family tragedy . . . one of the series' finest installments." - Kirkus Reviews "[A] splendidly puzzling mystery." - H.R.F. Keating, author of Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books Biographical note: Ellery Queen was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty-two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name, gaining a reputation as the foremost American authors of the Golden Age "fair play" mystery. Although eventually famous on television and radio, Queen's first appearance came in 1928, when the cousins won a mystery-writing contest with the book that would eventually be published as The Roman Hat Mystery. Their character was an amateur detective who uses his spare time to assist his police inspector uncle in solving baffling crimes. Besides writing the Queen novels, Dannay and Lee cofounded Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, one of the most influential crime publications of all time. Although Dannay outlived his cousin by nine years, he retired Queen upon Lee's death.
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To avenge a long-ago death, a killer puts Toby Peters in his sights. On December 10, 1938, Atlanta burned again. In the back lot at David O. Selznick's studio, sets from a dozen old pictures were pushed together and set alight to provide a backdrop for the climax of what Selznick promised to be the movie of the century: Gone with the Wind. Toby Peters, then just a studio security guard, was on hand to help keep the dozens of Confederate extras in line. When the fire was over, he found one of them dead, impaled on his own sword. Five years later, Toby scratches out a living as a private detective for Hollywood's finest, several of whom have just been marked for death. On the back of a cryptic poem is a list of names of men who were on the scene the night the extra died. Two are already dead. One is Clark Gable. The other is Toby himself. About the Author. Stuart M. Kaminsky (1934-2009) was one of the most prolific crime fiction authors of the last four decades. Born in Chicago, he spent his youth immersed in pulp fiction and classic cinema - two forms of popular entertainment which he would make his life's work. After college and a stint in the army, Kaminsky wrote film criticism and biographies of the great actors and directors of Hollywood's Golden Age. In 1977, when a planned biography of Charlton Heston fell through, Kaminsky wrote Bullet for a Star, his first Toby Peters novel, beginning a fiction career that would last the rest of his life. Kaminsky penned twenty-four novels starring the detective, whom he described as "the anti-Philip Marlowe." In 1981's Death of a Dissident, Kaminsky debuted Moscow police detective Porfiry Rostnikov, whose stories were praised for their accurate depiction of Soviet life. His other two series starred Abe Lieberman, a hardened Chicago cop, and Lew Fonseca, a process server. In all, Kaminsky wrote more than sixty novels. He died in St. Louis in 2009. Review quote. "Kaminsky stands out as a subtle historian, unobtrusively but entertainingly weaving into the story itself what people were wearing, eating, driving, and listening to on the radio. A page-turning romp." - Booklist. "For anyone with a taste for old Hollywood B-movie mysteries, Edgar winner Kaminsky offers plenty of nostalgic fun . . . The tone is light, the pace brisk, the tongue firmly in cheek." - Publishers Weekly. "Marvelously entertaining." - Newsday. "Makes the totally wacky possible . . . Peters [is] an unblemished delight." - Washington Post. "The Ed McBain of Mother Russia." - Kirkus Reviews.
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<p><span style="font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #f3f3f3;">Na pewnej wyspie na Morzu Egejskim mieszka Mała Hydra, która wyróżnia się na tle pozostałych hydr. Jest od nich mniejsza, słabsza, ma tylko jedną głowę, a z pleców wyrastają jej skrzydła. Nie rozumie, dlaczego jest inna, dlatego czuje się samotna i smutna. Często okrywa się skrzydłami i udaje kamień, aby uniknąć spojrzeń rówieśników i schować się przed całym światem. Pewnego razu na wyspę przybywa tajemniczy wędrowiec, który przedstawia się jako człowiek, ale jest jakiś taki... wybrakowany. Nie przeszkadza mu to jednak podróżować po świecie. Zaprzyjaźnia się z Małą Hydrą i zwraca uwagę, że jej skrzydła służą... do latania.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; content: ""; margin: 3em; display: block; font-size: 3.84px; font-family: Lora, serif; background-color: #f3f3f3;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; content: ""; margin: 3em; display: block; font-size: 3.84px; font-family: Lora, serif; background-color: #f3f3f3;" /><span style="font-family: Lora, serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #f3f3f3;">Co wyniknie z tego nietypowego spotkania? Przekonajcie się sami.</span></p>
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<p>Chłopiec, na którego wołali Vitello, mieszkał w szeregowcu niedaleko obwodnicy. Wiadomo, że nie mieszkał sam, mieszkał tam z mamą. I nigdy się nie nudził. </p> <p>Vitello nie bawił się z dziewczynami, a Kamma, która wprowadziła się do domu pod numerem 27, bez wątpienia była jedną z nich. Ale ta dziewczyna twierdziła, że ma szurniętego chomika. A Vitello jeszcze nigdy nie widział szurniętego chomika.</p>
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Son indicio de la popularidad de las Vidas muchas obras literarias contemporáneas que se han basado en ellas: Memorias de Agripina y El proceso a Nerón, de Pierre Grimal, Quo uadis?, de Sienkiewicz (y su célebre adaptación cinematográfica) y Yo Claudio (también adaptada con gran éxito) y Claudio el dios y su esposa Mesalina, de Robert Graves. Gayo Suetonio Tranquilo (c. 69-140 d.C.) nació cuando la dinastía de los Flavios ascendió al poder. En Roma, donde transcurrió gran parte de su vida, ejerció como secretario bajo Trajano y Adriano, y aprovechó el cargo para acceder a los archivos imperiales y a la correspondencia entre César y Augusto, material que utilizó en las Vidas de los doce Césares, su obra más conocida. Éstas consisten en doce biografías, las de Julio César, Augusto, Tiberio, Calígula, Claudio, Nerón, Galba, Otón y Vitelio, Vespasiano, Tito y Domiciano. Siguiendo el método biográfico de algunos eruditos alejandrinos, Suetonio trata sus temas esquemáticamente, según el paradigma de la contraposición retórica virtudes-vicios, y con arreglo a unos apartados fijos: antecedentes familiares, nacimiento y circunstancias, pasos hacia el poder, ejercicio del poder, vida privada, caída y muerte. A todo ello añade un ameno gusto por el detalle y lo anecdótico-humorístico, así como por lo escandaloso y lo truculento, de lo que tantos ejemplos le proporcionaron algunos de sus biografiados. Además, a su interés fundamental por el carácter ético de los personajes añade el estudio del trasfondo histórico, puesto que todos ellos fueron hombres públicos de la máxima importancia. Este primer volumen de las Vidas incluye las de Julio César (100-44 a.C.), Augusto (27 a.C.-14 d.C.) y Tiberio (14-37 a.C.), todos ellos de la dinastía Julio-Claudia, perteneciente a la nobleza romana. Los dos primeros encarnan, aun con sus defectos, el modelo de lo que Suetonio esperaba de un César: Gayo César es un conquistador ambicioso, general aguerrido, benévolo con los soldados; Augusto es piadoso, cívico, religioso y reflexivo. A diferencia de Tiberio –buen general, pero lujurioso, cruel e irreligioso–, ninguno de los dos anunciaba la debacle que predomina en los libros IV-VIII.
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<p>Monologues pour comédiennes. <br>Tantôt naïves, drôles, caustiques ou révoltées, des femmes se racontent. <br>Elles attendent, espèrent, rêvent, dénoncent, questionnent. <br>Quelquefois le quotidien les a salement meurtries. <br>Mais elles ne perdent ni l’humour, ni la vitalité, ni la force d’affirmer qu’elles sont femmes avant tout, fières d’être femmes malgré tout. <br>Le prince charmant les a oubliées. Ou son cheval n’est pas passé très loin. <br>Elles ont fini par se dire que le plus important dans « prince charmant » c’est charmant. Alors elles referment le livre d’images et dévisagent la vie avec gourmandise. <br>Chaque portrait renferme en lui un concentré d’humanité. <br>27 monologues féminins <br><br><br>À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR</p> <p><b>Gérard Levoyer</b> est auteur, comédien, metteur en scène. Il a écrit à ce jour 120 dramatiques radiophoniques dont une soixantaine pour France Inter et 50 pièces de théâtre toutes jouées. Il a reçu le Prix SACD de la Radio en 2003 et le Prix Mounet Sully 95 décerné par la Société des Poètes Français. <br>L’auteur vit Dans le Val-de-Marne en région Parisienne<br></p>
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Bei der Ausarbeitung der einzelnen Schaubilder (Übersichten) ergab sich immer wieder die Notwendigkeit, in Bezug auf ein spezielles Thema das Wesentliche jedes Enneagrammtyps genau herauszuarbeiten. Dadurch entstanden im Laufe der letzten Jahre nicht nur immer neue bislang nicht bekannte Blickwinkel und sonstige erweiterte Perspektiven, sondern auch ganz neue und bis dato unbekannte neue Erkenntnisse im Bereich der Menschentypenlehre des Enneagramms. Derartige neue wichtige Erkenntnisse im Rahmen der Enneagrammlehre hatte ich schon vor einigen Jahren durch mein Buch Wer du wirklich bist - Enneagrammwissen in farbigen Schaubildern anhand von 272 Übersichten veröffentlicht; nach dem darauf folgenden Band 2 aus dem Jahr 2019 hier nun in diesem Band 3 als Ergänzungsband werden nach weiteren drei Jahren der intensiven Enneagrammforschung direkt am Menschen vornehmlich aufgrund meiner Praxistätigkeit im Rahmen der Enneagramm-Homöopathie vielfach neue Erkenntnisse vorgelegt. So entstanden 100 neue, handverlesene, sorgfältig ausgearbeitete Übersichten aus allen möglichen Lebens- und Themenbereichen, die letztlich gerade auch bei der enneagrammatischen Typisierung eines Menschen von ausschlaggebender Bedeutung sein können. Jede einzelne Übersicht ist einem oder mehreren spezifischen Themen gewidmet und eröffnet eine in sich schlüssige lehrreiche Gesamtstruktur. Das Buch enthält als spezielle Zugabe zum vertiefenden Verständnis noch weiteres 27-seitiges exklusives Bonusmaterial, welches per Link oder QR-Code als pdf-Datei zum Download auf der Homepage des Autors bereitsteht.
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