Best Selling Books by Owen King

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L''adattamento ufficiale del romanzo bestseller di Stephen King e Owen King regala ai lettori un''esperienza immersiva e coinvolgente. È una notte agitata quando, nel carcere femminile di dooling, una delle detenute Annuncia con urla strazianti l''arrivo della regina nera. Per il dottor norcross, lo Psichiatra della prigione, è routine: un sedativo dovrebbe sistemare tutto. Per sua moglie lila, lo sceriffo della cittadina, è un presagio di morte. Perché, poche ore dopo, una ragazza sconvolta chiama il 911 affermando che una donna con forza sovrumana ha ammazzato a mani nude due balordi. Il suo nome è evie black, intorno a lei svolazzano strane falene marroni e sembra venire da un altro mondo. Lo stesso, forse, dove finiscono a poco a poco le donne, addormentate da un''inquietante malattia del sonno. Un sonno dal quale è meglio non svegliarle.

Eine Dickens''sche Fantasie voller Illusionen und Charme, in der Katzen verehrt werden, Gelehrte Revolutionäre sind, Diebe edel und Zauberer die wunderbarsten Verbrecher. Auf den ersten Blick hat sich die Welt nicht verändert. Straßenkinder spielen noch immer auf den beiden großen Brücken und die Schickeria geht noch immer ins Morgue Ship, um sich einen Abend lang zu amüsieren. Doch es braucht nur einen Funken, um eine Revolution zu entfachen. Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit über ihren Bruder Ambrose schließt sich das junge Dienstmädchen Dora einem der radikalen Studenten an. Doch dann soll sie sich um das Museum des Arbeiters kümmern – ein seltsames, vergessenes Gebäude, voll mit beunruhigend lebensechten Wachsfiguren von Bergarbeitern, Krankenschwestern und Ladenbesitzern. Während Revolution und Gegenrevolution Kräfte der Liebe und des Verrats, der Magie und furchtbarer Dunkelheit freisetzen, wird Doras Suche eine monströse Verschwörung aufdecken und sie an den Rand der Welt bringen. In Die Kuratorin hat Owen King ein faszinierendes Zeitalter und einen außergewöhnlichen Ort erschaffen: historisch, fantastisch und doch fesselnd real; sowie eine Heldin, die mutig, neugierig und zutiefst bemerkenswert ist. Vorzugsausgabe im Schuber: signiert von Owen King & François Vaillancourt. Holly Black: »Halb Märchen, halb historischer Tatsachenbericht über eine Revolution, die nie stattgefunden hat, ist Owen Kings Die Kuratorin voller scharfsinnigem Humor, Sinnlichkeit und Skurrilität.« Kirkus, starred review: »Ein Roman von Dickens vereint sich mit einem Gemälde von Hieronymus Bosch – düsterer, chaotischer Spaß.« The New York Times: »Der Roman hat seine ganz eigene sanfte Lyrik und suggestive Bildsprache, die dazu beiträgt, dass die Seiten nur so dahinfliegen. King hat ein Händchen für farbenfrohe Metaphern und durchdachte Perspektiven.« Anthony Breznican, Vanity Fair: »Elegant und eindringlich ... spielt Die Kuratorin in einer Fantasiewelt namens Die Schönste ... einer Gesellschaft, die technologisch etwa ein Jahrhundert hinter der unseren zurückliegt, uns aber in Bezug auf Magie und Übernatürliches weit voraus ist.« Library Journal: »Kings neuestes Werk ist ein Meisterwerk der Erzählkunst.« The Guardian: » Die Kuratorin beginnt wie eine Geschichte aus einer alternativen Welt, die durch ihren Detailreichtum und ihre vielfältigen Charaktere einen fast Dickens''schen Ton anschlägt. Ein tolles Gemisch aus Realismus, Fantasie und Skurrilität.« Tor.com: »Kings Welt ist teils stimmungsvoll viktorianisch, teils Terry Pratchett, und es gibt neben der mutigen Hauptfigur eine Menge zu entdecken. Die Kuratorin ist ein wahres Kuriosum von einem Buch.« Crime Reads: »Eine entzückende neuartige Fantasygeschichte... Kings Roman fühlt sich an wie der Nachfolger von Terry Pratchetts Scheibenwelt-Romanen.« Booklist: »Kings außergewöhnlicher Roman ist teils ein Gothic-Thriller und teils eine absurde Regierungssatire. In diesem äußerst kreativen Roman werden Klassenkampf und Ressentiments, dunkle Komödie und bittersüße Romantik miteinander verwoben, was Fans verworrener dunkler Phantastik begeistern wird.« Publishers Weekly: »King erweitert seine gleichnamige Kurzgeschichte in dieser viktorianisch anmutenden Fantasy, die sowohl Momente des Grauens als auch des Humors enthält.«

UNA CITTÀ SENZA NOME. UN MISTERO DA SVELARE. UN RACCONTO AI CONFINI DELL''IMMAGINAZIONE A prima vista, il mondo non è cambiato affatto: i tram sui viali, i grandi alberghi, i caffè pieni di gente. I ragazzi in strada giocano ancora sui due grandi ponti che dividono la città, e i più snob continuano ad avventurarsi sulla Nave Obitorio in cerca di una serata divertente. Eppure, basta una scintilla per innescare una rivolta. Per la giovane Dora, che lavora all''Università Nazionale, è giunta finalmente l''occasione per fare un passo decisivo. Inizia a uscire con Robert, uno studente dalle idee radicali, ed è finalmente libera di indagare su ciò che suo fratello Ambrose potrebbe aver visto alla Società per la Ricerca Psichica prima di morire. Ma è un altro l''edificio di cui Dora è incaricata di occuparsi: il Museo Nazionale del Lavoratore. Questa strana costruzione dimenticata da tutti, che pullula di inquietanti statue in cera di minatori, infermieri, negozianti e altre figure assolutamente realistiche, nasconde un mistero. Mentre fuori la rivoluzione e la controrivoluzione scatenano forze oscure, inaspettate e terrificanti, Dora si avventura fino ai confini del mondo in cerca di una verità taciuta troppo a lungo.

Bestseller New York Times Intr-o colaborare spectaculoasa Stephen King si fiul sau Owen King pornesc de la o premisa originala si incendiara: ce s-ar intampla daca ar disparea femeile? Intr-un viitor deloc indepartat dupa ce adorm femeile sunt acoperite de coconi asemenea fluturilor iar daca cineva indrazneste sa le tulbure somnul le va transforma in creaturi incredibil de agresive. Una singura Evie Black e imuna la blestem. Abandonati si lasati prada instinctelor primare barbatii se impart in factiuni: unii vor s-o salveze pe Evie iar altii nu vor decat sa mentina haosul. Intr-o lume a barbatilor totul se reduce la agresivitate foarte rapid. „Un carusel violent distopic care te va ingrozi si te va prinde de la prima pagina.“ People „Inca un thriller blockbuster in care Mr. Mercedes se intalneste cu Inchisoarea ingerilor: barbati brutali femei care s-au saturat de starea de fapt alcool saracie rurala. O placere vinovata murdara de sange.“ Kirkus Reviews

A surreal and colorful world populated with two-faced talk-show hosts, cheerful Finnish mobsters, bloodthirsty white supremacists, snide English butlers, and panther-wielding Euro-trash assassins. Down-on-his-luck rideshare driver Jerry Hauser’s existence is a bleak one…especially because every fare he picks up tells him how much he looks like uber-successful self-help guru Darren Hart. But after a twist of fate, Jerry is given the chance of a lifetime…which, if he’s not careful, may well end his lifetime. So begins this California noir—a rollicking and gleefully lurid pulp crime story for our time.

In the tropical countryside on the small Caribbean island of Albany sits the vast Trinity estate ¿ home of the Johnson family for 200 years. Lionel Johnson and his sister Kate currently manage the estate and their role has been passed down through the family from generation to generation. Each year creates new challenges and over the years Trinity has changed immeasurably from a home into a small village and, after Lionel¿s death, there are plans for a town. The Johnsons pull together, balancing time, trips abroad and other careers and interests to keep Trinity afloat. This is a novel about pride in tradition and the importance of family, as much as it is about the relentless passing of time.

This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject''s core elements, which can be used as a learning material for students pursuing their studies in undergraduate and graduate levels in universities and colleges and those who want to learn the topic via a short and complete resource. We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career.

Beauty ~ Conscience ~ Creation ~ Hope ~ Earth ~ Time ~ Tragedy ~ Virtue ~ Glory ~ Consciousness ~ God ~ Happiness ~ Life ~ Love ~ Power ~ Reason ~ Sin ~ Terror ~ Pity ~ Truth ~ Tyranny ~ Vanity ~ Knowledge ~ Reality ~ Vice ~ Man ~ Music ~ Perfection Divided into meditations, tales and verse, this book considers the timeless abstract concepts that mankind encounters, and may awaken your own Moods and Emotions.

A historical recollection and memoir of the King family in the print industry, when Linotype was "King".

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Non- or minimally-invasive data collection is highly desirable for gathering the broad base of information that facilitates moving technology to the point of care. Polarimetry has been making this transition for years. Early forms of polarization-sensitive optics involved custom multiplexing a series of images to generate a single image, but today''s snapshot polarimeters are readily commercially available.The research presented in this dissertation advances three areas of polarimetric imaging: First, this research develops a reflectance-based measurement for tracking changes in the alignment of dynamically loaded soft tissue, specifically tendon. This work highlights a range of mounting angles across which signal strength is agnostic to sensor location. Second, it compares a high dynamic range division-of-focal-plane (DoFP) polarimeter with a standard DoFP polarimeter, highlighting both the current limitations of polarimetry and future areas for sensor improvement. The incorporation of a DoFP polarization filter with a high dynamic range sensor represents an important advance in DoFP polarimetry, in that the high-dynamic range pixels can compensate for the reduced photon flux at the photosensor caused by the nano-wire filters. Finally, this research identifies a polarization-based neural signal, with major implications for non-invasively tracking neural activity, including the first tandem recording of optical and electrical activity from a single region. In conclusion, this work makes important advances across a range of polarimetric applications.