Esther Roig Giménez Bücher

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle's tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime.

Robert Langdon, Harvard-Professor für Symbologie, erwacht mit einer Schusswunde in einem Krankenhaus in Florenz und hat keine Erinnerung an die letzten zwei Tage. Nach einem Anschlag flieht er mit der jungen Ärztin Sienna Brooks in deren Wohnung. Dort entdeckt er, dass er an der Entschlüsselung einer versteckten Botschaft in einem jahrhundertealten Gemälde zu Dantes „Inferno“ gearbeitet hat. Die Spur führt sie in den Palazzo Vecchio, wo sie sich von Dantes Totenmaske konkrete Hinweise erhoffen, doch diese wurde gestohlen. Langdon und Brooks müssen nun durch halb Europa jagen, um die Maske wiederzufinden und einen perfiden Plan zu vereiteln. Dan Brown, 1964 in New Hampshire geboren, studierte Englisch und Spanisch, bevor er sich Mitte der 90er Jahre ganz dem Schreiben widmete. Sein erster Roman, „Diabolus“, erschien 1998, doch der große Durchbruch kam 2000 mit „Illuminati“, dem ersten Thriller um Langdon. Brown kombiniert geschickt Thriller-Elemente mit religions- und kunsthistorischen Fakten, was ihm ein breites Publikum sichert. Mit diesem Werk präsentiert er den vierten spannenden Thriller um den Symbolologen Robert Langdon.

The stunning continuation of the timeless classic The Phantom of the Opera. In The Phantom of Manhattan, acclaimed, bestselling suspense novelist Frederick Forsyth pens a magnificent work of historical fiction, rife with the insights and sounds of turn-of-the-century New York City, while continuing the dramatic saga which began with Gaston Leroux's brilliant novel The Phantom of the Opera... More than two decades have passed since Antoinette Giry, the mistress of the corps de ballet at the Paris Opera, rescued a hideously disfigured boy named Erik from a carnival and brought him to live in the labyrinthine cellars of the opera house. Soon thereafter, his intense, unrequited love for a beautiful chorus girl set in motion a tragic string of events, forcing him to flee Paris forever. Now, as she lies dying in a convent, Madam Giry tells the untold story of the Phantom and his clandestine journey to New York City to start anew, where he would become a wealthy entrepreneur and build the glorious Manhattan Opera House...all so he could see his beloved, now a famous diva, once again. But the outcome of her visit would prove even more devastating than before-- and yet, would allow the Phantom to know, for the first time in his brutal life, the true meaning of love...