perlenohrring schneejungfrau jubiläumsausgabe schiffskatastrophe

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2 reviews
Brigitte Hamann

Ullstein Tb, 2000

Fascinating woman!
I purchased this book after touring the Schonbrunn Palace outside Vienna, the former Habsburg summer residence. After hearing a little bit about the Empress Elisabeth, I was curious to learn more. This book is a fantastically interesting account of Elisabeth's life. I urge you to read and enjoy!!

Leonaras Vermächtnis.

1 review
Penny Vincenzi

Ullstein Tb, 2001

Another great read by Penny!
The book is wonderful. I couldn't put it down. The plot keeps you turning pages for hours. I highly recommend it. I've read many of her books, and while some are better than others, this one is among the great ones she's written.

Romeo.

1 review
Elise Title

Ullstein Tb, 2001

Best Mystery
I absolutely loved this book. One of the best mysteries written by Ms Title. Great characters, backrounds for the characters. I could almost see them standing before me when I read this book. If you want a good read. I suggest you get this one!

Ein Chinese mit dem Kontrabass.

1 review
Han Sen

Ullstein TB-Vlg, 2003

Ein Chinese mit dem Kontrabass
A friend in Germany gave me this book on a recent visit over there. I love reading History through Biographies, and this was just that. The life of this man, born in Berlin to Chinese parents in the years after WW I and before WW II unfolds in ways that we can hardly imagine in our Western world today. He is forced to move back to China with his father in 1940 and the further he travels toward ...

Der Patient.

68 reviews
Michael Palmer

Ullstein Tb, 2001

"It's not brain surgery....No, wait, it is."
I'm fast becoming a fan of Michael Palmer's medical suspense. As a physician, I'm always on the lookout for inaccuracies, and I must admit that if I find them I quickly lose interest in the book. Palmer introduces some "on the horizon, it's sort of possible" technology that I found fascinating, and was spot-on with his other medical material. Neurosurgeons work under tremendous stress in the ...

Irrungen, Wirrungen.

1 review
Theodor Fontane

Ullstein Tb, 2002

a very great, very quiet novel
Fontane reminds me of Chekhov in that he shows, on the surface, the indifferent passage of time, and also, resisting it, human wishes and desires trying to strike out on their own. Here, Botho, an impoverished young nobleman, is having an affair with Lene, a young working-class woman. So far, typical for the time depicted. The problem is that the two of them love each other, and it is this ...

Das Mädchen mit dem Perlenohrring.

1 review
Tracy Chevalier

Ullstein Tb, 2003

BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN HISTORICAL FICTION...
In this German text edition of the best selling novel, "Girl with a Pearl Earring", the gifted author weaves a mesmerizing tale around Dutch artist Johannes Vermeer's most famous painting, creating an incandescent and luminous work of her own. His painting is a simple, though enigmatic, portrait of a girl with a pearl earring, about which little is known. The author, however, a born storyteller, ...

Hitler und seine Deutschen.

1 review
Christian Graf von Krockow

Ullstein TB-Vlg, 2002

Aufklarensich!
Why did an educated, cultured people follow Adolf Hitler to the frightening depths of horror that National Socialism wrought? The author provides a clear and complete explanation of the factors that led to such an incredible nightmare. The complex combination of a proud, defeated and vengeful nation, economic desperation, deep-seated prejudice and hatred -- fueled by charismatic leadership ...

Die Schneejungfrau.

1 review
Andrea Rohloff

Ullstein Tb, 2003

This book needs to be translated into English! Too interesting to miss!
I have purchased and read this book while vacationing in Europe. It's a fascinating read about the Turkish prison system, and how a young, German girl got scammed by her best friend, and ended up in one of these prisons. She gives us an honest, captivating account of her arrest, imprisonment, and her transfer to a German prison, where she was released later. It is an important read for anyone ...

Das Geheimnis der Lusitania. Eine Schiffskatastrophe verändert die Welt.

1 review
Robert D. Ballard, Spencer Dunmore, ...

Ullstein Tb, 2000

Another outstanding record of a famous ship.
Of course, Dr Robert Ballard will forever remain the man who found the Titanic, but in this book he also provides the reader with an extremely well documented account of the loss of the Lusitania. Mysteries are mysteries and whilst there are those experts which insist such and such happened, there will also be those who assert the opposite. I shouldn't say this I know, but it the way in which ...

Der Hund von Baskerville. Roman.

1 review
Arthur Conan Doyle, Nino Herne

Ullstein Tb, 2001

This book is ok.
The Hound at Baskerville was about an evil spirit that haunted a town for years. The spirit was forgotten for a long time but it came back up and haunted the town once again. They think the hound is a dog but I don't know for sure. I think it is because just by reading the back and looking at the front of the cover. The book is scary but hard to understand. There is a tax driver that is ...

50 Jahre Shell Jugendstudie.

Ullstein Tb, 2002

40 Jahre Bundesliga.

Ullstein Tb, 2003

1600 Bäuche.
Luc Lang

Ullstein TB-Vlg, 2001

Meltdown.

18 reviews
James Powlik

Ullstein Tb, 2002

Almost as entertaining as 'Sea Change'
Unlike some of the other reviewers who actually *know* about the glaring errors that James Powlik has littered 'Meltdown' with, I simply did NOT excell in Nuclear Physics, so any and all of those mistakes simply passed me by, as they probably would the vast number of folks who are entirely unaware what a radioactive isotope can and cannot do to the human body. What did *not* pass me by was a fun ...

Abgehauen. Ein Mitschnitt und ein Tagebuch.
Manfred Krug

Ullstein Tb, 2003

1984 ( Neunzehnhundertvierundachtzig). Jubiläumsausgabe. Roman.
George Orwell

Ullstein Tb, 2003

Sieben Jahre in Tibet. Mein Leben am Hofe des Dalai Lama.

1 review
Heinrich Harrer

Ullstein Tb, 2003

a real "Indiana Jones"
This is a truely fascinating autobiography. His escapes from the prisoners' camp during the war and the adventures on the way to the forbidden Lhasa by foot really match an "Indiana Jones" fiction, just that it is real and only happened 50 years ago. Harrer has a very ofjective style of writing, although the German he uses is a little bit old fashioned and as he is not a writer, his style is ...

Polly.

1 review
Freya North

Ullstein Tb, 2001

Fun Book
This was a fun book. I bought it at the Gatwick Airport book store on my way back to the US and managed to finish it on the long plane ride home. It's romance, comedy, heartbreak, all in one. The characters were fun and interesting. The descriptions of the people and places were inviting. I've read it over a couple of times, b/c there's just something charming about it.

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