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Peter Hoeg,Peter Heg
Deemed the Best Book of 1993 by Time, Entertainment Weekly, and People, and nominated for a 1994 Abby Award, this #1 bestseller is a superbly constructed thriller (People). A book…
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Peter Hoeg
Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called The Ark…
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Catcher in the Rye meets A Brief History of Time in Peter Hoeg’s Borderliners (Glamour)–a tightly-wound, stunningly original psychological drama about a young man at an ominous Copenhagen boarding school…
Centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and…
Peter and Tilte are trying to track down two notorious offenders: their parents. They are the minister and the organist, of the only church on a tiny island. Known for…
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Hoeg Peter
Peter H eg’s first novel is an interweaving of the lives and loves of four families, within which histories time expands, clocks stop or race forward at will. The dreams…
Told from the perspective of precociousfourteen-year-old Peter, this novel is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric, devout parents. When their parents suddenly go missing…
The author’s third novel translated from the Danish by Tina Nunnally, in which a simple search for the truth about a child’s death develops into a thriller plot involving mineral-extraction…
Three emotionally damaged children were all under assessment in Biehl’s experimental school, they were all borderliners. Fully alert to their guinea-pig status they attempt to escape and expose its oppresive…
Peter Hoeg’s first novel is an interweaving of the lives and loves of four families, within which histories time expands, clocks stop or race forward at will. The dreams and…
Originally published as Froken Smillas fornemmelse for sne in Denmark by Munksgaard/Rosinante.
Love as violence, love as a curse, love as redemption, as suffering, as wisdom, as innocence, as delusion - each story takes place on the night of 19 March 1929…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Peter Hoeg’s Journey Into A Dark Heart, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography…
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A Study Guide for Peter Hoeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions…
‘The Danish author is back on form in this literary thriller’ Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Mail on Sunday The spectacular new thriller from…
Peter and Tilte are trying to track down two notorious criminals: their parents. When Peter and Tilte learn that scientific and religious leaders from around the world are assembling in…
Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy and there is a prison sentence hanging over her head. Then Susan gets a timely…
A visual portrait of the world-famous physics institute founded by the Nobel Prize awarded physicist, Niels Bohr
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Peter Kravitz
On Peter Kravitz’ first day as a teacher, a veteran principal taught him the mantra that would carry him through thirty-two years in front of classes: Treat the children as…
Art as a social tool for cross-cultural exchange
Peters Mason S
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…
Midway between the satire of Spinal Tap and the pathos of American Beauty lies the schizophrenic state of mind known as Hog Fever. On the surface this is the story…
Dannie M. Martin,Peter Y. Sussman
One of the great political works of our time, a book that ought to be required reading for every American citizen… . -San Francisco Bay Guardian
