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Den stumme frøken

Af B. S. Ingemann (2002)

Med magister Holm som centrum fortælles en satirisk historie om forskellige ideer og bevægelser i forfatterens samtid før og under Treårskrigen
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Den seksuelle puls

Af Mantak Chia (2002)

Ny seksuallære der vil indvie - navnligt de mandlige læsere - i kunsten at adskille ejakulation og orgasme. Bogen søger at lære læserne, hvordan både kvinden og manden med enkle greb og teknikker kan opnå større velvære - både fysisk og psykisk - og opnå større nydelser i seksuallivet. En af de vigtigste teknikker i bogen er den, hvormed manden lærer at tilbageholde ejakulation og alligevel opnå orgasme - ja, mange orgasmer. Herved kan mænd - ligesom kvinder - blive multiorgastiske og opnå større sundhed og balance i livet. Rigt illustreret.
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1Pardans trilogien

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Pardans

Af Bertill Nordahl (2002)

Pardans-trilogen følger fire midaldrende menensker i en krseagtig periode af deres liv. Det historien om to midaldrende par, hvis veltilrettelagte liv pludselig går i opløsning. Hvert bind i trilogien følger de to par, som bliver til fire menesker, i 4 måneder.
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2Pardans trilogien

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Jitterbug

Af Bertill Nordahl (2002)

Pardans-trilogen følger fire midaldrende menensker i en krseagtig periode af deres liv. Det historien om to midaldrende par, hvis veltilrettelagte liv pludselig går i opløsning. Hvert bind i trilogien følger de to par, som bliver til fire menesker, i 4 måneder.
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Tolkien

Af Michael White (2002)

I et hul i jorden boede der en hobbit... Sådan skrev Tolkien på et blankt stykke papir, som han fandt mellem de eksamensopgaver, han sad og rettede i sit hjem en dejlig sommerdag i 1929. Resten kender alle vi læsere af Hobitten og Ringenes Herre ud og ind. Men hvor meget ved vi om manden bag de fantastiske fortællinger, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien? Michael White ser tilbage på Tolkiens liv: Hans tidligste år i Sydafrika, barndommen i England, forældrenes tragiske død, hans spirende romance med Edith Bratt, tiden i skyttegravene under Første Verdenskrig, hans uddannelse og færden i Oxfords akademiske verden, hans mangeårige venskab med C.S.Lewis og dannelsen af The Inklings. White fortæller også om Tolkiens mytologiske baggrund for sine værker, nætterne, hvor han sad og skrev, mens familien sov, hans kamp for at få sine bøger udgivet og om berømmelsen.
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Gone For Good

Af Harlan Coben (2002)

Summary: NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES • “ Gone for Good contains more plot twists than you can count, with a jarring revelation in nearly every chapter. . . . Harlan Coben has crafted a taut thriller with a slew of compelling characters. . . . As subtle as a shotgun, and just as effective.”— San Francisco Chronicle As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good. Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother—and himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come. “Coben stands on the accelerator and never lets up. . . . The action is seamless, clear, and riveting.”— People (Page-turner of the Week)
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The Devil in the White City : Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America

Af Erik Larson (2002)

Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The true tale of the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago and the cunning serial killer who used the magic and majesty of the fair to lure his victims to their death. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized America’s rush toward the twentieth century. The architect was Daniel Hudson Burnham, the fair’s brilliant director of works and the builder of many of the country’s most important structures, including the Flatiron Building in New York and Union Station in Washington, D.C. The murderer was Henry H. Holmes, a young doctor who, in a malign parody of the White City, built his “World’s Fair Hotel” just west of the fairgrounds—a torture palace complete with dissection table, gas chamber, and 3,000-degree crematorium. Burnham overcame tremendous obstacles and tragedies as he organized the talents of Frederick Law Olmsted, Charles McKim, Louis Sullivan, and others to transform swampy Jackson Park into the White City, while Holmes used the attraction of the great fair and his own satanic charms to lure scores of young women to their deaths. What makes the story all the more chilling is that Holmes really lived, walking the grounds of that dream city by the lake. The Devil in the White City draws the reader into a time of magic and majesty, made all the more appealing by a supporting cast of real-life characters, including Buffalo Bill, Theodore Dreiser, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Edison, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and others. Erik Larson’s gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both
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15In Death

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Purity in Death

Af J. D. Robb (2002)

Summary: Lieutenant Eve Dallas must take down a group of terrorists who use a computer virus to kill in this thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling In Death series. Louie Cogburn had spent three days holed up in his apartment, staring at his computer screen. His pounding headache was unbearable—like spikes drilling into his brain. And it was getting worse. Finally, when someone knocked at his door, Louie picked up a baseball bat, opened the door, and started swinging… The first cop on the scene fired his stunner twice and Louie died instantly. Detective Eve Dallas has taken over the investigation, but there’s nothing to explain the man’s sudden rage or death. The only clue is a bizarre message left on his computer screen: Absolute Purity Achieved. And when a second man dies under nearly identical circumstances, Dallas starts racking her brain for answers and for courage to face the impossible…that this might be a computer virus able to spread from machine to man&hellip
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Slaughterhouse-Five

Af Kurt Vonnegut (2002)

Summary: Adapted for a magnificent George Roy Hill film three years later (perhaps the only film adaptation of a masterpiece which exceeds its source), Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) is the now famous parable of Billy Pilgrim, a World War II veteran and POW, who has in the later stage of his life become "unstuck in time" and who experiences at will (or unwillingly) all known events of his chronology out of order and sometimes simultaneously. Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralmafadorians who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence). The "unstuck" nature of Pilgrim's experience may constitute an early novelistic use of what we now call Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; then again, Pilgrim's aliens may be as "real" as Dresden is real to him. Struggling to find some purpose, order or meaning to his existence and humanity's, Pilgrim meets the beauteous and mysterious Montana Wildhack (certainly the author's best character name), has a child with her and drifts on some supernal plane, finally, in which Kilgore Trout, the Tralmafadorians, Montana Wildhack and the ruins of Dresden do not merge but rather disperse through all planes of existence. Slaughterhouse-Five was hugely successful, brought Vonnegut an enormous audience, was a finalist for the National Book Award and a bestseller and remains four decades later as timeless and shattering a war fiction as Catch-22 , with which it stands as the two signal novels of their riotous and furious decade
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The Little Friend

Af Donna Tartt (2002)

Summary: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Goldfinch comes an utterly riveting novel set in Mississippi of childhood, innocence, and evil. • “Destined to become a special kind of classic.” — The New York Times Book Review The setting is Alexandria, Mississippi, where one Mother’s Day a little boy named Robin Cleve Dufresnes was found hanging from a tree in his parents’ yard. Twelve years later Robin’s murder is still unsolved and his family remains devastated. So it is that Robin’s sister Harriet—unnervingly bright, insufferably determined, and unduly influenced by the fiction of Kipling and Robert Louis Stevenson—sets out to unmask his killer. Aided only by her worshipful friend Hely, Harriet crosses her town’s rigid lines of race and caste and burrows deep into her family’s history of loss. Filled with hairpin turns of plot and “a bustling, ridiculous humanity worthy of Dickens” ( The New York Times Book Review ), The Little Friend is a work of myriad enchantments by a writer of prodigious talent
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Life of Pi : A Novel

Af Yann Martel (2002)

Summary: NOW ON BROADWAY The international bestseller and modern classic of adventure, survival, and the power of storytelling is now an award-winning play. After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose fear, knowledge, and cunning allow him to coexist with the tiger, Richard Parker, for 227 days while lost at sea. When they finally reach the coast of Mexico, Richard Parker flees to the jungle, never to be seen again. The Japanese authorities who interrogate Pi refuse to believe his story and press him to tell them "the truth." After hours of coercion, Pi tells a second story, a story much less fantastical, much more conventional—but is it more true? Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God
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Picture Perfect

Af Jodi Picoult (2002)

Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper examines the fault lines of a troubled marriage in this “unfailingly intelligent…undeniably literary psychological drama”( Booklist ). To the outside world, they seem to have it all. Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, and Alex Rivers, one of Hollywood's hottest actors, met on the set of a motion picture in Africa. They shared childhood tales, toasted the future, and declared their love in a fairy-tale wedding. But when they return to California, something alters the picture of their perfect marriage. A frightening pattern is taking shape—a cycle of hurt, denial, and promises, thinly veiled by glamour. Torn between fear and something that resembles love, Cassie wrestles with questions she never dreamed she would face: How can she leave? Then again, how can she stay?

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