Showing results for "daniel" in Contemporary Fiction

Everybody knows you can't take anything with you when you die... almost everybody. In a fit of rage, a dying spiritually challenged woman vows to cheat death and take her vast fortune with her when she dies. Somehow. Unfortunately, cryogenics leaves her cold. When she stumbles on the fact that the Tibetan Buddhists have found the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation 13 times, she becomes obsessed with leaving everything to herself. But some things can't be bought, and prophecies can be unpredictable.

"Allein": Zu keiner Zeit haben so viele Menschen allein gelebt, und nie war elementarer zu spüren, wie brutal das selbstbestimmte Leben in Einsamkeit umschlagen kann. Aber kann man überhaupt glücklich sein allein? Und warum wird in einer Gesellschaft von Individualisten das Alleinleben als schambehaftetes Scheitern wahrgenommen? Im Rückgriff auf eigene Erfahrungen, philosophische und soziologische Ideen ergründet Daniel Schreiber das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen dem Wunsch nach Rückzug und Freiheit und dem nach Nähe, Liebe und Gemeinschaft.

Krista Quinn-Adams is a tough chick and the center of her husband's, movie star Scott Adams, world. In the short time they have been together they have already had to deal with a crazy actress that tried to take out their friend, Katy, and almost took down Krista while she was at it and the paparazzi following them around every corner, and now they are adjusting to the real world. Krista has an everyday job as a counselor at a high-end high school in Los Angeles, doing what she does best, and Scott is busy filming his newest movie with a young, up-and-coming actress, Zoie Reese.

Me and Mama sleep beneath the Warrior Angel statue. It’s our cemetery home...that is, ‘til the day I wake up and she’s gone. Gone? Now, I’m seriously freaked out and I’ve got to find her. But how? Where? Has anyone seen her? She always saying, don’t trust nobody but yourself. Wish I would’ve listened.

Fresh out of her degree, Chloe Jackson is utterly lost. Her career is a non-starter, her family aren’t much help, and her boyfriend may not be her boyfriend after all. With a head full of questions and no job in sight, she can’t help but wonder where she wandered off track. Why did she give up her art, why is everything she knew falling to pieces, and who can she rely on? Desperate, she visits the doctor, and is given two things: a handful of pills and an appointment with a therapist.

En La alegoría de la caverna, de Platón, se describe a un grupo de prisioneros desde su nacimiento con cadenas que los sujetan del cuello y de las piernas de forma que solo puedan mirar hacia la pared. Detrás de ellos se encuentra una hoguera y la entrada a la cueva desde el exterior. Los encadenados consideran como verdades a las sombras que ven, porque no pueden girarse y ver la realidad.