Showing results for "meyer" in Literature & Fiction

Sinclair Rutherford is a young Seattle cop with a taste for the finer things. Doing menial tasks and getting hassled by superiors he doesn't respect are definitely not "finer things". Good police work and bad luck lead him to crack a case that changes quickly from a career-making break into a high-profile humiliation when footage of his pursuit of the suspect - wildly inappropriate murder weapon in hand - becomes an Internet sensation.

Ray Bridges, a professional electronics salesman, is looking for love in all the strange places. He spends most nights sneaking into support group meetings for the disabled in order to satisfy his deepest, darkest desires - to hook up with unfortunate, down-on-their-luck women who’ve recently lost a limb. There's a name for Ray’s preference; it’s called acrotomophilia, a paraphilia involving amputees. Conflicted, Ray wishes he could change. But he can’t. That is...until he meets the perfect girl. Falls in love with her. Only problem: her arms and legs are attached.

David Markham, a Vietnam-era veteran, and a regular computer geek, wants to shoot guns, blow up stuff, have access to every digital device on Earth, end terrorism, eat breakfast at Lowell's, and watch football, especially the Seattle Seahawks. Only his computer - Igor - knows how much money he has. Igor is the real brains of the operation. The computer organizes everything by having access to every computer and device on the planet including printers, cameras, microphones, GPS, and other satellite data. If David wants something done, Igor gets it done.

Der junge orthodoxe Jude Mordechai Wolkenbruch, kurz Motti, hat ein Problem: Die Frauen, die ihm seine 'mame' als Heiratskandidatinnen vorsetzt, sehen alle so aus wie sie. Ganz im Gegensatz zu Laura, seiner hübschen Mitstudentin an der Universität Zürich - doch die ist leider eine 'schikse': Sie trägt Hosen, hat einen wohlgeformten 'tuches', trinkt Gin Tonic und benutzt ungehörige Ausdrücke.