Derek Miller: 22 books

Iraq, 1991. La guerra è finita e il soldato Arwood Hobbes, di stanza con un reparto dell’esercito americano incaricato di far rispettare il cessate il fuoco, si annoia a morte. L’operazione Desert Storm non è stata altro che una campagna aerea di un mese contro alcune truppe irachene allo scoperto,...

Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is 'fun' has often been relegated...

Detroit's mean streets. Two orphaned boys. The beginning of a life of crime. An elderly Japanese grandmother fights for her grandson's life with her only weapons - good food, tough love, and a forbidden diary. Eleven year old Mu-Chan learns the meaning of true courage when he and his friend, Johnathan, discover the stirring words of his kamikaze grandfather, a man who chose to live.

During World War II a top secret battalion made up of magicians, actors, and artists saved over thirty-thousand lives without firing a single shot. They were known as The Ghost Army. In 2014 the battalion saves one more life when an unlikely friendship with a surviving veteran pulls a troubled teen from the edge of self-destruction.

Secret diary. War-torn country. Incredible courage. Seventeen-year-old Owen Petrov expects to be bored out of his mind when he has to accompany his immigrant grandmother back to Russia for a reunion. He is polite, but counts the hours until he can return to his comfortable suburban life back...

Le Vieux qui voulait sauver son petit voisin serbe, par LE romancier de l'année selon The Times ! Entrez dans la peau de Sheldon Horowitz et découvrez un héros irrésistible, vieux juif new-yorkais exilé à Oslo, qui décide d'aider son petit voisin serbe à fuir à travers la campagne...

Ein alter Mann, den man lieben muss. Ein Buch, das man lieben wird. Nach dem Tod seiner Frau ist Sheldon Horowitz mit 82 Jahren zu seiner Enkelin nach Oslo gezogen. In ein fremdes Land ohne Juden. Viel Zeit, um über die Vergangenheit nachzudenken. All die Erinnerungen. All die Toten. Eines Tages...

Kommt eine norwegische Polizistin nach Amerika … Chefinspektorin Sigrid Ødegård von der Osloer Polizei hat im Dienst einen Menschen erschossen. Ihr Handeln war völlig korrekt, aber Sigrid ist am Boden zerstört. Bei ihrem Vater in den Bergen will sie zur Ruhe kommen. Doch der begrüßt sie mit...