Peter Straub Blue Rose The Throatail Mobi

Accolades aside, Peter Karp is a storyteller who also happens to be an assertive singer, an insightful songwriter, a spellbinding performer, and a searing slide guitarist. Fortunately, those distinctions aren’t mutually exclusive. Nor is it a contradiction to call Karp both a master of the blues and an Americana aficionado. In Karp’s case, all these threads are bound tightly together.

Der zwölfjährige Jack Sawyer hat eine weite, abenteuerliche Reise vor sich. Er begibt sich auf die Suche nach dem Talisman, der allein durch seine magische Kraft Jacks todkranke Mutter retten kann. Um ihn zu erreichen, muss Jack nicht nur die Vereinigten Staaten vom Atlantik bis zur Pazifikküste durchqueren, sondern auch ihre geheimnisvolle, fantastische Gegenwelt, die Territoren. Die Territoren, so wirklich und zugleich unwirklich wie Atlantis oder Avalon und an das Mittelalter der Menschheit gemahnend, sind eine Welt magischer Spiegelungen. In beiden Welten hat Jack auf seiner Suche nach dem Talisman Abenteuer zu bestehen, Mut zu beweisen und Gefahren zu überwinden, aus denen ihn oft nur das "Flippen" rettet, der Sprung in die jeweils andere Welt. Doch hier wie dort liegen Idyll und Entsetzen nahe beieinander.

Why had twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer’s mother frantically moved the two of them from Rodeo Drive to a New York City apartment to the Alhambra, a fading ocean resort and shuttered amusement park in New Hampshire? Who or what is she running from? She is dying… and even young Jack knows she can’t outrun death. But only he can save her—for he has been chosen to search for a prize across an epic landscape of dangers and lies, a realm of innocents and monsters, where everything Jack loves is on the line.

Former Los Angeles homicide detective Jack Sawyer, now living in a small Wisconsin town, is called on by the local police chief: Can Jack help his inexperienced force solve a string of gruesome murders that has struck the region? Although Jack cannot recall the events twenty years ago that led him to a parallel universe to save his dying mother, he senses an otherworldly force behind the killings. Drawn back to the Territories and his hidden past, Jack must now encounter the ferocious evils sheltered inside a terrifying house at the end of a deserted tract of forest.

What was the worst thing you’ve ever done?
In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories—some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives.
But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever…