Bøger af Mark Beyer

A band of lusty archaeologists get onto the trail of ancient treasure from the year-410 sacking of Rome. Using ancient maps, fast ships, slow donkeys, and cryptic flags, their bracing adventure brings "The Faculty" to the brink of success and disaster. Along with an albino magician and a side-show lycanthrope straight out of a traveling circus, their interlocking stories come from the annals of history lived large. Follow Dr. Felix Flahaven, Hazel "Purple" O'Haze, Priya Sata, Caligula Clauswicz, and the other Faculty on the first of many exploits to come. Now read an excerpt and then buy the book! Happy adventure-time!

Richard Bentley has power over women; and they over him. His bookshop holds power in its stories. Then one day, a Heath-on-the-Wold woman wants her own power. What is Penelope White willing to do to get such power?This is the story of THE VILLAGE WIT.American Richard Bentley settles in rural England, looking for the contented life of a bookshop keeper and some fun with the local women. Heath-on-the-Wold seems the ideal place to get lost in work and forget the woman who fell out his life with the affliction of "marital boredom." Bentley hires Peggy White, a mid-forties townswoman who seems his match in sass and intellect. Soon, the rules of attraction open a new chapter in their lives. Who wants power? Who holds the power?THE VILLAGE WIT follows Richard and Peggy's often humorous and sometimes dark odyssey through village life, love's fall, sexual politics, and that place where memory and modern love-power-passion intersect. In the tradition of Iris Murdoch, Richard Ford, Margaret Atwood, and Norman Rush, THE VILLAGE WIT explores the effects of loss and the shadows found in passion's blood-red corners.Click on Amazon's "Look Inside" button to read sample pages. Then buy your own e-book or paperback edition.

Have you ever heard the story of the Hero turned Goat?At sixteen, Ernest Waine is trapped in a world of hate. He cycles between knowing his friends and seeing enemies watching from the shadows. What has made me this way? he asks. An answer eludes him by day; at night he reads fantastic books in which he can only hope to learn some right path along the potholed roads leading to the end of the twentieth century.The day Ernest opens Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky's voice shouts at him over the noise made constant by his daytime life. What he hears from the Russian master-storyteller makes the case for his next move. Murder, on a notorious scale.Twenty-five years later, Ernest is asked to recall the day in his life when he had planned to kill his classmates. This time he does not hear Dostoevsky speaking, but his own voice coming from behind the horror of what he had done, and what he hadn't.The Janitor: Or, Dostoevsky in America carries with it the passions of the frightened, the angry: those children compelled to react in the name of self-defined safety, and lone survival. Sometimes, the sum of all actions does not define a life."Let me tell you the one about the Goat turned Hero..."Click on the book cover to view Amazon's "Look Inside" and read sample pages. Then order your Kindle e-book or paperback copy now.

Do "Gods" rule you? What would YOU do if you learned just how much power hangs over you? Minus Orth is caught between his own "power of art" and a woman's "power of being."Think of how the Olympian Gods would change in our minds when we are allowed to use our imaginations to see their true ages. Time changes all people - even gods - and when their day-to-day mischievous lives no longer play a role in human affairs, what then do they become? The image of shriveled skin is too apt to ignore. And, above all, what do we associate with the aging of these gods within the condition of our modern times?Minus Orth has an idea which can explain this, and give our imaginations the figures to uphold. He is sculpting the mighty figures of myth - and the not-so-mighty - in an art cycle he has titled "Mythical Gods in Their Twilight" without the least irony. And his creations have not come without a price.Author Mark Beyer, along with Siren & Muse Publishing, bring you a story of obsession, identity, and art. Power lurks on every page.Synopsis: Minus Orth walks dogs for a living and sculpts for his life. He has a girlfriend, Belinda, who's itching to get married. He plays poker with a quartet of exiled aristocrats. His friend, Peter N, has reaped artistic success that's both inspirational and a thorn. And at Minus's art co-op, the residents live on the fringe of society. This is the power of New York City, the power of an Arts lifestyle, and the power of passion for fame.One day Minus crosses paths with Karen Kosek, best remembered as a culture critic of the 1960s. Karen dropped out of sight years ago. Now she dresses as a bag lady - ragged clothes, a garbage smell, and bulging plastic bags she carries as if they hold the secrets to the good life. Minus orchestrates a tenuous relationship with Karen, and discovers in her a woman who has not been trampled underfoot, but is burrowed deeper in society's crust than anyone could imagine.Thus begins an odyssey in which Minus becomes obsessed with Karen's past and present, obsessed with creating his sculpture cycle, and with the role artists play in society's split personality. "Do you have what it takes to make something beautiful?" is a question that comes to the minds of many characters in this story. Their answers are hilarious, confused, self-delusional, virtuous, or simply truthful, because the people who create beauty are different from those who value beauty, and far afield from the powers able to help it flourish ... or destroy it."I want to read this book. I must read this book." - Amazon Breakthrough Novel AwardMinus Orth's "eccentricities ... make him the iconoclast he is intended to be."- Publishers Weekly

Power: it is what we want, it is what we deserve, it is what we fear when used against us.This is the story of Maximilian and Greta Ruth, their 40-year relationship, and all their demons that follow them as their life together goes exactly as they had planned it -- at least for awhile.Max daydreams in colors which his eyes can no longer see. His wife is leading them on a European tour: Prague, Vienna, Salzburg, and Venice. Greta Ruth calls this trip their "last hurrah." She hasn't had the best from 40 years with Max. But Max takes their life differently: marriage is an affair of more than the heart's journey. This pair of American originals have known passion, riches, and sorrow. Greta now wonders if the plan will see her through to the promised "champagne on the Grand Canal."Their Elite Travel tour-mates are getting on each other's nerves. They are characters found next door, on everyday streets, under black-eye days, and across lost-memory nights. The highlights and sights, the posh lunches, the gamy conversation over drinks in the bar - and of course the "tour friendships" - all make their faux-camaraderie sometimes combative but never boring."Max, the blind guy" is a complex, emotional story of the power that lives in a marriage, that lurks in art, and wrestles with the ego. Beyer's nuanced story brings to life fictional characters from America and Europe as a group of recalcitrant retirees make their Grand Tour.A story rife with modern perils - too much time, too much money, just enough libido, secrets revealed - Max and Greta Ruth don't wait for the future, instead they go and make their future.** What people are saying: "Precocious. Provocative. Poignant. Mark Beyer's massive novel "Max, the blind guy" is built like an intricate mansion of dozens of opulently adorned rooms and secret passageways and windows and doors that open up to the bright and vibrant world beyond. Told through multiple points of view, the story explores the delights, disappointments, disturbances, and distractions of love, lust, and the desire to get to the next place. Language play, humor, despair, and the engagement of a complicated community of characters, Mark Beyer's "Max, the Blind Guy" brings to mind the work of his literary predecessors such as Nabokov, Marquez, Dickens, and Dostoevsky. Good company. Good reading." -- Patricia Ann McNair, author, THE TEMPLE OF AIRClick on Amazon's "Look Inside" button to read sample pages. Then buy your own e-book or paperback edition.

This biography profiles the elusive life of Heinrich Muller, a career policeman and vengeful head of Germany's secret state police. Beyer explores Muller's kinship with Hitler during Hitler's rise to power and the actions that Muller took to protect Hitler's vision of genocide. The elements that formed the Gestapo are outlined, as are the diabolical techniques of the SS.

Mark Beyer untersucht, wie Industrieunternehmen in das Servicegeschaft diversifizieren und welche in sich abgestimmten Veranderungen besonders kritischer Gestaltungsparameter der Unternehmensfuhrung entlang dieses Wachstumsprozesses eine nachhaltige Professionalisierung des industriellen Servicegeschafts versprechen.