Bøger af Robert Isenberg

A dynamic collection of essays and reportage, The Green Season illustrates daily life in Costa Rica, a tiny Central American nation dedicated to peace and teeming with tropical life. With his trademark humor and observation, Robert Isenberg describes the people, culture, and biodiversity that make Costa Rica so unique-from a centuries-old indigenous ceremony to a remote jungle crisscrossed by crocodile-filled canals. Isenberg explores the country head-on, fighting his way through San José traffic, mingling with venomous snakes, and even making a cameo in an epic soccer film at the height of World Cup fever. Richly detailed and tenderly written, The Green Season is one expat's love letter to his adoptive homeland.

The year is 1912. Elizabeth Crowne is the first woman ever to study at Saint Luke's Medical Academy, but she yearns for something more. When she receives a mysterious invitation, Elizabeth enters a macabre new world-of levitating killers, imaginary palaces, and a swordsman impervious to death.Based on the hit podcast series, "The Woman in the Sky" collects the first three Elizabeth Crowne stories, linked into a single thrilling novel. Follow Elizabeth to the misty Berkshires, to English opium dens, and to the sun-scorched hills of Spain, as she metamorphoses from precocious student to globe-trotting investigator. "The Woman in the Sky" is vintage Elizabeth Crowne-and an uncanny coming-of-age story.

One morning in 1922, a merciless gang rides into the town of Ezra, Arizona. They leave in their wake a trail of bodies and some frightening questions: Why did they wear masks painted like skulls? What was the crimson fog that enveloped them? And how did they disappear without a trace? Here to solve the riddle is Elizabeth Crowne, the plucky paranormal investigator from Pittsburgh. Yet as Elizabeth discovers, the heist introduces a grander saga-of haunted mines, ancient legends, and cowboy justice in the unforgiving Southwestern desert. An uncanny take on the Western tradition, Ghost Bandits of Sonora is an action-packed companion to the hit podcast The Adventures of Elizabeth Crowne. Robert Isenberg is an author and multimedia producer. His books include The Green Season: A Writer's First Year in Costa Rica. He lives in New England with his family.

It's 1921, and the Jazz Age is in full swing. But behind the boisterous veneer, malevolence lurks: An airship overrun by seductive killers. An asylum filled with living dead. A mysterious doctor with a secret language. Only one hero has the guts and gusto to face these horrors-Elizabeth Crowne, Uncannologist. Witty and suspenseful, The Mysterious Tongue of Dr. Vermilion collects five Elizabeth Crowne stories, plunging the reader into kaleidoscopic mystery and Radium Age adventure. From the sultry nightclubs of Cuba to the cobblestone streets of Pittsburgh, Elizabeth probes the paranormal-and gives death a run for its money.

Isenberg's travelogue explores an intimate view of the Balkans through the eyes of a young American adventurer.

POLITICAL BOOKS WILL MAKE YOU SAD, MY BOOK WILL MAKE YOU GLAD. We all know a Robert Isenberg. He's the one who sees things a little differently than the rest of us. He's the one who makes you laugh when he tells you what he's thinking. "WHY MEN ARE SUSPICIOUS OF YOGA "encompasses fifty-five short essays that gives you some idea of what he's thinking and about what. Robert actually asserts that elections are won more by what the candidates eat than what they say. For instance, he is convinced that had Hillary said,"Hold the kale and bring on the iceberg," she would have won by a landslide. This author even sports his audacity by taking on subjects as hugging and smiling, who is good at it and who is not. He is embarrassed to admit to having squabbles with robots on the phone and losing the arguments. Isenberg stoops to bragging in great detail about receiving an apology from a former lover who dumped him over forty-five years ago. He believes that this is a world's record for belated apologies. Nothing is safe from his irreverent eye including world leaders and especially pets with attitude. Robert goes on to discuss how much the word perplexed perplexes him when his cardiologist used it in his analysis of Robert. He then goes on to admit that although he is fortunate enough to have two wives, one is Dana who appears in many of his articles, the other is his real wife Esther who wants nothing to do with what Dana has to say, plus two daughters and one granddaughter that he's still perplexed by the other gender. He, of course, can't wait to tell us why and where this fear came from. Isenberg is somewhat of a questioning sports fan. He has no idea why he's so loyal to the Red Sox. He says they have never come to his office and asked if he's having a good day. He wonders why he should care for even one second why a bunch of strangers lost another game. Re football he says while watching football he learns more about mattresses and fast food than football.All and all this book is a treasure chest filled with smiles and laughter. It gives us what we all need today, more than ever, real wit and real humor.