An old lady and a young man meet on a crosswalk in Manhattan in bizarre circumstances which drastically change the directions of their lives. A foul-mouthed youth is killed in a traffic accident. The old lady's apartment is visited by folks that would make most people run to their psychologist. A mass murderer explains why he thinks he is a good man. A cool Jesus seems to agree with him and asks for The Bible to be rewritten: make the book a bit more interesting, inject a bit of humour and give me a girlfriend. Attempts are made to rewrite literary history: Hemingway's Santiago wants to...

What are great things in life? Money? Good health? Good relationships? Happiness? Yes, of course. And this book is about these topics. But what if the next global financial crisis makes your job and your money disappear? What if you are no longer as healthy as you would like to be? What if an important relationship becomes complicated? What if happiness seems a distant memory? In other words: what if these things turn against you? And what if as I consequence you think the whole world is against you? What then? This book invites you to a journey that has a lot to do with the way you see and...

A man sitting beside a detective in a bar in New York is murdered. Another man, whose warning saved the detective's life, disappears without a trace. A conman and a former Miss USA contestant form a relationship that's trusting and deceiving at the same time. The detective and an attractive policewoman, who is not influenced by people's appearances, form a relationship that changes from one extreme to another when past occurrences leak to the surface. The events move from New York to Paris. Existing players and new players are brought together by fate. There appear to be links between crimes...

Ludwig is a wealthy banker who wants to be an artist. His wife Gina is convinced that matter and time can't exist. Daniel and Monika, a young bohemian couple, live happy lives with values and believes that are in almost every aspect the opposite of what Ludwig and Gina's lives are about. One day Ludwig starts telling Daniel his story: how he helped political refugees to escape to Casablanca; how he lost everything and what happened then; how he and Gina travelled the world. But there was more. It took a long time before Daniel discovered the banker's secret: the dark events that once...

Henry Miller's son Tony writes about this book: Dear Fred, I rushed immediately to the manuscript and began reading with wild abandon. I can see clearly your influences. And I really laughed out loud about our casual meeting. You have such a good way with words. I am totally delighted by your book. You have captured certain essences and smells and ways of doing things. I am sure The Short and Wonderful Life of Henry Hemingway will be a wonderful success. All the best, Tony Bruce L. Russell, Author of Channelling Henry, writes: Fred Schafer takes on two of the 20th Century's literary giants....

Over the last several years, there has been much discussion on the interrelation of CO2 emissions with the global warming phenomenon. This in turn has increased pressure to develop and produce more fuel efficient engines and vehicles. This is the central topic of this book. It covers the underlying processes which cause pollutant emissions and the possibilities of reducing them, as well as the fuel consumption of gasoline and diesel engines, including direct injection diesel engines. As well as the engine-related causes of pollution, which is found in the raw exhaust, there is also a...

Das Buch behandelt die Entstehung von Schadstoffemissionen und die Moglichkeiten zu deren Verringerung sowie den Kraftstoffverbrauch bei Otto- und Dieselmotoren einschliesslich Dieselmotoren mit Direkteinspritzung. Neben den motorischen Aspekten der Schadstoffbildung und Schadstoffminderung werden Systeme und Verfahren zur Abgasnachbehandlung dargestellt. Die wichtigsten Einflusse der Kraft- und Schmierstoffe (sowohl konventionelle als auch alternative Kraftstoffe) auf das Schadstoffverhalten werden beschrieben. Neben konventionellen Otto- und Dieselmotoren werden auch Magermotoren und...

A young man is found unconscious in a park in London. He has no injuries, no illnesses. Weeks later, the doctors still can't explain why he hasn't regained consciousness. A detective, a homeless man and a writer try to find answers to the questions surrounding him. A widely traveled elderly man is working on his memoirs. He had left home at the age of nineteen. The decades that followed were dominated by his determination to overcome professional and personal adversities. About half way through the book, the young man and the elderly man meet under extraordinary circumstances - they...

Monica, her boyfriend Mick, their lover Lisa and a group of people from an obscure island north of Hawaii are drawn into a conspiracy that is initiated by Monica's mother, and developed by an FBI agent, who is known for his harebrained plans. The city on the island, where Monica and the conspirators live, is known for its strange natural occurrences, which defy scientific explanations. To execute the FBI conspiracy, the plotters have to leave the island and enter another country with fake identification paper.

This novella covers two genres, fiction and nonfiction. An elderly man, Tony, with American, German and Australian nationalities, tells his story: how he receives a wedding invitation from a former girlfriend that he hadn't seen and heard of for decades. This invitation creates emotional upheaval in his life, but also turns his life into a massive challenge. His former girlfriend sends him a photo of herself. She looks beautiful and sexy. He contemplates attending the wedding. But first he has to lose fifty five pounds, that's twenty five kilograms. That's how he sees it. He not only wants to...