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Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447248643ISBN 13: 9781447248644
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Poems from the First World War is a moving and powerful collection of poems written by soldiers, nurses, mothers, sweethearts and family and friends who experienced WWI from different standpoints. It records the early excitement and patriotism, the bravery, friendship and loyalty of the soldiers, and the heartbreak, disillusionment and regret as the war went on to damage a generation. It includes poems from Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Vera Brittain, Eleanor Farjeon, Edward Thomas, Laurence Binyon, John McCrae, Siegfried Sassoon and many more. The Imperial War Museum was founded in 1917 to collect and display material relating to the 'Great War', which was still being fought. Today IWM is unique in its coverage of conflicts, especially those involving Britain and the Commonwealth, from the First World War to the present. They seek to provide for, and to encourage, the study and understanding of the history of modern war and wartime experience. 208 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447254570ISBN 13: 9781447254577
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Poignant and hugely powerful . . . a forensic and yet heartfelt examination of the cases for and against capital punishment' Daily TelegraphAs a pioneer of the modern legal thriller and a criminal lawyer, Scott Turow has been involved with the death penalty for more than a decade, including successfully representing two different men convicted in death-penalty prosecutions. In this vivid account, Turow describes his own experiences with capital punishment from his days as an impassioned young prosecutor to his service on the Illinois commission which investigated the administration of the death penalty and influenced Governor George Ryan's unprecedented commutation of the sentences of 164 death-row inmates on his last day in office.Along the way, he provides a brief history of America's ambivalent relationship with the ultimate punishment and illuminates the powerful stories behind the statistics, as he moves from the Governor's Mansion to Illinois' state-of-the art 'super-max' prison and the execution chamber.'Gripping and lucid' Sunday Times 176 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447260945ISBN 13: 9781447260943
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Liz Ward believed that it was possible to have it all. A glittering career, a successful marriage and a happy family. But it doesn't take too long for Liz to realise that taking the job of programme controller at Metro TV could be the biggest mistake of her life. When she confesses to her friends, they are scandalized - Liz is their role model and she is shattering the myth they must all live by. But she is tired of pretending that there is no price to pay for her success. She has the big house, a good-looking husband, beautiful children and a wonderful nanny, but she misses the small things which make up family life: meal times, bedtime stories, school events, time alone with her husband. Time to think. Liz makes a life-changing choice, not only for her but for those around her. Did she make the right decision. Only time will tell. Witty, provocative, compassionate, Having It All captures the dilemmas of a generation. It is for everyone woman who works and misses her children, and for every woman who stays at home and wonders if she's missing out. 528 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447203097ISBN 13: 9781447203094
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On childhood holidays to the western coast, Tim Winton's days followed a joyous rhythm. In the mornings, the sun and surf kept him outside, in the water. In the afternoons, as the horizon wobbled with mirages and the wind came in from the ocean, he was driven inside, to books. In the 'simple, peculiar shack' that his family borrowed each year there was a small library: a room with four walls of books, a world unto itself.Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir is a beautiful delicate memoir in which Winton writes about his obsession with what happens where the water meets the shore - about diving, dunes, beachcombing - and the sense of being on the precarious, wondrous edge of things that haunts his novels. It is a book about the ebb and flow that became a way of life, and that shaped one of our finest writers. 'Both a serial romantic and a truly gifted novelist' - Mariella Frostrup, Mail on Sunday. 128 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447265726ISBN 13: 9781447265726
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eva Ibbotson's hugely entertaining The Star of Kazan is a timeless classic for readers young and old.In 1896, in a pilgrim church in the Alps, an abandoned baby girl is found by a cook and a housemaid. They take her home, and Annika grows up in the servants' quarters of a house belonging to three eccentric Viennese professors. She is happy there, but dreams of the day when her real mother will come to find her. And sure enough, one day a glamorous stranger arrives at the door. After years of guilt and searching, Annika's mother has come to claim her daughter, who is in fact a Prussian aristocrat whose true home is a great castle. But at crumbling, spooky Spittal, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her new-found family . . . 400 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447271858ISBN 13: 9781447271857
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Twenty years ago, Tommy Molto charged his colleague Rusty Sabich with the murder of a former lover; when a shocking turn of events transformed Prosecutor Rusty from the accuser into the accused. Rusty was cleared, but the seismic trial left both men reeling. Molto's name was dragged through the mud and while Rusty regained his career, he lost much more . . . 512 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447264509ISBN 13: 9781447264507
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A special 40th anniversary edition of the classic, bestselling novel that launched James Herbert's career It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures - with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood - began to be realized by a panic-stricken city. For millions of years man and rat had been natural enemies. But now for the first time - suddenly, shockingly, horribly - the balance of power had shifted . . . 'The effectiveness of the gruesome set pieces and brilliant finale are all its own' Sunday Times 208 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447255208ISBN 13: 9781447255208
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Summer Without You is a gorgeously escapist read from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Rome Affair, Karen Swan.Rowena Tipton isn't looking for a new life, just a new adventure, something to while away the months as her long-term boyfriend presses pause on their relationship before they become engaged. But when a chance encounter at a New York wedding leads to an audition for a coveted houseshare in The Hamptons - Manhattan's elite beach scene - suddenly a new life is exactly what she's got.Stretching before her is a summer with three eclectic housemates, long days on white sandy beaches and parties on gilded tennis courts. But high rewards bring high stakes and Rowena soon finds herself caught in the crossfire of a vicious intimidation campaign. Alone for the first time in her adult life, she has no-one to turn to but a stranger who is everything she doesn't want - but possibly everything she needs. 563 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 144726164XISBN 13: 9781447261643
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013.Shortlisted for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2014.Book of the Year in the Guardian, Spectator, Independent and Daily Mail.The Kills is an epic novel of crime and conspiracy.It starts with an explosion, a man on the run and the theft of over fifty million dollars. It moves from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, around mainland Europe via the sleazy underworld of Naples, and across America. It ends in a locked room.Brilliantly original, playful and ambitious, The Kills is a terrifying, awe-inspiring, mind-blowing sensation.'A damn good book' Sunday Times'A staggering achievement' Daily Mail'A thrilling, overwhelming ride' Spectator 1024 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447245067ISBN 13: 9781447245063
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A delight . . . over 500 pages of suspicion, allegation, detection, false confessions and half-truths . . . tied up so tightly that you're holding your breath in anticipation' Observer One afternoon in late March, Sandy Stern, a brilliant, quixotic defence lawyer, returns home to find his wife Clara dead in the garage. They have been married for thirty-one years. Her suicide note leaves him just four words - 'Can you forgive me ' But on the 6th March Clara had expected to live . . . 'Expert and excellent . . . The Burden of Proof is a new sort of novel - a detective story full of people on the make, on the break or settling for second best: a riveting tale' Evening Standard 'A wonderful read, from tight start to taut end' Mail on Sunday 'Turow is worthy to be ranked with Dashiell Hammett or Raymond Chandler' New York Times 400 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447230531ISBN 13: 9781447230533
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The finest film critic in Britain at the absolute top of his form' Stephen Fry'Entertainingly incendiary stuff' EmpireA hatchet job isn't just a bad review, it's a total trashing. Mark Kermode is famous for them - Pirates of the Caribbean, Sex and the City 2, the complete works of Michael Bay.Beginning with his favourite hatchet job ever, Mark tells us about the best bad reviews in history, why you have to be willing to tell a director face-to-face their movie sucks, and about the time he apologized to Steven Spielberg for badmouthing his work.But why do we love really bad reviews Is it so much harder to be positive And is the Internet ruining how we talk about cinema The UK's most trusted film critic answers all these questions and more in this hilarious, fascinating and argumentative new book.'A wry, robust and developed defence of accountable critical voices' Total Film'Very accessible, entertaining and relevant . . . warmly recommended' Den of Geek 320 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1509827994ISBN 13: 9781509827992
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nostalgic and melancholy in equal measure, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a razor-sharp satire of the antebellum South that, despite beginning life as a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, is now seen in its own right as one of the most important of all American novels.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn features an afterword by playwright and screenwriter Peter Harness.Rather than be 'sivilized' by the Widow Douglas, Huckleberry Finn - the grubby but good-natured son of a local drunk - sets off with Jim, an escaped slave, to find freedom on the Mississippi river. With the law on their tail, they navigate a world of robbers, slave hunters and con men, and Huck must choose between what society says is 'right' and his own burgeoning understanding of Jim's friendship and humanity. 360 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Pan Macmillan Mai 2014, 2014
ISBN 10: 1447273346ISBN 13: 9781447273349
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Quitting sugar is not a diet. Quitting sugar is a way of living without processed food and eating like our great-grandparents used to.'With her internationally bestselling book, I Quit Sugar, Sarah Wilson helped tens of thousands of people around the world to kick the habit. In I Quit Sugar for Life, Sarah shows you how to be sugar-free for ever. Drawing on extensive research and her own tried and tested methods, Sarah has designed a programme to help families and individuals:\*banish cravings by eating good fats and protein \*deal with lapses \*maximize nutrition with vegetables \*exercise less for better results \*detox safely \*make sustainable food choices \*cook sugar-free: one hundred and forty-eight desserts, cakes, kids' stuff, comfort dinners, breakfasts and easy packed lunchesI Quit Sugar for Life is not just about kicking a habit; it's a complete wellness philosophy for your healthiest, calmest, happiest self.