penguin putnam inc jul 2015 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee andGirl in Translation, an inspiring novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into a more Western world. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (American-born Chinese), Charlie s entire life has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works miserably as a dishwasher. But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlie s natural talents begin to emerge. With them, her perspective, expectations, and sense of self are transformed something she must take great pains to hide from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds Eastern and Western, old world and new to rescue her little sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - '[A] totally explosive thriller starring the fascinating late author.' -Entertainment WeeklyBest known for her short story 'The Lottery,' Shirley Jackson is an endlessly fascinating figure whose chilling tales of psychological suspense are still widely read and taught around the world. In this darkly captivating novel, Susan Scarf Merrell uses the facts of Jackson's life as a springboard to explore the 1964 disappearance of Paula Weldon, a young Bennington College student. Told through the eyes of Rose Nemser-the wife of a graduate student working with Jackson's husband, Bennington professor Stanley Edgar Hyman-Shirley reimagines the connections between the Hymans' volatile marriage and one of the era's great unsolved mysteries.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Already a renowned chronicler of the epic events of world history, James A. Michener tackles the most ambitious subject of his career: space, the last great frontier. This astounding novel brings to life the dreams and daring of countless men and women-people like Stanley Mott, the engineer whose irrepressible drive for knowledge places him at the center of the American exploration effort; Norman Grant, the war hero and U.S. senator who takes his personal battle not only to a nation, but to the heavens; Dieter Kolff, a German rocket scientist who once worked for the Nazis; Randy Claggett, the astronaut who meets his destiny on a mission to the far side of the moon; and Cynthia Rhee, the reporter whose determined crusade brings their story to a breathless world. Praise for Space 'A master storyteller . . . Michener, by any standards, is a phenomenon. Space is one of his best books.'-The Wall Street Journal 'A novel of very high adventure . . . a sympathetic, historically sound treatment of an important human endeavor that someday could be the stuff of myth, told here with gripping effect.'-The New York Times Book Review 'Space is everything that Michener fans have come to expect. Without question, the space program's dramatic dimensions provide the stuff of great fiction.'-BusinessWeek 'Michener is eloquent in describing the actual flights into space, as well as the blazing, apocalyptic re-entry of the shuttle into earth's atmosphere.'-The New York Times.