Sophie marlowe (18 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some dogs find a home. This one found a whole village.Nell Ashby has not been back to Thornbeck in eleven years, and she does not intend to stay.She has come to empty her father's cottage, sell it before the New Year, and return to a life in London that is quietly falling apart. One week. That is all it is going to take.Then, on the first cold Sunday of Advent, a dog follows her home.He is thin, scarred, and frightened of doorways, with a single white star on his chest. Nobody knows where he came from. Nobody will take him. And Nell, who cannot keep a houseplant alive, tells herself she will find him somewhere else to go by the weekend.But Thornbeck is a village with a condemned hall, a green where no Christmas tree has stood in six years, and a nine-year-old boy who has not spoken a word since April.And a stray with a star on his chest has a way of walking into the lives that need him most.A warm, tender, tissue-worthy Christmas story about second chances, unlikely families, and the small kindnesses that light up the darkest month of the year.Perfect for readers who love feel-good Christmas fiction, small English villages, and dogs who quietly rescue the people who rescued them.Book two in the Thornbeck series. Every Thornbeck novel is a complete story with a new dog and a new heart, and can be read on its own in any order.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She came to Maine to sell a dog rescue. She did not come to run one, and she certainly did not come to be a suspect.Marlowe 'Lo' Pettifer inherits eleven acres of headland, twelve dogs, a leaking roof and no money from a great aunt she met twice in her life. There is a developer with a chequebook who has wanted that land for twenty two years, and Lo has already decided to take his money and go home.Then she finds him dead in her exercise yard.The town of Gull Cove does its arithmetic and comes up with her name. A woman from away turns up on a Monday, and a man who wanted her land is dead on a Thursday. That is not thinking. That is arithmetic, and it has no manners.The only witness is Biscuit, a grey muzzled shepherd mix who washed out of a scent detection programme for being too soft with strangers, and who has not come out of his run since the day the old woman died. He knows something. He has been trying to say so since the morning Lo arrived, and nobody in this county speaks his language.To keep her freedom, and eleven dogs that nobody else wants, Lo has to learn a small town's secrets faster than it can make up its mind about her.A warm, funny, dog-filled mystery set on the coast of Maine. Absolutely no harm ever comes to the dog.A Dog's Life Sentence is the first Gull Cove Rescue Mystery. Perfect for readers who like their murders cosy, their small towns nosy, and their dogs firmly at the centre of the story. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One hundred and one real dogs. One hundred and one true stories.A stray who wandered onto a Connecticut football field in 1917 and ended up in the Smithsonian. A Labrador asleep under a desk on the 78th floor on the morning of September 11. A farm collie in Northumberland whose quiet way of working changed how sheep are moved on every continent. A terrier in Bristol who tilted his head at a phonograph and was printed on a hundred million records.They fought in wars and went into orbit. They walked to the Pacific with Lewis and Clark, sat in on Sigmund Freud's sessions, found survivors in the rubble of the World Trade Center, and waited at station exits for men who were never coming back.What makes this book different: it tells you what is actually true.Barry the St Bernard never wore a brandy barrel, and the man who invented it was a teenage painter. Gelert's famous grave in Wales was set up by an innkeeper to fill rooms. The most celebrated grave-guarding dog in the world does not survive close examination. Where a beloved story falls apart under evidence, this book says so, and the true version is almost always stranger than the legend.Each chapter is three or four minutes of reading. Start anywhere. Read one a night for three months or thirty in an afternoon.Inside: - Dogs of war, from a bull terrier at Gettysburg to a Malinois in a tunnel in Syria- Dogs who saved lives, from an Alpine pass in 1800 to the Mexico City earthquake- Dogs of science and medicine, including the one who proved insulin worked- Dogs of exploration, from Lewis and Clark to the only dog to stand at both poles- Dogs who lived close to power, from Alexander the Great to the White House- Dogs of the screen, from the first film with a plot to the Academy Awards- Dogs of loyalty and legend, and which of those legends hold up- Dogs who changed how we live, from the first guide dog in America to the collie every border collie on earth descends fromWith a full index of all 101 dogs and a note on sources.A note on what this is. It is a text-only collection, with no photographs or illustrations. It is also not a sentimental book. Some of these dogs were used badly by people who should have known better, and those chapters are here too, because leaving them out would make it a nicer book and a less honest one.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nadie te enseñó a hacer amigos. Te dijeron que era algo que simplemente pasaba. Y un día te diste cuenta de que no te estaba pasando. No es cuestión de personalidad ni de suerte. La mayoría de las personas que parecen tener facilidad social no nacieron así - aprendieron, sin darse cuenta, lo que tú nunca tuviste oportunidad de aprender. Este libro existe para darte eso de manera explícita, sin rodeos y sin que tengas que fingir ser alguien que no eres. Vas a seguir a Liam, un chico de veintisiete años que llega solo a una ciudad nueva y descubre algo incómodo: sabe trabajar, sabe estudiar, pero no sabe conectar. Lo que le pasa a él te ha pasado a ti. Y lo que él va descubriendo es tuyo. Dentro encontrarás: - Por qué las amistades no 'simplemente ocurren' - y qué hacer para que sí ocurran - Cómo romper el hielo sin que se sienta forzado ni falso - El arte de mantener una conversación que la otra persona quiera seguir teniendo - Cómo pasar de conocido a amigo de verdad - ese paso que casi nadie sabe dar - Por qué tu autoestima afecta cómo te perciben los demás, y cómo cambiar eso>No tienes que ser extrovertido. Tienes que entender cómo funciona la conexión humana. Colección En un Dos por Tres - Aprende lo esencial. En serio. …