Crossing (Mehr als 29.000 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Superbly written, J. Joaquin Fraxedas's The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera is profoundly moving tribute to one of the great tragedies of our time. In the middle of a moonless night on a deserted beach east of Havana three men lash inner tubes together to make a flimsy raft they slide into the surf. Desperate to escape a society gone wrong, they risk an incredible journey across the more than ninety miles of treacherous waters that separate the island of Cuba from the Florida Keys. In this powerful and lyrical novel, J. Joaquin Fraxedas has crafted an epic story of three courageous men, men willing to endure the hazards of the open sea, men caught in the mindless violence of a hurricane with nothing to hang on to but an inner tube, men willing to die in their attempt to gain freedom.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. This text provides an analysis of the personal challenges inherent in cross-cultural experience. The author weaves the perceptions of an assortment of the world's great writers and literature into his comments. He examines the differences one encounters in living in another culture which cause some form of counterproductive psychological reaction. This text should help the reader to anticipate differences and master alternative reactions to enable cross-cultural adaptation.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From Simon & Schuster, A Crossing is Brian Newhouse's book about a cyclist's journey home.A travelogue in the tradition of Blue Highways and On the Road, this book tells the extraordinary story of one man's solo bicycle adventure across America--and the spiritual and personal awakening he experienced on his journey.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This text provides an analysis of the personal challenges inherent in cross-cultural experience. The author weaves the perceptions of an assortment of the world's great writers and literature into his comments. He examines the differences one encounters in living in another culture which cause some form of counterproductive psychological reaction. This text should help the reader to anticipate differences and master alternative reactions to enable cross-cultural adaptation.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Ghost. Ape. Living dead. Young Chipo has been called many names, but to her mother -- Zimbabwe 's most loyal Manchester United supporter -- she had always just been Chipo, meaning gift. On the eve of the World Cup, Chipo and her brother flee to Cape Town hoping for a better life and to share in the excitement of the greatest sporting event ever to take place in Africa. But the Mother City's infamous Long Street is a dangerous place for an illegal immigrant and albino. Soon Chipo is caught up in a get-rich-quick scheme organized by her brother and the terrifying Dr Ongani. Exploiting gamblers' superstitions about albinism, they plan to make money and get out before rumors of looming xenophobic attacks become reality. But their scheming has devastating consequences.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Kincaid's fictional meditation on race relations in the Jim Crow South takes voice through its protagonist, a white teenage girl growing up in segregated Tallahassee.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Leota Ester wrote this poetry as she lived with the changes of her husband, Lee, as Alzheimer's Disease became a part of their lives. Leota found poetry a means of expressing the experiences of living with both his loss, as well as hers. She learned what helped make the time both meaningful and loving for both patient and caregiver. Her experiences and observations may serve as a guide, perhaps a solace, for those who also care for one suffering from this wicked disease. Her years of being a wife, mother to three daughters, having careers as both a high school English teacher and as the owner and manager of her own business have encouraged a depth of understanding life that her poetry expresses. She presently lives in Evanston, IL in a retirement community.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Illuminates the spiritual journey we all take and the choices we all take and the choices we make by focusing on five of the monastic hours, from Vigils which reflect on the edges of the day and our own difficulty in choosing to begin the journey, through Compline or night prayer, the time for letting go and remembering the reality of death. Full of humor and eloquently written, Crossing shows Christians how to bring faith and human experience together.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. In a society increasingly divided along political, theological, cultural, and racial lines, lines that we have drawn to separate "us" from "them," the Christian church is not exempt. How can we respond to the division in the world around us when we are too often polarized ourselves? Pastor and scholar Matthew Tennant offers scriptural insights for developing strategies that will equip people of faith to cross the lines in meaningful dialog within their congregations and in the communities where they live, work, and minister to others.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. A Jessica Daniel novel from bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson.

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. The first international motor rally from Peking to Paris took place in the summer of 1907. Only five cars were involved and the crews wrote their agreed code of conduct on the back of a menu the night before the start. Their only navigational aids were the sun and telegraph poles. Ninety years later the race was re-enacted when 110 vintage cars gathered in Peking. Their goal was the finishing line in Paris, 45 days and 16,000 kilometres away. In this book, one of the competitors - novelist Rosie Thomas - describes the excitement of the daily time challenge, the strange camaraderie, the test of sleeping outdoors or in flea-pit hotels in foreign lands and her own internal journey, including a near-death experience high in the Himalayas.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. From Simon & Schuster, A Crossing is Brian Newhouse's book about a cyclist's journey home.A travelogue in the tradition of Blue Highways and On the Road, this book tells the extraordinary story of one man's solo bicycle adventure across America--and the spiritual and personal awakening he experienced on his journey.…

Zustand: Good. It's the reunion of his life. Until someone wants him dead Finally back together with his children, widower Mac Hale-Walker faces an unexpected obstacle: their temporary guardian. Social worker Sara Wakefield stands in the way of Mac regaining custody. He'll stop at nothing to prove he's a loving dad, even figure out who's threatening his bond with his family. But can Mac manage to clear the danger swirling around Clearwater Crossing before it engulfs them all?   From Harlequin Romantic Suspense: Danger. Passion. Drama. Feel the excitement in these uplifting romances, part of the Lost Legacy series: Book 1: Danger at Clearwater Crossing.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Having spent the last seven years in Texas, Border Patrol Agent Peyton Cote is returning home to northern Maine, hoping it will be a safer environment for her young son. But the criminal element has turned what was once a quiet corner of the country into an illicit trade route. and there's no telling what they'll do to protect their interests. When Peyton finds a baby abandoned in a frozen field near the border, she's pulled into a deadly conspiracy that puts everything--her life, her career, her family--at risk. Packed with thrills and high-octane action (Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author), Bitter Crossing takes fearless heroine Peyton Cote on a breakneck journey through the underground world of dangerous smugglers who play for keeps.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. A Jessica Daniel novel from bestselling author Kerry Wilkinson.

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. Outstanding in both its structure and its questioning of faith, this offering is not to be missed-Kirkus Reviews (STARED Review)Best of all is the shocking surprise that changes everything, even Papa-a haunting aspect of the immigrant story left too long untold-Booklist (STARED Review)The future for Jews in rural villages of Russia in 1905 held little promiseStories of pogroms seeped through the countryside, and the czar was conscripting soldiers because of rumors of war and revolutionBenjamin Balaban, a poor but very devout Jew, determines to flee to AmericaHe will take Raizel, his almost-twelve-year-old daughter, and once they are settled he will send for his wife and other childrenRaizel doesn't understand the reasons for leavingHow can her village be dangerous? It's full of magic and the stories and poems that her grandmother Bubba tells herBut go she mustHer odyssey with her father across Russia and Europe and on to America is full of adventure, adversity, and hardshipShe desperately misses her family, but she retells Bubba's stories to keep her memories aliveFinally, they board a ship for America, but a terrible storm makes Raizel and her father sickAll their food is stolen, and Benjamin won't eat non-kosher foodAt Ellis Island, his long beard and ear locks, his peasant clothes, his deep cough, and emaciated frame get them turned away from AmericaRaizel, though, is now determined to get back to America and the hope of a new life for her whole familyShe must convince her father that he'll have to give up his orthodox food and traditions and put on the clothes of his new countryShe and her father both will have to leave everything behind to make their final crossing to AmericaDouble Crossing is the winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People and the Skipping Stones Honor Award, and is a Notable Book for a Global Society and a Notable Children's Book of Jewish ContentEve Tal was born in 1947 in New York CityShe lives on Kibbutz Hatzor with her husband and three sons.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. What if you're beating all the odds.but then you're not?Carter McMillan was no typical high school senior. She's hasn't been to a party.ever. She doesn't date. She barely talks to anyone, let alone have any friends, and that's the way she likes it. Her plan is to keep her head down, graduate, and never look back. Until Noah Sweeney came along.Noah Sweeney is a rule-follower. He's the good guy, despite the dark storms that swirl in the depths of his even darker eyes. He's never struggled to know what is right and what is wrong. He's also painfully aware of how much is riding on this one job. He can't afford to mess up. He knows that nothing will get in the way of him excelling in his new position. Or at least he thought. Then Carter came along.This debut novel by Colby Millsaps shows there really is no right or wrong to true love as alternating perspectives take readers through all the twists, turns, ups, and downs of an unlikely but undeniable connection. This book will show that sometimes, true love can't conquer all. Sometimes, bad things happen and we're powerless to change them. All we can hope for is to love and be loved in return.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. THE RAINDROP PRELUDE (83k words) is a humorous, heartwarming, intricately-crafted caper of classical music and artificial intelligence la Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. With literary prose and an action-packed plot, this timely novel will unite readers of humor-filled commercial mysteries, introspective literary fiction and speculative thrillers alike. Written with a highly cinematic palette, it reads like a distillation of the movies T r, Indiana Jones and The Minority Report. The recent stunning rise of generative artificial intelligence lends great prescience to an escapist adventure that may - for some - feel all too real.Young stagehand Samuel Clermont leads legendary concert pianist Laszlo Farkas through the back corridors of Carnegie Hall before his world debut. Moments later, during a magisterial performance of the Chopin preludes, Laszlo is shot in the neck with a tranquilizer dart. A hooded figure is lowered through an aperture in the ceiling and grabs Laszlo before he hits the floor. Both are raised back up through the hole in the ceiling, and are gone.The next morning Magnus Aarden, a star researcher in generative artificial intelligence, finds himself setting out across the Atlantic ocean from Chelsea Piers aboard a two-hundred foot sailing yacht. He's been paid an absurd amount of money to leave his AI job in Amsterdam and commence work on a mysterious project about which all details have been thus far withheld.Also in New York is Lysander Bennett, an art curator recently suspended from his job at the Frick. He's thrilled when Nesrin, the attractive Syrian server at his usual haunt, asks him to help her out one afternoon. However, his hopes of romance are dashed when Nesrin reveals that she has an intense history. Not too long ago she was directly involved in a special forces operation in Istanbul. Now, she's determined to secure the job of rescuing Laszlo. But she can't do it alone.Laszlo awakens within a fever dream. The gears of memory take him on a journey back over the course of his life. Yet there's a glitch in the matrix. He's aware of being aboard a ship. Something dangerous is happening. And it may be up to him to stop it.The Raindrop Crossing unfolds through three distinct narrative threads: Magnus' increasingly mysterious research for a less-than-stable billionaire; Nesrin, Lysander, and Samuel's rag-tag search and rescue mission; and the first-person bildungsroman of Laszlo Farkas that leads directly to his present-day predicament. The characters all converge in the perilous final chapters, forced to band together to prevent the creation of a new superintelligence that would threaten the eradication of human civilization.…

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Outstanding in both its structure and its questioning of faith, this offering is not to be missed-Kirkus Reviews (STARED Review)Best of all is the shocking surprise that changes everything, even Papa-a haunting aspect of the immigrant story left too long untold-Booklist (STARED Review)The future for Jews in rural villages of Russia in 1905 held little promiseStories of pogroms seeped through the countryside, and the czar was conscripting soldiers because of rumors of war and revolutionBenjamin Balaban, a poor but very devout Jew, determines to flee to AmericaHe will take Raizel, his almost-twelve-year-old daughter, and once they are settled he will send for his wife and other childrenRaizel doesn't understand the reasons for leavingHow can her village be dangerous? It's full of magic and the stories and poems that her grandmother Bubba tells herBut go she mustHer odyssey with her father across Russia and Europe and on to America is full of adventure, adversity, and hardshipShe desperately misses her family, but she retells Bubba's stories to keep her memories aliveFinally, they board a ship for America, but a terrible storm makes Raizel and her father sickAll their food is stolen, and Benjamin won't eat non-kosher foodAt Ellis Island, his long beard and ear locks, his peasant clothes, his deep cough, and emaciated frame get them turned away from AmericaRaizel, though, is now determined to get back to America and the hope of a new life for her whole familyShe must convince her father that he'll have to give up his orthodox food and traditions and put on the clothes of his new countryShe and her father both will have to leave everything behind to make their final crossing to AmericaDouble Crossing is the winner of the Paterson Prize for Books for Young People and the Skipping Stones Honor Award, and is a Notable Book for a Global Society and a Notable Children's Book of Jewish ContentEve Tal was born in 1947 in New York CityShe lives on Kibbutz Hatzor with her husband and three sons.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Servants and socialites sip cocktails side by side on their way to new lives in this thrilling, seductive, and utterly absorbing (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) historical suspense novel in the tradition of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile and Ruth Ware's The Woman in Cabin 10. The ship has been like a world within itself, a vast floating city outside of normal rules. But the longer the journey continues, the more confined it is starting to feel, deck upon deck, passenger upon passenger, all of them churning around each other without anywhere to go. 1939: Europe is on the brink of war when young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in England, bound for Australia. She is ready to start anew, leaving behind the shadows of her past. The passage proves magical, complete with live music, cocktails, and fancy-dress balls. With stops at exotic locations along the way--Naples, Cairo, Ceylon--the voyage shows Lily places she's only ever dreamed of and enables her to make friends with those above her social station, people who would not ordinarily mingle with her. She even allows herself to hope that a man she couldn't possibly have a future with outside the cocoon of the ship might return her feelings. But Lily soon realizes that she's not the only one hiding secrets. Her newfound friends--the toxic wealthy couple Eliza and Max; Cambridge graduate Edward; Jewish refugee Maria; fascist George--are also running away from their pasts. As the glamour of the voyage fades, the stage is set for something sinister to occur. By the time the ship docks, two passengers are dead, war has been declared, and Lily's life is irrevocably changed. A vividly descriptive ride (Marie Claire) with a jaw-dropping ending (RT Book Reviews, Top Pick), Dangerous Crossing is a transporting and gorgeously atmospheric (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) story for the ages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good.