Verlag: Hachette Book Group Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0759555613 ISBN 13: 9780759555617
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Hanson, Sydney (illustrator). Neuware - Everyone in Ellie's family, even her dog, is convinced that the day has come for her to use her potty, but she insists they are wrong.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 076248263X ISBN 13: 9780762482634
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Mortimer, Lauren (illustrator). Neuware - Celebrate Tequila Mockingbird's tenth anniversary with this clever guidebook that pairs cherished novels with both classic and cutting-edge cocktails. No B.A. in English required!It's been ten years since the world's favorite literary-inspired cocktail recipes book, Tequila Mockingbird, captured the attention of bar crowds, book lovers, English majors, and readers everywhere with its clever commentary on history's most beloved novels and pun-filled drink titles aplenty. This much anticipated special tenth anniversary edition features an updated introduction and 74 delicious, updated drink and bar snack recipes and drinking games. The recipes-including 13 brand new drinks and 2 new bar snacks exclusive to the revised edition-are organized into new chapters for today's modern reader. The handsome package-complete with its original three-piece case, deckled edge, and brilliant duo-toned illustrations throughout-also includes seven brand-new pieces of art.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1538742659 ISBN 13: 9781538742655
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this breathtaking thriller from aNew York Timesbestselling author, an innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be aliveand must break out of prison to find out the truth. David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in love--until one fateful night when David woke suddenly to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall. Half a decade later, David's been wrongly accused and convicted of the murder, left to serve out his time in a maximum-security prisona fate which, grieving and wracked with guilt, David didn't have the will to fight. The world has moved on without him. Then Cheryl's younger sister, Rachel, makes a surprise appearance during visiting hours bearing a strange photograph. It's a vacation shot of a bustling amusement park a friend shared with her, and in the background, just barely in frame, is a boy bearing an eerie resemblance to David's son. Even though it can't be, David just knows: Matthew is still alive. David plans a harrowing escape, determined to achieve the impossible save his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened.But with his life on the line and the FBI following his every move, can David evade capture long enough to reveal the shocking truth.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 031643891X ISBN 13: 9780316438919
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ben, a ten-year-old Irish boy, discovers that his mute sister Saoirse, whom he blames for the apparent death of his mother, is a selkie who has to free faerie creatures from the Celtic goddess Macha.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 0316322598 ISBN 13: 9780316322591
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When seventeen-year-old Piper Gray starts a true crime podcast investigating a seventeen-year-old murder cold case, she puts her life in danger as she digs deep into the mysteries of the past.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 153871633X ISBN 13: 9781538716335
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This 'graceful, captivating' (New York TimesBook Review) story from a singular new talent paints a portrait of grief and the search for meaning as told through the prism of three generations of her Chinese American familyperfect for readers of Helen Macdonald and Elizabeth Alexander. Kat Chow has always been unusually fixated on death. She worried constantly about her parents dying---especially her mother. A vivacious and mischievous woman, Kat's mother made a morbid joke that would haunt her for years to come: when she died, she'd like to be stuffed and displayed in Kat's future apartment in order to always watch over her. After her mother dies unexpectedly from cancer, Kat, her sisters, and their father are plunged into a debilitating, lonely grief. With a distinct voice that is wry and heartfelt, Kat weaves together a story of the fallout of grief that follows her extended family as they emigrate from China and Hong Kong to Cuba and America.Seeing Ghostsasks what it means to reclaim and tell your family's story: Is writing an exorcism or is it its own form of preservation The result is an extraordinary new contribution to the literature of the American family, and a provocative and transformative meditation on who we become facing loss. AN NPR BOOKS WE LOVE 2021 PICK \* ATIMEMUST-READ BOOK OF 2021 PICK \* ANEW YORK TIMESNOTABLE BOOK OF 2021 \* AHARPER'S BAZAARBOOK YOU NEED TO READ IN 2021 \* ATOWN & COUNTRYBEST BOOK OF 2021 PICK \* AFORTUNEBEST BOOK OF 2021 PICK.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1538743264 ISBN 13: 9781538743263
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Originally published 2007; reissued 2023.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1538725967 ISBN 13: 9781538725962
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Ramirez women of Staten Island orbit around absence. When thirteen year old middle child Ruthy disappeared after track practice without a trace, it left the family scarred and scrambling. One night, twelve years later, oldest sister Jessica spots a woman on her TV screen in Catfight, a raunchy reality show. She rushes to tell her younger sister, Nina: This woman's hair is dyed red, and she calls herself Ruby, but the beauty mark under her left eye is instantly recognizable. Could it be Ruthy, after all this time The years since Ruthy's disappearance haven't been easy on the Ramirez family. It's 2008, and their mother, Dolores, still struggles with the loss, Jessica juggles a newborn baby with her hospital job, and Nina, after four successful years at college, has returned home to medical school rejections and is forced to work in the mall folding tiny bedazzled thongs at the lingerie store. After seeing maybe Ruthy on their screen, Jessica and Nina hatch a plan to drive to where the show is filmed in search of their long lost sister. When Dolores catches wind of their scheme, she insists on joining, along with her pot-stirring holy roller best friend, Irene. What follows is a family road trip and reckoning that will force the Ramirez women to finally face the past and look toward a future-with or without Ruthy in it. What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez is a vivid family portrait, in all its shattered reality, exploring the familial bonds between women and cycles of generational violence, colonialism, race, and silence, replete with snark, resentment, tenderness, and, of course, love'.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1538709147 ISBN 13: 9781538709146
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Chang, Sophia (illustrator). Neuware - 'HOOP MUSES will take us through time - literally. We begin in the future, in 2072, on the night of the WNBA's 75th Anniversary, as New York Liberty phenom Jacklyn Jones is paid a visit by one of basketball's long-ago (wink, wink) greats. This unlikely duo then goes on a sweeping, roundtrip adventure through basketball history, starting at the very beginning: Springfield, 1891. As the years pass, they learn the roots of the game (think: the first-ever collegiate game between Stanford and Cal, where men scaled the walls for a peek inside, or, the legend of Chicago's Club Store Co-Eds, the all-Black barnstorming squad of the 1930s). AND as the early 20th century morphs into modern times, they see the game grow, the milestones reached. On their journey, they learn about the teams and the women (along with a few men) who helped build the foundation on which The Future will be built: -Fort Shaw and the 1904 World Championship -Pat Summitt and the early years of the Lady Vols -Delta State, featuring Margaret Wade and Lusia Harris -Cheryl Miller and Hollywood's USC Trojans -UConn-Tennessee and the 'Sliding Doors' moment that sparked their rivalry Plus, they have front-row seats to a whole lot of quirky, blissful fandom, including . The Movies That Should Have Been WNBA Jam The Moments The Shots To be a (women's) hooper is to be part of a long and proud tradition . but one not often celebrated in popular culture. HOOP MUSES is here to change that'--.
Verlag: Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2023, 2023
ISBN 10: 1541774442 ISBN 13: 9781541774445
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'David Auerbach's exploration of the phenomenon he has identified as the meganet begins with a simple, startling revelation: There is no hand on the tiller of some of the largest global digital forces that influence our daily lives. From corporate sites such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Instagram, and Reddit - to the burgeoning metaverse encompassing cryptocurrencies and online gaming - to government systems such as China's Social Credit System and India's Aadhaar. As we increasingly integrate our society, culture and politics within a hyper-networked fabric, Auerbach explains how the interactions of billions of people with unfathomably large online networks have produced a new sort of beast: ever-changing systems that operate beyond the control of the individuals, companies, and governments that created them. Meganets, Auerbach explains, have a life of their own, actively resisting attempts to control them as they accumulate data and produce spontaneous, unexpected social groups and uprisings that could not have even existed twenty years ago. They constantly modify themselves in response to user behavior, resulting in collectively authored algorithms none of us intend or control. These enormous invisible organisms exerting great force on our lives are the new minds of the world, increasingly commandeering our daily lives and inner realities'.