Penguin classics jun 2024 (14 Ergebnisse)
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Made iconic by its Hollywood connections, Los Angeles is jam-packed with must-see sights - think world-renowned museums, top-notch restaurants, fun-filled theme parks, and scenic surfing spots.Make the most of your trip to the City of Angels with DK Eyewitness Top 10. Planning is a breeze wit…h our simple lists of ten, covering the very best that Los Angeles has to offer and ensuring that you don't miss a thing. Best of all, the pocket-friendly format is light and easily portable, the perfect companion while out and about.Inside, you'll find: -Top 10 lists of Los Angeles's must-sees, including Historic Hollywood Boulevard, the Getty Center, Griffith Park, and Disneyland® Resort -Los Angeles's most interesting areas, with the best places for sightseeing, food and drink, and shopping -Themed lists, including the best beaches, movie theatres, drives and day trips, parks and gardens, and much more -Easy-to-follow itineraries, perfect for a day trip, a weekend, or a week -A laminated pull-out map of Los Angeles, plus eight full-color area mapsDK Eyewitness Top 10s have been helping travelers to make the most of their breaks since 2002.Looking for more on Los Angeles's culture, history, and attractions Try our DK Eyewitness California.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Thrillingly disorienting. ultra-sensual' GUARDIAN'Hauntingly beautiful' GLAMOUR'Rowdy and razor-sharp' ALEXANDRA KLEEMANAn erotic, surreal novella about the ecstasies of intense friendships and obsessive loveSeven, who works as a cleaner at a chiropractor's office, re-encounters Cecilia, a woman wh…o has obsessed her since their school days.As the two of them board the same bus - each dubiously claiming not to be following the other - their chance meeting spurs a series of intensely vivid and corporeal memories. As past and present bleed together, Seven can feel her desire begin to unmoor her from the flow of time.Smart, subversive and gripping, Cecilia is a winding, misty road trip through bodily transformation, inextricable histories of violence and love, and the ghosts of girlhood friendship.'An intriguing tale of obsession.at once strange and erotic' ATTITUDEPRAISE FOR K-MING CHANGBESTIARY'Chang's prose ravishes, ravages, rampages. An absolute lightning strike of a debut' Kelly Link'To read K-Ming Chang is to see the world in fresh, surreal technicolour. wild and lyrical, visionary and touching' Sharlene Teo'Fierce and funny, full of magic and grit' Tash AwGODS OF WANT'Blisteringly alive and unapologetically queer' Guardian'Strange, hilarious and unforgettable. a gift and a masterclass' Bryan Washington'Chang rewrites the world as a place of radical transformation' New York Times Book Review.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if you could rewrite your relationship, again and again, until it works out 'A stunner of a debut' NANA KWAME ADJEI-BRENYAH'A cause for celebration' GEORGE SAUNDERS'Exhilaratingly good' KELLY LINKWhen Myriam and Allison fall in love at a show in a run-down punk house, their relationship begins…to unfold through a series of hypotheticals:What if they became mothers by finding a baby in an alley What if the only cure for Myriam's depression was Allison's flesh How much darker - or sexier - would their dynamic be if one were a power-hungry CEO, and the other her lowly employee From the fantasies of early romance to the slow encroaching of heartbreak, each reality builds to complete a brilliant and painfully funny portrait of love's many promises and perils.WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:'Wow. I will be reading everything Myriam Lacroix puts out''Everything Everywhere All at Once for U-haul lesbians. I'm diving in again''I haven't read anything like it before. Fantastic debut'.
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - If you like playing computer games, why not make your own This book has all you need to build amazing games, including thrilling racing challenges, zany platform games, and fiendish puzzles.Computer Coding Games for Kids is the ideal guide for children ages 9-12 who want to learn more about c…omputer programming using scratch. It can also be used by parents who want to help their children learn to code. Follow the simple steps to become an expert coder, using the popular programming language Scratch(TM) 3.0. This updated edition is the first to be tablet-computer friendly, making it even easier to get coding.With this coding book for kids, you can: - Improve your coding skills and create your own games, before remixing and customizing them.- Pick up the fundamentals of computer programming in steps that make even the most difficult coding concepts fun and easy to understand.- Share your games online and challenge friends and family to beat each other's scores. Fun games engage children and help teach them to learn code. Jumpy Monkey will show you how to simulate gravity in your games, or give Dog's Dinner a go to learn about collision detection. With this book, children won't just learn how computer code works - they will understand why it's done that way. Once they have whizzed through the book, the possibilities are endless.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Great fun - Loretta is glorious!' Lucy Diamond'Sparkles with fun and wit' Libby Page'A fun, gossipy glimpse into Golden Era Hollywood' Julie Cohen-----You're Loretta Darling now, welcome to your brand-new flipping life.Dreams don't come true for girls like Loretta but she won't let that stop her. W…ith her sights set on becoming a make-up artist to the stars, Loretta wangles her way from Lancashire to the bright lights of Golden Age Hollywood.Only it turns out that Sunset Boulevard is less about dashing fellas and chilled martinis - more sticky floors and misbehaving men. The gift of the gab can only get her so far but she refuses to go quietly.Hollywood has its secrets . and so does Loretta.For a start, that's not her real name, and much more than lipstick lurks inside her beauty case.After all, revenge is a dish best served with a perfectly painted smile.-----'What a delicious dark delight of a book!' JENNA BLUM, bestselling author of Those Who Save Us'So sassy and delicious. Loretta is one cool character' JOSIE SILVER, Sunday Times bestselling author of One Day in December'Sharply observed, full of scene-stealing characters, this book is a wildly enjoyable ride. Loretta is a force of nature, truly unforgettable!' LAURA WOOD, author of Under Your Spell'Absolutely loved this romp of a book. So feisty and fun' TANIA TAY, author of The Other Woman.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - TEN PEOPLE WENT INTO THE MUSEUM THAT DAY. ONLY SEVEN CAME OUT. Police officer Tia recently failed her exam to become a negotiator: her dream job. But when a peaceful climate change protest at a London museum escalates, and one of the radicalised members takes Tia and others hostage, she realises thi…s is her chance to prove she has what it takes.Only not everyone gets out of the siege alive.Three years later, Asher is being released from prison for the part he played at the museum that day. He's always maintained his innocence, but when someone starts threatening the survivors, leading one of them to take their own life, Tia isn't convinced Asher is telling the whole truth. Refusing to have another death on her conscience, Tia begins to investigate.But Tia was a hostage that day too. and now she's a target.Praise for Brooke Robinson:'I raced through it. Brilliant writing, properly tense' Harriet Tyce, Sunday Times bestselling author of Blood Orange'Compelling and ingenious' Prima'Exciting and original' Heat'Intriguing' Daily Mail'An ingenious premise, cleverly executed' Sunday Times bestseller Sabine Durrant.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Suberb . . . vivid' TELEGRAPH'The arrival of a writer of considerable gifts' TLS 'Michael Deagler is the real deal . . . a truly intelligent work from a clearly intelligent writer' PERCIVAL EVERETT'Illuminating and moving' AIMEE BENDERDennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. At twenty-…six he is ready to re-join sensible adult life, but just when Dennis needs stability, his uptight parents kick him out into a world of couch-surfing.Everything around him has changed and everyone he knows seems to be doing better than he is. At every street corner, former classmates, estranged drinking buddies, and prospective lovers threaten to burst the bubble of his recovery. And Dennis Monk is about to learn the difference between getting sober and staying sober in this new world.Early Sobrieties is a devastatingly witty novel about coming of age a second time. Deagler's debut marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in American fiction.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE TADEUSZ BRADECKI PRIZE'Elegant and decadent, vulgar and clever, enchanting and dark. The love child of Angela Carter and Anaïs Nin - the book I really really needed' SARAH PERRY, author of The Essex Serpent'The sentences sing on the page with wit…and intelligence . This memorable novel reminds the reader of the enduring power of storytelling to transform and even save lives, then and now' THE NEW YORK TIMESWhy don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.No one knows this better than Madame Marie d'Aulnoy. Each week, a rogue group of intellectuals gather at her Parisian home to debate, flirt and perform Contes de Fées - fairy tales - that challenge the status quo, at a salon that will change the course of literature forever. But while they weave tales of glass slippers, enchanted beasts and long-haired princesses, a wolf is lurking, who threatens to destroy the members of the salon one by one.Brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, The Modern Fairies is a dazzling novel inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.'Funny, filthy, dancingly clever: a delectable confection of many-layered pleasures. A story of stories, storytellers, and the lurking dangers of fairytales. It reminded me of Jeanette Winterson's The Passion, and I gobbled it all up' JOANNA QUINN, author of The Whalebone Theatre'Original, fantastical, historical, and unputdownable' KAREN JOY FOWLER, Booker Prize-shortlisted author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves'Pollard's future, as a novelist, is very bright indeed' THE I, praise for Delphi.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I just loved it - it truly wedged itself into my brain. Absolutely vile and brilliant. Plaything is an unhinged melody, and it will serenade fans of the darkest narratives.' ALICE SLATER, author of Death of a Bookseller'A gloriously tense tale of obsession' Financial TimesAnna is smart. Smarter tha…n you, probably. But when she falls for the beautiful, enigmatic Caden, her need to get under his skin, to truly know him becomes overpowering.Anna's new life in Cambridge is full of promise - she's the top student in her PhD cohort, she has great friends and she has met an exhaustingly attractive man - but something is a little off. Perhaps it's the routine violence of her lab work with animals, or maybe it's something to do with her boyfriend's icy reserve but it seems there is a kind of menace hiding beneath the Cambridge dream.When Anna and Caden's lives become tightly entangled, her obsession with Caden's seemingly ever-present ex-girlfriend reaches a dangerous pitch. Just how far will she go to satiate her curiosity -------------------FROM THE REVIEWS FOR BEA SETTON'S BERLIN'Terrific . . . [an] unsettling and compelling read' Observer'I was completely absorbed' FRANCESCA REECE, author of Voyeur'Compelling, raw and thrillingly strange' MONA AWAD, author of Bunny'Cinematically vivid, and refreshingly honest' LISA HALLIDAY, author of Asymmetry.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Four women spark a revolution on a Caribbean island - the electrifying new novel from the Costa-winning author of The Mermaid of Black Conch.'Vital, enraging and brilliant. I loved it' SARAH WINMAN'Beautiful and important' SAFIYA SINCLAIR Early one morning, at the close of St Colibri's carnival, a y…oung female steel-pan player is found dead beneath a cannonball tree. It is a discovery that will transform the lives of everyone on this small island. As the days pass, this shocking event draws together four women. There's Sharleen, a journalist with an eye for the real story. Her childhood friend Tara, a pink-haired, straight-talking local activist. Gigi, the 'notorious' founder of the Port Isabella Sex Workers Collective. And Daisy, first lady of St Colibri, who is haunted by a disappearance in her own family decades ago. In a community in which women's voices are often silenced and violence against them is overlooked time after time, the group soon find themselves compelled to speak out - and to act. But even they could never have foreseen the consequences of their courage.READERS LOVE PASSIONTIDE'This was fantastic. five stars''Exhilarating. it's a blast, with sharp, smart humour''A powerful book. really moving''Filled with anger, unity and love''What an amazing book this is. This story will stay with me for a very long time''Moving and gripping''A must-read''I loved this book' 'Roffey's world-building power is evident on every page'GUARDIAN'Will keep you reading all hours. unforgettable'GLAMOUR'Sensual, ferocious. If The White Lotus were a modern feminist thriller, this would be it'LALINE PAULL'The spirit of carnival itself is in the writing. Electrifying'JASON ALLEN-PAISANT'A vital novel. Fiery, funny'DIANA EVANS.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER\*An essential blueprint for a better future, from the leading economist & Labour rising star'Stellar: brilliant, incredibly pragmatic' Rory Stewart'Refreshingly optimistic' The Times'No one has done more to re-inject sanity into our national policy' Emily MaitlisThere a…re few who are better placed to investigate Britain's plight than Torsten Bell, Labour MP for Swansea West and former Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation.In Great Britain he offers both a clear-eyed diagnosis of the problems facing our country - a uniquely toxic combination of huge inequality and stagnant economic growth - and a bold vision for the alternative. This is a book bursting with ideas and infectious hope.In his treasure trove of enlightening and original analysis, Torsten Bell argues that our era of chaos and cynicism needs neither utopianism nor nostalgia, but a practical patriotism to raise living standards and create a more equal country. He passionately points us towards a Britain that we can actually build - a future worth fighting for.'A roadmap to the new normal' Observer'Pretty cool . the think tank work I raved about on The Rest Is Politics has morphed into a book' Alastair Campbell'A dose of Torstenomics is the only thing that can give us hope' Amol Rajan'Spiced with wit, masterful, fact-packed' Polly Toynbee\*\*A FINANCIAL TIMES AND OBSERVER BEST BOOK OF 2024\*\*.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Truly delicious . . . it's everything I want a book to be' DAISY BUCHANAN'A hugely fun tale' I PAPER'Salacious and addictive, every page left me giggling with glee' ANNIE LORD'Wickedly delectable' NEW YORK TIMES'Crazy Rich Asians meets Saltburn' PLUM SYKES'A plot with more twists than an Elsa Peret…ti for Tiffany corkscrew' FINANCIAL TIMES'Juicy, salacious and a whole lot of fun . . . an absolute must for your summer reads this year' GLAMOURNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAMAZON.COM'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARFROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF CRAZY RICH ASIANS Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshamsbury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel, is drowning in debt. The only solution, according to his mother, is for him to attend his sister's wedding and seduce a woman with money.Will it be the French hotel heiress with a royal bloodline The venture capital genius who passes out billions like lollipops Or will Rufus betray his family and confess his love for his best friend and 'girl next door' Eden But when a volcanic eruption burns through the nuptials and a hot mic exposes a secret tryst, the Gresham family plans - and their reputation - go up in flames, making Rufus' choice all the more impossible.Taking us from the sand beaches of Hawaii to the skies of Marrakech, from the glitzy bachelor pads of Beverly Hills to the inner sanctums of England's oldest family estates, Kevin Kwan has written a juicy, hilarious and sophisticated tale of love, money, murder, sex, and the lies we tell about them all.\*\*\*PRAISE FOR KEVIN KWAN\*\*\*'Outrageous . . . wickedly delectable' NEW YORK TIMES'Your perfect summer read' DAILY MAIL'Delightful' INDEPENDENT'Lough-out-loud funny' SUNDAY MIRROR'Pure entertainment' NYLON'Flash, funny, delicious . . . the juicy stuff of classic high-society drama' USA TODAY'As good as Crazy Rich Asians, but even more ridiculous and hilarious' COSMOPOLITAN 'Thank God for Kevin Kwan' W MAGAZINELies and Weddings, New York Times bestseller, June 2024.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'I will read anything Poorna Bell writes!' Taylor Jenkins Reid'Gorgeous, affirming, an exploration of why and how we nurture' Pandora Sykes____________________________It might not be the stuff of dreams, but Padma and Wallace have spent ten years building a relationship that feels . . . fine. Until…Wallace gives Padma an ultimatum about starting a family she's not sure she even wants.Padma's fifteen-year-old niece Myra is reaching her own crisis point. When she falls in with the wrong crowd and her life ends up in danger, it's the final straw for her parents.Now Padma will spend the summer with her niece - in a ramshackle, ivy-clad house on the Kent clifftops - running a DIY rehab of sorts.Will this be a pressure too far for her and Wallace And how will she spend six weeks with a niece who, thanks to her sister, she barely knows It's the last place they want to be.But this could just be the summer that changes everything . . .Praise for This Is Fine: 'This Is Fine is so much better than fine, it's totally genius. The writing is compelling and insightful - not to mention hilarious - and the story moved me to tears more than once. I LOVE THIS BOOK!' Lucy Vine'Light, funny and gorgeous - but also at times gritty and profound' Good Housekeeping'Heartwarming and funny' Heat Magazine'One of my favourite fiction reads of the year so far. . . this was my first book of Poorna's and what a great introduction it was' Jessica George'A perfect summer novel with endless entertainment and escapism. Warm, funny, charming and so brilliantly executed' Salma El-Wardany 'This witty, warm, beautifully written novel will both gladden and sadden; it'll crack open your heart and pour gold into it' Catherine Gray'A sweet, smart story about sisterhood, exploring complex themes courageously. I fell in love with Padma and Myra'' Daisy Buchanan'Heartwarming and poignant' Woman's Own'A brilliant, highly relatable look at complex family dynamics and womanhood, This is Fine is a must-read this summer' Olivia Petter'Warm, witty, wise and brimming with heart' Zing Tsjeng'[Poorna] taps into the crevice of every human emotion and brings out pure light and joy. A must read' Poppy Jay'Funny, insightful and ranges thoughtfully over all manner of subjects that matter' Natasha Poliszczuk'A thought provoking and delicate read with a great deal of warm humour too!' Stephanie Yeboah.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER__________________________________________'Breathtaking and brilliant!' Jeffery Deaver'The pages turn themselves' Daily Mail'As thrilling and jaw-dropping as Jurassic Park' Don Winslow'Heart-pounding storytelling at its finest' T.J. Newman'…One of the most entertaining novels I've read in years' Adrian McKinty________________________________Two of the bestselling storytellers of all time have created an unforgettable thriller.A once-in-a-century volcanic eruption is about to destroy the Big Island of Hawaii.But a decades-old military secret could turn the volcano into something even more terrifying.Now it's up to a handful of brave individuals to save the island - and the entire world._______________________________Readers are loving Eruption.'Absolute classic''Enthralling read''Classic Crichton and fantastically brought to a climax by Patterson''What a roller coaster ride''Great storytelling'________________________________MORE PRAISE FOR ERUPTION'Fast-moving and fun' NEW SCIENTIST'Enjoyable' TELEGRAPH'An astonishing story' SUNDAY EXPRESS'Patterson's skill as a storyteller is evident' FINANCIAL TIMES'An electrifying thriller' Essential Marbella MagazineEruption was a No. 2 Sunday Times Bestseller and No. 1 New York Times Bestseller 16/06/2024.
