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Verlag: Penguin LLC US Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0425256383ISBN 13: 9780425256381
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the penultimate novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series the inspiration for the HBO®original seriesTrue Blood Sookie Stackhouse must work with her first love to clear her current undead flame of murder.Felipe de Castro, the vampire King of Louisiana (and Arkansas and Nevada), is in town. It s the worst possible time for a human body to show up in Eric Northman s front yard especially the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. Now it s up to Sookie and Bill Compton, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks that, at least this time, the dead girl s fate has nothing to do with her. But she is wrong. She has an enemy, one far more devious than she would ever suspect, who has set out to make Sookie s world come crashing down. 352 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin LLC US Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 1594632200ISBN 13: 9781594632204
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA 416 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin LLC US Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0143122916ISBN 13: 9780143122913
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With a New ForewordThe heartwrenching New York Times bestseller about the only known person born inside a North Korean prison camp to have escaped.North Korea s political prison camps have existed twice as long as Stalin s Soviet gulags and twelve times as long as the Nazi concentration camps. No one born and raised in these camps is known to have escaped. No one, that is, except Shin Dong-hyuk.In Escape From Camp 14, Blaine Harden unlocks the secrets of the world s most repressive totalitarian state through the story of Shin s shocking imprisonment and his astounding getaway. Shin knew nothing of civilized existence he saw his mother as a competitor for food, guards raised him to be a snitch, and he witnessed the execution of his mother and brother.The late Dear Leader Kim Jong Il was recognized throughout the world, but his country remains sealed as his third son and chosen heir, Kim Jong Eun, consolidates power. Few foreigners are allowed in, and few North Koreans are able to leave. North Korea is hungry, bankrupt, and armed with nuclear weapons. It is also a human rights catastrophe. Between 150,000 and 200,000 people work as slaves in its political prison camps. These camps are clearly visible in satellite photographs, yet North Korea s government denies they exist.Harden s harrowing narrative exposes this hidden dystopia, focusing on an extraordinary young man who came of age inside the highest security prison in the highest security state. Escape from Camp 14 offers an unequalled inside account of one of the world s darkest nations. It is a tale of endurance and courage, survival and hope. 256 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Penguin LLC US Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0143106767ISBN 13: 9780143106760
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Barack Obama, via Facebook: 'A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.'The Nobel Prize-nominated Kenyan writer's best-known novelSet in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence from Britain, A Grain of Wheat follows a group of villagers whose lives have been transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency. At the center of it all is the reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. As we learn of the villagers' tangled histories in a narrative interwoven with myth and peppered with allusions to real-life leaders, including Jomo Kenyatta, a masterly story unfolds in which compromises are forced, friendships are betrayed, and loves are tested.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Verlag: Penguin LLC US Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0143122940ISBN 13: 9780143122944
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Injects much-needed vibrancy into the stuffy world of nature writing. Outside, The Outdoor Books That Shaped the Last Decade The biologist and author of Sounds Wild and Broken combines elegant writing with scientific expertise to reveal the secret world hidden in a single square meter of old-growth forestIn this wholly original book,biologist David Haskell uses a one-square-meter patch of old-growth Tennessee forest as a window onto the entire natural world. Visiting it almost daily for one year to trace nature's path through the seasons, he brings the forest and its inhabitants to vivid life.Each of this book'sshort chapters begins with a simple observation: a salamander scuttling across the leaf litter; the first blossom of spring wildflowers. From these, Haskell spins a brilliant web of biology and ecology, explaining the science that binds together the tiniest microbes and the largest mammals and describing the ecosystems that have cycled for thousands- sometimes millions-of years. Each visit to the forest presents a nature story in miniature as Haskell elegantly teases out the intricate relationships that order the creatures and plants that call it home.Written withremarkable grace and empathy, The Forest Unseen is a grand tour of nature in all its profundity. Haskell is a perfect guide into the world that exists beneath our feet and beyond our backyards.
Verlag: Penguin LLC US Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 159463193XISBN 13: 9781594631931
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The #1 New York Times bestselling novel beloved by millions of readers the world over. A vivid and engaging story that reminds us how long his people [of Afghanistan] have been struggling to triumph over the forces of violence forces that continue to threaten them even today.' New York Times Book Review The unforgettable, heartbreaking storyof the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father s servant, caught in the tragic sweep of history, The Kite Runner transports readers to Afghanistan at a tense and crucial moment of change and destruction. A powerful story of friendship, it is alsoaboutthe power of reading, the price of betrayal, and the possibility of redemption; and an exploration of the power of fathers over sons their love, their sacrifices, their lies. Since itspublicationin 2003 Kite Runner has become a beloved, one-of-a-kindclassicof contemporary literature, touching millions of readers, and launching the career of one of America's most treasured writers.
Verlag: Penguin LLC US Mär 2013, 2013
ISBN 10: 0425261018ISBN 13: 9780425261019
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilariousauthor of Furiously Happy. Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate. O, The Oprah MagazineWhen Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it.In the irreverent Let s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments the ones we want to pretend never happened are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside.