penguin random house llc apr 2013 (16 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the New York Times bestselling Julie James--a smart, sexy novel that brings together a former football star turned prosecutor and a beautiful restaurant executive who's been burned one too many times by romance. For fans of Susan Mallery and Rachel Gibson.HE'S USED TO GETTING WHAT HE WANTS. A former football star and one of Chicago's top prosecutors, Assistant U.S. Attorney Cade Morgan will do anything to nail a corrupt state senator, which means he needs Brooke Parker's help. As general counsel for a restaurant company, she can get a bug to the senator's table at one of her five-star restaurants so the FBI can eavesdrop on him. All Cade has to do is convince Brooke to cooperateand he's not afraid to use a little charm, or the power of his office, to do just that.AND WHAT HE WANTS IS HERA savvy businesswoman, Brooke knows she needs to play ball with the U.S. Attorney's officeeven if it means working with Cade. No doubt there's a sizzling attraction beneath all their sarcastic quips, but Brooke is determined to keep things casual. Cade agreesuntil a surprising turn of events throws his life into turmoil, and he realizes that he wants more than just a good time from the one woman with whom he could fall terrifyingly, irresistibly in love. . .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An absorbing adventure.'-Publishers Weekly (starred review) Former Aerial Corps captain Will Laurence and his faithful dragon, Temeraire, have been put out to pasture in Australia-and it seems their part in the war has ended just when they are needed most. The French have invaded Spain, forged an alliance with Africa's powerful Tswana empire, and brought revolution to Brazil. With Britain's last desperate hope of defeating Napoleon in peril, the government that sidelined Laurence swiftly offers to reinstate him, convinced that he's the best man to enter the fray and negotiate peace. So the pair embark for Brazil, only to meet with a string of unmitigated disasters that forces them to make an unexpected landing in the hostile territory of the Incan empire. With the success of the mission balanced on a razor's edge, an old enemy appears and threatens to tip the scales toward ruin. Yet even in the midst of disaster, opportunity may lurk-for one bold enough to grasp it. 'Captivating . . . compelling reading . . . [an] action-packed narrative [with] lively, uniquely drawn characters and intriguing takes on history.'-TordotcomIncludes a preview of the next book in the Temeraire series, Blood of Tyrants.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - IT BEGAN WITH A DISAPPEARANCE On a balmy May night in Miami, Frank Griga and his girlfriend, Krisztina Furton, vanished from the face of the earth. Frank had made a fortune in the adult hotline business and had met Krisztina, an exotic dancer, while searching for models for his advertisements. Three weeks later, their torsos were found inside metal drums sunk in a murky canal. IT ENDED IN MURDER So began the unraveling of the most diabolical death-for-dollars plot in history. All evidence led investigators to Miami's Sun Gym-a Mecca for serious bodybuilders. The gym's owner, two muscle-bound managers, and a steroid-crazed personal trainer were the ringleaders of a gang that targeted wealthy Floridians for kidnapping, extortion, and death. This is the story of how a band of brutal thugs planned to make a fortune from fear and blood-and how the quick actions of the authorities stopped the gang before any more innocents were killed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Set in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, J. J. Cook's thrilling new mystery series features Fire Chief Stella Griffin, who solves crime with the help of her predecessor, who just happens to be a ghost? NO MATCH FOR MURDER After knocking the lights out of her boyfriend when she catches him cheating on her, Chicago fire fighter Stella Griffin hops on her Harley and heads for Sweet Pepper, Tennessee, where she ends up becoming the small town's fire chief. When her dear friend Tory Lambert dies after her gingerbread-style house is set ablaze, Stella suspects arson and foul play. As Stella investigates, she gets help from a most unlikely source-the ghost of Eric Gamlyn, Sweet Pepper's old fire chief. And if that isn't enough to rattle her, attractive police officer John Trump seems to have taken an interest in her. But Stella's got to stay focused if she hopes to smoke out a killer before her own life is extinguished.INCLUDES DELICIOUS RECIPES!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Gossip Girl' meets 'Mean Girls' in the second novel in the glitzy and scandal-fueled series from Simone and Abrams, where readers enter the privileged, cutthroat world of the private academy Hollywood High.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Toni Aleo's third novel in her hot Assassins series, the chiseled men of this Nashville hockey team can make anything happen when they go all out for the women they want-even turn a one-night stand into a happily ever after. Audrey Parker is up against the boards. She's stuck in a job she hates and pining for a total jerk. Meanwhile, her sister Fallon is moving out and getting married to hockey star Lucas Brooks. Where is Audrey's Prince Charming Nothing she does has ever seemed to be good enough for any of the men in her life. Audrey's about to hit rock bottom . . . until she wakes up next to Tate Odder. The thrill of moving up from the minors to the Nashville Assassins was a welcome distraction. But not even becoming the first rookie goalie to tally three shutouts in the Stanley Cup finals alleviates the pain. With the loss of his parents and sister weighing as heavily on his soul as ever, Tate Odder can't keep pretending he's okay. That's when he meets smart, sexy Audrey. Her gentle warmth and quirky sense of humor make him feel whole for the first time in too long. But to stay that way forever, Tate must find a way to accept his past and learn to live for love.Praise for Toni Aleo's Nashville Assassins romances 'Aleo melts the ice and hits it into the net with her Assassins series.'-Award-winning author Jami Davenport 'Taking Shots is really the whole package. You get romance, humor, steamy sex, drama, and then it all wraps up with a great conclusion. I am amazed that this is Toni's first book. She has come out in a huge way. I can't wait to read more from her. Don't hesitate for a moment to grab this book.'-Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 'A little steamy, a little heartbreaking, and a whole lot of fanning yourself are in order this time around, readers. Are your cheeks feeling a little pink yet Get used to the feeling.'-Dreaming in the Pages, on Trying to Score 'Empty Net is an honest, heartwarming, endearing story. . . . Toni Aleo doesn't just write a story. She gives you the ability to experience the journey of her characters right along with them. Her stories are enveloped with passion, emotion, humor, love; and let me tell you, that girl knows how to write a sex scene that just makes you sweat!'-Guilty Pleasures Book Review 'Sexy and riveting . . . the perfect combination of love and lust.'-USA Today bestselling author Heidi McLaughlin, on Blue Lines 'Funny, charming, sweet, sexy . . . [Falling for the Backup] has everything you want in a story.'-Blushing Reader.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Vivid new translations of Basho's popular haiku, in a selected format ideal for newcomers as well as fans long familiar with the Japanese master.Basho, the famously bohemian traveler through seventeenth-century Japan, is a poet attuned to the natural world as well as humble human doings; 'Piles of quilts/ snow on distant mountains/ I watch both,' he writes. His work captures both the profound loneliness of one observing mind and the broad-ranging joy he finds in our connections to the larger community. David Young, acclaimed translator and Knopf poet, writes in his introduction to this selection, 'This poet's consciousness affiliates itself with crickets, islands, monkeys, snowfalls, moonscapes, flowers, trees, and ceremonies.Waking and sleeping, alone and in company, he moves through the world, delighting in its details.' Young's translations are bright, alert, musically perfect, and rich in tenderness toward their maker.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In 'Resonance,' [the author] explores the uncharted interfaces between science and spirit in relation to health and well-being'--Page 4 of cove.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Completely satisfying, as well-paced and exhilarating as a good run.'--The Boston Globe.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She didn't know what she wanted?

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Trinette Montgomery is used to getting what she wants--including her wealthy husband's forgiveness after indulging in an affair. . .or two. And once again she's got an itch only another man can scratch--specifically, her married boss. But when her scandalous ways catch up with her, she flees to the home of her best friend in St. Louis, Nikki Truth. Only Nikki is having marital problems of her own. . .Nikki's husband, Donovan, has no idea what she was up to while he was out of the country. As Nikki does her best to reconnect with him, she must also deal with disturbing calls from a man with whom she had a brief affair. And when Donovan finds out, he sets on a path of destruction that may put Nikki and their son in danger. Can Nikki and Trinette band together to save their children, their marriages--and their futures 'Sasha Campbell brings the sizzle and scandal. Don't forget to breathe while flipping the pages!' --Naomi Chase, author of DeceptionPraise for Sasha Campbell's Confessions'These characters leap off the page and make you want to join in.' --Lutishia Lovely'Love, forgiveness, truth, and several other elements set the tone. . .The strong characterization and the added twists and turns made this book enjoyable for me.' --The RAWSISTAZ Reviewers 'Drama, drama and more drama! It's a good juicy read you won't want to put down.' --RT Book Reviews.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A simple yet revolutionary alternative to helicopter parenting and tiger moms. Behavioral specialist Janis-Norton outlines a clear, step-by-step plan that will help any parent raise a child who is cooperative and considerate, confident and self-reliant.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph.' Foreign AffairsPresident Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of how, in his first term, Obama secretly used the most innovative weapons and tools of American power, including our most sophisticated and still unacknowledged arsenal of cyberweapons, aimed at Iran's nuclear program.Washington and the world were rocked by Confront and Conceal, which goes deep into the Situation Room as Obama questions whether this new weapon can slow Iran and avoid a war or whether it will create blowback, as the Iranians and others retaliate with cyberattacks on the United States. It describes how the bin Laden raid worsened the dysfunctional relationship with Pakistan, and how Obama's early idealism about fighting a 'war of necessity' in Afghanistan quickly turned to fatigue, frustration, and now withdrawal. As the world seeks to understand how Obama will cope with nationalistic leaders in Beijing, a North Korea bent on developing a nuclear weapon that can reach American shores, and an Arab world where promising revolutions turned to chaos, Confront and Conceal with an updated epilogue for this paperback edition provides an unflinching account of these complex years of presidential struggle, in which America's ability to exert control grows ever more elusive.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A bold and exciting literary novel set in South Africa that contemplates the elusive line between truth and self-perception.Ambitious and assured,Absolutionpropels the reader to the final page in a drive to discover the secrets and truths at its core. How or why did a young antiapartheid activist disappear twenty years earlier How does that event link the present-day characters And how does it explain the choices they have made or the lies they may tell themselves Absolutionis a big-idea novel about the pitfalls of memory, the ramifications of censorship, and the ways we are silently complicit in the problems around us. It s also a devastating, intimate, and stunningly woven story. Told in shifting perspectives, it centers on the mysterious character of Clare Wald, a controversial South African writer of great fame, haunted by the memories of a sister she fears she betrayed to her death and a daughter she fears she abandoned. Clare comes to learn that in this conflict the dead do not stay buried, and the missing return in other forms such as the child witness of her daughter s last days who has reappeared twenty years later as Clare s official biographer, prompting an unraveling of history and a search for forgiveness. Part literary thriller, part meditation on the responsibility of the individual under totalitarianism, this is a masterpiece of rich, complicated characters and narration that captures the reader and does not let go.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The compelling heroine of Eve Marie Mont's acclaimed novel A Breath of Eyre returns to find truth and fiction merging through the pages of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic, The Scarlet Letter. . .Emma Townsend is back at prestigious Lockwood Prep, but her world has altered immeasurably since her tumultuous sophomore year. The best change of all: her boyfriend, Gray. And though Gray is leaving for Coast Guard training, Emma feels newly optimistic, even if the pain of her mother's long-ago death still casts a shadow. Yet Emma isn't the only one who's changed. Her friend and roommate, Michelle, is strangely remote, and old alliances are shifting in disconcerting ways. Soon Emma's long-distance relationship with Gray is straining under the pressure, and Emma wonders if she's cracking too. How else to explain the vivid dreams of Hester Prynne she's been having since she started reading The Scarlet Letter Or the way she's found herself waking in the woods As her life begins to echo events in the novel, Emma will be forced to choose between virtue and love. But can she forge a new future without breaking her heart 'Richly satisfying. . .a smart and rewarding ode to literature.' --Kirkus on A Breath of Eyre (starred review) Praise for A Breath of Eyre 'Exceptional and unique. . . A breath of fresh air for hungry readers looking for that special touch that makes a book stand out from the rest of the pack.' --The New York Journal of Books'Bronte fans should appreciate this romantic, time-slipping reimagining that addresses finding a voice in writing and in life.' --Publishers Weekly.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Today s web technologies are evolving at near light speed, bringing the promise of a seamless Internet ever closer to reality. When users can browse the Web on a three-inch phone screen as easily as on a fifty-inch HDTV, what s a developer to do Peter Gasston s The Modern Web will guide you through the latest and most important tools of device-agnostic web development, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. His plain-English explanations and practical examples emphasize the techniques, principles, and practices that you ll need to easily transcend individual browser quirks and stay relevant as these technologies are updated. Learn how to: Plan your content so that it displays fluidly across multiple devices Design websites to interact with devices using the most up-to-date APIs, including Geolocation, Orientation, and Web Storage Incorporate cross-platform audio and video without using troublesome plug-ins Make images and graphics scalable on high-resolution devices with SVG Use.