penguin random house llc aug 2005 (7 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Nightmare from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon. Emily has never fit in with her overachieving family. Instead of getting straight As, she sits in the back row and hides behind her hair. As a result, her parents have enrolled her for the summer at Camp Excel, an academic camp for underachievers. Emily doesn't want to go, and not just because she thinks it isn't necessary. Since she was a child, she's been plagued by a recurring nightmare. And something about this camp feels familiar. Has she been there before Why can't she remember With the help of two new friends, Emily discovers that her nightmare is not just in her head. Someone at Camp Excel has a secret and will do anythingeven killto keep Emily from uncovering the truth. "A taut, well-constructed mystery." Kirkus Reviews "Readers will once again fall under Nixon's spell as they enjoy this page-turner." School Library Journal "[An] inimitable blend of horror and whodunit." Booklist "[Nightmare has] taut suspenseful passages?[and] clever false leads." Publishers Weekly.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Performing at the wedding of Sir Edmund Deneby's daughter, the player Joliffe has another task to perform-as a spy. As he uncovers the secrets of the Denebys' sordid history, it becomes clear that this wedding celebration is destined to end in tragedy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jack Higgins pits the heroic covert intelligence team of Blake Johnson and Sean Dillon against a hidden foe in a very different kind of game-with a very different set of rules.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With 'Lord of the Rings'director Peter Jackson releasing his remake of 'King Kong' in December 2005, this is a great time for Modern Library to revisit the original motion-picture novelization. It remains true to the earliest novel tied to the 1944 version of the classic film.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sparks fly when a hardboiled reporter meets a handsome senator. But a political scandal-and attempts on her life-could drive them apart. Or maybe adversity could draw them into a bond even more intense than their steamy sexual embraces.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the award-winning author of 'Perdido Street Station, The Scar' and 'Iron Council' comes a collection of 15 short stories, four of them new, including a groundbreaking work in graphic-novel form.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Unforgettable and deeply arresting, Let Me Go is a haunting memoir of World War II that won t let you go until you ve finished reading the last page (The Washington Post Book World). In 1941, in Berlin, Helga Schneider s mother abandoned her along with her father and younger brother. Let Me Go recounts Helga s final meeting with her ailing mother in a Vienna nursing home some sixty years after World War II, in which Helga confronts a nightmare: her mother s lack of repentance about her past as a Nazi SS guard at concentration camps, including Auschwitz, where she was responsible for untold acts of torture. With spellbinding detail, Schneider recalls their conversation, evoking her own struggle between a daughter s sense of obligation and the inescapable horror of her mother s deeds.