Pushkin press jun 2023 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fayson has always wanted to be a detective. When her cousins recruit her to their top-secret gang on the island one summer, her dreams seem to be coming true. But the Greatest Gang of All Time don't live up to their name, and keep getting distracted from missions by things like food, falling asleep and a fair bit of squabbling!Guided by her favourite mystery novels, Fayson takes charge and tries to track down clues about the strange shadow that has been appearing in the island's lighthouse. With tensions stirring within the gang, can she use all her smarts to solve the case.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A breathless adventure story of courage and survival in a warming climate, from the multi-award-winning author of Refugee 87 Yutu lives in a remote Arctic village with his elderly grandmother. Their traditional way of life is threatened by the changing snow and ice, which melts faster every year. Bea is trying to adapt to yet another new school. Worse still, her father's new job takes up any spare time, and his behaviour has become odd and secretive. On a trip she hopes will fix things, their fates take a drastic turn and Bea's life becomes entwined with Yutu's in a way she could never have imagined. Together, they become locked in a desperate race for survival.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A moving, page-turning novel about a family's grief and the crisis afflicting the rainforest, from the prize-winning author of Refugee 87 Ever since Jack's dad died, he's had a heavy feeling inside. The pressure keeps building. Looking for release, he starts skiving school and hanging around with a group who like to cause trouble. It's easy to hide his new habits from his mum, an environmental anthropologist, because she's too busy with work and conservation trips to notice. As Jack spins further out of control, his mum eventually becomes concerned - and shocks him by suggesting a trip together. But this will be no relaxing holiday. Soon Jack finds himself on an expedition deep into the rainforest, far from anything he's ever known. He wanted an adventure - but has he plunged into real danger.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good.There is fourteen-year-old Jael, who nurses a crush on the preacher's wife; the mother who bakes a sublime peach cobbler every Monday for her date with the married Pastor; and Eula and Caroletta, single childhood friends who seek solace in each other's arms every New Year's Eve.With their secret longings, new love, and forbidden affairs, these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, as unfaithful and unrepentant as they care to be, and as free as they deserve to be.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A thrillingly paced, timely novel about identity and our digital lives from the award-winning author of Refugee 87 Sunshine State Young Readers Award Book--2024-2025 for Grades 6-8 Imagine a world where your only friends are virtual, and big tech companies control access to food, healthcare and leisure. This is Jess's world. But when she turns fourteen, Jess can go to school with other children for the first time. Most of them hate the 'real' world, but Jess begins to question whether the digital world is 'perfect' after all. Back home, her sister Chloe's life-saving medication is getting ever more expensive. Determined to help, Jess risks everything by using skills forbidden in the cyber-world, only to stumble on something explosive. Something that will turn her whole world upside down. It's up to Jess to figure out exactly what is real, and what is fake - Chloe's survival depends on it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Inspirations for Wes Anderson's Asteroid City a collection of new and classic writing on mid-century cinema and the American West \*\* Includes an exclusive interview with Wes Anderson in which the director details how the pieces collected here influenced the characters, stories, and settings in the film \*\* Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of François Truffaut and Jonas Mekas, DO NOT DETONATE explores key influences on celebrated director Wes Anderson's new film Asteroid City. Together they form a detailed, captivating portrait of the mid-century film world and the enduring myths of the American West. A Conversation Between Wes Anderson and Jake PerlinA Life excerpt - Elia KazanThe Celluloid Brassière - Andy LoganRainy Day - Lillian RossThe Outskirts: Other Men's Women - Gina TelaroliThe Petrified Forest - Jorge Luis BorgesAce in the Hole: Noir in Broad Daylight - Molly HaskellWhat Makes a Sad Heart Sing: Some Came Running - Michael KoreskyOne False Start, Never Wear the Same Dress Twice - Durga Chew-BoseMaigret at the Coroner's excerpt - Georges SimenonSunbelt Noir: Desert Fury - Imogen Sara SmithThe Voyage Down and Out: Inferno - Kent JonesBad Day Near The River's Edge - Nicolas Saada Watching Fail Safe at the End of the World - K. Austin CollinsBlack Desert, White Desert - Serge ToubianaMarilyn Monroe and the Loveless World - Jonas MekasBeyond the Stars - Jeremy Bernstein Coming: 'Nashville' - Pauline KaelComing Around the Mountain: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Matt Zoller SeitzSelections from Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary - Bob BalabanIntroduction to Small Change: A Film Novel - François TruffautBy The Time I Get to Phoenix - Thora SiemsenMy Guy - Hilton AlsWild to the Wild - Sam Shepard.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book will blow your child's mind! Big Science explained simply The perfect picturebook to introduce little minds to big ideas! Germs combines bold, colourful illustrations with jokes and incredible science facts to introduce young readers to the fascinating, yucky world of. you guessed it: germs! In just 32 pages they'll learn about viruses and bacteria, vaccines and antibiotics, as well as finding out the answers to such important questions as: Why shouldn't we sneeze in people's faces Should you eat that old sausage you found in your coat pocket (Spoiler alert: no) and What were toilets like in the olden days. Devolle, John (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Travelling from Paris to Tokyo, from Seville, Oaxaca and Naples to Istanbul, she investigates the rapid decline of France's pot-au-feu, the misconstrued beginnings of pizza, the meeting of indigenous and European lineages in mole, and the complex legacy of multi-culturalism in a meze potluck. 'Never have we been more cosmopolitan about what we eat - and yet more essentialist, locavore, and particularist.' With a witty mix of anecdote and research, Anya von Bremzen reassess the fascinating role that food can play in our cultural heritage, and uncovers how as a nation's political and social identity are called into question, so too is its palate. 'A fast-paced, entertaining travelogue, peppered with compact history lessons that reveal the surprising ways dishes become iconic' -New York Times'This dazzlingly intelligent examination of how foods become national symbols . . . so enlightening - as well as so much fun to read . . . Von Bremzen is a superb describer of flavours and textures - but she also understands that food is never just about food' -Bee Wilson in Financial Times.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A mesmerising debut. Dark, twisted and bracingly empathetic' Diana Reid, author of Love and VirtueWinner of the 2017 Hankyoreh Literary Award----------------Who is Jina The stupid woman who ruined a young man's promising career The weird loner whose university boyfriend thinks she has a victim complex The naïve country girl who ignored a friend's cry for help The survivor To answer these questions, Jina will have to return to Anjin University and the toxic culture that destroyed the lives of many female students - including one, Ha Yuri, who died tragically and mysteriously not long before she left. ----------------PRAISE FOR ANOTHER PERSON'Immaculately crafted, shocking and moving' Sang Young Park, author of the International Booker-longlisted Love in the Big City'Dark Academia the way I like it. smart and full of suspense' Hanna Bervoets, author of We Had to Remove This Post'Sharp social commentary and amazing, complex female characters. An unusual, unpredictable thriller' Simone Campos, author of Nothing Can Hurt You Now.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An intense, thought-provoking enquiry into the very nature of cooking.' -- Nigella Lawson 'One of the most original food books I've ever read, at once intelligent and sensuous, witty, provoking and truly delicious.' -- Olivia Laing A bracingly original, revelatory debut that explores cooking and the kitchen as sources of pleasure, constraint and revolution, by a rising star in food writing This joyful, revelatory work of memory and meditation both complicates and electrifies life in the kitchen. Why do we cook Is it just to feed ourselves and others Or is there something more revolutionary going on In Small Fires, Rebecca May Johnson reinvents cooking -- that simple act of rolling up our sleeves, wielding a knife, spattering red hot sauce on our books -- as a way of experiencing ourselves and the world. Cooking is thinking: about the liberating constraint of tying apron strings; the transformative dynamics of shared meals; the meaning of appetite and bodily pleasure; the wild subversiveness of the recipe, beyond words or control. Small Fires shows us the radical potential of the thing we do every day: the power of small fires burning everywhere.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Beautifully-written, and highly evocative of the remote Lincolnshire landscape, the Second World War and the two people whose loneliness brings them together for a life-changing time. Full of quiet drama and sorrow at loss, cruelty and mortality' Amanda Craig'Compelling and beautifully intimate. A classic piece of storytelling' Toby Litt'A haunting and lyrical novel' Maggie Brookes, author of The Prisoner's WifeIn the depths of wartime, a friendship takes wingFreda is a twelve-year-old evacuee from the East End, sent to live with a farming family deep in the lonely landscape of the Fens. Philip is an artist and a conscientious objector, living in a remote lighthouse on the shores of the Wash. The two outcasts come together amid the wild beauty of the wetlands, beneath skies filled with migrating birds and crisscrossed by Nazi bombers. As the world is consumed by war, they form a friendship that will change the course of both their lives.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A riveting murder mystery. A psychological thriller. A magnificent work of literary fiction' KIRAN DESAI'An elegy for India. It is gorgeously written, utterly devastating, and feels completely true' SONIA FALEIROA literary thriller of considerable acumen with a textured picture of a country' FINANCIAL TIMES, BEST NEW CRIME BOOKS [RB1] ________________IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO KILL A CHILD. The Indian village of Teetarpur is a quiet, unremarkable place, until one of its children is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu community, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor. It's up to local policeman Sub-Inspector Ombir Singh to uncover the truth. With only one assistant officer, and a single working revolver between them, can he bring justice to a grieving father and an angry village or will the people of Teetarpur demand vengeance instead.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. With their secret longings, new love, and forbidden affairs, these church ladies are as seductive as they want to be, as vulnerable as they need to be, as unfaithful and unrepentant as they care to be, and as free as they deserve to be. A major HBO Max TV adaptation is in the works.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 217 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Inspirations for Wes Anderson's Asteroid City a collection of new and classic writing on mid-century cinema and the American West \*\* Includes an exclusive interview with Wes Anderson in which the director details how the pieces collected here influenced the characters, stories, and settings in the film \*\* Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of François Truffaut and Jonas Mekas, DO NOT DETONATE explores key influences on celebrated director Wes Anderson's new film Asteroid City. Together they form a detailed, captivating portrait of the mid-century film world and the enduring myths of the American West. A Conversation Between Wes Anderson and Jake PerlinA Life excerpt - Elia KazanThe Celluloid Brassière - Andy LoganRainy Day - Lillian RossThe Outskirts: Other Men's Women - Gina TelaroliThe Petrified Forest - Jorge Luis BorgesAce in the Hole: Noir in Broad Daylight - Molly HaskellWhat Makes a Sad Heart Sing: Some Came Running - Michael KoreskyOne False Start, Never Wear the Same Dress Twice - Durga Chew-BoseMaigret at the Coroner's excerpt - Georges SimenonSunbelt Noir: Desert Fury - Imogen Sara SmithThe Voyage Down and Out: Inferno - Kent JonesBad Day Near The River's Edge - Nicolas Saada Watching Fail Safe at the End of the World - K. Austin CollinsBlack Desert, White Desert - Serge ToubianaMarilyn Monroe and the Loveless World - Jonas MekasBeyond the Stars - Jeremy Bernstein Coming: 'Nashville' - Pauline KaelComing Around the Mountain: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Matt Zoller SeitzSelections from Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary - Bob BalabanIntroduction to Small Change: A Film Novel - François TruffautBy The Time I Get to Phoenix - Thora SiemsenMy Guy - Hilton AlsWild to the Wild - Sam ShepardPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 234 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One beautiful morning, Zhang pushes his wealthy in-laws off a mountain - the perfect crime. Or so he thinks. Even though the murders were as carefully choreographed as a play, he did not expect that three teenagers had caught him in the act. But Zhang seriously underestimates those three kids . The Chinese suspense thriller about the inner lives of teenagers that has taken China by storm. A refreshing alternative to the traditional coming-of-age story.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Maine Governor Janet Mills' leadership inspired this 'remarkable story of work, worry, art, faith, community, life, and hope. An instant classic." Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening "I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness," Maine Governor Janet Mills Two unforgettable women from opposite poles of power in Maine forge an uplifting bond through good, old-fashioned letter writing that helps them navigate the COVID crisis Both women bring civility, grace, wit, and wisdom to the challenge of protecting those who depend on them in other words, leadershipThis trip to the "Vacationland" of Maine where the state motto is I Lead offers an inspiring tale of civility and purpose, of doing the right thing and not just surviving, but prevailing.The first woman to serve as governor of Maine, Janet Mills, had been in office a year when COVID-19 reached the United States. The recently-widowed 72-year-old wrote in her journal there is "no playbook for a pandemic" as she imposed unprecedented restrictions on her state.When early support for the governor's response curdled to rampant opposition, a young mother named Ashirah Knapp sent a letter of support from a remote homestead in the woods of Maine. Ashirah's handwritten dispatch detailed how the public health emergency was upending her family's life and livelihood, and she promised to keep writing "every week until we are through this time" to remind the governor how many Mainers supported her despite the disruption.Ashirah's letters, with their simple wisdom and striking penmanship, stood out in a flood of correspondence Governor Mills was receiving that ranged in tone from appreciative to furious. They helped keep her grounded as she made wrenching, often unpopular choices.Shannon A. Mullen weaves from these two women's letters and the governor's journal, which were never intended for publication, an intimate and compelling true story that is a celebration of civility and compassion in the face of rancor and of resolve in the face of adversity.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware 217 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Inspirations for Wes Anderson's Asteroid City a collection of new and classic writing on mid-century cinema and the American West \*\* Includes an exclusive interview with Wes Anderson in which the director details how the pieces collected here influenced the characters, stories, and settings in the film \*\* Featuring 8 newly commissioned pieces alongside more than 20 classic essays from the likes of François Truffaut and Jonas Mekas, DO NOT DETONATE explores key influences on celebrated director Wes Anderson's new film Asteroid City. Together they form a detailed, captivating portrait of the mid-century film world and the enduring myths of the American West. A Conversation Between Wes Anderson and Jake PerlinA Life excerpt - Elia KazanThe Celluloid Brassière - Andy LoganRainy Day - Lillian RossThe Outskirts: Other Men's Women - Gina TelaroliThe Petrified Forest - Jorge Luis BorgesAce in the Hole: Noir in Broad Daylight - Molly HaskellWhat Makes a Sad Heart Sing: Some Came Running - Michael KoreskyOne False Start, Never Wear the Same Dress Twice - Durga Chew-BoseMaigret at the Coroner's excerpt - Georges SimenonSunbelt Noir: Desert Fury - Imogen Sara SmithThe Voyage Down and Out: Inferno - Kent JonesBad Day Near The River's Edge - Nicolas Saada Watching Fail Safe at the End of the World - K. Austin CollinsBlack Desert, White Desert - Serge ToubianaMarilyn Monroe and the Loveless World - Jonas MekasBeyond the Stars - Jeremy Bernstein Coming: 'Nashville' - Pauline KaelComing Around the Mountain: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - Matt Zoller SeitzSelections from Close Encounters of the Third Kind Diary - Bob BalabanIntroduction to Small Change: A Film Novel - François TruffautBy The Time I Get to Phoenix - Thora SiemsenMy Guy - Hilton AlsWild to the Wild - Sam Shepard 234 pp. Englisch.…