quercus publishing jul 2015 (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two vastly different worlds. One ancient evil. The child eater is coming . . .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The first in a new mystery series of post-war murder and magic from Elly Griffiths, creator of the bestselling Ruth Galloway novels.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 339 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - My friends think I'm insane, I'm stalking men all over town, and I'm on a deadline. High-flying journalist Cat Buchanan has been single for six years. So she's sceptical when assigned to write a story on The Rules of Engagement, a book which promises to teach women how to find the man of their dreams in ten easy steps. As far as Cat's concerned, the book belongs in 1892, but she's promised to follow it to the letter. After all, what does she have to lose by playing love at its own game 'If you hear someone snorting beside the pool this summer, they'll reading this' GraziaREADERS ARE LOVING I FOLLOWED THE RULES'I love everything about this book' \*\*\*\*\*'Joanna makes me laugh like no other writer' \*\*\*\*\*'The funniest, sexiest, most romantic book I've ever read' \*\*\*\*\*'Too good to put down' \*\*\*\*\*.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Freida and Isabel have been best friends their whole lives. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year at the School, they expect to be selected as companions - wives to wealthy and powerful men. The alternative - life as a concubine or chastity - is too horrible to contemplate. But as the intensity of the final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. Isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty - her only asset - in peril. And then into this sealed female environment the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. Freida must fight for her future - even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brighton, 1950. When a girl's body is found, cut into three, Detective Inspector Edgar Stephens is reminded of a magic trick, the Zig Zag Girl. The inventor of the trick, Max Mephisto, is an old friend of Edgar's. They served together in the war as part of a shadowy unit called the Magic Men. Max is still on the circuit, touring seaside towns in the company of ventriloquists, sword-swallowers and dancing girls. Changing times mean that variety is not what it once was, yet Max is reluctant to leave this world to help Edgar investigate. But when the dead girl turns out to be known to him, Max changes his mind. Another death, another magic trick: Edgar and Max become convinced that the answer to the murders lies in their army days. When Edgar receives a letter warning of another 'trick', the Wolf Trap, he knows that they are all in the killer's sights.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A sumptuous historical fantasy romance set in the court of the Sun King: now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV and Fan Bingbing as the Mermaid.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of Britain's leading music writers tells the stories behind seven musical lives that burned brightly, but all too briefly.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Freida and Isabel have been best friends their whole lives. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year at the School, they expect to be selected as companions - wives to wealthy and powerful men. The alternative - life as a concubine or chastity - is too horrible to contemplate. But as the intensity of the final year takes hold, the pressure to be perfect mounts. Isabel starts to self-destruct, putting her beauty - her only asset - in peril. And then into this sealed female environment the boys arrive, eager to choose a bride. Freida must fight for her future - even if it means betraying the only friend, the only love, she has ever known .Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 390 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They were the most powerful rulers on earth. The mighty Qin Shi Huangdu (r. 221-210 BC), who began the construction of the Great Wall. The long-lived Han emperor Wudi (r. 141-87 BC), who developed China as a centralized Confucian state. The soldier-scholar Yongle (r. 1402-24 AD), who raised the Ming dynasty to its military peak. The dowager empress Cixi (r. 1861-1908 AD), who rose from humble Manchu origins to rule over all China. In The Dragon Throne, Jonathan Fenby tells the extraordinary story of imperial China through its 157 emperors, from Qin Shi Huangdu, who crushed his rivals to take supreme power as the first emperor in 221BC, until the final collapse of the faltering Manchu dynasty amidst the revolutionary chaos of the early twentieth century. The final emperor, the infant Puyi (r. 1908-12) ended his days as an assistant gardener in the very palace where he had been enthroned.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A confessional autobiographical novel from one of Britain's best loved authors.