quercus publishing jun 2019 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The instant New York Times bestseller'An unbelievable debut' New York TimesRacism, but 'managed' through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacological Love, despite everythingA Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2018 Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explores the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In the first, unforgettable story of this collection, The Finkelstein Five, Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unstinting reckoning of the brutal prejudice of the US justice system. In Zimmer Land we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And Friday Black and How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all.Fresh, exciting, vital and contemporary, Friday Black will appeal to people who love Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad, the TV show Black Mirror, the work of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders, and anyone looking for stories that speak to the world we live in now.'An excitement and a wonder' George Saunders'The writing in this outstanding collection will make you hurt and demand your hope' Roxane Gay'The fiction debut of the year. Bravo young man. We await your encore' Mary KarrPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 194 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The second of the Black Forest Investigations - 'Its plot bristles with invention' Guardian It has been a long dry summer in the Black Forest idyll of Kirchzarten. When the local fire brigade is called to a burning farm shed, a volunteer is killed as a weapons cache beneath it explodes. The small community is shocked to the core. Louise Bonì, back with Freiburg Kripo after a period of withdrawal, is assigned to the task force dealing with the case.The meagre evidence they gather points to a possible connection with German neo-Nazis or illegal arms dealers from the former Yugoslavia, but the appearance of secret service agents marking out the forest suggests more is at stake. Acting as her partner in the case is Thomas Ilic, whose allegiances are as conflicted as Bonì's. Who is in fact working for whom In the most challenging case of her career - and one that puts her in mortal danger - Bonì must to overcome the ghosts of her past that continue to haunt her. Oliver Bottini is a fresh and exciting voice in the world of crime fiction; the Rhine borderlands of the Black Forest are a perfect setting for his beautifully crafted mysteries.Praise for ZEN AND THE ART OF MURDER - now shortlisted for the CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER: 'Surprising and genuinely shocking' Joan Smith, Sunday Times'Gripping' Sebastian Shakespeare, Tatler'An atmospheric, original story that will keep you hooked to the final heart-rending revelations' Crime ReviewTranslated from the German by Jamie Bulloch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There's no place like home.Nursing a broken heart, Jennifer Bolitho retreats to Pixie Cottage. Her new landlord - a former soldier turned movie heartthrob - has grounds so large, she's sure the little house nestled in the woods will bring her solitude.Alex Delgardo also has reasons to hide away. Seeking refuge after a tragic incident turned his world upside down, he knows that the most important thing now is to care for his ailing family. But when Jennifer enters their lives, that changes. Because, as they both learn, you can't heal others until you learn to heal yourself.See what REAL READERS are saying about Beth's books: 'If you want a quality romance with a difference this is it''One of my favourite authors - a warm hug of a book, perfect for those cold winter days, it is heartwarming, funny, with hints of romance . I would have happily read this in one sitting, and was sorely tempted to' - Rachel's Random Reads'Charming, poignant and absolutely magical' 'It's a warm and comforting hug of a book and I loved it''Filled with all of the magic and sparkle of the festive season. This is a Christmas book not to be missed'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The instant New York Times bestseller'An unbelievable debut' New York TimesRacism, but 'managed' through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacological Love, despite everythingA Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2018 Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explores the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In the first, unforgettable story of this collection, The Finkelstein Five, Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unstinting reckoning of the brutal prejudice of the US justice system. In Zimmer Land we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And Friday Black and How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all.Fresh, exciting, vital and contemporary, Friday Black will appeal to people who love Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad, the TV show Black Mirror, the work of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders, and anyone looking for stories that speak to the world we live in now.'An excitement and a wonder' George Saunders'The writing in this outstanding collection will make you hurt and demand your hope' Roxane Gay'The fiction debut of the year. Bravo young man. We await your encore' Mary Karr.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A decomposed body washes up on a beach near Glasgow. The victim: Tracy Eadie. Junkie. Prostitute. Fourteen years old.Rosie Gilmour, tabloid journalist and crusader for justice, receives evidence linking police officials with Tracy's disappearance. Digging deeper, Rosie uncovers a sickening network of corruption and abuse, leading back to the very top of the establishment. And to powerful figures who want their secrets kept hidden. Rosie has found the story of a lifetime. Yet living to tell it will be her greatest challenge.'Anna Smith expertly unveils Glasgow's underbelly in this page-turner. Her knowledge of the city's underclass shines out of every page' News of the World.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Der Gesellschaftsroman unserer Zeit' Volker Weidermann im Literarischen Quartett.Die Geschichte um den sympathischen Loser Vernon Subutex geht weiter: Der 2. Band erzählt davon, wie seine Freunde sich zusammentun, um ihrem Freund, Kumpel, ehemaligen Bandkollegen und Ex-Liebhaber aus seiner prekären Lage herauszuhelfen. Und ein Geheimnis wird gelüftet - mit ungeahnten Folgen.Der zweite Teil der Romantrilogie setzt genau dort ein, wo der erste aufgehört hat. Vernon Subutex ist obdachlos und lebt auf einer Parkbank in den Buttes Chaumont. Während andere Obdachlose, die er dort kennenlernt, ihm helfen, sich in seinem neuen Leben zurechtzufinden, machen sich seine Freunde Sorgen um ihn. Sie halten Kontakt über Facebook und haben eine WhatsApp-Gruppe gegründet, um nach Vernon zu suchen. Hier finden die unterschiedlichsten Leute zusammen, die eines gemeinsam haben: Sie alle hatten irgendwann mal etwas mit Vernon Subutex zu tun. Das Café Rosa Bonheur am Park wird zu ihrer Anlaufstelle und einer Art Hauptquartier. Als dann auch noch die lange verschwundenen Videobänder des verstorbenen Popstars Alex Bleach wieder auftauchen, wird es höchste Zeit, Vernon zu finden.Virginie Despentes gelingt es auch im zweiten Teil ihrer Subutex-Reihe, ihre Vielzahl an Themen - von Popkultur über Prostitution bis zu Drogen-Sucht -, Figuren und Handlungssträngen so souverän und virtuos zu handhaben, dass ein brillantes Panorama quer durch alle Schichten der französischen Gesellschaft entsteht.'Eine unermessliche Autorin' Le Grand JournalÜber 'Vernon Subutex 1':'Eine Frau, die schreibt wie ein aufgeklapptes Rasiermesser' Thea Dorn, Das Literarische Quartett'Ein fulminanter Gesellschaftsroman' Ijoma Mangold, Die ZEIT'Despentes hat mit ihrer 'Vernon Subutex'-Trilogie (.) ein ähnlich beeindruckendes Gesellschaftstableau entworfen wie Balzac in seinen Romanen.' Süddeutsche Zeitung'Ein packendes Buch am Puls der Zeit' Deutschlandfunk Kultur.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a former Israeli spy, comes the most realistic and authentic thriller of the year. The Times Number One BestsellerWinner of the CWA International Dagger.A Times, Telegraph and FT pick for Summer Reads 2019, and an FT Thriller of the Year'The year's best espionage thriller' Daily Telegraph Best Books of 2019'Gripping, smart and shot through with dry wit. A terrific read' Simon BeckettWhen an Israeli tech exec disappears from Charles de Gaulle airport with a woman in red, logic dictates youthful indiscretion. But Israel is on a state of high alert nonetheless. Colonel Zeev Abadi, the new head of Unit 8200's Special Section, just happens to have arrived on the same flight.For Commissaire Léger of the Paris Police, all coincidences are suspect. When a second young Israeli from the flight is kidnapped, this time at gunpoint from his hotel room, his suspicions are confirmed - and a diplomatic crisis looms. As the race to identify the victims and the reasons behind their abductions intensifies, a covert Chinese commando team watches from the rooftops, while hour by hour the morgue receives fresh bodies from around Paris.This could be one long night in the City of Lights.Translated from the Hebrew by Daniela Zamir.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FBI Special Agent Jeff Rinek had a gift for getting child predators to confess. All he had to do was share a piece of his soul . . .In the Name of the Children gives an unflinching look at what it's like to fight a never-ending battle against an enemy far more insidious than terrorists: the predators, lurking amongst us, who seek to harm our children.During his 30-year career with the FBI, Jeff Rinek worked hundreds of investigations involving crimes against children: from stranger abduction to serial homicide to ritualized sexual abuse. Those who do this kind of work are required to plumb the depths of human depravity, to see things no one should ever have to see - and once seen can never forget. There is no more important - or more brutal - job in law enforcement, and few have been more successful than Rinek at solving these sort of cases.Most famously, Rinek got Cary Stayner to confess to all four of the killings known as the Yosemite Park Murders, an accomplishment made more extraordinary by the fact that the FBI nearly pinned the crimes on the wrong suspects. Rinek's recounting of the confession and what he learned about Stayner provides perhaps the most revelatory look ever inside the psyche of a serial killer and a privileged glimpse into the art of interrogation.In the Name of the Children takes readers into the trenches of real-time investigations where every second counts and any wrong decision or overlooked fact can have tragic repercussions. Rinek offers an insider's perspective of the actual case agents and street detectives who are the boots on the ground in this war at home. By placing us inside the heart and mind of a rigorously honest and remarkably self-reflective investigator, we will see with our own eyes what it takes-and what it costs - to try to keep our children safe and to bring to justice those who prey on society's most vulnerable victims.With each chapter dedicated to a real case he worked, In the Name of the Children also explores the evolution of Rinek as a Special Agent - whose unorthodox, empathy-based approach to interviewing suspects made him extraordinarily successful in obtaining confessions - and the toll it took to have such intimate contact with child molesters and murderers. Beyond exploring the devastating impact of these unthinkable crimes on the victims and their families, this book offers an unprecedented look at how investigators and their loved ones cope while living in the spectre of so much suffering.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Handwriting is something of a dying art nowadays, as we tap messages to each other day after day. But handwriting analysis can divulge everything from a person's timidity to their ambition, from their desire to please to their need to control. In fact, so revealing is your writing that in Japan all CVs are still written by hand.Written by the UK's leading handwriting expert, Reading Between the Lines will show you how to judge someone's handwriting as a whole and how to examine it in detail. Because every aspect of penmanship - the height of an 'h', the curliness of a 'g', the pressure of the pen on the paper - is a collection of signals that we are giving out without meaning to. The way we write can tell the world a huge amount; sometimes more than the things we write about. Our handwriting exposes how we interact with the world and the people around us, and also how we cope with stress and express emotions. It can help us make choices for our future, showing us what our desires are, and even what jobs and partners may suit us best.Using real-life examples, including celebrity samples, you will be challenged to put your new-found knowledge to the test. By the end of the book you will have amassed a wealth of knowledge that will help you understand human nature - including your own - in all its colours.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The thrilling true story of a forgotten British hero of World War II.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Acampora is an original' Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fierce and gripping novel about families, secrets and the impossibility of ever coming home.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A young musician uncovers a painful family history and must confront the realities of collaboration and betrayal in Vichy France.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Captivating' Heather Morris 'Beautiful' Andrew Miller 'Hugely poignant' Independent 'Moving' Sunday TimesLonglisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize \* Winner of the Bath Novel Award \* Winner of the Harpers Bazaar Big Book of the Year \* Shortlisted for the Best First Novel Award \*Of everyone in her complicated family, Eva was always closest to her grandfather. She is making a film about his life. She is with him when he dies. It is only when she finds the letter from the Jewish Museum in Berlin, hidden in his painting studio, that she realises how many secrets he kept.As she uncovers everything he endured in the Holocaust - and what it took to learn to live again - Eva is confronted by the lies that haunt her family, and a truth that changes her own identity.Kim Sherwood's hope-filled first novel is a powerful portrait of survival echoing through the generations; a testament of love, legacy, and all the important questions we leave unasked.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Shanghai's champion storyteller - He grips his reader to the end' Economist'Gripping, breakneck ultra-noir reminiscent of vintage Ellroy' David Peace, author of Red or Dead'If you love Richard Lloyd Parry and David Grann, don't miss City of Devils' Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me1930s Shanghai was a haven for outlaws from all over the world: a place where pasts could be forgotten, oppression outrun, fortunes made - and lost. This is the story of 'Lucky' Jack Riley, the Slot King of Shanghai, and 'Dapper' Joe Farren, owner of the greatest clubs and casinos. It tells of their escape from American prisons and Vienna's ghetto, their rise to power, and the trail of destruction they left in their wake. Shanghai was their playground for a flickering few years, a city where for a fleeting moment even the wildest dreams seemed possible.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A small band of heroes must thwart a genius plan five centuries in the making as Gervon Wynter's dominance spreads. Third in the series. Reminiscent of Mervyn Peake.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The instant New York Times bestseller'An unbelievable debut' New York TimesRacism, but 'managed' through virtual reality Black Friday, except you die in a bargain-crazed throng Happiness, but pharmacological Love, despite everythingA Publisher's Weekly Most Anticipated Book for Fall 2018 Friday Black tackles urgent instances of racism and cultural unrest, and explores the many ways we fight for humanity in an unforgiving world. In the first, unforgettable story of this collection, The Finkelstein Five, Adjei-Brenyah gives us an unstinting reckoning of the brutal prejudice of the US justice system. In Zimmer Land we see a far-too-easy-to-believe imagining of racism as sport. And Friday Black and How to Sell a Jacket as Told by Ice King show the horrors of consumerism and the toll it takes on us all.Fresh, exciting, vital and contemporary, Friday Black will appeal to people who love Colson Whitehead's Underground Railroad, the TV show Black Mirror, the work of Kurt Vonnegut and George Saunders, and anyone looking for stories that speak to the world we live in now.'An excitement and a wonder' George Saunders'The writing in this outstanding collection will make you hurt and demand your hope' Roxane Gay'The fiction debut of the year. Bravo young man. We await your encore' Mary Karr 194 pp. Englisch.