Random house okt 2004 (66 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - His journey through the East began in 1271when, still a teenager, he set out of Venice and found himself traversing the most exotic countries. His acceptance into the court of the great emperor Kublai Khan, and his service to the vast and dazzling Mongol empire, led him to places as far away as Tibet and Burma, lands rich with gems and gold and silk, but virtually unknown to Europeans.Later, as a prisoner of war, Marco Polo would record the details of his remarkable travels across harsh deserts, great mountain ranges, and dangerous seas, as well as of his encounters with beasts and birds, plants and people. His amazing chronicle is both fascinating and awe-inspiringand still serves as the most vivid depiction of the mysterious East in the Middle Ages.Edited and with an Introduction by Milton Rugoff and an Afterword by Howard Mittelmark. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It all started when Lauren first moved to the countryside from the city and discovered that her ordinary little pony was anything but ordinary, for when she recited a secret spell, Twilight turned into a unicorn with magical powers! From that moment on, Lauren and Twilight learned how to use magic to help their friends solve their problems. And now Lauren and Twilight are back in a magical new and exciting wintertime adventure.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the most controversial YA novels of all time, The Chocolate War is a modern masterpiece that speaks to fans of S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders and John Knowles's A Separate Peace. After suffering rejection from seven major publishers, The Chocolate War made its debut in 1974, and quickly became a bestsellingand provocativeclassic for young adults. This chilling portrait of an all-boys prep school casts an unflinching eye on the pitfalls of conformity and corruption in our most elite cultural institutions. "Masterfully structured and rich in theme; the action is well crafted, well timed, suspenseful."The New York Times Book Review "The characterizations of all the boys are superb."School Library Journal, starred review "Compellingly immediate. . . . Readers will respect the uncompromising ending."Kirkus Reviews, starred review An ALA Best Book for Young Adults A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year A Kirkus Reviews Editor's Choice A New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MONICA ALIThe love affair between Maurice Bendrix and Sarah, flourishing in the turbulent times of the London Blitz, ends when she suddenly and without explanation breaks it off. After a chance meeting rekindles his love and jealousy two years later, Bendrix hires a private detective to follow Sarah, and slowly his love for her turns into an obsession.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A gripping historical adventure from the international #1 bestselling author of the OUTLANDER series.______________The year is 1757. On a bright June day, Lord John Grey emerges from his club, his mind in turmoil. A nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majesty's Army, Grey has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: the Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms, who might well have been a traitor.Obliged to pursue two inquiries at once, Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of treachery and betrayal that touches every level of society - and threatens all he holds dear. From the bawdy-houses of London's night world to the drawing rooms of the nobility, from the blood of a murdered corpse to the thundering seas of the East India Company, Lord John follows the elusive trail of the woman in green who may hold the key to everything - or to nothing at all.The early days of the Seven Years War come brilliantly to life in this historical adventure mystery by the acclaimed author whose unique and compelling storytelling has engrossed millions of readers worldwide.______________Readers can't get enough of Lord John And The Private Matter . . .\*\*\*\*\* 'This was a fun, suspenseful, historically interesting read.'\*\*\*\*\* 'Good read for Outlander fans.'\*\*\*\*\* 'If you love Gabaldon's writing and murder mystery novels, then this is the book for you.'\*\*\*\*\* 'I was skeptical to start this series but once I started I couldn't put it down. I now have a book hangover.'\*\*\*\*\* 'Great! Funny and gripping, totally entertaining.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A gangland murder draws a seaside town into fear and faith.Seventeen-year-old Pinkie Brown is a murderer. Sharp, devout, and certain of his own righteousness, he believes he can outwit both the police and the consequences of his actions.When Ida Arnold begins questioning the circumstances of a suspicious death, she sets out to uncover the truth behind it. Meanwhile Rose, young and trusting, binds herself to Pinkie in an act of love that pulls her further into danger.Set in 1930s Brighton, this literary crime novel about a teenage gangster examines sin, faith, and moral blindness. Greene's spare prose strips violence of glamour, revealing instead the emptiness at its core.'I read Brighton Rock when I was about thirteen. One of the first lessons I took from it was that a serious novel could be an exciting novel - that the novel of adventure could also be the novel of ideas' Ian McEwan; An den äußeren Grenzen der Gesellschaft, am Rande der Großstadt, entscheidet sich das seltsame Schicksal des kleinen Ganoven Pinkie und der Kellnerin Rose. In den Kreisen dieser Menschen scheint alles, was wir als Gesetz, Recht und Tradition gesichert glauben, unbekannt. Diese Männer und Frauen führen ein vom Rest der Gesellschaft völlig abgelöstes Leben, das seine eigenen Gesetze hat. In ihrer Welt stehen die Bandenchefs gleich Fixsternen am Himmel, und alle anderen kreisen wie Trabanten auf unerklärlichen, unfaßbaren Bahnen um sie.Mit diesem Buch - erstmals 1938 erschienen - erhebt der Autor die moralische Forderung an alle, mitzuhelfen, damit die Welt nicht zu einem Inferno des Grauens, der Verzweiflung und der Maßlosigkeit wird, um schließlich daran zugrunde zu gehen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\*AS FEATURED ON BBC2'S BETWEEN THE COVERS\*\*Discover the tragic masterpiece from Booker prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling Ian McEwan.One windy spring day in the Chilterns Joe Rose's calm, organised life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon could have ended in mere tragedy, but for his brief meeting with Jed Parry. Unknown to Joe, something passes between them - something that gives birth in Parry to an obsession so powerful that it will test to the limits Joe's beloved scientific rationalism, threaten the love of his wife Clarissa and drive him to the brink of murder and madness.'A plot so engrossing that it seems reckless to pick the book up in the evening if you plan to get any sleep that night' A.S. Byatt.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Major Henry Scobie serves as a police officer in a British West African colony during the Second World War, a devout Catholic torn between duty and love.Stationed in a coastal colonial outpost in wartime West Africa, 1940s, Scobie prides himself on his incorruptibility. Yet as merchant ships crowd the harbour and the war tightens its grip on the empire, his private life begins to unravel. His wife Louise longs to escape the heat and isolation of the colony, and Scobie, desperate to ease her suffering, borrows money from a corrupt trader - a compromise that entangles him in blackmail.When he falls in love with Helen Rolt, a young widow shattered by loss at sea, Scobie finds himself divided between compassion and betrayal. Each lie told to protect one-woman wounds another; each attempt at mercy becomes a sin against his faith. His Catholic conscience offers no comfort, only a harsher reckoning.Set against the uneasy hierarchies and racial tensions of a British West African colony during the Second World War, The Heart of the Matter is mid-twentieth-century historical fiction driven by moral conflict.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, the lost boys, and Tinker Bell have filled the hearts of children ever since Barrie's play first opened in London in 1904 and became an immediate sensation. Now this funny, haunting modern myth is presented with Bedford's wonderful illustrations, which first appeared in the author's own day, have long been out of print, and have never been equaled. Bedford, F.D. (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - American agent Erin Grayson is assigned to seduce international businessman Reece Champion. But she's been set up. Reece is an agent, too--and a vampire.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the third novel of her captivating foxhunting series, Rita Mae Brown welcomes readers back for a final tour of a world where most business is conducted on horseback - and stables are de rigueur for even the smallest of estates. Here, in the wealth-studded hills of Jefferson County, Virginia, even evil rides a mount.The all-important New Year's Hunt commences amid swirling light snow. It is the last formal hunt of the season; therefore, participation is required no matter how hungover riders are from toasting the midnight before. On this momentous occasion, 'Sister' Jane Arnold, master of the foxhounds, announces her new joint master and the new president of the Jefferson Hunt. And her choices will prove to be no less than shocking.The day's festivities are quickly marred, though, by what appears on the surface to be an unrelated tragedy. Sam Lorillard, former shining star and Harvard Law School alum, lies dead of a stab wound on a baggage cart at the old train station, surrounded by the outcasts and vagabonds who composed his social circle at the end of life. No one can remember when Sam started drinking, but the downward spiral was swift - and seemingly deadly.Murder is followed by scandal when Sister Jane discovers dishonest hunting practices going on in a neighboring club. Unsure whether to turn a blind eye or report the infringement to the proper authority, Sister and her huntsman, Shaker Crown, decide to investigate a little further, with the help of their trusty hounds. But when they come a little too close to the staggering truth - and uncover an unforeseen connection to Lorillard's murder - they realize they might not survive to see the next New Year's Hunt.Intricate, witty, and full of the varied voices of creatures both great and small, Full Cry is an astute reminder that even those with the bluest of blood still bleed red.From the Hardcover edition.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A computerized horse-betting system falls into Jonathan Derry's hands--and unless he returns it to the rightful owners, the odds of his survival are slim to none.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An endlessly rich and inventive historical fiction epic from the author of Snow Crash and Cryptonomicon, set amid the political intrigue, scientific revolution and religious conflict of 17th-century Europe. As philosophers, adventurers and spies navigate a rapidly changing world, fortunes are made and empires reshaped.'Genius . You'll wish it were longer.' Time magazine'An astonishing achievement.' Sunday TelegraphWINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD---------Daniel Waterhouse, fearless thinker and conflicted Puritan, moves among the era's greatest minds, as new ideas challenge old certainties, and where the world can be changed overnight.The adventurer 'Half-Cocked Jack' escapes the streets of London and pursues fortune and infamy while the pox slowly tightens its grip.And Eliza, rescued from a Turkish harem, reinvents herself as a spy, financier and pawn of the powerful, as the age of finance is born.'Neal Stephenson rewrites history - for the dark prince of hacker fiction, looking backward is another way of seeing the future.' WiredThe first book in the Baroque Cycle.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The #1New York Times bestselling author of the Broken Road series presentsan inspiring story about a man who has to rediscover his priorities after finding money and fame. Robert Harlan has three loves in life: his wife, his daughter, and his writing. But when his thirst for success causes him to lose focus on his family life, it takes a few more missteps and finally, a stranger with a mysterious message about the brevity of his future before he discovers the truth about himself: who he has become, what he has lost, and what it will take to find love again. A Perfect Day examines love, relationships and self-awareness.This well-written story spans the range of emotions from joy to sorrow and grief. The Sunday Oklahoman.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A classic American writer in every sense, Willa Cather enjoyed both critical and commercial success in her long career, receiving the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours. Her beloved and enduring novels and stories have long been part of the canon of world literature, and the characters she created remain in the hearts and minds of her readers.Vintage Cather includes sections of the novels Death Comes for the Archbishop, O Pioneers!, One of Ours, The Professor's House and My Antonia; and a generous selection of her stories, including 'Coming Aphrodite!'Vintage Readers are a perfect introduction to some of the great modern writers, presented in attractive, affordable paperback editions.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE AGATHA AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL"Bittersweet.Set in a small-town America that lives only in memory, this artfully narrated whodunit observes the residents of an unnamed Oklahoma hamlet over the hot and dusty summer of 1944 as they ration their food, count their war dead and turn on their neighbors."TheNew York Times Book ReviewWorld-renowned journalist G.G. Gilman does her best not to think of the past. But one day she gets a lettersent from the small Oklahoma town where she grew upthat brings it all back. Memories of people she had once known and loved dearlyand of the sultry summer when her life changed forever. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Business is booming at Clare Cosi's Village Blend, until her female customers start to die. Lieutenant Quinn is convinced that someone has an axe to grind, and, unfortunately, his prime suspect is the new man in Clare's life.Now Clare will risk her heart--and her life--to follow the killer's trail to the bitter end.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this humorous collection of celebrity wit, acclaimed broadcaster and humorist Charles Osgood offers witticisms penned by luminaries ranging from Abraham Lincoln to Andy Rooney. Known for his clever commentary and witty radio-show rhymes, Charles Osgood here selects and introduces a collection of hilarious correspondence from some of our best-loved politicians, authors, and stars of the stage and screen. Funny Letters from Famous People delivers rib-tickling communications from the likes of Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Flannery O'Connor, S. J. Perelman, Groucho Marx, Bob Hope, John Cheever and dozens more.Providing an entertaining look at celebrated lives, Osgood lets us glimpse Mark Twain squabbling with the gas company, Dwight D. Eisenhower kvetching to Mamie about Patton, and radio personality Fred Allen desperately seeking logic from his insurance carrier in one of comedy's most amusing epistles.Sprinkled throughout with Osgood's own humorous quips, Funny Letters from Famous People is a delightful compendium of clever letter writing at its side-splitting best.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Clinical psychologist Alan Gregory faces disgrace and ruin when several of his attractive female clients die untimely deaths. But professional ethics prevent Gregory from revealing the 'privileged information' that will clear his name and perhaps save his life-since the killer responsible for these deaths may be one of his patients.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Australian award-winning journalist Mark Mordue invites you on his world trip that ranges from a Rolling Stones concert in Istanbul to talking with mullahs and junkies in Tehran, and from a cricket match in Calcutta to an S&M bar in New York, in addition to many points in between. Mordue chronicles his year-long global journey with his girlfriend, Lisa Nicol, exploring countries most Americans never see as well as issues of world citizenship in the 21st century. Written in the tradition of literary journalism, Dastgah will take you to all kinds of places, across the world . . . and inside yourself.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Through the ages, libraries have not only accumulated and preserved, but shaped, inspired and obliterated knowledge. Matthew Battles takes us on a fascinating journey from Boston to Baghdad, from classical scriptoria to medieval monasteries, from the Vatican to the British Library. The library has been a battleground of competing notions of what books mean to us, from the clay-tablet collections of ancient Mesopotamia to the legendary libraries of Alexandria, from the burned scrolls of the Qing Dynasty to the book-pyres of the Hitler Youth, from the Dewey Decimal System to the Internet. Battles explores how the library has served two contradictory impulses: to exalt canons of literature, to secure and celebrate the best writing; and the desire to contain all forms of human knowledge - to keep all the books. In its custody of books and the words they contain, the library has confronted and tamed technology, the forces of change and the power of princes time and again.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Returning a hero from the battlefields of World War II, Walter Selby settles into a charmed domestic life in Memphis. But in a few brief moments, Walter sees his life and his world fracture and split apart, driving him to commit a terrible crime. Many years later, Frank Cartwright ponders his next move. His film career has left him wealthy but incomplete. When a director approaches him with a script that has a riddle for a plot Frank is intrigued by its resonance. In his search for an answer to the riddle, Frank embarks on a journey that will lead him into a past he doesn't remember.Jim Lewis, acclaimed author of Why the Tree Loves the Ax, returns with a novel stunning in its originality and scope. And as he tells the stories of two men and the conflicts that shape them, he delivers a powerful portrait of America and the treacherous currents that run through it.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first of two volumes of original short novels by some of the greatest writers in fantasy fiction, including Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, Robin Hobb, Robert Silverberg, and Raymond E. FeistLegends II picks up where its illustrious predecessor left off. All of the bestselling writers represented in Legends II return to the special universe of the imagination that its author has made famous throughout the world. Whether set before or after events already recounted elsewhere, whether featuring beloved characters or compelling new creations, these masterful short novels are both mesmerizing stand-alonesperfect introductions to the work of their authorsand indispensable additions to the epics on which they are based.ROBIN HOBB returns to the Realm of the Elderlings with "Homecoming," a powerful tale in which exiles sent to colonize the Cursed Shores find themselves sinking into an intoxicating but deadly dream . . . or is it a memory ROBERT SILVERBERG spins an enthralling tale of Majipoor's early historyand remote futureas seen through the eyes of a dilettantish poet who discovers an unexpected destiny in "The Book of Changes."TAD WILLIAMS explores the strange afterlife of Orlando Gardiner, from his Otherland saga, in "The Happiest Dead Boy in the World."ANNE McCAFFREY shines a light into the most mysterious and wondrous of all places on Pern in the heartwarming "Beyond Between."RAYMOND E. FEIST turns from the great battles of the Riftwar to the story of one soldier, a young man about to embark on the ride of his life, in "The Messenger.".…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Stone Barrington tracks a mobster within the witness protection program with a little help from Florida police chief Holly Barker in this full-throttle \*thriller in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Stone Barrington is, once again, right at home in New York City. But this time he s joined by the tenacious Holly Barker the lady police chief of Orchid Island, Florida. She s come to Manhattan hot on the trail of a fugitive from her jurisdiction. And Stone is, well, glad to see her, right up until the moment when her presence creates a great danger to both of them and to their surprise, she becomes the pursued instead of the pursuer.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The gripping history of electricity and how the fateful collision of Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse left the world utterly transformed.In the final decades of the nineteenth century, three brilliant and visionary titans of America s Gilded Age Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and George Westinghouse battled bitterly as each vied to create a vast and powerful electrical empire. In Empires of Light, historian Jill Jonnes portrays this extraordinary trio and their riveting and ruthless world of cutting-edge science, invention, intrigue, money, death, and hard-eyed Wall Street millionaires. At the heart of the story are Thomas Alva Edison, the nation s most famous and folksy inventor, creator of the incandescent light bulb and mastermind of the world s first direct current electrical light networks; the Serbian wizard of invention Nikola Tesla, elegant, highly eccentric, a dreamer who revolutionized the generation and delivery of electricity; and the charismatic George Westinghouse, Pittsburgh inventor and tough corporate entrepreneur, an industrial idealist who in the era of gaslight imagined a world powered by cheap and plentiful electricity and worked heart and soul to create it. Edison struggled to introduce his radical new direct current (DC) technology into the hurly-burly of New York City as Tesla and Westinghouse challenged his dominance with their alternating current (AC), thus setting the stage for one of the eeriest feuds in American corporate history, the War of the Electric Currents. The battlegrounds: Wall Street, the 1893 Chicago World s Fair, Niagara Falls, and, finally, the death chamber Jonnes takes us on the tense walk down a prison hallway and into the sunlit room where William Kemmler, convicted ax murderer, became the first man to die in the electric chair.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A masterful (Houston Post) collection of stories from Nobel Prize winning author Alice Munro A spellbinding tour through a world of love, menace, and surprise . . . [Munro] is a writer of enormous gifts and perception. Los Angeles TimesThe sisters, mothers and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these thirteen stories, a rich exploration of womanhood (Ms.), shimmer with hope and love, anger and reconciliation, as they content with their histories and their present, and what they can see of the future.In her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique hailed by John Updike, who wrote in the New York Times Book Review that one must go back to Tolstoy and Chekhov . . . for comparable largeness.; Ausgezeichnet: Man Booker International Prize, 2009.Ausgezeichnet: Nobel Prize, 2013.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A bracing meditation on the nature of evil and a moving evocation of the human heart, Siegfried is one of Harry Mulisch's most powerful novels. After a reading of his work, renowned Dutch author Rudolf Herter, who had recently commented in a television interview that it may be only through fiction that the uniquely evil figure of Adolf Hitler can be truly comprehended, is approached by an elderly couple. The pair reveal that as domestic servants in Hitler's Bavarian retreat in the waning years of the war, they were witness to the jealously guarded birth of Siegfried--the son of Hitler and Eva Braun. For more than fifty years they have kept silent about the child they once raised as their own. Only now and only to Herter are they willing to reveal their astonishing story.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Diana Gabaldon weaves a dazzling tale of history, intrigue, and suspense in this first novel featuring one of her most popular characters from the Outlander saga: Lord John Grey. The year is 1757. On a clear morning in mid-June, Lord John Grey emerges from London's Beefsteak Club, his mind in turmoil. A nobleman and a high-ranking officer in His Majesty's army, Grey has just witnessed something shocking. But his efforts to avoid a scandal that might destroy his family are interrupted by something still more urgent: The Crown appoints him to investigate the brutal murder of a comrade-in-arms who may have been a traitor. Obliged to pursue two inquiries at once, Major Grey finds himself ensnared in a web of treachery and betrayal that touches every stratum of English societyand threatens all he holds dear.Praise for Lord John and the Private Matter"[A] thoroughly entertaining and wonderfully witty historical mystery set in the richly detailed, occasionally bawdy world of Georgian England."Booklist "Packed with vivid description and detail. Gabaldon aptly transports readers to eighteenth-century London, with all its reeking humanity and glitteringly elegant excess."BookPage.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The debut novel by the author of The Orphan Master's Son(winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize) and the story collection Fortune Smiles (winner of the 2015 National Book Award) Hailed as 'remarkable' by the New Yorker, Emporium earned Adam Johnson comparisons to Kurt Vonnegut and T.C. Boyle. In his acclaimed first novel, Parasites Like Us, Johnson takes us on an enthralling journey through memory, time, and the cost of mankind's quest for its own past.Anthropologist Hank Hannah has just illegally exhumed an ancient American burial site and winds up in jail. But the law will soon be the least of his worries. For, buried beside the bones, a timeless menace awaits that will set the modern world back twelve thousand years and send Hannah on a quest to save that which is dearest to him. A brilliantly evocative apocalyptic adventure told with Adam Johnson's distinctive dark humor, Parasites Like Us is a thrilling tale of mankind on the brink of extinction.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER?OF?THE?HUGO?AND?NEBULA?AWARDS Frederik Pohl stands shoulder to shoulder with Philip K. Dick, Larry Niven, Robert Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury as one of the brilliant vision-aries in the science fiction stratosphere. Gateway is a modern masterpiece that definesand transcendsits genre.Seeded among the stars are troves of valuable artifactsleft behind by the enigmatic, long-vanished alien racecalled the Heechee. For the right price, anyone can climb aboard one of the abandoned Heechee spaceships, castoff on an autopilot voyage to parts unknown, and takea chance on finding wealth . . . or facing death.Robinette Broadhead took that chance and walked awaya winner. But at what cost Despite living a millionaire's life of material luxury, he's haunted by crippling despairand the dark secrets buried deep in his psyche. With the help of his computerized psychiatrist, the truth about whathappened "out there" could set Broadhead free. But only after a personal journey more terrifying and, ultimately, more devastating than his last fateful trip into space.Praise for Gateway"When an author of the stature of Frederik Pohl says that . . . Gateway is the best thing he has ever written, it deserves careful attention. . . . Get this one."Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine"Ccompulsive reading."Chicago Daily News"Wonderfully satisfying."The New York Times Book Review.…