random house publishing group jul 2021 (11 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An unflinching memoir froma writer reckoning with his relationship with his troubled father and the complicated legacy that each generation hands down to the next Justin Taylor s relentless, peripatetic, and tender search for reconciliation with his late troubled father blooms into a full-throated song of joy about his own life lived through music, teaching, travel, and literature. Lauren Groff, author ofFloridaNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSWhen Justin Taylor was thirty, his father, Larry, drove to the top of the Nashville airport parking garage to take his own life. Thanks to the intervention of family members, he was not successful, but the incidentforevertransformedhow Taylor thinks of his father, and how he thinks of himself as a son.Moving back and forth in time from that day,Riding with the Ghostcaptures the past s power to shape, strengthen, and distort our visions of ourselves and one another. We see Larry as the middle child in a chilly Long Island family; as a beloved Little League coach who listens to kids with patience and curiosity; as an unemployed father struggling to keep his marriage together while battling long-term illness and depression. At the same time, Taylor explores how the work of confronting a family member s story forces a reckoning with your own. We see Taylor as a teacher, modeling himself after his dad s best qualities; as a caregiver, attempting to provide his father with emotional and financial support, but not always succeeding; as a new husband, with a dawning awareness of his owndepressive tendencies.With raw intimacy,Riding with the Ghostlays bare the joys and burdens of loving a troubled family member. It s a memoir about fathers and sons, teachers and students, faith and illness, and the pieces of our loved ones that we carry with usalways.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWEDITORS' CHOICE A blazingly original story collection about the interconnected lives of the residents of a public housing project on the South Side of Chicago"The residents and their buoyant dreams are documented, celebrated, honored. I bow to this writer in gratitude."Sandra CisnerosNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNEBefore being torn down in 2007, the Stateway Gardens public housing projects on Chicago's South Side were ridden with deprivation and crime. But for some, like Tracy, the shy, intelligent young boy at the center of this enthralling collection of linked stories, they are simply home. Set in the mid-1980s and taking readers up to the point of the destruction of the infamous Cabrini-Green housing projectsa set of buildings similar in design to Stateway Gardens to the souththis collection gives an intimate look at the hopes, dreams, failures, and fortunes of a group of people growing up with the deck always stacked against them. Through Jasmon Drain's sensitive and often playful prose, we see another side of what we have come to know as "the projects."Stateway's Gardenis a coming-of-age story told in short stories, through the lens of a childhood made rough by the crush of poverty and violence, with the crack epidemic a looming specter ahead. And yet, through the experiences and ambitions of Tracy and other young characters, Drain reveals a vibrant community that creates its own ecosystem, all set in a series of massive, seemingly soulless concrete buildings. Not shying away from the darkness of life for his characters, Drain shows the full complexity of their human experiences.Exquisitely detailed and novelistic in scope, this collection of stories will linger in your mind long after you have turned the final page.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Meet the trophy wives of Presidio Terrace, San Francisco s most exclusive and most deadly neighborhood in this shrewd, darkly compelling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of In Her Shadow.Mystery writer Brooke Davies is the new wife on the block. Her tech-billionaire husband, Jack, twenty-two years her senior, whisked her to the Bay Area via private jet and purchased a modest mansion on the same day. He demands perfection, and before now, Brooke has had no problem playing the role of a doting housewife. But as she befriends other wives on the street and spends considerable time away from Jack, he worries if he doesn t control Brooke s every move, she will reveal the truth behind their perfect marriage. Erin King, famed news anchor and chair of the community board, is no stranger to maintaining an image though being married to a plastic surgeon helps. But the skyrocketing success of her career has worn her love life thin, and her professional ambitions have pushed Mason away. Quitting her job is a Hail Mary attempt at keeping him interested, to steer him away from finding a young trophy wife. But is it enough, and is Mason truly the man she thought he was Georgia St. Claire allegedly cashed in on the deaths of her first two husbands, earning her the nickname Black Widow and the stares and whispers of her curious neighbors. Rumored to have murdered both men for their fortunes, she claims to have found true love in her third marriage, yet her mysterious, captivating allure keeps everyone guessing. Then a tragic accident forces the residents of Presidio Terrace to ask: Has Georgia struck again And what is she really capable of doing to protect her secrets.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Crossing years and continents, the harrowing story of the road to reunion for two Syrian brothers who despite a homeland at war and an ocean between them hold fast to the bonds of family.Runner-Up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Riveting . . . a resplendent love letter to an obliterated city. The New York Times TheRoadfromRaqqa had me grippedfromthe first page.I couldn t put it down. ChristyLefteri,author of The Beekeeper of Aleppo The Alkasem brothers, Riyad and Bashar, spend their childhood in Raqqa, the Syrian city that would later become the capital of ISIS. As a teenager in the 1980s, Riyad witnesses the devastating aftermath of the Hama massacre an atrocity that the Hafez al-Assad regime commits upon its people. Wanting to expand his notion of government and justice, Riyad moves to the United States to study law, but his plans are derailed and he eventually falls in love with a Southern belle. They move to a suburb of Nashville, Tennessee, where they raise two sons and where Riyad opens a restaurant Cafe Rakka cooking the food his grandmother used to make. But he finds himself confronted with the darker side of American freedoms: the hardscrabble life of a newly arrived immigrant, enduring bigotry, poverty, and loneliness. Years pass, and at the height of Syria s civil war, fearing for his family s safety halfway across the world, he risks his own life by making a dangerous trip back to Raqqa.Bashar, meanwhile, in Syria. After his older brother moves to America, Bashar embarks on a brilliant legal career under the same corrupt Assad government that Riyad despises. Reluctant to abandon his comfortable (albeit conflicted) life, he fails to perceive the threat of ISIS until it s nearly too late.The Road from Raqqa brings us into the lives of two brothers bound by their love for each other and for the war-ravaged city they call home. It s about a family caught in the middle of the most significant global events of the new millennium, America s fraught but hopeful relationship to its own immigrants, and the toll of dictatorship and war on everyday families. It s a book that captures all the desperation, tenacity, and hope that come with the revelation that we can find home in one another when the lands of our forefathers fail us.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NATIONAL BESTSELLER PEOPLE PICK OPTIONED BY SISTER PICTURES FOR TELEVISION The discovery of a girl abandoned by the side of the road threatens to unearth the long-buried secrets of a Texas town s legendary cold case in this superb, atmospheric novel from the internationally bestselling author of Black-Eyed Susans If you only read one thriller this year, let it be this one.Psychologically absorbing, original and atmospheric. I could not turn the pages fast enough. Elin Hilderbrand, #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 Summers It s been a decade since Trumanell Branson disappeared, leaving only a bloody handprint behind. Her pretty face still hangs like a watchful queen on the posters on the walls of the town s Baptist church, the police station, and in the high school. They all promise the same thing: We will find you. Meanwhile, Tru sbrother, Wyatt, lives as a pariah in the desolation of the old family house, cleared of wrongdoing by the police but tried and sentenced in the court of public opinion and in a new documentary about the crime. When Wyatt finds a lost girl dumped in a field of dandelions, making silent wishes, he believes she is a sign. The town s youngest cop, Odette Tucker, believes she is a catalyst that will ignite a seething town still waiting for its own missing girl to come home. But Odette can t look away. She shares a wound that won t close with the mute, one-eyed mystery girl. And she is haunted by her own history with the missing Tru. Desperate to solve both cases, Odette fights to save the lost girl in the present and to dig up the shocking truth about a fateful night in the past the night her friend disappeared, the night that inspired her to become a cop, the night that wrote them all a role in the town s dark, violent mythology. In this twisty psychological thriller, Julia Heaberlin paints unforgettable portraits of a woman and a girl who redefine perceptions of physical beauty and strength.Praise for We Are All the Same in the Dark This chilling tale of buried sins is relentlessly unpredictable. The Times (South Africa) [Julia] Heaberlin knows how to build to a truly shocking twist, how to break a reader s heart and then begin mending it. What s coming is always unimaginable, Odette s one-time therapist tells her, and by that, I mean just that. It cannot be imagined. What s coming never acts or behaves the way we think it will. That s true for this novel, too. The Dallas Morning News.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What if you found out that your family isn t yours at all How far would you go to protect them A gripping new psychological thriller from the bestselling author ofThe Girl Before. . . . [JP] Delaney takes domestic suspense beyond its comfort zone. Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book ReviewPete Riley answers the door one morning and lets in a parent s worst nightmare. On his doorstep is Miles Lambert, a stranger who breaks the devastating news that Pete s son, Theo, isn t actually his son he is the Lamberts , switched at birth by an understaffed hospital while their real son was sent home with Miles and his wife, Lucy. For Pete, his partner Maddie, and the little boy they ve been raising for the past two years, life will never be the same again. The two families, reeling from the shock, take comfort in shared good intentions, eagerly entwining their very different lives in the hope of becoming one unconventional modern family. But a plan to sue the hospital triggers an official investigation that unearths some disturbing questions about the night their children were switched. How much can they trust the other parents or even each other What secrets are hidden behind the Lamberts glossy front door Stretched to the breaking point, Pete and Maddie discover they will each stop at nothing to keep their family safe. They are done playing nice.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An editor at This American Life reveals the searing story of the secret binge-eating that dominated her adolescence and shapes her still. Her tale of compulsion and healing is candid and powerful. PeopleNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MARIE CLAIREFor almost thirty years, Susan Burton hid her obsession with food and the secret life of compulsive eating and starving that dominated her adolescence. This is the relentlessly honest, fiercely intelligent story of living with both anorexia and binge-eating disorder, moving past her shame, and learning to tell her secret. When Burton was thirteen, her stable life in suburban Michigan was turned upside down by her parents abrupt divorce, and she moved to Colorado with her mother and sister. She seized on this move west as an adventure and an opportunity to reinvent herself from middle-school nerd to popular teenage girl. But in the fallout from her parents breakup, an inherited fixation on thinness went from peculiarity to pathology. Susan entered into a painful cycle of anorexia and binge eating that formed a subterranean layer to her sunny life. She went from success to success she went to Yale, scored a dream job at a magazine right out of college, and married her college boyfriend. But in college the compulsive eating got worse she d binge, swear it would be the last time, and then, hours later, do it again and after she graduated she descended into anorexia, her attempt to quit food. Binge eating is more prevalent than anorexia or bulimia, but there is less research and little storytelling to help us understand it. In tart, soulful prose Susan Burton strikes a blow for the importance of this kind of narrative and tells an exhilarating story of longing, compulsion and hard-earned self-revelation.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A stirring, intimate reflection on the nature of race and American nationhood that has inspired generations of writers and thinkers, first published in 1963, the same year as the March on Washington The finest essay I ve ever read. Ta-Nehisi Coates, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award winner Between the World and MeWith clarity, conviction, and passion, James Baldwin delivers a dire warning of the effects of racism that remains urgent nearly sixty years after its original publication.In the first of two essays, My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation, Baldwin offers kind and unflinching counsel on what it means to be Black in the United States and explains the twisted logic of American racism.In Down at the Cross: Letter from a Region in My Mind, Baldwin recounts his spiritual journey into the church after a religious crisis at the age of fourteen, and then back out of it again, as well as his meeting with Elijah Muhammad, the leader of the Nation of Islam. Throughout, Baldwin urges us to confront the oppressive institutions of race, religion, and nationhood itself, and insists that shared resilience among both Black and white people is the only way forward. As much as it is a reckoning with America s racist past, The Fire Next Time is also a clarion call to care, courage, and love, and a candle to light the way.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The bold and boundlessly original debut novel from the Oscar®-winning screenwriter of Being John Malkovich, Adaptation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Synecdoche, New York.LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE Adyspeptic satire that owes much to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon . . .propelled by Kaufman s deep imagination, considerable writing ability and bull s-eye wit.' The Washington Post An astonishing creation . . . riotously funny . . .an exceptionally good [book]. The New York Times Book Review Kaufman is a master of language . . .a sight to behold. NPRNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND MEN S HEALTH B. Rosenberger Rosenberg, neurotic and underappreciated film critic (failed academic, filmmaker, paramour, shoe salesman who sleeps in a sock drawer), stumbles upon a hitherto unseen film made by an enigmatic outsider a film he s convinced will change his career trajectory and rock the world of cinema to its core. His hands on what is possibly the greatest movie ever made a three-month-long stop-motion masterpiece that took its reclusive auteur ninety years to complete B. knows that it is his mission to show it to the rest of humanity. The only problem: The film is destroyed, leaving him the sole witness to its inadvertently ephemeral genius. All that s left of this work of art is a single frame from which B. must somehow attempt to recall the film that just might be the last great hope of civilization. Thus begins a mind-boggling journey through the hilarious nightmarescape of a psyche as lushly Kafkaesque as it is atrophied by the relentless spew of Twitter. Desperate to impose order on an increasingly nonsensical existence, trapped in a self-imposed prison of aspirational victimhood and degeneratively inclusive language,B. scrambles to re-create the lost masterwork while attempting to keep pace with an ever-fracturing culture of likes and arbitrary denunciations that are simultaneously his bête noire and his raison d être. A searing indictment of the modern world, Antkind is a richly layered meditation on art, time, memory, identity, comedy, and the very nature of existence itself the grain of truth at the heart of every joke.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our uniquefriendliness Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time. Cass R. Sunstein, author ofHow Change Happensand co-author ofNudge For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened Since Charles Darwin wrote about evolutionary fitness, the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the self-domestication theory, Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive. But this gift for friendliness came at a cost. Just as a mother bear is most dangerous around her cubs, we are at our most dangerous when someone we love is threatened by an outsider. The threatening outsider is demoted to sub-human, fair game for our worst instincts. Hare s groundbreaking research, developed in close coordination with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution, reveals that the same traits that make us the most tolerant species on the planet also make us the cruelest. Survival of the Friendliest offers us a new way to look at our cultural as well as cognitive evolution and sends a clear message: In order to survive and even to flourish, we need to expand our definition of who belongs.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A pioneering marine biologist takes us down into the deep ocean to understand bioluminescence the language of light that helps life communicate in the darkness and what it tells us about the future of life on Earth in this thrilling blend of hard science and high adventure (The New York Times Book Review).NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BOOKLIST Edith Widder s story is one of hardscrabble optimism, two-fisted exploration, and groundbreaking research. She s done things I dream of doing. James CameronEdith Widder s childhood dream of becoming a marine biologist was almost derailed in college, when complications from a surgery gone wrong caused temporary blindness. A new reality of shifting shadows drew her fascination to the power of light as well as the importance of optimism.As her vision cleared, Widder found the intersection of her two passions in oceanic bioluminescence, a little-explored scientific field within Earth s last great unknown frontier: the deep ocean. With little promise of funding or employment, she leaped at the first opportunity to train as a submersible pilot and dove into the darkness.Widder s first journey into the deep ocean, in a diving suit that resembled a suit of armor, took her to a depth of eight hundred feet. She turned off the lights and witnessed breathtaking underwater fireworks: explosions of bioluminescent activity. Concerns about her future career vanished. She only wanted to know one thing: Why was there so much light down there Below the Edge of Darkness takes readers deep into our planet s oceans as Widder pursues her questions about one of the most important and widely used forms of communication in nature. In the process, she reveals hidden worlds and a dazzling menagerie of behaviors and animals, from microbes to leviathans, many never before seen or, like the legendary giant squid, never before filmed in their deep-sea lairs. Alongside Widder, we experience life-and-death equipment malfunctions and witness breakthroughs in technology and understanding, all set against a growing awareness of the deteriorating health of our largest and least understood ecosystem.A thrilling adventure story as well as a scientific revelation, Below the Edge of Darkness reckons with the complicated and sometimes dangerous realities of exploration. Widder shows us how when we push our boundaries and expand our worlds, discovery and wonder follow. These are the ultimate keys to the ocean s salvation and thus to our future on this planet.