random house publishing group mär 2021 (18 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Talib, Binny (illustrator). Neuware - Peek behind the curtain and find the Ballet Bunnies in this new full-color chapter book series featuring the most darling dancers you will ever meet!Miss Luisa's School of Dance is a magical place. There are dancers and music. . . and bunnies that talk and do ballet! No one knows the bunnies are there. Then, Millie arrives. She's new to ballet class and doesn't know all the moves. But when all the other dancers are gone, she discovers the Ballet Bunnies! They can help Millie find her dancing feet--so long as she can keep the Ballet Bunnies a secret!Don't miss the next act! Ballet Bunnies #2: Let's Dance.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Mills, Grace (illustrator). Neuware - Rocket, the star of Tad Hills's New York Times-bestselling picture books, meets some new puppy friends in this brand-new, original board book!Don t miss the animated movie based on the bestselling Rocket books--now airing on PBS!Rocket and his friends, Bella and Owl, go to the farm and meet five puppies. Clover is brown, Snowball is white with a pink nose, Winnie is black, Marigold is golden, and Razzy, the smallest, has gray spots.The puppies show Rocket and his friends around the farm and introduce them to various animals, such as a cow, a pig and some chickens. Once they're done meeting the chickens, Rocket notices that Razzy isn't with them. Where can he be The friends retrace their steps and ask the various animals if they've seen Razzy, but none of them have. Rocket and his friends finally find the missing puppy, curled in a ball, sound asleep on a bale of hay.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and aGrantaBest Young American NovelistCharlotte Perkins Gilman was a writer, editor, and journalist whose poems, articles, short stories, and novels had a single focus: equality for women. Although best known for The Yellow Wall-Paper, her spine-chilling takedown of the rest cure prescribed for postpartum depression, Gilman spent her life advocating for a woman s right to an education, to creative self-expression and economic self-sufficiency, and an end to the consumerism that blinded women to the ways that society held them back.This collection brings together Gilman s best-known work with her lesser-known satirical short stories to provide an overarching introduction to this relentless ideologue.The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why did the founder of a glamorous coworking space for women disappear Her best friends will risk everything to uncover the truth in this propulsive thriller (Marie Claire) from the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese s Book Club pick We Were Never Here. Perfect for fans of Big Little Lies. The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Real Simple Marie Claire Good Housekeeping CrimeReadsAs CEO of the Herd, an elite women-only coworking space, Eleanor Walsh seems to have it all: close friends, a sweet husband, and the most glamorous and successful female-empowerment-based company in New York City. Then she vanishes on the night of a glitzy press conference and the police suspect foul play.For Hana, the head of PR for the Herd and Eleanor s best friend, this is a nightmare. For Hana s sister, Katie, a journalist,this is the story that will make her career. But when the sisters launch their own investigation and begin to learn what Eleanor was hiding, they must also face the secrets they ve been keeping from each other and confront just how dangerous it can be when women s perfect veneers start to crack.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When a reporter for The New York Times uproots her family to move to West Africa, she manages her new role as breadwinner while finding women cleverly navigating extraordinary circumstances in a forgotten place for much of the Western world. "A story you will not soon forget."Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Awardwinning director ofThe Hurt LockerandZero Dark Thirty In 2015, Dionne Searcey was covering the economy for The New York Times, living in Brooklyn with her husband and three young children. Saddled with the demands of a dual-career household and motherhood in an urban setting, her life was in a rut. She decided to pursue a job as the paper's West Africa bureau chief, an amazing but daunting opportunity to cover a swath of territory encompassing two dozen countries and 500 million people. Landing with her family in Dakar, Senegal, she quickly found their lives turned upside down as they struggled to figure out their place in this new region, along with a new family dynamic where she was the main breadwinner flying off to work while her husband stayed behind to manage the home front. In Pursuit of Disobedient Women follows Searcey's sometimes harrowing, sometimes rollicking experiences of her work in the field, the most powerful of which, for her, center on the extraordinary lives and struggles of the women she encounters. As she tries to get an American audience subsumed by the age of Trump and inspired by a feminist revival to pay attention, she is gone from her family for sometimes weeks at a time, covering stories like Boko Haramconscripted teen-girl suicide bombers or young women in small villages shaking up social norms by getting out of bad marriages. Ultimately, Searcey returns home to reconcile with skinned knees and school plays that happen without her and a begrudging husband thrown into the role of primary parent. Life, for Searcey, as with most of us, is a balancing act. She weaves a tapestry of women living at the crossroads of old-fashioned patriarchy and an increasingly globalized and connected world. The result is a deeply personal and highly compelling look into a modern-day marriage and a world most of us have barely considered. Readers will find Searcey's struggles, both with her family and those of the women she meets along the way, familiar and relatable in this smart and moving memoir.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The two-time Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter behind the groundbreaking albumExile in Guyvilletraces her life and career in a genre-bendingmemoir in stories about the pivotal moments that haunt her. Honest, original and absolutely remarkable. NPR (Best Books of the Year)When Liz Phair shook things up with her musical debut,Exile in Guyville making her as much a cultural figure as a feminist pioneer and rock star her raw candor, uncompromising authenticity, and deft storytelling inspired a legion of critics, songwriters, musicians, and fans alike. Now, like a Gen X Patti Smith, Liz Phair reflects on the path she has taken in these piercing essays that reveal the indelible memories that have stayed with her.For Phair, horror is in the eye of the beholder in the often unrecognized universal experiences of daily pain, guilt, and fear that make up our humanity. Illuminating despair with hope and consolation, tempering it all with her signature wit,Horror Storiesis immersive, taking readers inside the most intimate junctures of Phair s life, from facing her own bad behavior and the repercussions of betraying her fundamental values, to watching her beloved grandmother inevitably fade, to undergoing the beauty of childbirth while being hit up for an autograph by the anesthesiologist.Horror Storiesis a literary accomplishment that reads like the confessions of a friend. It gathers up all of our isolated shames and draws them out into the light, uniting us in our shared imperfection, our uncertainty and our cowardice, smashing the stigma of not being in control. But most importantly, the uncompromising precision and candor ofHorror Storiestransforms these deeply personal experiences into tales about each and every one of us.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Where is Jesus when we need him most An influential pastor shares how despair can lead us to discover true hope and a deeper relationship with God, helping us emerge stronger and more joyful from times of crisis. None of us live free of difficulties or hardships. But how can we learn to live richly in the midst of them And even grow spiritually because of them The answer is found in the hopeful humanity of Jesus. As the Son of God, Jesus wasn't exempt from suffering, disappointment, or injustice. He lived in the real world as a real person. He wept for those he loved. He felt hunger and thirst. He endured temptation, betrayal, and ridicule. He died after being unjustly tortured. And somehow through it all, he embodied hope-by defeating death and opening a new world of life for us. In Echoing Hope, influential pastor and blogger Kurt Willems reveals how understanding the humanity of Jesus can radically transform our identity and empower us to step into our pain-filled world in a new way. Combining rich theological insight with personal stories and practices for response, he shows how we can overcome despair and encounter the beautiful potential of our lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER ONE OF TIME S 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE A ruthlessly honest, emotionally charged, and utterly original exploration of Asian American consciousness Brilliant . . . To read this book is to become more human. Claudia Rankine, author of CitizenIn development as a television series starring and adapted by Greta Lee One of Time s 10 Best Nonfiction Books of the Year Named One of the Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, New Statesman, BuzzFeed, Esquire, The New York Public Library, and Book Riot Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world. Binding these essays together is Hong s theory of minor feelings. As the daughter of Korean immigrants, Cathy Park Hong grew up steeped in shame, suspicion, and melancholy. She would later understand that these minor feelings occur when American optimism contradicts your own reality when you believe the lies you re told about your own racial identity. Minor feelings are not small, they re dissonant and in their tension Hong finds the key to the questions that haunt her. With sly humor and a poet s searching mind, Hong uses her own story as a portal into a deeper examination of racial consciousness in America today. This intimate and devastating book traces her relationship to the English language, to shame and depression, to poetry and female friendship. A radically honest work of art, Minor Feelings forms a portrait of one Asian American psyche and of a writer s search to both uncover and speak the truth.Praise for Minor Feelings Hong begins her new book of essays with a bang. . . .The essays wander a variegated terrain of memoir, criticism and polemic, oscillating between smooth proclamations of certainty and twitches of self-doubt. . . . Minor Feelings is studded with moments [of] candor and dark humor shot through with glittering self-awareness. The New York Times Hong uses her own experiences as a jumping off point to examine race and emotion in the United States. Newsweek Powerful . . . [Hong] brings together memoiristic personal essay and reflection, historical accounts and modern reporting, and other works of art and writing, in order to amplify a multitude of voices and capture Asian America as a collection of contradictions. She does so with sharp wit and radical transparency. Salon.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exquisite (The New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice) and wonderfully Parisian (Leila Slimani, author of The Perfect Nanny) debut novel of intrigue and deception. Betrayal and desire fuel the story of Margot, the secret daughter of a twenty-year affair between a French politician and a famous actress. . . . A startling, affecting first book by an author who is confident in her craft. The New York Times Margot Louve has lived her whole life as a secret. The hidden daughter of a long-standing affair, she exists with her mother in the shadows, living in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank.It is a house of cards that Margot fueled by a longing to be seen and heard decides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday, she meets a well-regarded journalist who will set her plan in motion.But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, she learns how one impulsive decision can shatter the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined. Incisively exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affair is a simmering exploration of desire, transgression, and the dangers of speaking the truth.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Reese s Book Club PickOne Day in December. . . I readThe Two Lives of Lydia Birdin a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us. Jodi PicoultWritten with Josie Silver s trademark warmth and wit,The Two Lives of Lydia Birdis a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life s crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them.Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They d been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On Lydia s twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident.So now it s just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life and perhaps even love again.But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened.Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there s an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there s someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine. A four-star general s five-star memoir. The Wall Street Journal Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis s storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic dilemmas and short-sighted thinking now facing our nation. He makes it clear why America must return to a strategic footing so as not to continue winning battles but fighting inconclusive wars. Mattis divides his book into three parts: Direct Leadership, Executive Leadership, and Strategic Leadership. In the first part, Mattis recalls his early experiences leading Marines into battle, when he knew his troops as well as his own brothers. In the second part, he explores what it means to command thousands of troops and how to adapt your leadership style to ensure your intent is understood by your most junior troops so that they can own their mission. In the third part, Mattis describes the challenges and techniques of leadership at the strategic level, where military leaders reconcile war s grim realities with political leaders human aspirations, where complexity reigns and the consequences of imprudence are severe, even catastrophic. Call Sign Chaos is a memoir of a life of warfighting and lifelong learning, following along as Mattis rises from Marine recruit to four-star general. It is a journey about learning to lead and a story about how he, through constant study and action, developed a unique leadership philosophy, one relevant to us all.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The true story of the intimate relationship that gave birth to the Farnsworth House, a masterpiece of twentieth-century architecture and disintegrated into a bitter feud over love, money, gender, and the very nature of art. An intimate portrait . . . alive with architectural intrigue. Architect Magazine In 1945, Edith Farnsworth asked the German architect Mies van der Rohe, already renowned for his avant-garde buildings, to design a weekend home for her outside of Chicago. Edith was a woman ahead of her time unmarried, she was a distinguished medical researcher, as well as an accomplished violinist, translator, and poet. The two quickly began spending weekends together, talking philosophy, Catholic mysticism, and, of course, architecture over wine-soaked picnic lunches. Their personal and professional collaboration would produce the Farnsworth House, one of the most important works of architecture of all time, a blindingly original structure made up almost entirely of glass and steel.But the minimalist marvel, built in 1951, was plagued by cost overruns and a sudden chilling of the two friends mutual affection. Though the building became world famous, Edith found it impossible to live in, because of its constant leaks, flooding, and complete lack of privacy. Alienated and aggrieved, she lent her name to a public campaign against Mies, cheered on by Frank Lloyd Wright. Mies, in turn, sued her for unpaid monies. The ensuing lengthy trial heard evidence of purported incompetence by an acclaimed architect, and allegations of psychological cruelty and emotional trauma. A commercial dispute litigated in a rural Illinois courthouse became a trial of modernist art and architecture itself.Interweaving personal drama and cultural history, Alex Beam presents a stylish, enthralling narrative tapestry, illuminating the fascinating history behind one of the twentieth century s most beautiful and significant architectural projects.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Mathieu, Joe (illustrator). Neuware - Who better than Elmo and his Sesame Street friends to teach us that though we may all look different on the outside-deep down, we are all very much alike Elmo and his Sesame Street friends help teach toddlers and the adults in their lives that everyone is the same on the inside, and it's our differences that make this wonderful world, which is home to us all, an interesting-and special-place. This enduring, colorful, and charmingly illustrated book offers an easy, enjoyable way to learn about differences-and what truly matters. We're Different, We're the Same is an engaging read for toddlers and adults alike that reinforces how we all have the same needs, desires, and feelings.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Garrity-Riley, Kelsey (illustrator). Neuware - Actress, singer, and mother Hilary Duff offers a beautiful and inspiring picture book about bravery and love. The world is big, my little brave girl. It's all here for you. A poetic text encourages girls to reach higher, dream bigger, and approach the world with their hearts wide open. This love letter to little girls was inspired by Hilary Duff's own experience as a mother as she considered all the ways her daughter had to be brave even as an infant. With lush illustrations and an empowering message, My Little Brave Girl is the perfect gift for baby showers, birthdays, Mother's Day, graduation, and any time a girl-or woman-is embarking on a new chapter of her life!

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Fromtheveteran political journalist and60 Minutescorrespondent,a deep diveintothehistory, evolution, and current state oftheAmerican presidency, and how we can make the job less impossible and more productivefeaturing a new post-2020election epilogue"This is a great gift to our sense ofthe actual presidency, a primer on leadership."Ken BurnsImagine you have just been elected president. You are now commander-in-chief, chief executive, chief diplomat, chief legislator, chief of party, chief voice of the people, first responder, chief priest, and world leader. You're expected to fulfill your campaign promises, but you're also expected to solve the urgent crises of the day. What's on your to-do list Where would you even start What shocks aren't you thinking about The American presidency is in trouble. It has become overburdened, misunderstood, almost impossible to do. "The problems in the job unfolded before Donald Trump was elected, and the challenges of governing today will confront his successors," writes John Dickerson. After all, the founders never intended for our system of checks and balances to have one superior Chief Magistrate, with Congress demoted to "the little brother who can't keep up." In this eye-opening book, John Dickerson writes about presidents in history such a Washington, Lincoln, FDR, and Eisenhower, and and in contemporary times, from LBJ and Reagan and Bush, Obama, and Trump, to show how a complex job has been done, and why we need to reevaluate how we view the presidency, how we choose our presidents, and what we expect from them once they are in office. Think of the presidential campaign as a job interview. Are we asking the right questions Are we looking for good campaigners, or good presidents Once a candidate gets the job, what can they do to thrive Drawing on research and interviews with current and former White House staffers, Dickerson defines what the job of president actually entails, identifies the things that only the president can do, and analyzes how presidents in history have managed the burden. What qualities make for a good president Who did it well Why did Bill Clinton call the White House "the crown jewel in the American penal system" The presidency is a job of surprises with high stakes, requiring vision, management skill, and an even temperament. Ultimately, in order to evaluate candidates properly for the job, we need to adjust our expectations, and be more realistic about the goals, the requirements, and the limitations of the office. As Dickerson writes, "Americans need their president to succeed, but the presidency is set up for failure. It doesn't have to be.".

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A sweeping, genre-bending masterpiece (Minneapolis Star Tribune) exploring Black art, music, and culture in all their glory and complexity from Soul Train, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Whitney Houston, and Beyoncé ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas Morning News, Publishers Weekly Gorgeous essays that reveal the resilience, heartbreak, and joy within Black performance. Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century An Oprah Daily Best Nonfiction Book of the Past Two Decades I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. Inspired by these few words, spoken by Josephine Baker at the 1963 March on Washington, MacArthur Genius Grant Fellow and bestselling author Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture. Each moment in every performance he examines whether it s the twenty-seven seconds in Gimme Shelter in which Merry Clayton wails the words rape, murder, a schoolyard fistfight, a dance marathon, or the instant in a game of spades right after the cards are dealt has layers of resonance in Black and white cultures, the politics of American empire, and Abdurraqib s own personal history of love, grief, and performance.Touching on Michael Jackson, Patti LaBelle, Billy Dee Williams, the Wu-Tan Clan, Dave Chappelle, and more, Abdurraqib writes prose brimming with jubilation and pain. With care and generosity, he explains the poignancy of performances big and small, each one feeling intensely familiar and vital, both timeless and desperately urgent. Filled with sharp insight, humor, and heart, A Little Devil in America exalts the Black performance that unfolds in specific moments in time and space from midcentury Paris to the moon, and back down again to a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. WINNER OF THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AND THE GORDON BURN PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Time, The Boston Globe, NPR, Rolling Stone, Esquire, BuzzFeed, Thrillist, She Reads, BookRiot, BookPage, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, LitHub, Library Journal, Booklist.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A former priest and National Book Award-winning writer examines his crisis of faith and his journey to renewal in this beautifully written memoir that also traces the roots of the Catholic sex abuse scandal back to the history and power structure of the church itself.James Carroll weaves together the story of his quest to understand his personal beliefs and his relationship to the Catholic church with the history of the church itself. From his first awakening of faith as a boy to his gradual restlessness and disillusionment as a Catholic, Carroll offers a razor-sharp examination both of himself and also of how the church became an institution that places power and dominance over people through an all-male clergy.Carroll argues that a male-supremacist clericalism is both the root cause and the ongoing enabler of the sex abuse crisis that poses an existential threat to the church, compromising the ability even of a good pope like Pope Francis to advance change in an institution accountable only to itself. Carroll traces this dilemma back to the Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, when Scripture, Jesus Christ, and his teachings were reinterpreted as the church became an Empire. In a deeply personal re-examination of self, Carroll grapples with his own feelings of being chosen, his experiences as a priest, and the moments of doubt that made him lose faith in the church, leave the priesthood, become an op-ed columnist at The Boston Globe writing about sexual abuse in the church, and embark on a personal journey toward renewal.Ultimately, Carroll calls on the church and all reform-minded Catholics to renew the culture from within by embracing anti-clerical, anti-misogynist resistance and staying grounded in the spirit of love that is the essential truth at the heart of Christian belief and the Christian life.