random house publishing group mär 2023 (13 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Twelve-year-old Pacey travels through Rundalyn to rescue her little sister, Mina, who was taken there by Slasher, her unicorn-turned-plush toy, who hopes to regain his rightful form and place in society.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Calling all unicorn lovers! Pacey and Slasher (the world's grumpiest unicorn) are flying high with dragons in this graphic novel series with plenty of attitude, humor, and heart! Perfect for anyone who lovesor hatesunicorns!The battle begins for Rundalyn, the land of unicorns! To protect everyone, Pacey and Slasher MUST collect the pieces of the magic horn before the evil Alpha Unicorn does. Piece of cake, right And everything goes to plan . . . until Pacey's sister, Mina, gets taken by a DRAGONhold on, there are dragons in Rundalyn ! Pacey isn't afraid of some dragons . . . but she IS afraid of some heights. (Hey, it's scary being up high!) With flying dragons taking little sisters, how are Pacey and Slasher going to save Mina And with the Alpha Unicorn on their tail, can they still get the magic horn first Find out in the fourth adventure of the Pacey Packer, Unicorn Tracker series! Bonus: Includes instructions for how to draw a dragon!

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Ruiz, Aristides (illustrator). Neuware - Join the Lorax Dr. Seuss's beloved icon of environmentalism as he introduces readers to nine endangered sea creatures and empowers children with simple actions they can take to help protect and save them!I am the Lorax.Let s go to the sea!I invite you to comeon a journey with me.This rhymed easy-reader narrated by the Lorax explains the threats faced by nine amazing sea creatures, along with the actions people can take to help them survive. Young children will learn how life in the ocean affects us on land (by cleaning the air we breathe and providing food to eat), and how humans including kids can make simple changes that will help these amazing species to survive!Illustrated with bright, cheerful art and full-color photographs, What Humming-Fish Wish includes suggestions on reducing plastic waste and energy use, conserving water, and tips for organizing a beach cleanup. It's a perfect choice to nurture a love and respect for the natural world as well as a love of reading!Also available:Hug a Bug: How YOU Can Help Protect Insects.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A vital collection of essays on the power of literature and the craft of writing from an international array of writers of color, sharing the experiences, cultural traditions, and convictions that have shaped them and their work.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Two destined rivals fall desperately in love-but the fate of medieval Europe hangs in the balance. 'A pair of thrones between us, and my heart clutched like a rosary within his hands.' Twelfth-century Europe. Newly-crowned King Philip of France is determined to restore his nation to its former empire and bring glory to his name. But when his greatest enemy, King Henry of England, threatens to end his reign before it can even begin, Philip is forced to make a precarious alliance with Henry's volatile son--risking both his throne, and his heart. Richard, Duke of Aquitaine, never thought he would be King. But when an unexpected tragedy makes him heir to England, he finally has an opportunity to overthrow the father he despises. At first, Philip is a useful tool in his quest for vengeance.until passion and politics collide, and Richard begins to question whether the crown is worth the cost. When Philip and Richard find themselves staring down an impending war, they must choose between their desire for one another and their grand ambitions. Will their love prevail, if it calls to them from across the battlefield Teeming with royal intrigue and betrayal, this epic romance reimagines two real-life kings ensnared by an impossible choice: Follow their hearts, or earn their place in history'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory, and given who lives inside this house now, she knows it won't be the last. When her aunt opens the door, Joan sees the cousin who once brutally assaulted her. Over the next few years, she is determined not just to survive, but to find something to dream for. Longing to become an artist, she pours her rage and grief into sketching portraits of the women in her life--including old Miss Dawn from down the street, who seems to know something about curses'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A dedicated CIA agent becomes an unexpected ally to a woman haunted by the kidnapping of her family, in this thrilling novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel.Theodora Morgan is fashion royalty. Founder of a wildly popular online shopping service, she is one of the most successful businesswomen in the world, although she prefers to keep a low profile, especially over the last months.It was a year ago when the unthinkable struck her family, and her husband, industry mogul Matthieu Pasquier, and their son were kidnapped and held for ransoma nightmare thatended in tragedy.The case has gone cold,despiteevidence linking the crime to Matthieu's Russian competitors.Theo has reluctantly gone back to work running her company. On the flight to a launch party for one of herhighly anticipated pop-up shopsin New York City, she crosses paths with high-society networker Pierre de Vaumont. Theo politely invites him to her eventunaware that Pierre has been flagged by the CIA.Senior supervising CIA operative Mike Andrews investigates Pierre's suspicious Russian contacts and clears him to enter the country, but when he realizes thatTheodora Morgan is on the same flight, he becomes concerned for her safety.Posing as a lawyer, Mike begins a covert missionstarting with Theo's opening party. When Mike and Theo meet, theirconnection is instant, but Theo is completely unaware of Mike's true objective or identity? or that the life she is rebuilding is in grave danger.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Ruiz, Aristides (illustrator). Neuware - 'The Dr. Seuss character the Lorax narrates this rhymed non-fiction book about nine different endangered sea creatures and the how people can help them survive'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A beautifully written, witty memoir that is also an immersive exploration of classical musicits power, its meanings, and what it can teach us about ourselvesfrom the MacArthur "Genius" Grantwinning pianistLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL "Jeremy Denk has written a love letter to the music, and especially to the music teachers, in his life."Conrad Tao, pianist and composerONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New YorkerIn Every Good Boy Does Fine, renowned pianist Jeremy Denk traces an implausible journey. His life is already a little tough as a precocious, temperamental six-year-old piano prodigy in New Jersey, and then a family meltdown forces a move to New Mexico. There, Denk must please a new taskmaster, an embittered but devoted professor, while navigating junior high school. At sixteen he escapes to college in Ohio, only to encounter a bewildering new cast of music teachers, both kind and cruel. After many humiliations and a few triumphs, he ultimately finds his way as a world-touring pianist, a MacArthur "Genius," and a frequent performer at Carnegie Hall. Many classical music memoirs focus on famous musicians and professional accomplishments, but this book focuses on the everyday: neighborhood teacher, high school orchestra, local conductor. There are few writers capable of so deeply illuminating the trials of artistic practicehours of daily repetition, mystifying advice, pressure from parents and teachers. But under all this struggle is a love letter to the act of teaching. In lively, endlessly imaginative prose, Denk dives deeply into the pieces and composers that have shaped himBach, Mozart, and Brahms, among othersand offers lessons on melody, harmony, and rhythm. How do melodies work Why is harmony such a mystery to most people Why are teachers so obsessed with the metronome In Every Good Boy Does Fine, Denk shares the most meaningful lessons of his life, and tries to repay a debt to his teachers. He also reminds us that we must never stop asking questions about music and its purposes: consolation, an armor against disillusionment, pure pleasure, a diversion, a refuge, and a vehicle for empathy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WINNER OF THE MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE A prize-winning historian's "effervescent" (The New Yorker) account ofa close-knit band of wildly famous American reporters who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalism"High-speed, four-lane storytelling . . . Cohen's all-action narrative bursts with colour and incident."Financial Times NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITH BOOK PRIZE AND THE RALPH WALDO EMERSON AWARD FINALIST FOR THE PROSE AWARDONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, NPR, BookPage, BooklistThey were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendor of a first-class sleeper car. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers, and Balkan gun-runners, and then knocked back doubles late into the night. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. R. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson.In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between.Plunged into successive global crises, Gunther, Knickerbocker, Sheean, and Thompson could no longer separate themselves from the turmoil that surrounded them. To tell that story, they broke long-standing taboos. From their circle came not just the first modern account of illness in Gunther's Death Be Not Prouda memoir about his son's death from cancerbut the first no-holds-barred chronicle of a marriage: Sheean's Dorothy and Red, about Thompson's fractious relationship with Sinclair Lewis. Told with the immediacy of a conversation overheard, this revelatory book captures how the global upheavals of the twentieth century felt up close.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The literary tradition of the fairy tale has long endured as the vehicle by which we interrogate the laws of reality. These fantastical stories, populated with wolves, kings, and wicked witches, have throughout history served as a template for understanding culture, society, and that muddy terrain we call our collective human psyche. In Happily, Sabrina Orah Mark reimagines the modern fairy tale, turning it inside out and searching it for the wisdom to better understand our contemporary moment in what Mark so incisively calls 'this strange American weather.' Set against the backdrop of political upheaval, viral plague, social protest, and climate change, Mark locates the magic in the mundane and illuminates the surreality of life as we know it today. In 'Sorry Peter Pan, We're Over You', Mark grapples with a loss of innocence when her son decides he would rather dress up as Martin Luther King, Jr., than Peter Pan for Halloween; in 'The Evil Stepmother' Mark finds unlikely communion with wicked wives and examines the roots of their bad reputation; and in 'Rapunzel, Draft One Thousand, ' the hunt for a wig maker in a time of unprecedented civil unrest forces Mark to finally confront her sister's cancer diagnosis and the stories we tell ourselves to get by'.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'William Waters grew up in a house silenced by tragedy, where his parents could hardly bear to look at him, much less love him. So it's a relief when his skill on the basketball court earns him a scholarship to college, far away from his childhood home. He soon meets Julia Padavano, a spirited and ambitious young woman who surprises William with her appreciation of his quiet steadiness. With Julia comes her family; she is inseparable from her three younger sisters: Sylvie, the dreamer, is happiest with her nose in a book and imagines a future different from the expected path of wife and mother; Cecelia, the family's artist; and Emeline, who patiently takes care of all of them. Happily, the Padavanos fold Julia's new boyfriend into their loving, chaotic household. But then darkness from William's past surfaces, jeopardizing not only Julia's carefully orchestrated plans for their future, but the sisters' unshakeable loyalty to one another. The result is a catastrophic family rift that changes their lives for generations. Will the loyalty that once rooted them be strong enough to draw them back together when it matters most '.