Random house sep 1995 (23 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two boys, one of them a dragonrider, re-establish crucial contact with the wise dolphins, the legendary 'shipfish' of Pern.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon. The Washington Post Book WorldNow celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy!Nominated as one of America s best-loved novels by PBS s The Great American ReadIt s an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur s best friend has just announced that he s an alien.After that, things get much, much worse.With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker s Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.Douglas Adams s mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . .…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A haunting, lyrically written tale of obsession, redemption, and the healing power of love, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Women"Kristin Hannah is a superb storyteller."Romantic Times Selena doesn't remember who she is or how she came to the hidden mansion on the isolated Maine coast. Lost in a confusing world filled with strangers, she finds comfort in a man whose eyes reflect her own desperate loneliness.Dr. Ian Carrick invites Selena into his mysterious sanctuary where he has retreated from the world that betrayed him. For her, he begins to believe in himself once more.But even love cannot protect her from her own terrible secrets . . .…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this third and final volume of the Corellian trilogy, Han and Luke lead the Alliance in a mad scramble against the Selonian rebels for control of the planetary technology.When a loyalist ship approaching Selonia is blasted out of space, Han Solo quickly realizes that rebel forces are turning planetary repulsors into weapons of immense destruction. Meanwhile, Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian manage to discover the terrifying secret of Centerpoint Station. It is the infamous Starbuster itself, and its next programmed nova, hard-wired in, is set to annihilate a chosen star, its inhabited worlds, and millions of innocent lives. There's only one way to stop it: blow up the station. But as a massive rebel fleet closes in on Centerpoint, Han, Luke, and their friends will discover time is running out.Then the true leaders of the rebellion reveal their identities and issue their final ultimatum: The New Republic must withdraw all claim to power over the entire Corellian sector. With the future of Corellian freedom at stake, Han and those loyal to the Republic must somehow resist. But how can they possibly stop the deadliest weapon the galaxy has ever known.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is 'a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer s world and its treacherous swamps' (Los Angeles Times). Superb writing advice . Hilarious, helpful, and provocative. The New York Times Book ReviewFor a quarter century, more than a million readers scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities have been inspired by Anne Lamott s hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne s father also a writer in the iconic passage that gives the book its title: Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he d had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother s shoulder, and said, Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Willa Cather's novel of seventeenth-century Quebec is a luminous evocation of North American origins, and of the men and women who struggled to adapt toa new world even as they clung to the artifacts and manners of onethey left behind.In 1697, Quebec is an island of French civilization perched on a bare gray rock amid a wilderness of trackless forests. For many of its settlers, Quebec is a place of exile, so remote that an entire winter passes without a word from home. But to twelve-year-old Cécile Auclair, the rock is home, where even the formidable Governor Frontenac entertains children in his palace and beavers lie beside the lambs in a Christmas créche. As Cather follows this devout and resourceful child over the course of a year, she re-creates the continent as it must have appeared to its first European inhabitants. And she gives us a spellbinding work of historical fiction in which great events occur first as rumors andthen as legendsand in which even the most intimate domestic scenes are suffused with a sense of wonder.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During one of the most important times in the civil rights movement, one unforgettable family goes on a road trip in this Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree, from author Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott KingVirginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement.A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK OF ALL TIMEWhen the Watson familyten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byronsets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don't realize that they're heading toward one of the darkest moments in America's history. The Watsons' journey reminds us that even in the hardest times, laughter and family can help us get through anything.'A modern classic.' NPR"Marvelous . . . both comic and deeply moving." The New York Times'One of the best novels EVER.' Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Awardwinning author of Brown Girl Dreaming.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - THE HEALING ENERGY OF YOUR HANDS demystifies the art of healing. Beginning with a basic explanation of the nature of healing energy, illness, and the role of the mind in the healing process, Bradford offers techniques so simple that anyone, even a child, can work with healing energy. The author's intention is that anyone using his book can awaken his or her natural healing talents quickly and easily.Topics include sensing energy, clearing energy blockages, eliminating negative self-talk, using affirmations, balancing the chakras, cleansing the auric field, relieving pain, and creating forgiveness.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An American woman residing in Sicily for the past twenty years portrays the Sicilian landscape and customsboth rural and urbanfrom the perspectives of both a "foreigner" and a resident.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr. Maples revisits his strangest, most interesting, and most horrific investigations, from the baffling cases of conquistador Francisco Pizarro and Vietnam MIAs to the mysterious deaths of President Zachary Taylor and the family of Czar Nicholas II.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hundreds of ways to preserve, restore and improve the brain's potential. These all-natural techniques help boost brain power and prevent mental aging. They represent the latest developments in scores of disciplines, including meditation, yoga, nutrition, vitamins, herbs and more. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale in Penguin Classics. Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche's utterance 'God is dead', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life force: passionate, chaotic and free. Frederich Nietzsche (1844-1900) became the chair of classical philology at Basel University at the age of 24 until his bad health forced him to retire in 1879. He divorced himself from society until his final collapse in 1899 when he became insane. A powerfully original thinker, Nietzsche's influence on subsequent writers, such as George Bernard Shaw, D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann and Jean-Paul Sartre, was considerable. If you enjoyed Thus Spoke Zarathustra you might like Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, also available in Penguin Classics. 'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate, often breathtakingly insightful, his works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. Grayling.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary ofThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,soon to be a Hulu original series! "Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes."Chicago TribuneThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their headsso they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end Will it end Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know itand don't know it!"Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."Arizona Daily Star.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A one-volume edition of the celebrated trio of novels about the Rabbitte family, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha The Barrytown Trilogy gathers Roddy's Doyle's first three novels into one volume: The Commitments, one of the funniest rock'n'roll novels ever written, about a group of aspiring musicians on a mission to bring soul to Dublin; The Snapper, about the progression of twenty-year-old Sharon Rabbitte's pregnancy on her family; and The Van, a finalist for the Booker Prize, a tender and hilarious tale of male friendship, midlife crisis, and family life, set during the heady days of Ireland's brief, euphoric triumphs in the 1990 World Cup.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.'-The Washington Post Book WorldSOON TO BE A HULU SERIES Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of the original radio show on which the book was based.Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadSeconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox-the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod's girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he's bought over the years.Where are these pens Why are we born Why do we die For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars!Praise for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'A whimsical oddyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy.'-Publishers Weekly'Irresistable!'-The Boston GlobeLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 224 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is 'a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps' (Los Angeles Times). "Superb writing advice. Hilarious, helpful, and provocative." The New York Times Book ReviewFor a quarter century, more than a million readersscribes and scribblers of all ages and abilitieshave been inspired by Anne Lamott's hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne's fatheralso a writerin the iconic passage that gives the book its title:"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 256 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mrs. Murphy digs into Virginia history and gets her paws on a killer.The most popular citizen of Virginia has been dead for nearly 170 years. That hasn't stopped the good people of tiny Crozet, Virginia, from taking pride in every aspect of Thomas Jefferson's life. But when an archaeological dig of the slave quarters at Jefferson's home, Monticello, uncovers a shocking secret, emotions in Crozet run high dangerously high.The stunning discovery at Monticello hints a hidden passions and age-old scandals. As postmistress Mary Minor 'Harry' Haristeen and some of Crozet's Very Best People try to learn the identity of a centuries-old skeleton and the reason behind the murder Harry's tiger cat, Mrs. Murphy, and her canine and feline friends attempt to sniff out a modern-day killer. Mrs. Murphy and corgi Tee Tucker will stick their paws into the darker mysteries of human nature to solve murders old and new before curiosity can kill the cat and Harry Haristeen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Before she wrote Little Women, Louisa May Alcott told this story of a ninteenth-century girl finding her way in society.In this sequel to Eight Cousins, Rose Campbell returns to the 'Aunt Hill' after two years of traveling around the world. Suddenly, she is surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them. But before she marries anyone, Rose is determined to establish herself as an independent young woman. Besides, she suspects that some of her friends like her more her money than for herself. How can Rose tell who her real friends are Is there anyone she can count on.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon."The Washington Post Book WorldNow celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy!Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American ReadIt's an ordinary Thursday morning for Arthur Dent . . . until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly after to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and Arthur's best friend has just announced that he's an alien.After that, things get much, much worse.With just a towel, a small yellow fish, and a book, Arthur has to navigate through a very hostile universe in the company of a gang of unreliable aliens. Luckily the fish is quite good at languages. And the book is The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy . . . which helpfully has the words DON'T PANIC inscribed in large, friendly letters on its cover.Douglas Adams's mega-selling pop-culture classic sends logic into orbit, plays havoc with both time and physics, offers up pithy commentary on such things as ballpoint pens, potted plants, and digital watches . . . and, most important, reveals the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything.Now, if you could only figure out the question. . . . 224 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is 'a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps' (Los Angeles Times). "Superb writing advice. Hilarious, helpful, and provocative." The New York Times Book ReviewFor a quarter century, more than a million readersscribes and scribblers of all ages and abilitieshave been inspired by Anne Lamott's hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne's fatheralso a writerin the iconic passage that gives the book its title:"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'" 256 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary ofThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,soon to be a Hulu original series! "Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes."Chicago TribuneThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their headsso they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end Will it end Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know itand don't know it!"Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."Arizona Daily StarPetersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 240 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary ofThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,soon to be a Hulu original series! "Wild satire . . . The feckless protagonist, Arthur Dent, is reminiscent of Vonnegut heroes."Chicago TribuneThe unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their headsso they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation.They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler who tries to learn how to fly by throwing himself at the ground and missing; Ford Prefect, his best friend, who decides to go insane to see if he likes it; Slartibartfast, the indomitable vice president of the Campaign for Real Time, who travels in a ship powered by irrational behavior; Zaphod Beeblebrox, the two-headed, three-armed ex-president of the galaxy; and Trillian, the sexy space cadet who is torn between a persistent Thunder God and a very depressed Beeblebrox.How will it all end Will it end Only this stalwart crew knows as they try to avert "universal" Armageddon and save life as we know itand don't know it!"Adams is one of those rare treasures: an author who, one senses, has as much fun writing as one has reading."Arizona Daily Star 240 pp. Englisch.…