Random house sep 2004 (55 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The three little pigs have never looked so cute and the big bad wolf never looked so bad in this retelling of the classic fairy tale! Vintage Disney artwork from the 1940s makes this book an important addition to every Little Golden Book collector s library.'. RH Disney (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - ONE OF THE most-requested Little Golden Books is back in print! Millions of baby boomers remember little Dan, who stops crying over a scratch as soon as Mother puts a bandage on it. Soon the dolls and teddy bears in Dan's house are wearing bandages, too. This charming story from the 1950s was so popular that it's now featured in the Smithsonian's permanent collection. Corinne Malvern (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Little Golden Book all about bustling baby animals! A favorite of children for generations, Garth Williams's classic Little Golden Book continues to find a special place in the hearts of young readers. Featuring adorable baby animals including a playful bear, a busy squirrel, a brave lion, and many more, this beloved classic is a must-have for all little animal lovers.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Everyone's favorite big-eared little elephant finds his way to the skies in this uplifting Little Golden Book. With artwork from the 1940s, allof the original charm and beauty of the Disney classic can be found in this vintage book. Disney Storybook Art Team (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Celebrate Christmas with these Old Testament heroes and heroines as they come alive in this exciting Little Golden Book of Bible stories. A perfect gift for the holiday season! The tales of Samson, Deborah, David, and many others are told in a simple yet entertaining way, brought to life with vibrant pictures, sure to hold your child's attention. It's the perfect gift for Christenings and First Communions. Cook, Ande (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Vintage artwork and the classic Disney characters add a world of charm to these perennial Mother Goose nursery rhyme favorites-from -Peter Pumpkin Eater, - -Hey, Diddle, Diddle, - and -Little Miss Muffet- to -Jack Sprat, - -Simple Simon, - -Old King Cole, - and more. This Little Golden Book from the 1940s is a must-have addition to every Little Golden Book collector's library. RH Disney (illustrator). …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD ERIC HAS just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he s looking for some tenderness tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls. Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away from home again. Emotionally naive but sexually precocious, she is also looking for tenderness tenderness she finds in Eric. Will Lori and Eric be each other s salvation or destruction Cormier is in top form in this chilling portrait of a serial murderer. . . . Gripping. School Library Journal, StarredAn ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award-winning classic about a boy who decides to hit the road to find his fatherfrom Christopher Paul Curtis, recipient of the Coretta Scott KingVirginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but Bud's got a few things going for him: 1. He has his own suitcase full of special things. 2. He's the author of Bud Caldwell's Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. 3. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: flyers advertising Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!!!!!! Bud's got an idea that those flyers will lead him to his father. Once he decides to hit the road to find this mystery man, nothing can stop himnot hunger, not fear, not vampires, not even Herman E. Calloway himself. BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York TimesSchool Library JournalPublishers Weekly "[A] powerfully felt novel." The New York Times "Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last." Publishers Weekly, Starred "Curtis writes with a razor-sharp intelligence that grabs the reader by the heart and never lets go. . . . This highly recommended title [is] at the top of the list of books to be read again and again." Voice of Youth Advocates, Starred. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Limpy is fed up of seeing his relatives run over and when he hears of a place in the Amazon, where human and toad live together in harmony, he resolves to find this place for himself and to take his cousin Goliath with him.The two toads make their bumpy way to the Amazonian jungle via the claws of a migratory bird and the underside of an aeroplane seat. But the jungle is not the Utopia that Limpy had imagined and it takes the advice of some Amazonian cane toads and one wise man to finally find the secret of a harmonious life with humans.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tony and Brianna Lincoln just moved into Paradise, but friendly they aren't. In fact, these urbane thrill killers are knocking off the neighbors one by one, and Jesse Stone is next.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his 1932 classic dystopian novel, Brave New World, Aldous Huxley depicted a future society in thrall to science and regulated by sophisticated methods of social control. Nearly thirty years later in Brave New World Revisited, Huxley checked the progress of his prophecies against reality and argued that many of his fictional fantasies had grown uncomfortably close to the truth. Brave New World Revisited includes Huxley's views on overpopulation, propaganda, advertising and government control, and is an urgent and powerful appeal for the defence of individualism still alarmingly relevant today.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a South Africa torn by civil war, Michael K sets out to take his mother back to her rural home. On the way there she dies, leaving him alone in an anarchic world of brutal roving armies. Imprisoned, Michael is unable to bear confinement and escapes, determined to live with dignity. Life and Times of Michael K goes to the centre of human experience - the need for an interior, spiritual life, for some connections to the world in which we live, and for purity of vision.'This is a truly astonishing novel. I finished Life & Times of Michael K in a state of elation, for all the misery and suffering it contains. I cannot recommend it highly enough' Evening Standard.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The modern classic from double Booker Prize winner J.M. Coetzee - soon to be a major film starring Mark Rylance, Robert Pattinson and Johnny DeppFor decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement, ignoring the impending war between the barbarians and the Empire, whose servant he is. But when the interrogation experts arrive, he is jolted into sympathy with the victims and into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison, branded as an enemy of the state. Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor and oppressed. Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times, the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice and decency.; Jahrzehntelang ist der Magistrat ein loyaler Diener des Staates gewesen und hat die Amtsgeschäfte der winzigen Garnisonsstadt in einem Grenzdistrikt des Reiches geführt, ohne sich von der vermeintlichen Bedrohung durch die 'Barbaren ', einem benachbarten Nomadenstamm, beirren zu lassen. Als jedoch eine Spezialeinheit der Staatspolizei eintrifft, um den Nachweis für kriegerische Absichten der 'Barbaren 'zu erbringen, wird er Zeuge der grausamen und ungesetzlichen Behandlung von Gefangenen. Vom Mitleid mit den Opfern aufgerüttelt, will der alte Mann ein Zeichen setzen. Gleichsam in einem Akt privater Wiedergutmachung nimmt er ein schwer misshandeltes 'Barbaren '-Mädchen bei sich auf, um es schließlich zu seinem Volk zurückzubringen. Diese Expedition brandmarkt ihn als Verräter, er wird nun seinerseits Opfer von öffentlicher Demütigung und Folter. J. M. Coetzees früher Roman 'Warten auf die Barbaren' (1980) gilt als eines der zentralen Werke des Autors. Das mehrfach ausgezeichnete Wer k stellt die Frage nach Würde und Mitverantwortung des Einzelnen unter einem Regime, das sich über Recht und Anstand hinwegsetzt.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation, she has reached the stage where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. Her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the world - a private consciousness obliged to reveal itself to a curious public: the presentation of a major award at an American college where she is required to deliver a lecture; a sojourn as the writer in residence on a cruise liner; a visit to her sister, a missionary in Africa, who is receiving an honorary degree, an occasion which both recognise as the final opportunity for effecting some form of reconciliation; and a disquieting appearance at a writers' conference in Amsterdam where she finds the subject of her talk unexpectedly amongst the audience. She has made her life's work the study of other people yet now it is she who is the object of scrutiny. But, for her, what matters is the continuing search for a means of articulating her vision and the verdict of future generations.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Classic Disney illustrations from the 1940s make this Little Golden Book retelling of an all-time favorite a keeper for Disney and Little Golden Book collectors alike. Walt Disney Studio (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades. 'Concise, evocative, wise and, above all, humane, The Doors of Perception is a masterpiece' Sunday TimesIn 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his eyes everything, from the flowers in a vase to the creases in his trousers, was transformed. Huxley described his experience with breathtaking immediacy in The Doors of Perception. In its sequel Heaven and Hell, he goes on to explore the history and nature of mysticism. Still bristling with a sense of excitement and discovery, these illuminating and influential writings remain the most fascinating account of the visionary experience ever written. WITH A FOREWORD J.G. BALLARD.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Eberhart explores the fascinating question of what holds things together, what breaks them apart, and why the answers have a direct bearing on our everyday lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of short stories starring Koko and Yum Yumthe fantastic feline duo from the bestselling Cat Who series.What could be more purrfect for fans of the Cat Who series than an intimate look at the private lives of those extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yumthe most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! In this charming collection of feline antics, you'll discover why Jim Qwilleran considers Koko a veritable clone of T.S. Eliot's Rum Tum Tugger, how Yum Yum was rescued from a burglar who is not above a spot of catnapping, and many more fascinating catly facts."The feelings produced by reading about Qwill and his pals can best be compared to that coziest of feelingshaving a purring cat on your lap."Booklist.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An adventurous story of a frontier boy raised by Indians,The Light in the Forestis a beloved American classic.When John Cameron Butler was a child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier and adopted by the great warrrior Cuyloga. Renamed True Son, he came to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, has signed a treaty with the white men and agreed to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now he must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose ways of dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher takes a three-night train trip with her friend and his railroad association through scenic British Columbia. But when a member of the entourage takes a sip of a Bloody Mary and dies, police begin investigating.The suspects gather in the Starlight Express dinner car, and it's up to Jessica to do some unplanned sleuthing before everyone's plans are derailed by death.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Known as a 'feast of language,' this is one of the bard's earliest comedies, in which four bachelors who have dedicated themselves to chastity and scholarly pursuits soon encounter the women of their dreams.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While the Clone Wars wreak havoc throughout the galaxy, the situation on the far world of Drongar is desperate, as Republic forces engage in a fierce fight with the Separatists. . . .The threatened enemy offensive begins as the Separatists employ legions of droids into their attack. Even with reinforcements, the flesh and blood of the Republic forces are just no match for battle droids' durasteel. Nowhere is this point more painfully clear than in the steaming Jasserak jungle, where the doctors and nurses of a small med unit face an impossible situation. As the dead and wounded start to pile up, surgeons Jos Vandar and Kornell "Uli" Divini know that time is running out.Even the Jedi abilities of Padawan Barriss Offee have been stretched to the limit. Ahead lies a test for Barriss that could very well lead to her deathand that of countless others. For the conflict is growingand for this obscure mobile med unit, there's only one resolution. Shocking, bold, unprecedented, it's the only option Jos and his colleagues really have. The unthinkable has become the inevitable. Whether it kills them or not remains to be seen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE GODFATHER - 'A classic. The novel is lifted into literature by its highly charged language, its penetrating insights, and its mixture of tenderness and rage.' - New York Times Book ReviewDescribed by the author as his 'best and most literary book.'Puzo's classic story about the loves, crimes and struggles confronted by one family of New York City immigrants living in Hell's Kitchen. Fresh from the farms in Italy, Lucia Santa struggles to hold her family together in a strange land. At turns poignant, comic and violent, The Fortunate Pilgrim is Italian-American fiction at its very best.The book's hero, Lucia Santa, is an incredibly captivating character and based on Puzo's very own mother - he describes, 'her wisdom, her ruthlessness, and her unconquerable love for her family and for life itself, qualities not valued in women at the time.'.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sniper is the behind-the-scenes story of one of the most frightening rampages to occur in U.S. historyand how it was stopped.For more than three weeks, the nation watched in disbelief as Washington, D.C., and its surrounding suburbs were held hostage by anonymous gunmen shooting innocent civilians at random. Sniper is the de?nitive account of those alleged gunmen, John Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, and the massive manhunt that ended with their capture by a heavily armed SWAT team in an early-morning raid at an interstate highway rest stop.Two Washington Post reporters, Sari Horwitz and Michael E. Ruane, retrace the steps of Muhammad and Malvo from their ?rst meeting on the island of Antigua to Malvo's de?ant confession in a Virginia jail. Drawing on exclusive reporting about that confession, internal police documents, and a wide range of law-enforcement sources, Horwitz and Ruane track in remarkable detail the murderous trail Muhammad and Malvo are accused of having followed to the Washington area and reconstruct the eerie way in which the two moved invisibly around the nation's capital in the midst of one of the largest police investigations in U.S. history.Horwitz and Ruane also take you inside the police command center where local and state police, joined by the federal government's most experienced crime ?ghters, worked desperately to stop the killings, unaware that a fundamental errorinvestigators were wrongly ?xated on a white vanwas allowing Muhammad and Malvo to slip through the dragnet. We meet FBI negotiators, veteran detectives, forensics experts, prosecutors, and politicians who faced perhaps the biggest challenge of their careers as they confronted frustrating setbacks, logistical nightmares, and the overwhelming pressure of a high-stakes investigation. In a fast-paced narrative that outdoes even the most acclaimed television cop shows, Sniper recounts the extraordinary police work that enabled investigators to quickly exploit the clues handed to them by Muhammad and Malvo that ?nally led to their arrest.Part gripping drama, part real-life portrait of law enforcement at work, Sniper is also a cautionary tale about the vulnerability of American society in an age of terrorism.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Experience the dangerous intrigue of Georgian England in this novel in Bruce Alexander's acclaimed historical mystery series featuring Sir John Fielding.When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, blind magistrate Sir John Fielding's investigation leads his protégé, Jeremy Proctor, into the notorious Seven Dials section of London. There the sordid inclinations of both the working class and aristocracy may be foundand there, Jeremy learns that the girl's mother has disappeared near the racetrack. As he delves further into the mystery, he will begin to realize just how high the stakes are, andwhen an acquaintance of his own suddenly vanishesjust how terribly steep the odds really are.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She's drop-dead gorgeous. But one of the guys she's met online might be a stone-cold killer. A chilling game of lies, secrets, and manipulation awaits in R. L. Stine's dark, sexy thrillernow an MTV original series starring Victoria Justice. Lindy Sampson is a beautiful twenty-three-year-old New Yorker with an unusual problem: She's too beautiful, and guys are intimidated by her. Her roommate suggests Internet dating and writes a personal ad for Lindy, calling her "Eye Candy." The responses pour in. Suddenly, Lindy is dating four guys at onceand having the time of her life. Until she gets a terrifying note that warns: "Don't say no, Lindy. Keep going out with me. I'll mess you up if you ever say no." Which one of her admirers is a deadly freak Lindy is now forced to say yes to everything the four men ask of herdates, invitations to spend the night, anything. From the East Village to the Hamptons, panic and paranoia shadow her every move. Lindy suspects everyone, even the one person she thought she could trust. But Lindy Sampson doesn't know the half of itand what she doesn't know could kill her.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jurors on a controversial trial are being killed off one by one, and only Detective Kathleen Mallory can figure out why. But the FBI has told her to lay off and leave it to the Feds. That's never stopped Mallory before.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Romance and magic meet by the light of the moon in this collection of Celtic tales from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts and New York Times bestselling authors Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan Langan, and Marianne Willman.From mysterious warriors to evil sorceresses, from full moon cravings to moon witch spells, these enchanting tales of love and legend, magic and mystery are as menacing and alluring as the moon itself.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Calls to mind the forensic mysteries of Aaron Elkins and Patricia Cornwell. Chicago Sun-Times With fascinating forensics, compelling characters, and ingenious plot twists, Beverly Connor s novels have been compared to those of the hottest crime writers on the scene. Now, she ratchets up the suspense to introduce one of today s most insightful and complex investigators: forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon. When the dead speak, Diane listens to their bones. Leaving a troubled past behind her, Diane is starting over as director of the RiverTrail Museum of Natural History in Georgia until former love Detective Frank Duncan tracks her down. He needs her unique experience as a forensic anthropologist to examine a bone found in the woods. Diane can t resist Frank s request on both a professional and personal level. Because the secrets of bones are in her blood and their whispers offer a dead family s only chance at justice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In her fifty-ninth bestselling novel, Danielle Steel tells an unforgettable story of survival.of how two people who lost everything find hope.and of the extraordinary acts of faith and courage that bring and keep families together. On a windswept summer day, as the fog rolls across the San Francisco coastline, a solitary figure walks down the beach, a dog at her side. At eleven, Pip Mackenzie's young life has already been touched by tragedy; nine months before, a terrible accident plunged her mother into inconsolable grief. But on this chilly July afternoon, Pip meets someone who fills her sad gray world with color and light. And in her innocence and in his kindness, a spark will be kindled, lives will be changed, and a journey of hope will begin. From the moment the curly-haired girl walks up to his easel on the sand, Matt Bowles senses something magical about her. Pip reminds him of his own daughter at that age, before a bitter divorce tore his family apart and swept his children halfway across the world. With her own mother, Ophélie, retreating deeper into her grief, Pip spends her summer at the shore the way lonely children do: watching the glittering waters and rushing clouds, daydreaming and remembering how things used to be. That is, until she meets artist Matt Bowles, who offers to teach the girl to draw and can't help but notice her beautiful, lonely mother. At first, Ophélie is thrown off balance by her daughter's new companion until she realizes how much joy he is bringing into their lives, despite the sadness she sees in his eyes. As their newfound friend works his subtle magic, mother and daughter slowly begin to heal, to laugh again, to rediscover what they have lost. When summer ends, and Ophélie and Pip must leave the beach for the city, the season of healing continues. Gathering her newfound strength, Ophélie begins a volunteer job at a city outreach program, where she works with the homeless, and can no longer ignore the blessings in her own life. But as soul-sharing phone calls and autumn beach getaways deepen Ophélie and Matt's friendship, fate strikes another blow. Out of the blue, Matt must confront unfinished business from his past. Days later, Ophélie is struck by a stunning betrayal by someone she trusts. And as these events reverberate in two already wounded hearts, something extraordinary happens. Out of the darkness that has shadowed them both comes an unexpected gift of hope. With grace and compassion, Danielle Steel explores the fragile bonds between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, family members and lifelong friends. Her haunting, impassioned novel takes us across the complex landscape of loss to the blessings that arise from even the darkest tragedies. At once a story of triumph and a moving elegy to those who suffer and survive, Safe Harbour is perhaps her most powerful and life-affirming novel to date.…