simon schuster apr 2019 (44 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Gracie heads to Tuscany for a week-long cookery course at the cost of her life savings. Her daughters are bemused about what catalysed this, not having a sense of the extraordinary past that calls Gracie to Italy, preceding them. From the author of 'The Deverill Chronicles' and 'The Gypsy Madonna'.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 402 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Now in paperback, this is a revealing biography of musician and songwriter Paul Simon, through his success with Art Garfunkel, his solo career, and his multiple marriages. 'This book will delight any Paul Simon fan or student of popular culture.' Linda RonstadtLibri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 439 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The exquisite new picture book from the creators of The Snow Lion.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Young fans of David Walliams and David Baddiel's books will enjoy this new Hamish caper, in which Hamish and his pals in the PDF prepare for the arrival of the thing stirring in the ocean that has sent the town of Starkley's residents fleeing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\*The Temptation of Gracie's Flappy now takes centre stage in her very own novel, more charismatic and competitive than ever! Don't miss Flappy Entertains - out now\*\*WINNER OF THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS HISTORICAL ROMANTIC NOVEL AWARD 2019, FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHORNever give up on your dreams, no matter how long you hold on to them . . . When Gracie Burton stumbles upon an advertisement for a week-long cookery course in the heart of the Tuscan countryside,she cannot resist, and ploughs her life savings into the trip. Her only family - daughter Carina and granddaughter Anastasia - are hesitant about what has prompted this seemingly random venture. But they have no sense of Gracie's past; of what could possibly be calling her to Italy. They have no idea that Gracie is harbouring the secret of an extraordinary life that preceded them . . . Bestselling author, Santa Montefiore, returns with an unforgettable tale of love lost and rediscovered, set across the beautiful landscape of Italy \*\*\*PRAISE FOR SANTA MONTEFIORE\*\*\* 'Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore' JOJO MOYES 'An enchanting read overflowing with deliciously poignant moments' DINAH JEFFERIES on Songs of Love and War 'Santa Montefiore hits the spot for my like few other writers' SARRA MANNING 'One of our personal favourites' THE TIMES on The Last Secret of the Deverills 'Accomplished and poetic' Daily Mail 'Santa Montefiore is a marvel' Sunday Express.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The gripping sequel to the bestselling, award-winning teen thrillerGirl, Missing, by million-copy selling author Sophie McKenzie.It's two years after the events of Girl, Missing and life is not getting any easier for sixteen-year-old Lauren exam pressure and a recent family heartbreak have taken their toll.Hoping some time together away from everything will help, Lauren's birth mother takes her and her two sisters on holiday, only for tragedy to strike again when one of Lauren's sisters disappears, under circumstances very similar to those in which Lauren was taken years before. . . perhaps too similar to be a coincidence.Can Lauren save her sister and stop the nightmare from happening all over again Other books by Sophie McKenzie:Girl,MissingMissingMeBoy,MissingHide and SecretsTruth or DarePraise forGirl,Missing:'Page-turning'The Independent'Will have you gripped for hours'Sunday Express'Please read this book: it is brilliant!'The Guardian'Whenever I hear the phrase YA thriller I only ever think of one name - and that's Sophie McKenzie. Why Because noboody does it better'Phil Earle, award-winning author'Sophie's thrillers are brilliant. you can't stop reading'Robert Muchamore, bestselling author'Brilliantly described, scary and touching'The Daily Mirror.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The latest unmissable volume of autobiography from David 'Bumble' Lloyd, author of Last in the Tin Bath.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Now in paperback, this biography of golf legend Tiger Woods was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2018. Draws on more than 400 interviews with people from all corners of Woods's life.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 490 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Now in paperback, this is a revealing biography of musician and songwriter Paul Simon, through his success with Art Garfunkel, his solo career, and his multiple marriages. 'This book will delight any Paul Simon fan or student of popular culture.' Linda Ronstadt.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A debut author delivers a compulsively readable novel that shows young love in all its awkward glory. 'Smart and funny, with characters so real and vulnerable, you want to send them care packages. I loved this book.'--Rainbow Rowell.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There was the time before Tessa met Hardin, and then there's everything AFTER. Life will never be the same. #Hessa Tessa is a good girl with a sweet, reliable boyfriend back home. She's got direction, ambition, and a mother who's intent on keeping her that way. But she's barely moved into her freshman dorm when she runs into Hardin. With his tousled brown hair, cocky British accent, and tattoos, Hardin is cute and different from what she's used to. But he's also rude-to the point of cruelty, even. For all his attitude, Tessa should hate Hardin. And she does-until she finds herself alone with him in his room. Something about his dark mood grabs her, and when they kiss it ignites within her a passion she's never known before. He'll call her beautiful, then insist he isn't the one for her and disappear again and again. Despite the reckless way he treats her, Tessa is compelled to dig deeper and find the real Hardin beneath all his lies. He pushes her away again and again, yet every time she pushes back, he only pulls her in deeper. Tessa already has the perfect boyfriend. So why is she trying so hard to overcome her own hurt pride and Hardin's prejudice about nice girls like her Unless.could this be love.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fully revised and updated since its first publication in 2011 to encompass further appalling instances of wilful blindness: Grenfell Tower, Carillion, Harvey Weinstein, Windrush and many more Why, after every major accident and blunder, do we look back and ask, how could we have been so blind Why do some people see what others don't And how can we change Drawing on studies by psychologists and neuroscientists, and from interviews with business leaders, whistle blowers and white collar criminals, distinguished businesswoman and writer Margaret Heffernan examines the phenomenon of wilfulblindness, exploring the reasons that individuals and groups are blind to impending personal tragedies, corporate collapses, engineering failures even crimes against humanity.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The passages he addresses directly to Phoebe are as tender as the father-daughter letters in Karl Ove Knausgaard's Seasons Quartet' Times Literary Supplement 'This book tells the inspiring story of how even the least skilled of us can make something wonderful if we invest enough time and love' The Daily Mail 'Both the book, and place, are magical' The Sunday Telegraph 'When Jonathan Gornall decided to build a boat for his daughter, he had no experience and no practical skills. What followed was a very real labour of love.' The ScotsmanOne man learns the ancient skills of boat-building to connect with fatherhood.How to Build a Boat is the story ofa thoroughly unskilled modern man who, inspired by his love of the sea and what it has taught him about life, sets out to build a traditional wooden boat as a gift for his newborn daughter. It is, he recognises, a ridiculously quixotic challenge for a man who, with a family and mortgage to support, knows little about woodworking and even less about boat-building. He isn't even sure what type of boat he should build, what type of wood he should use, the tools he will need or, come to that, where on earth he will build it. He has much to consider, and even more to learn. But, undaunted by his ignorance, he embarks on a voyage of rediscovery, determined to navigate his way back to a time when a man could fashion his future and leave his mark on history using only time-honoured skills and the ancient tools and materials at hand. The journey begins with a search for clues in the once bustling, but now still, creeks and backwaters of his beloved Suffolk, where men once fashioned the might of Nelson's navy from the great oaks that shadowed the water's edge. If all goes to plan, it will end with a great little adventure, as father and daughter cast off together for a voyage of discovery that neither will forget, and both will treasure until the end of their days. A writer following in the bestselling footsteps of Adam Nicolson, Tim Moore and Charlie Connelly discovering what make modern man tick through the discovery of a craft long forgotten.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2019 THE FULL STORY BEHIND THE RISE, FALL AND RISE AGAIN OF TIGER WOODS 'A rattling read. Superbly written' Daily Mail'Arguably the most serious attempt ever made to get behind golf's great enigma' Guardian'Exhilarating, depressing, tawdry and moving. perfectly pitched biography' New York Times Based on three years of extensive research and reporting, two of today's most acclaimed investigative journalists, Jeff Benedict of Sports Illustrated and eleven-time Emmy Award winner Armen Keteyian, deliver the first major biography of Tiger Woods - sweeping in scope and packed with groundbreaking, behind-the-scenes details of the Shakespearean rise and epic fall of a global icon. In 2009, Tiger Woods was the most famous athlete on the planet, a transcendent star of almost unfathomable fame and fortune living what appeared to be the perfect life - married to a Swedish beauty and the father of two young children. Winner of fourteen major golf championships and seventy-nine PGA Tour events, Woods was the first billion-dollar athlete, earning more than $100 million a year in endorsements from the likes of Nike, Gillette, AT&T and Gatorade. But it was all a carefully crafted illusion. As it turned out, Woods had been living a double life for years - one that exploded in the aftermath of a late-night crash that exposed his serial infidelity and sent his personal and professional life off a cliff. In Tiger Woods, Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyian dig deep behind the headlines to produce a richly reported answer to the question that has mystified millions of sports fans for nearly a decade: who is Tiger Woods Drawing on more than four hundred interviews with people from every corner of Woods's life - friends, family members, teachers, romantic partners, swing coaches, business associates, Tour pros and members of Woods's inner circle - Benedict and Keteyian construct a captivating psychological profile of an African-American child programmed by an attention-grabbing father and the original Tiger Mom to be the 'chosen one', to change not just the game of golf, but the world as well. But at what cost Benedict and Keteyian provide the startling answers in a biography, updated for this edition, destined to make headlines and linger in the minds of readers for years to come.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hillthe working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's lifehas been hailed as "the best book ever written on organized crime" (Cosmopolitan).This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese's film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds?with Henry Hill's crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. "Nonstop.absolutely engrossing" (The New York Times Book Review). Read it and experience the secret life inside the mobfrom one who's lived it.Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 290 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A 'New York Times' bestseller and a 'wickedly chilling debut' ('School Library Journal'). Three sisters, drowned as witches in Sparrow, Oregon, in the 1800s, return each summer for revenge. But 17-year-old Penny Talbot is determined to stop them to save the boy she loves.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A guide to Vedic meditation, and its power to help alleviate stress and anxiety, as well as boosting energy, giving better sleep and establishing a happier outlook on life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hillthe working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the mafia gangster's lifehas been hailed as "the best book ever written on organized crime" (Cosmopolitan).This is the true-crime bestseller that was the basis for Martin Scorsese's film masterpiece GoodFellas, which brought to life the violence, the excess, the families, the wives and girlfriends, the drugs, the payoffs, the paybacks, the jail time, and the Feds?with Henry Hill's crackling narration drawn straight out of Wiseguy and overseeing all the unforgettable action. "Nonstop.absolutely engrossing" (The New York Times Book Review). Read it and experience the secret life inside the mobfrom one who's lived it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this powerful and personal New York Times bestseller, President Jimmy Carter contemplates how faith has sustained him in happiness and disappointment and considers how we may find it in our own lives.All his life, President Jimmy Carter has been a courageous exemplar of faith. Now he shares the lessons he learned. He writes, "The issue of faith arises in almost every area of human existence, so it is important to understand its multiple meanings. In this book, my primary goal is to explore the broader meaning of faith, its far-reaching effect on our lives, and its relationship to past, present, and future events in America and around the world. The religious aspects of faith are also covered, since this is how the word is most often used, and I have included a description of the ways my faith has guided and sustained me, as well as how it has challenged and driven me to seek a closer and better relationship with people and with God." Quoting eminent Protestant theologians, in Faith President Carter describes his belief in religious freedom, moral politics, and the place of prayer in his daily life. He examines faith's many meanings, he describes how to accept it, live it, how to doubt and find faith again. This is a serious and moving reflection from one of America's most admired and respected citizens.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From Steve Israel, the Congressman-turned-novelist who writes "in the full-tilt style of Carl Hiaasen" (The Washington Post), a comic tale of the mighty firearm industry, a small Long Island town, and Washington politics: "Congress should pass a law making Big Guns mandatory reading for themselves" (Nelson DeMille).When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of a huge arms company in Asabogue, Long Island, is worried. In response, he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate. Asabogue's Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the townright in Otis Cogsworth's backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a small village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, and the bucolic town becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby and the absurdity of requiring that every American, with waivers for children under age four, carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics. "New York congressman-turned-novelist Steve Israel delivers a second brilliant political satire" (Booklist, starred review). "An entertaining satire" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Big Guns is "a wonderfully irreverent satire about the fractured and fractious American political and lobbying system?a rollicking comedic trip" (Publishers Weekly).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With everyone believing he died in a plane crash, Chicago celebrity Charles James re-evaluates his life after narrowly escaping death and decides to walk from Chicago to California, where he hopes to rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The definitive story of the making of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acclaimed today as one of the greatest films ever made, and of director Stanley Kubrick and writer Arthur C. Clarke"a tremendous explication of a tremendous film?.Breathtaking" (The Washington Post).Fifty years ago a strikingly original film had its premiere. Still acclaimed as one of the most remarkable and important motion pictures ever made, 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted the first contacts between humanity and extraterrestrial intelligence. The movie was the product of a singular collaboration between Stanley Kubrick and science fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke. Fresh off the success of his cold war satire Dr. Strangelove, Kubrick wanted to make the first truly first-rate science fiction film. Drawing from Clarke's ideas and with one of the author's short stories as the initial inspiration, their bold vision benefited from pioneering special effects that still look extraordinary today, even in an age of computer-generated images. In Space Odyssey, author, artist, and award-winning filmmaker Michael Benson "delivers expert inside stuff" (San Francisco Chronicle) from his extensive research of Kubrick's and Clarke's archives. He has had the cooperation of Kubrick's widow, Christiane, and interviewed most of the key people still alive who worked on the film. Drawing also from other previously unpublished interviews, Space Odyssey provides a 360-degree view of the film from its genesis to its legacy, including many previously untold stories. And it features dozens of photos from the making of the film, most never previously published. "At last! The dense, intense, detailed, and authoritative saga of the making of the greatest motion picture I've ever seen?Michael Benson has done the Cosmos a great service" (Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From one of America's best-known biologists, a revolutionary new way of thinking about evolution that shows "why, in light of our origins, humans are still special" (Edward J. Larson, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Evolution).Once we had a special place in the hierarchy of life on Eartha place confirmed by the literature and traditions of every human tribe. But then the theory of evolution arrived to shake the tree of human understanding to its roots. To many of the most passionate advocates for Darwin's theory, we are just one species among multitudes, no more significant than any other. Even our minds are not our own, they tell us, but living machines programmed for nothing but survival and reproduction. In The Human Instinct, Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller "confronts both lay and professional misconceptions about evolution" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), showing that while evolution explains how our bodies and brains were shaped, that heritage does not limit or predetermine human behavior. In fact, Miller argues in this "highly recommended" (Forbes) work that it is only thanks to evolution that we have the power to shape our destiny. Equal parts natural science and philosophy, The Human Instinct makes an "absorbing, lucid, and engaging?case that it was evolution that gave us our humanity" (Ursula Goodenough, professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A timely and shocking thriller about a young woman who is the target of a social-media smear campaign."Smart, sardonic, sexy, suspensefuland scary, because it's probably true." Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Jack Reacher series Her perfect job becomes the perfect nightmare when a stalker hacks her phone. Candace Walker is thrilled when she lands a new job at a hip Manhattan tech company and gets a brand-new iPhone. She's more than ready to move on from creating clickbait ads for weight-loss pills and herbal erection boosters, and is determined to dazzle the startup team she joins. A week later, though, everything is at risk: Candace is the target of a mysterious harasser and an online smear campaign. She tosses her new phone into the Hudson River, begins hiding out in her sister's storage locker in New Jersey, and can't think of a single person she can trust. But Candace hasn't come this farand gone to such lengthsto submit to what is happening without a fight.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A vacation to the historiccityof St. Augustine, Florida, quickly turns deadly for brothers Jon and Michael Rickner as an antiquities dealer is brutally murdered in his shop just minutes after meeting with them. Moments later, Jon and Michael discover an original Edison wax cylinder recording in the wreckage of the shop, one detailing the first step of an audacious treasure hunt devised by 19th-century railroad magnate Henry Flagler to lure rich tourists to his Florida resorts.But the hunt, abandoned by Flagler on the eve of its announcement, is not as straightforward as it seems. For the tycoon's innovative attraction is tied to a priceless relic hidden by 16th-century Conquistadors and paid for in blood.The Rickner brothers are not alone in their quest for Flagler's prize. Caeden Monkan infamous treasure hunter exiled from the archaeological community for his destructive methodsand his devious assistant are also on the trail, and they will stop at nothing to claim the prize for themselves.Diving headlong into a breakneck pursuit of the truth, Jon and Michael must outwit Monk, discover the secret behind Flagler's abandoned treasure hunt, and unravel a deadly riddle hidden for centuries in the very foundations ofAmerica'soldestcity before an unfathomable treasure is lost forever.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity's high-stakes race to understand nature's fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, "one of today's great science writers" (The Washington Post).At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science's every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider. In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn't attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed impossible, it was as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks. And when he finally met his matchin a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recordedit upended everything he thought he knew. Brantley Hargrove delivers a "cinematically thrilling and scientifically wonky" (Outside) tale, chronicling the life of Tim Samaras in all its triumph and tragedy. Hargrove takes readers inside the thrill of the chase, the captivating science of tornadoes, and the remarkable character of a man who walked the line between life and death in pursuit of knowledge. The Man Who Caught the Storm is an "adrenaline rush of a tornado chase?Readers from all across the spectrum will enjoy this" (Library Journal, starred review) unforgettable exploration of obsession and the extremes of the natural world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the leader of Canada's New Democratic PartyJagmeet Singhcomes a personal and heartfelt story about family and overcoming adversity.In October 2017, Jagmeet Singh was elected as the first visible minority to lead a major federal political party in Canada. The historic milestone was celebrated across the nation. About a month earlier, in the lead up to his election, Jagmeet held community meet-and-greets across Canada. At one such event, a disruptive heckler in the crowd hurled accusations at him. Jagmeet responded by calmly calling for all Canadians to act with "love and courage" in the face of hate. That response immediately went viral, and people across the country began asking, "Who is Jagmeet Singh And why 'love and courage' " This personal and heartfelt memoir is Jagmeet's answer to that question. In it, we are invited to walk with him through childhood to adulthood as he learns powerful, moving, and sometimes traumatic lessons about hardship, addiction, and the impact of not belonging. We meet his strong family, including his mother, who teaches him that "we are all one; we are all connected," a valuable lesson that has shaped who he is today. This story is not a political memoir. This is a story of family, love, and courage, and how strengthening the connection between us all is the way to building a better world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From bestselling author Genevieve Graham comes a sweeping new historical novel of love, tragedy, and redemption set during the height of the Klondike Gold Rush.In 1897, the discovery of gold in the desolate reaches of the Yukon has the world abuzz with excitement, and thousands of prospectors swarm to the north seeking riches the likes of which have never been seen before. For Liza Peterson and her family, the gold rush is a chance for them to make a fortune by moving their general store business from Vancouver to Dawson City, the only established town in the Yukon. For Constable Ben Turner, a recent recruit of the North-West Mounted Police, upholding the law in a place overrun with guns, liquor, prostitutes, and thieves is an opportunity to escape a dark past and become the man of integrity he has always wanted to be. But the long, difficult journey over icy mountain passes and whitewater rapids is much more treacherous than Liza or Ben imagined, and neither is completely prepared for the forbidding north. As Liza's family nears the mountain's peak, a catastrophe strikes with fatal consequences, and not even the NWMP can help. Alone and desperate, Liza finally reaches Dawson City, only to find herself in a different kind of peril. Meanwhile, Ben, wracked with guilt over the accident on the trail, sees the chance to make things right. But just as love begins to grow, new dangers arise, threatening to separate the couple forever. Inspired by history as rich as the Klondike's gold, At the Mountain's Edge is an epic tale of romance and adventure about two people who must let go of the past not only to be together, but also to survive.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Superspy middle-schooler Ben Ripley is finally going to take SPYDER down, once and for all, in the latest addition to the 'New York Times'-bestselling Spy School series.