simon schuster aug 2008 (11 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exciting new dragon series from the best-selling author of the Imperial trilogy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There is no American writer alive who is funnier, more inquisitive, or more surprising than Julie Hecht. The Unprofessionals, her first novel, whose nameless narrator also told the stories in the author's bestselling collection, Do the Windows Open , is a mordant triumph. It follows the friendship between the narrator--a photographer in her late forties--and a young man whom she has known since his childhood and who has always shared the narrator's dismay about the way Americans live now: our discount chain stores, our incomprehensible architecture, our preoccupation with pets, our lack of manners. As the narrator takes us through the various stages of this friendship, she also tells the story of the young man's incongruous predicament on his path to heroin addiction and the absurdities of his attempted recovery. The Unprofessionals is in part a masterpiece of comic despair, in part an illumination of the customs and mores of a new and bewildering century, in part a hilarious and sad story of two outsiders who see the world with painful clarity--and, as a whole, a novel of unexampled originality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Angels can be a paradigm for the process of mind. The Gabriel Messages are an eloquent journey into spirit and a beautiful way to see the world of spirit as it applies to your life. Lynn Andrews, Best Selling Author of The Medicine Woman series.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Author Hal Urban returns with his latest book, featuring ten modern commandments that will help people of all beliefs to lead richer, more meaningful, and more spiritually fulfilling lives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his international dialogs, Steven Harrison invites his audiences to deconstruct their belief systems, examine their actual experience, and explore what is truly real in life. This book provides readers a unique window into these conversations, which have supported so many in living a life without practices or belief systems.In his international dialogs, Steven Harrison invites his audiences to deconstruct their belief systems, examine their actual experience, and explore what is truly real in life. This book provides readers a unique window into these conversations, which have supported so many in living a life without practices or belief systems. He asks, "Can we have an experience that is truly new, truly unknown Is experience shaped by what we know " This is not an idle philosophical pursuit, since the state of the world seems to hinge on our ability to step out of our belief systems and see others in a fresh way. In The Love of Uncertainty, Harrison continues his exploration into the nature of our existence, reaffirming that openness to the questions themselves is more important than any answers.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part memoir, part journalistic reportage, 'Mexican Enough' charts the voyage of a young Mexican-American who, in the midst of a cultural identity crisis, ventures south of the border to take on her motherland and herself.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Think of England, and anger hardly springs to mind as its primary national characteristic. Yet in The Angry Island, A. A. Gill argues that, in fact, it is plain old fury that is the wellspring for England's accomplishments. The default setting of England is anger. The English are naturally, congenitally, collectively and singularly livid much of the time. They're incensed, incandescent, splenetic, prickly, touchy, and fractious. They can be mildly annoyed, really annoyed and, most scarily, not remotely annoyed. They sit apart on their half of a damply disappointing little island, nursing and picking at their irritations. The English itch inside their own skins. They feel foreign in their own country and run naked through their own heads. Perhaps aware that they're living on top of a keg of fulminating fury, the English have, throughout their history, come up with hundreds of ingenious and bizarre ways to diffuse anger or transform it into something benign. Good manners and queues, cul-de-sacs and garden sheds, and almost every game ever invented from tennis to bridge. They've built things, discovered stuff, made puddings, written hymns and novels, and for people who don't like to talk much, they have come up with the most minutely nuanced and replete language ever spoken -- just so there'll be no misunderstandings. The Angry Island by turns attacks and praises the English, bringing up numerous points of debate for Anglophiles and anyone who wonders about the origins of national identity. This book hunts down the causes and the results of being the Angry Island.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This hauntingly beautiful novel--based on the authors own experiences--tells of a magazine editor and mother whose life is changed forever when her husband vanishes without a trace. Ultimately, this is the story of coming to terms with loss and rediscovering the ability to love.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A sexy urban novel in the tradition of Zane, and a harrowing thrill ride you'll never forget.Ebony Knight was raised by her mother to be on the lookout for the score, The One, the man who could bankroll a luxuriant lifestyleby any means necessary. Now, as the internationally sought-after dominatrix Supreme Mistress Ebony, she has found that man while catering to the kinky needs and fetishes of the ultra-affluent: millionaire Erik Johansen, driven by his twisted obsessions, will pay any amount for the pain and pleasure she doles out. And Ebony's not beyond using his secrets to her own advantage. The lifestyle and all that goes with itcash beyond belief, twisted mind games, blackmail, and danger -- fits Ebony like a velvet glove. She's in control, until the night she crosses paths with Jeff Cardoza, a supremely sexy photographer who soon has Ebony playing by his rules. Falling in love with Jeff was never part of Ebony's planbut neither were the deadly deceptions that have her locked in a high-stakes power play with vengeful Erik Johansen. And just one slip will bring Ebony's house of cards crashing down.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In his hilarious debut novel, Rotter takes readers through an uproarious ride through Los Angeles as Wally Moscowitz--an awkward, frumpy thirtysomething wannabe writer--uncovers an overblown blackmail conspiracy and must fight garish forces just to stay alive.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Meet the tourists, former classmates at Yale who, seven years later, must confront the people they've become while forging lives in Manhattan. David, a hedge fund wunderkind who forfeited idealism for wealth, hopes that a more fulfilling life lies ahead in the suburbs. His wife, the beautiful Samona, to whom David returns home nightly with nothing left for her, wonders whether her marriage is stripping away her best years. Ethan, a successful furniture designer with a magnetic sexuality, seeks something darker and more uncertain than the power lunches, needy family, and unsatisfying relationships that comprise his life. Rounding out the group is the story's unnamed narrator, a freelance reporter struggling to stay afloat -- financially, professionally, and emotionally -- who shares complicated histories with each of them. When Ethan and Samona have a chance encounter at a gallery opening, they meet each other's needs. As our narrator traverses the city and gradually reconstructs the events that underlie the present circumstances, his own mysterious role comes into ever sharper focus. Only later, after David commissions Ethan to design some conference rooms at his firm and a secret triangle is formed, does our narrator begin to tie all the pieces together. With The Tourists, Jeff Hobbs delivers a striking and stylish debut about the dark and sometimes destructive aspects of physical attraction and love, marital disillusionment, and the inevitable disappointments life can bring.