simon schuster jun 2007 (22 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As John Borne closes in on the doe he's been tracking for two days, he comes to believe she has the mysterious power to cheat death and save the life of his beloved grandfather, who is dying of cancer. ALA Best Book for Young Adults.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Four teenagers--a Native American girl, an illegal Mexican immigrant, a sheepherder's daughter and a gifted rock musician--share the hopes and promise of a future imperiled by the threat of nuclear war.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work.The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism, and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this collection. Here, in one volume, are his masterpieces of mystery, terror, humor, and adventure, including stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Pit and the Pendulum, and his finest lyric and narrative poetryThe Raven and Annabel Lee, to name just a fewthat defined American romanticism and secured Poe as one of the most enduring literary voices of the nineteenth century. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author's personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - there are two sides to every breakup.This is Jordan and Courtney, totally in love. Sure, they were an unlikely high school couple. But they clicked; it worked. They're even going to the same college, and driving cross-country together for orientation.Then Jordan dumps Courtney -- for a girl he met on the Internet.It's too late to change plans, so the road trip is on. Courtney's heartbroken, but figures she can tough it out for a few days. 'La la la' -- this is Courtney pretending not to care.But in a strange twist, Jordan cares. A lot.Turns out, he's got a secret or two that he's not telling Courtney. And it has everything to do with why they broke up, why they can't get back together, and how, in spite of it all, this couple is destined for each other.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Each of us is born with an inherent spiritual task, a sacred contract to learn to use our personal power responsibly, wisely and lovingly. World-renowned intuitive and motivational speaker Caroline Myss argues that we are most godlike, most powerful and most apt to increase our own power, when we act with true generosity towards others. For this new inspirational and spiritual teaching, Myss draws on her own experience and that of thousands of readers who wrote to her about their lives and the acts of kindness that transformed them. She includes stories of generosity, faith, emotional support and friendship and shows the many real ways that everyone has divine power and can act with it - indeed, MUST act with it. Coupling these stories with a dynamic new teaching about the innate physical/psychological/spiritual need we all have to do good - INVISIBLE ACTS OF POWER will give readers the power to harness the positive energies of hope and faith in a time of overwhelming negative news and stress.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paying tribute to the courageous men and women who are battling to change the lives of residents in the poorest inner-city communities, Robert Woodson offers 'an honest description of urban social decay, an assault on the poverty industry, and an uplifting vision for African Americans' (The Wall Street Journal).A spiritual and moral freefall has brought fear and uncertainty throughout America. Using parallels between the biblical story of Joseph and today's urban workers, The Triumphs of Joseph offers an inspiring and informative investigation on the neighborhood healers of the inner city who exemplify the imagination, courage, and self-help qualities required to renew impoverished communities. Just as Joseph rose from slavery and prison to advise the pharaoh, author Robert Woodson believes that those working at the grassroots level provide the same support to the lives of drug addicts and ex-cons in the poorest neighborhoods across America. These 'modern-day Josephs?[forge] an effective internal, spiritual response to the spiritual and moral atrophy of our civil society' (Booklist) and push for a policy beyond racial and economic considerations towards a moral and spiritual revival.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Edgar) nominee for 'Die a Little,' Abbotts latest mystery puts a feminine twist on a classic story of underworld seduction.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Four kids share a secret--a homework machine. Everything is great for a while, but soon the machine becomes more powerful than they ever imagined, and even its inventor is powerless to stop it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "It has been said, 'Seek not your destiny for it is seeking you.'" So begins this new and powerful novel from Richard Paul Evans, #1 bestselling author of The Christmas Box, The Walk series, and more.In the wake of personal tragedy, two people meet on a humanitarian mission in Peru. Christine is a shy, unadventurous woman whose fiancé broke off the engagement only a week before the wedding, and Paul is a former emergency room doctor whose glamorous lifestyle, stellar reputation, and beautiful fiancée are cruelly snatched from him one fateful, snowy Christmas Eve. Deep in the Amazon jungle, against a backdrop of poverty and heartbreak, they must confront their deepest fears and, together, learn to trust and love again.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Are we better prepared than our ancestors were to deal with climate change Explaining fast-changing science, Linden suggests that man must learn from the past to avoid a coming catastrophe. Illustrations throughout.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the countrys most acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of ten short stories centered on the devastation in Louisiana and Mississippi during and after Katrina.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Former All-Star pitcher and National League Manager of the Year Larry Dierker offers a fascinating discussion of the greatest players he has seen in his four decades in the major leagues.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Successful male model Terrance Mitchell had no plan at all to ever settle down. For what Being single was freedom, where relationships were bonding. Nor did he have any plans for a family; what, with snotty-nosed kids running around, cramping his style, and eating for free To hell with all that. Terrance loved his life as is. He was a well-travelled, good-looking, male model in an industry full of insatiable and insecure women. Beautiful women. Women who adored him. He liked it that way. And he had become accustomed to it. Then it happened. One of his beautiful women fell over the cuckoo's nest and shattered his peace of mind. From then on, Terrance could never again lead the blind mice with his flute without feeling guilty about it. He realized that women had a purpose for him. They had dreams and aspirations that included his participation. Of course, a man in his position, constantly surrounded by beautiful women, would know this already. But just because he knew what women wanted didn't mean he was capable or willing to give it to them. Nevertheless, Terrance felt inspired to try.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - America's Report Card offers a brilliant vision of contemporary American life that is frightening, darkly hilarious, and tinged with satire. John McNally tells the story of two unlucky people who forge an improbable yet possibly life-saving connection in a world overshadowed by the Patriot Act and No Child Left Behind -- a world in which hulking government bureaucracies and vast corporations join forces to numb the populace into apathy with various standardization and surveillance programs. But McNally sees hope in the daily experiences of his characters: sometimes, haphazardly, by going about their own very particular lives, people circumvent the official program and begin to actively claim lives of freedom and dignity. America's Report Card is an arresting and humane portrait of life taking place in the margins, outside the stunted imagination of government and media. As in his critically acclaimed novel The Book of Ralph, McNally dazzles with characters like Jainey O'Sullivan -- a lonely, confused, purple-and-green-haired sometime truant, Jainey cares so little about high school that on her final standardized test, she writes an essay heaping scorn on the test administrators even as she asks her faceless reader for help. Charlie Wolf leads a fairy-tale graduate student life, with just enough money and clout to keep him in books, vodka, a threadbare apartment, and a beautiful, intellectual girlfriend. But the bohemian dream starts to crumble when Charlie takes a job scoring standardized tests and finds himself surrounded by people who are either plodding blindly along or caught up in wild conspiracy theories. When Charlie and Jainey stumble upon one another, they also stumble upon their own bravery and compassion. They try to protect each other from their habitual bad luck and the shadowy threats lurking at the edges of their lives, and what ensues doesn't follow any prescribed course. The official version of American life today may get the broad strokes and primary colors right, but America's Report Card reveals how the government and the media overlook the corners and shadows where our individual realities unfold all too often in chaotic, precarious, and bewildering ways. This wholly original, wildly entertaining novel mirrors our part in the dark but frequently redemptive comedy that is life.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A groundbreaking book about Americans searching for faith and mutual respect, 'The Faith Club' interweaves the stories of three women, their three religions, and their urgent request to understand one another.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new paperback reissue of the classic, internationally bestselling book that first articulated the principles of lean production, with a new foreword by the authors.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An experienced, astute observer of Iraq presents an account of a failed American war that has resulted in the disintegration of Iraq and the further unsettling of the Middle East.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A Year in Provence' for golfers, this wry, wonderfully entertaining account chronicles what happens when golf writer Peper buys a house alongside the venerable Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland. of photos.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Susan Travers dreamed of an adventurous life, but had little chance of it until the Second World War destroyed her cafe society world and freed her from the bonds of her privileged but stifling upbringing. Leaving her peripatetic, party-girl lifestyle behind her, she drank a last cocktail at her friend Gladys's chateau, locked the door behind her and walked into history. Here for the first time, the life story of the only woman to fight for the French Legion is one that few dare to even imagine.Born to a life of privilege, Susan spends her childhood longing for excitement. After being expelled from finishing school for being too interested in men, she signed up with the Free French in 1940 and sailed to Africa where she traveled the country fighting the war and taking on lovers, eventually becoming a driver to General Koenig of the Foreign Legion. He was to become her lover and the man for whom she would risk everything. A military leader of Olympian detach, he was in private a sensitive soul, sharing poetry with Susan, including the piece from which the title of the book is taken, Tomorrow To Be Brave. He was also the man who helped change the face of Rommel's North African campaign.At the great siege of Bir Hakeim , the general's troops were surrounded for fifteen days by Rommel's Panzer division. Susan refused to leave the General's side and evetually, at the wheel of his car, led the convoy of vehicles and men across the minefields as part of a daring mass breakout. Hailed as the heroine of the night, Susan was rewarded with the love and loyalty of the legion with whom she served as its only official female member ever.In 1997 in a simple ceremony attended by the few remaining survivors of the corps with which she fought, the Legion presented Susan Travers, now a frail 88 year old, with the Legion d'Honneur--their highest award for bravery. She lives quietly to this day in a modest nursing home outside Paris where only a very few know what circuitous and fantastic a path led her there--until now.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Love and Hatred is a groundbreaking, brilliant, and touching work that explores the marriage of Leo Tolstoy, an extraordinary Russian writer, and his wife, Sonya. Bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, William L Shirer, portrait of a long and stormy marriage that serves as a biography and historical recount of the lives of both Tolstoys.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The acclaimed author of 'Hard News' presents the in-depth, inside story of the new Boston Red Sox, told with the full cooperation of the owners, management, and players who brought a World Series championship to Boston after 86 years.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The last of the Richard Bachman novels, recently recovered and published for the first time. Stephen King's 'dark half' may have saved the best for last. A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ('cancer of the pseudonym'), but in late 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine's Fogler Library ('How did this get here !'), and decided that with a little revision it ought to be published. Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. -- of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs -- and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But then George is killed, and Blaze, though haunted by his partner, is on his own. He becomes one of the most sympathetic criminals in all of literature. This is a crime story of surprising strength and sadness, with a suspenseful current sustained by the classic workings of fate and character -- as taut and riveting as Stephen King's The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.