Simon schuster okt 2015 (66 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The intrigue and royal conspiracy in the Bard's Richard III is given a dark manga twist that will appeal to aficionados of both comics and the classics.Richard, the ambitious third son of the House of York, believes he is cursed, damned from birth to eternal darkness. But is it truly fate that sets him on the path to personal destruction Or his own tormented longings Based on an early draft of Shakespeare's Richard III, Aya Kanno's dark fantasy finds the man who could be king standing between worlds, between classes, between good and evil.Richard's father, the patriarch of the House of York, seems poised to become king of medieval England during the Wars of the Roses. But just as success appears imminent, he is attacked. Now in the midst of deep despair, Richard acts out in revenge and must face a powerful and beautiful new enemy.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and a guide to how innovation really works.What talents allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their disruptive ideas into realities What led to their creative leaps Why did some succeed and others fail In his exciting saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron's daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He then explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee and Larry Page.This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so creative. It's also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity and teamwork, this book shows how they actually happen.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - It's a murder mystery on the moon in this humorous and suspenseful space adventure from the author of Belly Up and Spy School that The New York Times Book Review called "a delightful and brilliantly constructed middle grade thriller."Like his fellow lunarnautsotherwise known as Mooniesliving on Moon Base Alpha, twelve-year-old Dashiell Gibson is famous the world over for being one of the first humans to live on the moon. And he's bored out of his mind. Kids aren't allowed on the lunar surface, meaning they're trapped inside the tiny moon base with next to nothing to occupy their timeand the only other kid Dash's age spends all his time hooked into virtual reality games. Then Moon Base Alpha's top scientist turns up dead. Dash senses there's foul play afoot, but no one believes him. Everyone agrees Dr. Holtz went onto the lunar surface without his helmet properly affixed, simple as that. But Dr. Holtz was on the verge of an important new discovery, Dash finds out, and it's a secret that could change everything for the Mooniesa secret someone just might kill to keep.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Aerosmith's lead guitarist Joe Perry opens up for the first time to tell the riveting inside story of his lifeinside the band, featuring everyone from Jimmy Page to Alice Cooper, Bette Midler to Chuck Berry, John Belushi to Al Hirschfeld. Before the platinum records or the Super Bowl half-time show or the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Joe Perry was a boy growing up in small town Massachusetts. But the guitar became his passion, an object of lust, an outlet for his restlessness and his rebellious soul. That passion quickly blossomed into an obsession, and he got a band together. One night after a performance he met a brash young musician named Steven Tyler; before long, Aerosmith was born. What happened over the next forty-five years has become the stuff of legend: the knock-down, drag-out, band splintering fights; the drugs, the booze, the rehab; the packed arenas and timeless hits; the reconciliations and the comebacks. Full of humour, insight and brutal honesty about life in and out of one of the biggest bands in modern history, Rocks is also the story of a dedicated family man in a thirty-year marriage who has navigated the pressures of an extreme lifestyle. In Perry's own words, it tells the whole story.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A collection of vivid fragments engaging with ethical and sceptical themes by means of an engagement with several major European thinkers, including Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Levinas and Wittgenstein.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Escape to a hotel by the beach with Melissa Hill, the internationally bestselling author of SOMETHING FROM TIFFANY'S and A GIFT TO REMEMBER. Mulberry Hotel, perched on a clifftop above a sweeping bay, was once the heart and soul of pretty seaside town Mulberry Bay. Run by the Harte family for years, the place itself is almost as beloved as cheery landlady Anna. The hotel was also once home to thirty-something sisters Eleanor and Penny, and while youngest sister Penny still lives close by, it's been some time since Elle has visited. But following a family tragedy, Elle is forced to return from her busy London life and reassess her past.When it becomes apparent that the hotel is in dire straits, Elle and Penny are unprepared for the reaction of their father, Ned, He steadfastly refuses to give up the family legacy, revealing that he's given up something equally precious once before. Startled by their father's surprising revelation, the sisters unite, with the local community behind them, in their efforts to save the hotel - and, in the process, heal the fractures in the Harte family.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Abrilliant Murphy and Rossi police procedural from Luca Veste,called 'A writer to watch' by Mark Billingham. Social media stars Chloe Morrison and Joe Hooper seem to have it all - until their bodies are found following an anonymous phone call to their high-profile agent. Tied and bound to chairs facing each other, their violent deaths cause a media scrum to descend on Liverpool, with DI David Murphy and DS Laura Rossi assigned to the case.It quickly becomes clear that the killer believes secrets and lies within relationships should have deadly consequences. 'This is a twisty, psychological crime debut in a gritty setting: a new favourite for police procedural lovers' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go, on Dead Gone 'Top read for police-procedural aficionados looking for a fresh beat' The Times Crime Club 'An utterly compelling story of murder and celebrity culture in the age of social media obsession' Eva Dolan 'Luca Veste is leading the new wave in British crime fiction, using mystery novels to explore social issues, armed with heart, insight, and anger' Jay Stringer 'A dark, thrilling ride' Stav Sherez.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How does one describe the indescribable With trust, the words will come to paint a faint image of that which lives and dwells in us all. This is a true story of a blessed life that through a series of events went to a dark place of abusive relationships and drug addiction, until one night while sitting in a car, Sharon Kay Casey's path changed forever, when she heard God's voice say, "Trust me." A few years later she entered a place of golden light. "When stillness comes flowing over like a well springing from the depths of our being We see your face, faint at first then brilliantly shining with many lights brighter than the sun itself. We witness the universe moving within you, swirling slowly, then like a spiraling vortex with lights of many colors like precious stones of unspeakable brilliance. Within your being, surely all the heavens dwell. Beams of lightning extend from your head and we your Children of Light stand in awe and wonder.".…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Soon to be a TV show on Hulu Eve Babitz is a writer like no othershe "is to prose what Chet Baker is to jazz" (Vanity Fair)and she has influenced a generation of writers and readers with her sophisticated, witty, and delightful work. L.A. Woman is quintessential Babitz, the story of Sophie, a twenty-something blonde Jim Morrison groupie gliding through a golden existence in L.A. and Lola, a German immigrant who settles in Hollywood in the twenties to drive Pierce Arrows recklessly down Sunset Boulevard and who knows that Maybelline mascara cakes and Rudolph Valentino are the essence of life. Sophie and Lola, like the many other women who move in and out of this electric saga know that while L.A. is constantly changing it is essentially eternal; through their eyes we see the mixture of high culture and low, the promises of youth and the fulfillment of nostalgia, the pink sunsets and the palm trees that are L.A. And through this fantastic tale, Babitz shares what it is to be a woman in what she convinces us is the capital of civilization.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A boy learns the secret to locating his missing stuffed bunny in this picture book about the extraordinary power of imagination, from the team behind the phenomenally bestselling The Secret. When Henry's beloved stuffed rabbit, Raspberry, goes missing, he enlists his whole family to help him search for the missing toy. But Raspberry can't be found.Then Henry's grandfather suggests that Henry use his imagination to find his rabbit. Will the power of Henry's imagination bring Raspberry back Or is Raspberry gone for good Depicting the love of a boy for his toy and the power of friendship, The Power of Henry's Imagination is sure to become an instant classic.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The adventures that Madam Midnight began in Scandalicious continue as the secret dominatrix satisfies the erotic desires of her communityand herself.To the public, Quintouria Stevens is viewed as a socialite and successful businesswoman, but behind closed doors, she assumes the identity of Madam Midnight, a dominatrix and founding member of a secret society that caters to its members' darkest desires. Madam M's unlikely marriage to her butler has not enhanced the poor man's social standing as he'd hoped. He is still relegated to maintaining the household affairs, managing the staff, and overseeing the rotation of his wife's numerous lovers. For Madam M and her butler, life is an endless stream of decadent parties where hedonism and debauchery abound. When the exotic chef, Nico Branford, takes over Madam M's kitchen, he stirs the pot in more ways than one. His culinary skills, along with his rugged good looks and undeniable sex appeal, cause quite a commotion among the household staff as well as the dinner guests. But when he's summoned to Madam M's bedroom, the chef refuses to become merely another conquest, and he won't be satisfied until the dominatrix has released control and surrendered to him. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Essential, required reading for doctors and patients alike: A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and one of the world's premiere cancer researchers reveals an urgent philosophy on the little-known principles that govern medicineand how understanding these principles can empower us all.Over a decade ago, when Siddhartha Mukherjee was a young, exhausted, and isolated medical resident, he discovered a book that would forever change the way he understood the medical profession. The book, The Youngest Science, forced Dr. Mukherjee to ask himself an urgent, fundamental question: Is medicine a "science" Sciences must have lawsstatements of truth based on repeated experiments that describe some universal attribute of nature. But does medicine have laws like other sciences Dr. Mukherjee has spent his career pondering this questiona question that would ultimately produce some of most serious thinking he would do around the tenets of his disciplineculminating in The Laws of Medicine. In this important treatise, he investigates the most perplexing and illuminating cases of his career that ultimately led him to identify the three key principles that govern medicine. Brimming with fascinating historical details and modern medical wonders, this important book is a fascinating glimpse into the struggles and Eureka! moments that people outside of the medical profession rarely see. Written with Dr. Mukherjee's signature eloquence and passionate prose, The Laws of Medicine is a critical read, not just for those in the medical profession, but for everyone who is moved to better understand how their health and well-being is being treated. Ultimately, this book lays the groundwork for a new way of understanding medicine, now and into the future.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of Primary Colors, ?a remarkably sensitive story of a generation? (The New York Times Book Review): The critically acclaimed true story of five Marines who fought together in a bloody battle during the Vietnam War, barely escaping with their lives, and of what happened when they came home.In 1981, while the country was celebrating the end of the Iran hostage crisis, an unemployed Vietnam veteran named Gary Cooper went berserk with a gun, angry over the jubilant welcome the hostages received in contrast to his own homecoming from Vietnam, and was killed in a fight with police. In what has been called ?the most eloquent work of nonfiction to emerge from Vietnam since Michael Herr's Dispatches? (The New York Times), Joe Klein tells Cooper's story, as well as the stories of four of the other vets in Cooper's platoon. The story begins with an ambush and a grisly battle in the Que Son Valley in 1967, but Payback is less about remembering the war and more about examining its long-term effects on the grunts who fought it. Klein fills in the next fifteen years of these Marines' lives after they return home, with ?the sort of fine and private detail one ordinarily finds only in fiction? (People). The experiences of these five men capture the struggles of a whole generation of Vietnam veterans and their families. Klein's ?near-hypnotic? account (Daily News, New York) is, to this day, both a remarkable piece of reporting and ?some of the most vivid, harrowing, and emotionally honest writing to come out of Vietnam? (The Washington Post Book World).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In today's increasingly dangerous world, threats to your personal safety are everywhere. From acts of terror to mass shootings, and from the unseen (and sometimes virtual) matrix of everyday crime, danger is no longer confined to dark alleys or unstable regions. Potentially life-threatening circumstances can arise anywhere, anytime, and Clint Emerson-former Navy SEAL-wants you to be prepared. 100 Deadly Skills contains proven self-defense skills, evasion tactics, and immobilizing maneuvers-modified from the world of black ops-to help you take action in numerous 'worst case' scenarios from escaping a locked trunk, to making an improvised Taser, to tricking facial recognition software. With easy-to-understand instructions and illustrations, Emerson outlines in detail many life-saving strategies and teaches you how to think and act like a member of the special forces. This complete course in survival teaches you how to prevent tracking, evade a kidnapping, elude an active shooter, rappel down the side of a building, immobilize a bad guy, protect yourself against cyber-criminals, and much more-all using low-tech to 'no-tech' methods. Clear, detailed, and presented in an easy-to-understand and execute format, 100 Deadly Skills is an invaluable resource. Because let's face it, when danger is imminent, you don't have time for complicated instructions. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An utterly unique history book that attempts to chronicle the life & times of the real Robyn Hoode from the perspective of a genuine historical character & in the form of a complete journal of his life, & the lives of those around him. The result is possibly the most complete genuine framework for the investigation & discovery of a character that represents heroic resistance to powerful & corrupt authority the world over, but who appears here as a solitary mortal man with all his human failings. Utterly relevant to modern archaeological & historical investigation, this voyage of discovery reveals hidden mysteries of the true power of the north at the time of the founding of democracy through Magna Carta 800 years ago & includes a gazetteer of sites to visit & all the latest discoveries.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Renowned blogger and Middle East expert Juan Cole takes us ?inside the youth movements in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, showing us how activists used technology and social media to amplify their message and connect with like-minded citizens? (The New York Times) in this ?rousing study of the Arab Spring? (Publishers Weekly, starred review).For three decades, Cole has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. In The New Arabs he has written ?an elegant, carefully delineated synthesis of the complicated, intertwined facets of the Arab uprisings,? (Kirkus Reviews), illuminating the role of today's Arab youth?who they are, what they want, and how they will affect world politics. Not all big groups of teenagers and twenty-somethings necessarily produce historical movements centered on their identity as youth, with a generational set of organizations, symbols, and demands rooted at least partially in the distinctive problems of people their age. The Arab Millennials did. And, in a provocative, big-picture argument about the future of the Arab world, The New Arabs shows just how they did it. ?Engaging, powerful, and comprehensive.The book feels as indispensable to scholars as it is insightful for a more casual reader? (Los Angeles Times).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\*"Science Friday" Summer Reading Pick\*\* \*\*Discover magazine Top 5 Summer Reads\*\* \*\*People magazine Best Summer Reads\*\* "A lovely, big-hearted bookbrimming with compassion and the tales of the many, many humans who devote their days to making animals well" (The New York Times).Have you ever wondered if your dog might be a bit depressed How about heartbroken or homesick Animal Madness takes these questions seriously, exploring the topic of mental health and recovery in the animal kingdom and turning up lessons that Publishers Weekly calls "IlluminatingBraitman's delightful balance of humor and poignancy brings each case of life.[Animal Madness's] continuous dose of hope should prove medicinal for humans and animals alike." Susan Orlean calls Animal Madness "a marvelous, smart, eloquent bookas much about human emotion as it is about animals and their inner lives." It is "a gemthat can teach us much about the wildness of our own minds" (Psychology Today).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of the most influential, admired, and colorful women of our time: fashion designer and philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg tells the most personal stories from her life, about family, love, beauty and business: "It's so good, you'll want to take notes" (People).Diane von Furstenberg started with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of who she wanted to bein her words, "the kind of woman who is independent and who doesn't rely on a man to pay her bills." She has since become that woman, establishing herself as a major force in the fashion industry, all the while raising a family, maintaining that "my children are my greatest creation." In The Woman I Wanted to Be, "an intriguing page-turner filled with revelations" (More), von Furstenberg reflects on her extraordinary lifefrom her childhood in Brussels to her days as a young, jet-set princess, to creating the dress that came to symbolize independence and power for generations of women. With remarkable honesty and wisdom, von Furstenberg mines the rich territory of what it means to be a woman. She opens up about her family and career, overcoming cancer, building a global brand, and devoting herself to empowering other women. This "inspiring, compelling, deliciously detailed celebrity autobiographyis as much of a smashing success as the determined, savvy, well-intentioned woman who wrote it" (Chicago Tribune). …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We are all Mediums, fully capable of learning to bridge the gap between this world and the next. Just like any other skill or ability, connecting with the other side can be taught, learned, and mastered. This extraordinary book is a unique guide that takes readers on a captivating journey from the beginnings of a spiritual practice to communicating with the dearly departed. Throughout the book, Mary-Anne explains how the process of mediumship works, and illustrates a critical path to follow, full of specific exercises and other indispensable learning tools, helping to guide you every step of the way.Mary-Anne shares her personal experiences with grief, fear, and anxiety, and talks about how instrumental learning to meditate and learning to speak with spirit were in her own healing. Through examples of her own mediumship practice, she also enlightens readers with messages from heaven about love, forgiveness, healing, and moving on with our lives here in the physical world.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discover the surprising secrets that will help you lose weight fast and keep it off?without dieting or exercise?with this #1 national bestseller from the author of the healthy living bible, 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse!Want to lose weight without counting calories, starving yourself, or giving up your favorite foods Would you like to look and feel younger and healthier than ever without crash diets or exhausting exercise Then this book is for you! JJ Smith's breakthrough weight-loss solution can help you shed pounds fast by detoxifying your body, balancing your hormones, and speeding up your metabolism. You'll learn how toxins slow your metabolism and why sugar and starch hinder permanent weight loss. You'll also come to a keen understanding of which foods help you stay slim and which foods cause you to get fat so you can finally get off the rollercoaster ride of weight loss/weight gain and stay slim for life! You will learn how to: -Detoxify your body for fast weight loss -Drop pounds and inches fast, without grueling workouts or starvation -Lose up to fifteen pounds in the first three weeks -Shed unwanted fat by eating foods you love, including carbs -Get rid of stubborn belly fat -Eat foods that give you glowing, radiant skin -Use green smoothies to detox -Trigger your six fat-burning hormones to lose weight effortlessly -Eat so you feel energetic and alive every day -Get physically active without exercising In a bonus chapter, JJ provides an all-new green smoothie recipe and tips for using her famed 10-Day Green Smoothie Cleanse to jump start the healthier eating and weight loss plan outlined in Lose Weight Without Dieting or Working Out. This is your last stop on the way to a new fit and healthy you! Create your best body?NOW.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presidential candidates often talk about being uniters. They pledge to break through the partisan gridlock in Washington. They vow to bring Democrats and Republicans together to tackle the nation's most vexing problems. But they never explain how they plan to do this - and their promises rarely translate to action. In this volume, NO LABELS provides a real strategy for how - how today's political leaders can finally unite a divided country to solve urgent problems, from stagnating wages to social safety net programs heading toward insolvency. This groundbreaking plan of action is called the National Strategic Agenda. It begins with goals for the country that come straight from the American people and ends with a commitment by the next president to embark on this bipartisan problem-solving process within 30 days of taking the oath of office. The National Strategic Agenda has already gained the support of major figures in business, economics, academia, policy and politics, and more than 65 members of Congress. In this timely book, arguably the most important you will read during the 2016 campaign season, NO LABELS co-chairs Gov. Jon Huntsman and Sen. Joe Lieberman are joined by other leaders who've been on the front lines of problem solving in politics and business to make a strong case for this new governing framework.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Dispatches from Pluto, adventure writer Richard Grant takes on 'the most American place on Earth'-the enigmatic, beautiful, often derided Mississippi Delta.Richard Grant and his girlfriend were living in a shoebox apartment in New York City when they decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. Dispatches from Pluto-winner of the Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize-is their journey of discovery into this strange and wonderful American place. Imagine A Year In Provence with alligators and assassins, or Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil with hunting scenes and swamp-to-table dining. On a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto, Richard and his girlfriend, Mariah, embark on a new life. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters-blues legend T-Model Ford, cookbook maven Martha Foose, catfish farmers, eccentric millionaires, and the actor Morgan Freeman. Grant brings an adept, empathetic eye to the fascinating people he meets, capturing the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, while tracking its utterly bizarre and criminal extremes. Reporting from all angles as only an outsider can, Grant also delves deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. He finds that de facto segregation continues. Yet even as he observes major structural problems, he encounters many close, loving, and interdependent relationships between black and white families-and good reasons for hope. Dispatches from Pluto is a book as unique as the Delta itself. It's lively, entertaining, and funny, containing a travel writer's flair for in-depth reporting alongside insightful reflections on poverty, community, and race. It's also a love story, as the nomadic Grant learns to settle down. He falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home. Mississippi, Grant concludes, is the best-kept secret in America.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A book discussing the work of leading paranormal investigator Jayne Harris and her studies into haunted objects.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this caring and candid guide to difficult and central issues surrounding sobriety, Jack Mumey shares the skills necessary to improve relationships while remaining in recovery.For people in sobriety, a successful relationship involves the ability to engage in sexual activities and relationships without having to return to the use of alcohol or some other drug. While the idea of sober sex can be frightening, working through the fear can bring great rewards to a relationship. In this frank and supportive book, Jack Mumey encourages readers to face their fears and learn how to change their sexual behavior. Using projects and exercises, Sex and Sobriety will help readers understand the negative effect alcohol may have had on relationships while enabling readers to get back in touch with their own sexuality. The projects within this book will help reconnect partners by strengthening the bonds of commitment, communication, trust, and respect that are essential to a satisfying, sober sex life.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A "candid, behind-the-scenes" (The Dallas Morning News) memoir from one of our most distinguished ambassadors whoin his career of service to the countrywas sent to some of the most dangerous outposts of American diplomacy.Christopher Hill was on the front lines in the Balkans at the breakup of Yugoslavia. He participated in one-on-one meetings with the dictator Milosevic and traveled to Bosnia and Kosovo, and to the Dayton conference, where a truce was arrived at. He was the first American Ambassador to Macedonia; Ambassador to Poland, in the cold war; chief disarmament negotiator in North Korea; and Hillary Clinton's hand-picked Ambassador to Iraq. Outpost is Hill's "lively, entertainingintroduction to the difficult game of diplomacy" (The Washington Post)an adventure story of danger, loss of comrades, high stakes negotiations, and imperfect options. There are fascinating portraits of war criminals (Mladic, Karadzic), of presidents (Bush, Clinton, and Obama), of vice presidents including Dick Cheney, of Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, and of Ambassadors Richard Holbrooke and Lawrence Eagleburger, among others. Hill writes bluntly about the bureaucratic warfare in DC and expresses strong criticism of America's aggressive interventions and wars of choice. From the wars in the Balkans to the brutality of North Korea to the endless war in Iraq, Outpost "is a personal story, filled with the intricacies of living abroad, coping with the bureaucracy of the huge US foreign-policy establishment, and trying to persuade some very difficult people that America really does want to help them" (Providence Journal).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Teddy Fitzroy returns as FunJungle's resident zoo sleuth when a rhinoceros is at risk in Big Game, a companion to Belly Up and Poachedwhich Kirkus Reviews called a "thrill-ride of a mystery."When someone takes aim at Rhonda Rhino, FunJungle's pregnant (and endangered) Asian greater one-horned rhinoceros, the zoo steps up security measures in order to protect this rare animal and her baby. But the extra security isn't enoughsomeone is still getting too close for comfort. Teddy and company start to suspect that whoever is after Rhonda is really after her horn, which is worth a lot of money on the black market. For the first time ever, the head of the zoo enlists Teddy for helpfor once, he doesn't have to sneak around in order to investigateand the results are even more wacky, and even more dangerous, than ever before. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Delilah and Gavin's new love is threatened by a force uncomfortably close to home in this haunting novel from New York Times bestselling duo Christina Lauren.His shirt is black, jeans are black, and shaggy black hair falls into his eyes. And when Gavin looks up at Delilah, the dark eyes shadowed with bluish circles seem to flicker to life. He lives in that house, the one at the edge of town. Spooky and maybe haunted. Something worse than haunted. And Gavin is trapped by its secrets. Delilah and Gavin can't resist each other. But staying together will exact a price beyond their imagining.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Freezing Order, the follow-up to Red Notice, is available now! "[Red Notice] does for investing in Russia and the former Soviet Union what Liar's Poker did for our understanding of Salomon Brothers, Wall Street, and the mortgage-backed securities business in the 1980s. Browder's business saga meshes well with the story of corruption and murder in Vladimir Putin's Russia, making Red Notice an early candidate for any list of the year's best books" (Fortune). "Part John Grisham-like thriller, part business and political memoir." The New York TimesThis is a story about an accidental activist. Bill Browder started out his adult life as the Wall Street maverick whose instincts led him to Russia just after the breakup of the Soviet Union, where he made his fortune. Along the way he exposed corruption, and when he did, he barely escaped with his life. His Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky wasn't so lucky: he ended up in jail, where he was tortured to death. That changed Browder forever. He saw the murderous heart of the Putin regime and has spent the last half decade on a campaign to expose it. Because of that, he became Putin's number one enemy, especially after Browder succeeded in having a law passed in the United StatesThe Magnitsky Actthat punishes a list of Russians implicated in the lawyer's murder. Putin famously retaliated with a law that bans Americans from adopting Russian orphans. A financial caper, a crime thriller, and a political crusade, Red Notice is the story of one man taking on overpowering odds to change the world, and also the story of how, without intending to, he found meaning in his life.…