simon schuster sep 2014 (42 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Miffy's uncle has come to visit and is going to take her on a trip. They fly up high and see the world from above.Award-winning UK poet, Tony Mitton, has worked closely with Dick Bruna's Dutch publisher to create new translations for the classic Miffy stories that are true to the books' original voice, and yet have a contemporary feel to the language that makes them appealing to the modern young audience. The translations beautifully convey the warmth and friendliness of the original Dutch whilst maintaining a style that is inimitably Miffy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Miffy's only a little rabbit now, but she dreams of a time when she will be old enough to ride her very own bicycle. Join her as she dreams of all the adventures she will have. Award-winning UK poet, Tony Mitton, has worked closely with Dick Bruna's Dutch publisher to create new translations for the classic Miffy stories that are true to the books' original voice, and yet have a contemporary feel to the language that makes them appealing to the modern young audience. The translations beautifully convey the warmth and friendliness of the original Dutch whilst maintaining a style that is inimitably Miffy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Life for music teacher Maggie Schafer has been full of flat notes lately. Sick of being single and celibate, she vows to get her groove back at the upcoming Western Washington Choral Directors Annual Retreat.Too bad the only guy who seems interested is a pompous dork who thinks he's God's gift to women-and the music education world. When he gets a little too arrogant and crosses boundaries, gorgeous pianist Randy Devers swoops in to run interference. After sharing a shockingly hot kiss in front of the whole conference, Maggie and Randy come up with a plan to pretend they're dating.However, the more time they spend together-and the more physical their 'pretend' relationship gets-the more she wonders if there could be anything beyond just smoking chemistry and a friendly agreement between them.Maggie's got history, Randy's got baggage, and they've got a weekend to get their rhythms in sync and figure out how to turn their solo lives into a beautiful duet.Sensuality Level: Sensual.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Join Miffy at school, where she learns to draw, write, read and sing. But Miffy's favourite thing is when the teacher reads the class a story. Award-winning UK poet, Tony Mitton, has worked closely with Dick Bruna's Dutch publisher to create new translations for the classic Miffy stories that are true to the books' original voice, and yet have a contemporary feel to the language that makes them appealing to the modern young audience. The translations beautifully convey the warmth and friendliness of the original Dutch whilst maintaining a style that is inimitably Miffy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In The Long Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by exploring the true impact of 1914-18 on the 20th century. Some of the Great War's legacies were negative and pernicious but others proved transformative in a positive sense. Exploring big themes such as democracy and empire, nationalism and capitalism and re-examining the differing impacts of the War on Britain, Ireland and the United States, The Long Shadow throws light on the whole of the last century and demonstrates that 1914-18 is a conflict that Britain, more than any other nation, is still struggling to comprehend. Stunningly broad in its historical perspective, The Long Shadow is a magisterial and seismic re-presentation of the Great War.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ranulph Fiennes has entered the public imagination as the intrepid explorer par excellance. Taunted by his wife over the challenge of the never-before attempted circumpolar navigation of the globe, he set off in 1979 on a gruelling 52,000 mile adventure. Together with fellow members of 21 SAS regiment, Fiennes left from Greenwich, travelling over land, passing through both ends of the polar axis. Completed over three years later, it was the first circumpolar navigation of the globe, and justifiably entered Fiennes into the record books.TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH is the record of that journey. It captures the natural beauty of the landscapes they passed through, and the cameraderie that necessarily grows between men who had served in the British forces' elite regiment and were now throwing themselves into danger of a different sort. Time and again, the expedition found themselves in life-threatening situations, weaving through the pack ice of the Arctic Ocean or sharing a single sleeping bag to ward off the -40 degrees celsius Arctic night. The calm and measured approach which made Fiennes such a great expedition leader shines through TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, deftly recreating the last unexplored regions on earth.It is also a book which lays the foundations for what was to come for Fiennes, confirming a need to exist outside the comfortable norms the rest of us inhabit. As the expedition progresses, there is also a mounting sense of tension as attainment of the final goal also spells the end of the adventure. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH is a compelling account of one journey and Fiennes' drive to push himself to ever further extremes.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Top art expert Gemma Gilmore can easily spot a fake from across a crowded gallery. So she wonders why the smoking-hot man standing alone in the far corner of the auction room isn't bidding. She and her killer five-inch pumps vow to find out.Mac Buchanan is on an undercover assignment that leaves no room for small talk and soft emotions. When one of the expensive paintings Gemma authenticated turns out to be a fake, he's the prime investigator, and he's determined not to let her breathtaking sex appeal whitewash a serious crime.But even facing off over a $50 million art fraud case isn't enough to contain their blazing sexual chemistry. Time and again, passion draws them together, but they're driven apart by an ever-increasing web of lies, set-ups, and betrayals.When the truth behind the fraud is revealed, will their relationship shatter or will they discover their intense connection is the real thing Sensuality Level: Spicy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A.J. Owens is a woman on a mission. Convinced that her sister's abusive marriage to Mike Towers drove her to kill herself, A.J. travels to his Texas ranch and concocts a daring plan to get closer to her brother-in-law. She's also determined to rescue the champion racehorse he stole, Rebel Dorado, even if it means pretending to seduce the man.Towers's head of security, Chance Landin, knows there's something fishy about this gorgeous blonde seductress. But when he discovers her real agenda, the former marine is more than happy to help-he's got his own plans for revenge against Towers. After the man framed his uncle for the cold-blooded murder of the thoroughbreds he cared for, Chance swore he'd bring him down.They're both determined to expose the madman's deadly secrets, but when romance begins to spark between them, will love triumph over revenge Sensuality Level: Sensual.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Give your life away and discover God's unique purpose for you.As a first grader living deep in the Liberian jungle, Palmer Chinchen watched a young African girl quietly pull the shoes off her feether only shoes, her only protection from the parasites that crawl between the toes of so many tribal childrento slip them on his sister's feet, whose shoes were left behind in their burning bamboo mat house in the bush. That image of tribal love and empathy has stayed with Palmer and continues to drive his passions. Today, Palmer sees a new kind of tribe forming with the same kind of desires, a tribe of people who are bothered by the brokenness all around, who are passionate about goodness, justice, and beauty. They are leaving their places of comfort to feed the hungry, give clean water to the thirsty, build houses for the homeless, share clothes with the shivering and shoes with the barefoot. This tribe is ready to change the world for good, and we, too, must heed that call today. Conversational, fresh, and accessible, Barefoot Tribe dares us to break past the safe confines of our manicured suburbs and polished shopping malls to take action, take risks, and remake the world into one more like what Jesus had in mind. Your time to act is now. God wants your life. Will you speak up, step out, and do something incredibletoday.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -The New York Times bestselling "manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world's most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom" (The Wall Street Journal).Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closingand fast. In Abundance, space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years. We will soon have the ability to meet and exceed the basic needs of every person on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp. Breaking down human needs by categorywater, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedomDiamandis and Kotler introduce us to innovators and industry captains making tremendous strides in each area. "Not only is Abundance a riveting page-turner?but it's a book that gives us a future worth fighting for" (The Christian Science Monitor).Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld 412 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Getting a life do-over in the small theater town of Ashland, Oregon, has suited lawyer Julie Payne to a T. After ten years in the Portland prosecutor's office, she's enjoying her new, easy lifestyle, and she's not looking for any complications.Trace Watkins comes to town seeking the same refuge from life as a big city banker. A new job might make Ashland his permanent address, and he likes what he sees of the place, especially when he meets Julie one hot Halloween night.The sparks fly instantly between the costumed couple, and Julie and Trace waste no time connecting beneath the sheets while literally hiding behind their masks.But when the holiday hook-up ends, their real identities present a serious snag: Trace manages the bank Julie happens to be suing. The only way they can turn this trick into a treat is if both of them are willing to face their pasts and finally bury the skeletons in their closets.Sensuality Level: Sensual.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Family first. That motto has ruled Angie Corcarelli's life since she took over her beloved late father's construction business. When she discovers a new highway project will destroy the homes he once helped build, she'll fight passionately to protect his legacy-even if it means battling her best friend's stuffy and infuriating ex.Stuart Perrault also knows a thing or two about family allegiance. For the past fifteen years, he's worked hard for his family's engineering firm, waiting for the day he'd be named CEO. But a recent botched project has shaken his father's faith in him. The last thing he needs now is a loose cannon like Angie interfering with the new highway plans.When Stuart's father insists he wine and dine Angie to change her mind, he reluctantly obliges, but soon wonders if he's bitten off more than he can chew. The fiery carpenter isn't as irrational as he expected, and she has a knack for making his strident self-control unravel.The more time Angie spends with Stuart, the harder it is to see him as the cold, calculating guy she'd believed him to be. But falling for each other would mean disloyalty to their respective families. Are their feelings strong enough to warrant challenging their family ties Sensuality Level: Sensual.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Maddux Bates's Formula One racecar isn't the only thing that needs an overhaul this season. The Texan rebel's bad boy behavior on and off-track last year won him the championship-and an image problem. Now he needs to keep his sponsors happy, his car on course, and his exploits out of the tabloids.Oncologist Brynn Douglas spent the last dozen years buried in school, patient charts, and research. But the reality of practicing medicine-at least at the prestigious Gates Institute-isn't what she'd hoped. Then a seventy-year-old billionaire shows up in her office with an irresistible proposition: play the role of his girlfriend while secretly treating his blood cancer as they travel the F1 circuit.When their paths collide, Maddux quickly sets his sights on Brynn. He's used to taking what he wants, but if the media catches him romancing a seemingly taken woman, the bad press might get him fired. One complicated relationship should be more than enough for Brynn, but every time she sees the sexy Texan, their attraction burns hotter.Falling in love on the F1 circuit is a crash course in adrenaline. Will Maddux and Brynn's race to the finish end in a total blowout or total victory Sensuality Level: Sensual.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The New York Times bestselling 'manifesto for the future that is grounded in practical solutions addressing the world's most pressing concerns: overpopulation, food, water, energy, education, health care and freedom' (The Wall Street Journal).Since the dawn of humanity, a privileged few have lived in stark contrast to the hardscrabble majority. Conventional wisdom says this gap cannot be closed. But it is closing-and fast.In Abundance, space entrepreneur turned innovation pioneer Peter H. Diamandis and award-winning science writer Steven Kotler document how progress in artificial intelligence, robotics, digital manufacturing synthetic biology, and other exponentially growing technologies will enable us to make greater gains in the next two decades than we have in the previous 200 years. We will soon have the ability to meet and exceed the basic needs of every person on the planet. Abundance for all is within our grasp.Breaking down human needs by category-water, food, energy, healthcare, education, freedom-Diamandis and Kotler introduce us to innovators and industry captains making tremendous strides in each area. 'Not only is Abundance a riveting page-turner.but it's a book that gives us a future worth fighting for' (The Christian Science Monitor).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'From the legendary founder of Atari and Chuck E. Cheese's and Steve Jobs's first boss, the secrets to finding, hiring, keeping, and nurturing creative talent. The business world is changing faster than ever, and every day your company faces new complications and difficulties. The only way to resolve these issues is to have a staff of wildly creative people who live as much in the future as the present, who thrive on being different, and whose ideas will guarantee that your company will prosper when other companies fail. A celebrated visionary and iconoclast, Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari before he went on to found Chuck E. Cheese's and two dozen other companies. He also happened to launch the career of the late Steve Jobs, along with those of many other brilliant creatives over the course of his five decades in business. With refreshing candor, keen psychological insight, and robust humor, Bushnell explains in Finding the Next Steve Jobs how to think boldly and differently about companies and organizations--and specifically the people who work within them. For anyone trying to turn a company into the next Atari or Apple, build a more creative workforce, or fashion a career in a changing world, this book will enlighten, challenge, surprise, and amuse'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Secrets prove deadly in book two of the Burn for Burn trilogy from New York Times bestselling author of To All the Boys I've Loved Before (soon to be a major motion picture!), Jenny Han, and New York Times bestselling author of The List, Siobhan Vivian.Lillia, Kat, and Mary had the perfect plan. Work together in secret to take down the people who wronged them. But things didn't exactly go the way they'd hoped at the Homecoming Dance. Not even close. For now, it looks like they got away with it. All they have to do is move on and pick up the pieces, forget there was ever a pact. But there is something seriously wrong with sweet, little Mary. If she can't control her anger, she's sure someone will get hurt. Mary understands now that it's not just that Reeve bullied herit's that he made her love him. It seems once a fire is lit, the only thing you can do is let it burn.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this prequel to The Bookseller, former FBI profiler Hugo Marston has just become head of security at the US Embassy in London. He's asked to protect a famous movie-star couple, Dayton Harper and Ginny Ferro, who, while filming a movie in rural England, killed a local man in a hit and run.The task turns from routine to disastrous almost immediately. Before Hugo even meets them, he finds out that Ferro has disappeared, and her body has been found hanging from an oak tree in a London cemetery. Hours later a distraught Harper gives Hugo the slip, and Hugo has no idea where he's run off to.Taking cues from a secretive young lady named Merlyn, and with a Member of Parliament along for the chase, Hugo's search leads to a quaint English village. There, instead of finding Harper, more bodies turn up. Teaming with local detectives and then venturing dangerously out on his own, Hugo struggles to find connections between the victims. Is this the work of a serial killer-or something else entirely Knowing he's being tailed, the killer prepares for the final, public act of his murderous plan, and Hugo arrives just in time to play his part. . . .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The "compelling," untold story of the man who captured and brought to trial Rudolf Hössone of Nazi Germany's most notorious war criminals and subject of the Oscar-nominated film The Zone of Interest"fascinates and shocks" (The Washington Post).May 1945. In the aftermath of the Second World War, the first British War Crimes Investigation Team is assembled to hunt down the senior Nazi officials responsible for the greatest atrocities the world has ever seen. One of the lead investigators is Lieutenant Hanns Alexander, a German Jew who is now serving in the British Army. Rudolf Höss is his most elusive target. As Kommandant of Auschwitz, Höss not only oversaw the murder of more than one million men, women, and children; he was the man who perfected Hitler's program of mass extermination. Höss is on the run across a continent in ruins, the one man whose testimony can ensure justice at Nuremberg. Hanns and Rudolf reveals for the very first time the full, exhilarating account of Höss's capture, an encounter with repercussions that echo to this day. Moving from the Middle Eastern campaigns of World War I to bohemian Berlin in the 1920s to the horror of the concentration camps and the trials in Belsen and Nuremberg, it tells the story of two German menone Jewish, one Catholicwhose lives diverged, and intersected, in an astonishing way. This is "one of those true stories that illuminates a small justice in the aftermath of the Holocaust, an event so huge and heinous that there can be no ultimate justice" (New York Daily News).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - "Lady Pamela Hicks's joyously entertaining new memoir, arguably the poshest book that ever has or will be written" (Newsweek), is a privileged glimpse into the lives and loves of some of the twentieth century's leading figures. Pamela Mountbatten entered a remarkable family when she was born in Madrid at the very end of the roaring twenties. Daughter of the glamorous heiress Edwina Ashley and Lord Louis Mountbatten, Pamela spent much of her early life with her sister, nannies, and servantsnot to mention a menagerie of animals that included, at different times, a honey bear, chameleons, a bush baby, and a mongoose. Her parents' vast social circle included royalty, film stars, celebrities, and politicians. Noel Coward invited Pamela to watch him film, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. dropped in for tea. However, when war broke out Pamela and her sister were sent to New York to live with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt while the prime minister appointed her father to be the last Viceroy of India. Amid the turmoil, Pamela came of age, meeting the student leaders who had been released from jail, working in the canteen for Allied forces and in a clinic outside Delhi. She also developed a close bond with Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru. "If you are addicted to Downton Abbey, chances are that you will relish Daughter of Empire, a British aristocrat's memoir of her childhood and coming of age?She is also a keen observer of a way of life now vanished, except on PBS" (The Wall Street Journal).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Millons of teens have benefited from the powerful lessons in Sean Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Now, here is a powerful tool that can keep you focused on your journey to self-discovery and the life you have with your inner self, take an honest look at who you are, and change what you don't like. Throughtout this journal are quotes from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens that will provide inspiration and help you make wise choices as you work toward your unque dreams.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From "a woman who is about to become as famous in the diet and fitness industries as Martha Stewart is in the world of home decoration" (Liz Jones, The Daily Mail), this back-to-basics approach helps you keep a protein-rich, hormone-balancing, and detoxifying diet to build muscle, catalyze fat loss, and feel gorgeous fast.Weight loss may seem like a modern idea, but studies show that the solution is ancient: a natural diet of lean protein, vegetables, fruit, seeds, and nutsand no processed starchesleads to a strong, healthy body that works well and looks great. Millions of years of evolutionary history can't be wrong, and Esther Blum, a holistic nutritionist for nearly two decades, has helped her clients get gorgeous and strong by reinstating the simple, high-protein, low-carb diet that our bodies naturally crave. Esther believes that the greatest gift you can give yourself is a lean, gorgeous bodyfor life. Through a potent combination of hormonal balance, a detoxified system, and muscle mass, anyone can achieve great results by following some simple no-nonsense tips. Esther breaks her diet down into three easy and sustainable phases: first, a two-week detox, followed by a second phase of hormone balance and fat loss, and then finally, a maintenance phase, which keeps you within 3 to 5 percent of your body fat ideal. Smart, sassy, and sensible, Cavewomen Don't Get Fat will help women everywhere feel and stay gorgeous from the inside out.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The story of McKinsey & Co., America's most influential and controversial business consulting firm, "an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity" (The Wall Street Journal).If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company. Founded in 1926, McKinsey can lay claim to the following partial list of accomplishments: its consultants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological change to the nation's best organizations; they remapped the power structure within the White House; they even revolutionized business schools. In The New York Times bestseller The Firm, star financial journalist Duff McDonald shows just how, in becoming an indispensable part of decision making at the highest levels, McKinsey has done nothing less than set the course of American capitalism. But he also answers the question that's on the mind of anyone who has ever heard the word McKinsey: Are they worth it After all, just as McKinsey can be shown to have helped invent most of the tools of modern management, the company was also involved with a number of striking failures. Its consultants were on the scene when General Motors drove itself into the ground, and they were K-Mart's advisers when the retailer tumbled into disarray. They played a critical role in building the bomb known as Enron. McDonald is one of the few journalists to have not only parsed the record but also penetrated the culture of McKinsey itself. His access puts him in a unique position to demonstrate when it is worth hiring these gurusand when they're full of smoke.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This acclaimed New York Times bestselling biography of the legendary Sioux warrior Red Cloud, is 'a page-turner with remarkable immediacy?and the narrative sweep of a great Western' (The Boston Globe).Red Cloud was the only American Indian in history to defeat the United States Army in a war, forcing the government to sue for peace on his terms. At the peak of Red Cloud's powers the Sioux could claim control of one-fifth of the contiguous United States and the loyalty of thousands of fierce fighters. But the fog of history has left Red Cloud strangely obscured. Now, thanks to the rediscovery of a lost autobiography, and painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of the nineteenth century's most powerful and successful Indian warrior can finally be told. In this astonishing untold story of the American West, Bob Drury and Tom Clavin restore Red Cloud to his rightful place in American history in a sweeping and dramatic narrative based on years of primary research. As they trace the events leading to Red Cloud's War, they provide intimate portraits of the many lives Red Cloud touched mountain men such as Jim Bridger; US generals like William Tecumseh Sherman, who were charged with annihilating the Sioux; fearless explorers, such as the dashing John Bozeman; and the memorable warriors whom Red Cloud groomed, like the legendary Crazy Horse. And at the center of the story is Red Cloud, fighting for the very existence of the Indian way of life. 'Unabashed, unbiased, and disturbingly honest, leaving no razor-sharp arrowhead unturned, no rifle trigger unpulled.a compelling and fiery narrative' (USA TODAY), this is the definitive chronicle of the conflict between an expanding white civilization and the Plains Indians who stood in its way.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A young, up-and-coming Swedish officer is suddenly and traumatically forced into the role of victim, as his newly wedded bride is defiled and murdered by pirates. His mode of survival is to become someone new, who works hard to suppress the memory of his own victimhood. He insinuates himself with the perpetrators and becomes captain of their ship. Only years later, when a new woman is able to touch his heart, he re-discovers the seat of his buried pain and turns against his own brood to avenge his slaughtered bride and his own slaughtered innocence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - After Moon Base Alpha's top scientist turns up dead, 12-year-old lunarnaut Dashiell Gibson senses foul play. Dash discovers that Dr. Holtz was on the verge of an important new discovery that could change everything for the base and those who live there.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, "a wonderfully cinematic story" (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region.It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn't rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land. The Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rulesincluding Cohen, whose wife and unborn child were killed during an evacuation attempt. He buried them on family land and never left. But after he is ambushed and his home is ransacked, Cohen is forced to flee. On the road north, he is captured by Aggie, a fanatical, snake-handling preacher who has a colony of captives and dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman's prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing downand Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all. Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind."This is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide" (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An Erotic Masterpiece Samantha's attraction to her Dom, Jack, grows as they indulge in a sultry, 'Story of O'-style affair. He promises her a trip to Paris, and in anticipation, creates a series of sexual rewards inspired by the seven deadly sins--one for every day of the week. As Samantha dives deeper into his imagination, she discovers new edges to her own sensuality. Hailed by everyone from 'Publishers Weekly' to 'Penthouse Variations' as the pinnacle of BDSM fiction, this coming-of-age tale pulses off the page. 'Wrapped Around Your Finger' is, at the core, a great love story--and one that could only happen in our time. Inspired by Alison Tyler's own sex diaries, this lusciously authentic novel is a romance so intensely written you'll feel every hard-earned caress.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Christopher Sinclair goes out for a walk on a mild Arizona evening and never comes back. He stumbles into a freezing winter under an impossible night sky, where magic is real -- but bought at a terrible price. A misplaced act of decency lands him in a brawl with an arrogant nobleman and puts him under a death sentence. In desperation he agrees to be drafted into an eternal war, serving as a priest of the Bright Lady, Goddess of Healing. But when Marcius, god of war, offers the only hope of a way home to his wife, Christopher pledges to him instead, plunging the church into turmoil and setting him on a path of violence and notoriety.To win enough power to open a path home, this mild-mannered mechanical engineer must survive duelists, assassins, and the never-ending threat of monsters, with only his makeshift technology to compete with swords and magic.But the gods and demons have other plans. Christopher's fate will save the world. or destroy it.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When clones of infamous serial killers escape from a secret government facility, it's up to a former Army Ranger to stop themwith the help of a teenage killer clone.The DNA of the world's most notorious serial killersincluding Ted Bundy, The Son of Sam, and The Boston Stranglerhas been cloned by the US Department of Defense to develop a new breed of bioweapon. Now in Phase Three, the program includes dozens of young men who have no clue as to their evil heritage. Playing a twisted game of nature vs. nurture, scientists raise some of the clones with loving families and others in abusive circumstances. But everything changes when the most dangerous boys are set free by their creator. A man with demons of his own, former black ops soldier Shawn Castillo is hot on the clones' trail. But Castillo didn't count on the quiet young man he finds hiding in an abandoned housea boy who has just learned he is the clone of Jeffrey Dahmer. As Jeffrey and Castillo race across the country after the rampaging teens, Castillo must protect the boy who is the embodiment of his biggest fearsand who may also be his last hope. "A wild, peek-through-your fingers scare ride" (Paul Tremblay, author of The Little Sleep), Cain's Blood melds all-too-plausible science and ripped-from-the-headlines horror into a stunning work about the potential for good and evil in us all.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The world's foremost expert on Middle Eastern relations explains Iran's current nuclear potential and what America can do about it: 'Engrossing.If Congress gets a vote on going to war with Iran, let's hope that this book is on everyone's reading lists' (The Economist). In 2005, Kenneth Pollack's first book about foreign policy in Iran, The Persian Puzzle, sparked a national conversation, laying out the possible options for nuclear deterrent in Iran. But, despite the attention his solutions received, the world didn't follow his advice. Now, Iran is even closer to possessing nuclear weapons, and America will have to find a new path forward. In Unthinkable, a New York Times and Economist Best Book of 2013 Pollack explores the intractable American problem with Iran, and Tehran's pursuit of nuclear weapons capability. With the authority of his years as a CIA analyst and his time as the Director of Persian Gulf Affairs on the National Security Council, Pollack keenly examines the nature of the Iranian threat to American interests and the long-going clash that has led us to this point. Pollack explains and assesses the options for American policymakers: redoubling our efforts at a 'carrot-and-stick' approach that combines negotiations and sanctions; aiding the Iranian opposition to bring about a popular form of regime change; an Israeli military strike; the American military option; and containing a nuclear Iran. Ultimately, Pollack argues for an assertive version of containment to maintain pressure on Tehran and minimize its ability to contribute to the problems of the Middle East by keeping it largely on the defensive. 'Learned, lucid, and deeply sobering' (Kirkus Reviews), Pollack has written one of the most important books on foreign policy in this decade'.