Sourcebooks feb 2018 (24 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by daejaa vu--the same illness that took her sister's life was now attacking her daughter. Heartbroken but steadfast, Laura pledged to help Susan through the worst of her treatments. When they discovered that Laura's homemade ginger cookies soothed the side effects of Susan's chemo, both mother and daughter were inspired to start a business. Now, with Susansnaps, the duo sells their cancer-fighting cookies across the country. Told with admirable grace and infinite hope, The Cookie Cure is about more than baked goods and cancer--it's about fighting for your life and for your dreams.'.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Perfectly sized for small hands to touch and feel, this novelty board book will delight any little reader.This cute, simple story follows Furry Bunny as they hop around in the springtime sun, meeting friends and playing in the garden. Beautiful illustrations brighten every page and gentle text weaves a short, sweet tale through this unique touch and feel board book-featuring a soft tuft of faux bunny fur on the cover for a gentle sensory experience.A top pick for:- Easter baskets- Stocking stuffers- Peter Rabbit or Pat the Bunny fans- Curious little fingers. Rigo, Laura (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Delight all of Baby's senses with this adorable little book that has a 'spot' of fur that Baby can touch and feel right on the front cover!Welcome, little chickadee! Furry Chick meets friends on the farm. Bright illustrations and gentle text stimulates babies' sense of sight and hearing, and introduce fun facts that can help your little one learn new words and ideas. Perfectly sized for little hands to explore and enjoy. Rigo, Laura (illustrator).…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Includes an excerpt from The heart forger.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Help your future genius become the smartest baby in the room!Written by an expert, Statistical Physics for Babies is a colorfully simple introduction to the second law of thermodynamics. Babies (and grownups!) will learn all about entropy, probability, and more. With a tongue-in-cheek approach that adults will love, this installment of the Baby University board book series is the perfect way to introduce basic concepts to even the youngest scientists. After all, it's never too early to become a scientist!Baby University: It only takes a small spark to ignite a child's mind.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With a tongue-in-cheek approach, this installment in the Baby University board book series teaches about qubits (quantum bits) and why they are so different from, and more useful than, the regular bits of information stored on computers today. Full color.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ruby Dye loves everything about Blessings, Georgia. She loves her hair salon, she treasures the townspeopleEand now she has a secret admirer! When she finds out it's none other than the town's esteemed lawyer, P. Butterman ('Peanut'), she is beyond thrilled. But her ex-husband has other plans. Original.inal.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Love turns to deadly suspense and horror in this 'fresh take on a murder mystery thriller' (VOYA's Teen Perspectives) from Natasha Preston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Cellar.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With our 24/7 news cycle and constant access to the latest headlines, the world can be a scary place. Now imagine you're a child trying to make sense of it all!That's where books from the Children in Our World series can help. Each book uses relatable comparisons, carefully researched text, and striking illustrations to help kids understand the many difficulties that children just like them face in the world today. In Global Conflict, children can get answers to questions like: what is global conflict And how does it affect people in countries all over the world Children will begin to understand the way others struggle with these issues and discover ways they can help. Award-winning illustrator Hanane Kai uses a deft hand to create powerful illustrations that help children visualize the people impacted by poverty, hunger, war, racism, and more. All of the images are sensitively rendered and perfectly suited for younger children. These books are an excellent cross-curricular resource--use them to explore important issues and tie them into discussions about food, wealth, compassion, empathy, and current affairs. Kai, Hanane (illustrator). …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides instructions on creating the perfect trap for catching a leprechaun.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How far are you willing to go for Mister Tender At fourteen, Alice Hill was viciously attacked by two of her classmates and left to die. The teens claim she was a sacrifice for a man called Mister Tender, but that could never be true: Mister Tender doesn't exist. His sinister character is pop-culture fiction, nothing more.Over a decade later, Alice has changed her name and is trying to heal. But someone is watching her. They know more about Alice than any stranger: her scars, her fears, and the secrets she keeps locked away. She can try to escape her past, but he is never far behind.Addictive and chillingly surprising, this ripped-from-the-headlines thriller will have you transfixed until the very last page. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The second in a new historical series from Wattpad author McLayne, featuring the loyal and brooding heroes of the Scottish Highlands and the beautiful lasses who steal their hearts. Original.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Includes reading group questions and an interview with the author.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, now streaming on Netflix, starring Essie Davis as the honourable Phryne Fisher'As usual, Greenwood populates the novel with an assortment of offbeat characters.and Phryne has plenty of opportunities to unleash her acid tongue and apply her razor-sharp wit.' --BooklistThe Hon. Phryne Fisher, languid and slightly bored at the start of 1929, has been engaged to find out if the antique-shop-owning son of a Pre-Raphaelite model has died by homicide or suicide. He had some strange friends--a Balkan adventuress, a dilettante with a penchant for antiquities, a Classics professor, a medium, and a mysterious supplier who arrives after dark on a motorbike. Simultaneously, she is asked to discover the fate of the lost illegitimate child of a rich old lady, to the evident dislike of the remaining relatives.With the help of her sister Beth, the cab drivers Bert and Cec, and even her two adoptive daughters, Phryne follows eerie leads that bring her face-to-face with the conquest of Jerusalem by General Allenby and the Australian Light Horse, kif smokers, spirit guides, pirate treasure maps, and ghosts.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A completely implausible earthquake sets Frederik Sandwich and Pernille, a mysterious stranger, on an adventure through secret and forbidden places in their small town in this delightfully strange and hilarious debut.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Barnes & Noble pick for '20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018''Casey expertly nails the extended Tucker family--some 20 people--and combines these convincing characters, a superb sense of time and place, and a solid plot in this marvelously atmospheric historical.' --Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewSome people who have experienced a shocking, dangerous, or terrifying event develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is recognized today as a debilitating but potentially treatable mental health condition. Military veterans are a vulnerable group. But PTSD can deliver a knockout blow to anyone, as the remarkable unfolding of the tenth Alafair Tucker Mystery, Forty Dead Men, shows.World War I is over. Alafair is overjoyed that her elder son, George Washington Tucker, has finally returned home from the battlefields of France. Yet she is the only one in the family who senses that he has somehow changed.Gee Dub moves back into his old bunkhouse quarters, but he's restless and spends his days roaming. One rainy day while out riding he spies a woman trudging along the country road. She's thoroughly skittish and rejects his help. So Gee Dub cannily rides for home to enlist his mother in offering the exhausted traveler shelter.Once made comfortable at the Tucker farm, Holly Johnson reveals she's forged her way from Maine to Oklahoma in hopes of finding the soldier she married before he shipped to France. At the war's end, Daniel Johnson disappeared without a trace. It's been months. Is he alive Is she a widow Holly is following her only lead--that Dan has connected with his parents who live yonder in Okmulgee. Gee Dub, desperate for some kind of mission, resolves to shepherd Holly through her quest although the prickly young woman spurns any aid. Meanwhile, Alafair has discovered that Gee Dub sleeps with two cartridge boxes under his pillow--boxes containing twenty 'dead men' each. The boxes are empty, save for one bullet. She recognizes in Gee Dub and Holly that not all war wounds are physical.Then Holly's missing husband turns up, shot dead. Gee Dub is arrested on suspicion of murder, and the entire extended Tucker family rallies to his defense. He says he had no reason to do it, but the solitary bullet under Gee Dub's pillow is gone. Regardless, be he guilty or innocent, his mother will travel any distance and go to any lengths to keep him out of prison. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Dennis Palumbo's Head Wounds is a spectacular ride.' --THOMAS PERRY, New York Times bestselling author'This is a book that'll make you lock your doors and check your computer's security settings.' --JOSEPH FINDER, New York Times bestselling authorPsychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims of violent crime--those who've survived an armed robbery, kidnapping, or sexual assault, but whose traumatic experience still haunts them. Head Wounds picks up where Rinaldi's investigation in Phantom Limb left off, turning the tables on him as he, himself, becomes the target of a vicious killer.'Miles Davis saved my life.' With these words Rinaldi becomes a participant in a domestic drama that blows up right outside his front door, saved from a bullet to the brain by pure chance. In the chaos that follows, Rinaldi learns his bad-girl, wealthy neighbor has told her hair-triggered boyfriend Rinaldi is her lover. As things heat up, Rinaldi becomes a murder suspect.But this is just the first act in this chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller. As one savagery follows another, Rinaldi is forced to relive a terrible night that haunts him still. And to realize that now he--and those he loves--are being victimized by a brilliant killer still in the grip of delusion. Determined to destroy Rinaldi by systematically targeting those close to him--his patients, colleagues, and friends--computer genius Sebastian Maddox strives to cause as much psychological pain as possible, before finally orchestrating a bold, macabre death for his quarry.How ironic. As Pittsburgh morphs from a blue-collar town to a tech giant, a psychopath deploys technology in a murderous way.Enter two other figures from Rinaldi's past: retired FBI profiler Lyle Barnes, once a patient who Rinaldi treated for night terrors; and Special Agent Gloria Reese, with whom he falls into a surprising, erotically charged affair. Warned by Maddox not to engage the authorities or else random innocents throughout the city will die, Rinaldi and these two unlikely allies engage in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with an elusive killer who'll stop at nothing in pursuit of what he imagines is revenge.A true page-turner, Head Wounds is the electrifying fifth in a critically acclaimed series of thrillers by Dennis Palumbo. Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter, Dennis Palumbo is now a licensed psychotherapist in private practice.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Imagine an Agatha Christie mystery set in the late thirteenth century, and you'll have a pretty good picture of this very well executed mystery.'--BooklistIt is Spring 1282. England is at war again with Wales. As Baron Hugh of Wynethorpe, a veteran of fighting in Outremer, prepares to join his King's army, he begs his sister, Prioress Eleanor, a favor. On her journey home to Tyndal Prior in Norfolk, she is to carry a gift of rents from the Wynethorpe estates to Mynchen Buckland Priory. The charter for the grant and a private letter are to be given to the Hospitaller nuns' Prioress Amicia, and none other. Eleanor agrees - if Hugh is heading into the Welsh wilderness, then she, Eleanor, will do him this service as well as pray for his protection.When she and her party of Brother Thomas and Sister Anne arrive in cold and rain-sodden Somerset, they receive a chilly welcome. Then the new Prioress at Mynchen Buckland delivers shocking news: Amicia has been imprisoned, convicted of murdering a widow from the village in the priory's cloister, and awaits sentencing by the Prior of England, the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem's regional head in London. Eleanor gives Hugh's grant to newly elected Prioress Emelyne, but insists she must obey her brother's wishes by having an audience with Amicia in her cell. Eleanor is resolute in wishing to fulfill her promise by delivering Hugh's letter into Amicia's hands. Permission is granted.Eleanor is unprepared for Amicia's terribly frail condition. And more so when Amicia reads the Baron's letter, then tearfully begs Tyndal's prioress to prove her innocence, claiming she did not commit the crime. Eleanor believes her.In an unfamiliar place, the murder victim buried, and nothing left at the crime site, what can the Tyndal trio unearth And how can they prolong their visit Eleanor has it - she fakes a fall and injury to her ankle which requires nursing. Thomas and Anne will have to be her investigators, though they are closely chaperoned by members of the Mynchen Buckland community. Still, they learn the dead woman's unsavory behavior had made her well hated. Will anyone help uncover the real killer when so many welcomed the victim's death A medieval historical mystery perfect for readers of Denise Domning and Sharon Kay Penman!Additional Praise for Wild Justice: '.a good read for fans of medieval history and anyone interested in problems surprisingly relevant to modern life.'--Kirkus Reviews 'Royal shows once again why she stands in the front rank of medieval mystery authors.' --Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Imagine an Agatha Christie mystery set in the late thirteenth century, and you'll have a pretty good picture of this very well executed mystery.'--BooklistIt is Spring 1282. England is at war again with Wales. As Baron Hugh of Wynethorpe, a veteran of fighting in Outremer, prepares to join his King's army, he begs his sister, Prioress Eleanor, a favor. On her journey home to Tyndal Prior in Norfolk, she is to carry a gift of rents from the Wynethorpe estates to Mynchen Buckland Priory. The charter for the grant and a private letter are to be given to the Hospitaller nuns' Prioress Amicia, and none other. Eleanor agrees - if Hugh is heading into the Welsh wilderness, then she, Eleanor, will do him this service as well as pray for his protection.When she and her party of Brother Thomas and Sister Anne arrive in cold and rain-sodden Somerset, they receive a chilly welcome. Then the new Prioress at Mynchen Buckland delivers shocking news: Amicia has been imprisoned, convicted of murdering a widow from the village in the priory's cloister, and awaits sentencing by the Prior of England, the Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem's regional head in London. Eleanor gives Hugh's grant to newly elected Prioress Emelyne, but insists she must obey her brother's wishes by having an audience with Amicia in her cell. Eleanor is resolute in wishing to fulfill her promise by delivering Hugh's letter into Amicia's hands. Permission is granted.Eleanor is unprepared for Amicia's terribly frail condition. And more so when Amicia reads the Baron's letter, then tearfully begs Tyndal's prioress to prove her innocence, claiming she did not commit the crime. Eleanor believes her.In an unfamiliar place, the murder victim buried, and nothing left at the crime site, what can the Tyndal trio unearth And how can they prolong their visit Eleanor has it - she fakes a fall and injury to her ankle which requires nursing. Thomas and Anne will have to be her investigators, though they are closely chaperoned by members of the Mynchen Buckland community. Still, they learn the dead woman's unsavory behavior had made her well hated. Will anyone help uncover the real killer when so many welcomed the victim's death A medieval historical mystery perfect for readers of Denise Domning and Sharon Kay Penman!Additional Praise for Wild Justice: '.a good read for fans of medieval history and anyone interested in problems surprisingly relevant to modern life.'--Kirkus Reviews'Royal shows once again why she stands in the front rank of medieval mystery authors.' --Publishers Weekly, STARRED Review.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Barnes & Noble pick for '20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018''Casey expertly nails the extended Tucker family--some 20 people--and combines these convincing characters, a superb sense of time and place, and a solid plot in this marvelously atmospheric historical.' --Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewSome people who have experienced a shocking, dangerous, or terrifying event develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is recognized today as a debilitating but potentially treatable mental health condition. Military veterans are a vulnerable group. But PTSD can deliver a knockout blow to anyone, as the remarkable unfolding of the tenth Alafair Tucker Mystery, Forty Dead Men, shows.World War I is over. Alafair is overjoyed that her elder son, George Washington Tucker, has finally returned home from the battlefields of France. Yet she is the only one in the family who senses that he has somehow changed.Gee Dub moves back into his old bunkhouse quarters, but he's restless and spends his days roaming. One rainy day while out riding he spies a woman trudging along the country road. She's thoroughly skittish and rejects his help. So Gee Dub cannily rides for home to enlist his mother in offering the exhausted traveler shelter.Once made comfortable at the Tucker farm, Holly Johnson reveals she's forged her way from Maine to Oklahoma in hopes of finding the soldier she married before he shipped to France. At the war's end, Daniel Johnson disappeared without a trace. It's been months. Is he alive Is she a widow Holly is following her only lead--that Dan has connected with his parents who live yonder in Okmulgee. Gee Dub, desperate for some kind of mission, resolves to shepherd Holly through her quest although the prickly young woman spurns any aid. Meanwhile, Alafair has discovered that Gee Dub sleeps with two cartridge boxes under his pillow--boxes containing twenty 'dead men' each. The boxes are empty, save for one bullet. She recognizes in Gee Dub and Holly that not all war wounds are physical.Then Holly's missing husband turns up, shot dead. Gee Dub is arrested on suspicion of murder, and the entire extended Tucker family rallies to his defense. He says he had no reason to do it, but the solitary bullet under Gee Dub's pillow is gone. Regardless, be he guilty or innocent, his mother will travel any distance and go to any lengths to keep him out of prison. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Barnes & Noble pick for '20 Favorite Indie Books of 2018''Casey expertly nails the extended Tucker family--some 20 people--and combines these convincing characters, a superb sense of time and place, and a solid plot in this marvelously atmospheric historical.' --Publishers Weekly STARRED reviewSome people who have experienced a shocking, dangerous, or terrifying event develop Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It is recognized today as a debilitating but potentially treatable mental health condition. Military veterans are a vulnerable group. But PTSD can deliver a knockout blow to anyone, as the remarkable unfolding of the tenth Alafair Tucker Mystery, Forty Dead Men, shows.World War I is over. Alafair is overjoyed that her elder son, George Washington Tucker, has finally returned home from the battlefields of France. Yet she is the only one in the family who senses that he has somehow changed.Gee Dub moves back into his old bunkhouse quarters, but he's restless and spends his days roaming. One rainy day while out riding he spies a woman trudging along the country road. She's thoroughly skittish and rejects his help. So Gee Dub cannily rides for home to enlist his mother in offering the exhausted traveler shelter.Once made comfortable at the Tucker farm, Holly Johnson reveals she's forged her way from Maine to Oklahoma in hopes of finding the soldier she married before he shipped to France. At the war's end, Daniel Johnson disappeared without a trace. It's been months. Is he alive Is she a widow Holly is following her only lead--that Dan has connected with his parents who live yonder in Okmulgee. Gee Dub, desperate for some kind of mission, resolves to shepherd Holly through her quest although the prickly young woman spurns any aid. Meanwhile, Alafair has discovered that Gee Dub sleeps with two cartridge boxes under his pillow--boxes containing twenty 'dead men' each. The boxes are empty, save for one bullet. She recognizes in Gee Dub and Holly that not all war wounds are physical.Then Holly's missing husband turns up, shot dead. Gee Dub is arrested on suspicion of murder, and the entire extended Tucker family rallies to his defense. He says he had no reason to do it, but the solitary bullet under Gee Dub's pillow is gone. Regardless, be he guilty or innocent, his mother will travel any distance and go to any lengths to keep him out of prison. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Dennis Palumbo's Head Wounds is a spectacular ride.' --THOMAS PERRY, New York Times bestselling author'This is a book that'll make you lock your doors and check your computer's security settings.' --JOSEPH FINDER, New York Times bestselling authorPsychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims of violent crime--those who've survived an armed robbery, kidnapping, or sexual assault, but whose traumatic experience still haunts them. Head Wounds picks up where Rinaldi's investigation in Phantom Limb left off, turning the tables on him as he, himself, becomes the target of a vicious killer.'Miles Davis saved my life.' With these words Rinaldi becomes a participant in a domestic drama that blows up right outside his front door, saved from a bullet to the brain by pure chance. In the chaos that follows, Rinaldi learns his bad-girl, wealthy neighbor has told her hair-triggered boyfriend Rinaldi is her lover. As things heat up, Rinaldi becomes a murder suspect.But this is just the first act in this chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller. As one savagery follows another, Rinaldi is forced to relive a terrible night that haunts him still. And to realize that now he--and those he loves--are being victimized by a brilliant killer still in the grip of delusion. Determined to destroy Rinaldi by systematically targeting those close to him--his patients, colleagues, and friends--computer genius Sebastian Maddox strives to cause as much psychological pain as possible, before finally orchestrating a bold, macabre death for his quarry.How ironic. As Pittsburgh morphs from a blue-collar town to a tech giant, a psychopath deploys technology in a murderous way.Enter two other figures from Rinaldi's past: retired FBI profiler Lyle Barnes, once a patient who Rinaldi treated for night terrors; and Special Agent Gloria Reese, with whom he falls into a surprising, erotically charged affair. Warned by Maddox not to engage the authorities or else random innocents throughout the city will die, Rinaldi and these two unlikely allies engage in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with an elusive killer who'll stop at nothing in pursuit of what he imagines is revenge.A true page-turner, Head Wounds is the electrifying fifth in a critically acclaimed series of thrillers by Dennis Palumbo. Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter, Dennis Palumbo is now a licensed psychotherapist in private practice. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Dennis Palumbo's Head Wounds is a spectacular ride.' --THOMAS PERRY, New York Times bestselling author'This is a book that'll make you lock your doors and check your computer's security settings.' --JOSEPH FINDER, New York Times bestselling authorPsychologist Dr. Daniel Rinaldi consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims of violent crime--those who've survived an armed robbery, kidnapping, or sexual assault, but whose traumatic experience still haunts them. Head Wounds picks up where Rinaldi's investigation in Phantom Limb left off, turning the tables on him as he, himself, becomes the target of a vicious killer.'Miles Davis saved my life.' With these words Rinaldi becomes a participant in a domestic drama that blows up right outside his front door, saved from a bullet to the brain by pure chance. In the chaos that follows, Rinaldi learns his bad-girl, wealthy neighbor has told her hair-triggered boyfriend Rinaldi is her lover. As things heat up, Rinaldi becomes a murder suspect.But this is just the first act in this chilling, edge-of-your-seat thriller. As one savagery follows another, Rinaldi is forced to relive a terrible night that haunts him still. And to realize that now he--and those he loves--are being victimized by a brilliant killer still in the grip of delusion. Determined to destroy Rinaldi by systematically targeting those close to him--his patients, colleagues, and friends--computer genius Sebastian Maddox strives to cause as much psychological pain as possible, before finally orchestrating a bold, macabre death for his quarry.How ironic. As Pittsburgh morphs from a blue-collar town to a tech giant, a psychopath deploys technology in a murderous way.Enter two other figures from Rinaldi's past: retired FBI profiler Lyle Barnes, once a patient who Rinaldi treated for night terrors; and Special Agent Gloria Reese, with whom he falls into a surprising, erotically charged affair. Warned by Maddox not to engage the authorities or else random innocents throughout the city will die, Rinaldi and these two unlikely allies engage in a terrifying cat-and-mouse game with an elusive killer who'll stop at nothing in pursuit of what he imagines is revenge.A true page-turner, Head Wounds is the electrifying fifth in a critically acclaimed series of thrillers by Dennis Palumbo. Formerly a Hollywood screenwriter, Dennis Palumbo is now a licensed psychotherapist in private practice.…