Sourcebooks jul 2017 (6 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At nine years old, Eugenie Clark developed an unexpected passion for sharks after a visit to the Battery Park Aquarium in New York City. At the time, sharks were seen as mindless killing machines, but Eugenie set out to prove otherwise. From her many discoveries to the shark-related myths she dispelled, Eugenie earned the nickname 'Shark Lady.' Full color. Álvarez Miguéns, Marta (illustrator).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A silly new alphabet picture book that's messy good fun perfect for Easter--featuring your favorite Sesame Street characters!Join Oscar, Elmo, and all of their friends as they splat, splash, crash, and dash their way through the alphabet in this hilarious and original take on an ABC book! Perfect for anyone who has ever been told to 'stop making a mess,' this Sesame Street picture book makes for a fun and playful read aloud that children everywhere will love!'You know, it seems like every alphabet book I read is full of nice, clean things like cute kittens, cuddly puppies, and shiny new toys. That's why I love Sesame Street's Messy Alphabet Book! It doesn't have any of those things.'--Oscar the GrouchThe best book gift for: - Children and toddlers ages 3-7 to read with loved ones at bedtime- Valentine's Day gifts for kids- Birthday and back to school gifts- Holiday stocking stuffer or Christmas book for kids- Easter basket stuffer- Baby shower gifts- and more!A is for applesauce dripped down the wall.B is for birthday cake wrecked by a ball.C is for cookies all covered in goo.D is for doughnuts all frosted with glue.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Fans of quick reads like James Patterson's popular 'BookShots' series will be well served by this thriller's fast pace.' --Library JournalEvery law firm has its backroom bench of brilliant workaholic nerds ferocious in their commitment to the law and to their clients. Such a player is Milton Bernstein of Abbott & Windsor. He's highly valued by the partners for his skills, but untested in the courtroom.Milton's younger brother, Hal, is his polar opposite-strikingly handsome, a high-school baseball legend in St. Louis who was on his way to the major leagues until he destroyed his prospects in a motorcycle accident. Hal had been, and still is, the adored Bernstein brother-worshipped by his mother, his aunts, and the rest of his family, plus all the high school and college cheerleaders. Milton has learned to live with his lower star-power while Hal unabashedly admires Milton's career and happy marriage.Neither brilliant nor driven, Hal has to face up to earning a living. For now he's killing time as a lifeguard at an exclusive country club. His days at the pool are mostly filled with women, kids, and fantasies about the hot babe called Cherry.But the lives of both brothers are about to change. Cherry, the bombshell third wife of St. Louis' most shark-like litigator, Leonard Pitt, unexpectedly turns Hal's advances around. They become lovers. Coincidentally, Milton becomes the attack dog behind litigation to nail Pitt for running an insurance scam on his injured clients.Tangling with the Pitts is a game-changer for both brothers. Everyone is a tool of someone else. The players' roster widens to include a judge who's nursed a 30-year grudge against Pitt, the judge's astute clerk, and a crooked cop. Then Milton suddenly finds himself fielding Hal's arrest for kidnapping and murder.Played! is fast-moving, fun and, at its core, a story of brotherly love and loyalty. And baseball.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'An in-depth look at what it was like in England during World War II and how women took over men's jobs, leading to a social revolution that continues today.' --Kirkus ReviewsSurviving the 1941 Blitz and the predator in her small Shropshire village, policeman's daughter Grace Baxter moves to Newcastle-on-Tyne. Situated on the northern bank of the River Tyne, the ancient northeast city developed around the Roman settlement Pons Aelius--named for the Emperor Hadrian who built the famous wall right at the edge of the then civilized world. No matter its later history as a wool trade, then coal mining center, and the ship building that makes it a German bombing target, Newcastle's Roman past won't be ignored.Grace is eager to explore city life. And she's turned professional with an official job in the city's constabulary. The war means women can find work, even if most men in the job discount if not actively resent her.Grace's arrival coincides with the discovery of the body of a young woman, curiously difficult to identify, at the scanty ruins of a Roman temple situated across from a church. The bone-numbing cold, the fogs, and the Blitz, not to mention to peculiar behavior of some of the citizens and the hostility directed towards a woman in man's work, test Grace's resolve to be an effective officer. There are many potential leads, and much suspicious behavior to sort through. What role do ancient rituals play in the murder and what follows What current misbehavior or crimes is someone, or someones, desperate to cover up The investigation, carried out through fog and blackout and fear as well as the hostility of her colleagues, tests Grace's resolve to be an effective officer. Will it also endanger her life.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This complex and very timely story is a riveting study of greed and betrayal.' --BooklistRick van Lam is bui doi, 'a child of dust,' as the Vietnamese scornfully called a mixed-blood kid whose father was an unknown American GI. But Rick was lucky--in time he was sent to America. And he's ended up in Hartford, Connecticut, where he's made a life as a private eye after leaving a career as a cop at the NYPD.Rick is also teaching a part-time course at Farmington College where brainy Vietnamese student Dustin Trang, a scholarship student with no social skills and an oddly hostile family, is scorned and bullied. It reminds Rick of his own miserable days in a Saigon orphanage and he reaches out. But Dustin rebuffs him.One night as a blizzard strikes, a professor is shot down in the campus parking lot. The man had befriended Dustin, but their relationship had visibly soured. Dustin is everyone's hot suspect for the murder, but Rick believes the boy is innocent. Oddly, Dustin seems indifferent to others' suspicion that he's a killer. And he seems resistant to helping his case.Rick knows he owes who he has become to the loving support of his friend, Hank Nguyen, and Hank's multigenerational family. To pay it forward for Dustin, Rick persuades Hank, a state cop, and some of his circle of Hartford friends to dig into Dustin's dysfunctional world, interviewing faculty and students, relatives, and a busy congregation that seems to be a focal point for the fractured Trang family.As the investigation stalls and the cops close in, Rick realizes he has to break through a web of lies, anger, and betrayals, and force Dustin to reveal whatever it is he fears more than arrest for murder.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This complex and very timely story is a riveting study of greed and betrayal.' --BooklistRick van Lam is bui doi, 'a child of dust,' as the Vietnamese scornfully called a mixed-blood kid whose father was an unknown American GI. But Rick was lucky--in time he was sent to America. And he's ended up in Hartford, Connecticut, where he's made a life as a private eye after leaving a career as a cop at the NYPD.Rick is also teaching a part-time course at Farmington College where brainy Vietnamese student Dustin Trang, a scholarship student with no social skills and an oddly hostile family, is scorned and bullied. It reminds Rick of his own miserable days in a Saigon orphanage and he reaches out. But Dustin rebuffs him.One night as a blizzard strikes, a professor is shot down in the campus parking lot. The man had befriended Dustin, but their relationship had visibly soured. Dustin is everyone's hot suspect for the murder, but Rick believes the boy is innocent. Oddly, Dustin seems indifferent to others' suspicion that he's a killer. And he seems resistant to helping his case.Rick knows he owes who he has become to the loving support of his friend, Hank Nguyen, and Hank's multigenerational family. To pay it forward for Dustin, Rick persuades Hank, a state cop, and some of his circle of Hartford friends to dig into Dustin's dysfunctional world, interviewing faculty and students, relatives, and a busy congregation that seems to be a focal point for the fractured Trang family.As the investigation stalls and the cops close in, Rick realizes he has to break through a web of lies, anger, and betrayals, and force Dustin to reveal whatever it is he fears more than arrest for murder.…