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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A classic work of American theatre, based on the Scopes Monkey Trial of 1925, which pitted Clarence Darrow against William Jennings Bryan in defense of a schoolteacher accused of teaching the theory of evolutionThe accused was a slight, frightened man who haddeliberately broken the law. His trial was a Roman circus. The chief gladiators were two great legal giants of the century. Like two bull elephants locked in mortal combat, they bellowed and roared imprecations and abuse. The spectators sat uneasily in the sweltering heat with murder in their hearts, barely able to restrain themselves. At stake was the freedom of every American. One of the most moving and meaningful plays of our generation. Praise for Inherit the Wind'A tidal wave of a drama.' New York World-Telegram And Sun Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee were classic Broadway scribes who knew how to crank out serious plays for thinking Americans. . . . Inherit the Wind is a perpetually prescient courtroom battle over the legality of teaching evolution. . . . We re still arguing this case all the way to the White House. Chicago Tribune Powerful . . . a crackling good courtroom play . . . [that] provides two of the juiciest roles in American theater. Copley News Service [This] historical drama . . . deserves respect. The Columbus Dispatch 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Deputy Coroner Clay Edison discovers that buried secrets can be deadly in this riveting thriller from a father-son team of bestselling authors who write brilliant, page-turning fiction (Stephen King).An ID Book Club Selection Clay Edison has his hands full. He s got a new baby who won't sleep. He s working the graveyard shift. And he s trying, for once, to mind his own business. Then comes the first call. Workers demolishing a local park have made a haunting discovery: the decades-old skeleton of a child. But whose And how did it get there No sooner has Clay begun to investigate than he receives a second call this one from a local businessman, wondering if the body could belong to his sister. She went missing fifty years ago, the man says. Or at least I think she did. It s a little complicated. And things only get stranger from there. Clay s relentless search for answers will unearth a history of violence and secrets, revolution and betrayal. Because in this town, the past isn t dead. It s very much alive. And it can be murderous. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing and for the conjuring of curses are at the heart of this dazzling first novel WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN HISTORIANS PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times NPR Parade Book Riot PopMatters Lush, irresistible . . . It took me into the hearts of women I could otherwise never know. I was transported. Amy Bloom,New York Timesbestselling author ofWhite HousesandAway Conjure Women is a sweeping story that brings the world of the South before and after the Civil War vividly to life. Spanning eras and generations, it tells of the lives of three unforgettable women: Miss May Belle, a wise healing woman; her precocious and observant daughter Rue, who is reluctant to follow in her mother s footsteps as a midwife; and their master s daughter Varina. The secrets and bonds among these women and their community come to a head at the beginning of a war and at the birth of an accursed child, who sets the townspeople alight with fear and a spreading superstition that threatens their newly won, tenuous freedom. Magnificently written, brilliantly researched, richly imagined, Conjure Women moves back and forth in time to tell the haunting story of Rue, Varina, and May Belle, their passions and friendships, and the lengths they will go to save themselves and those they love.LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE [A] haunting, promising debut . . . Through complex characters and bewitching prose, Atakora offers a stirring portrait of the power conferred between the enslaved women. This powerful tale of moral ambiguity amid inarguable injustice stands with Esi Edugyan sWashington Black. Publishers Weekly(starred review) An engrossing debut . . . Atakora structures a plot with plenty of satisfying twists. Life in the immediate aftermath of slavery is powerfully rendered in this impressive first novel. Kirkus Reviews(starred review).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Love can transform even the best-laid plans in this heartfelt Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author and the queen of Christmas stories, Debbie Macomber.Trapped in the middle of five siblings, Everly Lancaster always had big dreams. Now a top real-estate executive, Everly finds her work is her life, leaving no space for anything (or anyone) else. Sensing her stress, Everly's boss insists she take December off. At first, a month away seems crazy-how will the company survive without her But Everly's mother convinces her otherwise. She deserves a vacation-plus, when she returns, she'll have no excuse to skip family Christmas like she did last year. But after her vengeful assistant books a guided cruise in the Amazon instead of the luxury beach vacation she expected, Everly is horrified to realize that she's about to spend the next two weeks trapped-with no Wi-Fi!-in the rain forest. Not even Asher Adams, the ship's charming naturalist, can convince Everly that the trip will be unforgettable. Slowly but surely, she realizes he is right: the sights are spectacular. And with each passing day, Everly's relationship with Asher deepens, forcing her to take a long, hard look at her priorities. Everly and Asher begin to see magic in the possibility of a life together. But as the cruise nears its end, and Everly's family Christmas approaches, both must decide if love is worth the risk. A merry surprise may be in store in Debbie Macomber's newest holiday delight.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A special holiday wish list brings about hope, love, and second chances in this nostalgic novel from the queen of Christmas stories, Debbie Macomber.Lindy Carmichael isn't feeling particularly joyful when she returns home to Wenatchee, Washington, for Christmas. The man she thought was 'the one' has cheated on her with her best friend, and she feels completely devoid of creativity in her graphic-design job. Not even carolers or Christmas cookies can cheer her up-but Lindy's mother, Ellen, remembers an old tradition that might lift her daughter's spirits. Reading through a box of childhood letters to Santa and reminiscing about what she'd wished for as a young girl may be just the inspiration Lindy needs. With Ellen's encouragement, she decides to write a new letter to Santa, one that will encourage her to have faith and believe just as she'd done all those years ago. Little does Lindy know that this exercise in gratitude will cause her wishes to unfold before her in miraculous ways. And, thanks to some fateful twists of Christmas magic-especially an unexpected connection with a handsome former classmate-Lindy ultimately realizes that there is truly no place like home for the holidays. In Dear Santa, Debbie Macomber celebrates the joys of Christmas blessings, old and new.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In this irresistible novel from the author of All We Ever Wanted and Something Borrowed, a young woman falls hard for an impossibly perfect man before he disappears without a trace. . . . It s 2 A.M. on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year-old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar in New York s East Village, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she ll ever make it as a reporter in the big city and whether she made a terrible mistake in breaking up with her longtime boyfriend, Matthew.As Cecily reaches for the phone to call him, she hears a guy on the barstool next to her say, Don t do it you ll regret it. Something tells her to listen, and over the next several hours and shots of tequila the two forge an unlikely connection. That should be it, they both decide the next morning, as Cecily reminds herself of the perils of a rebound relationship. Moreover, their timing couldn t be worse Grant is preparing to quit his job and move overseas. Yet despite all their obstacles, they can t seem to say goodbye, and for the first time in her carefully constructed life, Cecily follows her heart instead of her head.Then Grant disappears in the chaos of 9/11. Fearing the worst, Cecily spots his face on a missing-person poster, and realizes she is not the only one searching for him. Her investigative reporting instincts kick into action as she vows to discover the truth. But the questions pile up fast: How well did she really know Grant Did he ever really love her And is it possible to love a man who wasn t who he seemed to be The Lies That Bind is a mesmerizing and emotionally resonant exploration of the never-ending search for love and truth in our relationships, our careers, and deep within our own hearts.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Two lives. Two loves. One impossible choice. From the #1New York Timesbestselling author of the Reese s Book Club PickOne Day in December. . . I readThe Two Lives of Lydia Birdin a single sitting. What a beautiful, emotional gift Josie Silver has given us. Jodi PicoultWritten with Josie Silver s trademark warmth and wit,The Two Lives of Lydia Birdis a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life s crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them.Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They d been together for more than a decade and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On Lydia s twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident.So now it s just Lydia, and all she wants is to hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonah, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life and perhaps even love again.But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened.Lydia is pulled again and again through the doorway to her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there s an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there s someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Anexceptional, fast-paced thrillerfeaturing a tech-empowered assassin whose pattern and objective you ve never seen before, chased bya heroine with tenacious grit. David Brin, author of The Postman and ExistenceQuinn Mitchell is a nine-to-five spy an intelligence analyst for the CIA during the day, and a suburban wife and mother on evenings and weekends. After her young daughter is killed in a tragic accident, sending her life into a tailspin, Quinn hopes to find a new start in her latest assignment: investigating a series of bizarre international assassinations whose victims have been found with numeric codes tattooed, burned, or carved into their flesh. As Quinn follows the killer s trail across the globe, always one body behind, she begins uncovering disturbing connections between the murders and herself.Every lead she tracks down in pursuit of the assassin brings Quinn one step closer to the Epoch Index, a mysterious encrypted message discovered in the archives of the Large Hadron Collider. Its origins are unknown and decrypting it is beyond even the CIA. Yet nothing else can possibly link together a slew of unsolvable murders, an enigmatic and sophisticated serial killer who always seems to be three steps ahead, a quirky young physics prodigy whose knowledge extends well beyond her years, and, underlying everything, the inescapable tragedy of Quinn s own past. Discovering the meaning of the Epoch Index leads Quinn to a shocking twist that shatters everything she thought she knew about the past, the future, and the delicate balance of right and wrong that she must now fight to preserve.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The bestselling author of The Paris Wife brings to life the story of Martha Gellhorn-a fiercely independent, ambitious woman ahead of her time, who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARYIn 1937, twenty-eight-year-old Martha Gellhorn travels alone to Madrid to report on the atrocities of the Spanish Civil War and becomes drawn to the stories of ordinary people caught in the devastating conflict. It's her chance to prove herself a worthy journalist in a field dominated by men. There she also finds herself unexpectedly-and unwillingly-falling in love with Ernest Hemingway, a man on his way to becoming a legend.On the eve of World War II, and set against the turbulent backdrops of Madrid and Cuba, Martha and Ernest's relationship and careers ignite. But when Ernest publishes the biggest literary success of his career, For Whom the Bell Tolls, they are no longer equals, and Martha must forge a path as her own woman and writer.Heralded by Ann Patchett as 'the new star of historical fiction,' Paula McLain brings Gellhorn's story richly to life and captures her as a heroine for the ages: a woman who will risk absolutely everything to find her own voice.Praise for Love and Ruin'In this heart-tugging follow-up [to The Paris Wife], we meet Martha Gellhorn, a correspondent during the Spanish Civil War, who was the third-and perhaps most intriguing-of [Hemingway's] wives. The title says it all.'-People'Propulsive . . . highly engaging . . . McLain does an excellent job portraying a woman with dreams who isn't afraid to make them real. . . . Her work around the world . . . is presented in meticulous, hair-raising passages. . . . The book is fueled by her questing spirit, which asks, Why must a woman decide between being a war correspondent and a wife in her husband's bed '-The New York Times Book Review'[The] scenes of professional rivalry and seesawing imbalance are some of McLain's best. . . . McLain's legions of fans will relish the inspiration of a gutsy woman who discovers she doesn't need a man at her side, after all.'-The Boston Globe.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - James Baldwin's final novel is 'the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' (The New York Times Book Review). 'Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again.' The stark grief of a brother mourning a brother opens this stunning, unforgettable novel. Here, in a monumental saga of love and rage, James Baldwin goes back to Harlem, to the church of his groundbreaking novel Go Tell It on the Mountain, to the forbidden passion of Giovanni's Room, and to the political fire that enflames his nonfiction work. Here, too, the story of gospel singer Arthur Hall and his family becomes both a journey into another country of the soul and senses-and a living contemporary history of black struggle in this land.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sister Jane Arnold returns in a colorful mystery featuring four-legged sleuths and the breathtaking thrill of the chase from the New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Like a Fox. As winter deepens over the Blue Ridge Mountains, even the threat of snowstorms cannot derail this year s Christmas run, not as long as Sister Jane Arnold has a say in it. With spirits high and traditions strong, a glorious parade of hunters in full holiday regalia gathers on the grounds of Tattenhall Station. But a blinding blizzard brings an early end to the sport. More disturbing: A horse soon returns without its rider. Gregory Luckham, a controversial presence as the president of a powerful energy company pushing for a pipeline through central Virginia, is the missing hunter. A search is organized for what is presumed will be a dead, frozen body. What is discovered, however, chills everyone to the bone and points toward murder. Sister Jane will have to untangle a mystery packed as hard as snow full of history, secrets, old wounds, and avarice.Praise for Homeward Hound Cunning foxes, sensible hounds and sweet-tempered horses are among the sparkling conversationalists in this charming series. The New York Times Book Review Readers will be charmed by Brown s endearing characters, animal and human, all of whom are given to philosophizing on the state of the world. Publishers Weekly With deep and broad knowledge of the sport, the area and the people and animals who inhabit it, [Brown] infuses Homeward Hound and the entire series with unmatched authenticity, Southern charm, beloved characters and engaging storylines. The Free Lance Star.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The beloved New York Times bestselling author tells the poignant love story of caring for her parents in their final years in this beautifully written memoir."I ll Be Seeing Youmoved me and broadened my understanding of the human condition." Wally Lamb, author ofI Know This Much Is TrueElizabeth Berg s father was an Army veteran who was a tough man in every way but one: He showed a great deal of love and tenderness to his wife. Berg describes her parents marriage as a romance that lasted for nearly seventy years; she grew up watching her father kiss her mother upon leaving home, and kiss her again the instant he came back. His idea of when he should spend time away from her was never.But then Berg s father developed Alzheimer s disease, and her parents were forced to leave the home they loved and move into a facility that could offer them help. It was time for the couple s children to offer, to the best of their abilities,practical advice, emotional support, and direction to, in effect, parent the people who had for so long parented them. It was a hard transition, mitigated at least by flashes of humor and joy. The mix of emotions on everyone s part could make every day feel like walking through a minefield. Then came redemption.I ll Be Seeing You charts the passage from the anguish of loss to the understanding that even in the most fractious times, love can heal, transform, and lead to graceful and grateful acceptance.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students lives. An absorbing historical . . . enthralling. Library JournalBestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual Lost Friends advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away.Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope.Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A spirited and independent heiress defies the expectations of society to chase happily ever after in this irresistible romance from the author of Aphrodite and the Duke. With her brother, the Duke of Everely, married off to the beautiful and charming Aphrodite Du Bell, Verity Eagleman feels more alone than ever within the cold halls of the family estate. So when she's invited to stay in the Du Bells' clamorous, boisterous home, she leaps at the chance. When Verity crosses paths with Theodore Darrington, the doctor who saved her brother's life, she can't help but notice how her heart flutters anytime he is near. But as the estranged bastard son of the Marquess of Whitmear, Theodore is forbidden to pursue anyone of the noble set. Despite being popular amongst the ton for both his heroic efforts and handsome charm, Theodore knows that no amount of social capital will allow him to be with the woman he secretly loves. Luckily for him, Verity has never cared much for the rules of society. . . . A forbidden romance blossoms as Verity and Theodore give in to their all-consuming passion, with any thought of scandal flung to the side. But when the concerns of their friends and family begin to loom over their love, will they truly be able to break the rules '.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exquisite (The New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice) and wonderfully Parisian (Leila Slimani, author of The Perfect Nanny) debut novel of intrigue and deception. Betrayal and desire fuel the story of Margot, the secret daughter of a twenty-year affair between a French politician and a famous actress. . . . A startling, affecting first book by an author who is confident in her craft. The New York Times Margot Louve has lived her whole life as a secret. The hidden daughter of a long-standing affair, she exists with her mother in the shadows, living in a small Parisian apartment on the Left Bank.It is a house of cards that Margot fueled by a longing to be seen and heard decides to tumble. The summer of her seventeenth birthday, she meets a well-regarded journalist who will set her plan in motion.But as Margot is drawn into an adult world she struggles to comprehend, she learns how one impulsive decision can shatter the lives of those around her in ways she could never have imagined. Incisively exposing the seams between private lives and public faces, The Margot Affair is a simmering exploration of desire, transgression, and the dangers of speaking the truth.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sixteen innovators, creatives, and thought leaders Austin Channing Brown, Sue Monk Kidd, and Luvvie Ajayi Jones, among others share intimate stories of uncovering beauty and potential through moments of fear, loss, heartbreak, and uncertainty."You ll find kindred spirits in these tales of resilience, transformation, and joy." TimeOver the course of four years, the traveling love rally called Together Live brought together diverse storytellers for epic evenings of laughter, music, and hard-won wisdom to huge audiences across the country. Well-known womxn (and the occasional man) from all walks of life shared their most vulnerable truths in a radical act of love, paving the way for healing in the face of adversity. Now, off the stage and on the pages of Hungry Hearts, sixteen of these beloved speakers offer moving, inspiring, deeply personal essays as a reminder that we can heal from grief and that divisions can be repaired. Bozoma Saint John opens herself up to love after loss; Cameron Esposito confronts the limits of self-reliance in the wake of divorce; Ashley C. Ford learns to trust herself for the first time. A heartfelt anthology of transformation, self-discovery, and courage that also includes essays by Luvvie Ajayi Jones, Amena Brown, Austin Channing Brown, Natalie Guerrero, Sue Monk Kidd, Connie Lim (MILCK), Nkosingiphile Mabaso, Jillian Mercado, Priya Parker, Geena Rocero, Michael Trotter and Tanya-Blount Trotter of The War and Treaty, and Maysoon Zayid, Hungry Hearts shows how reconnecting with our own burning, undeniable intuition points us toward our unique purpose and the communities where we most belong.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'From the author of How to Save a Life comes a heartfelt story of two people finding the courage to choose love, no matter how hard it may be. Gemma thought she had her future all mapped out-a wonderful husband, a cute apartment, plans to start a family. But just months after her wedding, illness took her husband from her. And now she's trying to think up new dreams, when all she really wants are her old ones back. Across town, Dan's also rethinking his life. He's about to meet his twelve-year-old daughter, Casey, for the very first time. She's tracked him down because she needs a place to stay for the summer while she receives treatment for a brain tumor at the city hospital, and Dan is terrified he won't be up to the task of caring for her-after all, he's spent his entire life only having to look out for himself. But when fate-with the help of Gemma's scruffy terrier, Bear-brings these three strangers together one hot July morning, cracks begin to appear in the walls they've each built to protect themselves. And soon it becomes clear that this summer could change everything. Will Gemma, Dan, and Casey be brave enough to let love in and build a new life together Or will they let fear keep everything they've ever wanted just out of reach '.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A fearless writer confronts grief and transforms it into art, in a book of surprising beauty and love, 'a masterpiece by a master' (Elizabeth McCracken, Vanity Fair).'Li has converted the messy and devastating stuff of life into a remarkable work of art.'-The Wall Street Journal WINNER OF THE PEN/JEAN STEIN AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST FICTION BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Parul Seghal, The New York Times NPR The Guardian The Paris Review The narrator of Where Reasons End writes, 'I had but one delusion, which I held on to with all my willpower: We once gave Nikolai a life of flesh and blood; and I'm doing it over again, this time by words.' Yiyun Li meets life's deepest sorrows as she imagines a conversation between a mother and child in a timeless world. Composed in the months after she lost a child to suicide, Where Reasons End trespasses into the space between life and death as mother and child talk, free from old images and narratives. Deeply moving, these conversations portray the love and complexity of a relationship. Written with originality, precision, and poise, Where Reasons End is suffused with intimacy, inescapable pain, and fierce love.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A revered Buddhist monk tells the bracing and beautiful story of a singular life compelled to contemplation, sharing lessons about the power of mentorship and an open mind "A necessary and captivating narrative of spiritual courage and truth seeking far beyond the veil of our contemporary delusions." Sting Born in India to a prominent Hindu Brahmin family, the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi was only six years old when he began having visions of a mysterious mountain peak, and of men with shaved heads wearing robes the color of sunset. "It was as vivid as if I were watching a scene from life," he writes. And so at the age of ten, he ran away from boarding school to find this place taking a train to the end of the line and then riding a bus to wherever it went. Strangely enough, he ended up at a Buddhist monastery that was the place in his dreams. His frantic parents and relatives set out to find him and, after two weeks, located him and brought him home. But he continued to have visions and feel a strong pull to a spiritual life in a tradition that he had never heard of as a child. Today, he is a revered monk and teacher as well as President and CEO of The Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he works to build bridges among communities and religions. Running Toward Mystery is the Venerable Tenzin Priyadarshi s profound account of his lifelong journey as a seeker. At its heart is a story of striving for enlightenment, the vital importance of mentors in that search, and of the many remarkable teachers he met along the way, among them the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and Mother Teresa. "Teachers come and go on their own schedule," Priyadarshi writes. "I clearly wasn t in charge of the timetable and it wasn t my place to specify how a teacher should teach." And arrive they did, at the right time, in the right way, to impart the lessons that shaped a life of seeking, devotion, and deep human connection across all barriers. Running Toward Mystery is the bracing and beautiful story of a singular life compelled to contemplation, and a riveting narrative of just how exciting that journey can be.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NATIONAL BESTSELLER A wheeling meditation on the wired life, on privacy, on what being human in the age of binary code might mean (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The NetanyahusNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VULTURE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Shatteringly powerful . . . I cannot think of anything by anyone in [Cohen s] generation that is so frighteningly relevant and composed with such continuous eloquence.There are moments in it that seem to transcend our impasse. Harold BloomThe enigmatic billionaire founder of Tetration, the world s most powerful tech company, hires a failed novelist, Josh Cohen, to ghostwrite his memoirs. The mogul, known as Principal, brings Josh behind the digital veil, tracing the rise of Tetration, which started in the earliest days of the Internet by revolutionizing the search engine before venturing into smartphones, computers, and the surveillance of American citizens. Principal takes Josh on a mind-bending world tour from Palo Alto to Dubai and beyond, initiating him into the secret pretext of the autobiography project and the life-or-death stakes that surround its publication. Insider tech exposé, leaked memoir-in-progress, international thriller, family drama, sex comedy, and biblical allegory, Book of Numbers renders the full range of modern experience both online and off. Embodying the Internet in its language, it finds the humanity underlying the virtual. Featuring one of the most unforgettable characters in contemporary fiction, Book of Numbers is an epic of the digital age, a triumph of a new generation of writers, and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. Praise for Book of Numbers The Great American Internet Novel is here. . . . Book of Numbers is a fascinating look at the dark heart of the Web. . . . A page-turner about life under the veil of digital surveillance . . . one of the best novels ever written about the Internet. Rolling Stone A startlingly talented novelist. The Wall Street Journal Remarkable . . . dazzling . . . Cohen s literary gifts . . . suggest that something is possible, that something still might be done to safeguard whatever it is that makes us human. Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the bestselling author of A Ladder to the Sky a darkly funny novel that races like a beating heart (People) comes a new novel that plays out across all of human history: a story as precise as it is unlimited.This story starts with a family. For now, it is a father and a mother with two sons, one with his father s violence in his blood, one with his mother s artistry. One leaves. One stays. They will be joined by others whose deeds will determine their fate. It is a beginning.Their stories will intertwine and evolve over the course of two thousand years. They will meet again and again at different times and in different places. From Palestine at the dawn of the first millennium and journeying across fifty countries to a life among the stars in the third, the world will change around them, but their destinies remain the same. It must play out as foretold.From the award-winning author of The Heart s Invisible Furies comes A Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom, an epic tale of humanity. The story of all of us, stretching across two millennia. Imaginative, unique, heartbreaking, this is John Boyne at his most creative and compelling.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it. Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace The bonds between three picture-perfect but viciously protective mothers and their close-knit sons are tested during one unforgettable summer in a gripping novelfrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Jetsetters. Austin s Zilker Park neighborhood is a wonderland of greenbelt trails, live music, and moms who drink a few too many margaritas. Whitney, Annette, and Liza have grown thick as thieves as they have raised their children together for fifteen years,believingthat they can shelter themtheir childrenfrom an increasingly dangerous world.Their friendship is unbreakable as safe as the neighborhood where they've raised their sweet little boys.Or so they think.One night, the three women have been enjoying happy hour when their boys,lifeguards for the summer,come back on bicycles from a late-night dip in their favorite swimming hole. The boys share a secret news that will shatter the perfect world their mothers have so painstakingly created. Combining three mothers points of view in a powerful narrative tale with commentary from entertaining neighborhood listservs, secret text messages, and police reports, The Lifeguards is both a story about the secrets we tell to protect the ones we love and a riveting novel of suspense filled with half-truths and betrayals, fierce love and complicated friendships, and the loss of innocence on one hot summer night.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction The epic tale of a brilliant woman who must reinvent herself to survive, moving from Mussolini s Italy to 1940s Los Angeles a timeless story of love, deceit, and sacrifice from the award-winningauthor of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena A genuinely moving and life-affirming novel that s a true joy to read. Celeste Ng, author of Little Fires Everywhere A gorgeous book . . . sublime. The New York Times (Editors Choice)ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, The Guardian, BooklistLike many before her, Maria Lagana has come to Hollywood to outrun her past. Born in Rome, where every Sunday her father took her to the cinema instead of church, Mariaimmigrates with her mother to Los Angeles after a childhood transgression leads to her father s arrest.Fifteen years later, on the eve of America s entry into World War II, Maria is an associate producer at Mercury Pictures, trying to keep her personal and professional lives from falling apart. Her mother won t speak to her. Her boss, a man of many toupees, has been summoned to Washington by congressional investigators. Her boyfriend, a virtuoso Chinese American actor, can t escape the studio s narrow typecasting. And the studio itself, Maria s only home in exile, teeters on the verge of bankruptcy.Over the coming months, as the bright lights go dark across Los Angeles, Mercury Pictures becomes a nexus of European émigrés: modernist poets trying their luck as B-movie screenwriters, once-celebrated architects becoming scale-model miniaturists, and refugee actors finding work playing the very villains they fled.While the world descends into war, Maria rises through a maze of conflicting politics, divided loyalties, and jockeying ambitions. But when the arrival of a stranger from her father s past threatens Maria s carefully constructed facade, she must finally confront her father s fate and her own.Written with intelligence, wit, and an exhilarating sense of possibility, Mercury Pictures Presents spans many moods and tones, from the heartbreaking to the ecstatic. It is a love letter to life s bit players, a panorama of an era that casts a long shadow over our own, and a tour de force by a novelist whose work The Washington Post calls a flash in the heavens that makes you look up and believe in miracles.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - When can we say we'll be single forever-and that's okay One woman questions our society's pathologizing of loneliness in this crackling, incisive blend of memoir and cultural reporting. 'The Lonely Hunter challenged everything I assumed about the nature of loneliness and what it means to lead an authentic life.'-Doree Shafrir, author of Thanks for Waiting and Startup: A NovelONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2022-Cosmopolitan, She ReadsOne evening, thirtysomething writer Aimée Lutkin found herself at a dinner party surrounded by couples. When the conversation turned to her love life, Lutkin stated simply, 'I don't really know if I'm going to date anyone ever again. Some people are just alone forever.' Her friends rushed to assure her that love comes when you least expect it and to make recommendations for new dating apps. But Lutkin wondered, Why, when there are more unmarried adults than ever before, is there so much pressure to couple up Why does everyone treat me as though my real life won't start until I find a partner Isn't this my real life, the one I'm living right now Is there something wrong with me, or is there something wrong with our culture Over the course of the next year, Lutkin set out to answer these questions and to see if there really was some trick to escaping loneliness. She went on hundreds of dates; read the sociologists, authors, and relationship experts exploring singlehood and loneliness; dove into the wellness industrial complex; tossed it all aside to binge-watch Netflix and eat nachos; and probed the capitalist structures that make alternative family arrangements nearly impossible.Chock-full of razor-sharp observations and poignant moments of vulnerability, The Lonely Hunter is a stirring account of one woman's experience of being alone and a revealing exposé of our culture's deep biases against the uncoupled. Blazingly smart, insightful, and full of heart, this is a book for anyone determined to make, follow, and break their own rules.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A riotous journey into the heart of insanity also known as the State of Florida. Bravo!'-Gary Shteyngart, author of Lake Success Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe's seedy businesses-a moribund motel and a shabby amusement park-endangered, but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins uncovering artifacts that change his understanding of the island's history, as well as his understanding of his family's birthright as pioneering homesteaders. Meanwhile, there are other Florida men with whom Crowe must contend. Hector 'Catface' Morales, a Cuban refugee, trained assassin, and crack-addicted Marielito, is seeking revenge on Reed for stealing his stash of drugs and leaving him for dead (unbeknownst to Reed) in the wreckage of a plane crash in the Everglades decades ago. Loner and misanthrope Henry Yahchilane, a Seminole native, has something to hide on the island. So does irascible and pervy Wayne Wade, Reed Crowe's childhood friend turned bad penny. Then there are the Florida women, including Heidi Karavas, Reed Crowe's ex-wife, now a globe-trekking art curator, and Nina Arango, a Cuban refugee and fiercely protective woman with whom Reed Crowe falls in love. There are curses. There are sea monsters. There are biblical storms. There's something called the Jupiter Effect. Ultimately, Florida Man is a generation-spanning story about how a man decides to live his life, and how despite staying landlocked and stubbornly in one place, the world nevertheless comes to him.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A full-scale investigation of the controversial and often misunderstood science of attachment theory, inspired by the author s own experience as a parent and daughter. A profound and beautiful work . . . searingly honest, brazenly fresh, andstartlingly rich. Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday DemonWhen professional researcher and writer Bethany Saltman gave birth to her daughter, Azalea, she loved her deeply but felt as if something was missing. Looking back at her lonely childhood, dangerous teenage years, and love-addicted early adulthood, Saltman thought maybe she was broken.Then she discovered the science of attachment, the field of psychology that explores the question of why from an evolutionary point of view love exists between parents and children. Saltman went on a ten-year journey visiting labs, archives, and training sessions, while learning the meaning of delight from Mary Ainsworth, one of psychology s most important but unsung researchers, who died in 1999.Saltman went deep into the history and findings from Ainsworth s famous laboratory procedure, the Strange Situation, which, like an X-ray, is still used today by scientists around the world to catch a glimpse of the internal workings of attachment. In this simple twenty-minute procedure, a baby and a caregiver enter an ordinary room with two chairs and some toys. During a series of comings and goings, a trained observer studies the minutiae of the pair s back-and-forth with each other.Through the science of attachment, what Saltman discovered was a radical departure from everything she thought she knew about love and about her own family, her story, and herself. She was far from broken she saw that love is too powerful to ever break.Strange Situationis a scientific, lyrical, life-affirming exploration of love. Not only will readers be taken on an emotional ride through one mother s reckoning with her own past and her family s future, but they will also be given the tools with which to better understand their own life histories and their relationships today.Praise for Strange Situation A fascinating deep dive into attachment theory . . . Carefully researched and with copious endnotes, this is an excellent resource for anyone interested in child development. Publishers Weekly Honest and complex . . . A thoughtful engagement with a topic that affects all parents. Kirkus Reviews.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Psychologist Alex Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis search for answers to a brutal, decades-old crime in this electrifying psychological thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis is a master detective. He has a near-perfect solve rate and he's written his own rule book. Some of those successes-the toughest ones-have involved his best friend, the brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But Milo doesn't call Alex in unless cases are 'different.' This murder warrants an immediate call. Milo's independence has been compromised as never before, as the department pressures him to cater to the demands of a mogul: a hard-to-fathom, megarich young woman who is obsessed with reopening the coldest of cases-the decades-old death of the mother she never knew. The facts describe a likely loser: a mysterious woman found with a bullet in her head in a torched Cadillac that has overturned on infamously treacherous Mulholland Drive. No physical evidence, no witnesses, no apparent motive. And a slew of detectives have already worked the case and failed. But as Delaware and Sturgis begin digging, the mist begins to lift. Too many coincidences. Facts turn out to be anything but. And as they soon discover, very real threats lurking in the present. This is Delaware/Sturgis at their best: traversing the beautiful but forbidding place known as Los Angeles and exhuming the past in order to bring a vicious killer to justice.