random house llc us apr 2014 (44 résultats)

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of the Rizzoli & Isles series, her stunning first thriller! A beautiful young woman s corpse is found dumped in a garbage-strewn alley. Now laid out in the office of medical examiner Kat Novak is an unidentified body that betrays no secrets except for a matchbook clutched in one stiff hand, seven numbers scrawled inside. When a second victim is discovered, Kat begins to fear that a serial killer is stalking the streets, using a deadly drug to do his dirty work. The police are skeptical. The mayor won t listen. One of the town s most prominent citizens, with a missing daughter of his own, is also Kat s chief suspect. As the death toll rises, Kat races to expose a deadly predator who is close enough to touch her. Praise for Tess Gerritsen [The author] has a knack for creating great characters and mysterious plots that seem straightforward but also dazzle with complexity and twists. Associated Press [Gerritsen] has an imagination that allows her to conjure up depths of human behavior so dark and frightening that she makes Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft seem like goody-two-shoes. Chicago Tribune One of the most versatile voices in thriller fiction today. The Providence Journal Previously published as Peggy Sue Got Murdered 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERParis, L.A., and the world of ready to wear fashion provide rich backdrops for Danielle Steel s deeply involving story of a gifted designer whose talent and drive have brought her everything except the ability to erase her past and trust relationships. FIRST SIGHT New York. London. Milan. Paris. Fashion Week in all four cities. A month of endless interviews, parties, and unflagging work and attention to detail at the semiannual ready to wear fashion shows the famous prêt-à-porter. At the center of the storm and avalanche of work is American Timmie O Neill, whose renowned line, Timmie O, is the embodiment of casual chic, in fashion and for the home. She has created a business that inspires, fills, and consumes her life. With an unerring instinct for what the next trend will be, an innate genius for business, tireless labor, and sheer fearlessness, starting from nothing, over two decades Timmie has built an international empire that has brought her enormous satisfaction and success. In a world where humility and compassion are all too rare, her humor, kindness, integrity, and creativity are inspirational. Yet as blessed as she feels by her success, Timmie harbors the private wounds of a devastating childhood and past tragedy. She is too smart, too experienced, and too hurt to want much in her personal life beyond a succession of convenient, very limited relationships. Always willing to take risks in business, she never risks her heart. But despite her well-ordered and highly controlled world, it turns out that Timmie O Neill is not immune to magic when it strikes. And it strikes in Paris during Paris Fashion Week, when an intriguing Frenchman comes into her life when she gets sick. At first, Timmie and Jean-Charles Vernier are only patient and physician. They become confidants and friends, corresponding at a safe distance between Paris and Los Angeles once she goes home. There is every reason why they must remain apart. But neither can deny their growing friendship and the electricity that sparks whenever they meet. First Sight is as complex and compelling as modern life itself. Careers, families, histories, losses, duty, obligation, and fear of losing control and getting hurt. It is a tale of daring to take risks, and losing control just enough to have a life, when the opportunity presents itself. When two very different worlds and strong-willed people collide, everything changes in an instant, as they confront the age-old question of whether to lay oneself bare and risk intimacy or not. Are they brave enough to face what comes next And will they do it together or apart Praise for First Sight A novel about love, in all its heartbreaking and splendid forms. Kirkus Reviews Steel is one of the world s most popular authors, and this poignant romance is sure to thrill her many loyal fans and reach many new readers, too. Booklist Steel deftly stages heartstring-tugging moments. Publishers Weekly 528 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -THE CHASE IS ON!Erwin and the Survey Corps desperately mount a rescue operation to take Eren back from the Colossus Titan and Armored Titan. But without the numbers to form up properly outside the walls, how can the humans catch up before they're all slaughtered Just whose side is Ymir on And will Eren ever see his friends again PRAISE FOR THE HIT ANIME 'A visceral and fantastically intense action/horror story.' - Anime News Network 'Japan s equivalent of The Walking Dead.' - io9 192 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This inspiring meditation on kindness from the author of Lincoln in the Bardo is based on his popular commencement address.Three months after George Saunders gave a graduation address at Syracuse University, a transcript of that speech was posted on the website of The New York Times, where its simple, uplifting message struck a deep chord. Within days, it had been shared more than one million times. Why Because Saunders's words tap into a desire in all of us to lead kinder, more fulfilling lives. Powerful, funny, and wise, Congratulations, by the way is an inspiring message from one of today's most influential and original writers.Praise for Congratulations, by the way'As slender as a psalm, and as heavy.'-The New York Times 'The graduating college senior in your life probably just wants money. But if you want to impart some heartfelt, plainspoken wisdom in addition to a check, you can't do much better than [Congratulations, by the way].'-Entertainment Weekly'The loving selflessness that [George Saunders] advises and the interconnectedness that he recognizes couldn't be purer or simpler-or more challenging.'-Kirkus Reviews 'Warm and tender.'-Publishers Weekly 64 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware 512 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -This classic collection now revised and expanded is the perfect introduction to Nobel Laureate Alice Munro's brilliant, revelatory short stories, in which she unfolds the wordless secrets that lie at the center of human experience.The stories in this volume span Munro's career: The title stories from her collectionsThe Moons of Jupiter;The Progress of Love; and Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage; Differently, fromFriend of My Youth; Carried Away, fromOpen Secrets;and (new to this edition)'In Sight of the Lake,' fromDear Life. Vintage Munroalsoincludes the text of the Nobel Prize Presentation Speech, given by Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Das Leben könnte so einfach sein doch die Menschen sind es nichtIn einer Kleinstadt in Maine zu leben, mag romantisch klingen, aber die Wirklichkeit sieht meist anders aus. Die Brüder Jim und Bob Burgess sind deswegen so bald wie möglich nach New York gezogen. Als ihre Schwester Susan, die zu Hause geblieben ist, ihre Hilfe braucht, kehren ihre Brüder widerstrebend in die Heimatstadt zurück. Mit ungeahnter Macht holt sie dort jedoch die Vergangenheit wieder ein Eine aufwühlende Familiengeschichte, vollkommen unsentimental und dabei tief berührend eine echte Strout eben.Shirley Falls ist eine typische Kleinstadt in Maine: hohe Arbeitslosigkeit, viele Alte, wenige Junge, wirtschaftlicher Niedergang, in neuester Zeit auch noch Aufnahmeort für muslimische Flüchtlinge aus Somalia. Als einzige der drei Burgess-Geschwister ist Susan hiergeblieben, ihr Mann hat sie schon lang verlassen, der 19-jährige Sohn Zachary wohnt bei ihr in dem eiskalten, ungemütlichen Häuschen. Als der verschlossene, einsame Junge eines Tages einen halb aufgetauten Schweinekopf in die behelfsmäßige Moschee rollen lässt, ist die kleine Gemeinde erschüttert. Ein rassistisches Verbrechen Auf jeden Fall ein Skandal, mit dem Susan allein nicht fertig wird. Und so bittet sie ihre Brüder Jim und Bob um Hilfe, die als Anwälte in New York arbeiten. Unterschiedlicher könnten diese beiden Brüder nicht sein: Jim, der reiche Karriere-Jurist, lebt mit seiner Frau Helen in einem schönen großen Haus. Bob hingegen war noch nie besonders erfolgreich, ist geschieden, und seine beste Freundin ist immer noch die Exfrau. Nichts zieht die Brüder mehr nach Shirley Falls zurück. Aber natürlich folgen sie dem Hilferuf der Schwester, nicht ahnend, dass ihre Rückkehr nach Maine ihr bisheriges Leben vollkommen umkrempeln wird . 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Huffington Post Financial Times Success Inc. Library Journal What does it mean to manage well From Ed Catmull, co-founder (with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter) of Pixar Animation Studios, comes an incisive book about creativity in business sure to appeal to readers of Daniel Pink, Tom Peters, and Chip and Dan Heath. Forbesraves that Creativity, Inc. just might be the business book ever written. Creativity, Inc. is a book for managers who want to lead their employees to new heights, a manual for anyone who strives for originality, and the first-ever, all-access trip into the nerve center of Pixar Animation into the meetings, postmortems, and Braintrust sessions where some of the most successful films in history are made. It is, at heart, a book about how to build a creative culture but it is also, as Pixar co-founder and president Ed Catmull writes, an expression of the ideas that I believe make the best in us possible. For nearly twenty years, Pixar has dominated the world of animation, producing such beloved films as the Toy Story trilogy, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Up, and WALL-E, which have gone on to set box-office records and garner thirty Academy Awards. The joyousness of the storytelling, the inventive plots, the emotional authenticity: In some ways, Pixar movies are an object lesson in what creativity really is. Here, in this book, Catmull reveals the ideals and techniques that have made Pixar so widely admired and so profitable. As a young man, Ed Catmull had a dream: to make the first computer-animated movie. He nurtured that dream as a Ph.D. student at the University of Utah, where many computer science pioneers got their start, and then forged a partnership with George Lucas that led, indirectly, to his founding Pixar with Steve Jobs and John Lasseter in 1986. Nine years later, Toy Story was released, changing animation forever. The essential ingredient in that movie s success and in the thirteen movies that followed was the unique environment that Catmull and his colleagues built at Pixar, based on philosophies that protect the creative process and defy convention, such as: Give a good idea to a mediocre team, and they will screw it up. But give a mediocre idea to a great team, and they will either fix it or come up with something better. If you don t strive to uncover what is unseen and understand its nature, you will be ill prepared to lead. It s not the manager s job to prevent risks. It s the manager s job to make it safe for others to take them. The cost of preventing errors is often far greater than the cost of fixing them. A company s communication structure should not mirror its organizational structure. Everybody should be able to talk to anybody. Praise for Creativity, Inc. Over more than thirty years, EdCatmull has developed methods to root out and destroy the barriers to creativity, to marry creativity to the pursuit of excellence, and, most impressive, to sustain a culture of disciplined creativity during setbacks and success. Jim Collins, co-author of Built to Last and author of Good to Great Too often, we seek to keep the status quo working. This is a book about breaking it. Seth Godin 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NAMED ONE OFTIME STEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care. People A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece. Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith AwardONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times The Washington Post O: The Oprah Magazine USA Today New York The Miami Herald San Francisco Chronicle NewsdayIn this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees a fortune beyond counting in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi s most-everything girl, might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change,Behind the Beautiful Forevers,based on years of uncompromising reporting,carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century s hidden worlds and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.WINNER OF: The PEN Nonfiction Award TheLos Angeles TimesBook Prize The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award The New York Public Library s Helen Bernstein Book AwardNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New Yorker People Entertainment Weekly The Wall Street Journal The Boston Globe The Economist Financial Times Foreign Policy The Seattle Times The Nation St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Denver Post MinneapolisStar Tribune The Week Kansas City Star Slate Publishers Weekly 256 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -Soon to be a major anime series from the makers of Attack on Titan!A BLOODY COMING OF AGEIn a gambit to become the power behind the Danish and English thrones, Askeladd has taken the prince, Canute, and plunged deep into a winter storm behind enemy lines. Canute's father, King Sweyn, gives him up for dead in his haste to suppress English resistance. But Askeladd's small band can't outrun the tenacious maniac Thorkell forever, and when the warriors finally clash, a storm of sweat and gore ensues that will turn a boy into a man and a hostage into a ruler of men!'Gripping doesn t begin to describe Vinland Saga. 5 stars. ICv2'Deeply engrossing If you have any interest at all in Vikings, the Medieval period, or pirates, this is not a series you want to miss. Anime News Network'For those who love Berserk, you ll love this too. Worth the long wait.' A Case Suitable for TreatmentFrom the acclaimed author of Planetes 448 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -The perfect graduation gift: the iconic #1 best seller, expanded and updated exclusively for graduates entering the workforce.This extraordinary edition of Lean In, by Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook and coauthor of Option B, with Adam Grant, includes a letter to graduates from Sandberg and six additional chapters from experts offering advice on finding and getting the most out of a first job; résumé writing; best interviewing practices; negotiating your salary; listening to your inner voice; owning who you are; and leaning in for millennial men.In 2013, Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In became a massive cultural phenomenon and its title became an instant catchphrase for empowering women. The book soared to the top of best-seller lists both nationally and internationally, igniting global conversations about women and ambition. This enhanced edition provides the entire text of the original book updated with more recent statistics and features a passionate letter from Sandberg encouraging graduates to find and commit to work they love. A combination of inspiration and practical advice, this new edition will speak directly to graduates and, like the original, change lives.New Material for the Graduates Edition: A Letter to Graduates from Sheryl Sandberg Find Your First Job, by Mindy Levy (Levy has more than twenty years of experience in all phases of organizational management and holds degrees from Wharton and Penn) Negotiate Your Salary, by Kim Keating (Keating is the founder and managing director of Keating Advisors) Man Up: Millennial Men and Equality, by Kunal Modi (Modi is a consultant at McKinsey & Company and a recent graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School) Let's Lean In Together, by Rachel Thomas (Thomas is the president of The Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation) Own Who You Are, by Mellody Hobson (Hobson is the president of Ariel Investments) Listen to Your Inner Voice, by Rachel Simmons (Simmons is cofounder of the Girls Leadership Institute) 12 Lean In stories, short essays by readers around the world who have been inspired by Sandberg 432 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware -A collection of stories and 100 sweet and savory French-inspired recipes from popular food blogger David Lebovitz, reflecting the way Parisians eat today and featuring lush photography taken around Paris and in David's Parisian kitchen.In 2004, David Lebovitz packed up his most treasured cookbooks, a well-worn cast-iron skillet, and his laptop and moved to Paris. In that time, the culinary culture of France has shifted as a new generation of chefs and home cooks most notably in Paris incorporates ingredients and techniques from around the world into traditional French dishes.InMy Paris Kitchen, David remasters the classics, introduces lesser-known fare, and presents 100 sweet and savory recipes that reflect the way modern Parisians eat today. You ll find Soupe à l oignon, Cassoulet, Coq au vin, and Croque-monsieur, as well as Smoky barbecue-style pork, Lamb shank tagine, Dukkah-roasted cauliflower, Salt cod fritters with tartar sauce, and Wheat berry salad with radicchio, root vegetables, and pomegranate. And of course, there s dessert: Warm chocolate cake with salted butter caramel sauce, Duck fat cookies, Bay leaf poundcake with orange glaze, French cheesecake.and the list goes on. David also shares stories told with his trademark wit and humor, and lush photography taken on location around Paris and in David s kitchen reveals the quirks, trials, beauty, and joys of life in the culinary capital of the world. 352 pp. Englisch.