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Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0099555387ISBN 13 : 9780099555384
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters.Thousands of miles away on the Greenland Sea, Danielle Flinders prepares to dive in a submersive to the ocean floor.In their confines they are drawn back to the Christmas of the previous year, where a chance encounter on a beach in France led to an intense and enduring romance. 208 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0099573164ISBN 13 : 9780099573166
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In The Day of the Locust a young artist, Tod Hackett, arrives in LA full of dreams. But celebrity and artifice rule and he soon joins the ranks of the disenchanted that drift around the fringes of Hollywood. When he meets Faye Greener, an aspiring actress, he is intoxicated and his desperate passion explodes into rage.Miss Lonelyhearts is a decidedly off-kilter, darkly comic tale set in New York in the early 30s. A nameless man is assigned to produce a newspaper advice column. It was meant to be a joke. But as endless letters from the Desperate, Sick-of-it-All and Disillusioned pile up for Miss Lonelyhearts's attention the joke begins to escape him. 256 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0099560933ISBN 13 : 9780099560937
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Discover this extraordinary and beautiful novel from one of America's greatest novelists.In rural Illinois two tenant farmers share much, finally too much, until jealously leads to murder and suicide. A tenuous friendship between lonely teenagers - the narrator, whose mother has died young, and Cletus Smith, the troubled witness to his parent's misery - is shattered. After the murder and upheavals that follow, the boys never speak again. Fifty years on, the narrator attempts a reconstruction of those devastating events and the atonement of a lifetime's regret. \*\*One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World\*\* 176 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0099555972ISBN 13 : 9780099555971
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Umberto Eco (1932¿2016) wrote fiction, literary criticism and philosophy. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was a major international bestseller. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana, The Prague Cemetery and Numero Zero along with many brilliant collections of essays. 576 pp. Englisch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0099549425ISBN 13 : 9780099549420
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - A moving account of the history, landscape and people of a remote village high in the Ligurian mountains in Italy. Now in paperback, it was shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award. When Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the region, the people there began to tell them their personal stories. 'Impossible to forget. beautiful and deeply humane' 'Sunday Times' 272 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0099528770ISBN 13 : 9780099528777
Vendeur : Smartbuy, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of the small details that make up a life, the nuances of joy and sadness that change its direction. 432 pp. Deutsch.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0099546558ISBN 13 : 9780099546559
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - We live our lives online - banking, shopping, working, dating - but have we become complacent Who's got your money We share our personal details, our thoughts and movements with a faceless screen, with no real idea what lies behind it. Who's got your identity DarkMarket exposes the shocking truth about what lurks behind our computers: an underground crime network that invades our privacy and threatens our security on a daily basis. Who's got your life Glenny tracks down the key players - including criminals, national and international security experts, police, crack addicts, the Saudi Royal Family, and most importantly, victims - to reveal the true scale of this new global threat.Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2012.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0099546671ISBN 13 : 9780099546672
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - In 1938 Action Comics #1 introduced the world to Superman. In a matter of years, the skies of our imaginations were filled with mutants, aliens and vigilantes. Batman, Wonder Woman and the X-Men - in less than a century they've gone from not existing at all to being everywhere we look. But why For Grant Morrison, possibly the greatest of contemporary superhero storytellers, these heroes are not simply characters but powerful archetypes whose ongoing story arcs reflect and predict the lives we live. In this exhilarating book, Morrison draws on history, art, mythology, and his own astonishing journey to provide the first true chronicle of the superhero.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 009955562XISBN 13 : 9780099555629
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Bullfighting moves from classrooms to graveyards, local pubs to bullrings; featuring an array of men at their working day and at rest, taking stock and reliving past glories. Each is concerned with loss in different ways - of their place in the world, of power, virility, love - of the boom days and the Celtic Tiger. Brilliantly observed, funny and moving, the stories in Bullfighting present a new vision of contemporary Ireland, of its woes and triumphs.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 1845951689ISBN 13 : 9781845951689
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Taschenbuch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - He may be myth, but his lyre still sounds, entrancing everything that hears it: animals, trees, water, stones, and men. In this extraordinary work Ann Wroe goes in search of Orpheus, from the forests where he walked and the mountains where he worshipped to the artefacts, texts and philosophies built up round him.
Edité par Vintage Publishing Jul 2012, 2012
ISBN 10 : 0224095366ISBN 13 : 9780224095365
Vendeur : AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Allemagne
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Buch. Etat : Neu. Neuware - Anna Del Conte is the doyenne of Italian cookery. She has written twelve books including the acclaimed Portrait of Pasta, Gastronomy of Italy and Amaretto, Apple Cake and Artichokes. She won the Duchessa Maria Luigia di Parma award for Gastronomy of Italy, and has won awards from the Guild of Food Writers and the Academia Italiana della Cucina. In 2010 Anna received from the president of the Italian republic thehonour of Ufficiale dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblicao Italiana in recognition of the work she does for Italy and Italian food in this country. In 2011 Nigella Lawson presented her with the Life Achievement Award of the Guild of Food Writers. She lives in Dorset.