penguin random house llc jun 2022 (12 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A vibrant collection from the ground-breaking poet, Benjamin Zephaniah. His verse explores people and places, cultures, nationalities and tribes - a real tour of the world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Did you know that everything you touch has been designed Your toys, your clothes, your scooter . . . and this book!A design can be as small as a toothbrush . . . or as BIG as a skyscraper. Every design starts in someone's imagination - an imagination just like yours.Travel through one day and discover how the world around you has been designed - even though we don't always realise it! Question HOW everyday items have been designed, and WHY they look the way they do. Guaranteed to make you see the world a little differently, pick up your pens and imagine your own designs.What will you design With facts and questions to inspire all budding designers and get creative minds whirring - and featuring iconic designs from the experts at the V&A Museum.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Moonshine shop owner Hattie Hayes is ready to lend a hand when a mystery starts brewing at a train convention in Chattanooga, TN, in this charming cozy mystery series.Now that her moonshine shop is up and running, Hattie Hayes can focus her efforts on expanding her fledgling business to events in the area, like the Chattanooga Choo Choo Model Train Convention, which is running full steam ahead at the convention center down the block. Hattie is all aboard, seizing this perfect opportunity to promote her Southern homebrew to the folks who have come to the city for the annual event.But when an attendee dies after drinking some of Hattie's moonshine, she'll need to prove her innocence. Between tight-lipped train hobbyists and competitors for a coveted convention prize, Hattie has a wide array of suspects to choose from, and she'll need to use all the tricks up her sleeve to make sure her moonshine business can survive a murderer and stay on track.Story Locale: Chattanooga, TNSeries Overview: While solving mysteries in her hometown of Chattanooga, TN, Hattie Hayes brings a family tradition of brewing moonshine into the 21st century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A new mystery series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron.Twenty-eight-year-old Ricki James leaves Los Angeles to start a new life in New Orleans after her showboating actor husband perishes doing a stupid YouTube stunt. The Big Easy is where she was born and adopted by the NICU nurse who cared for her after Ricki's teen mother disappeared from the hospital.Ricki's career dream comes true when she joins the quirky staff running the spectacular Garden District home of bon vivant Genevieve 'Vee' Charbonnet, one of the city's most legendary restauranteurs. The mansion, built in 1867, has recently been opened to the public as an historical site. Ricki gets to turn her avocation - collecting vintage cookbooks - into a vocation by launching the house museum's gift shop, Miss Vee's Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware, where she'll sell the cookbooks along with unique kitchenware, much of it also vintage or antique. In her free time, she'll hunt for the birth parents she never knew. When murder bedevils the site, Ricki will also find herself in the unexpected role of amateur sleuth, putting to use the observational skills she's developed ferreting out hidden treasures.Will Miss Vee's Vintage Cookbooks and Kitchenware be a success? or given some of the Crescent City's nefarious denizens, a recipe for disaster Series Overview: Rickie James stumbles into murder while selling vintage cookbooks and antique kitchen related swag in a gift shop housed in a spectacular historical mansion in the Garden District of New Orleans .

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the first children's book from CBBC presenter Maddie Moate: a collection of extraordinary stories about STUFF.Do you ever wonder where your stuff comes from, and what happens to it when you're finished with it Did you know that you can make paper out of elephant poo And plastic packaging out of seaweed And did you know that if you throw away an old T-shirt, it can take 200 years to break down Written and researched by Maddie Moate, the star of CBBC's Do You Know and Let's Go Live with Maddie and Greg, and illustrated by Paul Boston, this book is full of mind-bursting facts and extraordinary stories of the ingenious ways people around the world, and across history, have made, used and re-used the stuff around them.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First published after the author's death in 2008, this provocative novel charts the late-in-life sexual awakening of a retired air force pilot who begins a dangerous affair with a male servant.Captain Ni'mat, a reservist from the Egyptian army defeated by the Israelis in 1967, finds himself aging and idle, spending his days at a luxurious private club in Cairo with former comrades. One night, Captain Ni'mat has an exquisite, chilling dream: he sees pure beauty in the form of his Nubian valet. Awakened by these searing images, he slips into the hut where the young man sleeps. The vision of his naked body so deeply disturbs Captain Ni'mat that his monotonous existence is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to his wife, he comes to know physical love with his valet. In a country where religious fundamentalism grows increasingly prevalent every day, this forbidden passion will lead him to the height of happiness, at least for a time.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An irresistable, funny, sharply observed debut novel in which two roommates, and two sisters, will learn that sometimes family-and love-find you in the most unexpected places.Hazel and Alfie have just moved in together as roommates. They've also just slept together, and are left wondering whether they've just made the most enormous mistake, or the complete opposite. But either way they're determined to keep living together without making it awkward, since neither one can afford to move out of the apartment.Then Hazel's sister Emily and her wife Afra arrive for a visit, and Hazel and Alfie's feelings about each other are pushed to the side in the whirlwind of Emily and Afra's excitement to start a new life in a new town, and also find the perfect sperm donor who might help them bring a baby into their family.As Hazel, Alfie, Emily, and Afra's lives collide, all four will learn that sometimes you find family - and love - in the most unexpected of places, in this warm, perceptive, uplifting read.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The uplifting, adventure-filled memoir of one groundbreaking scientist's quest to develop new ways to fight illness and disease through the healing powers of plants."A fascinating and deeply personal journey." Amy Stewart, author of Wicked Plants and The Drunken BotanistTraveling by canoe, ATV, mule, airboat, and on foot, Dr. Cassandra Quave has conducted field research everywhere from the flooded forests of the remote Amazon to the isolated mountaintops in Albania and Kosovoall in search of natural compounds, long-known to traditional healers, that could help save us all from the looming crisis of untreatable superbugs. Dr. Quave is a leading medical ethnobotanistsomeone who identifies and studies plants that may be able to treat antimicrobial resistance and other threatening illnesseshelping to provide clues for the next generation of advanced medicines. And as a person born with multiple congenital defects of her skeletal system, she's done it all with just one leg. In The Plant Hunter, Dr. Quave weaves together science, botany, and memoir to tell us the extraordinary story of her own journey.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As a medium, Gordon Smith always gets asked questions about the nature of life and death - is there really an afterlife Can we commune with our deceased loved ones Yet some of the most interesting questions he receives are not about human loved ones - many people ask about their pets, too. In this book, Gordon shares the incredible experiences he has had with animals in his many years as a medium. Through fascinating stories, Gordon will show that animals do indeed have a soul and a deep understanding of the events around them.This book reveals the unconditional love that animals give to their owners - both in life and after. Gordon shows that animals do live on in spirit, how healing your animal can heal your own life, how your animals psychic powers can help you make the right life decisions, how your animal can act as your guardian angel, and much more.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Here, in a single volume, are the documents (speeches, letters, tweets, Supreme Court decisions, and more) that have forged American history. This 11th edition is now updated with a new chapter on the COVID-19 pandemic, the January 6, 2021 insurrection, and the Biden presidency.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A guide for making sense of life--from action (good except when it's not) to thinking (depressing) to youth (a treasure).This book offers a guide to human nature and human experience--a reference book for making sense of life. In thirty-eight short, interconnected essays, Shimon Edelman considers the parameters of the human condition, addressing them in alphabetical order, from action (good except when it's not) to love (only makes sense to the lovers) to thinking (should not be so depressing) to youth (a treasure). In a style that is by turns personal and philosophical, at once informative and entertaining, Edelman offers a series of illuminating takes on the most important aspects of living in the world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Spark Your Digestion, Safely Cleanse Your Body, and Speed HealingThe Hot Detox Plan unifies soothing cooking techniques, scientific rigor, and Eastern food wisdom to create a revolutionary breakthrough in how you can fire up your digestive power and cleanse and heal your body. You'll discover how . . . warming your food and drink can dramatically increase the digestibility of a meal and the absorption of vital nutrients chopping or blending foods such as broccoli can make them more detoxifying cooking and dressing your vegetables with oil makes their phytonutrients more bioavailable using culinary herbs in your cooking can kill yeast and negative bacteria that may be the cause of bloating and indigestion warming spices like turmeric cleanse the liver and has been shown to reduce pain as effectively as over-the-counter medications warming up your body's core will boost low immunity, alleviate IBS and chronic pain, balance hormones, and help spur weight lossThe Hot Detox Plan is the sanest and smartest way to cleanse, with easy-to-follow 3-, 10- and 21-day plans, proven techniques for crushing cravings, and over 125 delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes you'll want to enjoy every day!