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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'When a leopard goes missing at the San Diego Zoo, it's up to Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose to find her!'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Millie McGonigle lives in sunny California, where her days are filled with beach and surf. It should be perfect--but times are tough. Hitler is attacking Europe and it looks like the United States may be going to war. Food is rationed and money is tight. And Millie's sickly little sister gets all the attention and couldn't be more of a pain if she tried. It's a time of sunshine, siblings, and stress. Will Millie be able to find her way in her family, and keep her balance as the world around her loses its own '.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - IDLE HANDS Always dependable, brothers Logan and Billy Cross have worked the same cattle drive since they were teenagers. Now that they're men, their boss is retiring, and they're out of a job. He sends them to Fort Pierre in the Dakota Territory, recommending they join up with a horse drive to Sturgis. But the Crosses' journey takes a dark turn when they enter a saloon to meet their prospective boss. After the younger brother, Billy, foolishly smiles at someone else's woman, he draws the ire of Quincy Morgan and his gang of outlaws. Soon the brothers will learn a valuable lessonone that will be paid for in blood.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Holm, Matthew (illustrator). Neuware - 'A Yearlilng book'--Page opposite title page.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Laugh yourself silly in this fantastic collection of jokes and riddles!WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER An embarrassed PenguinA sunburnt elephantA newspaper! Did those jokes make you laugh Make you groan Maybe a bit of both There's a lot more where they came from. Collected here by jokesmith Gyles Brandreth are some of the best and worst jokes ever (plus a few riddles to keep you on your toes).From 'Knock, knock' to 'Waiter waiter', with some funny elephants and giraffes thrown in for good measure, there's also a bit of expert joke advice, so you can show others just how funny you can be!'Very funny, and often outright silly' Guardian on Have You Eaten Grandma by Gyles Brandreth.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Daring resort manager Elizabeth Grady will need to think fast to bring a killer into the limelight in this charming historical cozy mystery series.Famous director Elias Theropodous has chosen Haggerman's Catskills Resort as a shooting location for his next film. It sounds glamorous to much of the staff, but resort manager Elizabeth Grady is less satisfied. Dealing with the ridiculous demands of the antagonistic director is bad enough, and his attempts to walk all over Elizabeth are making her feel like her position at the resort has been changed into a bit part.But when Elias is poisoned during a dinner at the resort, the future of the film and the resort itself are on the line. Between an aging movie star, a harried producer, and former victims of the deceased director's wrath, Elizabeth has a full cast of suspects to examine, and she'll need to investigate every lead to catch a killer.Story Locale: Upstate New YorkSeries Overview: In this charming historical cozy mystery series, Elizabeth Grady helps her mother run the bustling Haggerman's Catskills Resort, and solves mysteries on the side.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Waldo, Steph (illustrator). Neuware - Mean Girls meets Black Beauty in Horse Girl by celebrated author Carrie Seim-a funny and tender middle-grade novel about finding your forever herd. Now in paperback!Wills is a seventh grader who's head-over-hoof for horses, and beyond excited when she gets the chance to start training at the prestigious Oakwood Riding Academy. But Amara-the Queen of the #HorseGirls-and her posse aren't going to let the certifiably dork-tagious Wills trot her way into their club so easily. Between learning the reins of horse riding, dealing with her Air Force pilot mom being stationed thousands of miles from home, and keeping it together in front of (gasp!) Horse Boys, Wills learns that becoming a part of the #HorseGirl world isn't easy. But with her rescue horse, Clyde, at her side, it sure will be fun.Complete with comedic, original hoof notes to acquaint the less equestrian among us, Horse Girl delivers everything a young readers wants: mean girls, boy problems, and embarrassingly goofy dad jokes. And it does so on the back of a pony.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Mob Squad were heroes not so long ago, but even the most heroic kid is still just a kid. The Mob Squad's leader, Mal, is still milking cows and dreaming of the next adventure. Their sharp-eyed archer Lenna is learning everything she can about the Overworld, but the horizon is still far away. Fearless warrior Chug is running a store with his brother, but his reputation for breaking stuff has some folks still calling him a bad apple. And his inventive brother, Tok--wait, where did Tok go When the fourth member of the Mob Squad vanishes in the night, along with most of the town's potions, Cornucopia's elders think they're dealing with a runaway thief. But Tok wouldn't just leave without saying anything. And there's no way he's a potion thief. There's something far more dangerous going on here'.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Allegations against his father turn eleven-year-old Rodney's life upside down in a powerful and surprisingly funny novel about new beginnings, new friendships and a fresh new look at the way things really are, by critically acclaimed author Susan Juby.Eleven-year-old Rodney is starting sixth grade in a new school, in a new home in a new state. The new school is really old and smells like someone ate a couple of pounds of glue and then barfed it back up, and he's in a class with a bunch of kids who seem to sort of hate him. Even his best friend won't write him back. It's strange, because just a couple of months ago, Rodney was one of the most popular guys in his fifth-grade class. He lived in Las Vegas, with his mom, older sister and his dad, who was a successful professional poker player. Now his old life is over-his mom even says they shouldn't tell anyone their real last name. Because of something his dad did. Or something people said that he did. His dad says it's all a big misunderstanding, but he's now staying in a center 'for people who are having problems, like being addicted to drugs or gambling, or because other people don't understand that you are just funny and friendly and sometimes you give people hugs or put your arm around them and they accuse you of taking liberties and ruin everything.' Rodney is confident that it won't be long until the misunderstanding is all cleared up and they can all go back to their old life. But he can only keep the truth at bay for so long?

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The first biography of the late Mildred Dresselhaus, a pioneer of nanoscience, a champion for women in STEM, and recipient the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science'--.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*Winner of the 2022 New American Voices Award\* \*Winner of the 2023 Oregon Book Award for Fiction\*\*Winner of the Writers' League of Texas Book Award\* Finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story CollectionFinalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of FictionLonglisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceLonglisted for The Story PrizeThese intimate stories of South Indian immigrants and the families they left behind center women's lives and ask how women both claim and surrender powera stunning debut collection from an O. Henry Prize winnerTraveling from Pittsburgh to Eastern Washington to Tamil Nadu, these stories about dislocation and dissonance see immigrants and their families confront the costs of leaving and staying, identifying sublime symmetries in lives growing apart.In "Malliga Homes," selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for an O. Henry Prize, a widow in a retirement community glimpses her future while waiting for her daughter to visit from America. In 'No. 16 Model House Road,' a woman long subordinate to her husband makes a choice of her own after she inherits a house. In 'Nature Exchange,' a mother grieving in the wake of a school shooting finds an unusual obsession. In 'A Life in America,' a professor finds himself accused of having exploited his graduate students.Sindya Bhanoo's haunting stories show us how immigrants' paths, and the paths of those they leave behind, are never simple. Bhanoo takes us along on their complicated journeys where regret, hope, and triumph appear in disguise.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Raynal, Jake (illustrator). Neuware - 'Based on an original text by Didier Fassin'--Title page.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this Wall Street Journal bestseller, why the future of work requires the deconstruction of jobs and the reconstruction of work.Work is traditionally understood as a job, and workers as jobholders. Jobs are structured by titles, hierarchies, and qualifications. In Work without Jobs, the Wall Street Journal bestseller, Ravin Jesuthasan and John Boudreau propose a radically new way of looking at work. They describe a new work operating system that deconstructs jobs into their component parts and reconstructs these components into more optimal combinations that reflect the skills and abilities of individual workers. In a new normal of rapidly accelerating automation, demands for organizational agility, efforts to increase diversity, and the emergence of alternative work arrangements, the old system based on jobs and jobholders is cumbersome and ungainly. Jesuthasan and Boudreau s new system lays out a roadmap for the future of work.Work without Jobs presents real-world cases that show how leading organizations are embracing work deconstruction and reinvention. For example, when a robot, chatbot, or artificial intelligence takes over parts of a job while a human worker continues to do other parts, what is the job DHL found some answers when it deployed social robotics at its distribution centers. Meanwhile, the biotechnology company Genentech deconstructed jobs to increase flexibility, worker engagement, and retention. Other organizations achieved agility with internal talent marketplaces, worker exchanges, freelancers, crowdsourcing, and partnerships. It s time for organizations to reboot their work operating system, and Work without Jobs offers an essential guide for doing so.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A fresh, comprehensive biography of the pioneering educator and activist who changed the way we look at children's minds, from the author of Oriana Fallaci. Born in 1870 in Chiaravalle, Italy, Maria Montessori would grow up to embody almost every trait men of her era detested in the fairer sex. She was self-confident, strong-willed, and had a fiery temper at a time when women were supposed to be soft and pliable. She studied until she became a doctor at a time when female graduates in Italy provoked outright scandal. She never wanted to marry or have children-the accepted destiny for all women in her milieu of late nineteenth-century bourgeois Rome-and when she became pregnant by a colleague of hers, she gave up her son to continue pursuing her career. At around age thirty, Montessori was struck by the work being done with children from the slums of the San Lorenzo neighborhood, and realized what she wanted to do with her life: change the school, and therefore the world, through a new approach to the child's mind. In spite of the resistance she faced from all sides-scientists accused her of being too mystical, and the clergy of being too scientific-she would garner acclaim and establish the influential Montessori Method, which is now practiced throughout the world. A thorough, nuanced portrait of this often controversial woman, The Child Is the Teacher is the first biographical work on Maria Montessori written by an author who is not a member of the Montessori movement, but who has been granted access to original letters, diaries, notes, and texts written by Montessori herself, including an array of previously unpublished material.'.