random house publishing group mär 2016 (13 Ergebnisse)

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 592 pp. Englisch.

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 592 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Karin Slaughter's internationally bestselling novels are as notable for their vivid portraits of lives shadowed by loss and heartbreak as they are for their dramatic criminal investigations. Her latest offering features the return of her most compelling characters and introduces memorable new ones in a tale of corruption, murder, and confrontation that will leave more than one life . . . When Special Agent Will Trent arrives in Grant County, he finds a police department determined to protect its own and far too many unanswered questions about a prisoner's death. He doesn't understand why Officer Lena Adams is hiding secrets from him. He doesn't understand her role in the death of Grant County's popular police chief. He doesn't understand why that man's widow, Dr. Sara Linton, needs him now more than ever to help her crack this case.While the police force investigates the murder of a young woman pulled from a frigid lake, Trent investigates the police force, putting pressure on Adams just when she's already about to crack. Caught between two complicated and determined women, trying to understand Linton's passionate distrust of Adams, the facts surrounding Chief Tolliver's death, and the complexities of this insular town, Trent will unleash a case filled with explosive secrets-and encounter a thin blue line that could be murderous if crossed.Spellbinding and keenly paced, Broken is Karin Slaughter at her best. Here is an unforgettable story of raw emotions, dangerous assumptions, the deadly and layered game of betrayal, and a man's determination to expose the most painful of human truths-no matter how deeply they're hidden . . . or how devastating.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'[A] hold-on-to-your-hat, nail-biting story.'-The Washington Post 'Slaughter's best yet, by far.'-Lee Child Will Trent is a brilliant agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Newly in love, he is beginning to put a difficult past behind him. Then a local college student goes missing, and Will is inexplicably kept off the case by his supervisor and mentor, deputy director Amanda Wagner. Will cannot fathom Amanda's motivation until the two of them literally collide in an abandoned orphanage they have both been drawn to for different reasons. Decades before, when his father was imprisoned for murder, this was Will's home. It appears that the case that launched Amanda's career forty years ago has suddenly come back to life-and it involves the long-held mystery of Will's birth and parentage. Now these two dauntless investigators will each need to face down demons from the past if they are to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed. Includes Karin Slaughter's short story 'Snatched' and a preview of the Will Trent novel Unseen'With every page of this story the tension mounts. . . . If you have a hunger for a rich and fulfilling novel then you owe it to yourself to pick up Criminal.'-Huffington Post 'A masterpiece of character, atmosphere and riveting suspense, Criminal is the most powerful and moving novel yet from one of the most gifted storytellers at work today.'-Chicago Daily Herald.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jane Rizzoli and Maura Isles-the inspiration for the hit TNT series-continue their bestselling crime-solving streak.For untold years, the perfectly preserved mummy had lain forgotten in the dusty basement of Boston's Crispin Museum. Dubbed 'Madam X,' the recently rediscovered mummy is, to all appearances, an ancient Egyptian artifact. But medical examiner Maura Isles discovers a macabre message hidden within the corpse-horrifying proof that this 'centuries-old' relic is instead a modern-day murder victim. When the grisly remains of two other women are found, it becomes clear to Maura and Boston homicide detective Jane Rizzoli that a maniac is at large. Now Maura and Jane must unravel a murderer's twisted endgame before the Archaeology Killer adds another chilling artifact to his monstrous collection.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In such modern classics as Chesapeake, Centennial, Hawaii, Alaska, and Texas, James A. Michener proved time and again that his understanding of and love for his country was unparalleled. This Noble Land is Michener's most personal statement about America, an examination of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine the nation-racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education, the inadequacies of our health care system-as well as a thought-provoking prescription for sustaining our 'outstanding success.' Infused with the wisdom and passion of a lifetime, This Noble Land stands as a wake-up call for a troubled era. Praise for This Noble Land 'A book-length essay on the often worrying, often inspiring course of America in the nine decades of Michener's life.'-The Washington Post 'Michener is more interested in fixing the problems than in fixing the blame.'-The Dallas Morning News 'Michener's are the beach books that, unlike most other beach books, leave you smarter than you were when you started reading. Each delivers the product of all that research, doled out to the reader at just the right rate. You know right away who the bad guys are-the petty ones, the stingy ones. The heroes are generous and energetic and smart and, above all, unprejudiced. The real-life villains in This Noble Land are the people Michener perceives as 'petty, mean and vengeful.''-St. Louis Post-Dispatch 'Stirring . . . an admirable effort to define what has made our country great and how to preserve what is best about it.'-Kirkus Reviews.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Includes Reader's guide with a postscript and interview by David Mitchell.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, AND SUSPENSE MAGAZINE Stephen King calls Jack Reacher 'the coolest continuing series character'-and now he's back in this masterly new thriller from Lee Child. 'Why is this town called Mother's Rest ' That's all Reacher wants to know. But no one will tell him. It's a tiny place hidden in a thousand square miles of wheat fields, with a railroad stop, and sullen and watchful people, and a worried woman named Michelle Chang, who mistakes him for someone else: her missing partner in a private investigation she thinks must have started small and then turned lethal. Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there, and there's something about Chang . . . so he teams up with her and starts to ask around. He thinks: How bad can this thing be But before long he's plunged into a desperate race through LA, Chicago, Phoenix, and San Francisco, and through the hidden parts of the internet, up against thugs and assassins every step of the way-right back to where he started, in Mother's Rest, where he must confront the worst nightmare he could imagine. Walking away would have been easier. But as always, Reacher's rule is: If you want me to stop, you're going to have to make me.Praise for Make Me 'Child's Reacher series has hit Book No. 20 with a resounding peal of wisecracking glee. Everything about it, starting with Reacher's nose for bad news, is as strong as ever. . . . The big guy's definitely on the upswing. The guy who writes about him is too.'-Janet Maslin, The New York Times'Another winner . . . There's a reason why Child is considered the best of the best in the thriller genre: He can take all these strange elements and clichés and make them compelling and original.'-Associated Press'A superb thriller.'-New York Daily News 'Child's complete command of the story makes this thriller work brilliantly.'-Publishers Weekly (starred review)'I've read all twenty of Lee Child's novels. Maybe there's something wrong with me. But I can't wait for the twenty-first.'-Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker '[The Reacher series] is the current gold standard in the genre. . . . In Make Me Lee Child delivers another Jack Reacher specialty; the total knockout.'-Dayton Daily News 'Child serves up wingding plots, pithy dialogue, extraordinary background on intriguing topics, and cunningly constructed suspense. But what keeps us coming back-by the millions-is the chance to walk around in the skin of that big guy in the middle of everything.'-The Oregonian 'A dark thriller . . . Lee Child's Make Me, the twentieth in his wildly popular Jack Reacher series, delivers exactly what readers have come to expect from the perennial bestselling author: interesting characters, tight plots and page-turning action. . . . Readers won't be disappointed.'-Minneapolis Star Tribune 'Jack Reacher is back. . . . Readers new to this series will find this book a good starting point, and fans will be pleased to see Jack again.'-LibraryReads (Top Ten Pick) 'The reigning champ ups the ante.'-Booklist (starred review).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This translation originally published in London by Abacus.

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 - The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Party Crasher and Love Your Life returns with another laugh-out-loud Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) adventure: a hilarious road trip through the American West to Las Vegas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry and Perfect comes an exquisite love story about Queenie Hennessy, the remarkable friend who inspired Harold Fry's incredible journey'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE A thrilling adventure of danger and deep-sea diving, historic mystery and suspense, by the author of Shadow Divers Finding and identifying a pirate ship is the hardest thing to do under the sea. But two men-John Chatterton and John Mattera-are willing to risk everything to find the Golden Fleece, the ship of the infamous pirate Joseph Bannister. At large during the Golden Age of Piracy in the seventeenth century, Bannister should have been immortalized in the lore of the sea-his exploits more notorious than Blackbeard's, more daring than Kidd's. But his story, and his ship, have been lost to time. If Chatterton and Mattera succeed, they will make history-it will be just the second time ever that a pirate ship has been discovered and positively identified. Soon, however, they realize that cutting-edge technology and a willingness to lose everything aren't enough to track down Bannister's ship. They must travel the globe in search of historic documents and accounts of the great pirate's exploits, face down dangerous rivals, battle the tides of nations and governments and experts. But it's only when they learn to think and act like pirates-like Bannister-that they become able to go where no pirate hunters have gone before. Fast-paced and filled with suspense, fascinating characters, history, and adventure, Pirate Hunters is an unputdownable story that goes deep to discover truths and souls long believed lost.Praise for Pirate Hunters'You won't want to put [it] down.'-Los Angeles Times 'An exceptional adventure . . . Highly recommended to readers who delight in adventure, suspense, and the thrill of discovering history at their fingertips.'-Library Journal (starred review) 'A terrific read . . . The book gallops along at a blistering pace, shifting us deftly between the seventeenth century and the present day.'-Diver 'Nonfiction with the trademarks of a novel: the plots and subplots, the tension and suspense . . . [Kurson has] found gold.'-The Dallas Morning News 'Rollicking . . . a fascinating [story] about the world of pirates, piracy, and priceless treasures.'-The Boston Globe '[Kurson's] narration is just as engrossing as the subject.'-The Christian Science Monitor 'A wild ride [and an] extraordinary adventure . . . Kurson's own enthusiasm, combined with his copious research and an eye for detail, makes for one of the most mind-blowing pirate stories of recent memory, one that even the staunchest landlubber will have a hard time putting down.'-Publishers Weekly (starred review)'The two contemporary pirate-ship seekers of Mr. Kurson's narrative are as daring, intrepid, tough and talented as Blood and Sparrow-and Bannister. . . . As depicted by the author, they are real-life Hemingway heroes.'-The Wall Street Journal '[Kurson] takes his knowledge of the underwater world and applies it to the 'Golden Age of Piracy' . . . thrillingly detailing the highs and lows of chasing not just gold and silver but also history.'-Booklist'A great thriller full of tough guys and long odds . . . and: It's all true.'-Lee Child.