scribner book company sep 2010 (6 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of the Oprah Book Club Pick Dream State, a debut novel that is a wildly funny, heartbreaking, and thoroughly original portrait of an American family. Warren Ziller moved his family to Southern California in search of a charmed life, and to all appearances, he found it: a gated community not far from the beach, amid the affluent splendor of the 1980s. But the Zillers' American dream is about to be rudely interrupted. Warren has squandered their savings on a bad real estate investment, which he conceals from his wife, Camille, who misreads his secrecy as a sign of an affair. Their children, Dustin, Lyle, and Jonas, have grown as distant as satellites, too busy with their own betrayals and rebellions to notice their parents' distress. When tragedy strikes, the Zillers are forced to move to Warren's abandoned housing development in the desert. In this comically bleak new home, each must reckon with what's led them there and who's to blameand whether they can summon the forgiveness needed to hold the family together. With penetrating insights into modern life and an uncanny eye for everyday absurdities, Eric Puchner delivers a brilliant first novel.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon-'Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt' (Chicago Tribune). Half Broke Horses has transfixed readers everywhere.'Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did.' So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling grandmother. By age six, Lily was helping her father break horses. At fifteen, she left home to teach in a frontier town-riding five hundred miles on her pony, alone, to get to her job. She learned to drive a car and fly a plane. And, with her husband, Jim, she ran a vast ranch in Arizona. She raised two children, one who is Jeannette's memorable mother, Rosemary Smith Walls, unforgettably portrayed in The Glass Castle. Lily survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy. She bristled at prejudice of all kinds-against women, Native Americans, and anyone else who didn't fit the mold. Rosemary Smith Walls always told Jeannette that she was like her grandmother, and in this true-life novel, Jeannette Walls channels that kindred spirit. Half Broke Horses is Laura Ingalls Wilder for adults, as riveting and dramatic as Isak Dinesen's Out of Africa or Beryl Markham's West with the Night. Destined to become a classic, it will transfix readers everywhere.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the author of 'The Elements of Cooking' comes a groundbreaking book that explains the very essential truth of cooking: it is not the recipe itself but rather two unchanging components that make all food come together.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Containing up-to-the minute research and providing many moments of dog-behavior recognition, this lively and absorbing book helps dog owners to see their best friend's behavior in a different, and revealing, light.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Again to Carthage' is the 'breathtaking, pulse-quickening, stunning' (sequelto 'Once a Runner' that) 'will have you standing up and cheering, and pullingon your running shoes' ('Chicago Sun-Times').

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - AMY GERSTLER'S COMMITMENT TO INNOVATIVE POETRY that conveys meaning, feeling, wit, and humor informs the cross section of poems in the 2010 edition of The Best American Poetry. The works collected here represent the wealth, the breadth, and the tremendous energy of poetry in the United States today. Featuring poems from some of our country's top bards, including John Ashbery, Anne Carson, Louise Glück, Sharon Olds, and Charles Simic, The Best American Poetry 2010 also presents poems that poignantly capture the current moment, such as the sonnets John Updike wrote to chronicle his dying weeks. And there are exciting poems from a constellation of rising stars: Bob Hicok, Terrance Hayes, Denise Duhamel, Dean Young, and Elaine Equi, to name a very few. The anthology's mainstays are in place: It opens with series editor David Lehman's incisive foreword about the state of American poetry and has a marvelous introduction by Amy Gerstler. Notes from the poets, illuminating their poems and their writing processes, conclude this delightful addition to a classic series.Dick Allen \* John Ashbery \* Sandra Beasley \* Mark Bibbins \* Todd Boss \* Fleda Brown \* Anne Carson \* Tom Clark \* David Clewell \* Michael Collier \* Billy Collins \* Dennis Cooper \* Kate Daniels \* Peter Davis \* Tim Dlugos \* Denise Duhamel \* Thomas Sayers Ellis \* Lynn Emanuel \* Elaine Equi \* Jill Alexander Essbaum \* B. H. Fairchild \* Vievee Francis \* Louise Glück \* Albert Goldbarth \* Amy Glynn Greacen \* Sonia Greenfield \* Kelle Groom \* Gabriel Gudding \* Kimiko Hahn \* Barbara Hamby \* Terrance Hayes \* Bob Hicok \* Rodney Jones \* Michaela Kahn \* Brigit Pegeen Kelly \* Corinne Lee \* Hailey Leithauser \* Dolly Lemke \* Maurice Manning \* Adrian Matejka \* Shane McCrae \* Jeffrey McDaniel \* W. S. Merwin \* Sarah Murphy \* Eileen Myles \* Camille Norton \* Alice Notley \* Sharon Olds \* Gregory Pardlo \* Lucia Perillo \* Carl Phillips \* Adrienne Rich \* James Richardson \* J. Allyn Rosser \* James Schuyler \* Tim Seibles \* David Shapiro \* Charles Simic \* Frank Stanford \* Gerald Stern \* Stephen Campbell Sutherland \* James Tate \* David Trinidad \* Chase Twichell \* John Updike \* Derek Walcott \* G. C. Waldrep \* J. E. Wei \* Dara Wier \* Terence Winch \* Catherine Wing \* Mark Wunderlich \* Matthew Yeager \* Dean Young \* Kevin Young.