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On the heels of the critically acclaimed and bestselling "Last Night at the Lobster" comes this honest, heartfelt account of one family's attempt to find its missing child. O'Nan's novel begins with the suspense of a thriller and soon deepens into an affecting family drama of loss.

LAPD homicide detective Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus, will be blindsided by a brutal multiple murder in this twisting tale of suspense from New York Times bestselling author Faye Kellerman."They say dead men don't talk, but if you listen, they do."As a lieutenant in the LAPD, homicide detective Peter Decker doesn't get many calls at 3 a.m. unless a case is nasty, sensational—or both. Someone has broken into the exclusive Coyote Ranc...

A new edition of Henry James's searing study of marriage and InfidelitySet in England, The Golden Bowl is Henry James's highly charged exploration of adultery, jealousy, and possession that continues and challenges James's characteristic exploration of the battle between American innocence and European experience. Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father, Adam, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are bot...

Since witnessing the murder of her mother, Antoinette Petrescu has burned with fiery hatred for the vampire race--even for Christian Laroque, the noble, dangerously handsome Aeternus who had rescued her. Now an elite Venator, Antoinette must reluctantly accept Christian's help to achieve her vengeance. Original.

Revisiting the paranormal realms they've made famous in their popular fiction, "New York Times"-bestselling authors Kim Harrison, Jeaniene Frost, Vicki Pettersson, and Jocelynn Drake--plus YA author Melissa Marr with her first adult work--unleash their full arsenal of dark talents. Original.

Her proposition . . .London Society is harsh for a young woman with no family connections who has to work for a living. But when Daisy Merrick is sacked from yet another job, the feisty and outspoken miss comes up with a plan that could give her a future beyond her wildest dreams. There's only one problem. Her success depends on a man, the most infuriating, impossible, immovable man she's ever met. His resolution . . . Sebastian Grant, Earl of...

The first two books in Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street series are now collected in a value-priced bind-up with a spooktacular new look.

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The #1 New York Times bestselling adventure by Neal Stephenson, sci-fi superstar and acclaimed author of THE BAROQUE CYCLE is now in paperback. Since childhood, Raz has lived behind the walls of a 3, 400-year-old monastery, a sanctuary for scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians, hidden from the "saecular" world. Until a higher power, driven by fear, decides it is only these cloistered scholars who have the abilities to avert an impending...

Hildegard von Bingen gilt als eine der bedeutendsten und faszinierendsten Frauen des deutschen Mittelalters. Mit ihren Visionen, ihren naturkundlichen Schriften, Kompositionen und Dichtungen zog sie bereits ihre Zeitgenossen in ihren Bann. In Leben und Werk folgte sie dem benediktinischen Motto "Himmlisches mit Irdischem verbinden", und so verknüpft sich auch in ihren für den liturgischen Gebrauch gedichteten Liedern eine diesseitige lustvolle...

Iwan wird Stammkunde in einem kleinen Feinschmeckerlokal, dessen Chefkoch Dymitsch er kennen- und schätzenlernt. Eines Tages ist Dymitsch verschwunden, doch hat er extra für Iwan eine Folge von Gerichten hinterlassen, die ihm seine Nichte Vera kochen und an fünf Abenden hintereinander servieren soll. Alles schmeckt köstlich, doch wieso hat Iwan später winzige Sandkörnchen zwischen den Zähnen? Und was will der Rechtsanwalt, der am fünften Tag z...

Mendoza, eine beschauliche argentinische Provinzstadt am Fuße der Anden. Der 8. April 1977 ist der letzte Tag, den Gisela Tenenbaum, 22, mit Sicherheit noch erlebt hat. Ihr weiteres Schicksal ist ungewiss. Über eine junge Frau, die sich treu geblieben und dabei verlorengegangen ist. Erich Hackl hat nach den Erinnerungen ihrer Eltern, Schwestern und Freunde ihr Leben rekonstruiert - bis hin zu der Zukunft, die sie hätte haben können.

The shock waves from the assassination of Garcia Lovelace's father in Venezuela hit Roanapur full force. The ex-terrorist Roberta begins her quest for vengeance, and she's not going to quit even if the trail takes her deep into a web of intrigue involving the U.S. military.

Since the publication of Wicked, millions of readers have discovered Gregory Maguire's fantastically encyclopedic Oz, a world filled with characters both familiar and new, darkly conceived and daringly reimagined. In the third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion.At once a portrait of a would-be survivor and a panoramic glimpse of a world gone shrill with war fever, Gregory Maguire's A Lio...

Lisa Kleypas has thrilled readers with her unforgettable love stories set in the glittering world of Regency London. Now, the author of Stranger in My Arms, brings her fans a story with all the promise, and oassion, of forbidden love.She couldn't remember who she was...A temptingly beautiful woman awakens in a stranger's bed, rescued from the icy waters of the Thames, her memory gone. Told that she is Vivien Rose Duvall, one of London's most s...

Lady Arabella Blydon has beauty and a brain, and she's tired of men who can see only one without the other.When a suitor tells Arabella he's willing to overlook her appalling bluestocking tendencies on account of her looks and fortune, she decides to take a break from the Marriage Mart. During an extended stay in the country, she never expects to meet Lord John Blackwood, a wounded war hero who intrigues her like no other man.Lord John has liv...

The Father of German Mysticism Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a German theologian, philosopher, professor, and mystic. In his distinguished career, he became a professor of theology at the University of Paris and took a leading pastoral and organizational role in the Dominican Order. Later in his life he was brought before the local Franciscan-led Inquisition and was tried as a heretic. In response Eckhart produced "The Defense" in which he f...

When a boy named Harry sneaks out of bed one night with his favorite toy, Horsie, to play, an out-of-this-world adventure begins. This picture book by a debut author is illustrated with hip, retro-comic art. Full color.

Die neue Generation von Chemie heute SII bietet eine aktuelle, schülerfreundliche Darstellung der Inhalte. Dabei wird den Schülerinnen und Schülern die Chemie als eine in ihrer Lebenswelt überall vorkommende Fachwissenschaft altersgemäß nahe gebracht. Das bewährte Konzept aus der Sekundarstufe I wird für die Oberstufe fortgeführt.Die Sachtexte der Informationsseiten sind der rote Faden des Buches. Aufgaben unterschiedlichen Niveaus unterstütze...

New York Magazine proclaims, "Twitter is the hot web company right now...the Next Big Thing, " the New York Times calls it "one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet, " Time magazine claims "Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app, " and Newsweek notes that "Suddenly, it seems as though all the world′s a-twitter." Since its creation in March 2006, Twitter has unleashed a torrent of self-expression from its six million ...