diversified publishing aug 2023 (5 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A young woman with the extraordinary power to bring soulmates together searches for her own true love in this tender, lyrical standalone novel inspired by the 'bona fide international hit' (The New York Times Book Review) The Little Paris Bookshop.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Beleaguered Professor Jason Fitger chaperones Payne University's annual "Experience: Abroad" to London and beyond, with eleven undergrads in tow The bestselling author of Dear Committee Members and The Shakespeare Requirement completes her hilarious trilogy of academic mishap"Wise and hilarious and heartbreaking."Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire FallsJason Fitger may be the last faculty member the dean wants for the job, but he's the only professor available to chaperone Payne University's annual "Experience: Abroad" (he has long been on the record objecting to the absurd and gratuitous colon between the words) occurring during the three weeks of winter term. Among his charges are a claustrophobe with a juvenile detention record, a student who erroneously believes he is headed for the Caribbean, a pair of unreconciled lovers, a set of undifferentiated twins, and one young woman who has never been away from her cat before.Through a sea of troublespersonal, institutional, and internationalthe gimlet-eyed, acid-tongued Fitger strives to navigate safe passage for all concerned, revealing much about the essential need for human connection and the sometimes surprising places in which it is found.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - JULIA LANGBEIN, a sketch and standup comedian for many years, holds a doctorate in Art History and is the author of a non-fiction book about comic art criticism (Laugh Lines, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022). She wrote the viral comedy blog The Bruni Digest (2003-7), which reviewedNew YorkTimescriticFrankBruni's restaurant reviews every week and has since written about food, art and travel forGourmet,Eater,Salon,Friezeand other publications. A native of Chicago, she lives outside of Paris with her family.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - A chilling novel set in an alternate version of America's recent pastabout two self-made men confronting a world that seems to be moving on without them("An expert juggling act . . . Idiosyncratic and engrossing throughout." Stephen Markley, New York Times Book Review)Virginia, 2004. Gore is entering his second term as president. Our narrator, Martin Neumann, recently divorced, is living at Halcyon, the estate of renowned lawyer and World War II hero Robert Ableson. When news breaks that scientists funded by the Gore administration have discovered a cure for death, it calls into question everything Martin thought he understood about life, not least his work as a historian. Who is Ableson, really, and why did he draw Martin into his orbit Is this new science a miraculous good or an insidious evil Stretching from pivotal elections to intimate family secrets, from the Battle of Saipan to the toppling of Confederate monuments,Halcyonis a profound and probing novel that grapples with what history means, who is affected by it, and how the complexities of our shared future rest on the dual foundations of remembering and forgetting.