Penguin audiobooks (569 risultati)

Condizione: Good. A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a genius (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life. What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar's three-year-old son's impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There's Lev's insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar's siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father's shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir--Etgar's first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style--is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor. From the Hardcover edition. …

Condizione: Very Good. THE>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER>The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside. It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many Americans in as public and as devastating a way possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet as new as this war still is, the techniques are as old as time: listen, record, and prove terrorist intent. Due to his ongoing work for the FBI, Elnoury writes under a pseudonym. An Arabic-speaking Muslim American, a patriot, a hero: To many Americans, it will be a revelation that he and his team even exist, let alone the vital and dangerous work they do keeping all Americans safe.…

Condizione: Very Good. A>New York Times>bestseller * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time. Zadie Smith's new book, Grand Union, is on sale 10/8/2019. …

Condizione: Good. They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man's effort to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. But it is not a book about war, politics, or liberal vs. conservative. Achingly beautiful and honest, it is a book that every American-every human-can embrace. …

Condizione: Good. A woman has vanished while digging a dinosaur bone bed in the remote wilderness of Canada. Somehow, the only evidence has made its way to the inbox of Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta, over two thousand miles away in Boston. She has no idea why. But as events unfold with alarming speed, Scarpetta begins to suspect that the paleontologist's disappearance is connected to a series of crimes much closer to home: a gruesome murder, inexplicable tortures, and trace evidence from the last living creatures of the dinosaur age. When she turns to those around her, Scarpetta finds that the danger and suspicion have penetrated even her closest circles. Her niece Lucy speaks in riddles. Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI forensic psychologist and husband, Benton Wesley, have secrets of their own. Feeling alone and betrayed, Scarpetta is tempted by someone from her past as she tracks a killer both cunning and cruel. This is Kay Scarpetta as you have never seen her before. The Bone Bed is a must read for any fan of this series, or an ideal starting point for new readers.…

Condizione: Fair. Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Divisional Trench Mortar Batteries, 32 Trench Mortar Battery and Divisional Ammunition Column, Divisional Troops, 17th Division, covering July 1915 to May 1919 across 417 pages. It names 42 places across 72 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 32 casualty and personnel returns and one return of horse casualties. Among the papers are: Wastage from Sickness (Other than battle Casualties) during past month officers; Casualties; Casualties, Summary of animals. LD.10. Mules 4 Wastage from Sickness 6 Other Ranks Battle. The diary opens at Winchester on 13 July 1915. 1915 is spent at Poperinghe, Boeschepe, Steenvorde, Hondeghem and Railway Wood A.T.M. Group. 1916 is the most travelled year, 23 places against 12 in the next busiest, and is spent at Armentieres, Seninghem, Meaulte, Zouafques and Near Albert. 1917 at Anzin, Carnoy, Arras, Proven and Meaulte. 1918 at Beaucourt Sur Hallue and Bertincourt. 1919 at Bettencourt. It closes at Bettencourt on 26 May 1919. Anzin is where it spent longest, 94 days across four separate stays, it came back to Boeschepe six separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 56 days at Bettencourt. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Reserve Wood The Bluff, Railway Wood A.T.M. Group, Railway Wood. L.T.M, Group and Railway Wood. In 1915 it is also recorded at Southampton, Havre, Wirquin, Arques and Railway Wood. L.T.M, Group. In 1916 it is also recorded at Poperinghe, 14th Div. Rest Area France, Reserve Wood The Bluff, Boeschepe, Borre, Dernancourt, Occoches, Henu, Genne Ivergny and Albert. In 1917 it is also recorded at Near Albert, Albert Puchvillers, Heuzecourt, March, Bray, Agnez and W Of Anzin.…

Condizione: Good. The brilliant Lucas Davenport thriller from the number one New York Times bestselling author. Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two kids, dogs. On the wall, in blood: Were coming. No apostrophe. There's something about the scene that tugs at Lucas's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen from Mexican drug gangs. But this is a seriously upscale town, the husband ran a modest software company, the wife dabbled in local politics. None of it seems to fit. Until it does.…

Condizione: Good.

Condizione: Good.

Condizione: Good. In this New York Times bestseller from Stuart Woods, Stone Barrington gets a big payday and gets set up for an even bigger fall. Stone Barrington is enjoying his usual dinner at Elaine's when his boss at Woodman & Weld, the law firm where Stone is of counsel, walks in, sits down and hands Stone a check for one million dollars. It seems Stone's undercover dealings with MI6 had brought in a big new client for the firm, and they're willing to pay Stone a huge bonus and make him a partner. But almost as soon as he's taken the deal, Stone gets wind of an impending scandal that might torpedo his big promotion: it seems the lucrative new client he's introduced to the firm might be a devil in disguise.…

Condizione: Very Good. Full colour facsimile reprint of the original First World War, War Office war diary of the Divisional Trench Mortar Batteries, 32 Trench Mortar Battery and Divisional Ammunition Column, Divisional Troops, 17th Division, covering July 1915 to May 1919 across 417 pages. It names 42 places across 72 dated entries. Alongside the daily entries the volume carries 32 casualty and personnel returns and one return of horse casualties. Among the papers are: Wastage from Sickness (Other than battle Casualties) during past month officers; Casualties; Casualties, Summary of animals. LD.10. Mules 4 Wastage from Sickness 6 Other Ranks Battle. The diary opens at Winchester on 13 July 1915. 1915 is spent at Poperinghe, Boeschepe, Steenvorde, Hondeghem and Railway Wood A.T.M. Group. 1916 is the most travelled year, 23 places against 12 in the next busiest, and is spent at Armentieres, Seninghem, Meaulte, Zouafques and Near Albert. 1917 at Anzin, Carnoy, Arras, Proven and Meaulte. 1918 at Beaucourt Sur Hallue and Bertincourt. 1919 at Bettencourt. It closes at Bettencourt on 26 May 1919. Anzin is where it spent longest, 94 days across four separate stays, it came back to Boeschepe six separate times, and the longest it stayed anywhere without moving was 56 days at Bettencourt. Trench and battlefield features named in the diary include Reserve Wood The Bluff, Railway Wood A.T.M. Group, Railway Wood. L.T.M, Group and Railway Wood. In 1915 it is also recorded at Southampton, Havre, Wirquin, Arques and Railway Wood. L.T.M, Group. In 1916 it is also recorded at Poperinghe, 14th Div. Rest Area France, Reserve Wood The Bluff, Boeschepe, Borre, Dernancourt, Occoches, Henu, Genne Ivergny and Albert. In 1917 it is also recorded at Near Albert, Albert Puchvillers, Heuzecourt, March, Bray, Agnez and W Of Anzin.…

Condizione: Good.

Condizione: Good. John Sandford author of the phenomenal Prey novels returns with The Hanged Man's Song.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: Good. The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.--Vanity Fair The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership.--The New York Times Marries movie noir with novelistic trickery. . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend.--USA Today Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but turn pages.--The Boston Globe Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller.--People EVERY DAY THE SAME Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life--as she sees it--is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. UNTIL TODAY And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good.…

Condizione: Fair. The #1 New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Book of the Year, now a major motion picture. The debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives. Nothing is more addicting than The Girl on the Train.--Vanity Fair The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership.--The New York Times Marries movie noir with novelistic trickery. . . hang on tight. You'll be surprised by what horrors lurk around the bend.--USA Today Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but turn pages.--The Boston Globe Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller.--People EVERY DAY THE SAME Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason, she calls them. Their life--as she sees it--is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. UNTIL TODAY And then she sees something shocking. It's only a minute until the train moves on, but it's enough. Now everything's changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel goes to the police. But is she really as unreliable as they say? Soon she is deeply entangled not only in the investigation but in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good.…

Condizione: Good. New York City medical examiners Laurie Montgomery and Jack Stapleton return in this stunning new novel from the 'master of the medical thriller' (New York Times) a ripped-from-the-headlines tale of an innovative doctor's dangerous downward spiral.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. Grand-scale biography at its best--thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written.A genuinely great book. --David McCullough A robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all. - Joseph Ellis Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. To repudiate his legacy, Chernow writes, is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world. Chernow here recounts Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America's birth as the triumph of Jefferson's democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we've encountered before--from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804. Chernow's biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America's birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.…

Hardback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Very Good.

Condizione: Fair. Siamese cat Koko finds a bunch of clues when an out-of-town actor dies mysteriously in this mystery in the New York Times bestselling Cat Who series. With the opening night of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest fast approaching--along with the dedication of the new bookstore in town--good times are ahead for the citizens of Pickax. But the merry atmosphere is dampened by the suspicious death of an out-of-town actor and the theft of a rare book. Qwill finds himself distracted from the recent events by his finicky pal Koko, who's been acting more fishy than feline. Has Koko gone bananas, or is he trying to let the cat out of the bag to help Qwill solve the dual mysteries.…

Condizione: Good. A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or limited small stickers. Book may have a remainder mark or be a price cutter.…

Condizione: Very Good. THE>NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELER>The explosive memoir of a Muslim American FBI agent fighting terror from the inside. It's no secret that federal agencies are waging a broad, global war against terror. But for the first time in this memoir, an active Muslim American federal agent reveals his experience infiltrating and bringing down a terror cell in North America. A longtime undercover agent, Tamer Elnoury joined an elite counterterrorism unit after September 11. Its express purpose is to gain the trust of terrorists whose goals are to take out as many Americans in as public and as devastating a way possible. It's a furious race against the clock for Tamer and his unit to stop them before they can implement their plans. Yet as new as this war still is, the techniques are as old as time: listen, record, and prove terrorist intent. Due to his ongoing work for the FBI, Elnoury writes under a pseudonym. An Arabic-speaking Muslim American, a patriot, a hero: To many Americans, it will be a revelation that he and his team even exist, let alone the vital and dangerous work they do keeping all Americans safe.…

Condizione: Very Good. A>New York Times>bestseller * Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction * Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either. Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live. But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London to West Africa, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey--the same twists, the same shakes--and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history, but a present dance to the music of time. Zadie Smith's new book, Grand Union, is on sale 10/8/2019. …

Condizione: Good. A brilliant, life-affirming, and hilarious memoir from a genius (The New York Times) and master storyteller. With illustrations by Jason Polan. The seven years between the birth of Etgar Keret's son and the death of his father were good years, though still full of reasons to worry. Lev is born in the midst of a terrorist attack. Etgar's father gets cancer. The threat of constant war looms over their home and permeates daily life. What emerges from this dark reality is a series of sublimely absurd ruminations on everything from Etgar's three-year-old son's impending military service to the terrorist mind-set behind Angry Birds. There's Lev's insistence that he is a cat, releasing him from any human responsibilities or rules. Etgar's siblings, all very different people who have chosen radically divergent paths in life, come together after his father's shivah to experience the grief and love that tie a family together forever. This wise, witty memoir--Etgar's first nonfiction book published in America, and told in his inimitable style--is full of wonder and life and love, poignant insights, and irrepressible humor. From the Hardcover edition. …

Condizione: Good. They are the troops that nobody wants to see, carrying a message that no military family ever wants to hear. Since the start of the war in Iraq, Marines like Major Steve Beck found themselves charged with a mission they never asked for and one for which there can be no training: casualty notification. In Final Salute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jim Sheeler weaves together the stories of the fallen, the broken homes they have left behind, and one man's effort to help heal the wounds of those left grieving. But it is not a book about war, politics, or liberal vs. conservative. Achingly beautiful and honest, it is a book that every American-every human-can embrace. …

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condizione: Good.

Condizione: Good. The brilliant Lucas Davenport thriller from the number one New York Times bestselling author. Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the Minnesota town of Wayzata, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two kids, dogs. On the wall, in blood: Were coming. No apostrophe. There's something about the scene that tugs at Lucas's cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution he's seen from Mexican drug gangs. But this is a seriously upscale town, the husband ran a modest software company, the wife dabbled in local politics. None of it seems to fit. Until it does.…

Condizione: Good. Rangers take their promises seriously, and when a squad with the 75th Rangers make a solemn vow to their gravely wounded platoon sergeant, they will move heaven and Earth to honor it. When the political structure of the United States shifts, the former Rangers will have to go to great lengths to keep their vow. Never does any of them question being there for the team or the consequences that they will face as liberty is stolen.…