penguin llc us jun 2022 (61 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -New York Times BestsellerThe new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it s an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day. A compelling story, and only too realistic. Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn t get fixed. So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Follett s nerve-racking drama of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country s secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election. Never is an extraordinary novel, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable. 802 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books you Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly's 'Must List' | One of The NY Post's Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA's 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The Root's PageTurners: It's Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in 2021 An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it's also about the nation's reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed Who is The Kid Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists it truly becomes its title. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books you Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly's 'Must List' | One of The NY Post's Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA's 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The Root's PageTurners: It's Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in 2021 An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it's also about the nation's reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed Who is The Kid Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists it truly becomes its title. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Nomura, Yusuke (illustratore). Neuware -A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid GamemeetsWorld Cup manga, now available in print! Anime coming soon!Are you the world's top egoist After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's mising An absolute ace striker. The Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, so Blue Lock -- a rigorous training ground for 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players -- is created. To survive this battle royale, the last striker standing will have to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in his way! 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Nomura, Yusuke (illustratore). Neuware -A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid GamemeetsWorld Cup manga, now available in print! Anime coming soon!Are you the world's top egoist After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's mising An absolute ace striker. The Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, so Blue Lock -- a rigorous training ground for 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players -- is created. To survive this battle royale, the last striker standing will have to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in his way! 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!'I LOVED this book! .Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy. Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis'One of the Summer's Hottest Reads' Entertainment WeeklyA disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It s as good as dead.When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father.For ten years, she's run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it.Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he s just as confused about why he s there as she is.Romance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she s ever known about love stories. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A Good Morning America Book Club Pick!'I LOVED this book! .Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy. Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis'One of the Summer's Hottest Reads' Entertainment WeeklyA disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.Florence Day is the ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem after a terrible breakup, she no longer believes in love. It s as good as dead.When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father.For ten years, she's run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can t bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it.Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor s front door, just as broad and infuriatingly handsome as ever, and he s just as confused about why he s there as she is.Romance is most certainly dead . . . but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she s ever known about love stories. 368 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -New York Times BestsellerThe new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it's an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day. "A compelling story, and only too realistic." Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary "Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Follett's nerve-racking drama of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover with jihadists; a brilliant Chinese spymaster; and Pauline herself, beleaguered by a populist rival for the next president election. Never is an extraordinary novel, full of heroines and villains, false prophets and elite warriors, jaded politicians and opportunistic revolutionaries. It brims with cautionary wisdom for our times, and delivers a visceral, heart-pounding read that transports readers to the brink of the unimaginable.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Flora has settled into her haunted mansion with the increasingly bizarre and mischievous Creepy Cat! It's a nice life, if she can keep it, but what will Flora do when sneaky assassins come for her Will she end up as one more ghost in her own house, or will Creepy Cat out-prowl and out-swat those bad boys The scary-cute adventure continues!' 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Flora has settled into her haunted mansion with the increasingly bizarre and mischievous Creepy Cat! It's a nice life, if she can keep it, but what will Flora do when sneaky assassins come for her Will she end up as one more ghost in her own house, or will Creepy Cat out-prowl and out-swat those bad boys The scary-cute adventure continues!' 128 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Tomoseshunsaku (illustratore). Neuware -At the prestigious boot camp deep in the mountains, the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, students attempt to advance through cutthroat competition. 342 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Tomoseshunsaku (illustratore). Neuware -At the prestigious boot camp deep in the mountains, the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, students attempt to advance through cutthroat competition. 342 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK! One of Entertainment Weekly's 15 Books you Need to Read This June | On Entertainment Weekly's 'Must List' | One of The NY Post's Best Summer Reading books | One of GMA's 27 Books for June | One of USA Today's 5 Books Not to Miss | One of Fortune's 21 Most Anticipated Books Coming out in the Second Half of 2021 | One of The Root's PageTurners: It's Getting Hot in Here | One of Real Simple's Best New Books to Read in 2021 An astounding work of fiction from a New York Times bestselling author Jason Mott, always deeply honest, at times electrically funny, that goes to the heart of racism, police violence, and the hidden costs exacted upon Black Americans, and America as a whole In Jason Mott's Hell of a Book, a Black author sets out on a cross-country publicity tour to promote his bestselling novel. That storyline drives Hell of a Book and is the scaffolding of something much larger and urgent: since Mott's novel also tells the story of Soot, a young Black boy living in a rural town in the recent past, and The Kid, a possibly imaginary child who appears to the author on his tour. As these characters' stories build and build and converge, they astonish. For while this heartbreaking and magical book entertains and is at once about family, love of parents and children, art and money, it's also about the nation's reckoning with a tragic police shooting playing over and over again on the news. And with what it can mean to be Black in America. Who has been killed Who is The Kid Will the author finish his book tour, and what kind of world will he leave behind Unforgettably told, with characters who burn into your mind and an electrifying plot ideal for book club discussion, Hell of a Book is the novel Mott has been writing in his head for the last ten years. And in its final twists it truly becomes its title.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and more: The much-talked-about, deeply satisfying group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, from the 'modern E. M. Forster' (Vulture) and Booker Prize finalist.One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as 'a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.' With Filthy Animals he renews and expands on the promise made in Real Life, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others.In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young people in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty.Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, Filthy Animals is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.Story Locale: American Midwest 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and more: The much-talked-about, deeply satisfying group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, from the 'modern E. M. Forster' (Vulture) and Booker Prize finalist.One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as 'a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.' With Filthy Animals he renews and expands on the promise made in Real Life, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others.In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young people in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty.Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, Filthy Animals is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.Story Locale: American Midwest 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Nomura, Yusuke (illustratore). Neuware -A mad young coach gathers soccer players from across the country to compete in a series of bizarre challenges in a high-tech colosseum he calls Blue Lock. It's a no-balls-barred battle to become Japan's next top striker, in this Squid GamemeetsWorld Cup manga, now available in print! Anime coming soon!Are you the world's top egoist After a disastrous defeat at the 2018 World Cup, Japan's team struggles to regroup. But what's mising An absolute ace striker. The Football Union is hell-bent on creating a striker who hungers for goals and thirsts for victory, so Blue Lock -- a rigorous training ground for 300 of Japan's best and brightest youth players -- is created. To survive this battle royale, the last striker standing will have to out-muscle and out-ego everyone who stands in his way!

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Ghost meets The Bold Type in this sparkling adult debut about a disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, from nationally bestselling author Ashley Poston.Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead.When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man, won't give her an extension on her book deadline, Florence prepares to kiss her career goodbye. But then she gets a phone call she never wanted to receive, and she must return home for the first time in a decade to help her family bury her beloved father.For ten years, she's run from the town that never understood her, and even though she misses the sound of a warm Southern night and her eccentric, loving family and their funeral parlor, she can't bring herself to stay. Even with her father gone, it feels like nothing in this town has changed. And she hates it.Until she finds a ghost standing at the funeral parlor's front door, too tall and too broad to be her father, and he's just as confused about why he's there as she is.Romance is most certainly dead?but so is her new editor, and his unfinished business will have her second-guessing everything she's ever known about love stories.Story Locale: North Carolina.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -\*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\* \*INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER\* A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji s darkest secret: the cult s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick s terms until he discovers the ALC s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus.' The New York Times 'A defining voice of our generation.' H.E. Edgmon, author of The Witch King 'Hands down the best YA horror book I've read.' Aden Polydoros, author of The City Beautiful 'A chimera of horror, romance, and something stranger.' Rose Szabo, author of What Big Teeth 'A timely and riveting tale.' Ray Stoeve, author of Between Perfect and Real 398 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -\*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\* \*INSTANT INDIE BESTSELLER\* A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji s darkest secret: the cult s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick s terms until he discovers the ALC s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus.' The New York Times 'A defining voice of our generation.' H.E. Edgmon, author of The Witch King 'Hands down the best YA horror book I've read.' Aden Polydoros, author of The City Beautiful 'A chimera of horror, romance, and something stranger.' Rose Szabo, author of What Big Teeth 'A timely and riveting tale.' Ray Stoeve, author of Between Perfect and Real 398 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Tomoseshunsaku (illustratore). Neuware -At the prestigious boot camp deep in the mountains, the Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School, students attempt to advance through cutthroat competition.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Elle, Entertainment Weekly, Cosmopolitan, O, The Oprah Magazine, Harper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and more: The much-talked-about, deeply satisfying group portrait of young adults enmeshed in desire and violence, from the 'modern E. M. Forster' (Vulture) and Booker Prize finalist.One of the breakout literary stars of 2020, Brandon Taylor has been hailed by Roxane Gay as 'a writer who wields his craft in absolutely unforgettable ways.' With Filthy Animals he renews and expands on the promise made in Real Life, training his precise and unsentimental gaze on the tensions among friends and family, lovers and others.In the series of linked stories at the heart of Filthy Animals, set among young people in the American Midwest, a young man treads delicate emotional waters as he navigates a series of sexually fraught encounters with two dancers in an open relationship, forcing him to weigh his vulnerabilities against his loneliness. In other stories, a young woman battles with the cancers draining her body and her family; menacing undercurrents among a group of teenagers explode in violence on a winter night; a little girl tears through a house like a tornado, driving her babysitter to the brink; and couples feel out the jagged edges of connection, comfort, and cruelty.Psychologically taut and quietly devastating, Filthy Animals is a tender portrait of the fierce longing for intimacy, the lingering presence of pain, and the desire for love in a world that seems, more often than not, to withhold it.Story Locale: American Midwest.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji's darkest secret: the cult's bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick's terms.until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own'--Provided by publisher.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. In his first novel, Herzog tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II.In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and would meet many times, talking for hours and together unraveling the story of Onoda s long war.At the end of 1944, on Lubang Island in the Philippines, with Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superior officer: Hold the island until the Imperial army s return. You are to defend its territory by guerrilla tactics, at all costs. . . . There is only one rule. You are forbidden to die by your own hand. In the event of your capture by the enemy, you are to give them all the misleading information you can. So began Onoda s long campaign, during which he became fluent in the hidden language of the jungle. Soon weeks turned into months, months into years, and years into decades until eventually time itself seemed to melt away. All the while Onoda continued to fight his fictitious war, at once surreal and tragic, at first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making.In The Twilight World, Herzog immortalizes and imagines Onoda s years of absurd yet epic struggle in an inimitable, hypnotic style part documentary, part poem, and part dream that will be instantly recognizable to fans of his films. The result is a novel completely unto itself, a sort of modern-day Robinson Crusoe tale: a glowing, dancing meditation on the purpose and meaning we give our lives. 144 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. In his first novel, Herzog tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II.In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the fighting was over. Herzog and Onoda developed an instant rapport and would meet many times, talking for hours and together unraveling the story of Onoda s long war.At the end of 1944, on Lubang Island in the Philippines, with Japanese troops about to withdraw, Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda was given orders by his superior officer: Hold the island until the Imperial army s return. You are to defend its territory by guerrilla tactics, at all costs. . . . There is only one rule. You are forbidden to die by your own hand. In the event of your capture by the enemy, you are to give them all the misleading information you can. So began Onoda s long campaign, during which he became fluent in the hidden language of the jungle. Soon weeks turned into months, months into years, and years into decades until eventually time itself seemed to melt away. All the while Onoda continued to fight his fictitious war, at once surreal and tragic, at first with other soldiers, and then, finally, alone, a character in a novel of his own making.In The Twilight World, Herzog immortalizes and imagines Onoda s years of absurd yet epic struggle in an inimitable, hypnotic style part documentary, part poem, and part dream that will be instantly recognizable to fans of his films. The result is a novel completely unto itself, a sort of modern-day Robinson Crusoe tale: a glowing, dancing meditation on the purpose and meaning we give our lives. 144 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects Fantastic Four #52-53 (1966); Jungle Action #6-21 (1973-1976). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. The Black Panther is not just a super hero; as King T Challa, he is also the monarch of the hidden African nation of Wakanda. Combining the strength and stealth of his namesake with a creative scientific intelligence, the Black Panther is an icon of Afro-futurist fantasy. This new anthology includes the Black Panther s 1966 origin tale and the entirety of the critically acclaimed Panther s Rage storyline from his 1970s solo series. A foreword by Nnedi Okorafor, a scholarly introduction and apparatus by Qiana J. Whitted, and a general series introduction by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of Black Panther and classic Marvel comics. The Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-color art throughout. 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects Fantastic Four #52-53 (1966); Jungle Action #6-21 (1973-1976). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. The Black Panther is not just a super hero; as King T Challa, he is also the monarch of the hidden African nation of Wakanda. Combining the strength and stealth of his namesake with a creative scientific intelligence, the Black Panther is an icon of Afro-futurist fantasy. This new anthology includes the Black Panther s 1966 origin tale and the entirety of the critically acclaimed Panther s Rage storyline from his 1970s solo series. A foreword by Nnedi Okorafor, a scholarly introduction and apparatus by Qiana J. Whitted, and a general series introduction by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of Black Panther and classic Marvel comics. The Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-color art throughout. 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects Captain America Comics #1 (1941); the Captain America stories from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95, #110-113 (1964-1969); Captain America Commie Smasher from Captain America #78 (1954). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. Drawing upon multiple comic book series, this collection includes Captain America s very first appearances from 1941 alongside key examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which Steve Rogers, the newly resurrected hero of World War II, searches to find his place in a new and unfamiliar world. As the contents reveal, the transformations of this American icon thus mark parallel transformations in the nation itself. A foreword by Gene Luen Yang and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of Captain America and classic Marvel comics. The Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-color art throughout. 400 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects Captain America Comics #1 (1941); the Captain America stories from Tales of Suspense #59, #63-68, #75-81, #92-95, #110-113 (1964-1969); Captain America Commie Smasher from Captain America #78 (1954). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. Drawing upon multiple comic book series, this collection includes Captain America s very first appearances from 1941 alongside key examples of his first solo stories of the 1960s, in which Steve Rogers, the newly resurrected hero of World War II, searches to find his place in a new and unfamiliar world. As the contents reveal, the transformations of this American icon thus mark parallel transformations in the nation itself. A foreword by Gene Luen Yang and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of Captain America and classic Marvel comics. The Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-color art throughout. 400 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects Spider-Man! from Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962); The Amazing Spider-Man #1-4, #9, #10, #13, #14, #17-19 (1963-1964); Goodbye to Linda Brown from Strange Tales #97 (1962); How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man! from The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. This anthology contains twelve key stories from the first two years of Spider-Man s publication history (from 1962 to 1964). These influential adventures not only transformed the super hero fantasy into an allegory for the pain of adolescence but also brought a new ethical complexity to the genre by insisting that with great power there must also come great responsibility. A foreword by Jason Reynolds and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of The Amazing Spider-Man and classic Marvel comics. The Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-color art throughout. 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel s transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy. A Penguin Classics Marvel Collection Edition Collects Spider-Man! from Amazing Fantasy #15 (1962); The Amazing Spider-Man #1-4, #9, #10, #13, #14, #17-19 (1963-1964); Goodbye to Linda Brown from Strange Tales #97 (1962); How Stan Lee and Steve Ditko Create Spider-Man! from The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (1964). It is impossible to imagine American popular culture without Marvel Comics. For decades, Marvel has published groundbreaking visual narratives that sustain attention on multiple levels: as metaphors for the experience of difference and otherness; as meditations on the fluid nature of identity; and as high-water marks in the artistic tradition of American cartooning, to name a few. This anthology contains twelve key stories from the first two years of Spider-Man s publication history (from 1962 to 1964). These influential adventures not only transformed the super hero fantasy into an allegory for the pain of adolescence but also brought a new ethical complexity to the genre by insisting that with great power there must also come great responsibility. A foreword by Jason Reynolds and scholarly introductions and apparatus by Ben Saunders offer further insight into the enduring significance of The Amazing Spider-Man and classic Marvel comics. The Penguin Classics black spine paperback features full-color art throughout. 384 pp. Englisch.