random house okt 2022 (388 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Slade, Christian (illustratore). Neuware -Truck-obsessed toddlers will want to make the diggers, tractors, fire engines, and more featured in this fun-filled construction tale part of their nightly bedtime routines! Discover what bedtime looks like for the snowplows, dump trucks, giant cranes, and more that dot the pages of this irresistible construction story. Just like you and me, the vehicles in this story get tuckered out after a long day of hard work and need to quiet down and settle in for sweet dreams. Young readers will surely identify as these trucks ask for one more story while their parents sing them a goodnight song and send them off to bed.With a sweet rhyme scheme and an illustration style that s perfect for nighttime rituals, Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night and its things-that-go companions Where Do Steam Trains Sleep At Night , Where Do Jet Planes Sleep At Night , Where Do Speedboats Sleep at Night , and Where Do Diggers Celebrate Christmas will leave vehicle-loving kids snuggled up and satisfied. 32 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -It's the most magical time of the year, and Peppa has made a wish to have an adventure with an elf from Santa's workshop!When mysterious things start happening all around her, Peppa thinks it's the work of a naughty elf! What is really going on ; Bilderbuch 32 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -A festive interactive adventure from bestselling author Tom Fletcher - now available as a board book!GOLLY GUMDROPS . . . A LITTLE ELF HAS FOUND THEIR WAY INTO YOUR BOOK!What does Elf want Oh! Just to see if you've been naughty or nice this year!Elf will ask you a few simple questions to find out. And surely there won't be any tricks to try and get you to be naughty . . . will there Hmmm, this could be quite a tricksy little elf. You'd better keep your wits about you if you want to make it on to Santa's Nice List!A fantastically fun and uniquely interactive treat from the creators of There's a Monster in Your Book. Discover a wonderful new Christmas tradition in a book to read again and again.Who's in Your Book Interactive adventures for big imaginationsAlso in this series:There's a Monster in Your Book: makes reading interactive and funThere's a Dragon in Your Book: explores empathy and responsibilityThere's an Alien in Your Book: explores acceptance and inclusionThere's a Superhero in Your Book: explores the power of kindnessThere's a Witch in Your Book: makes tidying up funThere's a Unicorn in Your Book: learn how to soothe worries 32 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy'Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on the shores of the Mediterranean, they discover a flower-filled paradise of beauty, warmth and leisure. Joined by the beautiful Lady Caroline and domineering Mrs Fisher, also in flight from the burdens of their daily lives, the four women proceed to transform themselves and their prospects.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 288 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Winter is the star of this bright and informative nonfiction board book from the bestselling Hello, World! series, filled with easy-to-understand facts about snowflakes, storms, snowplows, and cold weater fun.Young children love to play in the snow. Now Hello, World! can teach them all about winter weather with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts. ('Snowflakes come in different shapes, but they all have six sides and six points.')Told in clear and easy terms and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. Each page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child.It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops.Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: Solar System Weather Backyard Bugs Birds Dinosaurs My Body How Do Apples Grow Ocean Life Moon Landing Pets Arctic Animals Construction Site Rainforest Animals Planet Earth Reptiles Cars and Trucks Music Baby Animals On the Farm Garden Time Planes and Other Flying Machines Rocks and Minerals Snow Let's Go Camping School Day Bedtime From Seed to Pumpkin Rockets and Other Space Machines Baking 26 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Winter is the star of this bright and informative nonfiction board book from the bestselling Hello, World! series, filled with easy-to-understand facts about snowflakes, storms, snowplows, and cold weater fun.Young children love to play in the snow. Now Hello, World! can teach them all about winter weather with colors, shapes, sizes, and super-simple facts. ('Snowflakes come in different shapes, but they all have six sides and six points.')Told in clear and easy terms and featuring bright, cheerful illustrations, Hello, World! makes learning fun for young children. Each page offers helpful prompts for engaging with your child.It's a perfect way to bring science and nature into the busy world of a toddler, where learning never stops.Look for all the books in the Hello, World! series: Solar System Weather Backyard Bugs Birds Dinosaurs My Body How Do Apples Grow Ocean Life Moon Landing Pets Arctic Animals Construction Site Rainforest Animals Planet Earth Reptiles Cars and Trucks Music Baby Animals On the Farm Garden Time Planes and Other Flying Machines Rocks and Minerals Snow Let's Go Camping School Day Bedtime From Seed to Pumpkin Rockets and Other Space Machines Baking 26 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Do you love DOGS Do you love CATS Do you love ADVENTURE Then put your paws together for DOG SQUAD, the hilarious, crime-fighting middle-grade series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library!When trouble calls . . . it s Dog Squad to the rescue! But when calamity calls . . . call in Cat Crew!Fred, the loveable stray who became the star of the hit streaming sensation, DOG SQUAD, is back and working on a new show Cat Crew! But wait a second there s something funny about these felines! And something suspicious about their animal trainer. Is this cat crew being electronically controlled ! ! And what exactly is the evil trainer plotting Can Fred save the day . . .and the cats ! It's time for an all paws on deck top-secret rescue mission!Get ready for book 2 in this action-packed, middle grade series that has kids (and canines) howling with laugher! Nothing's too ruff for the Dog Squad! 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -New York Times bestselling author Laura Sebastian makes her middle grade debut with an emotional fantasy adventure about four friends who journey through a magical, Everglades-inspired swampland to break a curse tied to the death of a loved one.Best friends Cordelia and Larkin have always called the Glades a peaceful swamp full of magical creatures home. But when Oziris, Cordelia s father and the leader of their village, dies unexpectedly, a dark curse sweeps over the land.The girls know that the curse must be tied to Oziris s death, and they re determined to break its hold on their home and bring Oziris back to life. Together, Cordelia, Larkin, and their two little brothers set off into the wild Glades in search of an elusive and enigmatic witch who is rumored to have the power to reverse death.The Glades are no longer a familiar and friendly place, though, and danger lurks around every corner. But on their journey, the children discover that the most difficult challenge isn t wild marsh-maids or bogilisks or dragon-gators it s the grief threatening to consume them. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Do you love DOGS Do you love CATS Do you love ADVENTURE Then put your paws together for DOG SQUAD, the hilarious, crime-fighting middle-grade series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library!When trouble calls . . . it s Dog Squad to the rescue! But when calamity calls . . . call in Cat Crew!Fred, the loveable stray who became the star of the hit streaming sensation, DOG SQUAD, is back and working on a new show Cat Crew! But wait a second there s something funny about these felines! And something suspicious about their animal trainer. Is this cat crew being electronically controlled ! ! And what exactly is the evil trainer plotting Can Fred save the day . . .and the cats ! It's time for an all paws on deck top-secret rescue mission!Get ready for book 2 in this action-packed, middle grade series that has kids (and canines) howling with laugher! Nothing's too ruff for the Dog Squad! 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -New York Times bestselling author Laura Sebastian makes her middle grade debut with an emotional fantasy adventure about four friends who journey through a magical, Everglades-inspired swampland to break a curse tied to the death of a loved one.Best friends Cordelia and Larkin have always called the Glades a peaceful swamp full of magical creatures home. But when Oziris, Cordelia s father and the leader of their village, dies unexpectedly, a dark curse sweeps over the land.The girls know that the curse must be tied to Oziris s death, and they re determined to break its hold on their home and bring Oziris back to life. Together, Cordelia, Larkin, and their two little brothers set off into the wild Glades in search of an elusive and enigmatic witch who is rumored to have the power to reverse death.The Glades are no longer a familiar and friendly place, though, and danger lurks around every corner. But on their journey, the children discover that the most difficult challenge isn t wild marsh-maids or bogilisks or dragon-gators it s the grief threatening to consume them. 230 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Slade, Christian (illustratore). Neuware -Truck-obsessed toddlers will want to make the diggers, tractors, fire engines, and more featured in this fun-filled construction tale part of their nightly bedtime routines! Discover what bedtime looks like for the snowplows, dump trucks, giant cranes, and more that dot the pages of this irresistible construction story. Just like you and me, the vehicles in this story get tuckered out after a long day of hard work and need to quiet down and settle in for sweet dreams. Young readers will surely identify as these trucks ask for one more story while their parents sing them a goodnight song and send them off to bed.With a sweet rhyme scheme and an illustration style that's perfect for nighttime rituals, Where Do Diggers Sleep at Night and its things-that-go companionsWhere Do Steam Trains Sleep At Night , Where Do Jet Planes Sleep At Night , Where Do Speedboats Sleep at Night , and Where Do Diggers Celebrate Christmas will leave vehicle-loving kids snuggled up and satisfied.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we 'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. To Newland, she is a breath of fresh air and a free spirit, but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'This is a hell of dull talk.How about some of that champagne 'Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'This is a hell of dull talk.How about some of that champagne 'Paris in the twenties: Pernod, parties and expatriate Americans, loose-living on money from home. Jake is wildly in love with Brett Ashley, aristocratic and irresistibly beautiful, with an abandoned, sensuous nature that she cannot change. When the couple drift to Spain to the dazzle of the fiesta and the heady atmosphere of the Bullfight, their affair is strained by new passions, new jealousies, and Jake must finally learn that he will never possess the woman that he loves.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'We can't behave like people in novels, though, can we 'Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy young lawyer and she is a lovely and sweet-natured girl. All seems set for success until the arrival of May's unconventional cousin Ellen Olenska, who returns from Europe without her husband and proceeds to shake up polite New York society. To Newland, she is a breath of fresh air and a free spirit, but the bond that develops between them throws his values into confusion and threatens his relationship with May.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'His exploration of warped minds is as gripping as the kinks in the complex plot' The Times'An intelligent and dark ride' Peterborough Telegraph'A book that will delight [.] with its familiar mix of detection and psychological insight' Shots Magazine_________________________The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.At 5am in the upscale neighbourhood of Westwood Village, two removal men are making a routine pick-up when they make a fatal hit. It's a man - who appeared from nowhere - naked and with no means of identification.Not long after, a woman is found dead in a house nearby, which neighbours suspect to be a brothel. Could the man have come from there When LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware is called to the scene, the case gets even more complicated. Delaware has met the woman before. She's a psychologist too.Are the two deaths linked Or is there a darker force at work 336 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown It changes us alone.A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness and the shifting of history underneath our feet.'Life Without Children is boldly exhilarating, with its revelations of quiet love and the sheer charm of the characters' voices' Sunday Times'Quietly devastating.shivers with emotion' Financial Times'In the stripping away of everyday anxieties, the virus reveals what matters most, those qualities that are always at the heart of Doyle's fiction: love and connection' Observer'Moving.and beautiful' Daily Mail 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -\*\*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES\*\*This love is all-consumingIt is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both.A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world.Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.'A sensitive, sweeping novel' VOGUE'Tense, romantic, smart.I loved it. Devoured it!' RUSSELL T. DAVIES'A powerful story of forbidden love, regret, and living as your true self' VANITY FAIR'A moving story of longing and frustration' OBSERVER 342 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -\*\*NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING HARRY STYLES\*\*This love is all-consumingIt is in 1950s' Brighton that Marion first catches sight of the handsome and enigmatic Tom. He teaches her to swim in the shadow of the pier and Marion is smitten - determined her love will be enough for them both.A few years later in Brighton Museum Patrick meets Tom. Patrick is besotted with Tom and opens his eyes to a glamorous, sophisticated new world.Tom is their policeman, and in this age it is safer for him to marry Marion. The two lovers must share him, until one of them breaks and three lives are destroyed.'A sensitive, sweeping novel' VOGUE'Tense, romantic, smart.I loved it. Devoured it!' RUSSELL T. DAVIES'A powerful story of forbidden love, regret, and living as your true self' VANITY FAIR'A moving story of longing and frustration' OBSERVER 342 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'His exploration of warped minds is as gripping as the kinks in the complex plot' The Times'An intelligent and dark ride' Peterborough Telegraph'A book that will delight [.] with its familiar mix of detection and psychological insight' Shots Magazine_________________________The electrifying new Alex Delaware thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling master of suspense.At 5am in the upscale neighbourhood of Westwood Village, two removal men are making a routine pick-up when they make a fatal hit. It's a man - who appeared from nowhere - naked and with no means of identification.Not long after, a woman is found dead in a house nearby, which neighbours suspect to be a brothel. Could the man have come from there When LAPD homicide lieutenant Milo Sturgis calls brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware is called to the scene, the case gets even more complicated. Delaware has met the woman before. She's a psychologist too.Are the two deaths linked Or is there a darker force at work 319 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Love and marriage, children and family, death and grief. Life touches everyone the same, but living under lockdown It changes us alone.A man abroad wanders the stag-and-hen-strewn streets of Newcastle, as news of the virus at home asks him to question his next move. An exhausted nurse struggles to let go, having lost a much-loved patient in isolation. A middle-aged son, barred from his mother's funeral, wakes to an oncoming hangover of regret. Told with Doyle's signature warmth, wit and extraordinary eye for the richness that underpins the quiet of our lives, Life Without Children cuts to the heart of how we are all navigating loss, loneliness and the shifting of history underneath our feet.'Life Without Children is boldly exhilarating, with its revelations of quiet love and the sheer charm of the characters' voices' Sunday Times'Quietly devastating.shivers with emotion' Financial Times'In the stripping away of everyday anxieties, the virus reveals what matters most, those qualities that are always at the heart of Doyle's fiction: love and connection' Observer'Moving.and beautiful' Daily Mail 192 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it 'Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots dead his lover of three months, the impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas.At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet, who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks, tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Passionate and profound, Jazz brings us back and forth in time, in a narrative assembled from the hopes, fears and realities of black urban life.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 229 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet'One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all'Goodbye to Berlin is the novella that inspired Cabaret, evoking the glamour and sleaze, excess and repression of Berlin society. Isherwood shows the lives of people under threat from the rise of the Nazis: a wealthy Jewish heiress, Natalia Landauer, a gay couple, Peter and Otto, and an English upper-class waif, the divinely decadent Sally Bowles.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 272 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'We couldn't go on indefinitely being swept off our feet'One of the great literary curios of the twentieth century Save Me the Waltz is the first and only novel by the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald. During the years when Fitzgerald was working on Tender is the Night, Zelda Fitzgerald was preparing her own story, which strangely parallels the narrative of her husband, throwing a fascinating light on Scott Fitzgerald's life and work. In its own right, it is a vivid and moving story: the confessional of a famous glamour girl of the affluent 1920s and an aspiring ballerina which captures the spirit of an era.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars'The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whisper 'he killed a man once'. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 148 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatisfied by her marriage, she starts an affair with charming, attractive and exciting Charles Townsend. But when Walter discovers her deception, he exacts a strange and terrible vengeance: Kitty must accompany him to his new posting in remote mainland China, where a cholera epidemic rages.VINTAGE DECO: Nine blazing, daring novels to celebrate the 1920s - 100 years on. 212 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -'Adelightful,hilarious,captivatinglove letter to Indonesia, and coming of age in a large meddlesome family, and the thrill of finding your person where you least expect it!'--Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love HypothesisA laugh-out-loud YA rom-comabout a girl who's whisked from LA to her mother's native Indonesia to get back to her roots and finds herselffake-dating the son of one of the wealthiest families there, from the bestselling author of Dial A for Aunties and The ObsessionAfter Sharlot Citra's mother catches her in a compromising position, she finds herself whisked away from LA to her mother s native Indonesia. It'll be exactly what they both need. Or so her mother thinks.When George ClooneyTanuwijaya's father (who is obsessed with American celebrities) fears he no longer understands how to get through to his son, he decides to take matters into his own hands.To ensure that their children find the right kind of romantic partner, Sharlot's mother and George's father do what any 'good' parent would do: they strike up a conversation online, pretending to be their children.When the kids find out about their parents actions, they re horrified. Not even a trip to one of the most romantic places on earth could possibly make Sharlot and George fall for each other. But as the layers peel back and thepersonthey thought they knew from online is revealed,the truth becomes more complicated. As unlikely as it may seem, did their parents manage to find their true match after all 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Children ages 3-5 will have fun learning and playing with all their favorite Dr. Seuss characters in this wipe-clean workbook! Filled with teacher-reviewed, kid-friendly activities that build important foundational learning skills around letters and numbers. Includes a dry-erase marker!Dr. Seuss + Wipe-Clean = Fun for Everyone!This engaging wipe-clean activity workbook is filled with beloved characters and engaging exercises that let kids practice and perfect their letters and numbers. Reusable pages allow repeated practice so little learners can gain confidence in writing. This wipe-clean workbook includes activities on letter sounds, counting, writing, tracing, and more!Also available: Dr. Seuss Wipe-Clean Workbook: Learning Fun 53 pp. Englisch.