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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, a division of Penguin Random House, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2015. First (1st) Printing (no later printings stated, per publisher's policy) of "First American Edition" (stated). Fine in an As New Dust Jacket. Ex-Library with only the following library markings: (1) two stamps to front-free endpaper: (2) a UPC Barcode to rear endpaper. No other library indications. The Text Block is clean, white, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind other than a dark splash of color to the bottom edge. The pictorial Binding is bright (colors consistent throughout), with bright title, etc., to spine, and all corners square. The pictorial Dust Jacket is flawless - intact, bright and encased in a mylar cover, with the original price ($28.95) intact on the front flap. See photos. xv + 599 + ii pages. 6 3/8" x 9 3/8". Translated from the Turkish Kafamda Bir Tuhaflik by Ekin Oklap, this novel won the 2015 Erdal Öz Prize (Turkey), the 2015 Aydin Dogan Foundation Award (Turkey), and the 2016 The Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award ("Foreign Literature" category, Russia). The book, the ninth novel by its Nobel Prize winning author, tells the story of an Istanbul street vendor from 1969 to 2012, with the changing city a character itself in the novel. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 900 grams / ~2 lb., and will require extra postage for international shipment or expedited delivery. ISBN 10: 0307700291 / ISBN 13: 9780307700292.

Octavo, 464 pages, photo illustrated, original boards (a bit flecked on bottom edge) in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.

Octavo, 464 pages, photo illustrated, original boards (insect flecked on bottom edge) in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.

Octavo, 464 pages, photo illustrated, original boards ( a bit flecked on bottom edge) in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.

Octavo, 464 pages, photo illustrated, original boards (a bit flecked on bottom edge) in dustwrapper, a very good copy. First edition.

Condition: new.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Carrow, Jenny (jacket design); Stone, Jesse (author photograph) (illustrator). 1st Edition. As new condition black boards with silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; and A Note About the Author. "Gripping. Fox masterfully conveys the exhilaration and loneliness of life undercover, and her memoir reads like a great espionage novle." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review). "Extraordinary. [A] remarkable life. Fox engagingly -- and transparently -- describes her work as an undercover agent for the CIA." -- Kirkus Reviews. "Amaryllis Fox's riveting memoir tells the story of her training and deployment in the most elite clandestine operations unit in the CIA, her eight years hunting the world's most dangerous terrorists in sixteen countries, and her marriage and the birth of her first daughter, all while working undercover. As the book opens, Amaryllis is alone, navigating the back alleys of Karachi as she prepares to negotiate with terrorists to avoid deployment of a nuclear device. How, the reader wonders, did she come to be here, in a dark room in Pakistan, surrounded by men who could jus as easily kill her as cooperate with her requests? After studying international law and theology as an undergraduate at Oxford, Amaryllis enrolled at Georgetown, where she created an algorithm that predicted the likelihood that a terrorist cell could erupt anywhere in the world. At twenty-one, she was recruited by the CIA. Her first job was analyzing hundreds of classified cables a day and assembling them for inclusion in the president's daily brief. Her next was at the Iraq desk in the Counterterrorism Center, where she worlked to locate prisoners kidnapped by al Qa'ida; a year later she was working to keep weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of terrorists, flying all over the world, debriefing detainees, and negotiating with arms dealers to buy chemical and biological weapons on the global black market. After completing the most demanding espionage training on earth, she was deployed as a spy under nonofficial cover to infiltrate terrorist networks in the most remote areas of North Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. Life Undercoveer is astonishing, exhilarating, impossible to put down -- an extraordinary record of a life of service and passion and almost unfathomable courage. It is also an intimate, raw, deeply layered memoir about marriage, motherhood, and life's work. A must-read memoir from an immensely gifted new writer." -- from the inner front jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Alfred A. Knopf Inc., a Borzoi Book, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC., New York, New York, U.S.A., 2022. First (1st) Printing (no others stated) of the "First Edition" (stated). As New in an As New Dust Jacket. Unread. The Text Block is clean, bright white, tight, straight and square with deckled fore-edges, and no markings of any kind. The Binding is full blue cloth with bright gilt title, etc., to spine, unmarked, white endpapers, and all corners square and sharp. The pictorial Dust Jacket is fully intact, bright and flawless, with the original prices (USA $30.00 Canada $41.00) intact on the front flap. See photos. 383 + i pages. 6 1/2" x 9 1/2". One of the two last novels published by the author before his death in 2023, the novel was longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. ISBN 10: 0307268993 / ISBN 13: 9780307268990.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Can you still have a home if you don't have a house In the spirit of The Truth About Jellyfish and Fish in a Tree comes a stunning debut about a family struggling to find something lasting when everything feels so fleeting.Always think in threes and you'll never fall, Cora's father told her when she was a little girl. Two feet, one hand. Two hands, one foot. That was all Cora needed to know to climb the trees of Brooklyn.But now Cora is a middle schooler, a big sister, and homeless. Her mother is trying to hold the family together after her father's death, and Cora must look after her sister, Adare, who's just different, their mother insists. Quick to smile, Adare hates wearing shoes, rarely speaks, and appears untroubled by the question Cora can't help but ask: How will she find a place to call home After their room at the shelter is ransacked, Cora's mother looks to an old friend for help, and Cora finally finds what she has been looking for: Ailanthus altissima, the 'tree of heaven,' which can grow in even the worst conditions. It sets her on a path to discover a deeper truth about where she really belongs. Just Under the Clouds will take root in your heart and blossom long after you've turned the last page.'[A] heartbreaking yet hopeful story of a family searching for a place to belong.' --Publishers Weekly'[A] thought provoking debut about the meaning of home and the importance of family.'--Horn Book Magazine 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A wildly entertaining adventure involving snakes, grizzlies, a menacing drone, a missing father, and the kid determined to find him. In classic Hiaasen fashion, the animals here are wild, and the people are wilder! Some facts about Billy Dickens: \*He once saw a biker swerve across the road in order to run over a snake. \*Later, that motorcycle somehow ended up at the bottom of a canal. \*Billy isn't the type to let things go. Some facts about Billy's family: \*They've lived in six different Florida towns because Billy's mom insists on getting a house near a bald eagle nest. \*Billy's dad left when he was four and is a total mystery. \*Billy has just found his dad's address--in Montana. This summer, Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, save a neighbor's cat, save an endangered panther, and then try to save his own father. 'A fun romp that will keep readers hooked.' The New York Times 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -New York Times bestselling author David Levithan takes young readers on twisting journey through truth, reality, and fantasy and belief. Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonizing days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been The story he tells is simply. . . impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to.His brother, Lucas, wants to believe him. But Lucas is aware of what other people, including their parents, are saying: that Aidan is making it all up to disguise the fact that he ran away.When the kids in school hear Aidan's story, they taunt him. But still Aidan clings to his story. And as he becomes more of an outcast, Lucas becomes more and more concerned. Being on Aidan's side would mean believing in the impossible. But how can you believe in the impossible when everything and everybody is telling you not to 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -From the internationally best-selling author of Purge and When the Doves Disappeared, a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death.When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty. 320 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Knopf Canada/Penguin, Toronto, 2021, Hardcover First Canadian Edition/First Printing with a complete number line ending in '1', indicating so. Much awaited new novel by the author of Normal People - which was also turned into a tv series. Book condition: New in a New dustjacket - jacket comes in a removable, archival, mylar sleeve.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Slim 8vo(9"tall)Stapled colour wraps. First Printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE TITLE PAGE. SCARCE. Signed by Author(s).

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The New York Times Bestselling duo behind Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist and The Twelve Days of Dash & Lily return with twins out to throw the party of a lifetime--or at least the best party of high school!Siblings Sam and Ilsa Kehlmann have spent most of their high school years throwing parties for their friends--and now they've prepared their final blowout, just before graduation.The rules are simple: each twin gets to invite three guests, and the other twin doesn't know who's coming until the partiers show up at the door. With Sam and Ilsa, the sibling revelry is always tempered with a large dose of sibling rivalry, and tonight is no exception.One night. One apartment. Eight people. What could possibly go wrong Oh, we all know the answer is plenty. But plenty also goes right, as well.in rather surprising ways. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -Lost Crow Conspiracy is the dark, dazzling, action-packed sequel to Anna Arden's explosive societal debut in YA fantasy trilogy Blood Rose Rebellion.Sixteen-year old Anna Arden was once just the magically barren girl from an elite Luminate family. Now she has broken the Binding--and Praetheria, the creatures held captive by the spell, wreak havoc across Europe. Lower-class citizens have access to magic for the first time, while other Luminates lose theirs forever. Austria and Hungary are at odds once more.Anna Arden did not know breaking the Binding would break the world.Anna thought the Praetheria were on her side, content and grateful to be free from the Binding. She thought her cousin Matyas's blood sacrifice to the disarm the spell would bring peace, equality, justice. She thought her future looked like a society that would let her love a Romani boy, Gabor.But with the Monarchy breathing down her neck and the Praetheria intimidating her at every turn, it seems the conspiracies have only just begun.As threat of war sweeps the region, Anna quickly discovers she can't solve everything on her own. Now there's only one other person who might be able to save the country before war breaks out. The one person Anna was sure she'd never see again. A bandit. A fellow outlaw. A man known as the King of Crows. Matyas. 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A teenage boy born in space makes his first trip to Earth in this engrossing sci-fi adventure for fans of The Martian from award-winning author Nick Lake.He's going to a place he's never been before: home.Moon 2 is a space station that orbits approximately 250 miles above Earth. It travels 17,500 miles an hour, making one full orbit every ninety minutes. It's also the only home that fifteen-year-old Leo and two other teens have ever known.Born and raised on Moon 2, Leo and the twins, Orion and Libra, are finally old enough and strong enough to endure the dangerous trip to Earth. They've been 'parented' by teams of astronauts since birth and have run countless drills to ready themselves for every conceivable difficulty they might face on the flight.But has anything really prepared them for life on terra firma Because while the planet may be home to billions of people, living there is more treacherous than Leo and his friends could ever have imagined, and their very survival will mean defying impossible odds. 464 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut SG - Ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt, mit leichten Lagerspuren - 'Powerful . . . As haunting a postapocalyptic universe as Cormac McCarthy [created] in The Road, and as devastating a look as the fallout that national events have on an American family as Philip Roth did in The Plot Against America. . . . Omar El Akkad's debut novel, American War, is an unlikely mash-up of unsparing war reporting and plot elements familiar to readers of the recent young-adult dystopian series The Hunger Games and Divergent.'-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle-a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself. Sarat Chestnut, born in Louisiana, is only six when the Second American Civil War breaks out in 2074. But even she knows that oil is outlawed, that Louisiana is half underwater, and that unmanned drones fill the sky. When her father is killed and her family is forced into Camp Patience for displaced persons, she begins to grow up shaped by her particular time and place. But not everyone at Camp Patience is who they claim to be. Eventually Sarat is befriended by a mysterious functionary, under whose influence she is turned into a deadly instrument of war. The decisions that she makes will have tremendous consequences not just for Sarat but for her family and her country, rippling through generations of strangers and kin alike.

Octavo; hardcover; 514pp., untrimmed, with 8pp. of full-colour plates and many monochrome illustrations. Dustwrapper. Remainder. New. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. From Pulitzer Prize-winning architectural critic Paul Goldberger: an engaging, nuanced exploration of the life and work of Frank Gehry, undoubtedly the most famous architect of our time. This first full-fledged critical biography presents and evaluates the work of a man who has almost single-handedly transformed contemporary architecture in his innovative use of materials, design, and form, and who is among the very few architects in history to be both respected by critics as a creative, cutting-edge force and embraced by the general public as a popular figure. "Building Art" shows the full range of Gehry's work, from early houses constructed of plywood and chain-link fencing to lamps made in the shape of fish to the triumphant success of such late projects as the spectacular art museum of glass in Paris. It tells the story behind Gehry's own house, which upset his neighbors and excited the world with its mix of the traditional and the extraordinary, and recounts how Gehry came to design the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, his remarkable structure of swirling titanium that changed a declining city into a destination spot. "Building Art" also explains Gehry's sixteen-year quest to complete Walt Disney Concert Hall, the beautiful, acoustically brilliant home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Although Gehry's architecture has been written about widely, the story of his life has never been told in full detail. Here we come to know his Jewish immigrant family, his working-class Toronto childhood, his hours spent playing with blocks on his grandmother's kitchen floor, his move to Los Angeles when he was still a teenager, and how he came, unexpectedly, to end up in architecture school. Most important, "Building Art" presents and evaluates Gehry's lifetime of work in conjunction with his entire life story, including his time in the army and at Harvard, his long relationship with his psychiatrist and the impact it had on his work, and his two marriages and four children. It analyzes his carefully crafted persona, in which a casual, amiable "aw, shucks" surface masks a driving and intense ambition. And it explores his relationship to Los Angeles and how its position as home to outsider artists gave him the freedom in his formative years to make the innovations that characterize his genius. Finally, it discusses his interest in using technology not just to change the way a building looks but to change the way the whole profession of architecture is practised. At once a sweeping view of a great architect and an intimate look at creative genius, "Building Art" is in many ways the saga of the architectural milieu of the twenty-first century. But most of all it is the compelling story of the man who first comes to mind when we think of the lasting possibilities of buildings as art. 9780307701534.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Sg - leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempelt - The finale you've all been waiting for: The Penderwicks at Last is the final, flawless installment in the modern classic series from National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author Jeanne Birdsall!Nine years, five older siblings, a few beloved dogs, and an endless array of adventures--these are the things that have shaped Lydia's journey since readers first met her in The Penderwicks in Spring.Now it's summertime, and eleven-year-old Lydia is dancing at the bus stop, waiting for big sister Batty to get home from college. This is a very important dance and a very important wait because the two youngest sisters are about to arrive home to find out that the Penderwicks will all be returning to Arundel this summer, the place where it all began. And better still is the occasion: a good old-fashioned, homemade-by-Penderwicks wedding.Bursting with heart and brimming with charm, this is a joyful, hilarious ode to the family we love best. And oh my MOPS--Meeting of Penderwick Siblings--does Jeanne Birdsall's The Penderwicks at Last crescendo to one perfect Penderwick finale.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gebraucht. Gebraucht - Wie neu Leichte Beschädigungen oder Verschmutzungen, ungelesenes Mängelexemplar, gestempel - National Best Seller - Named a Best Book of the Year by: New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Vogue, The Atlantic, Newsday 'A novel of head-snapping ambition and heart-stopping power-a novel that attests to its young author's boundless and unflagging talents.' -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times New York City, 1976. Meet Regan and William Hamilton-Sweeney, estranged heirs to one of the city's great fortunes; Keith and Mercer, the men who, for better or worse, love them; Charlie and Samantha, two suburban teenagers seduced by downtown's punk scene; an obsessive magazine reporter and his idealistic neighbor-and the detective trying to figure out what any of them have to do with a shooting in Central Park on New Year's Eve. The mystery, as it reverberates through families, friendships, and the corridors of power, will open up even the loneliest-seeming corners of the crowded city. And when the blackout of July 13, 1977, plunges this world into darkness, each of these lives will be changed forever. City on Fire is an unforgettable novel about love and betrayal and forgiveness, about art and truth and rock 'n' roll: about what people need from each other in order to live . . . and about what makes the living worth doing in the first place. From the Hardcover edition.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware 288 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Can playing dead bring you back to life Maybe on Dead Wednesday On this day the worlds of a shy boy and a gone girl collide, and the connection they make will change them both forever. A brilliant new novel from the Newbery Medal winner and author of the New York Times bestseller Stargirl.'Jerry Spinelli has created another middle grade masterpiece.' BookPage, starred reviewOn Dead Wednesday, every eighth grader in Amber Springs is assigned the name and identity of a teenager who died a preventable death in the past year. The kids don black shirts and for the whole day everyone in town pretends they're invisible as if they weren't even there. The adults think it will make them contemplate their mortality. The kids know it's a free pass to get away with anything.Worm Tarnauer feels invisible every day. He's perfectly happy being the unnoticed sidekick of his friend Eddie. So he's not expecting Dead Wednesday to feel that different. But he didn't count on being assigned Becca Finch (17, car crash). And he certainly didn't count on Becca showing up to boss him around! Letting this girl into his head is about to change everything.This is the story of the unexpected, heartbreaking, hilarious, truly epic day when Worm Tarnauer discovers his own life. 240 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Wani Olatunde (Author photo); Joan Wong (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first edition. Book and dust jacket in fine, as new condition.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The definitive history of the covert struggle between Russia and America to influence elections, why the threat to American democracy is greater than ever, and what we can do about it. This is 'the first book to put the story of Russian interference into a broader context. Extraordinary and gripping' (The New York Times Book Review).Russia's interference in the 2016 elections marked only the latest chapter of a hidden and revelatory history. In Rigged, David Shimer tells the sweeping story of covert electoral interference past and present. He exposes decades of secret operations by the KGB, the CIA, and Vladimir Putin's Russia to shape electoral outcomes, melding deep historical research with groundbreaking interviews with more than 130 key players, from leading officials in both the Trump and Obama administrations to CIA and NSA directors to a former KGB general. Throughout history and in 2016, both Russian and American operations achieved their greatest success by influencing the way voters think, rather than tampering with actual vote tallies. Understanding 2016 as one battle in a much longer war is essential to comprehending the critical threat currently posed to America's electoral sovereignty and how to defend against it. Illuminating how the lessons of the past can be used to protect our democracy in the future, Rigged is an essential book for readers of every political persuasion. 384 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A NEBULA AWARD FINALISTONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR'Hilarious, heartfelt and brimming with humanity. Cynthia D Aprix Sweeney,author ofThe Nest Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. There he meets Maureen McKinnon, and it s not just her piercing blue eyes that leave Teddy forever charmed, but her mind Maureen is a genuine psychic of immense and mysterious power. After a whirlwind courtship, they marry, have three gifted children, and become the Amazing Telemachus Family, performing astounding feats across the country. Irene is a human lie detector. Frankie can move objects with his mind. And Buddy, the youngest, can see the future. Then one night tragedy leaves the family shattered.Decades later, the Telemachuses are not so amazing. Irene is a single mom whose ear for truth makes it hard to hold down a job, much less hold together a relationship. Frankie s in serious debt to his dad s old mob associates. Buddy has completely withdrawn into himself and inexplicably begun digging a hole in the backyard. To make matters worse, the CIA has come knocking, looking to see if there s any magic left in the Telemachus clan. And there is: Irene s son Matty has just had his first out-of-body experience. But he hasn t told anyone, even though his newfound talent might just be what his family needs to save themselves if it doesn t tear them apart in the process.Harnessing the imaginative powers that have made him a master storyteller, Daryl Gregory delivers a stunning, laugh-out-loud new novel about a family of gifted dreamers and the invisible forces that bind us all. 416 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -An extraordinary debut novel-dark, fast-paced, thrilling-set in contemporary and nineteenth-century Europe, the United States, and Scotland, involving the true inventor of moving pictures; his lost film made in Edinburgh in 1888; and a shocking series of crimes terrorizing the city in present time.The time: 2002. The city: Los Angeles.Alex Whitman, movie memorabilia dealer who can find anything, is hired by an eccentric film collector to locate what could be the first film ever made, Séance Infernale. Its creator, Augustin Sekuler, is considered by those who know about movies to be the true inventor of motion pictures-not the Lumiére brothers; nor Thomas Edison.Sekuler was to present to the world in 1890 his greatest new invention, the first of its kind-a moving picture machine. He had boarded a train headed from Dijon to Paris, but never arrived at Gare de Lyons station. He and his moving picture machine vanished, never to be heard from again, his claim in history as the inventor of the moving image vanishing with him.When Whitman tracks down what could be fragments of Sekuler's famously lost film, questions are raised-about Sekuler, about what happened to him and to his invention, and about the film itself.In this riveting story of suspense, the search for the answers lead to curious riddles that may (or may not) shed light on Sekuler's darkest secret locked away for more than a century, riddles that set in motion a frantic hunt taking Whitman from Los Angeles and Paris, to Geneva, and finally to Sekuler's ancient labyrinthine city of Edinburgh, where the stakes become ratcheted up as the film's riddles lead to a darker, far more dangerous mystery. 304 pp. Englisch.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Canadian edition (preceded by the 2019 U.K. hardcover release)first printing of a near fine hardcover with a slight lean in a fine dustjacket. The author's modern take on the Don Quixote tale. Finalist for the 2019 Booker Prize. This copy is signed by the author on the title page. Signed by Author.