Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1782118608 ISBN 13: 9781782118602
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BELIEVE IN MAGIC It is Christmas Eve and all is not well. Amelia Wishart is trapped in Mr Creeper's workhouse and Christmas is in jeopardy. Magic is fading. If Christmas is to happen, Father Christmas knows he must find her.With the help of some elves, eight reindeer, the Queen and a man called Charles Dickens, the search for Amelia - and the secret of Christmas - begins . . .
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786890690 ISBN 13: 9781786890696
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
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Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The kids (and canines) of Peanuts know a thing or two about how tough life can be. But with a philosophical approach to the trials and tribulations of growing up - from not being able to talk to the girl you like, to having an idiot brother who won't take your flawless advice - they're never short of the small comforts, and the great wisdom, that can help us get by.
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786891859 ISBN 13: 9781786891853
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Schlafentzug, Dauerlärm, Todesdrohung: Mohamedou Slahis Geständnis wurde unter Folter erpresst: Er ist einer der Hauptverdächtigen des 11. Septembers. Obwohl ein Gericht bereits 2010 seine Freilassung angeordnet hat, bleibt er bis Ende 2016 inhaftiert. Sein ergreifender Bericht ist die bisher einzige bekannte Chronik eines Guantanamo-Gefangenen, die in der Haft verfasst wurde.Slahis Gefangenschaft dokumentiert fast ein ganzes Jahrzehnt des Kampfes gegen den weltweiten Terrorismus. Donald Rumsfeld - mit der Akte »Slahi« vertraut - autorisierte die Behörden, den mutmaßlichen Al-Qaida-Verschwörer intensiven Verhören zu unterziehen - und nahm dabei auch Folterungen in Kauf. Im Jahr 2005 begann Slahi seine Geschichte zu erzählen. Emotional und zugleich um Fairness bemüht, berichtet er von seinen Entführungen durch die Geheimdienste, den Folterungen und den Begegnungen mit seinen Peinigern, aber auch mit Menschen, die sich ihm zuwandten. Der erste Bericht eines Guantanamo-Gefangenen, dessen offizielle Freigabe durch jahrelange juristische Anstrengungen erzwungen wurde.
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786891581 ISBN 13: 9781786891587
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology and folklore.Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786891603 ISBN 13: 9781786891600
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Olivia Laing is a widely acclaimed writer and critic. Her work appears in numerous publications, including the Guardian, Observer, New Statesman, Frieze and New York Times. She's a Yaddo and MacDowell Fellow and was 2014 Eccles Writer in Residence at the British Library. Her first book, To the River, was shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Dolman Travel Book of the Year. The Trip to Echo Spring was shortlisted for the 2013 Costa Biography Award and the 2014 Gordon Burn Prize. Her third book, The Lonely City, was shortlisted for the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize. She lives in Cambridge.
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786890631 ISBN 13: 9781786890634
Seller: BuchWeltWeit Ludwig Meier e.K., Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -The Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to follow: beautiful, compassionate, entrancing, she is the greatest blessing in their lives of Manhattan luxury. But as Heather grows - and her empathy sharpens to a point, and her radiance attracts more and more dark interest - their perfect existence starts to fracture. Meanwhile a very different life, one raised in poverty and in violence, is beginning its own malign orbit around Heather.Matthew Weiner - the creator of Mad Men - has crafted an extraordinary first novel of incredible pull and menace. Heather, The Totality demonstrates perfectly his forensic eye for the human qualities that hold modern society together, and pull it apart. 144 pp. Englisch.
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786891697 ISBN 13: 9781786891693
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -FOLLOW-UP TO THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERINCLUDING LETTERS FROM:Jane Austen, Richard Burton, Helen Keller, Alan Turing, Albus Dumbledore, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry James, Sylvia Plath, John Lennon, Gerald Durrell, Janis Joplin, Mozart, Janis Joplin, Hunter S. Thompson, C. G. Jung, Katherine Mansfield, Marge Simpson, David Bowie, Dorothy Parker, Buckminster Fuller, Beatrix Potter, Che Guevara, Evelyn Waugh, Charlotte Brontė and many more.Discover Richard Burton's farewell note to Elizabeth Taylor, Helen Keller's letter to The New York Symphony Orchestra about 'hearing' their concert through her fingers, the final missives from a doomed Japan Airlines flight in 1985, David Bowie's response to his first piece of fan mail from America and even Albus Dumbledore writing to a reader applying for the position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor at Hogwarts.More Letters of Note is another rich and inspiring collection, which reminds us that much of what matters in our lives finds its way into our letters. 384 pp. Deutsch.
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1786890682 ISBN 13: 9781786890689
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Buch. Condition: Neu. Mould, Chris (illustrator). Neuware - LET THE BATTLE FOR CHRISTMAS BEGINIt isn't always easy, growing up as a human in Elfhelm, even if your adoptive parents are the newly married Father Christmas and Mary Christmas. For one thing, Elf School can be annoying when you have to sing Christmas songs every day - even in July - and when you fail all your toy-making tests. Also it can get very, very cold.But when the jealous Easter Bunny and his rabbit army launch an attack to stop Christmas, it's up to Amelia, her new family and the elves to keep Christmas alive. Before it's too late . . .
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1782115293 ISBN 13: 9781782115298
Seller: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germany
Buch. Condition: Neu. Eason, Rohan (illustrator). Neuware.
Published by Canongate Books Okt 2017, 2017
ISBN 10: 1782119116 ISBN 13: 9781782119111
Seller: Rheinberg-Buch Andreas Meier eK, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany
Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -SHORTLISTED FOR THE SALTIRE SOCIETY NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDLooking can be an act of empathy or aggression. It can provoke desire or express it. And from the blurry, edgeless world we inhabit as infants to the landscape of screens we grow into, looking can define us.In The Story of Looking, filmmaker and writer Mark Cousins takes us on a lightning-bright tour - in words and images - through how our looking selves develop over the course of a lifetime, and the ways that looking has changed through the centuries. From great works of art to tourist photographs, from cityscapes to cinema, through science and protest, propaganda and refusals to look, the false mirrors and great visionaries of looking, this book illuminates how we construct as well as receive the things we see.Brilliant and eclectic, The Story of Looking is a photo album and an art gallery, a road movie and a visual grammar: once you've read it, you'll never see things the same way again. 432 pp. Deutsch.