Simon schuster ltd okt 2026 (17 resultados)

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers.Filled to bursting with jaw-droppingly strange episodes from history, The Crackpot Compendium is a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo-scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly 'outside-the-box' thinkers.Discover stories of dinosaur espionage, earthquake-predicting plants and leech barometers, cat pianos and canine translation devices, immortal adventurers, cities spotted on the Moon and aliens living on the Sun. This colossal collection travels the world and across the millennia to take in telepathic Soviet circus clowns, Scottish abominable snowmen, Welsh prophets, ancient Chinese test pilots, invisible African mountains, and the aviator known as 'Wrong Way' Corrigan who accidentally flew backwards across the Atlantic.If you have ever wondered how to build a pigeon death-ray, start a snake cult with a hand-puppet, interrogate a houseplant or perform psychic surgery, The Crackpot Compendiumwill provide the answers (while also probably leaving you with a few new questions.) 384 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers.Filled to bursting with jaw-droppingly strange episodes from history, The Crackpot Compendium is a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo-scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly 'outside-the-box' thinkers.Discover stories of dinosaur espionage, earthquake-predicting plants and leech barometers, cat pianos and canine translation devices, immortal adventurers, cities spotted on the Moon and aliens living on the Sun. This colossal collection travels the world and across the millennia to take in telepathic Soviet circus clowns, Scottish abominable snowmen, Welsh prophets, ancient Chinese test pilots, invisible African mountains, and the aviator known as 'Wrong Way' Corrigan who accidentally flew backwards across the Atlantic.If you have ever wondered how to build a pigeon death-ray, start a snake cult with a hand-puppet, interrogate a houseplant or perform psychic surgery, The Crackpot Compendiumwill provide the answers (while also probably leaving you with a few new questions.) 384 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Get ready to join magical new hero Felix Green on an edge-of-your-seat adventure in this SECOND title at theFUTURE AGENCY.Perfect for fans of Percy Jacksonand Skandar . .Felix Green is back for a second year at the future agency and has just passed his initiation test to become a sky rider. It's not a moment too soon, as agents have been going missing and the Future Agency is at risk once more from the school of night. It seems as though a double agent could be working inside the agency and Felix still hasn't found his missing friend, Luke. As Felix begins to receive premonitions of himself with his old adversary, Christopher Marlowe, he starts to worry that he, too, could find himself recruited to the dark side . . . Praise for Felix and the Future Agency:'Explosively magical! What a fun-filled, exciting adventure - kids are going to love it!'Abi Elphinstone, author of Skysong'Very occasionally, a book comes along that feels fantastically unique - Felix and the Future Agency is that book. Clever and funny with a genius premise and characters to fall in love with, I'm already counting down the days to the sequel.'A.F. Steadman, author of the Skandar series.'A heart-strong story built to get lost in. Storytellingat itsmost spectacular.' Jacob North, author of the Ice Apprentices series.'It's packed with mystery and bursting with magic - the must-read middle-grade adventure of the year!'Laura Noakes, author of Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star'Loved this twisty magical adventure with a big-hearted hero and roots in real history from the ghost stories of the London Underground to the Premonitions Bureau.'Rashmi Sirdeshpande, author of Think Like a Boss'A super contemporary story grounded in history. Wow! The research, joy, time, thought, fun and wit Rachel has poured into the story and not to mention MAGIC.'Cerrie Burnell, author of The Girl with the Shark's Teeth'Spookily good! Devoured it all in a day!' Steven Lenton. Donnelly, Paddy (ilustrador).…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The fourth book in a warm and beautifully observed farm adventure series from Nicola Baker, star of Our Farm in the Dales.Perfect for readers 8+ and fans of Jacqueline Wilson,Michael Morpurgo, Dick King Smith andThe SnowFoal. With stunning illustrations fromRachael Dean throughout.It's winter at Whistledown Farm and there's plenty for Ava to do - from harvesting the holly from the woods to sell at the Christmas market, to helping a hibernating hedgehog, to sledging. Then Ava finds a little kitten wandering up the farm track and suddenly the winter days get even busier for Ava.'Baker is a gifted writer, and her bucolic adventure harks back to classic farm stories such as those written by Dick King Smith and Michael Morpurgo'The Bookseller.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Lights, Camera, Kill is the third title in a thrilling murder-mystery series from Sophie McKenzie, the bestselling author of million-copy-seller,Girl Missing.With a new school term ahead for Georgia, Wren and Billy, the students of Mayfield Academy hope to leave the murders of the past behind and are excited to find that a film crew will be shooting at their school.But when one of the team is found dead, Mayfield Academy is thrown into the spotlight again. As the murders start to stack up, a chance sighting on a video changes everything.Have Georgia and her friends just seen the killer And might that person end up trying to silence them too Can you solve the mysteries behind the deaths at Mayfield Academy Enrol at Murder Academy with Lessons in Death and Camp Murder - out now!Praise for Girl, Missing:'Page-turning' The Independent'Will have you gripped for hours' Sunday Express'Please read this book: it is brilliant!; The Guardian'Whenever I hear the phrase YA thriller I only ever think of one name - and that's Sophie Mckenzie. Why Because noboody does it better' Phil Earle, award-winning author'Sophie's thrillers are brilliant. you can't stop reading' Robert Muchamore, bestselling author'Brilliantly described, scary and touching' The Daily Mirror10 YEARS OF AWARDS FORGirl, MissingManchester Children's Book AwardsBolton Children's Book AwardSoilhill Book AwardWinner of the Sakura MedalRed House Children's Book AwardRichard and Judy Best Kids' BookLewisham Children's Book Award\* Sophie McKenzie UK Nielsen Bookscan chart Sales 1,062,567, 7th July 2025.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Divided by centuries, two women are united in a quest to discover the limits of trust and are forever changed by a clash of love and fate. A gripping timeslip romance from the New York Times bestselling author of The King's Messenger.For nearly 300 years, the mysterious journal of Jacobite exile Mary Dundas has lain unread, its secrets safe from prying eyes. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas has been hired by a once-famous historian to crack the journal's cipher. But when she arrives in Paris, Sara finds herself besieged by complications from all sides: the journal's reclusive owner, her charming Parisian neighbour, and Mary, whose journal doesn't hold the secrets Sara expects. As Mary's tale grows more and more dire, Sara, too, must carefully choose which turning to take. to find the road that will lead her safely home.Praise for Susanna Kearsley:¿'I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters - historical fiction that pulls you in and won't let go!'¿Diana Gabaldon¿'Kearsley has a poetic sensibility and a sense of mystery; she could write the modern Rebecca'¿The Bookseller¿'Evocative and romantic' Nicola Cornick'Sometimes an author catches lightning in a bottle, and Susanna Kearsley does just that'New York Journal of Books'A deeply engaging and compelling historical novel. Susanna Kearsley has written a marvellous book' Bernard Cornwell'One of Canada's best historical fiction writers' The Globe and Mail'Kearsley is nothing less than a magician weaving together the past and the present. utterly unputdownable' M J Rose'A master storyteller' Leslie Howard.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A twenty year old mystery. A teenage girl struck by lightning and the righting of past wrongs.'Just wait until I tell you all about what lightning can do . . .'Some called her the lightning girl. The one who survived the storm. I called her my best friend.Everyone remembers the day Gen was struck by lightning. Few remember what really happened after she disappeared, leaving behind a town full of secrets.Now I'm back, and the whispers about that summer are haunting me again. I can see the truth taunting me in the shadows. I needanswers.Someone out there knows what happened to the girl who vanished.Someone wants those secrets to stay buried.Whatever it takes.PRAISE FOR SAM RIPLEY AND THE RULE OF THREE:'TheRule of Three is a completely original, nuanced, one-sitting read that blew me away. Whip-smart dialogue, characters that haunt your dreams and a plot you might just die for. I loved it'CHRIS WHITAKER'Gripping but beautifully written, this one is perhaps Sam's best of yet' AWAIS KHAN'The Rule of Threeabsolutely blew me away. An incredibly intense and original creepy page-turner that made me keep turning the pages in a desperate need to finish it and find out the answers! Utterly paranoia-inducing and brilliant. I loved it. It came for me and now it will come for you!' SARAH PINBOROUGH'Ingenious, creepy and compelling. Sam Ripley is an exciting new voice in the field of chilling thrillers' ALEX NORTH'How rare it is todevour a new thriller with a truly new premise told in a truly new way. In The Rule of Three, Sam Ripley has achieved the near impossible, blending innovative storytelling with fresh, surprising characters fighting for their lives against the very narrative we are racing to read and keep up with. This twisty, dark delight plumbs our all-too-human paranoias and proclivities, upending our expectations of what a thriller can be' GREGG HURWITZ'The Rule of three is an excellent, twisty thriller that keeps you glued to the page right the way through. Definitely mykind of book!' SIMON KERNICK'With The Rule of Three, Sam Ripley has delivered a perfectly crafted nightmare. Taut, deliciously sinister, witty and original. I couldn't get enough of all the creepy twists and turns' CAZ FREAR'The Rule of Three is a sinister tale that deftly blends paranoia, conspiracy and a rash of mysterious deaths to create a dizzying and gripping thriller. The story sucked me in from page one and I was caught up in this just-one-more-chapter read until I raced to the conclusion - making sure to read in a well-lit room at all times!' ROD REYNOLDS'Ingenious and compelling in equal measure' KEVIN WIGNALL'Athrilling concept told in a gripping, unique voice' CLAIRE MCGOWAN.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Welcome to Freezy Tye - voted Britain's Most Christmassy Village seven years in a row.Best friends since university, Keeley and Grace first bonded over their love of nineteenth century romance classics, but life has taken them in different directions. While Keeley became the top curator at Juniper Cottage, home of forgotten author Eliza Norton, Grace settled into family life and now faces an empty nest with her son leaving for Australia.When Grace takes a part-time job at winter wonderland shop Santa's Secret, she soon starts clashing with the owner's grumpy son, Raff. Meanwhile, Keeley is horrified when brash social media expert Xander Jones is brought in to modernise Eliza's legacy. Determined to resist his ideas, she instead finds herself unexpectedly drawn to him.As December nears, Freezy Tye competes to retain its Christmas title. But with serious competition from a neighbouring village, and heartache dragging them down, Keeley and Grace find their festive spirit is in short supply. Can they all find a way to pull together and deliver a festive season to remember.PRAISE FOR HOLLY HEPBURN'Heartwarming and gloriously romantic' HEIDI SWAIN'Perfect to curl up with on sunny days or cold winter nights' CRESSIDA McLAUGHLIN'I devoured this gorgeous book as quickly as a tin of Scottish shortbread' VERONICA HENRY.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - THE PERFECT CAMPUS ROMANCE COLOURING BOOK FOR FANS OF HANNAH GRACE, OFF CAMPUS AND HEATED RIVALRY!Experience that college lifestyle with the On Campus Colouring book. Featuring 46 flirty and fun illustrations showing those heated moments, messy breakups, fun friendships and maybe even true love All you need to do is grab your pens or pencils, bring your imagination and colour your way through college!A MUST HAVE COLOURING BOOK FOR SPORTS ROMANCE FANS. Sheehan, Tessa (ilustrador).…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Darkly humorous and deliciously unhinged.' - Wren James, author of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe.A love letter to slasher films and angsty teenage friendship, Dead Girls is a graphic novel perfect for fans of Holly Jackson, E.M. Carroll and Yellowjackets. Clossdale has a history of dead girls. When a fifth missing teenager turns up dead, all eyes on are one suspect - 17-year-old Ash, the orphaned daughter of serial killer 'Evil Evelyn'. Ash is sick of her peers being murdered, and she's sick of the police not taking the investigations seriously. After finding a note telling her she's next, Ash, along with her foster sister Cassie and best friend Jamie, decides to take matters into their own hands. But when their plan goes awry, the girls find themselves at the centre of a deeper and darker web than they could ever have imagined. Can they put a stop to the murders, or will they each become just another of Clossdale's dead girls Praise for Dead Girls:'This blackly comic, splendidly camp graphic novel is a must for YA slasher-film fans.' - Guardian'A chilling slasher that effectively explores legacy, identity, confronting the past-and refusing to be defined by it' - Kirkus Starred Review'There's plenty to love in this campy, slasher mystery, from tongue-in-cheek dialogue to a well-propelled mystery enmeshed with the challenges of grief to a fantastically queer cast' - Booklist Starred Review'Witty and engaging, this is a solid recommendation for all horror readers.' School Library Journal. …

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The BRAND NEW twisty survival thriller from the bestselling author of The Shallows and The Rip. Perfect for fans of Lucy Clarke, Sarah Pearse and Amy McCulloch.\* A GOODREADS MOST ANTICIPATED THRILLER \*'Packed with atmospheric suspense' JOHN MARRS, What Lies Between Us'Has twists and turns that leave you reeling' SARAH PEARSE, The Sanatorium'A transportive and pulse-pounding read' LUCY CLARKE, The Hike'I was hooked from the very first page!' B. A. PARIS, Behind Closed DoorsTHREE YEARS MISSINGWhen Pete vanished into the rugged wilderness of Tasmania's Abel mountains, it only took a few weeks for the official search to be called off. He'd been warned, they said. Mount Mercy takes people.TWO SISTERS SEARCHINGBrought together by their mother's dying wish to find their brother once and for all, estranged sisters, Hallie and Gertie, head back to Mount Mercy. Their first step: to find the Peakers, an isolated and mysterious commune, who were the last people to see Pete alive.A TRUTH THEY MAY NOT SURVIVEIt doesn't take long for the sisters' desperate hunt for answers to become a terrifying fight for their own survival. The Peakers are hiding something. Something deadly.Readers can't stop talking about Find Me . . . (¿¿¿¿¿ reader reviews)'Atmospheric, suspenseful and dark and had me engrossed! I couldn't put it down!''Where do I even start!!! 5 star read!!! I was completely immersed from the very first chapter''Huge and amazing story! Full of twists and dangerous characters''A chilling atmospheric novel . I recommend this book to any fans of thrillers''Be warned, once you pick up Find Me it is impossible to put down'.…

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'There are some things, after all, that Sally Owens knows for certain: Always throw spilled salt over your left shoulder. Keep rosemary by your garden gate. Add pepper to your mashed potatoes. Plant roses and lavender, for luck. Fall in love whenever you can.'As children, Gillian and Sally Owens are marked as different, growing up on the margins of a small New England town where whispers of magic cling to their family name. Each longs to escape: one into marriage, the other as far from home as she can travel.Years later, when tragedy draws them back together, the sisters must confront not only the past they tried to leave behind, but the enduring connection between them - and the power, both dangerous and transformative, that has always set them apart.Richly atmospheric and quietly spellbinding, Practical Magic is a story of love and loss, forgiveness and belonging, and the extraordinary resilience of family. Alice Hoffman's beloved novel continues to enchant readers with its seamless blend of the everyday and the otherworldly, capturing the fragile, powerful magic of being human.'A great atmospheric story teller' Kate Atkinson'Alice Hoffman is wonderful on stories and writing' Stephen King'The reigning queen of magical realism' Kristin Hannah'Storytelling is in Hoffman's bones' New York Times Book Review.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers.Filled to bursting with jaw-droppingly strange episodes from history, The Crackpot Compendium is a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo-scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly 'outside-the-box' thinkers.Discover stories of dinosaur espionage, earthquake-predicting plants and leech barometers, cat pianos and canine translation devices, immortal adventurers, cities spotted on the Moon and aliens living on the Sun. This colossal collection travels the world and across the millennia to take in telepathic Soviet circus clowns, Scottish abominable snowmen, Welsh prophets, ancient Chinese test pilots, invisible African mountains, and the aviator known as 'Wrong Way' Corrigan who accidentally flew backwards across the Atlantic.If you have ever wondered how to build a pigeon death-ray, start a snake cult with a hand-puppet, interrogate a houseplant or perform psychic surgery, The Crackpot Compendiumwill provide the answers (while also probably leaving you with a few new questions.). …

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A provocative and rare insider account of how a new generation of Western plutocrats manoeuvre power from behind closed doors - and how liberal democracy can fight back.Chrystia Freeland spent decades reporting how foreign dissidents and oligarchs, from Moscow to China and beyond, exploit economic upheaval and hollow out the lives of ordinary people. As a political leader and fierce negotiator, she brought these lessons into halls of power, only to encounter a new order of global elites and tyrannical regimes - this time in the West itself.Now, as authoritarianism resurges around the world alongside rising tariffs, economic anxiety and democratic instability, she shines a light on the current crisis of liberal democracy. With bold and unusual candour, Freeland exposes how deals are really made and how coalitions fracture when governments fail to deliver for working people, and she argues that trade, security and democracy can no longer be separated.Instead, democracies must build new alliances strong enough to resist foreign autocrats and homegrown oligarchs.Part memoir, part polemic,Unreliable Boyfriendis a powerful investigation of leadership, ambition, compromise and betrayal, from a public intellectual with a clear view into the dangers, and opportunities, of our unreliable relationship with the United States.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - We're looking out for Santa Claus,We want to say, 'Hello!'Push the sliders, spin the wheels and lift the flaps to say 'HELLO' to Father Christmas in this interactive series of novelty board books from Fiz Osborne and Kayt Bochenski.Join our festive adventure as we explore the North Pole with festive friends. HO, HO, HO! Can you spot them all Featuring wheels, push-and-pull sliders and chunky flaps across four bright and colourful spreads, this sturdy board book is packed with fun novelties that encourage curiosity and exploration - perfect for early learning and play! Paired with a gentle rhyming narrative, toddlers will want to read this over and over again. until it's time to say, 'Goodbye!'. Bochenski, Kayt (ilustrador).…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - 'Exciting and brilliantly reported'Walter IsaacsonThis is the story of the twenty-first century's Manhattan Project: the trillion-dollar sprint to create artificial general intelligence.For the last decade, a handful of companies have been racing to build the most powerful technology in history: artificial general intelligence (AGI) - a computer system capable of outdoing humans at almost anything. Some of them hoped AGI would cure diseases and heal the planet. Others feared it could kill everyone on Earth. They decided to build it anyway.Drawing on more than 150 interviews with insiders at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as well as unpublished company documents and research memos, Kevin Roose reconstructs the most consequential decade in tech history. With reportorial rigor and page-turning suspense, he takes us inside the rooms where researchers watch large language models learn to talk, reason and code at superhuman speed. He brings us to the White House, where top officials grapple with a technology that is improving too fast to understand, let alone regulate. He offers new details on the disagreements that led the founders of Anthropic to defect from OpenAI and fresh reporting on Sam Altman's dramatic firing - and equally dramatic reinstatement - as CEO. He charts Google's frantic attempt to catch up to the AI frontier. And he ushers us into the San Francisco AI scene, where 'accelerationists' in hacker houses and 'doomers' at AI safety summits battle each other for supremacy.More than a billion people now use AI every day, yet almost nobody knows how it was created. The AGI Chroniclesis the definitive, behind-the-scenes account of how an obscure research project became the defining technology of our age.…

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware -A truly mind-boggling and fascinating A-Z of history's most eccentric thinkers.Filled to bursting with jaw-droppingly strange episodes from history, The Crackpot Compendium is a riotous tour of crackpot inventors, false prophets, quacks and pseudo-scientists, con-artists and impostors, and hundreds of other truly 'outside-the-box' thinkers.Discover stories of dinosaur espionage, earthquake-predicting plants and leech barometers, cat pianos and canine translation devices, immortal adventurers, cities spotted on the Moon and aliens living on the Sun. This colossal collection travels the world and across the millennia to take in telepathic Soviet circus clowns, Scottish abominable snowmen, Welsh prophets, ancient Chinese test pilots, invisible African mountains, and the aviator known as 'Wrong Way' Corrigan who accidentally flew backwards across the Atlantic.If you have ever wondered how to build a pigeon death-ray, start a snake cult with a hand-puppet, interrogate a houseplant or perform psychic surgery, The Crackpot Compendiumwill provide the answers (while also probably leaving you with a few new questions.)Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 384 pp. Englisch. …