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Von der Autorin des Buchclub-Auswahl von Reese Witherspoon, "The Scent Keeper", kommt ein „herzzerreissend köstlicher“ nationaler Bestseller über eine Köchin, ihre Schüler und die eindrucksvollen Lektionen, die das Essen über das Leben lehrt. Einmal im Monat, an einem Montagabend, versammeln sich acht Schüler in Lillians Restaurant zu einem Kochkurs. Unter ihnen ist Claire, eine junge Frau, die sich mit ihrer neuen Identität als Mutter auseinandersetzt; Tom, ein Anwalt, dessen Leben durch Verlust auf den Kopf gestellt wurde; Antonia, eine italienische Küchendesignerin, die sich an das Leben in Amerika anpasst; sowie Carl und Helen, ein lang verheiratetes Paar, dessen Verbindung Überraschungen birgt, mit denen der Rest der Klasse niemals gerechnet hätte. Die Schüler sind gekommen, um die Kunst hinter Lillians seelenvollen Gerichten zu lernen, doch bald wird klar, dass jeder ein Rezept für etwas jenseits der Küche sucht. Und bald werden sie durch die Aromen, Geschmäcker und Texturen dessen, was sie kreieren, verwandelt. Erica Bauermeister ist die Autorin von "The School of Essential Ingredients", "500 Great Books by Women: A Reader’s Guide", "Let’s Heart It For the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14" und "Joy for Beginners". Sie wurde in Pasadena, Kalifornien geboren und lebt derzeit….

Die New York Times Buchbesprechung - Auswahl der Redakteure - Eine Auswahl in einem Band von vier Romanen aus der legendären Detektivreihe mit atemberaubenden, bahnbrechenden Abenteuern im kriminellen Untergrund von Harlem, verfasst von dem Meister der Kriminalliteratur Chester Himes. Mit einer Einleitung des Bestsellerautors der New York Times, S.A. Cosby. „Himes brachte einen neuen Dreh in die Kriminalliteratur, indem er die urbane Atmosphäre, Strassenklugheit und die Geschehnisse in der Oberstadt betonte, wie es das Genre zuvor noch nicht gesehen hatte.“ - The Boston Globe „Himes' Harlem-Saga konkurriert mit den Romanen von David Goodis und Jim Thompson als das unvermeidliche Meisterwerk der amerikanischen Kriminalliteratur nach dem Krieg.“ - The New York Times „Sein unermüdlicher Drang, die schwarze Erfahrung, die unaufrichtige Natur des amerikanischen Traums, die Realität von Schmerz und Trauer und deren Auswirkungen auf die Seele zu untersuchen, macht Himes zum Barden der existenziellen afroamerikanischen Psyche.“ - S.A. Cosby, aus seiner Einleitung Ein Freund und Zeitgenosse von Richard Wright und James Baldwin – und in jeder Hinsicht ihr ebenbürtig – ist Chester Himes der gefeierte Autor literarischer Romane, Geschichten und Essays sowie der klassischen Kriminalromane, für die er am bekanntesten ist und die die Detektive Coffin Ed Johnson und Grave Digger Jones in den Mittelpunkt stellen. Himes verfasste neun Romane in der Reihe der Harlem-Detektive, und in diesen vier beliebten, gelungenen Bänden werden seine kalten, schlagfertigen Ermittler in eine brutale, mörderische Welt geworfen, voller betrügerischer Gauner, mit Waffen bewaffneter Gangster und opiumrauchender Prediger. Himes' Vision des kriminellen Untergrunds von Harlem ist sowohl ein tumultuöses Vergnügen, bereichert durch seine geschickt konstruierten Mysterien und funkelnden Dialoge, als auch ein eindringlicher Blick auf die angespannten Rassenverhältnisse im Amerika nach dem Krieg. Everyman's Library verfolgt die höchsten Produktionsstandards, druckt auf säurefreiem Papier, mit vollgewebten Einbänden mit zweifarbiger Folienstempelung, dekorativen Vorsatzblättern, Seidenbandmarkern, europäischen halb-runden Rücken und einem farbigen, illustrierten Umschlag.

Eine gekürzte Übersetzung eines der wichtigsten Bücher über den Theravada-Buddhismus in der jüngeren Geschichte, verfasst von dem angesehenen thailändischen Mönch P. A. Payutto. Erstmals 1971 in Thailand veröffentlicht und seitdem mehrfach erweitert und überarbeitet, gilt Bhikkhu P. A. Payuttos Buddhadhamma weithin als eines der bedeutendsten wissenschaftlichen Werke über den Buddhismus des Pali-Kanons, das im letzten Jahrhundert entstanden ist. In dieser gekürzten Übersetzung präsentiert Bruce Evans den Kern von Ven. Payuttos monumentaler Gelehrsamkeit und schafft ein ideales Handbuch für alle, die den Weg des Theravada-Buddhismus gehen oder studieren. Darin finden sich Diskussionen von unvergleichlicher Raffinesse über grundlegende buddhistische Lehren wie die fünf Khandhas, bedingtes Entstehen, Kamma, den edlen achtfachen Pfad, spirituelle Freundschaft, weise Achtsamkeit, die vier edlen Wahrheiten, die Natur der Erleuchtung und mehr. Voller Passagen aus den alten Pali-Sutten rahmt Payutto die buddhistischen Lehren in Bezug auf umfassende existenzielle Fragen, mit denen wir alle konfrontiert sind, wie „Was ist das Leben?“ und „Wie sollte das Leben gelebt werden?“ Payuttos erhellende Expertise zeigt, dass der Theravada-Buddhismus eine gründliche Erklärung dafür ist, wie die Realität gemäss natürlichen Prozessen entfaltet wird, sowie einen Lebensweg, der die höchste Form des Glücks hervorrufen kann.

New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. 'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society: as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground . . .

Hilfe, Danke, Wow Der Bestseller der New York Times von der Autorin von Hallelujah Anyway, Bird by Bird und Almost Everything. Die Autorin Anne Lamott schreibt über die drei einfachen Gebete, die entscheidend sind, um durch schwierige Zeiten, herausfordernde Tage und die Widrigkeiten des Alltags zu kommen. Leser jeden Alters haben Anne Lamotts witziges und einfühlsames Schreiben über ihren eigenen Glauben durch Jahrzehnte voller Versuch und Irrtum verfolgt und geschätzt. In ihrem neuen Buch Hilfe, Danke, Wow hat sie alles, was sie über das Gebet weiss, in diese Grundlagen zusammengefasst. Es sind diese drei Gebete – um Hilfe von einer höheren Macht zu bitten, das zu schätzen, was wir Gutes haben, und Ehrfurcht vor der Welt um uns herum zu empfinden – die uns durch den Tag helfen und uns den Weg nach vorne zeigen können. In Hilfe, Danke, Wow erzählt Lamott, wie sie zu diesen Einsichten kam, erklärt, was sie für sie bedeuten und wie sie ihr geholfen haben, und erkundet, wie andere diese gleichen Ideen angenommen haben. Einsichtig und ehrlich, wie nur Anne Lamott sein kann, ist Hilfe, Danke, Wow das Buch über den alltäglichen Glauben, das neue Lamott-Leser lieben werden und das langjährige Lamott-Fans schätzen werden. Über die Autorin Anne Lamott ist die Bestsellerautorin der New York Times von Hilfe, Danke, Wow; Kleine Siege; Stiche; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; Traveling Mercies; Bird by Bird; Operating Instructions und dem kommenden Hallelujah Anyway. Sie ist auch die Autorin mehrerer Romane, darunter Imperfect Birds und Rosie. Sie ist Preisträgerin eines Guggenheim-Stipendiums und wurde in die California Hall of Fame aufgenommen. Sie lebt in Nordkalifornien.

Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton, Belletristik von John Milton

Die international gefeierte grafisch-literarische Künstlerin Alison Bechdel bietet in dieser Sammlung von Comicstrips einen scharfsinnigen und humorvollen Einblick in die Lesbenkultur des Amerika der 1980er Jahre. Bechdels brillant gestaltete Gegenkultur-Gruppe von Freunden – Akademiker, Sozialarbeiter, Buchhändler – verliebt sich, trennt sich, verhandelt Beziehungen, zieht Kinder gross, wechselt Berufe und bewältigt das Altern der Eltern. The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For verbindet Hoch- und Popkultur – von auswärtiger Politik bis zum häuslichen Alltag, von postmoderner Theorie bis zu heissem Sex – in einer seriellen grafischen Erzählung, die für alle humanistischen Überzeugungen geeignet ist. Alison Bechdel hat das Leben eines kleinen Universums von Comicfiguren in ihrem Strip Dykes To Watch Out For dokumentiert, der in fünfzig alternativen Zeitungen in den USA syndiziert wurde und in elf Bänden veröffentlicht ist. Zum ersten Mal versammelt diese Sammlung das Beste aus diesen Bänden. „So viel mehr als ein Comicstrip... Niemand kommt Alison Bechdel nahe.“.

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New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. 'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where he smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society: as an optimistic student in the Deep South, in the north with the black activist group the Brotherhood, and in the Harlem race riots. And explains how he came to be living underground . . .

The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga, Ratgeber von Lara Land, Michelle Cassandra Johnson

Bietet umfassende Karten und Diagramme zum Star Wars-Universum, die Planeten und Sternensysteme markieren sowie politische Allianzen, den Weltraumreisen bekannter Charaktere und historische Erkundungen der Galaxie darstellen.

Hungrig nach neuen Stricktechniken? Probieren Sie das Stricken von Brioche! Stricken von Brioche ist das erste und einzige Strickbuch, das sich ausschliesslich dem Brioche-Stich widmet, einer Stricktechnik, die einen doppelseitigen Stoff erzeugt. Dieser umfassende Leitfaden führt Sie von Ihren ersten Brioche-Stichen bis zu Ihrem ersten (oder hundertsten) Projekt und sogar zum Entwerfen mit dem Brioche-Stich, wenn Sie möchten. Egal, ob Sie neu im Brioche-Stricken sind oder bereits Erfahrung im "Briochen" haben, die Autorin Nancy Marchant bietet Ihnen die Informationen und Inspiration, die Sie benötigen. In Stricken von Brioche finden Sie: - Detaillierte Anleitungen und Schritt-für-Schritt-Fotos, die Sie durch alle Techniken führen, die Sie für das Brioche-Stricken benötigen. - Ein Stichwörterbuch mit 60 schönen Stichmustern und vielen mehrfarbigen Optionen. - 25 Muster für Bekleidung und Accessoires, die alle mit Brioche-Stichen gefertigt sind, einige kombiniert mit anderen Designelementen wie Zöpfen, Spitze, Intarsien und mehr! Schnappen Sie sich Ihre Nadeln und Wolle und beissen Sie in das Brioche-Stricken hinein.

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Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.' Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .

The most famous catastrophe novel of the twentieth century, John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.' When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth's population blind, Bill Masen - one of the lucky few to keep his sight - finds himself trapped in a London jammed with sightless mobs who prey on those who can still see. But another menace stalks blind and sighted alike. With nobody to stop them the Triffids - walking carnivorous plants with lethal stingers - rise up as humanity stumbles and falls . . .

The Road to Lichfield is the Booker Prize shortlisted first novel by Penelope Lively, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time on the 40th anniversary of its publication. Ann Linton leaves her family in Berkshire and sets up camp in her father's house when he is taken into a nursing home in distant Lichfield. As she shares his last weeks she meets David Fielding, and the love they share brings her feelings into sharp focus. Deeply felt, beautifully controlled, The Road to Lichfield is a subtle exploration of memory and identity, of chance and consequence, of the intricate weave of generations across a past never fully known, and a future never fully anticipated. 'A searing study of the peculiar state of being in love . . . there are few contemporary novelists to match her on this subject' Sunday Telegraph

Hard-boiled detective fiction at its best: Raymond Chandler's best loved novel, The Big Sleep, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.' Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has his work cut out just keeping Sternwood's wild, devil-may-care daughters out of trouble as they prowl LA's dirtiest and darkest streets. And pretty soon, he's up to his neck in hoodlums and corpses . . .

A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.' One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .

A stylish, pocket-size phrasebook perfect for business travelers, backpackers, sightseers, and anyone who wants to keep their Portuguese close at hand Penguin s Portuguese phrasebook includes a wealth of useful words and expressions essential to travelers of all kinds, spelled out phonetically and arranged in sections to help you deal with specific situations and needs as they arise. After a primer on basic grammar and a quick pronunciation guide, you ll find statements and questions like: Does the hotel have wi-fi? O hotel tem wi-fi? (oo o-tew ten wi-fi) My luggage has not arrived. Minhas bagagens na o chegaram. (mee-nyas ba-ga-zhayn nown she-ga-ran) How much does the tour cost? Quanto custa a excursa o? (kwan-too koos-ta a es-koor-sown) May I see the menu, please? Posso ver o carda pio, por favor? (pos-soo ver oh kar-dah- pyo, poor fa-vor) Does anyone here speak English? Ha aqui algue m que fale ingle s? (ah a-kee al-gen ke fa-le een-glayss) Some of the Portuguese phrases are marked with an asterisk, giving an indication of the kind of reply you might get to your questions, and of questions you may be asked in turn. The main focus of the book is Portuguese as spoken in Brazil; many people in Portugal are familiar with Brazilian Portuguese, so if you are visiting Portugal you will be able to speak and be understood. With an elegant cover and easy-to-read design that are the hallmarks of Penguin Books, this essential reference will have you feeling at home no matter where your travels take you.

From Achebe and Austen to Zola and Zweig, and from the Epic of Gilgamesh to twenty-first century dystopias and autofiction, here is the complete list of every Penguin Classic in print. The list is arranged alphabetically by author and also includes key bibliographic information such as sub-series, genre and ISBN. Comprising 3,500 entries, this is the essential reference guide to the world's largest and best-loved classics list.

Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. 'His great book ... masterly in its presence and its lucidity' Anita Desai

A haunting novel about art and its power to heal, J. L. Carr's A Month in the Country published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'That night, for the first time during many months, I slept like the dead and, next morning, awoke very early.' One summer, just after the Great War, Tom Birkin, a demobbed soldier, arrives in the village of Oxgodby. He has been invited to uncover and restore a medieval wall painting in the local church. At the same time, Charles Moon - a fellow damaged survivor of the war - has been asked to locate the grave of a village ancestor. As these two outsiders go about their work of recovery, they form a bond, but they also stir up long dormant passions within the village. What Berkin discovers here will stay with him for the rest of his life . . .

Exploring issues of colonialism, faith and the limits of comprehension, E.M. Forster's A Passage to India is published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. When Adela Quested and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced 'Anglo-Indian' community. Determined to escape the parochial English enclave and explore the 'real India', they seek the guidance of the charming and mercurial Dr Aziz, a cultivated Indian Muslim. But a mysterious incident occurs while they are exploring the Marabar caves with Aziz, and the well-respected doctor soon finds himself at the centre of a scandal that rouses violent passions among both the British and their Indian subjects. A masterly portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India compellingly depicts the fate of individuals caught between the great political and cultural conflicts of the modern world. 'His great book ... masterly in its presence and its lucidity' Anita Desai

Patrick Süskind's Perfume is a classic novel of death and sensuality in Paris, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent . . .' 'An astonishing tour de force both in concept and execution' Guardian 'A fantastic tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity ... Clever, stylish, absorbing and well worth reading' Literary Review 'A meditation on the nature of death, desire and decay ... a remarkable début' Peter Ackroyd, The New York Times Book Review 'Unlike anything else one has read. A phenomenon ... Everyone seems to want to get a whiff of this strange perfume, which will remain unique in contemporary literature' Figaro 'An ingenious and totally absorbing fantasy' Daily Telegraph 'Witty, stylish and ferociously absorbing' Observer

The daring dystopian satire that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully reimagined as part of the Penguin Essentials series 'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out ________________ In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Experiment of language? Social prophecy? Black comedy? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. Dazzling and transgressive, this frightening fable about good and evil asks the meaning of human freedom. ________________ 'A gruesomely witty cautionary tale' Time 'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language' Daily Telegraph 'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language . . . a very funny book' William S. Burroughs 'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation' The Times

A groundbreaking new collection of twentieth century Latina writing A collection of essential writings by Latinas from the 1900s to 1960 that document the undeniable presence of the Latina community in the United States and stand as a testament to the dismissal and erasure of their intellectual and feminist contributions to the nation. The first book of its kind, The Penguin Book of Latina Writings shines a light on a robust community of America-based Latina voices that have been historically overlooked and underrepresented in literature, and demonstrates the valuable contributions Latina writers have made to the global literary and intellectual community. While some authors' publications remain scarce, today they represent essential voices responding to issues that impact women, children and Latino communities at large, including feminism, workers' rights, colonialism, racism, exile, immigration, citizenship and religion.

Penelope Lively's Booker Prize winning classic, Moon Tiger is a haunting story of loss and desire, published here as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant to the last, telling her nurses that she will write a 'history of the world . . . and in the process, my own'. And it is her story from a childhood just after the First World War through the Second and beyond. But Claudia's life is entwined with others and she must allow those who knew her, loved her, the chance to speak, to put across their point of view. There is Gordon, brother and adversary; Jasper, her untrustworthy lover and father of Lisa, her cool conventional daughter; and then there is Tom, her one great love, found and lost in wartime Egypt. 'Leaves its traces in the air long after you've put it away' Anne Tyler 'A complex tapestry of great subtlety. Lively writes so well, savouring the words as she goes' Daily Telegraph 'Very clever: evocative, thought-provoking and hangs on the mind long after it is finished' Literary Review

The daring dystopian satire that inspired one of the most notorious films ever made, beautifully reimagined as part of the Penguin Essentials series 'Every generation should discover this book' Time Out ________________ In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost? Experiment of language? Social prophecy? Black comedy? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. Dazzling and transgressive, this frightening fable about good and evil asks the meaning of human freedom. ________________ 'A gruesomely witty cautionary tale' Time 'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language' Daily Telegraph 'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language . . . a very funny book' William S. Burroughs 'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation' The Times