random house lcc us nov 2021 (3 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand-new pulse-pounding thriller. It's Ferris Bueller's Day Off with murder when three old friends relive an epic ditch day, and it goes horribly-and fatally-wrong.Ivy, Mateo, and Cal used to be close. Now all they have in common is Carlton High and the beginning of a very bad day. Type A Ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. Heartthrob Mateo is burned out from working two jobs since his family's business failed. And outsider Cal just got stood up . . . again. So when the three unexpectedly run into each other, they decide to avoid their problems by ditching. Just the three of them, like old times. Except they've barely left the parking lot before they run out of things to say. . . . . . until they spot another Carlton High student skipping school-and follow him to the scene of his own murder. In one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly. And it's about to get worse. It turns out Ivy, Mateo, and Cal still have some things in common.like a connection to the dead kid. And they're all hiding something. Could it be that their chance reconnection wasn't by chance after all Fans of the hit thriller that started it all can watch the secrets of the Bayview Four be revealed in the One of Us is Lying TV series now streaming on NBC's Peacock! 326 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES The squad you love is out of time. Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic, best-selling Aurora Cycle series about a band of unlikely heroes who just might be the galaxy's last hope for survival. Is this the end What happens when you ask a bunch of losers, discipline cases, and misfits to save the galaxy from an ancient evil The ancient evil wins, of course. Wait. . . . Not. So. Fast. When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated. Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history Sure, no problem Cue Tyler, Kal, and Auri: uniting with two of the galaxy's most hated villains Um, okay. That, too.Actually saving the galaxy, though Now that will take a miracle. 493 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Time, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Town & Country, Good Housekeeping, Kirkus ReviewsFinalist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize "A perfect novel for these times and all times, the single textual artifact from the pandemic era I would place in a time capsule as a representation of all that is good and true and beautiful about literature." Molly Young, The New York Times (Editors Choice)Eight friends, one country house, and six months in isolation a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayalhailed asa "virtuoso performance" (USA Today) and "an homage to Chekhov with four romances and a finale that will break your heart" (The Washington Post)In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a groupof friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships and romances will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge, forcing each character to reevaluate whom they love and what matters most. The unlikely cast of characters includes a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American writer; a wildly successful Korean American app developer; a global dandy with three passports; a Southern flamethrower of an essayist; and a movie star, the Actor, whose arrival upsets the equilibrium of this chosen family.Both elegiac and very, very funny, Our Country Friends is the most ambitious book yet by the author of the beloved bestseller Super Sad True Love Story. 317 pp. Englisch.