From the bestselling author of MALIBU RISING, DAISY JONES & THE SIX and THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO 'It made me cry twice, and when I finished reading, I had to sit for a minute with the hole it left in my chest . . . just order it ' EMILY HENRY 'A crowd-pleaser. Taylor Jenkins Reid captures all the sweat, rivalry and glamour of elite sport' THE TIMES 'Jenkins Reid has written yet another page turner . . . [it] will have you hooked' INDEPENDENT Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen. But six years after her last match, she watches a young British tennis player steal her world record - and Carrie knows she has to go back and reclaim her rightful place at the top. Even if the world doesn't believe in her. Even if it almost breaks her. This is a story about the cost of greatness and the burden of fame. The fight for a place in history is about to begin . . . 'It artfully combines the heady glamour of elite sport with questions about what happens when we find ourselves winning professionally, but losing personally' STYLIST ' One of my favourite authors ever . . . I don't think I've ever felt so strongly about an author' FEARNE COTTON ' A portrait of female ambition in all its raw and divine glory, Carrie Soto will stay with you long after the last page is turned' ERIN KELLY Taylor Jenkins-Reid, Sunday Times bestseller, April 2023

Die übersinnlich begabte Patricia Vanhelsing auf der Spur einen großen Geheimnisses... Mitten im Dschungel gibt es ein mysteriöses Gebäude, dass das HAUS DER GÖTTER genannt wird. Verschwand dort einst ihr Großonkel, ein berühmter Forscher? Dieser Band enthält folgende Romane von Alfred Bekker: Patricia Vanhelsing und die Burg der Tempelritter Der Schlangentempel Das Spukhaus Patricia und der Fluch der Steine Ein Hauch aus dem Totenland Patricia Vanhelsing und der indische Fluch Patricia Vanhelsing und der Unheimliche von Tanger Patricia und die Mondhexe Patricia Vanhelsing und die Sekte der Erleuchteten Patricia Vanhelsing und der Geist des Ashton Taylor Alfred Bekker ist Autor zahlreicher Romane und Erzählungen mit einer Gesamtauflage von über 4,5 Millionen Exemplaren. Außerdem ist er Verleger und Jazz-Musiker. Alfred Bekker schreibt Fantasy, Science Fiction, Krimis, historische Romane und Bücher für junge Leser. Alfred Bekker wurde vor allem durch seine Fantasy-Romane bekannt. Als Fantasy-Autor erreichte Alfred Bekker ein großes Publikum mit seinen Romanen um DAS REICH DER ELBEN, sowie den Trilogien um die DRACHENERDE, GORIAN und DIE HALBLINGE VON ATHRANOR. Außerdem schrieb Alfred Bekker die Fantasy-Zyklen ELBENKINDER (7 Bände), DIE WILDEN ORKS (5 Bände) und ZWERGENKINDER (bislang 4 Bände). Für junge Leser erfand Alfred Bekker Buchserien wie TATORT MITTELALTER und DA VINCI's FÄLLE. Alfred Bekker schreibt außerdem regelmäßig Ostfrieslandkrimis um Kommissar Steen von der Kripo Emden. Neben seinen großen Bucherfolgen schrieb er zahlreiche Romane für Spannungsserien wie Ren Dhark, Jerry Cotton, Kommissar X, John Sinclair, Bad Earth und Jessica Bannister. Alfred Bekker benutzte auch die Pseudonyme Neal Chadwick, Henry Rohmer, Adrian Leschek, Brian Carisi, Leslie Garber, Robert Gruber, Chris Heller, Sidney Gardner und Jack Raymond. Als Janet Farell verfasste er die meisten Romane der romantischen Gruselserie Jessica Bannister. Historische Romane schrieb er unter den Namen Jonas Herlin und Conny Walden. Einige Gruselromane für Teenager verfasste Alfred Bekker als John Devlin. Die Romane von Alfred Bekker erschienen u.a. bei Lyx, Blanvalet, BVK, Goldmann,, Schneiderbuch, Arena, dtv, Ueberreuter und Bastei Lübbe und wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt., darunter Englisch, Niederländisch, Dänisch, Türkisch, Indonesisch, Polnisch, Vietnamesisch, Finnisch, Bulgarisch und Polnisch.

Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000 The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback! "How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians "How does it feel to be a solution?" In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a "model minority"-one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as "a weapon in the war against black America." On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the "model minority" image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad uses irony, humor, razor-sharp criticism, personal reflections, and historical research to challenge the arguments made by Dinesh D'Souza, who heralds South Asian success in the U.S., and to question the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians. A look at Deepak Chopra and others whom Prashad terms "Godmen" shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality, much to the chagrin of other South Asians. Following the long engagement of American culture with South Asia, Prashad traces India's effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau, Ravi Shankar's influence on John Coltrane, and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance. The Karma of Brown Folk locates the birth of the "model minority" myth, placing it firmly in the context of reaction to the struggle for Black Liberation. Prashad reclaims the long history of black and South Asian solidarity, discussing joint struggles in the U.S., the Caribbean, South Africa, and elsewhere, and exposes how these powerful moments of alliance faded from historical memory and were replaced by Indian support for antiblack racism. Ultimately, Prashad writes not just about South Asians in America but about America itself, in the tradition of Tocqueville, Du Bois, Richard Wright, and others. He explores the place of collective struggle and multiracial alliances in the transformation of self and community-in short, how Americans define themselves.

Village Voice Favorite Books of 2000 The popular book challenging the idea of a model minority, now in paperback! "How does it feel to be a problem?" asked W. E. B. Du Bois of black Americans in his classic The Souls of Black Folk. A hundred years later, Vijay Prashad asks South Asians "How does it feel to be a solution?" In this kaleidoscopic critique, Prashad looks into the complexities faced by the members of a "model minority"-one, he claims, that is consistently deployed as "a weapon in the war against black America." On a vast canvas, The Karma of Brown Folk attacks the two pillars of the "model minority" image, that South Asians are both inherently successful and pliant, and analyzes the ways in which U.S. immigration policy and American Orientalism have perpetuated these stereotypes. Prashad uses irony, humor, razor-sharp criticism, personal reflections, and historical research to challenge the arguments made by Dinesh D'Souza, who heralds South Asian success in the U.S., and to question the quiet accommodation to racism made by many South Asians. A look at Deepak Chopra and others whom Prashad terms "Godmen" shows us how some South Asians exploit the stereotype of inherent spirituality, much to the chagrin of other South Asians. Following the long engagement of American culture with South Asia, Prashad traces India's effect on thinkers like Cotton Mather and Henry David Thoreau, Ravi Shankar's influence on John Coltrane, and such essential issues as race versus caste and the connection between antiracism activism and anticolonial resistance. The Karma of Brown Folk locates the birth of the "model minority" myth, placing it firmly in the context of reaction to the struggle for Black Liberation. Prashad reclaims the long history of black and South Asian solidarity, discussing joint struggles in the U.S., the Caribbean, South Africa, and elsewhere, and exposes how these powerful moments of alliance faded from historical memory and were replaced by Indian support for antiblack racism. Ultimately, Prashad writes not just about South Asians in America but about America itself, in the tradition of Tocqueville, Du Bois, Richard Wright, and others. He explores the place of collective struggle and multiracial alliances in the transformation of self and community-in short, how Americans define themselves.

A New York Times bestseller! Beautifully crafted and fun to read. Louis Galambos, The Wall Street Journal Nasaw s research is extraordinary. San Francisco Chronicle Make no mistake: David Nasaw has produced the most thorough, accurate and authoritative biography of Carnegie to date. Salon.com The definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful businessmen and philanthropists in what will prove to be the biography of the season. Born of modest origins in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Carnegie is best known as the founder of Carnegie Steel. His rags to riches story has never been told as dramatically and vividly as in Nasaw's new biography. Carnegie, the son of an impoverished linen weaver, moved to Pittsburgh at the age of thirteen. The embodiment of the American dream, he pulled himself up from bobbin boy in a cotton factory to become the richest man in the world. He spent the rest of his life giving away the fortune he had accumulated and crusading for international peace. For all that he accomplished and came to represent to the American public a wildly successful businessman and capitalist, a self-educated writer, peace activist, philanthropist, man of letters, lover of culture, and unabashed enthusiast for American democracy and capitalism Carnegie has remained, to this day, an enigma. Nasaw explains how Carnegie made his early fortune and what prompted him to give it all away, how he was drawn into the campaign first against American involvement in the Spanish-American War and then for international peace, and how he used his friendships with presidents and prime ministers to try to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. With a trove of new material unpublished chapters of Carnegie's Autobiography; personal letters between Carnegie and his future wife, Louise, and other family members; his prenuptial agreement; diaries of family and close friends; his applications for citizenship; his extensive correspondence with Henry Clay Frick; and dozens of private letters to and from presidents Grant, Cleveland, McKinley, Roosevelt, and British prime ministers Gladstone and Balfour, as well as friends Herbert Spencer, Matthew Arnold, and Mark Twain Nasaw brilliantly plumbs the core of this fascinating and complex man, deftly placing his life in cultural and political context as only a master storyteller can.