Penguin Random House
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For several years, Andrew Marantz, a New Yorker staff writer, has been embedded in two worlds. The first is the world of social-media entrepreneurs, who, acting out of naïvete and reckless ambition, upended all traditional means of receiving and transmitting information. The second is the world of the people he calls "the gate crashers" -- the conspiracists, white supremacists, and nihilist trolls who have become experts at using social media to...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 264 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The author draws on great thinkers like Confucius, Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and Christian monks to show us what stillness is and how it might be achieved. He believes stillness is the doorway to self-mastery, discipline, and focus. He examines many of the figures that exemplify the power of stillness, including Winston Churchill, Fred Rogers and Anne Frank. This book aims to equip you with everything you need to find stillness in your own life.
Author
Publisher
Sentinel, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Progressive Woke Machine-from outrage mobs and online censorship to activists masquerading as journalists-is waging war against the last free thinkers in the world. This book is both an explanation of the current political upheaval and your guide to surviving it. America, and the West in general, is in the midst of an identity crisis that's headed towards an outright revolution. The progressive left, once the advocates of free expression and...
Author
Publisher
Aguilar
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Este libro te invita a enfocarte en lo positivo y saludable para que compartas tu felicidad con los seres que amas. Hay ocasiones en que la vida nos pone en situaciones límite donde el alivio y la claridad parecen muy lejanos. Es entonces que frases como: "No te preocupes", "Dios te mandó este sufrimiento", ¡o la más perfectamente inútil!: "Échale ganas", más que darnos paz nos irritan y hasta parecen una burla. Consciente de esto, César Lozano...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Espanol
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Primera edición Vintage Espanol.
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 21 cm
Language
Español
Description
"A través de estas páginas, la autora de Como agua para chocolate recrea la historia de una antiheroína fuera de serie que permanecerá en la memoria de los lectores. Lupita es una policía poco agraciada físicamente, con problemas de alcoholismo, que ha padecido la violencia y sobrevive en un medio donde reinan las apariencias, el dinero y el poder, una sociedad marcada por siglos de injusticia, desamparo e impotencia, en la que no parece haber...
6) Camino winds
Author
Series
Camino Island novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Welcome back to Camino Island, where anything can happen - even a murder in the midst of a hurricane, which might prove to be the perfect crime ... Just as Bruce Cable's Bay Books is preparing for the return of bestselling author Mercer Mann, Hurricane Leo veers from its predicted course and heads straight for the island. Florida's governor orders a mandatory evacuation, and most residents board up their houses and flee to the mainland, but Bruce...
Author
Publisher
Plaza & Janes
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
361 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
For fans of Kate Morton and Daphne du Maurier, heres a magnetic debut novel of wrenching family secrets, forbidden love, and heartbreaking loss housed within the grand gothic manor of Black Rabbit Hall. Amber Alton knows that the hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall, her London familys country estate, where no two clocks read the same. Summers there are perfect, timeless. Not much ever happens. Until, of course, it does. More than three decades...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him...
10) Driving school
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
29 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elbow Grease and his monster-truck brothers learn the value of being safe and following the rules of the road.
Author
Language
English
Description
"It's 2 AM on a Saturday night in the spring of 2001, and twenty-eight-year old Cecily Gardner sits alone in a dive bar on New York's Lower East Side, questioning her life. Feeling lonesome and homesick for the Midwest, she wonders if she'll ever make it as a reporter in the big city--and whether she made a terrible mistake in breaking up with her longtime boyfriend Matthew. As Cecily reaches for the phone to call him, she hears a guy on the barstool...
Author
Series
Commander in Cheese. Main series volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ava and Dean try to throw Gregory a surprise birthday party they have a hard time making sure he is on time.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marissa Dahl, a shy but successful film editor, travels to a small island off the coast of Delaware to work with the legendary--and legendarily demanding--director Tony Rees on a feature film with a familiar logline. Some girl dies. It's not much to go on, but the specifics don't concern Marissa. Whatever the script is, her job is the same. She'll spend her days in the editing room, doing what she does best: turning pictures into stories. But she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Debols!llo
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Cuarto libro de la serie protagonizada por la reportera e investigadora Laurie Morgan y el equipo del programa de televisión Bajo sospecha"--
"Television producer Laurie Moran puts everything on the line to help a woman she thinks was wrongfully convicted of murder"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial USA, L.C
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Inglés para el trabajo" ofrece los recursos básicos necesarios para comunicarse en inglés en Estados Unidos en distintos ámbitos laborales, facilitando así la integración a la vida en este país.
English For Work also contains a section of vocabulary and interesting expressions and examples of use, 100 questions and answers about the use of American English, practical exercises, and a section dedicated to job interviews in different professional...
Publisher
DK/Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition, 2017.
Physical Desc
360 pages : color illustrations , color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
This stunning visual reference for kids explores the natural world in stunning detail and allows young readers to see nature as they never have before, through amazing close-ups and cross-sections, exploded images, X-rays, and more.From fruit to flies, from coral to clouds, from mountains to mammals, this extraordinary new encyclopedia is the perfect tool for curious minds to find out how things work and why they exist, and will keep young readers...
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The book's hero, a blob of color with arms, legs, and a face, bids readers not to read the book, not to make a funny face, etc., all the while getting very flustered and mentioning rules that must be followed.