Lutz: 460 books

A con man takes to the road with a blond drifter, trying to stay one step ahead of a vengeful killer in this chilling thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John Lutz Lou Roebuck couldn’t tell the truth if his life depended on it. If he could, he might not have lost his job and...

Tom Lutz is on a mission to visit every country on earth. *And the Monkey Learned Nothing *contains reports from fifty of them, most describing personal encounters in rarely visited spots, anecdotes from way off the beaten path. Traveling without an itinerary and without a goal, Lutz explores the...

This beautifully written book highlights working teachers speaking on many key educational problems under debate as well as many of the controversial solutions put forth, including revamped teacher evaluations, curricular standardization, and increased testing and data collection. Anthropologist Catherine...

Weihnachten - Fest der Familie, strahlende Kinderaugen unter dem Weihnachtsbaum, Besinnlichkeit, für viele Menschen aber auch Symbol für Konsumterror, Völlerei und eine Zeit der Einsamkeit. Lutz Dettmann macht die Vielfalt der zahlreichen, oft widersprüchlichen Seiten der Weihnachtsfeiertage für...

Innerhalb von nur hundert Jahren entstanden der Islam und das Weltreich der Kalifen und veränderten tiefgreifend die politischen und kulturellen Koordinaten der Welt. Lutz Berger erklärt dieses "Wunder" aus dem Wandel der spätantiken Gesellschaften und beschreibt anschaulich, wie sich...

Este íntimo retrato de las hermanas Brontë, construido a partir de sus objetos personales, aporta un nuevo y original enfoque en la inagotable tarea de conocer más sobre su extraordinario legado literario. En esta biografía única y detallada de una familia literaria que ha cautivado a los lectores...

The New York Times–bestselling author of Single White Female delivers another gritty cop thriller with this sequel to The Eye.   NYPD cops E. L. Oxman and Art Tobin, who hunted a serial killer in The Eye, are back with what may be their most bizarre case yet.   Shadowtown is the hottest soap opera...

»Dass das Leben einem Purzelbaum sehr ähnlich ist, merkt man erst, wenn man sich im letzten Drittel befindet. Die Zeit dreht sich, so kommt es einem vor, immer schneller. Eben hatte ich doch die Weihnachtssachen erst in den Keller gepackt, und nun steht schon wieder ein Baum im Zimmer zum Anputzen...

In this sidesplittingly funny follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Spellman Files, San Francisco’s own highly functioning yet supremely dysfunctional family of private investigators are back on the case in another mystery full of suspicion, surveillance, humor, and surprise from award-winning...

Two award-winning masters of crime fiction, Bill Pronzini and John Lutz, join forces for a chilling tale of a serial killer who targets the residents of a single city block on Manhattan’s Upper West Side Lewis Collier watches the people living on West 98th Street through his telescope, the...

Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when it fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak—euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook...

“LUTZ OFFERS UP A HEART-POUNDING ROLLER COASTER OF A TALE.” —Jeffery Deaver ** ** ROGUE WARS   With the U.S. seemingly linked to a terrorist bombing in a Baltic nation and a Russian troop buildup just over the border, the covert Gray Outfit sends Thomas Laker to untangle the mess. But after...

The New York Times–bestselling author of Single White Female introduces hard-boiled Florida PI Fred Carver: “Lutz has never written leaner prose” (USA Today). When the criminal’s bullet shattered his knee, Fred Carver’s colleagues called him lucky. Between his pension and the insurance...

JOHN LUTZ IS . . . “A MAJOR TALENT.” —John Lescroart “AMONG THE BEST.” —San Diego Union “IN RARE FORM.” —The New York Times Book Review THE UNKNOWN SPY Officially, Thomas Laker is an employee of the NSA. His real employer, known as the Gray Outfit,...