Schmidt: 1956 books

Die österreichische Nachkriegsliteratur von Ilse Aichinger bis Christoph Ransmayr in beispielhaften Interpretationen ihrer wichtigsten Werke Nie wurde der Zusammenhang von österreichischer Identität und österreichischer Literatur so augenfällig wie nach 1945. Und niemand hat diesen Zusammenhang...

Dass Karotten mehr Vitamine abgeben, wenn sie mit Öl zubereitet werden, wissen Sie vielleicht. Aber auch, dass Tomaten gesünder sind, wenn Sie sie kochen? Warum dies so ist, erklären Ihnen Nathalie und Dr. med. Edmund Schmidt. Die beiden Vitalstoff-Experten haben ihr Wissen rund um die Vitamine...

The next quantum leap beyond Moneyball , this book offers powerful new insights into all human decision-making, because if sports teams are getting it wrong this badly, how do you know you're not? Sometimes the decisions that teams make are simply inexplicable. Consider: sports teams have an immense...

Endlich: Harald Schmidt reloaded! Fakten, Fakten, Fakten! Knallhart und gnadenlos recherchiert vom Meister himself. Das Beste im Focus-Wochentakt – Sternstunden des investigativen Journalismus. Ob transatlantische oder alteuropäische Politik, brillante Philosophie oder messerscharfe Soziologie,...

Flights of imagination needn't be long in order to weave a wonderful tale. Join these authors in their shorter flights for a broad array of fabulous short stories in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and more. Perfect imaginative getaways for commuting, breaks and lunchtimes, bedtime reading, or anytime...

Before a new race of super-humans can save the world, they first have to be saved themselves by a group of ordinary soldiers. These ordinary soldiers, known as the Eine, must fight off a powerful and seemingly invincible foe, their pasts, and their doubts about the future in an impossible struggle against the odds.

A runner pushes himself to edge of his own limits in the pursuit of the "thin line" of perfection. However, he ends up discovering there is also a thin line between sanity and success.

"A feisty heroine and a hero eager to make everything right. What more could a reader want?"—Leigh Greenwood, USA Today bestselling author of To Love and to Cherish for The Drifter "'Someone like me?' Is that how you see me, Amanda? As someone people should fear?" "I...

MEET THE HARVEY GIRLS. These real-life pioneering women were symbols of elegance in the wild frontier: taming rough manners, falling in love, and changing the face of the West forever. Lily Travis may be a Harvey Girl, but she's a rebel—and a romantic—at heart. Too bad her impulsive nature...

A testament to the power of stories, and how they may bring hope even in times of darkness. "Everyone gathers around, and from her lips to their ears the stories go, and for a little while the camp disappears, and for a little while they are all free." As night falls, the women...

Alonso, a dirt-poor teenager living in Peru, helps out at the public health clinic his mother, Magdalena, opened, so that he can see Rosa, the beautiful and wealthy daughter of the clinic’s doctor. Alonso and Rosa are both shattered when Magdalena is assassinated by a revolutionary terrorist organization....

The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he’s placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets...

Gary Schmidt's First Boy fast-paced political thriller will have the reader turning the pages in anticipation of the next clue. "You're my first boy, Cooper, my first boy," grandfather says just before he dies. All alone in the world, without even a dog, the only thing that keeps...

"This book is the perfect vehicle to remind our little people that they are worthy of love and that their hearts are of great resilience and infinite capacity."  – Lyndsay Green, Best-selling author whose books include The Well-Lived Life: Live with Purpose and Be Remembered. *The...