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A sharply drawn send-up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author—about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal life for a career in the Texas House of Representatives.Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, he bought his own bull at auction, saving it from being sold to a slaughterhouse. But when a fire break...

A sharply drawn send-up of Texas politics—from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author—about a dark-horse candidate who risks his personal life for a career in the Texas House of Representatives.Sonny Lamb is an affable, if floundering, rancher with the unfortunate habit of becoming a punchline in his Texas hometown. Most recently, he bought his own bull at auction, saving it from being sold to a slaughterhouse. But when a fire break...

A virtuoso feat ... a book of panoramic breadth' New York Times Book Review'A devastating analysis ... Wright is a master of knitting together complex narratives' The ObserverJust as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second.The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, and the pandemic novel The End of October: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19-its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it "A book of panoramic breadth ... managing to surprise us about even those episodes we … thought we knew well … [With] lively exchanges about spike proteins and nonpharmaceutical interventions and disease wav...

Es scheint ein Samstagabend wie jeder andere zu sein: Der schwarze Arbeiter Fred Daniels ist auf dem Weg nachhause zu seiner hochschwangeren Frau, Rachel, den Wochenlohn in der Hosentasche. Als ihn plötzlich drei Polizisten anhalten und verhaften, geht er noch von einem Missverständnis aus, aber als sie ihn eines Mordes beschuldigen, ahnt er langsam, in was für einen Albtraum er geraten ist. Schläge, Kreuzverhör, psychische Manipulation entfre...

Erstmals in ungekürzter Form: Der wiederentdeckte Roman von einem der bedeutendsten afroamerikanischen Autoren der USA.Es scheint ein Samstagabend wie jeder andere zu sein: Der schwarze Arbeiter Fred Daniels ist auf dem Weg nach Hause zu seiner hochschwangeren Frau, den Wochenlohn in der Hosentasche. Völlig unvermittelt halten ihn drei Polizisten an und verhaften ihn. Fred geht anfänglich noch von einem Missverständnis aus, aber als man ihn de...

INSTRUCTIONS FOR KILLING THE JACKAL reinvigorates the poetic tradition of myth-making using a combination of Southern folklore, urban legend, and Greek mythology. "The poems in Erica Wright's bold debut balance their investigations of danger, dysfunction and bad weather not merely with beauty and poise (although she is generous with both) but also with an imaginative counterforce all her own."-Timothy Donnelly

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, whose best-selling thriller The End of the October all but predicted our current pandemic, comes another momentous account, this time of COVID-19: its origins, its myriad repercussions, and the ongoing fight to contain itBeginning with the absolutely critical first moments of the outbreak in China, and ending with an epilogue on the vaccine rollout and the unprecedented events betwee...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: an unprecedented, momentous account of Covid-19-its origins, its wide-ranging repercussions, and the ongoing global fight to contain it From the fateful first moments of the outbreak in China to the storming of the U.S. Capitol to the extraordinary vaccine rollout, Lawrence Wright's The Plague Year tells the story of Covid-19 in authoritative, galvanizing detail and with the full dra...

In the twenty-first century, infectious disease seemed like a nuisance, not like a mortal threat.'Just as Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower became the defining account of our century's first devastating event, 9/11, so The Plague Year will become the defining account of the second. The story starts with the initial moments of Covid's appearance in Wuhan and ends with Joseph Biden's inauguration in an America ravaged by well over 400, 000 dea...

An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller." -New York Post "Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark notes about global warming, the book produces deep shudders . . . A disturbing, eerily timed novel." -Kirkus Reviews"A compelling read up to the last sentence. Wright...

Terroranschläge erschüttern New York. Doch trotz größter Anstrengungen, die Hintermänner zu ermitteln, tappen FBI-Agent Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) und sein Partner Frank Haddad (Tony Shalhoub) völlig im Dunkeln. Auch die mysteriöse CIA-Agentin Elise Kraft (Annette Bening), die regelmäßig an den Tatorten auftaucht, will nicht kooperieren. Erst als Hubbards Männer den Arabistik-Dozenten Samir Nazhde (Sami Bouajila) zweifelsfrei als Mitw...

Child and Adolescent Online Risk Exposure: An Ecological Perspective focuses on online risks and outcomes for children and adolescents using an ecological perspective (i.e., the intersection of individuals in relevant contexts) for a better understanding of risks associated with the youth online experience. The book examines the specific consequences of online risks for youth and demonstrates how to develop effective and sensitive intervention...

An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller." -New York Post "Featuring accounts of past plagues and pandemics, descriptions of pathogens and how they work, and dark notes about global warming, the book produces deep shudders . . . A disturbing, eerily timed novel." -Kirkus Reviews"A compelling read up to the last sentence. Wright...

An eerily prescient novel about a devastating virus that begins in Asia before going global . . . A page-turner that has the earmarks of an instant bestseller.' New York Post'Eerily prescient. Too bad our leaders lack his foresight.' The New York Times In this riveting thriller, Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees.At an intern...

In this riveting medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees.At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons--microbiologist, epidemiologist--travels there on behalf of the World Health ...

In this riveting medical thriller--from the Pulitzer Prize winner and best-selling author--Dr. Henry Parsons, an unlikely but appealing hero, races to find the origins and cure of a mysterious new killer virus as it brings the world to its knees.At an internment camp in Indonesia, forty-seven people are pronounced dead with acute hemorrhagic fever. When Henry Parsons--microbiologist, epidemiologist--travels there on behalf of the World Health ...

La exploración de uno de los estados más controvertidos de Norteamérica desde la penetrante mirada y el humor de un nativo.Texas, el llamado estado de la estrella solitaria, se parece mucho a la América que Donald Trump tanto anhela construir. El estado, profundamente republicano, no ha elegido a un demócrata como representante en más de veinte años. No obstante, las principales ciudades texanas son demócratas, de las más diversas de la nación...