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Flappers, ‘It’ girls, confidence tricksters, drug dealers, spies, jazz musicians. This wide ranging series about the first ever modern decade is full of colourful characters, dark deeds, strange beliefs and crazy predictions. Join Stephen Fry as he relishes secrets sexual, political and financial, observes the emergence of the first ever youth cult and reveals the secrets of this roaring decade.

From the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People comes a book on thoughtful insight into successful marriages. There are certain fundamental principles that govern in all human interactions and living in harmony with those principles or natural laws is absolutely essential for quality...

Il est de bon ton, à notre époque, d'affirmer qu'il ne faut vivre que de ses passions...

In Gilded Age New York, a fierce seventeen year-old Irish girl joins forces with a notorious gangster to hunt down her sister's killer. Told from both perspectives, their search for justice pulls them from the city’s darkest corners to glittering ballrooms, where a secret can mean death, and...

The Horror Writer covers how to connect with your market and carve out a sustainable niche in the independent horror genre, how to tackle the writer's ever-lurking nemesis of productivity, writing good horror stories with powerful, effective scenes, realistic, flowing dialogue and relatable characters without resorting to clichéd jump scares and well-worn gimmicks. Also covered is the delicate subject of handling rejection with good grace, and how to use those inevitable "not quite the right fit for us at this time" letters as an opportunity to hone your craft.

It's a rainy day in Seattle, and on the third floor of First Guarantee Financial, people have stopped believing they can make a difference. To new manager Mary Jane Ramirez, the challenge of bringing life back to her unenthusiastic and unmotivated team seems impossible, until she discovers an incredibly successful workplace down the street where the employees are so alive and passionate that people stop just to watch them work!

Jack Kovar spent years operating in the gray zones of international intelligence. Now living off the grid, he is dragged back into the world he escaped when a Hollywood starlet becomes the target of a calculated smear campaign. What looks like a tabloid scandal quickly reveals itself as something far more dangerous: a coordinated operation stretching from Los Angeles studios to corporate boardrooms to the upper floors of the nation’s capital.

Australia, 1967. A Prime Minister walks into the surf… and never returns. In a nation already caught between Cold War pressure, Vietnam turmoil, and intensifying factional power plays, Harold Holt’s disappearance didn’t just shock the country — it left a vacuum that’s never been convincingly filled.Compromised: The Holt Enigma is a prestige investigative series uncovering the political machine, the intelligence briefings, the diplomatic tensions, and the private life of a Prime Minister whose final hours became one of Australia’s most enduring mysteries.Through archival records, ...

Sherlock Holmes —the name immediately brings to mind an image of the great detective sitting in his rooms in 221B Baker street, his fingers steepled before his hawkish nose, his sharp grey eyes focused on the client who has brought a little puzzle for him to solve. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said when one reads the names of the other literary detectives of the time period, sometimes referred to as the rivals of Sherlock Holmes.

Terrifying secrets from the past are revealed when a ghost hunter discovers a letter from his deceased mother. A lost young couple learns all is not what it seems when an elderly woman welcomes them into her remote outback home. And a guilt-ridden carpenter takes a journey into another dimension but is shocked by what follows him home.... Scare Street is proud to present a diabolical new collection of 17 ghastly stories. Each spine-tingling tale is a portal to a new world, the beginning of a seemingly endless voyage into fear and dread.

A podcast where we learn about our faith and share what it takes to live a Catholic Christian life through conversations and contemplations with my friend the friar, a Discalced Carmelite Priest.

Authors John C. Maxwell, Stephen Graves, and Thomas Addington identify the basic tools followers of Jesus should always have in their work toolbox: Calling, Serving, Character, and Skill. People of faith need to be comfortable and intentional in two worlds—the world of the kingdom and the...

Richie Stephens is an actor who often plays hardened gangsters and criminals. This is easy for him because he was a drug trafficker, kidnapper, drug addict, alcoholic, and all-around criminal himself. His life twisted and turned in harrowing self-destructive adventures that took him from his native Ireland to San Francisco, Australia, and finally, Los Angeles, coalescing into a classic tale of a man trying to run from his problems by moving to new and more exotic locations—a hard and painful realization that comes at a point in which he’s about to take his own life.

Imagine a slight change to our historical timeline where the Industrial Revolution heated up much quicker than expected. Technological marvels such as airships, trains, battleships, and submarines came into being much earlier. They were followed by steam-powered wonders such as mechanical men, flying ships, and even crafts capable of reaching the deepest fathoms of the sea or traveling to distant celestial orbs. That is the world where Sherlock Holmes and his Boswell, Dr. Watson find themselves in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of Steampunk.

Many an incredible story may have been told about young courageous men and women cycling the globe in search of adventure, covering vast distances at speed each day with not a care in the world. Well, this story is a little different. It is a story about a 350-pound middle-aged, disabled, working-class husband and father. I was never a regular cyclist, and I knew nothing about bicycle maintenance and repair. Solo, self-financed, with no support network and without any fixed route plan other than, “I’m going that way.” What could go wrong? I wondered.

Imagine Holmes trying to solve the case of an invisible man attacking London - matching wits with a traveler from out of time - tracking down a human/feline hybrid - using his deductive skills to help fight Martian and lunar invaders! These are just some of the stories included in Sherlock Holmes: Adventures in the Realms of H.G. Wells.

From 1891 to 1894, Sherlock Holmes was presumed to be dead, having perished during the epic struggle with Professor Moriarty atop the Reichenbach Falls. But unknown to most, even his friend Dr. Watson, Holmes survived. During those three years, he roamed the world, acting as an agent for the British government and using his very special skills along the way. In volume one of Holmes Away from Home, the incredible two-volume collection of new traditional Holmes adventures, we find our hero crisscrossing the world - Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the US.

Explore the secrets of the universe with selections from the works of three of the greatest scientific minds of our lifetime. Widely regarded as the most brilliant theoretical physicist since Einstein, Stephen W. Hawking has delved into today's most important scientific ideas about the cosmos, expanded upon the rich history of scientific thought, and reveled in the complexities of the universe in which we live.

Nachdem es den drei Geschwistern Kate, Michael und Emma gelungen ist, das erste der Bücher vom Anbeginn aus den Händen des finsteren Magnus...

"Und was sollen wir durch die Luft werfen?" Dass es bei der Fish!-Philosophie nicht nur ums Fische-Werfen geht, zeigt Noch Mehr Fish! Denn hier lernen wir Firmen kennen, die auf unterschiedlichste Weise Spaß an der Arbeit mit einer positiven Einstellung verbinden, von Discokugeln im Call Center über Capuccino servierende Autohändler bis zum Dachdeckerlehrling, der seinen Chef coachen darf.