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Emily Pollifax accompanies her young friend Kadi back to Africa, where a mutual friend is to be crowned king of his small country. But when several people are slashed by murderous lion claws and Kadi disappears, Mrs. Pollifax must begin a perilous investigation. Fortunately for all, staunch determination and polished karate skills are on her side.

A brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of a classic Raymond Chandler mystery featuring private eye, Philip Marlowe. Los Angeles PI Philip Marlowe is working for the Sternwood family. Old man Sternwood, crippled and wheelchair-bound, is being given the squeeze by a blackmailer and he wants Marlowe to make the problem go away.

Elfriede Jelineks Roman über Lust, patriarchalische Machtverhältnisse und Sexualität, der viel Aufsehen erregte: Als selbst die Angst vor Aids auch das hinterste Alpental erreicht hat, muss der Fabrikdirektor gezwungenermaßen seine außerehelichen Eskapaden einstellen und sich wieder seiner Frau Gerti zuwenden. Doch Gerti versucht den sexuellen Angriffen ihres Mannes zu entfliehen und landet schließlich in den Armen des Studenten Michael, aber auch dieses erotische Abenteuer endet für Gerti in Demütigung.

New York Times Bestseller Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, O: The Oprah Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek “Kingsolver brilliantly captures both the price of profound change and how it can pave the way not only for future generations...

Jo March, the irrepressible tomboy in Little Women, has grown up and married her professor to become Jo Bhaer. Together the Bhaers have established Plumfield - a warm-hearted, informal school where lessons are taught with a dose of laughter. When Nat, a young orphan joins the happy household at Plumfield, he can’t believe his good fortune. Each day is filled with studying and fun - the boys even enjoy Saturday-night pillow fights. But when Nat gets caught stretching the truth, he discovers there is more to learn in his new home than games and schoolwork.

WIE ERREICHEN SIE EINEN TRANSFORMIERTEN KÖRPER UND SICHTBARE ERGEBNISSE IN NUR 14 TAGEN, UNABHÄNGIG DAVON, WIE VIEL ZEIT SIE HABEN? Es ist schon seltsam, dass Sie sich gerade jetzt, während Sie diese Worte lesen, vorstellen können, wie unglaublich es wäre, Ihren Körper zu transformieren... in nur 14 Tagen. Ja, 14 Tage. Es ist, als ob Sie plötzlich die körperliche und geistige Veränderung sehen könnten, die Sie sich schon immer gewünscht haben, ohne endlose Stunden im Fitnessstudio verbringen oder unmögliche Diäten einhalten zu müssen. Ist Ihnen das schon einmal passiert?

Shira ist ein sehr ängstliches Mädchen – zu gerne wäre sie mutiger. Bis sie eines Nachts auf eine sprechende Maus mit Zylinder namens Herr von und zu Moll trifft. Gemeinsam mit ihm und mithilfe einer wundersamen Tasche reist sie in unterschiedliche Konfliktgebiete der Welt, bringt traurigen...

Jemel thought marriage was a business deal—and he was desperate to cash out. Facing bankruptcy and locked out of his wealthy wife’s trust fund by a ruthless prenup, Jemel comes up with a dirty plan: hire another man to seduce Lena, catch her cheating, and walk away with her money. To make it airtight, he even hires the reality TV show Infidelity to expose her on national television. What Jemel doesn’t know is that Lena stopped trusting him a long time ago.

Leona Griffin is at the height of her career as a para-archeologist thanks to a recent Underworld discovery. Her high profile attracts the attention of an organization of elite, secretive collectors. They want her to authenticate the artifacts that aspiring members submit as evidence to join their group. The ceremony takes place at a glittering reception where Leona is shocked to discover that one of the relics is a powerful Old-World object known as Pandora’s Box. But she’s not the only one interested in that artifact.

In The Fix, McQuade draws on her decades of experience as a federal prosecutor to reveal how systems of organized crime and political opportunism exploit the levers of power—using corruption, cruelty, and chaos as tools to dominate institutions and eliminate accountability. With clarity...

Bill Nighy, Barbara Shelley and Peter Sallis are among the cast in six classic BBC Radio dramatisations of stories by one of Britain's most popular science fiction authors. 'The Day of the Triffids', first broadcast in 1968, is set in a world in which most people have been left blind after a meteor shower, and lethal carnivorous triffids are roaming the land. 'The Kraken Wakes', dramatised for radio in 1998, is a gripping story of monsters from the deep, alien invasion and ecological disaster.

Ian and Glynnis McCullough, intelligent, professional, and successful, are the envy of their affluent friends. But suddenly, an unexpected plea for help and a cancelled check send their tranquility spinning out of control.

When neuroscientist Susan Barry was 50 years old, she took an unforgettable trip to Manhattan. As she emerged from the dim light of the subway into the sunshine, she saw a view of the city that she had witnessed many times in the past but now saw in an astonishingly new way. Skyscrapers on street corners appeared to loom out toward her like the bows of giant ships. Tree branches projected upward and outward, enclosing and commanding palpable volumes of space.

The Silver Road tells the story that Americans are rarely told: how the Revolutionary War was actually won. From the Spanish-supplied muskets fired at Lexington and Concord in 1775 to the last-minute collection of silver pesos in Havana that funded the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, Spain and Latin America played a decisive role in the American Revolution. The Spanish smuggled the critical military supplies that the colonies could not produce. Latin American silver provided both the hard currency and the financing for the fledgling colonial economy.

This superlative collection of futuristic tales explores ground-breaking supernatural themes from the founding heroes of the science-fiction genre. The short story form is perfect for capturing the atmospheric tension of these legendary stories. This collection includes the following stories...

In this acclaimed novel that inspired the Academy Award–winning motion picture, Larry McMurtry created two unforgettable characters who won the hearts of readers and moviegoers everywhere: Aurora Greenway and her daughter Emma. Aurora is the kind of woman who makes the whole world orbit around...

La vida está llena de sube y bajas emocionales, de personas que llegan para nutrirte con experiencias muy buenas y otras de verdad pésimas, pero que dejan su aprendizaje, y más vale estar alerta e identificar al eneje a tiempo. Desde reconocer redflags en las relaciones, tener amistades tóxicas, conservar amigos que te salvan, convivir con jefes y compañeros enejes en ambientes laborales diversos, hasta darte cuenta de que quizá tú eres más eneje contigo mismo de lo que te imaginas, todo esto lo podrás descubrir en este libro.

What If You Could Stop Chasing Wealth From A Place Of Fear & Start Training Your Mind To Feel Safe, Confident & Ready For Abundance? The Wealth Hypnosis For Lottery Wins Is A Powerful 10-Session Hypnosis & Meditation Collection Designed To Help You Break Through Scarcity Thinking, Strengthen Your Wealth Mindset & Reprogram Deeply Held Beliefs About Money, Luck & Financial Freedom. This Is More Than A Collection Of Positive Affirmations. It Is A Structured Mental Training Experience Combining Guided Meditations, Subconscious Reprogramming, Wealth Visualization & Daily Affirmation Loops.

ENTDECKE DAS GEHEIMNIS, DAS DIE ALTEN INKAS IN DER NATUR VERBORGEN HABEN... UND DAS JETZT DEIN LEBEN VOLLSTÄNDIG VERÄNDERN KANNFühlst du dich getrennt von deiner Umgebung? Fragst du dich, warum so viele Menschen den Kontakt zu ihrem inneren Wesen verloren haben, gefangen in leeren Routinen, während ein uraltes Wissen nur darauf wartet, wiederentdeckt zu werden? Hast du schon Bücher über die Inka-Mythologie gelesen, die dich kalt ließen, als wären sie nur trockene akademische Zusammenstellungen ohne Seele und ohne Transformation? DIESES WERK IST ANDERS. Du musst kein Anthropologe sein.

Together in one collection, two of A. A. Milne’s popular children’s stories of all time, Winnie-The-Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner, skillfully performed by multi-award-winning narrator Barbara Rosenblat. A delightful adventure is waiting for you in the enchanted Hundred Acre Forest. Meet...