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The Guardian's Best Science Book of 2017: the fascinating science and history of the air we breathe. It's invisible. It's ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. In Caesar's Last Breath, New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean takes us on a...

Die Auftragsmörderin sehnt sich zurück nach Freiheit und Unabhängigkeit. Doch die Schatten der Vergangenheit, die Begegnungen der Gegenwart und die Aufgaben der Zukunft sind tödlicher denn je. Nicht nur ein alter Feind, ein kleines Mädchen und ein ganzes Volk zehren an ihren Kräften.

“Sam, could you do me a favor?” Thus begins a story that has now become part of America's true-crime hall of fame. It is a gory, grotesque tale befitting a Stephen King novel. It is also a David and Goliath saga - the story of a young lawyer fresh from the public defender's office whose first client in private practice turns out to be the worst serial killer in our nation's history. This is a gripping true crime narrative that reenacts the gruesome killings and the famous trial that shocked a nation.

Farin, the gravedigger’s son, lives in the medieval village of Heap. The 18-year-old is an outsider who is bullied and ostracized by the villagers. His father has succumbed to a life of drinking, and the young man has no option but to take over the job of gravedigger. But Farin’s life takes a dramatic twist when the village witch dies. As he prepares her for burial, he finds an amulet hanging around her neck, and he can’t resist trying it on.

Debauched, divorced, and courting death, Billy Ray Schafer is a comedian who has forgotten how to laugh. Over the course of seven spun-out days across the American Southwest, he travels from from hell gig to hell gig in search of a reason to keep living in this bleak and violent glimpse into the psyche of a thoroughly ruined man. Ex-inmate, ex-husband, ex-father - comedian is the only title Schafer has left. Trapped in the wreckage of his wasted career, Billy Ray knows the answer to the question: What happens when the opportunity doesn't come - or worse - it comes and goes? 

From the beloved creator of the wildly popular Sam O’Nella Academy YouTube channel, an irreverent and timely science fiction collection that offers a wry look at the not-so-distant future Sam A. Miller, the creator behind Sam O'Nella Academy, has spent ten years teaching his 4.8 million...

Flynn is just out here trying to live his #bestlife. He’s feeding his cat, running his business, and dating his boyfriend . . . well, trying to date his boyfriend. Every time things start to get intimate, something seems to interrupt them, no matter where they are or how many cell phones they turn off. When the interruption is Flynn’s cousin, having been attacked and drained of energy, Flynn realizes that the monster who’s been killing dragons isn’t just a distant thing, but a clear and present threat. But can a man who’s always let other people fight his battles handle his own this time?

Sure, my life isn’t going exactly according to plan - I have a degree that led nowhere, a crappy job as a closing-shift barista, and an ex who has everything I want and got it by dumping myself - but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to give up on living yet! And, holy crap, when I’m plucked off the sidewalk of my rural Colorado town on the very night of my ex’s wedding, I’m pretty damn sure I’m about to lose my life and a whole lot more. If you’ve never tried flying, I do not recommend the first time be when you’re drunk and alone at two in the morning.

Devon Murphy has never believed that there were fairies at the bottom of the garden, but when he's in an accident on his way to his grandmother's house and comes face to face with the biggest, baddest wolf he's ever seen, he's forced to reconsider. When his grandmother asks him to look into a string of suspicious accidents, he finds a much bigger mystery to unravel. From his childhood best friend to the too-attractive deputy Wade Hunter, everyone in Rowan Harbor seems to have something to hide. Devon has to get to the bottom of it all before the accidents turn deadly.

This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller, who saw a better future than the one that came to pass. And Dylan Ward, a woman raised in the vast wilderness of the frontier, who will find her way back to it. It's a story about a man who went missing, and the man who wants to find out what he knew. It's a story about what makes us human - and how we might live once we leave our home. The story of the first murder on Mars.

Amazon Connect Health is an AWS solution designed to help healthcare organisations deliver more connected and efficient patient and member experiences using cloud-based contact centre capabilities. In this concise edition of Cloud Uncovered, Sam Kusi explains how Amazon Connect Health can...

AWS AppFabric is a managed AWS service designed to help organisations connect software-as-a-service applications and improve visibility across their application environments. In this concise edition of Cloud Uncovered, Sam Kusi explains how AWS AppFabric can bring data from multiple SaaS...

Amazon One Enterprise is an AWS identity service that enables organisations to use palm-based authentication for secure access to physical locations such as offices, residential buildings, data centres, and other controlled spaces. In this concise edition of Cloud Uncovered, Sam Kusi explains...

AWS Billing and Cost Management provides tools that help organisations understand, monitor, and manage their AWS spending. In this concise edition of Cloud Uncovered, Sam Kusi explains how Billing and Cost Management gives organisations greater visibility into cloud costs, helping them review...

Amazon Chime SDK is a set of real-time communications tools that enables developers to add voice, video, messaging, and other communication capabilities directly into their applications. In this concise edition of Cloud Uncovered, Sam Kusi explains how the Amazon Chime SDK provides building...

Amazon Connect is AWS’s cloud-based contact centre service, designed to help organisations deliver customer service at scale without maintaining traditional contact-centre infrastructure. In this concise edition of Cloud Uncovered, Sam Kusi explains how Amazon Connect enables businesses to...

AWS Wickr is a secure communications service designed to help organisations collaborate through encrypted messaging, voice and video calls, file sharing, and other communication capabilities. In this concise edition of Cloud Uncovered, Sam Kusi explains how AWS Wickr supports secure...

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalogue that helps organisations discover, purchase, deploy, and manage third-party software, data, and services designed to run on AWS. In this concise edition of Cloud Uncovered, Sam Kusi explains how AWS Marketplace simplifies access to cloud solutions from...

Driverless cars race to kill in a thriller from "Gridlock Sam" Schwartz, who "knows everything about how cars and people don't get along", with Cary Pepper ( The New York Times Book Review ). "An expert in traffic jams has a scary idea: what if the cars turn on us? Sam Schwartz, a former New...

Romans is a Bible class series taught by Sam Adams at the Rutherford church of Christ. The class walks verse by verse through Paul’s letter to the Romans—from the gospel as the power of God for salvation, through wrath and justification, the new life in Christ, Israel, and the transformed life of the church—so that hearers may not be ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes (Romans 1:16).