Résultats de "J P" dans Toutes les catégories

The day twenty-seven-year-old Clara is chosen to take part in the Ascension Games is the day death knocks on her door. For many, the Ascension Games is the one and only chance for a better life in the underground city of Eldmoor. A prize worth fighting for… a life worth dying for. The Games are simple: two teams, eight players, and one flag. Sounds easy, if the contestants can survive the dragons seeking revenge for humanity's betrayal many centuries ago. The death race has already begun. Will Clara reach the finish line alive?

Growing up mortal, I only knew a few things about cultivators. They like their hierarchies, they hate disrespect, and if you leave one out in deep space long enough, they'll go homicidally insane.

The Art of Spycraft: Becoming Indispensable teaches how to position yourself so that removing you creates disruption, hesitation, and risk. In the world of espionage, indispensable operatives are not the most visible or the most praised, they are the ones whose absence quietly breaks systems and forces recalculation. This audiobook shows how to build structural leverage through access, continuity, and calm performance under pressure, so others begin to rely on you without consciously choosing to.

Thomas À Kempis' collection of meditative writings from the Brethren of the Common Life is the most widely read book in the world after the Bible. The reflective devotions have been a heartening friend to great men such as Thomas More, St. Ignatius Loyola, Thomas Merton, Pope John Paul I, and John Wesley. Learning to live like Jesus is the central task that À Kempis explores in this classic devotional. This book provides comfort and counsel to every person who seeks to live a more connected and whole life.

This is volume one of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghostwritten material, and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)

This is the completionist's edition of the work of H.P. Lovecraft! Literally every single weird-fiction story he wrote, revised, or collaborated on - to the best of our knowledge - is in this one enormous volume. The stories are arranged chronologically and contextualized with a brief running biography of the life of this fascinating author.

Die Rückkehr der klassischen Gruselikonen als atmosphärische Hörspiele. Mumien, Vampire, Werwölfe, Geister und Dämonen. Neue Geschichten klassischer Prägung. Hier steht der wohlige Schauer im Vordergrund. Mit speziell für jede Folge komponiertem Soundtrack und den Stimmen Hollywoods. In der sechsten Episode entpuppt sich die Rückkehr einer erfolgreichen Anwältin in ihr Heimatdorf zu einem Horror-Trip. Ein alter Fluch lebt wieder auf. Ein Mörder aus der Vergangenheit kehrt zurück und entführt sie und ihren Ehemann in das verlassene Schloss am Ort.

"Szenen, die Geschichte machten" ordnet die einzelnen Episoden in chronologischer Reihenfolge und erläutert deren Bedeutung für die Gegenwart. Spannend und kurzweilig werden die wichtigsten Fakten zusammengefasst und die globalen Zusammenhänge sowie die nachhaltige historische Bedeutung erläutert.

Psychologist Margot Scott has a picture-perfect life: a nice house in the suburbs, a husband, two children and a successful career. On a warm spring morning Margot approaches one of her clients on a busy train platform. He is looking down at his phone, with his duffel bag in hand as the train approaches. That’s when she slams into his back and he falls in front of the train. Margot’s clients all lie to her, but one lie cost her family and freedom.

I came looking for family...I never expected to find love.... Lost parents, foster care, group homes...I’ve seen it all, and I wish I was over it. But now that I’m out of college I can’t move forward until I find answers about my past. And that brings me to Bennet Wood. But it’s not long lost relatives who change everything...it’s Jay. He says he’s just passing through, but he makes me feel like I’ve found a new home. I don’t know what it will take to make him mine, but I have to try. Things are just heating up when I find out everything I thought I knew was a lie.

A wicked troll tries in vain to gobble up a family of goats when they go trip-trapping over his bridge.

With the way behind them sealed, the only way forward for Eve and her friends is down. Down the narrow steps carved into the mountain. Down into the oppressive toxic fog. Down into the Dead Fields. But the Dead Fields are not so dead as they seem. Things lurk in the mist, things far beyond the levels of Eve, Wes, Preston, and, especially, the hatchling Reginald.

This volume covers H.P. Lovecraft's "apprentice years" - roughly the first half of his literary career, the half written before his return to Providence in 1926. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this volume, from 1917 through 1925.

There's a war brewing between high-level factions, a conflict Eve finds herself caught in the middle of. Soon enough, this secret plot, this life quest, this entire broken trilogy will come hurtling to an end. Perhaps, with any luck, there will be a loaf of bread waiting on the other side. Or maybe the real loaf of bread was the friends we made along the way. Those friends that made it through, that is.

Invitation in hand, it’s time for Eve and friends to travel north in search of the legendary Dragonwrought. With a single-minded focus, they’ll trek deep into the mountains, willfully ignoring the onslaught of side quests threatening to derail their journey. The only things anybody knows about the illusive Dragonwrought, greatest of all the adventuring companies in Leshk, are their deep connections to the dragons that roam the skies beyond their keep, and that they haven’t deemed take a new recruit in decades. But nobody’s sure exactly how many decades.

The Art of Spycraft: Becoming Trusted explores how trust is built and weaponized in the world of espionage, where access determines power and discretion decides who survives mistakes.

The Art of Spycraft: Becoming Popular explores how influence actually spreads inside groups, not through charisma or performance, but through access, familiarity, and momentum. Using the lens of espionage and human intelligence tradecraft, this audiobook reveals how popularity forms quietly, how trust moves through networks, and why certain people become accepted by default while others remain outsiders.

The Operative Mindset: The Reality We Construct explores the hidden mechanism behind influence, identity, and perception. Drawing on the shared lineage between intelligence work and great writers like Ian Fleming, Roald Dahl, and Graham Greene, this audiobook reveals how operatives and storytellers shape outcomes not through force, but through narrative.

Most people try to be interesting by talking more. They explain. They perform. They overshare. And they lose attention. Intelligence operatives understands something different. Attention flows toward those who listen, observe, and leave space. Presence creates pull where performance never does. Becoming Interesting shows why people aren’t drawn to impressive stories, but to genuine interest. When you stop trying to impress and start paying attention, conversations deepen and people remember you without knowing why.

À l’insu des grandes puissances, une Assemblée générale des animaux se réunit et décide de tout dire: leur vie privée, leur vie publique, leurs travers et leurs vertus. Les bêtes se peignent elles‑mêmes avec esprit et malice, en portraits et chroniques qui parlent beaucoup de nous.