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As The Jewel in the Crown opens, World War II is at its height, and Gandhi is calling for the British to leave. When Daphne Manners arrives in Mayapore, she meets two men who will change her life: Hari Kumar and Ronald Merrick. She begins to fall for Hari, but Ronald Merrick - the local police superintendent - becomes infatuated with her and seethes with hatred for Hari. The Day of the Scorpion finds Merrick worming his way into the Layton family, and his treatment of Hari Kumar is revealed.

Software startups make global headlines every day. As technology companies succeed and grow, so do their engineering departments. In your career, you'll may suddenly get the opportunity to lead teams: to become a manager. But this is often uncharted territory. How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully.

Abigail was the last keeper of the house, the last to know the Howland family's secrets. Now, in the name of all her brothers and sisters, she must take her bitter revenge on the small-minded Southern town that shamed them, persecuted them, but could never destroy them.

Die Wälder, das bedeutet: kein Zurück mehr. Keine anderen Menschen mehr. Kein verlässlicher Handyempfang mehr. Die Wälder, das bedeutet: Ab jetzt bist du auf dich gestellt. Als Nina die Nachricht erhält, dass Tim, ihr bester Freund aus Kindertagen, unerwartet gestorben ist, bricht eine Welt für sie zusammen. Vor allem, als sie erfährt, dass er sie noch kurz vor seinem Tod fast manisch versucht hat, zu erreichen. Und sie ist nicht die Einzige, bei der er sich gemeldet hat. Tim hat ihr nicht nur eine geheimnisvolle letzte Nachricht hinterlassen, sondern auch einen Auftrag.

Berlin, 1923. Hebamme Hulda Gold wird zu einer Geburt ins Scheunenviertel gerufen. Die jüdische Familie lebt nach ihren ganz eigenen, strengen Regeln, aber Hulda gewinnt das Vertrauen der jungen Mutter. Und als das Neugeborene nach wenigen Tagen verschwindet, wird sie unvermittelt in die rätselhafte Suche verstrickt. Denn wie kann ein Kind in dieser engen Gemeinschaft einfach so verschwinden? Bald zeigt sich, dass auch die Berliner Polizei nach Kinderhändlern fahndet. Kann Kommissar Karl North helfen, das Neugeborene zu finden?

Random House presents The Audiobook of the Year 2018, written and read by the team behind hit podcast No Such Thing as a Fish; James Harkin, Jane Hill, Dan Schreiber, Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Ptaszynski. Think you know what happened in 2018? Think again. Following hot on the heels of the...

When Mira returns to her late grandmother Evelyn’s sunny, memory-filled house, she expects to sort keepsakes. Instead, she finds a small wooden box containing a map, a photograph of a distant pier, and a letter addressed to someone Mira has never met: Eli.

Cuando Grace Bernard descubre que el padre millonario que la abandonó ha ignorado las llamadas de auxilio de su madre moribunda, jura venganza y se propone matar a todos los miembros de su acaudalada familia. Así que hace una lista de nombres y, decidida a tacharlos todos, se lanza en una misión despiadada para hacer justicia y, en el proceso, convertirse en la única heredera de la fortuna de los Artemis.

When Jaye Callaghan's dubiously clairvoyant best friend predicts that her soulmate is on the horizon, Jaye isn't exactly persuaded. But when she walks into Lanport clinic and meets Charlie, she starts to think that maybe her luck is changing.

Brought to you by Penguin. When Lady Viviane leaves the lakes of the far North for the splendour of Camelot, she knows the destiny her father has planned for her. To capture the heart and hand of the young prince, Arthur. To bring her family richness and glory. But it is Arthur’s sister Morgan...

This book is for the girl who disappeared while trying to be everything for everyone — and lived to tell the truth. The Year I Became a Muse is not a memoir written from hindsight. It is a rebirth told in real time. Through raw moments, quiet revelations, and divine interruptions, Diana Zaitseva documents the season when survival became self-knowing — when grief softened into clarity, and chaos gave way to grace. This audiobook captures the unfiltered inner dialogue of a woman learning how to stay, how to listen, and how to rebuild from the inside out.

Wiosna, 1835 r. Helena, najmłodsza córka hrabiny Modlińskiej, nie jest tak zdeterminowana i odważna jak siostry, Eliza i Zofia. Kiedy jednak otrzymuje list od madame Moreau z zaszyfrowanym przesłaniem, nie waha się ani chwili. Tropem starożytnej mapy, sekretów Złotej Ordy i rytuału wyrusza w towarzystwie brata, bratowej oraz Huberta Fleminga, awanturnika, hazardzisty i kłamcy, który przyciąga kłopoty i… kobiety jak magnes, a który podaje się za swatanego z Heleną swojego bliźniaka.

When chaos swirls around you, it’s easy to feel pulled into worry, drama, and fear. But God never designed you to live tossed around by every storm. He designed you to live anchored, steady, and calm in Him.

Sehnsüchtig erwartet: Band 6 der Nr.1-Bestsellerreihe um die Berliner Hebamme mit Herz und Spürnase. Berlin, 1929. Hulda Gold arbeitet als Hebamme in einer Mütterberatungsstelle in Schöneberg. Sie selbst versucht, ihrer kleinen Tochter Meta eine gute Mutter zu sein, obwohl das als alleinstehende Frau mit vielen Schwierigkeiten und gesellschaftlicher Ächtung verbunden ist. Doch Hulda gibt nicht auf und kämpft um ihren Platz in ihrem Heimatkiez.

We live in a society that seems to want us to be afraid of growing older. But imagine if getting older could be the greatest thing that ever happened to you. At 50, Anna Murphy, Fashion Director at The Times, feels more visible than at any point in her life to date. Her new book, Destination Fabulous, is the toolkit you need to embrace your age and celebrate the wisdom and inner beauty that comes with it.

Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel, first published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. A work of considerable power and intensity set in the Yorkshire moors in the late 18th century - the bleak and wild moorland often reflected in the natures of the characters. Unsettling at times, the novel is a heady mix of gritty realism, romance, Gothic horror, and tragedy.

A collection of four ghostly tales inspired by M. R. James: Casting the Runes, Lost Hearts, The Treasure of Abbott-Thomas and A View from the Hill.

Georgia, prima metà dell'Ottocento. La giovane schiava Cora vive nell'inferno della piantagione dei Randall. Caesar, l'unico bracciante che possa chiamare amico, le parla della misteriosa ferrovia sotterranea, della via per il Nord, di quella che sembra la strada impossibile verso la salvezza. Cora decide di seguirlo attraverso gli stati del Sud, dove la persecuzione dei neri prende forme diverse ma sempre terrificanti. Aiutata da improbabili alleati e inseguita da uno spietato cacciatore di schiavi, riuscirà a guadagnarsi la libertà?

Ein Schwein mit Horn und dem Herz am rechten Fleck. Im Emmis Welt bekommt jedes Kind zum 10. Geburtstag ein Fabelwesen, das es fortan durchs Leben begleitet. Emmi hofft auf ein Einhorn. Die Enttäuschung ist groß, als am Stichtag ein rosa Hausschwein mit einem Horn vor Emmi steht. Für die Schule wird es kurzerhand als Baby-Einhorn verkleidet und wird prompt von allen geliebt. Nur der missgünstige Herr Bockel und Antonia, die in der Klasse alles bestimmt, gönnen Emmi ihren Triumph nicht.

In nearly every industry, smart machines are replacing human labor. It's not just factory jobs - automated technologies are handling people's investments, diagnosing illnesses, and analyzing written documents. If we humans are going to endure, Edward Hess and Katherine Ludwig say we're going to need a dose of humility. We need to be humble enough to let go of the idea that "smart" means knowing the most, using that information quickest, and making the fewest mistakes. Smart machines will always be better than we are at those things.