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Dans le calorifère de Steuvels, le relieur de la rue de Turenne, on a retrouvé deux dents d’un homme d’une quarantaine d’années. L’affaire est confiée à Maigret qui aura beaucoup de difficultés à comprendre le lien entre l’affaire Steuvels et la mystérieuse jeune femme au chapeau blanc qui a confié son petit garçon à Madame Maigret dans le square d’Anvers.

In this audiobook you'll learn: The keys to regain your lost years; how to set smart goals; how to be extremely organized; how to live in active consciousness; how to maximize your gifts and talents; the advantages of intensity; how to take advantage of work; how to regain lost years through solitude; how to regain lost years through other people; and to go from bankruptcy to wealth.

Benjamín Labatuts neuer Roman über John von Neumann, einen der genialsten und wegweisensten Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts Er ist ein so bewundertes wie gefürchtetes Ausnahmetalent: John von Neumann. Vom frühen 20. Jahrhundert bis in die Nullerjahre reichend, erzählt MANIAC die Geschichte John...

In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run dangerous missions on their behalf, with the financial support of a beautiful but exceedingly baffling young heiress, with whom the young man is soon giddily in love. Told largely in the first person, the novel is unusual, for Conrad, in focusing largely on the evolving psychology of a young man in the throes of a great romantic passion.

Elowen was born with a blood debt hanging over her head, one the Shade Lord will collect upon her twenty-first year. Unwilling to succumb to a fate of having the life siphoned out of her in order to extend the shade’s, she flees the mortal settlement and makes for the Fae Realm of Aetherya with a single dagger in hand. Leijla is bound to the Fae Queen by a terrible curse, which forces her to do unspeakable things in accordance with The Queen’s will. Her latest assignment: to hunt down the fugitive Elowen Lockwood.

FROM AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR CASSANDRA DOON, COMES A FUNNY, WITTY, AND DIABOLICAL ROMCOM. ONE THAT WILL LEAVE YOU WONDERING "WHAT IN THE WORLD DID THE TOWN FOLK OF LANCASTER EAT FOR DINNER." Genie Alden runs the quaintest little skincare shop in Lancashire—if you ignore the tarot cards, the Death card's morning greetings, and her product line featuring Belladonna. Business is booming, especially her special consultations for women who need more than just a good moisturizer. Let's just say some problems require... creative solutions.

In Nostromo, Joseph Conrad has transformed an apocryphal anecdote about a sailor who got away with stealing a boat loaded with silver into a grandly panoramic, yet deeply unsettling, narrative that sees every conceivable type of political person — from the laughably oafish and brutal to various shades of the well-meaning — caught up in an episode of revolutionary upheaval in the fictional South American country of Costaguana.

Many factors shape the success or failure of a new business, whether it's a stand-alone start-up or a venture inside a larger corporation. But the most important and least understood of these factors is the personality of the entrepreneur - the particular combination of beliefs and preferences that drives his or her motivation, decision making, and leadership style. And your builder personality is the one resource you can directly control in growing a business that wins. Simply put, who you are shapes how you build for growth.

In finding her, they might lose everything . . . Captain Valentina Cortez, and the all-female pirate crew of her ship The Esperanza, spend their days on the seas, taking on job after miserable job as they pay off their debts to the Bloodmoon Enclave–the relentless, overseeing authority, who work the pirate crews on their books to the bone, and give little back.

Aufgewachsen in den heiligen Hallen der mysteriösen 'Gemeinschaft der Rätselmacher' weiß Clayton Stumper so einiges über verschlüsselte Botschaften, knifflige Puzzles und verwunschene Labyrinthe. Und über brillante Menschen jenseits der Achtzig, denn von einem Hort der Genialität hat sich Creighton Hall mehr und mehr zu einem intellektuell herausfordernden Seniorenheim entwickelt. Weniger versteht Clayton von Menschen seines Alters oder vom Leben außerhalb der Gemeinschaft.

Bernie makes candles. Lovely, relaxing candles that definitely don't contain chloroform, and if they do, it's purely for scientific purposes and improved sleep quality. Many successful "experiments" have taught her that there's always a creative solution to society's pest problem.

Jonas and Yenna lead normal lives as a London pub owner and a journalist...but they moonlight as notorious thieves with their five-member crew of unlikely criminals. Since the night twelve-year-old Jonas and his feisty red-headed neighbor—who happens to be a witch—knocked over a corner shop, the two have been inseparable. Until Yenna's magick breaks and the two of them have to face the traumatic after-effects. After years apart, Jonas brings Yenna in for one last heist—to steal a diamond from the Millenium Dome on New Year's Eve 1999, just as the clock strikes midnight.

The Shade King has declared himself emperor, and will stop at nothing to carry out his plan of claiming dominion over all. However, the Fae are distrustful of their new monarch and refuse to militarize–not believing the shade kingdom is a valid threat to their beloved, untouchable realm. While Elowen and Teagh travel to Sadhyah to rescue Isolde, Leijla embarks on a quest to rescue her father. On her way, she encounters a mysterious being with an ominous message, an unlikely ally, and the destruction the shades have wreaked on the mortal realm.

A cursed treasure. A second chance at love. And a perilous adventure on the high seas. Lillian loved her life at sea. Which is why she’s a little salty that the pirate captain she gave her heart to abandoned her on dry land. But when one of his crew tells her the treasure she helped him find was cursed, she sets off to save Captain Kale from what he’s become. Lillian thought that when Kale retrieved the Kingsword he’d be made the pirate king. Instead, the sword has corrupted him into a heartless, violent monster.

Ondine chose her future. She jumped. And everything changed. Now Altered in body and thrust into a culture she barely understands, Ondine must navigate a world far more complicated than she ever imagined. Her transformation has consequences she never anticipated, ones that reach beyond her own fate to Regiatus, the people she loves, and the fragile balance of Neridia itself. As buried truths about her past come to light, the cost of her choice becomes impossible to ignore.

Fl. 1700The tides of fate demand blood. Sybil's entire life was spent scraping the bottom of the barrel, sneaking scraps, and making do with what little money her brother Walter could smuggle back to London from Nassau. But as time passes and the last delivery from her brother becomes more distant, she soon realizes that she might finally be on her own. With nowhere left to go she ventures out across the ocean, desperately hoping to retrace her brother's footsteps.

After trading her high-stress pharmaceutical career for the healing herbs of a Cotswolds village, Ivy Blackthorn thought her biggest worry would be winning over sceptical locals. She was wrong. When Ivy inherits her great-aunt's apothecary in the picturesque village of Thornwick Green, she's determined to bridge traditional plant wisdom with modern science. Nine months in, she's finally earning the community's trust, until the village's biggest critic, Mrs Enid Hartwell, collapses at the Spring Fair—clutching a teacup bearing Ivy's shop logo.

She was meant to destroy the king. Now she might carry his child. The Order of the Krigers has awakened—and the tyrant king, Morlet, will burn the world to find them. Village by village, he hunts the twelve chosen warriors meant to end his reign. But Kaia, the last and most powerful of them all, is no longer just his target. She’s his obsession. To break the ancient curse binding them, Kaia must do the unthinkable: bear a child before the Krigers strike their final blow. But the prophecy is unclear—who is the father meant to be? Her loyal fiancé, Vidar?

Merrick Forrester doesn’t do relationships. Not anymore. After enduring multiple heartbreaks, he’s convinced that everything beautiful eventually starts to rot. So when he meets the captivating and mysterious Drue Hart, he does his best to avoid her—that is, until he discovers the secret she carries. It’s then he decides getting close to her is worth the danger to his heart.

Children's book author Christy Bailey is thrilled that her aunt Betty is finally marrying the man of her dreams! The small wedding is a family event, right down to Christy’s cats and subjects of her books, Milton and Pearl, who are dressed in wedding attire and pulled down the aisle in a wagon. After the reception, Christy and her boyfriend-hopeful, Micah, agree to help her friend and wedding caterer, Janie, clean up at her pastry shop. But when they arrive at the shop, they're not greeted by Janie but Janie’s ex-husband—who’s dead on the floor, cold as a frozen muffin!