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Le monde de Tyler Schaeffer lui a été arraché. Emploi ? Disparu. Mariage ? Kaput. Plus rien ne le gardant à Chicago, il rentre à Seattle pour panser ses plaies et tout recommencer. À sa grande surprise, son meilleur ami du lycée - l’homme qu’il a fui cinq ans plus tôt - se précipite pour l’aider à recoller les morceaux. Justin Tucker en veut toujours à Tyler pour s’être évanoui dans la nature, mais lorsque son vieil ami a besoin d’aide, lui dire non est hors de question.

Four gripping novellas tied together by the changing of seasons. Hope Springs Eternal - "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption": An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge...the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Shawshank Redemption.

Seven BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of P. D. James' acclaimed mysteries, plus P. D. James in Her Own Words. This collection includes: Cover Her Face, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, A Certain Justice, The Private Patient, An Unsuitable Job for a Woman and The Skull Beneath the Skin.

After receiving a frantic letter from her newly-wed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. She’s not sure what she will find—her cousin’s husband, a handsome Englishman, is a stranger, and Noemí knows little about the region.

On the planet of Taldain, the legendary Sand Masters harness arcane powers to manipulate sand in spectacular ways. But when they are slaughtered in a sinister conspiracy, the weakest of their number, Kenton, believes himself to be the only survivor. With enemies closing in on all sides, Kenton forges an unlikely partnership with Khriss - a mysterious Darksider who hides secrets of her own.

Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface—Ruby’s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined.

Why we think it’s a great listen: There’s no gentle way to put this – Frank McCourt’s performance of Angela’s Ashes is just better than the Pulitzer Prize-winning book. Frank McCourt shares his sometimes heartwarming, sometimes heartbreaking story of growing up poor, Irish, and Catholic in the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela's Ashes.

Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman is one of the tech world's most accomplished executives in enterprise growth, having led Snowflake to the largest software IPO ever after leading Data Domain and ServiceNow to exponential growth and the public market before that. In Amp It Up, he shares his leadership approach for the first time.

Ein Frühjahr in Rom, Peter Wawerzinek ist Stipendiat in der Villa Massimo. Doch dann wird der Aufenthalt getrübt, die Pandemie macht den Spaziergängen einen Strich durch die Rechnung, die Technik versagt, und alles entstandene Textmaterial ist verloren. Peter Wawerzinek zieht nach Trastevere um, beschließt, über Pasolini zu schreiben. Ein Besuch beim Berliner Hausarzt bringt schließlich die Diagnose: Es ist Krebs. Es zieht ihn wieder nach Rom, zur Intensität der ewigen Stadt – und dem Beginn des Wegs zurück ins Leben.

I want you to note only God can heal your hurts through His Holy Spirit. This book is a great place to start in your road to restoration and recovery.

Een vroegere vriend van Alex Cross, die zich heeft ontpopt tot seriemoordenaar, ontsnapt uit de gevangenis. Cross is namelijk net hard aan het werk, op zoek naar een scherpschutter die het op politici gemunt heeft. Hoe kan Alex de liefde van zijn leven beschermen, als hij niet weet hoe groot het gevaar is, of uit welke hoek het komt?

Lorsqu’une amitié censée indéfectible bascule dans une haine brûlante, cela peut conduire à bien des dérives. Andrew et Shawn sont inséparables depuis la maternelle, complices à la vie, à la mort. Jusqu’au jour où les sentiments d’Andrew pour Shawn se teintent d’une nuance tout sauf fraternelle et qu’une tragédie anéantisse leur univers.

Sara has just landed at LAX, returning home from a conference abroad, when agents from the Risk Assessment Administration pull her aside and inform her that she will soon commit a crime. Using data from her dreams, the RAA’s algorithm has determined that she is at imminent risk of harming the person she loves most: her husband. For his safety, she must be kept under observation for twenty-one days. The agents transfer Sara to a retention center, where she is held with other dreamers, all of them women trying to prove their innocence from different crimes.

Preußen stand stets in einem Spannungsfeld: seit seinem Aufstieg vom kleinen, an Bodenschätzen armen Territorium um Berlin bis zu seiner Blüte als der dominierenden Macht in Europa. Es verkörpert nicht nur Aufklärung und Toleranz, sondern steht auch für Militarismus, Maßlosigkeit, Selbstüberschätzung. Meisterhaft erzählt Christopher Clark die Geschichte Preußens von den Anfängen bis zur Auflösung des Staates im Jahr 1947. Dabei gelingt es ihm nicht nur, die äußerst ambivalente Geschichte dieser europäischen Großmacht lebendig zu schildern, sondern auch, sie von etlichen Mythen zu befreien.

Ein verletzter Krieger. Hunderttausende, die unter seiner Rache leiden Narcian, Yuma und ihre Getreuen finden eine Zuflucht im Süden, doch schon bald reißt das Schicksal sie wieder auseinander. Yuma erhält die Möglichkeit, das Leben ihres Bruder Lian zu retten, und bricht auf eigene Faust in die Yuki-Berge auf. Währenddessen kämpft Narcian an der Seite der Südländer um die selige Stadt Trebur und Kijan erfährt auf Bry Anog, dass eine übermächtige Kreatur hinter der Invasion aus dem Norden steckt.

John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the only life he has ever wanted, he sets out for Mexico with his friend, Lacey Rawlins. Befriending a third boy on the way, they find a country beyond their imagining: barren and beautiful, rugged yet cruelly civilised.... A place where dreams are paid for in blood.

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....

Ngaio Marsh’s most popular novel begins when a young New Zealander’s first contact with the English gentry is the body of Lord Wutherford - with a meat skewer through the eye.... The Lampreys had plenty of charm - but no cash. They all knew they were peculiar - and rather gloried in it. The double and triple charades, for instance, with which they would entertain their guests - like rich but awful Uncle Gabriel, who was always such a bore.

Death is not waiting for us at the end of a long road. Death is always with us, in the marrow of every passing moment. She is the secret teacher hiding in plain sight, helping us to discover what matters most. Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart, and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining an ever-present consciousness of death can bring us closer to our truest selves.

Wentworth, Ohio: a small, friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business. On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it's just a normal summer's day - with Frisbees flying, lawn mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome-red van idling up the hill....