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According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So, the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan.

Quand Ellen Ripley retourne enfin sur Terre, c'est pour découvrir que LV-426, la planète sur laquelle l'équipage du Nostromo est pour la première fois entré en contact avec les terribles/monstrueux Xenomorphes, a été rebaptisée Acheron. Protégés par un régiment de Marines coloniaux, les colons essaient de terraformer la planète balayée par les tempêtes. Au-delà des conditions de vie extrêmes et des combats journaliers imposés par ce nouveau monde, l'espoir et l'humanité demeurent.

Politics as a specific sector within human society is as old as it is modern. In today's global community, facing growing pressures of political extremism and radicalism, knowledge of basic political science principles should help students develop a democratic ethos and foster qualities such as political tolerance, compromise, and cooperation, while learning to express and defend their interests in a civilized manner. The foundation of political science lies in the accumulated knowledge of mankind.

Was bedeutet Familie? Was heißt jüdisch sein? Wie umgehen mit Alter, Krankheit, Tod? Yasmina Rezas neuer Roman kreist um große Fragen. Die Geschwister Popper: Serge, verkrachtes Genie und homme à femmes, Jean, der Vermittler und Ich-Erzähler, und Nana, die verwöhnte Jüngste mit dem unpassenden spanischen Mann. Eine jüdische Familie. Nach dem Tod der Mutter entfremdet man sich immer mehr. Zu ihren Lebzeiten hat keiner die alte Frau nach der Shoah und ihren ungarischen Vorfahren gefragt. Jetzt schlägt Serges Tochter Joséphine einen Besuch in Auschwitz vor.

Geralt of Rivia is a Witcher, a man whose magic powers and lifelong training have made him a brilliant fighter and a merciless assassin. Yet he is no ordinary killer: he hunts the vile fiends that ravage the land and attack the innocent. But not everything monstrous-looking is evil; not everything fair is good...and in every fairy tale there is a grain of truth.

Vor acht oder neun Jahren, in der Rue St. Lazare, sah ich ihn zum ersten Mal. Es war sieben Uhr abends, die Stunde, da der stahlschwarze Bahnhof mit dem funkelnden Zifferblatt plötzlich die Masse wie ein Magnet an sich reißt. Die Ateliers, die Häuser, die Geschäfte schütten mit einem mal alle ihre Menschen auf die Gasse, und alle strömen sie, ein schwarz aufgewühlter Strom, den Zügen zu, die sie aus der dampfigen Stadt ins Freie tragen.

For more than a hundred years humans, dwarves, gnomes and elves lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over and now the races once again fight each other - and themselves: dwarves are killing their kinsmen, and elves are murdering humans and elves, at least those elves who are friendly to humans...Into this tumultuous time is born a child for whom the witchers of the world have been waiting.

On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is...different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight.

There are very few writers of whom one can say they invented an entire field of study: Peter F. Drucker is one. Management as a concept literally did not exist until Drucker’s groundbreaking work. In this new, completely updated edition, by one of Drucker's preeminent students and proteges, Management is ready at last to enter the 21st century and continue its reign as a pioneering text for every serious student of the field. 

Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often published as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English novelist George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist, modelled the authoritarian government in the novel after Stalinist Russia.

This audiobook includes unabridged recordings of all George Orwell's greatest works: six novels, three books of non-fiction, a collection of his most well-renowned essays and the complete collection of his poetry.

Frankfurt, 1830: Im Keller Senckenberg-Museums verschwindet ein Schädel, und die Spur führt eine junge Frau ins finstre Herz alter Mythen und Legenden. Frankfurt am Main, im Jahr 1830. Während eines rauschenden Fastnachtsballs wird Millicent Wohl, eine junge und wissbegierige Frau, plötzlich Zeugin eines brutalen Raubüberfalls in einem Museum. Eine schwarze Gestalt eilt an ihr vorüber - und verschwindet im Nichts. Milli versucht den Diebstahl aufzuklären, doch niemand glaubt ihren Hinweisen.

Der dritte Band der aufregenden Thriller-Serie um den Liverpooler Ermittler DS Nathan Cody: Es heißt, man kann sich seine Familie nicht aussuchen. Aber stimmt das wirklich? Darf ich vorstellen: die Bensons. Ein wirklich nettes Paar. Sie waschen ihr Auto, mähen ihren Rasen und plauschen mit ihren Nachbarn. Und sie haben ein wunderschönes kleines Mädchen namens Daisy. Es gibt da nur ein Problem. Daisy ist gar nicht die Tochter der Bensons. Sie haben sie gestohlen. Und jetzt haben sie beschlossen, dass Daisy einen kleinen Bruder oder eine kleine Schwester braucht.

Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), the cynical owner of Rick’s Café Americain helps his former lover Ilse Lund (Ingrid Bergman) and her underground leader husband escape from the Nazis in this powerful love story, featuring the classic song "As Time Goes By". The Maltese Falcon, stars Humphrey Bogart as the private detective Sam Spade. In this compelling thriller, Sam Spade is entrusted with the safe-keeping of the much-coveted black falcon statuette as he becomes involved in a classic tale of greed and illusion.

Marcus Sempronius Gracchus, a soldier of Rome, has spent 2,000 years walking the earth, seeking redemption he may never find. After losing his latest confrontation with Thomas, a man he once considered his brother, Marcus is on the run and must find new allies to continue the struggle.

Amidst the chaos of the Thirty Years' War, Jack Fiskardo embarks upon a quest that will carry him inexorably from France to Amsterdam and then onto the battlefields of Germany. As he grows to manhood will he be able to unravel the mystery of his father's death? Or will his father's killers find him first? 

Submagine is about the joy and dreams experienced when growing up. It's about parents doing their best to actualize and support a great life together. Even when there are great concerns in this world, they can be used to our fullest benefit, while learning to collaborate with one another and also animals. 

Upton Sinclair was first and foremost the most eminent and impactful muckraking journalist of the early 20th century (The Jungle - 1906: precipitated meaningful and permanent improvements in the safety and purity of the food we eat). 

It is a fictionalised account of the first expedition across the Western Wilderness, crossing the Rocky Mountains. The journal chronicled a 1792 expedition led by Julius Rodman up the Missouri River to the Northwest. This 1792 expedition would have made Rodman the first European to cross the Rocky Mountains. The detailed journal chronicles events of the most surprising nature and recounts '[T]he unparalleled vicissitudes and adventures experienced by a handful of men in a country which, until then, had never been explored by "civilised man"'.

Da flitzte jahrelang eine Vogelscheuche übers Kopfsteinpflaster - mit enormer Geschwindigkeit - mit einwärts gerichtetem Blick. Meist beim Haustor raus, ins benachbarte Café: "Ein Wodka, ein Mineral, nicht vom Eis, das Telefon!" - und weg war die Überraschung.