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Belfast 1990. The Troubles. Murder, identity and … biscuits. Everyone knows who they are and what side they are on. Or do they? Harry Burnard and The Squad are back looking for new criminal cases to work. They are not allowed to work terrorist cases, only crime. But there is no crime, only terrorism.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if wartime lodging became the stage for secrets, flirtation, courage, and hearts caught between duty and desire? In *The Girls at His Billet*, Berta Ruck brings her lively romantic wit to a world shaped by war, social change, and unexpected...

A witty and satirical Edgar Allan Poe tale, The Spectacles follows a vain young man whose romantic obsession leads to comic embarrassment and a sharp lesson about pride, perception, and appearances...

Cole Burroughs is a man on the edge. On the edge of what exactly nobody is entirely sure, but with the threat of violence inevitable, and lives on the line, good sense dictates that he should be kept under surveillance at all times. With police resources at a barrel-scraping low, that unenviable...

JUSTICE JUST GOT A NEW FIRST AND LAST NAME. Strange things are happening at the Iowa State College of Applied Bookkeeping, Farmery, and Automotive Repair. Take your pick. There's the epidemic of male loneliness plaguing the students, the carrier pigeons flooding the skies at all hours with odd packages out for delivery, and the secret criminal empire that meets twice a week to discuss the destruction of Joseph Tugger. Who's Tugger?

In Helvoorde, everyone knows each other. Physiotherapist Leon Meijer is therefore not worried when a new physiotherapy practice opens in the town. Especially when he hears that the newcomer Becker specializes in alternative therapies, such as the self-invented 'stroking'. But in the weeks that...

Ray, a single mother and superior court judge, pounds a punching bag in her basement to manage her anger. She has concluded that life must be lived tightly leashed or chaos will move in. Her prime directive is to protect her daughter, Armada, from life’s unruly forces. Ray deftly handles other people’s problems, managing her courtroom and the politics of the judges’ chambers, and defusing her neighbors’ battles, all the while staying above the fray.

אין כאן פרפרים, שקיעות רומנטיות וציוצי ציפורים. זהו ספר מהיר ועצבני, מצחיק מאד, שאי אפשר לעזוב מאוד, שאי אפשר לעזוב באמצע אלא כדי לצחוק בקול. הגיבורה היא עורכת דין...

Vous vivez comme une divinité technologique. Alors, pourquoi votre cerveau vous fait-il vivre un enfer ? Si vous passez vos journées stressé par un e-mail un peu sec, paralysé par l'infini des choix possibles, ou anxieux à l'idée de ne pas être "parfaitement optimisé"... ce livre audio est votre planche de salut. La vérité ? Votre cerveau tourne encore avec un vieux logiciel de l' âge de pierre. Privé de vrais dangers, il panique pour des broutilles et transforme votre confort royal en prison mentale.

'בעלי לא בבית', ספרה הראשון של מירב הלפרין, זכה לאהבת הקהל ולשבחי הביקורת, ועתה מגיע ספרה השני, שקוראים רבים ציפו לו. 'על גופתי המתה' מהיר יותר, עצבני יותר ובעיקר -...

Hai-Alarm in der Nordsee! Knut will eigentlich nur eines: in Ruhe alt werden – oder besser gesagt, würdevoll sterben. Leider kommt ihm ständig etwas dazwischen. Zum Beispiel ein verschwundener Surfer. Also müssen Knut und seine Rentnerfreunde den Vermissten schnell finden. Und das tun sie auch. Zumindest einen Teil von ihm, denn es sieht so aus, als hätte ein großes Meeresraubtier den Surfer vor ihnen entdeckt. Aber ein Haiangriff in der Nordsee? Das hat es seit Jahren nicht gegeben.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if a single month of sunlight could reveal the life you had forgotten how to want? In *The Enchanted April*, Elizabeth von Arnim creates a luminous, quietly subversive classic about weariness, friendship, beauty, marriage, and renewal. With...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. « Tous les animaux sont égaux, mais certains le sont plus que d'autres. » Quand les bêtes de Manor Farm chassent leur maître et prennent le pouvoir, elles rêvent d'un monde libre et juste, où chacun travaillerait pour tous. Mais à mesure que les...

In a church basement in Los Angeles, survivors gather every Thursday night. No names, no accusations, just stories about the witches who changed their lives forever. For these broken few, U-Know Support Group offers a chance to cope with memories of being transformed, controlled, or worse. Linda, their therapist, understands better than most — her sister is one of them. But in trying to help humans deal with a world ruled by witches, she may have attracted exactly the wrong kind of attention. Experience the world of SPELLBOUND AND DOWN from the other side.

In a fractured near-future America split between Red States and Blue States, propaganda saturates not just the media but reality itself. Bureaucrats, scientists, cloned celebrities, would-be revolutionaries, and weary citizens stumble through systems that unravel the more faithfully they're obeyed. Across vignettes of malfunctioning machines, surreal workplaces, dueling presidents (one of them an ape), and agents of cognitive control, this satire skewers conformity, ideology, and culture recycled into propaganda.

Von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Tessa Hennig: Eine humorvolle Geschichte über die Frage, wie man mitten im Leben noch einmal ganz neu aufblühen kann. Hannas Lebenskrise hat einen Namen: Katrin. Zwanzig Jahre jünger, strahlend und charmant – und plötzlich die neue Freundin ihres Mannes, die auch noch zur Hochzeit ihrer Tochter Julia in die Toskana mitkommen soll. Hannas Herz rast – allerdings vor Eifersucht. Die Mutter des Bräutigams, Gina, greift zu bewährten Mitteln: gute Laune, italienische Herzlichkeit und eine große Portion Spaghetti, um Hanna aufzumuntern.

The brilliant mind behind Vibrant Imaginistics's success with its fortified concoctications has come up against an unprecedentified conundrum, and all might be lost with the imbibment of a single specially prepared and expensive expressionistic!

AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER "Laura Marie Meyers’ debut novel glows with charm, humor, and heart. An irresistible, page-turning treat from first laugh to last swoon." —Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Love You More It’s all fun and games until someone falls in love...

Kommissar Franz Joseph Bernrieder ist kein Kind von Traurigkeit. In Bad Tölz zu Hause, lässt er keine Gelegenheit aus, einheimischen Schönheiten und weiblichen Wellness-Urlauberinnen die Langeweile zu vertreiben. Doch die oberbayerische Idylle trügt. Eine tote Gräfin und eine verschwundene Marienstatue sorgen für Aufruhr und rufen den Kommissar auf den Plan. Bevor er aber so richtig in die Ermittlungen einsteigen kann, wird in einer Brandruine eine weitere Frauenleiche entdeckt.

Ferma animalelor este un roman alegoric scris de George Orwell, publicat în 1945. Povestea urmărește un grup de animale care se răscoală împotriva stăpânului lor, sperând să construiască o societate dreaptă, în care toate animalele să fie egale. La început, idealurile lor par să...