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Investigative reporter Sam Hawke, alias Mrs. Samantha Rosenbaum, is the first on the scene—what luck!—when a body is found in the yard of St. Stephen’s Church on Hanover Street in Boston. Dr. Haley Higgins, the assistant Chief Medical Examiner, finds the modus operandi of the crime eerily familiar to that of her brother’s, an unsolved murder that has plagued her for years.

When the body of a British National is found at the base of the common house tower in Boston, assistant medical examiner Dr. Haley Higgins has no reason to believe it wasn’t suicide. That is, she didn't until investigative reporter Samantha Hawke gets an anonymous tip: the victim, a Mrs. Olivia Gray, was pushed from the seventh floor to her death. The question is why?

Our decisions are expressions of who we are and how we move through the world. Rarely, though, do we examine our decisions or even look inward to consider the psychology of our decision-making. Instead, we often make decisions based on what we call instinct—which relies on cognitive bias, false assumptions, mis-remembering, and mental mistakes. Truthfully, we don’t see the world as it is; we see it as we are.

On an autumn night in 2003, Jessi Johnson went missing while camping with a group of her best friends. Although no one seems to know where she went or how she got there, they don know that Jessi was hiding some pretty big secrets. However, when she’s found dead close to her friend’s family cabin, it’s up to Detective Shane Holmes to find the person responsible for the 17-year-old’s murder.

Despite her misgivings and general distaste for fighting sports, Mrs. Ginger Reed, also known as Lady Gold, agrees to attend a boxing match to support her adopted son’s cousin, a street fighter who’s quickly risen in the ranks. But when his opponent, the presumed champion-to-be, drops out and then drops dead, Ginger and her husband, Basil, a chief inspector at Scotland Yard, investigate. Was the fighter dead because of sports-betting gone awry? Were London gangs involved? And has an old, but newly present danger returned to threaten the Reed family?

Vier Geschwister finden Zuflucht in einem verwunschenen Haus in einem Gewerbegebiet am Rande der Stadt. In vollständiger Abschottung von der Außenwelt werfen sie sich ihre Gedanken zu, entfalten so ungewöhnliche Dialoge und ausgefallene Verhaltensformen. Ein kammerspielartiges, anspruchsvolles Werk, in dem Kulturkritik und meisterhafte Prosa Hand in Hand gehen.

Das Blaulicht der Einsatzkräfte färbte Chefinspektor Higgins bleiches Gesicht. Schon wieder eine Tote! Nummer zwei! Und auch dieses Mal hinterließ der Mörder nur einen Rumpf. Der Kopf und andere Gliedmaßen wurden entfernt. Den Mörder nannte ganz London "Dr. Gorgo". Und dieser sorgte Nachts für stille Straßen. Was jedoch hatte Dr. Gorgo vor? Ein neuer Ripper? Was war sein Plan? Die Wahrheit würde jede vorstellbare Grausamkeit in den Schatten stellen! Das Böse hatte hier eine völlig neue Ebene erreicht.

A community of outsiders takes over an abandoned gas station. They spend their days ripping up asphalt, drinking beer and eating hot dogs, and wandering through woods and towns in search of new ways of living. People come and go: a charismatic landscaper, Italian anarchists, a policewoman, travelers. A teenager drifts into homelessness. And The Girl With No Name keeps a journal of her attempts to meet new people and sleep with them, sex that is “not a sideline” but the motivating force in a story she is struggling to understand.

Gefährliche Kreaturen, unerforschte Welten, uralte Rätsel und sagenumwobene Artefakte. Dies ist das Leben von Kwen. Berüchtigter Haudegen, Meisterdieb, Abenteurer und Schatzjäger. Mit seinem Raumschiff Galaxy Hunter reist er von Abenteuer zu Abenteuer, bis er gezwungen wird, eine Bruchlandung auf der Erde hinzulegen. Nicht nur, dass er hier die frustrierte Farmerstochter Emma aus den Fängen eines Weltraumpiraten retten muss. Er ist auch noch gezwungen, sie mit auf sein Schiff zu nehmen, um ihr Leben zu schützen. Von diesem Tag an wird sein Schatzjägerdasein zu einer wahren Herausforderung.

Investigative reporter Samantha Hawke—byline Sam Hawke—is blonde, beautiful, and broke, no thanks to her no-good husband who’s been on the lam for over six years. Her position at The Boston Daily Record is more than a job—it’s payback. When a man is found dead at the Bell in Hand Tavern on Union Street, Haley and Samantha are both working the case. Haley’s looking for justice, and Samantha’s after recognition and a raise. They want the same thing—to catch a killer—and it turns out they may need each other to solve this case before becoming the next victims.

Michael Andrews and Gail Sommers have finally found the love that had eluded them for so long. But their romance has uncovered an ancient evil curse neither of them could have anticipated. It does more than bring down a plague on their houses - it unleashes something far more sinister that can destroy humanity. Now they must choose: battle the evil forces out to destroy them, or continue to meet in secret while the rest of the world burns.

Behind our current caregiving crisis, in which a broken system has left parents and caregivers exhausted, sits a fierce addiction to independence. But what would happen if we started to appreciate dependency, and the deep meaning of one person caring for another? If we start to care about care? With a curiosity and desire to understand more fully one of humanity’s most profound and essential relationships, journalist Elissa Strauss she interrogates our societal obsession with going it alone and poses a challenge to let ourselves be transformed by the act of caregiving.

First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future.

Werk soos ’n miljardêr vertel die verhaal van Dan, ’n werknemer, wat bloot van salaristjek tot salaristjek leef. Hy streef daarna om sy eie besigheid te begin en om sy eie baas te wees maar hy staar verskeie uitdagings in die gesig. Een van dié uitdagings is hoe om, sonder enige geld, ’n besigheid te begin. Maar alles verander op ’n dag toe hy voor ’n groot besluit te staan kom en hy die besluit maak wat sy hele toekoms handomkeer verander.

If one wedding is good, a double wedding is better! Rosa and Miguel agree that walking down the aisle with Bill and Carlotta solves a lot of social and familial problems, but the drama is notched up when a dead body arrives with dessert.

When Rosa Reed attends a birthday party in the spring of 1957, the Mexican fiesta turns deadly. It wasn't how she wanted to celebrate with Detective Miguel Belmonte, nor how she hoped to be introduced to his large complicated family. Before long, Rosa Reed Investigations is on the case. Can Rosa and Miguel find the murderer before someone else dies? And when will Rosa have time to make wedding plans?

It's the beginning of 1957, and Rosa Reed takes a much needed break from her thriving private-investigative work by joining her cousin Clarence and Aunt Louisa for a weekend getaway at the Black Stallion Dude Ranch near Santa Bonita, California. Newly single and ready for a fresh start, all she needs is time on the trails and cuddles from her tabby cat, Diego.

It's early 1957, and Rosa Reed and her new beau Detective Miguel Belmonte fly from California to London to follow up on a cold case: the murder of Rosa's good friend Lady Vivien Everleigh. The investigation is complicated, if not awkward, as the deceased is the sister of Rosa's former fiancé. Thankfully, Rosa's parents, Ginger (aka Ginger Gold of Lady Gold Investigations) and Basil Reed are there to help. Rosa stumbles onto a dangerous truth. Can she find her friend's killer and save her own life too?

Diese Gesamtausgabe enthält beide Bände der Smaragddrachen-Dilogie (Gemmas Reise & Tareks Schicksal). Zwei verfeindete Völker. Eine verbotene Liebe. Und ein Schicksal, so alt wie die Sterne. Gemma ist die wohlbehütete Prinzessin des Reiches der Grauen Küste. Ihr Leben verbringt sie in einem goldenen Käfig, doch eines kalten Wintertages nimmt ihr Schicksal eine folgenschwere Wendung. Sie wird von ihrem eigenen Vater an Antares, den grausamen König des Südens, verkauft. Fern ihrer Heimat wird sie zu einer Schachfigur im Spiel der Mächtigen.

Die Liebe eines Magiers ist das hellste Licht und die tiefste Dunkelheit. Wüstendrachen, tödliche Orchideenwälder, Nebelwale und Feuervögel. Ihre Reise an Indigos Seite führt Jade durch legendäre Reiche und zeigt ihr Wunder, die all ihre Träume übersteigen. Doch unerbittlich neigt sich ihre gemeinsame Reise dem Ende entgegen. Von Tag zu Tag wird der Gedanke an Indigos Verlust unerträglicher. Wird sie in der Lage sein, den Preis für seine Erlösung zu zahlen? Wird ihr das Unmögliche gelingen? Plötzlich steht Jade vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens.