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Sherlock Holmes leidet an akuter Unterforderung. Da kommt es ihm gelegen, als ein junger Mann mit seiner Mutter bei Dr. Watson Rat sucht: James wird ständig von verschiedensten Krankheiten geplagt und niemand kann sich erklären, woher seine Symptome kommen. Nur ein gewisser Dr. Sinclair ist sicher, dass es sich dabei um einen Fluch handelt, der von Dämonen hervorgerufen wird.

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Mandarin Chinese. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and cognitive psychology about how to learn effectively...

Casper dreams of swimming the Channel. Surely, he was born to use his webbed toes... Instead, he’s strictly forbidden to go near water. When his parents have an unlucky accident, Casper is sent to stay with a grandmother he’s never met – where he discovers his special tie to the sea.

After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set out in The Idiot to portray a man of pure innocence. The 26-year-old Prince Myshkin, following a stay of several years in a Swiss sanatorium, returns to Russia to collect an inheritance and “be among people”. Even before he reaches home, he meets the dark Rogozhin, a rich merchant’s son whose obsession with the beautiful Nastasya Filippovna eventually draws all three of them into a tragic denouement.

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2018 THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A wondrous, exhilarating novel about nine strangers brought together by an unfolding natural catastrophe An artist inherits a hundred years of...

What if aging didn't mean decline—and chronic disease wasn't inevitable? Longevity Made Simple: Live Healthier for Longer with the DRESS Code is a transformative guide that challenges everything we think we know about health, aging, and the future of medicine. Longevity Made Simple empowers...

Twenty years ago, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his adopted country. The hilarious book that resulted, Notes from a Small Island, was taken to the nation’s heart and became the best-selling travel book ever, and was also...

In 1931, San Diego's idyllic image as a beach town with peaceful suburbs concealed a harrowing reality: a series of unsolved crimes targeting women, fueling fear and vulnerability. Monsters on the Loose tells the tragic and true stories of three women murdered early that year: Virginia Brooks, Louise Teuber, and Hazel Bradshaw. Local law enforcement, out-of-town criminologists, and investigators from what would become the FBI pursued hundreds of leads. Yet, the killer(s) were never identified and brought to justice.

The Most Dangerous Game, also published as The Hounds of Zaroff, is the classic horror yarn about big-game hunter Sanger Rainsford, from New York City, who falls off a yacht and swims to what seems to be an abandoned and isolated island in the Caribbean, where a sadistic Russian aristocrat hunts humans for sport. Rainsford must fight for his life.

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young adult and adult intermediate learners of Spanish. Short Stories in Spanish for Intermediate Learners has been written specifically for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement and, most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you and give you a feeling of progress when reading.

Décidément, Jonathan Livingston n’est pas un goéland comme les autres. Sa passion : voler toujours plus haut et plus vite pour être libre. Mais ce marginal qui ne se contente pas de voler pour se nourrir ne plaît guère à la communauté de goélands. Condamné par les siens à vivre le reste de ses jours au-delà des falaises en solitaire, Jonathan Livingston le Goéland découvre non seulement la bonté et l’amour des amis, mais aussi comment dominer ses peurs et connaître ses limites.

Join me on a whimsical journey with my Five Mice, a group of delightful children living in a peculiar house I affectionately call the Mouse-trap. Their antics are endlessly entertaining, and I love watching them play throughout the day. When night falls, I slide down a moonbeam to their side, sharing enchanting stories and singing sweet songs. They adore these moments, and now, I invite you all to join in the fun! From America to France, Germany to Italy, and even Kamschatka, these children are ready to captivate your imagination. So gather around, great and small, and listen to the tales spun...

The beloved, landmark book illuminating the spiritual journey of untangling our lives from addiction, from the bestselling author of The Tears of Things and The Universal Christ Brother Rohr may just take you to places you’ve both avoided and longed for—to truth, union, joy, laughter, and...

Bloodthirsty hired guns are out to ruin a lawman’s plans for progress in this action-packed Western from the award-winning author of Sharpshooter. Born out of the grit, sweat, and drive of a cattle ranching empire, U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland. To some he’s the hero that the West needs. To others, he’s a moving target.

After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS will celebrate the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the peak as an iconic global artist and during this meaningful time, they look back on their footsteps in the first official book. In doing so, BTS nurtures the power to build brighter days and they choose to take another step on a road that no one has gone before.

Deep in a vast tropical rainforest, Kit and Lara escape the hollowness of modern life by doing charitable work in a jungle village. With them is their tiny baby, Helen, who flourishes under the vigilant care of her father. Their life of idyllic isolation is shattered by the arrival of an outsider with frightening news: close at hand, across the border, violence is looming. Kit unwittingly holds evidence, hidden on a tiny memory card, of the world-shattering event that is unfolding, the desperate power-play of a flailing superpower.

There remains therefore a rest for the people of God. – Hebrews 4: 9. In The Saints’ Everlasting Rest, Baxter pulls back the curtain on eternity, unveiling the glories prepared for those who love Christ: freedom from all evil, perfection of body and soul, unbroken communion with God, and joy that no one can take away. But while heaven is the perfection of rest, a child of God may even now have Christ’s perfect peace and rest, no matter how difficult the circumstances of life may seem.

As director of the renowned Wharton Executive Negotiation Workshop, Professor G. Richard Shell has taught thousands of business leaders, administrators, and other professionals how to survive and thrive in the sometimes rough-and-tumble world of negotiation. His systematic, step-by-step approach comes to life in this book, which is available in over ten foreign editions and combines lively storytelling, proven tactics, and reliable insights gleaned from the latest negotiation research.

In the dying port town of Gdansburg, Sir Konrad Vonvalt finds the unthinkable: a fellow Justice imprisoned for the murder of a young boy. Despite the furious insistence of the townsfolk, the only evidence is a question written on a piece of paper by a dead man: What is The Scour?

The brain is always evolving. The 21st Century Brain will describe those influences on brain and behavior that are unique to this century, as well as available preventive measures to mitigate some of these factors. This book is a quintessential study on how our brains are uniquely changing in the twenty-first century, as well as a guide to the personal and collective measures that can be taken to eliminate these factors or reduce their impact.