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Broadway’s most esteemed visionaries tell all - how they got started in the business, how they chose projects, how they raise money, why some of their shows were huge hits and others flopped, and much more. From Flo Ziegfeld and David Merrick, from Joseph Papp, from Cameron Mackintosh, from today’s up-and-coming new generation of producers - here are priceless words of wisdom.

How come nobody ever sees Miranda Ogilvy - except one smoking-hot neighbor and one stone cold killer? The tiny village called “Minokee” (Seminole for “alligators all over the place”) is chock full of mysteries like that, and like: Who is the hunky neighbor, Shepard Krausse, how in heck did he find the invisible Miranda, and why does such a nice guy have such deadly enemies? Who killed Miranda’s Aunt Phyllis? Is Shepard’s guide dog, Dave, really the smartest guy in town? Why does old Miz Cleary keep a loaded rifle beside her front porch rocking chair? 

In 1992, 12-year-old Shanda Sharer was tortured and killed by four teenage girls, led by Melinda Loveless. Caught in a lesbian love triangle, the four girls would torture the young Shanda and burn her alive. The case would shock the picture-sque town in southern Indiana and make national headlines, making an entire nation ask, "why"?

There's a Ghost in this Machine is all about uncovering and bringing to light the untold history of Sonoma County, California from the early history of the Gravenstein Apple industry to the history of the destruction and resurrection of one of California's largest watersheds the Laguna de Santa Rosa.

Executives and professionals speak different languages, as disparate as Swahili and Greek. Agendas, vocabularies, and cultural conditioning destroy meaningful communication between them. This book exposes selling myths and profit-killing gaps between illusion and reality.

Joanna's marriage contract with Carter had been laid out when they were tiny cubs. It was the Pack tradition. Joanna was grateful that her chosen mate was be a high ranking wolf, but she wished that she could keep more of her own identity instead of being expected to conform to become Carter's perfect partner. Then Joanna kidnapped by a rival wolfpack. They hold her for ransom until their alpha leader begins to fall for Joanna himself.

Most individuals want to be successful in their lifetime. This audiobook offers a plan to becoming successful and reaching one's goals.

"Eine Stunde ist nicht bloß eine Stunde ..." Die Tischordnung beim Diner, der verschwiegene Wink einer Gräfin, die Art, in der ein Minister sein Monokel einklemmt oder eine Herzogin ihren heimlichen Liebhaber vorstellt, die Charaktereigenschaften der Kutscher – all diesen Vorgängen widmete...

Weltgeschehen zum Klingen gebracht Was geschah in Deutschland, als sich im November 1918 die militärische Niederlage nicht länger leugnen ließ? Als alles möglich schien – eine Revolution des Proletariats ebenso wie eine Diktatur des Militärs? Döblins vierbändiges Monumentalwerk entstand...

Shirley Wolf and Cindy Collier met in a juvenile detention center and had known each other for only a few hours when they decided to escape and randomly kill a stranger. They would go to a senior condominium center in Auburn, California, where they would seek an elderly victim. They would find one in the 85-year-old Anna Brackett. They entered her home under the ruse that they needed to use the phone to call their parents.

If fate suddenly made you more beautiful that you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare? The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woman transformed, with an exquisite beauty found only...

Eve Duncan’s mission in life is to bring closure to the families who have experienced the agony of a missing child. As a forensic sculptor, she is able to piece together bones, create a face, and match a name to a child who would have otherwise gone unidentified. Eve is brilliant, driven, and tormented - because her own daughter, Bonnie, was taken from her years ago. Now, with the help of CIA agent Catherine Ling, a startling piece of evidence is uncovered in the quest to find Bonnie, leading to a connection that had been all but buried....

In der Bucht eines kleinen Küstenortes in Cornwall werden innerhalb kurzer Zeit ein toter Hund und die Leiche eines Mannes angespült, beide grausam verstümmelt. Der Mordfall bringt die Welt des friedlichen Dorfes empfindlich ins Wanken und verlangt Detective Inspector Collin Brown alles ab. Seine geliebte Bildhauerei und auch seine Familie kommen jetzt zu kurz.

Eve Duncan unwittingly walks into an obsessive killer’s trap—and enters into a deadly game that awakens her own darkest nightmares—in this “expertly plotted, eminently entertaining novel” (Publishers Weekly) from #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen. “Stunning and...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Countdown returns with a knock-out suspense thriller that pits a mother and son against a killer who's the stuff of nightmares. If you close your eyes, he’ll get you. Sophie Dunston knows all too well how dreams can kill. As one of the nation’s top...

Ein Meilenstein der literarischen Moderne Paris, ein Moloch zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts. Malte Laurids Brigge, letzter Spross einer aussterbenden Adelsfamilie, wagt den Blick unter die Oberfläche der Dinge und findet ein „neues Leben voller neuer Bedeutungen“. In poetischer Sprache...

It all begins with a painting called Guilt. Eve Duncan’s daughter, Jane, has no idea why she painted the portrait of the chilling face that now hangs in a Paris gallery. But the members of a cult know both the face and the significance behind it. They believe that Jane must die - when the moment is right, and not an instant before she leads them to an ancient treasure whose value and power are beyond price. But for now, they target those close to her - killing without mercy or conscience.

A CIA agent’s two-year-old child was stolen in the night as a brutal act of vengeance. Nine years later, Catherine Ling’s instincts - maternal and professional - tell her that her son is still alive, but she needs the help of someone as driven and obsessed as she is to find him - and that person is Eve Duncan. Eve has walked this same path and shares Catherine’s nightmare, having endured the disappearance of her own daughter, Bonnie. Now Eve must raise her game as a forensic sculptor to another level, using the science of age progression to unite mother and son.

A high-stakes treasure hunt…A twisted trail of murder…A secret one woman may die to discover… Number one New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen last electrified readers with Dead Aim and No One to Trust. Now she offers a new pulse-pounding thriller that takes suspense writing to...

For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Luden's friends are more sceptical. Jack Sheerwater, painter, thinks Marcus is crazy. Gildas herne, ex-preist, thinks he is evil. Patrick Fenman, poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him. Marcus has disappeared and must be found.