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When the bonds of brotherhood are strained, who do you turn to? The celebration of the Viking Festival of Scira ensures that thousands descend annually on the small coastal town of Sheringham, but when one man dies amidst the grand finale, it falls to DI Tom Janssen and his team to identify who the victim was and how he met such a grisly end. The victim was a local man, successful, hard working, and well respected. A motive proves to be elusive. As the case progresses it becomes evident that not all is at it seems.

We began with a question: “Do you listen to respond, or listen to understand?” While many books are written about how to get your point across, effective communication is about transmitting and receiving messages as close to the intended meaning as possible. One central issue contributes more than others to the deterioration of a message’s intended meaning. Real-world communication can be compared to standing on a two-way street filled with loud and distracting traffic. Imagine that you are on one side of that street, but the person trying to speak with you is on the other side.

Ireland, 1856. Samuel Kingston can’t shake his guilt over his father’s death. Blindsided when his aristocratic enemies freeze his funds and steal incriminating papers, he becomes desperate for cash. To save the family estate, he makes a bold deal with Cornelius Vanderbilt to smuggle weapons to Costa Rica and arm the foes of the filibuster, William Walker.

After a year of mourning her father’s assassination in isolation, Áine Nishimura, a cybernetically enhanced double-amputee, receives an anonymous message that links his death to the Purge, a devastating web-based super-virus thought to have been orchestrated 30 years before by a dangerous group of cybercriminals known as the Circle.

Mud Flower: Surviving Schizophrenia and Suicide Through Art shows the perspective of a person who has a serious mental illness, who survives extreme treatments, whose family and the health system have given up on, but who defies all expectations and common beliefs of what is possible. Along the way, the author describes the role of art in her survival, grappling with how the lifeforce can be either nurtured or destroyed by elements in our environment, such as nature, beauty, and art versus dehumanization and coercion.

Everything has led to this moment, the final showdown between good and evil in the Black Forest. After Annabell’s shocking revelation, the forest’s royal families aren’t sure what to believe anymore, let alone what their future might hold. Forced to train and plan for the worst, they still hope for the best - that their beloved Annabell has not forsaken them all.

The Fantasy Fiction Collection contains: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Jungle Book, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Peter and Wendy, and Alice's Adventures Under Ground.

Incorporating strong habits within day-to-day tasks and objectives is an asset we can all include within our lives. Sure, we want to create a balance lifestyle, but understanding how, when, and what habits are needed to stay on course to reach our goals is a sure way for performance consistency and success.

We are here with the story of a girl named Becky Gunderson, who's life goes from bad to worse, and she starts to question if there really is a God out there.....

They sent 300 warriors to kill one man. It wasn’t enough. Mercia lies broken but not beaten, her alliance with Wessex in tatters. Coelwulf, a fierce and bloody warrior, hears whispers that Mercia has been betrayed from his home in the west. He fears no man, especially not the Vikings sent to hunt him down.

The challenge of modern health care is to develop better organizations capable of delivering compassionate and individualized care on a grand scale while preserving the personal relationship between clinician and patient and the quality of care at the ward, operating room, clinic, or practice. Informed by extensive research and experience with systems all over the world, Richard Bohmer shows how organizations may transform by deploying a new workforce of clinical change leaders and how clinicians can take greater control over their own working environments.

Life didn't settle for Elucard until after the events of Vendetta's Rise. His city is under constant threat of a new danger, the mysterious Dead of Winter. Now he and his Anti-Rogue Ops must go undercover to infiltrate a new threat to save Lost Dawns, even if that means once again turning to his Black Rabbit roots. Meanwhile, Avalon's past finds her again to collect a debt owed, pulling her back to her gladiator days with the return of her greatest enemy.

Welcome to Earth. We know so much about our home planet, yet so very little. From the ancient astronomers who sought to figure out our place among the stars to the modern-day scientists studying the deepest oceans to those who looking for life on other planets. In this anthology resides 18 stories of discovery and daring that exhibit the spirit of adventure that has led explorers to risk their lives trying to discover the mysteries and secrets of Earth.

Ursula and Bandares is the story of a young English servant girl and her wolfhound Bandares. Taken into the confidence of the secretly Royalist Lady of the House, Lady Grey, Ursula is coaxed into smuggling Royalist prisoners out from under the nose of the Lady’s Parliamentarian husband, Lord Grey.

From the creators of the number one best-selling horror anthology Nightmareland, the follow up to the number one best seller Dark Visions, and the number one best seller The Box Under The Bed comes a new collection for your darker tastes: Spellbound - a horror anthology with 27 stories from 16 authors.

After escaping from the assassin that had just killed the president-elect of the United States, Zoey Volkova and her paramour Kai must disappear. The FBI is hunting for her and so are the perpetrators. Both know that she is the key to exposing an elaborate and sinister plan for world power. The FBI wants her alive, but the assassins are determined to silence her permanently. Neither are aware of just how formidable and resourceful Zoey can be.

SOL is a legend foretold and passed down for generations predating the Bible. An epic tale of adventure, fantasy, and personal growth. Two future rulers of rival, warring tribes - set in a primordial Amazon-like jungle - defy all odds in this coming-of-age journey. A personification of the sun and the moon dealing with the duality of life and death, right and wrong, and fate vs. freewill - all written in a poetic, spoken-word style.

One week after his ninth birthday, Allan Abrams knew he wanted to be a father. Four decades and countless heartbreaks later, his dream is about to come true. All he and his wife, Clara, must do is navigate the final stretch of yet another risky pregnancy, this one complicated by their strained marriage, a pandemic, escalating political and racial tensions, and a far deadlier threat that is about to emerge. Allan and Clara’s holiday plans are derailed when police ask Allan, a psychiatrist, to help solve a puzzling case. A death row inmate was brutally slain in his locked cell.

In a world of lies, one truth remains. Dead men tell no tales...When the body of an unidentified man is found at the foot of Sheringham cliffs with injuries inconsistent with a fall, DI Tom Janssen must piece together his final days to determine how he fell to his death...or who pushed him...The investigation quickly reveals a network of locals with ties to the victim, but as for the man himself...he remains something of a mystery. The dead man doesn't fit in; not with his social circle, not with his business interests, and when others come looking for him, the intrigue only deepens.

Das Beste aus den Erfolgs-Programmen des erfolgreichsten Bauchredners im Deutschsprachigen Raum. Kliby und seine Caroline bringen seit Jahrzehnten Jung und Alt zum Lachen. Vor allem Kinder lieben die freche Caroline und ihre witzigen Geschichten aus der Schule, ihre Erlebnisse mit Tante Olga oder die süßen Lieder. "Jowaaa...! S'Beschte von Kliby und Caroline" ist ein Zusammenschnitt der besten und beliebtesten Sketche auf Schweizerdeutsch.