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When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writer’s block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her son's, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Jerry is swiftly captivated by the beautiful, mysterious Mrs Unger, but the circumstances surrounding the scandal cause him to doubt the exact nature of her philanthropy.

Everyone in Cape Cod thinks that Mother is a wonderful woman: pious, hardworking, frugal. Everyone except her husband and seven children. To them she is a selfish and petty tyrant, endlessly comparing her many living children to the one who died in childbirth, keeping a viselike hold on her offspring even as they try to escape into adulthood. Welcome to Mother Land: a suffocating kingdom of parental narcissism.

He started his career with almost nothing but his own imagination - and ever since he's been challenging conventional wisdom. In this extraordinary audio program Paul Hawken demonstrates that the answers to small business problems today cannot be solved by college degrees, training or money -...

It's 1960s America, and Herbie Gneiss is forced to leave college to get a job. Mr. Gibbon, a patriotic veteran of three wars, works with Herbie at Kant-Brake toy factory. When Herbie is drafted, Mr. Gibbon feels that he, too, should do something for his country; and so he decides to rob the Mount Holly Trust Company....

In 523 BC, the Persian pharaoh Cambyses dispatched an army across Egypt's western desert to destroy the oracle at Siwa. Legend has it that somewhere in the middle of the Great Dune Sea his army was overwhelmed by a sandstorm and lost forever. Two and a half millennia later, a mutilated corpse is washed up on the banks of the Nile at Luxor, an antiques dealer is savagely murdered in Cairo, and a British archaeologist is found dead at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara.

Nothing in life equals the steady thrill, the calm excitement of being in a good marriage. This requires much more than a vague idea of love. In The Marriage Spirit, Drs. Evelyn and Paul Moschetta unveil a new kind of intimacy: spiritual intimacy, where partners share a love that connects them...

This book is a journal. A continuation of my autobiographical series chronicling the ins and outs of my daily life while working in the hostile work environment of a certain ultra-greedy American corporation. While working in the bottom tier of this corporation, I’ve encountered many obstacles that make work, and even life in general, unnecessarily complicated. Within this book, you’ll see a firsthand account of how corporate greed has rapidly deteriorated quality of life for the American workforce. It’s by the grace of God that I’ve been brought through the events outlined here in the book.

Summer 1914. A young man’s murder in a rough London street seems nothing more than a robbery gone wrong. But Inspector Silvermann has his suspicions and hands the case over to Fox. When a healthy man dies close to where the young man was murdered, Margaret's sure the two cases are linked. But getting evidence proves a challenge when Margaret is battling to keep her job, Fox is trying to stop arms smuggling to Ireland, and war in Western Europe seems inevitable.

Travelling into my final years on this wonderful planet of ours, that question can arise more than twice a day. Observing England, Wales, Scotland and again Mallorca during my newfound freedom reveals the mores, habits, contradictions and petty annoyances of the 2020s. This essentially human interaction, combined with a deep love of people, places and the written word, drives a poetic response that continues to tumble out. Each day can trigger an enlivening of deep-seated memories, many re-emerging that had been locked away during our busy working lives.

In Capital Offence award-winning investor Paul Musson shows how the world is becoming increasingly divided on many fronts. One of the root causes of this is that well-intended policymakers have drunk the something-from-nothing Kool-Aid and are convinced that there is such a thing as a free lunch. There isn't. They believe that debt-fueled spending is what leads to economic prosperity. It doesn't.

England, 1939. Robert Henley-Finch returns to Beaumont Hall, the country estate that made him and never forgave him. The house is waking—whispers in the stairwell, a plaque that shines with unspoken scripture, a painting that answers back. And Robert’s sleep is no longer his own.

Tales from The Dell is a wonderfully heart-warming and charming collection of children’s animal stories, beautifully written and well suited for children and adults alike. The author’s affinity for wildlife shines through, with the stories intended to educate youngsters about the behaviours and characteristics of some of our furry and feathered friends, as well as giving youngsters and adults alike great pleasure.

Two years ago I was diagnosed with Congestive Heart Failure and my Cardiologist said they didn't think I'd live another 3 months all due to 50 years of Cocaine and Meth addiction with no one to blame but myself, so I decided to grow up, clean up, and write a book about how I wasted a lifetime in what now seems like the blink of an eye not even knowing if I'd live long enough to finish it.

Als Rosa an einem verregneten Tag Nikolas begegnet, macht ihr Herz den ersten von vielen Sprüngen: Nikolas ist charmant, humorvoll, und es beginnt bei beiden sofort zu kribbeln. Sie verbringen drei innige Monate miteinander, und dass Nikolas zögerlich zu sein scheint, Rosa seinen Freunden vorzustellen, stört sie nur ein klein wenig. Doch dann gibt es einen tragischen Unfall … und Nikolas ist tot. Auf der Suche nach Antworten macht sich Rosa auf die Suche nach den Menschen, die Nikolas nahe standen.

A haunted U.S. Marshal, still reeling from his failure to catch the "Tooth Fairy" killer, is pulled into a new series of brutal murders that bear the killer's macabre signature. As he hunts a monster he believes to be human, a group of strangers and a terrified young boy confront a supernatural horror on a decaying Iowa farm, where the true meaning of entropy reveals itself in blood and bone.

The world of real estate is evolving rapidly. For beginners and seasoned investors alike, this new landscape offers both challenges and exciting opportunities for wealth building. In Real Estate Investing in the New Era, veteran investor Paul Getty shares decades of experience in property rental investing and real estate passive income strategies. From his start as a teenage landlord to guiding thousands of investors through his firm, First Guardian Group, Paul offers practical insights to help you thrive in today’s market.

Paul Verlaine (1844 - 1896) war ein französischer Lyriker und Vertreter des Symbolismus. Seine Verse sind pure Musik - sie bringen Gefühlsregungen zum Ausdruck, die von der Erotik bis zur ekstatischen Frömmigkeit alles abdecken. Diese Sammlung beinhaltet 30 seiner schönsten Gedichte, darunter Werke wie: Mandoline, Faun, Vom Mondlicht ist der Wald so blass, Pantomime, Im Kahn, Es ist das selige Bangen, Es weint mein armes Herz und viele mehr.

Eine Sammlung von Weihnachtsgeschichten für Kinder. Es werden spannende Abenteuer, lustige Geschichten erzählt und viel Weihnachtsspaß ist garantiert.

When a luxury yacht called My Last Hope glides into the Turkish port of Marmaris, art historian–turned–insurance man Spenser Ratcliffe thinks he’s filming superyachts on vacation. Instead, he stumbles into a covert pipeline moving lost Old Masters—some plundered by the Soviets, others freshly stolen from war in Ukraine—toward a private collection on the Black Sea. A Turkish Coastguard patrol is blown apart on open water and Spenser’s tight-knit group of old friends is shattered. Spenser becomes the only witness who won’t stop asking what really happened.

Meet Jake Fidellius: an unintentional hero of the absurd, adrift in a world where cappuccinos, algorithms, and the tiniest choices can reveal the deepest truths. From the quiet corners of coffee shops to the cosmic expanse of existence, Jake navigates the strange intersections of desire, creativity, and human blunder, asking whether any of us are truly free to choose.