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This is New Orleans - 1982. In Homicide, you're only as good as your last case. Fresh from solving the Slasher Murders, NOPD Homicide Det. LaStanza must investigate a "floater" pulled from the Mississippi River. The bloated body with two holes in the head is the son-in-law of the La Cosa Nostra boss, Alphonso Badalamente. Sicilian-American LaStanza is in the middle of a Mafia slaying.

Knit me into a cocoon. Help me eat a burrito. Pretend to be a chair at my dinner party. Wrestle a Komodo dragon. Race me in a lobster suit. Author Kelly Mahon posts absurd gig ads online and shares the conversations she had with the brave souls who wanted the job.

Three short stories of horror. "Eenie Meenie": Something lives in the big, black plastic garbage bag. Something that isn’t human. Something that depends on the goodwill of others to provide it with food. Fortunately, it’s not particular if its meal is dead, long dead...or alive. "Red Racing Stripes": All he wanted was a little paint modification for his new car. "UnSub": Lt. Sean Walsh puts his reputation on the line during the hunt for a vicious serial killer. The last thing he expected was for the hunted to become the hunter.

Omega-3-Fettsäuren waren mitentscheidend für die Evolution unserer Intelligenz. Aufgrund unserer Entwicklungsgeschichte können wir jedoch nur die aquatischen Omega-3-Fettsäuren effizient verwerten. Doch Fisch und Meeresfrüchte stehen uns aufgrund der Überfischung der Weltmeere nicht mehr ausreichend zur Verfügung, ganz zu schweigen von ihrer Belastung mit Schadstoffen. Algenöl ist die ursprüngliche und rein pflanzliche Quelle für aquatische Omega-3-Fettsäuren und zugleich die einzige nachhaltige Alternative, um den weltweiten Mangel an aquatischen Omega-3-Fettsäuren zu beheben.

Rooftops is a story about trauma, survival, and forgiveness of self, set in a magical version of reality. Growing up in a 1970s Australian immigrant family with ties to organized crime, Eddy is a survivor with a troubled past. Now as an adult, Eddy is trying to write a story about demons and vampires while living in a world between reality and his experiences.

It was a warm summer morning when the dead began to rise up and feast upon the living. The city was overrun in a matter of hours. The military acted immediately. They closed all the exits leading out of the area in order to contain the outbreak. They shot anyone trying to escape. Their methods were successful. The outbreak was contained, but all hope for the people trapped behind the gates... had been lost.

Pavel Cerny's career started as that of a film director in his native Czechoslovakia in the magical city of Prague. After forced expulsion from the communist country, he moved to Los Angeles where he became a screenwriter and playwright. He became an internationally known stage director (USA, Germany, Austria) but it hasn't been till the covid-19 pandemics of 2020 that he became energized again. During the first 10 months he wrote 4 screenplays and 2 books.

Die Inschrift auf dem Orakel von Delphi lautet: »Nichts im Übermaß«. Das ist leicht gesagt, aber schwer zu praktizieren – und wenn es schon 300 v. Chr. schwer war, so ist es heute fast unmöglich. Und doch ist die Selbstdisziplin die stärkste und wichtigste Tugend, die jeder von uns lernen kann. Ohne sie können wir unsere Lebensziele nicht erreichen. Ryan Holiday beschreibt im 2. Band der Reihe über die vier stoischen Tugenden, wie wir Willenskraft, Mäßigung und Selbstkontrolle – also Disziplin – in unserem Leben kultivieren können.

Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.

Asuncion, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Bukarest, Danzig, Hanoi, Kathmandu, Montevideo, Memphis, New York, Santiago de Chile, Seoul, Tiflis, Tirana, Ulaanbaatar, Zürich – das sind nur einige der Stationen auf der Weltreise von Rainer Zitelmann. Der Historiker und Soziologe hat in 20 Monaten 30 Länder auf vier Kontinenten bereist und dabei 260.000 Kilometer zurückgelegt.

The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a historical play and tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It is one of several plays, including Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra, that were written by Shakespeare based on true events from Roman history.

Roaming the oceans in the prehistoric era were sharks that reached 70 feet in length, with teeth the size of shovel blades. Imagine a great white as big as a plane and you've got it. Megalodon ate killer whales for lunch and were unquestionably the most awesome predator in the ocean for millennia. An eating machine with fins the size of sailboat sails that a whaler's harpoon would bounce off of it like a toothpick. As "mega" as it possibly gets, explore Megalodon, the Great White Godfather.

Xanthus, a young boy in a mystical land, must find his true potential in order to save humanity from impending doom. Along with his friends Acarya, Pura, Ajna, and Priya, the five must use their combined powers to defeat the monstrous Aftreet. With the spirit of Mu-Shin, an enlightened being from the past, Xanthus must face off against Hathath, the embodiment of fear.

Camp New Beginnings isn’t the safe place Matt Voorhees thought it was. An intense flood stole the life of one of the nine survivors. And now all that remain from their cryocolumn are eight 17-year-olds and a troubled man named Darin, who Matt doesn’t trust. They still don’t know where the cryovault is and are no closer to finding it, due to a monstrous snowstorm forcing them to stay put. But they know they’re running out of time. Dr. Westbrook is dead, and there is no one tending to the over five thousand pods of cryogenically frozen people - the last of the human race.

This full-cast audiobook, featuring 11 different voice actors, and narrated by Hillary Huber, take on the roles of the Tandem Players, a group of community theater actors that love their community theater almost as much as they love the sweet old landlady who gave them a home to perform their plays in over the years. But when she passes away, and the will that was to leave the Broadtown Theater to the acting troupe disappears, they don’t even have time to mourn their loss. Her son comes in like a wrecking ball....

Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson were abducted by aliens in 1973. The incident made headline news around the world yet like many reported UFO encounters skips into the ether and is forgotten over time. This case, however, now takes the forefront decades later as new eyewitnesses have emerged to tell the story and confirm the horrifying encounter actually happened on that October night in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Hear the true story from the lone survivor, Calvin Parker, and the shocking details that have never before been exposed until now.

Jeden Tag werden wir mit Nachrichten, Informationen und Meinungen bombardiert, doch wie entscheiden wir ob es sich um Fakten oder Fiktion handelt? Robert Kiyosaki - Autor des Millionen-Bestsellers Rich Dad Poor Dad widmet sich schon sein ganzes Leben lang der sinnvollen Vereinfachung komplexer und oft verwirrender Themenfelder wie Finanzen und Geld. In diesem neuen Buch, stellt er wieder die konventionellen Weisheiten in Frage und gibt Lesern endlich die essenziellen Tools an die Hand, um sich durch die heutige Informationsflut zu bewegen.

This self-hypnosis book is a powerful and innovative approach to increasing personal attraction, combining various elements to enhance effectiveness and help you improve your sports performance quickly. This book is the primary tool for inducing a hypnotic state characterized by deep relaxation, heightened focus, and increased suggestibility.

UAP is the new military term for UFO. The Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force is a program within US Naval Intelligence implemented to "standardize collection and reporting" of sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena. Many say the use of "UAP" is an attempt to better hide the program from civilians but with the acknowledgment of recent UFO videos leaked to the public as real, the time has come for the governments of the world to face the hard question of who are these visitors and why are they here?

Dieses unterhaltsame und praxisnahe Buch macht wissenschaftlich nachvollziehbar, warum wir Erfolg haben und woran wir oft scheitern. Fabritius und Hagemann kombinieren Erkenntnisse der Hirnforschung mit Business-Expertise, um mehr Leistung, Führungsstärke, Teamgeist und Zufriedenheit freizuschalten. Sie zeigen, wie kognitive Fähigkeiten gezielt eingesetzt werden können, um fokussierter, effizienter, kollegialer und letztlich glücklicher zu arbeiten.