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Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors - which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic.

Wenn Pippi Langstrumpf Weltpolitik machen würde: Weltpolitische Intrigen, Atomwaffen - und ein Mädchen aus den südafrikanischen Slums. Das kommt nur im Hörbuch "Die Analphabetin, die rechnen konnte" von Jonas Jonasson so vortrefflich zusammen. Gesprochen von Schauspiel-Ikone Katharina Thalbach wird aus der ohnehin urkomischen Geschichte eine Achterbahnfahrt voller Satire und Slapstick.

Sweden, late summer of 2011. Self-taught astrophysicist Petra has calculated that the atmosphere will collapse on the 21st of September that year, around 21.20 to be more precise, bringing about the end of times. Armed with this terrible knowledge, Petra meets Johan, a doomsday prophet, and Agnes, a widow of 75 who has made bank living a double life on social media as a young influencer. Together, the trio race through Europe as they plan to make the most out of the time they have left, in more ways than one. But of course, things rarely go to plan, even the end of the world.

Under Cancún’s hard blue sky, a beach boy provides a canvas for tourists’ desires, seeing deep into the world’s underbelly. An enigmatic encounter in Copenhagen takes an IT consultant down a rabbit hole of speculation that proves more seductive than sex. The collapse of a love triangle in London leads to a dangerous, hypnotic addiction. In the Nevada desert, a grieving man tries to merge with an unearthly machine.

Troublesome co-workers making your life hell? As testified by a psychology professor, a psychologist, and an attorney, and recommended by best-selling author John Harricharan ( When You Can Walk on Water, Take the Boat) and others, with The Secrets of Dealing with Difficult and Annoying Co-Workers you will: discover how to instantly free yourself from the negative influence of irritating co-workers so you can enjoy your work life again...starting today.

Breaking the Stigma: Understanding the Truth About BPD is a comprehensive guide to understanding Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and its impact on relationships. Drawing on personal experiences and extensive research, this book offers a compassionate and insightful perspective on BPD, addressing common misconceptions and stigmas associated with the disorder.

With more than 20 years of experience in the rental industry as a renter, landlord, property manager, and now founder of Dwellsy, the largest US rental marketplace, Jonas Bordo has compiled a comprehensive and practical guide to help you.

Asatru is a modern neo-pagan creed with roots in the pre-Christian religions of Scandinavia and northern Europe. Thanks to this audiobook, you will be taken by the hand and brought into a spectacular journey to discovering the Asatru world, starting from its most ancient origins, to how and why it survived over time, and how it is evolved today.

Kathryn Winchester, 33-years-old, has already lost three husbands to violence. The first died in the ravages of the War Between the States, the next died in a gambling hall in Hays, Kansas, and the third was killed in a pointless gunfight in Montana. Now her fourth husband, Ira, has been mysteriously gunned down and lies near death on the floor of their Idaho ranch house.

The Warning (Sarah Roberts Book Two) Sarah Roberts has spent the last four years helping people stay alive and escape near-death experiences as messages from the dead come to her. She receives a daunting communication from the Other Side regarding her sister's murderer and where she can find him. The message isn't clear enough to confirm the man's identity, causing suspicion. When she receives The Warning, Sarah decides to disregard it. Then the tables turn, and now Sarah's being hunted instead of being the hunter. How many people have to die to catch one murderer? How far will Sarah go ...

Sam Coffey and Tom Vance had been partners for years, but after the accident neither could stay on at the K-Bar Diamond spread. Now, Sam has more enemies than any man has a right to. Too many enemies, and too few friends, and those friends are no where to be found. If Sam Coffey lives long enough to crawl out of the Mexican desert, it will be nothing short of a miracle.

Ein liebenswertes Trio und ein grandioser Plan: Bevor die Welt untergeht, soll sie noch ein wenig gerechter gemacht werden! Drei liebenswerte Außenseiter, von einem kuriosen Zufall zusammengeführt, brechen 2011 mit einem bunt angestrichenen Wohnmobil auf, um die Welt ein bisschen gerechter zu machen. Dabei lassen sie sich weder von arroganten Diplomaten-Brüdern noch von einem eigenwilligen Herrscher auf einer Insel im Indischen Ozean aufhalten.

Austin Everett grew to young manhood beneath the hungry tongue of a willow switch and the cruel fists of the one man who should have been his protector: his own father. But when a mysterious night rider killed his father, Austin put aside the misery his life had been to track down the murderer. Also on the trail of a killer, former lawman Alto Martinez was traveling the very same path as Austin, and in the boy he saw a part of himself....

The Art of Choosing Happiness is for anyone looking to identify the source of their unhappiness, stress, and discontent and to turn this around to live a more fulfilled life. The insight I gained on this journey made me further appreciate the small things in life, such as enjoying that cup of tea in my garden. It helped me rebuild my own boundaries, which were always there, but I never had the confidence to share these with others. I now stand as a more confident, happier version of myself.

On 14th June, 2007, the King of Sweden disappears. In 1994 South Africa dismantles six missiles developed during its brief nuclear weapons programme. In 1961 Nombeko Mayeki is born in a Soweto shack. Seemingly destined for a life nasty, brutish and short, her path takes an entirely unpredictable turn. Because really this story is all about the seventh South African missile - the one that was never supposed to have existed. The one that Nombeko knows far too much about.

A movie stuntman dies performing a stunt on location, but the police call it an accident. His girlfriend Angela is a low-level wizard, and when she finds a witch's spent hex bag at the crime scene, she knows it's murder. Jonathan Shade and Kelly Chan take the case and go undercover to do stunts for the movie while they track down the murderer, but as always, not everything is what it seems.

A husband armed with a sword hacks apart his wife in a Denver grocery store. There are dozens of witnesses, and the crime is captured on the security cameras. To the police, it's an open-and-shut case. To Naomi, the daughter of the couple, it's evidence of dark magic. She hires her ex-lover, a private investigator named Jonathan Shade to prove her father is innocent.

Teorien om ingenting handler om alt det, der ikke er noget - i hvert tilfælde ikke noget, vi rigtigt forstår. Universet er stort, og i forhold til pladsen er der forsvindende lidt i det store vakuum. Det synlige stof, vi kender og selv er lavet af, er små bølger i kvantefelter og fylder kun omkring fem procent af universets hele, mens det mørke stof og den mørke energi fylder resten. Oven i købet tyder alle observationer på, at universet udvider sig, så det synlige materiale kommer til at fylde mindre og mindre i forhold til ‘ingenting’, som der på sin vis bliver mere og mere af.

Hilarious, profound, and achingly true to life, Jonas Karlsson's new novel explores the true nature of happiness through the eyes of a hero you won't soon forget. A passionate film buff, our hero's life revolves around his part-time job at a video store, the company of a few precious friends, and a daily routine that more often than not concludes with pizza and a movie in his treasured, small space in Stockholm. When he receives an astronomical invoice from a random national bureaucratic agency, everything will tumble into madness.

After the loss of his wife and newborn son, stagecoach driver Clay Logan leaves behind all that he knows to escape his ghosts. From the peaceful country lanes of Ohio, to the windswept prairies of Nebraska and Wyoming, to the sedate Mormon community of Great Salt Lake City to the wild, violent mining town of Idaho City, Clay must run in search of inner peace. But instead, he finds only trouble.