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The Kellys are messy, loud, loving Australians. The Lees are sophisticated, aloof, buttoned-up Americans. They have nothing in common…except for the fact that their daughters are married. When a nearby volcano erupts during their short vacation to a remote tropical island off the coast of Queensland, the two families find themselves stranded together for six weeks. With only two island employees making up the rest of their party, everyone is forced to question what—or who—they really want.

It’s easy to get disheartened when your planet has been blown up, the woman you love has vanished due to a misunderstanding about space/time, the spaceship you are on crashes on a remote and Bob-fearing planet, and all you have to fall back on are a few simple sandwich-making skills. However, instead of being disheartened, Arthur Dent makes the terrible mistake of starting to enjoy life a bit–and immediately all hell breaks loose.

Douglas Brinkley takes us on the incredible journey of the United States - a nation formed from a vast countryside on whose fringes 13 small British colonies fought for their freedom, then established a democratic nation that spanned the continent and went on to become a world power. This book will be treasured by anyone interested in the story of America.

Internacional Falls, Minnesota, 4 de julio, una mujer es encontrada inconsciente y cubierta de sangre en el Parque Nacional de Voyaguer. El resto de su familia ha desaparecido y ella no parece recordar nada. El doctor Sullivan, director del centro psiquiátrico de la ciudad, y Sharon Dirckx, ayudante del Sheriff, intentarán que recuerde todo lo sucedido aunque sin saberlo pondrán en juego sus vidas, su idea de la cordura y los llevará hasta dudar de lo que la paciente le está contando.

Adam Scott listens to the reading of his father's will, aware that the contents can only be meagre. The Colonel, after all, had nothing to leave, except a letter he had never opened himself, a letter that can only bring further disgrace to the family name.

Nahe Familienmitglieder sterben, der Welt geht es auch nicht so gut, das letzte Glas Alkohol wird getrunken und die letzte Zigarette geraucht. Und doch färbt Martin Suter sich noch immer nicht die Haare. Wer auch in schwierigen Situationen und Kippmomenten des Lebens noch lacht, meint es wirklich ernst mit dem Humor.

Prag 1910. Kisch ermittelt in seinem ersten Fall Prag ist in Aufruhr. Der Weltuntergang steht bevor. Im Mai 1910 soll die Erde den Schweif des Halley'schen Kometen kreuzen - ein jeder blickt zum Himmel, und die Verbrecher auf Erden haben leichtes Spiel. Egon Erwin Kisch, berühmt-berüchtigter Reporter der "Bohemia", ermittelt auf eigene Faust in seinem ersten Fall. Er lässt sich sogar als Schwerverbrecher ins Gefängnis sperren, um mit dem Kopf der Prager Unterwelt Portwein zu trinken.

Als die Brandermittler Klara Larson und Sebastian Vinther zu ihrem jüngsten Tatort kommen, ist bereits klar, dass es sich hier nicht um einen gewöhnlichen Hausbrand handelt. Ein Teenager wurde in einen Schrank gesperrt und kam in den Flammen ums Leben. Von seinem jüngeren Bruder fehlt jede Spur. Je weiter die Ermittlungen voranschreiten, desto mehr Geheimnisse kommen in der kleinen Stadt ans Tageslicht. Doch die Bewohner sind nicht die einzigen, die etwas zu verbergen haben. Während Klara und Sebastian einander näher kommen, drohen die Schatten ihrer Vergangenheit sie langsam einzuholen ...

It's December in the quiet Swedish town of Kymlinge, and the Hermansson family are gathering to celebrate father Karl-Erik and eldest daughter Ebba's joint landmark birthdays. But beneath the guise of happy festivities, tensions are running high, and it's not long before the night takes a dark and unexpected turn....

Suelo comenzar mis conferencias o seminarios sobre superaprendizaje con una pregunta: ¿Qué harías si pudieras utilizar todos tus recursos mentales? La mayoría no responde, ya que no sabe cómo manejar sus herramientas internas para potenciar su cerebro. Esa es la razón por la cual he escrito este libro. A lo largo de estas páginas se despejarán muchas dudas y se proporcionarán numerosos recursos que te facilitarán la posibilidad de aprender mucho más rápido y de manera infinitamente más eficaz.

With a mind sharper than a razor blade it was only a matter of time before Ruby Darke fought her way to the top. From humble beginnings she became the queen of London’s retail, but she didn’t get there by obeying the law. Now, with her son Kit and daughter Daisy finally by her side, she’s ready to start a new chapter in her life, but, unknown to all of them, enemies are circling. There aren’t many who threaten Ruby Darke and live to tell the tale. But this time, she may just have met her match. If you live on the edge, you may just die on it....

Will Robie is an assassin with a mission. But whose side is he on?

Back in DC after successful missions in Edinburgh and Tangier, assassin Will Robie sees his latest assignment, to eliminate a US government employee, go badly wrong. What had she done? Or what did she know? Robie is now a wanted man. But it seems that he’s not the only one on the run. Young teenager Julie Getty is devastated by the inexplicable murder of her parents. Robie and Julie meet when he saves her from an attempt on her life as they are trying to leave town....

"Todo parecía ir bien, pero Blanca sabía que nada iba bien en realidad". Una novela generacional, fresca y mordaz. Una mañana de 1993, la vida de Blanca se rompe cuando su padre le anuncia que su madre no regresará. A partir de entonces, Blanca teme que pueda tener un don insólito: la capacidad de obrar milagros, aunque el primero sea provocar la muerte de una niña que se burla de su situación familiar.

"Wenn dort die Hoffnung erblüht, rasseln hier die Ketten der Angst. Wenn dort das blendende Licht lauert, gebietet hier die Dunkelheit. Wenn hier verzehrendes Feuer lodert, klirrt dort eisige Kälte. Wenn hier das Leben endet, beginnt dort ein neues." Freundschaft, die selbst an den dunkelsten Orten gedeiht. Verlorene Liebe, die wiedergefunden werden muss. Schatten, die Könige erzittern lassen. Götter, deren Spiel die Menschheit schon einmal an den Rand des Wahnsinns geführt hat. Menschen, die sich zwischen Tag und Nacht entscheiden müssen. Sklaven, die von ihrem Schicksal fliehen.

With the threat of another Divine Element Cultivator and the looming presence of a Shadow Immortal, Calron must prepare an army if he's to survive the future. His Cultivation will not be enough as he enters the political sea of the royal court with sharks swimming all around him. No one can be trusted... even the Tower Lords.

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'; so the recording begins and ends with some of Dickens's best-known words, and between those lines is every Briton's view of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. Set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, the audiobook tells the story of a French doctor who is imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille in Paris. Upon his release, he moves to London with his daughter, Lucie, whom he had never met.

Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific. This book brings together the most recent scholarship and new primary research to ascertain that Japan claimed a minimum of thirty million lives, slaughtering more than Hitler's Nazi Germany. Japan's Holocaust shows that Emperor Hirohito not only knew about the atrocities his legions committed, but actually ordered them.

After 20 years defending the frozen north against some of the most dangerous threats in the nine kingdoms, Rhoren “Bloodbane” has finally earned his retirement. While the blood mage's service to the realm may have ended, burning veins and aching joints remain, and Rhoren soon learns that a warmer climate offers relief from his chronic pain.

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Ignition is the fourth book in the Tower Series, a GameLit/LitRPG series from Seth Ring, bestselling author of Battle Mage Farmer and the Titan Series, set in the world of Nova Terra and starring the unforgettable Thorn. If you like immersive storytelling, rich fantasy, and epic adventures with a slice of friendship thrown in, you’ll love this page-turning series.