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Die Londoner Versicherungsdetektivin Ivy Ferguson soll die Echtheit eines wertvollen alten Sekretärs klären. Mit gemischten Gefühlen kehrt sie auf die Isle of Skye zurück, die Insel, deren raue Schönheit sie immer noch beeindruckt, auf der sie jedoch eine schwierige Kindheit verbrachte. Dort sucht sie den Antiquitätenhändler Ross MacKenzie auf, Herr von Ardmore Castle; doch der bärbeißige Schlossherr ist Ivy keine Hilfe und verweigert sich ihren Fragen. Einziger Lichtblick auf der Burg ist MacKenzies Neffe Calum, der sich um die Angelegenheiten seines kranken Onkels kümmert.

Ne ratez pas L’Ange des ombres, le prochain tome de la série Ombre et Lumière. Lucian, le premier des archi-démons déchus, est un abruti de première catégorie. Et il est à ma recherche. Génial.

Egg freezing is rarely about women postponing fertility for the sake of their careers. Rather, the most-educated women are increasingly forced to delay childbearing because they face a mating gap—a lack of eligible, educated, equal partners ready for marriage and parenthood. For these women, egg freezing is a reproductive backstop, a technological attempt to bridge the gap while waiting for the right partner. Their stories reveal the extent to which it is logistically complicated, physically taxing, financially demanding, emotionally draining, and uncertain in its effects.

When LAPD Homicide detective Marcy Kendrick and her partner Angel Reyes investigate the bizarre death of a drug dealer in an abandoned warehouse, they discover he was waterboarded—with baptismal water. As the death toll continues to rise, it becomes clear the killer is on a religious mission. It's the kind of sensational case the press loves, and they make the most of it, stirring up a frenzy, dubbing the killer the Templar.

She’s broken free. But danger is in hot pursuit. And rescue is nowhere in sight.... Eve Duncan is on the run. Kidnapped by Jim Doane, a mysterious man who wants her to complete a sinister forensic sculpture, she now has no time to savor the victory of escaping from him. He’s back on her trail and closing in fast. At the mercy of the Colorado wilderness, she struggles to outwit and outrun him, but the odds are stacked high in his favor.

Les années Freud racontent l'histoire de l'introduction de la psychanalyse en France : la rencontre de Freud et de Charcot, la découverte de l'hystérie, la fondation à Vienne du premier Cercle freudien, l'essor international du mouvement et, en contrepoint, l'aventure des grands pionniers français. Les années Lacan relatent l'évolution de la psychanalyse au sein de la culture française à partir de 1925, et l'émergence de la deuxième implantation du freudisme dans ce pays autour de la personnalité de Jacques Lacan.

Rejuvenates fear the backlash caused by bad drugs: they want nothing to interfere with their pursuit of long life—or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant, fuelled by population growth and extended lifespan. Within the Regular Space Service, those who have received experimental rejuvenations fear they may have been intentionally given bad drugs. Esmay Suiza's family fears that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position.

Rejuvenates fear the backlash caused by bad drugs: they want nothing to interfere with their pursuit of long life—or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggressive expansion of the Familias Regnant, fuelled by population growth and extended lifespan. Within the Regular Space Service, those who have received experimental rejuvenations fear they may have been intentionally given bad drugs. Esmay Suiza's family fears that her marriage to an offworlder will damage their position.

Selma, eine alte Westerwälderin, kann den Tod voraussehen. Immer, wenn ihr im Traum ein Okapi erscheint, stirbt am nächsten Tag jemand im Dorf. Unklar ist allerdings, wen es dann wirklich treffen wird. "Was man von hier aus sehen kann" ist das Porträt eines Dorfes, in dem alles auf wundersame Weise zusammenhängt. Vor allem ist es eine Geschichte über die Liebe unter schwierigen Vorzeichen, Liebe, die scheinbar immer die ungünstigsten Bedingungen wählt.Das WDR-Hörspiel - mit Jule Ronstedt als Erzählerin - fängt den herzerwärmenden und gewitzten Ton der Romanvorlage kongenial ein.

When an enemy from her past threatens to return, Margaret Douglas must go on the run. But danger is in hot pursuit, and Margaret finds herself matching wits with a man who refuses to be stopped. Turning from the hunted to the hunter, Margaret must use everything she has to not only survive, but defeat evil and prove she's No Easy Prey in this high-octane thriller.

The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this audiobook, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives.

A murder in the wings. A cold case resurrected. And a killer ready for an encore. The curtain rises on Lykkins Lake's community theater production of The Music Man—but the show turns deadly before the first line is spoken. During auditions, director Amanda Brodie spots someone on stage and...

Lerne alles über Haie und erfahre, wie sie bereits seit 400 Millionen Jahren überleben können. Erforsche das Leben von Quallen und lerne, was sie auch ohne Gehirn Erstaunliches leisten können. Entdecke sagenumwobene Reichtümer und finde heraus, wo auf der Welt versunkene Schätze zu finden sind. Das witzige Trio Theo, Tess und Quentin erforscht das Leben der Quallen. Die faszinierenden Tiere leben ohne Blut, Hirn und Herz.

Die Kunstdiebin Marissa begeht einen folgenschweren Fehler: Als sie versucht, den Millionär Hayden Mancini um seine Gemälde zu erleichtern, wird sie von ihm dabei gesehen. Hayden ist nicht nur ein wohlhabender Junggeselle, sondern auch ein berüchtigtes Mitglied der italienisch-amerikanischen Mafia. Und er ist fest entschlossen, Marissa zu finden und zu bestrafen. So beginnt eine gefährliche Jagd durch die Stadt, die niemals schläft. Hayden ist auf alles vorbereitet. Nur nicht darauf, welche Gefühle Marissa in ihm auslösen wird.

In post-Civil War Texas, Andy Pickard, once known to his Comanche "family" as Badger Boy, is now in his mid-20s and riding with the Texas Rangers. While delivering a prisoner for trial, he becomes entangled in a feud between the Landon and Hopper families. Andy works to help Jayce Landon, while at the same time keeping the boy Scooter Tennyson from being pulled into a life of crime. Lives are at stake, loyalties tested, and the worst aspects of human nature are exposed, in Texas Vendetta.

Jane Addams's memoir of her experience running a settlement house on Chicago's West Side includes portraits of people in need and is a model for community service. Addams firmly believed that education and social activity were essential aspects of any program to turn lives around.

The young peasant woman Kamala has proven strong and determined enough to claim the most powerful Magister sorcery for herself-but now the Magisters hunt her for killing one of their own. Her only hope of survival lies in the northern Protectorates, where spells are warped by a curse called the Wrath that even the Magisters fear. Originally intended to protect the lands of men from creatures known only as souleaters, the Wrath appears to be weakening-and the threat of this ancient enemy is once more falling across the land.

Life has not calmed down for Delaney McPhearson now that she has become the ring bearer. For the last few months, she, Henry Chandler, and Jake Rogan have been finding the camps of the teenage potentials left behind by Amar. In their search, they've come across something they didn't expect: More children are missing, but these children are younger—much younger. One of the largest lines of investigation leads them to legends of an ancient race of giants. But are they getting closer to the missing children or heading down a path that will only lead them farther away?

Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the answer, Rebecca Spang takes us back to France in the eighteenth century, when a restaurant was not a place to eat but a quasi-medicinal bouillon not unlike the bone broths of today.

Je pensais que ma vie ne pourrait pas aller encore plus mal, mais je me trompais. Une série de meurtres sanglants ébranle la ville de New York, et c’est mon devoir d’essayer d’attraper ces ordures avant qu’ils ne s’en prennent à leur prochaine victime. Pourtant, quelque chose sent mauvais dans cette histoire. Au sens propre du terme. Plus je creuse, plus cela empeste. Il s’avère que ces meurtres ne sont pas ce qu’ils semblent être. Ils sont bien pires encore.