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Best-selling author, superstar physicist, and cofounder of the World Science Festival Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos) and an ensemble cast led by award-winning actor Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) perform this dramatic story tracing Albert Einstein's discovery of the general theory of relativity.

‘There’s Rosemary, that’s for remembrance.’ Published in 1945, Sparkling Cyanide is all about remembrance. It begins with six characters recalling the horrific death of Rosemary Barton, a beautiful but shallow young heiress poisoned by a cyanide-spiked glass of champagne whilst...

André Hazes (1951-2004) blijft voor eeuwig bij ons, omdat hij met ons, in ons en over ons zingt. Hazes is een meeslepend, spannend en adembenemend relaas over een kleine jongen, die door zijn daden en zijn doen en met bloed, zweet en tranen uitgroeit tot de vlieger die hoog in de hemel is. Hazes is een intiem portret van Nederlands grootste levensliedartiest, met talloze bekende en onbekende verhalen uit het enorme archief van Bert Hiddema.

Jolijns liv kører på skinner – arbejdet som dyrepasser i Artis er et drømmejob, og hendes kæreste Boaz er i gang med at renovere deres nyligt købte lejlighed i Amsterdam. Men hendes verden styrter sammen, da hun en sen aften finder ham knivdræbt på gulvet i lejligheden. Nogle måneder...

Während einer Fahrt durch den Nordatlantik stößt die Nautilus auf eine kleine Gruppe Schiffbrüchiger. Kapitän Nemo lässt sie an Bord nehmen, ohne jedoch zu ahnen, dass er sich damit allerhand Ärger und Gefahren einhandelt. Der Forscher und Wissenschaftler Dr. Adams entpuppt sich als ein Mann, der von der Idee besessen ist, die verschollenen Schiffe der John-Franklin-Expedition zu finden. Was er dabei Kapitän Nemo offenbart, ist eine schier unglaubliche Geschichte. Tatsächlich stößt die Nautilus im Eismeer auf ein Schiffswrack.

Inspector Cross bittet Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson um Hilfe in einem mysteriösen Mordfall. Der Spediteur Roy West wurde tot in seinem Haus aufgefunden. Er lag in einer großen Blutlache, einige Federn waren um ihn herum drapiert. Es sah danach aus, als sei ein Ritualmord begangen worden. Sherlock Holmes hegt den Verdacht, dass es sich möglicherweise um ein Voodoo-Ritual gehandelt hat.

Reenas will sich mit Tony treffen. Um Mr. Silver zu helfen, sagt der Dämonenhasser zu. Doch dort wird er hart von einer Eisenkette am Kopf getroffen und ab diesem Moment hat er immer wieder Blackouts. Als Tony vor laufenden Kameras den Star-DJ Adrian Hooker erschießt, können es seine Freunde nicht fassen. Was ist nur mit Tony passiert?

Reenas, der schwarze Druide, hatte Mr. Silver in eine andere Zeit entführt, doch Tony und Lance konnten den Kristall an sich bringen, der dies ermöglicht hatte. Wird es ihnen gelingen, mit dessen Hilfe die Spur zu Mr. Silver zu finden? Reenas will das auf jeden Fall verhindern und er will seinen Kristall zurück.

Chief Inspector Anthony Stafford möchte mit seiner Frau Fiona ein romantisches Wochenende in Brighton verbringen, doch der nächste Mord ist nur einen Strandspaziergang entfernt. Warum werden Anthony und Fiona von mysteriösen Unbekannten verfolgt? Weshalb wird in ihr Hotelzimmer eingebrochen?

The Conservation Manifesto (also known as The Fight for Conservation) is a 1910 book by Gifford Pinchot, the first chief of the United States Forest Service and one of the principal architects of the American conservation movement. Gifford Pinchot argued that America’s forests, water, minerals...

The Books of Blood combine the ordinary with the extraordinary while radiating the eroticism that has become Barker's signature. Weaving tales of the everyday world transformed into an unrecognizable place, where reason no longer exists and logic ceases to explain the workings of the universe, Clive Barker provides the stuff of nightmares in packages too tantalizing to resist.

From The Times bestselling author of The Other Mrs Walker – Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year 2017 – comes Mary Paulson-Ellis's second stunning historical mystery, The Inheritance of Solomon Farthing. Solomon knew that he had one advantage. A pawn ticket belonging to a dead man tucked...

A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today, the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. In Oracle Bones, Peter Hessler explores the human side of China's transformation, viewing modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world through the lives of a handful of ordinary people.

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The age of mankind is over, its empire reduced to a land of rubble and broken roads. Vicious things nest in the old, forgotten ruins, and what's left of humanity huddles in tiny communities that grow smaller every generation. But when a young boy is taken in by an unlikely ally, a glimmer of hope is born. After waking up in a mysterious forest with no weapons, supplies, or even memories of his life before, Dirt should have ended up a barely adequate snack. Luckily, he attracts the attention of a gigantic, curious wolf pup, who rescues him, and they quickly become friends.

Classic adventure from the million copy best seller Jack Higgins. If there’s such a thing as a grade A terrorist then his name is Frank Barry. His ideology is money, and his track record is flawless. When the Russians want review copies of the latest NATO missile system, Barry’s the man to deliver them. Stopping him will be near enough impossible, but one man knows all the moves. Martin Brosnan is a poet, scholar and trained killer. A graduate of Vietnam and polished in the ranks of the IRA, he could be the key to ending Barry’s reign.

For years, the DeCavalcantes, the most powerful Mob family in Jersey, labored in the shadows of the more famous families in New York - the likes of the Gambinos and the Columbos. Dismissed by the big-city capos, the DeCavalcantes finally came into their own when they found their lives mirrored in the television hit, The Sopranos. Overnight it legitimized the made men of the Garden State. Now they were a familia to be reckoned with. Unfortunately with high profile came high risk.

In The Time Meddler, the turbulent English coastline in 1066 is the scene of a troubled encounter between the Meddling Monk and the First Doctor, Steven and Vicki. In The Deadly Assassin, the Fourth Doctor returns to Gallifrey and is framed for presidential murder. In Shada, the Fourth Doctor and Romana visit their old friend, the retired Time Lord Professor Chronotis, at Cambridge University. In The Mark of the Rani, the TARDIS lands the Sixth Doctor and Peri in the Industrial Revolution.

Philip Norman’s acclaimed biography paints a frank but sympathetic portrait, from Elton’s rise to success to the attempted suicides, from football club chairman to flamboyant Versace shopaholic, and the extraordinary moment in Westminster Abbey when ‘Candle in the Wind’ turned into a requiem for his friend Diana, Princess of Wales.                                                                                         

Murder in Canton takes place in the year 680, as Judge Dee, recently promoted to lord chief justice, is sent incognito to Canton to investigate the disappearance of a court censor. With the help of his trusted lieutenants Chiao Tai and Tao Gan, and that of a clever blind girl who collects crickets, Dee solves a complex puzzle of political intrigue and murder through the three separate subplots "the vanished censor," "the Smaragdine dancer," and "the Golden Bell."