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He began his stage career as a card manipulator. As his popularity grew, Harry Houdini quickly became known as one of the most colorful stage magicians and escape artists of all time. Then the movies came knocking, and the man people had only read about in the newspapers was suddenly starring on the silver screen, captivating audiences with his daring serial exploits. Harry Houdini was no longer just a magician; he was an international superstar. In 1904, he began a world tour starting in London and the adventures grew even more fantastic.

Baltimore, 1919: After graduating in the top of her psychology major at Vassar, Rosalie Rayner accepts a coveted position in the lab of Dr. John B. Watson, the infamous father of American behaviorism, at Johns Hopkins University. The two begin a passionate affair that will cost Rosalie her PhD candidacy, her prominent Jewish family's good name, her dreams of her own career, and ultimately her sanity.

Against a drumbeat of hopelessness about too much student debt and too few jobs requiring a college degree, Smart Is the New Rich: Money Guide for Millennials is a realistic and optimistic road map for millennials to save more, navigate their careers, invest in the stock market, and pay their student loans all at the same time.

Nesta coletânea, Affonso Romano de Sant´anna nos fala sobre o amor em 26 crônicas. Mas, longe de tentar estabelecer teses, Affonso ora flerta com o amor, ora observa suas sutilezas; às vezes, admira sua simplicidade, outras vezes, deixa-se destroçar por sua tormenta. O amor, para Affonso, pode ser o amor da espera ou o amor infeliz, pode ser o amor infiel ou o da mulher madura; às vezes, está nas pequenas seduções cotidianas; outras vezes, evidencia-se entre os homens de negócio.

The Bronx. A priest is found dead with a sharpened crucifix sticking in his neck. A crazed killer on the loose or a damaged man with an extreme sense of justice? Four tough, New York City cops hot on the trail, one with a painful secret. As a killer wielding crosses hunts pedophiles, Detective Vic Gonnella and his team must investigate.

Are you lacking self-discipline? Are you falling short of completing what you need to do at work, school, or home? Did you promise your boss a new safety manual last Friday, and still don't have it done? If so, this is the book for you. Eyes on the Prize: The 10 Step Program to Self-Discipline in 30 Days guides you through the process of setting goals and then achieving those goals while increasing your self-discipline.

Cristina trascorre i primi giorni di settembre riordinando la secolare casetta di montagna ricevuta in eredità da una anziana prozia. Ancora non ha deciso se tenerla o venderla: il borgo di cui fa parte è abitato soltanto in estate e la ragazza, ogni sera, si sente obbligata a tornare in città. Non è ancora riuscita a trascorrere una sola notte là dentro, e le sembra impossibile viverci in totale solitudine, come sua zia Terzilia faceva da anni.

Nahezu jeder wird sich in dieser oder einer ähnlichen Situation wiedererkennen: Man ist zum Essen eingeladen und greift wider besseren Wissens zu etwas, von dem man weiß, man verträgt es nicht, woraufhin man den restlichen Abend damit beschäftigt ist, die fröhlich vor sich hin gluckernde Magensäure durch Salzstangen abzupuffern und das brennende Gefühl verflucht. Aber wie kommt es, dass die meisten von uns schon öfters Besuch von GERD (engl. Abkürzung für: gastroesophageal reflux disease ) hatten?

An Albanian's word of honor, their Besa, is the pride that has made their clans fearless fighters for centuries. In the streets of the Bronx, New York, their code has made the "sons of the eagle" a community that has become a powerhouse over the last 40 years.

Finalmente un audiolibro di creatività a portata di mano...

24 märchenhafte Geschichten zur Adventszeit. Lassen Sie sich in der heimelichsten Jahreszeit verzaubern...

Lügner, Betrüger, Serientäter und Sadisten. Sie alle finden sich ein im ganz normalen Alltag von Frauen um die dreißig...

Småland, kurz vor Mittsommer. In einem Wald wird der von Pfeilen durchbohrte Leichnam eines Lehrers gefunden. Die Todesumstände erinnern an die Darstellung frühchristlicher Märtyrer. Bald darauf tauchen an der Domkirche seltsame Zeichen auf. Haben Nyström und Forss es mit einem religiösen Ritualmord zu tun? Als ein weiterer Toter entdeckt wird, erhöht sich der Druck auf die beiden ungleichen Frauen spürbar.

Die junge Kommissarin Stina Forss bricht in Berlin ihre Zelte ab und tritt eine Stelle im schwedischen Småland an...

Wussten Sie, dass es in den USA Männern verboten ist, während der Fischfangsaison zu stricken...

Rýdzo teoretické, ale i praktické poznatky zo sveta zrelých cucotiedok...

Kerstin hat die Nase voll von Männern und sucht Erfüllung in Indien, doch Kolkata ist ein eiskalter Guru...

Mona Kowalski hat alles im Griff... wirklich ganz und gar alles paletti... bis auf vielleicht... aber hören Sie selbst...

Im Mai 1513 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung bricht Perry Rhodan zu einer diplomatischen Mission auf: Mithilfe der exotischen Technik des Polyport-Systems reist er in die ferne Galaxis Anthuresta. Dort besucht er die Nachkommen jener Menschen, die einst in das Stardust-System ausgewandert sind. Die Stardust-Terraner, wie sich die Menschen in Anthuresta nennen, haben bereits ein kleines Sternenreich aufgebaut. Ihre Raumschiffe erforschen die nähere Umgebung, ihre Abgesandten treten in Kontakt zu außerirdischen Völkern.

From the introduction to Philadelphia Noir: "America's first great city, first capital, and first industrial metropolis contained from the beginning the mix of poor workers and elite culture, of ethnic enclaves and religious intolerance, of easy skullduggery and flesh-pot possibilities, that led Lincoln Steffens in 1903 to famously rule it 'corrupt and contented'."