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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 ...

Eine romantische Spurensuche nach den Geheimnissen des Nil. Inez Olivera wünscht sich nichts mehr, als ihre Eltern auf ihren Abenteuern zu begleiten – bis ...

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....

Worshiptainment: The Modern Church's Golden Calf is a hard-hitting look at the ungodly practice of mixing Christian worship services with the popular entertainment practices of the secular world.

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.

"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.

Miles “Shrug” Lindstrom received a quest years ago. He was the only person who could see the window, and in addition to the quest, he could also see a countdown to the end of the world. Part of him was hoping that he was just insane and had been hallucinating when he first started seeing the window. Then again, if the quest was just his imagination, he was going to be massively in debt with a rental full of useless junk. But when the countdown finally stops, what happens is nothing like he could have imagined.

Imagine a world without bees, butterflies, and flowering plants. That was Earth 125 million years ago. Turn back the clock 400 million years, and there were no trees. At 450 million years in the past, even the earliest insects had not yet developed. And looking back 500 million years, the land was devoid of life, which at that time flourished in a profusion of strange forms in the oceans. These and other major turning points are the amazing story of evolution.

At a time when we are all confronted by not one, but many crossroads in our modern lives - identity, technology, trust, politics, and a global pandemic - celebrated mythologist and wilderness guide Martin Shaw delivers Smoke Hole: three metaphors to help us understand our world, one that is assailed by the seductive promises of social media and shadowed by a health crisis that has brought loneliness and isolation to an all-time high.

Here, in his own words, is the true story of America's wildest flying hero, of his extraordinary heroism, and of his greatest battle of all-the fight to survive. The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave a new definition to "hell-raising" - on the ground and in the skies.

Myth is our wild way of telling the truth, of sharing stories that have our living earth speaking through them. There is an old insistence that we each have a twin we know nothing about. A wild, curious twin that was thrown out the window the night we were born, taking much of our energy with them. This story is a quest to find and court our wild twin, for they have something important to tell us. If there was something we were here to do in our few, brief years, we can be sure that the wild twin is holding the key.

More than just a book on how to retire extremely early by spending less and earning more while investing in a few funds and hoping they go up in the long run. Written for those wanting a deep and detailed understanding of the strategies and building blocks required to design and live an interesting life independent of the winds of the economy. An information-dense study of economic resilience and how to thrive in an increasingly fragile job- and consumer-oriented world hitting its limits.

From leading geopolitical expert and technology futurist Jamie Metzl comes a groundbreaking exploration of the many ways genetic engineering is shaking the core foundations of our lives-sex, war, love, and death. At the dawn of the genetics revolution, our DNA is becoming as readable, writable, and hackable as our information technology. But as humanity starts retooling our own genetic code, the choices we make today will be the difference between realizing breathtaking advances in human well-being and descending into a dangerous and potentially deadly genetic arms race.

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history.

The Titanic collided with an iceberg on the night of April 14, and 1,500 people died in the freezing waters as the ship met her watery grave. Spectacular in many ways, it's a story that has spurred legends and still sends shivers down the spine a century later. This minute-by-minute account of the sinking is based on over 20 years of research and offers amazing detail of that fateful night.

Jonny Mendez arrives in a small coastal town and in less than an hour, bullets fly. Not the welcome he had hoped for. To make matters worse, two men are killed, and authorities suspect Jonny behind the crime. Despite the false accusations, they hold him in custody. Then more dead bodies fall. Is Jonny’s arrival to blame for the incidents plaguing the once peaceful town, or a mere coincidence?

By day, Lucían brews potions and illuminates manuscripts in service to the monastery that took him in as a child, wielding magic based in his faith and his purity. By night, he dreams of the world outside the cloister-a world he knows only in books and scrolls.

The most urgent story in modern tech begins not in Silicon Valley but two hundred years ago in rural England, when workers known as the Luddites rose up rather than starve at the hands of factory owners who were using automated machines to erase their livelihoods. The Luddites organized guerrilla raids to smash those machines—on punishment of death—and won the support of Lord Byron, enraged the Prince Regent, and inspired the birth of science fiction. This all-but-forgotten class struggle brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.

A collection of BBC Radio 3's iconic Shakespeare productions: eight comedies with all-star casts including David Tennant, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne-Marie Duff, Martin Jarvis, Siân Phillips and Miriam Margolyes. The plays included in this collection are: Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and All's Well That Ends Well.