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Ada, Iggy, and Rosie are ready for the most super sleepover ever. They've got their sleeping bags, pajamas, a moon nightlight, and a dino-snore machine. This will be Iggy's first sleepover at his house, so his dad helps brainstorm ideas for what to do at the sleepover. They can play games like ping-pong, eat yummy popcorn, and even tell spooky stories! They want to start with a game of ping-pong, but the ping-pong table is in the basement—and Iggy warns them that the basement is haunted...or at least he thinks it is. But he's never actually gone down there because it's too spooky.

It’s Easter! The eggs are decorated, the baskets are ready, and Mr. Twist’s Easter pants are looking fly, which means one thing: it’s time for the annual Twist Easter Egg Hunt, Ada’s favorite family tradition. And this year, her parents are letting Ada hide the eggs! But Arthur, her big brother, thinks the egg hunt is going to be too easy now that he’s 11 - so Ada has to do a test hiding to make sure it’s super hard or else Arthur will retire from the egg hunt forever!

Last Stand: Battle Group SS is an account of an epic last stand at the end of WWII. The inhabitants of a small town attempt to fight the Russian hordes as they rampage toward them. They prepare to fight what every man knows will be a battle to the death. One that will go down in history as a shining example of bravery and sacrifice, and perhaps mitigate some of the worst excesses of the Nazi regime.

Two estranged sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mother’s vintage jackets, purses... and pearls of wisdom.

Pour la première fois, Reed Hastings le co-fondateur et président de Netflix nous révèle comment il a bâti la plateforme vidéo dont les films et les séries sont plébiscités dans le monde entier. Créé en 1997, Netflix a révolutionné l'industrie de la distribution et de la production audiovisuelle par sa créativité et sa technologie.

Rom in den Swinging Sixties. Die Studentin Anna verstrickt sich immer tiefer in den Intrigen der skrupellosen Contessa Amarante und ihrer Imperatoren, einer Geheimloge wiedergeborener römischer Kaiser. Ist General Laudeo wirklich der auferstandene Julius Cäsar? Wer tötete Annas Mutter? Und warum scheint ein antiker Schachautomat alle Antworten zu kennen? Zugleich muss sich Gennaro Palladino - Privatdetektiv und Auftragskiller - nicht nur CIA-Agenten, Fremdenlegionären und Mafiosi stellen, sondern seiner eigenen Vergangenheit.

Jack "Tinlegs" Taylor is a former elite Navy SEAL platoon leader; the best of the best. Recovering from the wounds that ended his career, he returns home to Boston to find a city under siege. A violent Arab businessman is forcing people out of their homes so he can profit from their redevelopment. Payoffs to a local cop mean there is no one to stop the war he has declared on many of the city’s residents.

At last, the reason behind the tooth fairy's visits to children is revealed in The Tooth Fairy Legend: The Touch of Kindness. Never before has this timeless myth of childhood been so clearly defined in story and song. Learn why the teeth collected by the tooth fairy are taken to the Isle of Kindness and why the tooth fairy's job is much more vital than anyone imagined.

This time it is the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler who insists on the theft of a Christian relic, believed to have been touched by Jesus Christ himself. Hitler believes that the relic will aid him in his struggle against the atheist communists of Stalin's Russia. Roth's platoon is ordered back into action behind enemy lines. This time they leave the vicious struggle on the Leningrad front to infiltrate the Soviet capital, Moscow. Their target is a Russian Orthodox Cathedral where the relic is believed to be hidden.

Afghanistan, a nation in perpetual torment. A frightened land where cruelty and casual killing are a part of normal life. Now the violence has worsened. The brutal Independent Islamic State has appeared, founded on a mountain of corpses. To raise funds, the Islamists embark on a campaign of kidnap and ransom. When they abduct the wife of a senior United Nations official, the husband approaches Rafe Stoner to get her back.

After a blazing operation to destroy Syrian chemical weapons, it is time for Echo Six to take a well-earned furlough. Until Lieutenant-Commander Talley's girlfriend disappears in the war-torn city of Beirut. And Hezbollah kidnaps a senior member of the United Nations. NATO orders the elite Special Forces unit to locate and recover the diplomat. The trail leads to a Hezbollah refugee camp. Located on the Southern Lebanese border with Israel, it is home to some of the worst, most vicious fighters in the Middle East.

The North Koreans have new allies in their quest to unleash a nuclear fireball on their hated neighbors. And this time, they are about to succeed. Chechen rebels possess the prize the North Koreans desire more than anything else: nuclear warheads. The deal is done and the weapons are loaded on board a train. But this is no ordinary train. The Trans-Siberian Railway is the longest railroad in the world. Destination Pyongyang.

North Korea has achieved a breakthrough with nuclear warheads and is about to arm their strategic missiles - weapons that could set the world ablaze. The Echo Six unit commander, Abe Talley, is ordered to take his men across the 38th Parallel. Their mission is to locate and destroy the nukes, as well as their creators. They must enter the heart of the most secretive, repressive, and brutal nation on Earth - and somehow find a way back.

A raid on a drug trafficker's factory uncovers a secret that sends a cold chill through the heart of NATO. An Iranian cleric, captured in the raid, tells of a conspiracy at the heart of Ahmadinejad's Iranian government. A terrorist group, part of the Revolutionary Guard, is on a mission to acquire nuclear warheads. Weapons which will enable them to launch a conflict that would threaten the peace and security of the world, and trigger Armageddon.

Mit Romantik oder gar Leidenschaft hätte Bella ihren Umzug nach Forks, einer verregneten Kleinstadt in Washington State, kaum in Verbindung gebracht...

St. Petersburg, Hauptstadt des Zarenreiches 1893. Über die Feste der Schneekönigin hinweg jagte ein Schneeadler. Er hatte gestohlen, was der Königin das Teuerste war. Maus, das Mädchen, das die meisten für einen Jungen halten, putzt im Grandhotel "Aurora" in St. Petersburg die Schuhe. Sie verbringt ihr Leben zwischen der Zarensuite im oberen Stockwerk und dem Keller, in dem sich der geheimnisvolle Eisenstern verbirgt. Und dann begegnet sie der Schneekönigin, dem stummen Jungen Erlen und der Magierin Tamsin.

Das Original-Hörbuch. Gelesen von Andreas Fröhlich. Schwertkämpferinnen, die den Federflug beherrschen, Waffen, die die Kämpfer locken, magische Wesen, die in unglaublicher Schönheit den Gegner bezwingen, eine tragische Liebesgeschichte voller Sehnsucht und Poesie. Auch im zweiten Teil der neuen Trilogie schafft Kai Meyer eine atemberaubende Fantasiewelt. Wunderschön und mit sprachlicher Kraft erzählt, lässt die Geschichte Bilder aus den weiten Landschaften Chinas vor dem inneren Auge entstehen.

Welche Rolle spielen die Klassiker heute? Rüdiger Safranski im Gespräch mit Michael Krüger und Martin Meyer - Live aufgezeichnet im Literaturhaus München. Goethe und Schiller, Hölderlin und Nietzsche: Wie steht es um die Klassiker? Wie bewähren sie sich in einer Zeit, die einstige Gewissheiten unserer Kultur radikal in Frage stellt? Welche Rolle spielen sie noch auf dem Theater, für die private Lektüre? Fragen, die man am besten Rüdiger Safranski stellt.

Getting Pregnant for Dummies offers up-to-date advice on the current methods and treatments to assist in conception. This guide will help you understand why infertility occurs, its contributing risk factors, and the steps to take to increase the chances of giving birth. From in vitro fertilization to third party reproduction (donor sperm or eggs and gestational surrogacy) to lifestyle changes to understanding genetic information to insurance, legal and medication considerations, this book covers all the information you need to navigate your way to the best possible results.

Emma Bloodworth once had a normal life - a loving husband and two children, a cat, a good job in the city - and she was happy. Then, for her, everything changed...as the world ended. The earthquakes, the global floods, and the devastating fires arrived first. The human race, displaced and panicked, fled, migrating to any place there was food and shelter. Then the worldwide plague arrived with its waves of death.