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Wife. Mother. Spy. A double life is no life at all. Since the disappearance of her husband in 1951, Laura Leverett has been living in limbo with her daughter in Geneva. All others see is her conventional, charming exterior; nobody guesses the secret she is carrying. Her double life began years ago, when she stepped onto the boat which carried her across the Atlantic in 1939. Eager to learn and eager to love, she found herself suddenly inspired by a young Communist woman she met on the boat.

Geoff arrived home, was arrested, tried, found guilty, and executed for his fiancee's murder - a crime he did not commit. He awoke from a drug-induced coma to learn his execution had been faked, and he now owed the Club the next ten years of his life. He accepted the Club's conditions and became a member - there was no choice.

Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency. "Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural systems as complex entities continually adapting through cycles of change.

Writers once dreamed of writing novels. Now screenplays top the dream list. Hear two top teachers explain the sometimes ungentle art of writing salable movie and television scripts.

From the best-selling authors of The Power of Visual Storytelling comes the highly anticipated follow-up, The Laws of Brand Storytelling - the definitive, quick rulebook for how to use the power of storytelling to win over customers' hearts, minds, and long-term loyalty.

Captain Michael LaGrange and Damina have been negotiating over their future together since the day they met. Both stubborn, both cautious, neither wants to make a decision either of them will regret. Desire and friendship build into a need they can't ignore any longer. Unfortunately, duty has to come first and they find themselves on a good will tour prior to the Prince's wedding.

Independent and tenacious journalist Vivian DeMarco is back in Walton, Georgia, for one reason - to do her job and get out. When her boss suddenly dies under suspicious circumstances, Vivian's only hope for finding the truth - and the next big story - is small-town law enforcement's lanky poster boy, Deputy Ryan Frost. Vivian finds herself fighting for not only answers but also her life. False leads, incriminating emails, and someone called The Watcher force Vivian to confront the secret of her past and decide: How much is she willing to risk for the sake of a headline?

She's used to putting everyone first - her sister, her friends, her boss. It's now her turn... Art conservator, Kara Michaels has decided it's time to chase her dream - start her own business restoring and framing works of art. She has the skills, the nose for business, and the pent-up frustration from being invisible to the man she wants but can't have - her boss. He's a meticulous planner whose rule book is about to be tossed out the window...

Dorcas knew what she was doing when she volunteered to join the Forward Hope: getting as far away from her past as possible. What she found on board was a purpose and community far beyond anything she'd dreamed of since her escape. Off the planet and surrounded by aliens, she's safe from the machinations of the creature who abducted her years before...or so she thought. When a nightmare from her past threatens to come after her family, Dorcas does the only thing she knows how to do: confront the monster in his lair and pray for a rescue.

In this funny remembrance of an unusual triangle, Jess learns to accept what’s best for the one animal he has ever loved. After all, he gave his heart to the Australian shepherd mix he’d rescued. What alternative has he other than to give the restless girl her freedom? But in doing so, Jess discovers more about himself, the nature of affection and attachment, the inevitability of loss, and how much Millie means to so many.

Für die Gefährten gibt es kein Verschnaufen, denn auf eins ist Verlass: Nach dem Schicksalsschlag ist vor dem Schicksalsschlag. Der Pirat, die Räuberin und der Ziegenhirte werden wegen Hochverrat verhaftet. Es droht die Hinrichtung. Allerdings können die Helden für solche Sperenzchen kaum Zeit erübrigen, vielmehr müssen sie schnellstens zu den Eislanden aufbrechen, um das dritte Kind des Lichts zu finden. Schließlich rettet sich die Welt nicht von allein.

Constance Owens has a gift for finding unique items in the most unlikely places, which comes in handy, since she buys and sells artifacts and antiques for a living. When she purchases a set of four dragon statues, she has no idea just how unique they are, or that finding them will thrust her into a world of secret societies, men who think nothing of kidnapping and murder to get what they want, and dragon shifters.

Die Reise geht weiter: Einsam, aber gemeinsam: Söldnerin, Piratenmönch und Ziegenhirte brechen auf zum Turm der Zeit, um die Welt zu retten. Doch wenn das so einfach wäre, könnte es jeder. Nebelhain, Fladensumpf und Pirateninsel lauern bereits - finstere Regionen, deren Anblick allein auf der Landkarte Angst und Schrecken verbreitet. Es kommt, wie es kommen muss, jedes verflixte Abenteuer stürzt sich mutig auf das Dreigestirn, sodass die Helden wieder alle Hände voll zu tun bekommen. Die ersehnte Fortsetzung der Schattenstaub-Saga der Weltenbauer.

Le roman qui a inspiré la série évènement sur Netflix. Kentucky, 1957. Après la mort de sa mère, Beth Harmon, neuf ans, est placée dans un orphelinat où l'on donne aux enfants de mystérieuses "vitamines" censées les apaiser. Elle y fait la connaissance d'un vieux gardien passionné d'échecs qui lui en apprend les règles. Beth commence alors à gagner, trop vite, trop facilement. Dans son lit, la nuit, la jeune fille rejoue les parties en regardant le plafond où les pièces se bousculent à un rythme effréné.

Shelley has been running from her past since she killed a man to escape years of brutal captivity. There are bounty hunters on her trail and she's all alone, a dangerous situation for a werewolf to be in. But for the first time in her life, she's free to put the past behind her.

Bestsellerauteur Walter Isaacson vertelt in deze biografie het verrassend intieme verhaal van een van de meest fascinerende en controversiële ondernemers van deze tijd: Elon Musk. Een baanbrekende pionier die de wereld naar het tijdperk van elektrische voertuigen, private ruimtevaart en kunstmatige intelligentie heeft geleid. O, en hij heeft Twitter overgenomen.

What if we're all just searching for something? Anna Stewart is lost. After barely surviving a car accident as a teenager, Anna is scared of settling. Flitting between jobs, boyfriends and homes whenever she gets bored, she has no idea what the future holds. Then her brother Brodie, minister of Glendale, suggests she moves to the beautiful Scottish village, lining up a housekeeper job for her at Glendale Hall. Out of options, Anna agrees to take the job just for the summer.

Wounds Are Where Light Enters is a collection of stories that are warm, sometimes funny, sometimes not, but always taking unexpected turns to find the care of God in all the pathways of life. In them we find the grace that enables us to live with the answers we see and the answers we don't see. In this collection we meet Arthur Bias, the retired black police officer who loves those who hate; Agnes Brill, the shrill piano teacher of patience; Junie Piper, precious of the homeless; Melvin, who honors his aging mother by honoring the little girl she has become; Lucian; and more.

Er will, dass alle Fs und Ks vertauscht werden. Er will auf den Klohmarft. Er will seinen Krieden. Aber dann träumt der Fönig von Fohlmeisen und Faninchen und plötzlich ist auch noch Frieg mit Kranfreich. Da helfen nicht mal drei kreie Wünsche, die dem Fönig gewährt werden.

When Jennifer Doudna was a sixth grader in Hilo, Hawaii, she came home from school one afternoon and found a book on her bed. It was The Double Helix, James Watson’s account of how he and Francis Crick had discovered the structure of DNA, the spiral-staircase molecule that carries the genetic instruction code for all forms of life. This book guided Jennifer Doudna to focus her studies not on DNA, but on what seemed to take a backseat in biochemistry: figuring out the structure of RNA, a closely related molecule that enables the genetic instructions coded in DNA to express themselves.