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History meets Fantasy! Die Kathedrale NotreDame de Paris - der aufregendste Ort der Welt. Nicht nur Gotteshaus, sondern auch Heimat der Gargoyles, jener mysteriösen Wasserspeier, die dem Adel mit ihren übernatürlichen Kräften uneingeschränkte Macht garantieren. Durch einen Unfall geschieht das Unmögliche: Einer der Gargoyles verbindet sich mit Henri, einem 22jährigen Steinmetzlehrling. Eine Todsünde, da dies nur Angehörigen des Adels zusteht. Henri weiß nicht wie ihm geschieht, gejagt von der Obrigkeit und den anderen Gargoyles muss er fliehen.

"Eigentlich wollte der achtjährige Heiko nur Süßigkeiten kaufen. Nun blickt er schockiert auf Maria Bauer, die in einer Blutlache hinter dem Kassentisch der Tankstelle liegt. Wenn er Hilfe ruft, muss Heiko seiner Mutter beichten, woher er das Geld für Süßigkeiten hat. Also schnappt er sich Fruchtgummischlangen und flüchtet mit schlechtem Gewissen. Tags darauf verschwindet die fünfjährige Leni Bauer. Und Heiko identifiziert Klaus Pollack, den vorbestraften Freund ihrer Mutter, als den Mann, der aus dem Kassenraum stürmte, als er gerade reinwollte.

Born on the mean streets of Boston, Vinnie Bruno learns a life of crime. The judge sent him to a juvenile detention center to teach him a lesson for a string of robberies. But instead of learning his lesson, Vinnie recruits his crew - the men who become his chosen family. Under cover of the perfect alibi, they break out at night to commit a range of thefts and sophisticated crimes. From the nefarious profits of these scores they build a cache of weapons and a significant stash of money.

In this cornucopia of an anthology, you will find essays by some of the world's most beloved novelists, nonfiction writers, essayists and poets. You will see books taking flight in flocks, migrating around the world, landing in people's hearts and changing them for a day or a year or a lifetime. You will see books sparking wonder or anger; throwing open windows into other languages, other cultures, other minds; causing people to fall in love or to fight for what is right.

A convicted killer is broken out of maximum security in broad daylight. The price of his freedom? A secret that just may cost him his life.

It's 1791. Friendly, handsome, and popular Billy Budd is a sailor on board the British warship HMS Indomitable. Britain is at war with France, and because of the famous Nore and Spithead mutinies that occurred earlier in the year, every captain is alert for signs of mutiny and rebellion. The master-at-arms, John Claggatt, a vicious bully, is insanely jealous of Billy's good looks and popularity.

Two men marked by the boyhood adventures of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing now stand together to confront a country changing beyond recognition. In the fall of 1952, John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are cowboys on a New Mexico ranch, encroached upon from the north by the military. On the southern horizon are the mountains of Mexico, where one of the men is drawn incessantly in this story of friendships and passion to a love as dangerous as it is inevitable.

Controversy and hidden pasts are suddenly and painfully exposed as wealthy widow Mrs Alving prepares to open a new orphanage in memory of her husband. Her treasured son Oswald’s return from Paris and her relationship with old friend Pastor Manders are no longer the source of joy they once were, as secrets are turned into a frightening and desperate reality.

Consider for a moment 55 words. It's an absurdly tiny number. It's what O. Henry might have conjured up if he'd only had the back of a business card to write upon. You'll find murder and suspense, horror and intrigue, love and betrayal, plus distant worlds and inner demons. All in a measly 55 words.

Alternating between laugh-out-loud scenes from his childhood and acidic ruminations on the present state of an America he and his famous fundamentalist parents helped create, best-selling author Frank Schaeffer asks what the Glenn Becks and the Rush Limbaughs and the paranoid fantasies of the “right-wing echo chamber” are really all about. Here’s a hint: sex.

Eine nordkoreanische Interkontinentalrakete stürzt ins Japanische Meer. In Ho-Chi-Minh-Stadt wird ein CIA-Offizier ermordet, und ein Paket mit gefälschten Dokumenten verschwindet. Die Puzzleteile liegen offen da, sie zusammenzusetzen beansprucht aber kostbare Zeit. Zeit, die Jack Ryan junior und seine Agentenkollegen vom Campus nicht haben. Alle Spuren führen nach Nordkorea, wo ein junger, unerfahrener Diktator ein großes Nuklearprogramm umsetzen will.

As a child in the 1950s, Kevin O’Connor knew his house was different than his friends. A stately, three-story 19th-century Victorian. His bed tucked next to a stage in a former ballroom. His uncle and aunt lived with their three daughters on the floor below. A large electric organ in a bay window of the first-floor mortuary business. Stacked caskets and an embalming room in the basement.

PARTY BOYS is the amazing true story of how a family from a small farm town in Canada built an entertainment empire in New York City where more than 40 million people danced, laughed, and had the time of their lives.

In Is He Dead Yet, Rich Beechler takes you on a heart-pounding, jaw-dropping journey through the chaos, confusion, and miracles that marked his unbelievable true story. From helicopters crashing onto Suburbans, to being surrounded by state troopers with guns drawn—all while accused of kidnapping his own mother—Rich’s life reads like a Hollywood thriller...only it's all real.

Für Leo Lausemaus steht der erste Tag in der Schule bevor...

This is the story of one of the world's most famous golf courses, the legendary Augusta National. It's told by Frank Christian, archivist and photographer whose father was the Club's first official photographer and whose uncle Montell was photograher at the Club's inception in 1933. Frank talks about the course, the setting, the Club and The Masters, as well as further tales about the vast number of famous golfers and others, including USA Presidents who have graced this wonderful golf course.

Bill Travis, an unmarried, unattached investment counselor rapidly approaching his fortieth birthday, conceives that he may not live the most exciting of lives, yet Julie Simmons, his first appointment that Monday, is deeply in trouble. She has taken a North Texas quarter horse racer and liquor baron named Archie Carpin - the last of a dynasty of criminals from the 1920's - for a ride and cleaned him out of a neat two million bucks. And thus begins the adventure of Bill's life.

Do you want to be more likable, respected, admired, loved, and adored? Do you feel like your being manipulated by others and doing things that you don't wish to do? In The Power Of Psychology, you’ll learn the forbidden secret psychological techniques that will turn your life upside-down and there won’t be any obstacles preventing you from gaining the respect and freedom that you want and deserve. I've broken them down to see exactly how you can use their findings to your advantage.

Nick is settling into his role as a police constable in Aidensfield, getting to grips with rural life and his new colleagues and neighbors. But Nick soon finds himself facing a canine crisis. Farmer Lowe’s overworked sheepdog is feigning deafness. Without the dog, the cows cannot be milked, bringing his farming business to a screeching halt. Meanwhile, five sheep turn up dead, and Sidney Chapman’s dog is accused of the crime, much to his dismay. Can Nick salvage Aidensfield’s farming future, not to mention the reputations of two dogs, while juggling his other cases?

As tens of millions of Americans are living longer lives, longevity is creating challenges that cut across race, class, and gender. Caregivers help older relatives for “free,” but with high costs to themselves. The institutions built to protect older people—like nursing homes and guardianship—too often harm them instead. And epidemics of isolation and loneliness make older people vulnerable to all sorts of harm. In The Measure of Our Age, elder justice expert and MacArthur “genius” grant recipient M.T. Connolly investigates the systems we count on to protect us as we age.