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In diesem Buch erwarten dich 30 rabenschwarze Kurzgeschichten, jede so kompakt, dass sie in fünf Minuten gehört ist, doch ihr Echo hallt viel länger in deinem Kopf nach. Düsterer Humor, unheimliche Wendungen und kleine Alltagsmomente, die plötzlich aus dem Ruder laufen, ziehen dich in ihren Bann. Jede Story ist ein schneller Trip in die Abgründe der menschlichen Psyche, perfekt für zwischendurch, aber garantiert nichts für schwache Nerven.

It is said that dreams are harmless, that they are nothing more than the meaningless fancies of an unconscious mind. It’s only a dream. It’s only a dream. It’s only a dream. This, of course, is something we tell ourselves when we wake up screaming in the dead of night. We repeat the mantra in order to bring ourselves back to reality, in order to remind ourselves that there is nothing to fear.

On a cold May morning in 1940, Adrian Vincent arrived in France with his battalion. His war didn’t last long. Within five days the Siege of Calais was over, and nearly all his comrades were killed, wounded or, like him, taken prisoner. After a brutal journey across the breadth of Germany, Vincent and his fellow survivors began their life in Stalag VIIIB, set to work in terrible conditions down a Polish mine. For the next five years, they waged a war not against enemy soldiers but instead versus monotony, disease, cruelty, starvation, and hopelessness.

When Renaissance man and adventurer Chase Baker is contracted by a young rare book dealer to uncover seven metal Bible codices or books which rival the Dead Sea Scrolls in biblical historical significance, he also discovers that the seventh book is sealed with a metal not found on this Earth. A metal so impenetrable it can only be broken by God or Satan. Whatever the case, the breaking of the seventh seal means one thing and one thing only: the end of the world as we know it.

Bouvard et Pécuchet appartiennent à la grande lignée des personnages comiques du cinéma, de Laurel et Hardy à Bourvil et Louis de Funès. Leur enthousiasme est communicatif, leur énergie débordante et leur naïveté désarmante. Le spectacle retrace les aventures cocasses de deux Parisiens - écologistes avant l'heure - qui quittent la ville pour s'installer à la campagne... Leurs échecs à répétition nous touchent au plus profond de nous-mêmes tant ils nous renvoient à notre propre image.

Mitch Herron's business is death and business is good. An assassin without equal, Herron’s latest job is no walk in the park, because fanatics hell-bent on cleansing the planet ambush Herron and turn him into a walking bioweapon. With only days before he's used to spread the most lethal contagion in human history, Herron must hunt down the fanatics and stop their attack, knowing he might be the only person who can.

Healing from trauma begins with telling your story. Kristen Vincent shares her personal story of childhood trauma and how she eventually found God’s healing. In her powerful account of her journey, she models how to name feelings like grief, shame, fear, and anger and engage in honest conversation with God. Beads of Healing offers practical ways for listeners to use prayer beads to enter conversations with God, stay focused, and sense God’s presence.

The 13 killings-by-poison revisited in this book were committed by some of the most infamous murderers in British and American history. Presenting infamous cases from 1857-1972, Adrian Vincent recounts their sinister tales and reveals the lure of money, lust, and deviancy that drove them to pure evil.

In a world engulfed by darkness, the courageous determination of Jennifer Smith shines as the lone beacon of hope in a landscape destroyed by bitter cold and chaos. Stripped of technology, humanity teeters on the brink of collapse. Starvation grips the land as ruthless gangs ascend, engaged in a battle for supremacy in this new, savage world.

Wurde Patrizia Berg von ihrem Ehemann umgebracht? Oder ist ihr eigener Sohn der skrupellose Mörder? Matthias Hegel muss die Antwort finden – um jeden Preis. Im 4. Teil von "Auris", der Thriller-Reihe von Vincent Kliesch und Sebastian Fitzek, stehen Jula und Hegel vor einem düsteren Rätsel, dessen Wahrheit nur die Tote selbst zu kennen scheint. Der 17-jährige Silvan Berg wurde gerade aus der Psychiatrie entlassen. Als er auf dem Seegrundstück seines Elternhauses einen Schmetterling betrachtet, zerreißt ein panischer Schrei die Luft.

Enjoy listening to Dr. Peale as he tells you how you can harness his famous "positive thinking" techniques to help you win the things you want most out of life - and to help you achieve your own goals for personal success!

From the New York Times bestselling author, a first novel as spellbinding as her acclaimed nonfiction At thirty-four, Nick Walsh is a broken, deeply cynical man. Since the violent deaths of his parents thirteen years earlier, he has been living alone in his childhood home in the suburban Midwest...

Before the twentieth century ships when relied upon visual signaling, vessels beyond range of sight or a cannon shot, were blind, deaf, and dumb in the dark, making night battles at sea rare, and near always accidental. The introduction of certain technologies like the torpedo, the searchlight, radio, and then radar, transformed naval warfare by making night combat feasible and, in some cases, desirable. The process by which navies integrated these new tools of war and turned the dark into a medium for effective combat, however, was long and difficult.

I thought my biggest problem was being kicked off campus, but I'd rather trade my blazer for a skirt than an orange jumpsuit. There's a killer on campus, and they think it's me. I have my boys on my side, but this might be one fight we can't win. Someone is determined to bring us down, but with enemies on all sides, the suspects are endless, and I'm running out of time. I'm not the only one who came to Breakbattle with a plan.

The Wealth Dragon Way is an essential guide to creating passive income, building property-based wealth, and achieving financial freedom. This inspiring and informative resource can help you define your financial goals and identify the steps you need to take to achieve them. Exploring common myths and misinformation surrounding wealth, this book reveals how overcoming fear and self-doubt can change the way you think about wealth and your potential for personal growth.

An international best seller with over five million copies in print, The Power of Positive Thinking has helped men and women around the world to achieve fulfillment in their lives through Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's powerful message of faith and inspiration. In this phenomenal best seller, Dr. Peale demonstrates the power of faith in action. With the practical techniques outlined in this book, you can energize your life - and give yourself the initiative needed to carry out your ambitions and hopes.

Breaking Curses: Legal Rights in the Courts of Heaven is the follow-up to Bill Vincent’s book Beginning the Courts of Heaven and discusses heavenly judgment with legal metaphor. This audiobook is easy to understand and uses verses from the Bible to further explain what happens when our spirits reach heaven. This informative book by Bill Vincent also discusses how curses can affect your spiritual court and how to avoid or deny them.

Narrated by author Vincent Abbate and featuring the music and voice of multiple Blues Music Award-winner Doug MacLeod, Who Is Blues Volume 1 tells the story of how MacLeod overcame an abusive childhood to become a celebrated singer, songwriter and master of the blues guitar. The book traces the highs and lows of his six decades in music. From St. Louis to the coffeehouses of hippie-era Norfolk. From the backwoods of Toano, Virginia to the rough-and-tumble blues clubs of 1970s Los Angeles. From MacLeod's electric LPs of the 1980s to the 2018 Acoustic Album of the Year Break The Chain.

Evergreen Academy was supposed to be my fresh start……and Somerset University my second chance. All I wanted was normal. Normal classes. Normal professors. Normal sorority. I wanted the Somerset Sallys to be like every other Greek house. I wanted the pretty, fun, sweet sisters to be genuine. I wanted the smile of their enigmatic leader not to conceal a secret. And I wanted the story they told me to be true. I should have known that was too much to ask.

I don't know the secrets that lurk within my sorority, and apparently neither does anyone else. My search for the truth behind the disappearances meets with blank stares and pleas of innocence. But someone knows. They're watching. They're waiting. They're hiding. They're attacking the man I love. The only way to put an end to it is to bend the Sallys to my will. I'm taking over and hunting the kidnappers down. Before the next person to disappear is me.