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Two strangers share a dance - and a passionate night on the rooftop. But can they sway to the music when only they can hear it? Or is that the part when it all becomes fun?

Ruby wanted to go deer hunting. Or at least that's what she told her fiancé. The truth couldn't be further from that lie though. Especially since she left the bullets home. What she truly wanted was to live out one of her fantasies by a waterfall. Naked. Alone. There was only one "problem": she had company....

Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Unfall hin, als der zurückgezogen lebende Wissenschaftler Professor Norton ertrinkt. Nur Sherlock Holmes hegt den Verdacht, dass jemand dabei nachgeholfen hat... Ein heimlicher Besuch in Nortons Labor bringt Holmes und Watson in Lebensgefahr, als das Gebäude plötzlich in Flammen aufgeht. Schon wittert Holmes eine neue Spur, die in die Wäscherei des dubiosen Chinesen Fing Su führt.

Young, beautiful Amélie Belliveau lives with her family among the Acadians of Grande Pré, Nova Scotia, content with her life on their idyllic farm. Along with their friends, the neighbouring Mi'kmaq, the community believes they can remain on neutral political ground despite the rising tides of war. But peace can be fragile, and sometimes faith is not enough. When the Acadians refuse to pledge allegiance to the British in their war against the French, the army invades Grande Pré, claims the land, and rips the people from their homes.

What do you do when you find yourself alone on Valentine's Day? You find yourself a blind date. But before you could even get to the agreed meeting point, a whole new adventure starts with a stranger who asks for a ride. How could you possibly leave someone outside in the pouring rain? It's Valentine's Day, after all. And besides, what happens in the car stays in the car, right?

Two couples get stuck in an elevator and have some time to spare. Quite conveniently, they just talked about trying out swinging, so it doesn't take them long to find a kinky way to pass the time.

Can the hooker find love? Judy's a hooker who falls in love with an attorney and lies about her profession. When an abusive client begins to stalk her, she turns to the strong man for her former pimp to take care of it. The client ends up dead, and in the aftermath, Judy's white lies and past secrets backfire. Once they're revealed, the man she loves walks away. Can she put her life back together? Can he forgive the lies and the deceit? Some things can be forgiven, and some things can't.

One terrifying, emotional mission to return a family heirloom sends Cassie on an unexpected search for the person she never knew she needed. Luke is tough, strong, and was once the best cop in town. Until the mob took away the one person he ever wanted. Now he's trapped in fear over the man he's become. Cassie wants to bring him redemption, but fears she will never open her heart again. Each is the only one who can understand the other. If they'd just let their walls down.

Have you ever arrived at work and realize that you don't remember any of the car ride there? Have you ever finished a bag of popcorn and you barely remember opening it? Most people have had moments like this. This is known as mindlessness or autopilot. This causes a buildup of depression, anxiety, reactivity, and stress. It has been proven that the more you let your mind wander, and go on autopilot, the less happy you are. This brings us to mindfulness.

Du haut de ses 17 ans, Alexis Cabarez vous embarque dans un stand-up dynamique et sans répit. Avec sa plume tranchante et son regard d'adolescent, il n'hésite pas à vous apporter un regard original sur le monde qui vous entoure. Venez assister au spectacle de cet artiste hors du commun et bourré de charme qui a un humour sans limite. De toute façon, il s'en fout... Il est mineur !

Although the Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin addict. She reveals to Tancred that her very wealthy father has recently passed away, leaving each of his five children a mysterious object that provides one clue to the whereabouts of a large inheritance. Willow enlists Tancred to steal these objects from her siblings and solve the puzzle.

Die Werke Giacomo Casanovas sind nicht nur ein wertvolles Zeugnis des gesellschaftlichen Lebens im 18. Jahrhundert. Sie sind auch eine wahre Fundgrube für alle, die sich für die Geschichte der Medizin interessieren. Individuelle Erfahrungen zum Beispiel mit sogenannten Galanteriekrankheiten und Beobachtungen zu alltäglichen und außergewöhnlichen Heilkonzepten kommen darin ebenso zur Sprache wie Begegnungen mit Ärzten, Barbieren, Wunderheilern und Scharlatanen.

2125 was the year the proxy war began in earnest. The Heshe and Uruk, each with drastically different views of right and wrong, met in open conflict with disastrous results for the known universes. At the same time this was the finest year for the Galactic Coalition.... In this exciting fifth book in the Catherine Kimbridge series Admiral "Cat" Kimbridge struggles with a handful of her closest friends to save not one but two universes. The Heshe and Uruk have been battling for scores of millennia.

Admiral Cat Kimbridge and the Galactic Coalition of Planets must struggle to hold off an aggressive slaving syndicate bent on dominating Earth and the other member worlds of the GCP. New allies and technologies allow the battle to be fought between parallel universes. Just as it seems the GCP will prevail and right will conquer wrong...Cat discovers the real force behind the aggressors is an ancient and virtually unstoppable foe.

2067 was the year I died for the first time. It was painful. Had I known how often I'd be expected to die over the next several millennia, I might have made a stronger effort to stay dead. The year actually started off rather nice. I finished my PhD in high energy physics and was promoted to lieutenant commander in the United States Air Force. My first posting after the promotion was to the Lunar One Air Base where I worked with my father, Dr. Robert Kimbridge, on "The Project".

Seine zahlreichen Reisen führten den italienischen Schriftsteller und Abenteurer Giacomo Casanova an die europäischen Höfe und Metropolen, wo er bedeutende Personen seiner Zeit traf. Doch auch die soziale "Unterschicht" kommt in seinen Erinnerungen vor. Mit seinem berühmten sechsbändigen Hauptwerk "Geschichte meines Lebens" (Originaltitel: "Histoire de ma vie") hat Casanova der Nachwelt ein einzigartiges und farbenfrohes Sittengemälde des 18. Jahrhunderts hinterlassen.

The Catherine Kimbridge Chronicles is a pure science fiction series following the adventures of a future "Horatio Hornblower"-style character called "Admiral 'Cat' Catherine Kimbridge" ...It's a sci-fi adventure series that is chock-full of real-world cutting edge science ranging from VASMR drives powered by liquid fluorine thorium reactors to entangled quantum communications.

"Der Sandmann" zählt zurecht zu den besten und bekanntesten Erzählungen E. T. A. Hoffmanns und der deutschen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts. Hoffmann lässt seinen Protagonisten Nathanael kläglich im Wahnsinn untergehen.

Shalom Auslanders Jugend ist geprägt von einem schrecklichen Respekt vor Gott...

Die Geschichte lässt uns auf wunderbare Weise den Zauber des Weihnachtsfestes erleben:
Der ruchlose Geschäftsmann Ebenezer Scrooge wird von drei Weihnachtsgeistern heimgesucht, die ihm begreiflich machen, was für ein abscheulicher Mensch er geworden ist. Aber sie geben ihm auch die Möglichkeit, sein Leben zu ändern.