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Ivan Turgenev stands alongside Tolstoy and Dostoevsky as one of the three great Russian novelists of the 19th century. He was also a consummate short story writer, poet and playwright, and the first Russian author to become popular in the West. This specially curated collection showcases his key works, from the most celebrated to the undeservedly underrated.

Zurück in New York. Der dänischen Journalistin Mette werden erschreckende Tatsachen offenbart: Mit dem 22.2.2022 ist eine unbekannte tödliche Gefahr endgültig ins Rollen geraten und Jakob braucht nicht nur seine Tochter Mette, um die drohende Apokalypse aufzuhalten. Für ihn, seine Bruderschaft, sowie für seine geliebte Fulvia mit dem gemeinsamen Sohn Giuseppe beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit – quer über den Erdball.

Rufus T. Feuerflieg muss einer Gruppe von Pen & Paper Rollenspielern zu Hilfe eilen. Die hocken nämlich im Keller des örtlichen Comicladens fest und haben es mit einem ganz besonders lebendigen Endgegner zu tun! Der Anwalt muss ein weiteres Mal seine Schlagfertigkeit unter Beweis stellen und dazu noch eine Lösung dafür finden, wie man würfelt, wenn man den Würfel gerade selbst verschluckt hat.

Music was his first love. Hers was the lanky boy from summer camp with a beautiful voice and starlit green eyes. Isabelle and Roman thought they’d be together until the end of time. Then fate proved an orphan from the West Coast couldn’t have a future with a wealthy New Yorker hiding the scars of an abusive home. Five years after their hearts are broken, fate strikes again when they’re reunited as a waitress headlining a bar-band, and a successful rockstar kicking off his first tour.

Luna Girl saugt alle Weihnachtsgeschenke aus den Schornsteinen. Gecko versucht sich Lunas Mondboard zu schnappen. Damit muss er schnell umgehen lernen. Denn dann können die PJ Masks Luna Girl aufhalten und verhindern, dass sie Weihnachten ruiniert. Romeo plant dagegen die ganze Stadt in Eis zu hüllen, um aus ihr eine Eisbahn zu machen auf der nur er dahingleiten kann. Kann Gecko ihn aufhalten?

Romeo baut einen Weltraumlaser mit dessen Hilfe er ein Abbild seines Gesichts auf die der Erde zugewandten Seite des Mondes gravieren möchte. Jedoch die PJ Masks und Luna Girl versuchen ihn daran zu hindern. Es sind einfach zuviele Probleme und Gecko fühlt sich überfordert. Wird er ein Problem nach dem Anderen lösen können? Luna Girl kreiert einen gigantischen Mondball und versteckt alle gestohlenen Spielsachen darin. Um die Spielsachen zurückzubekommen, muss Eulette ein Teamspieler sein, denn im Alleingang hat sie keine Chance. Wird es ihr gelingen.

The central motif running through this thought-provoking book is Jung's most misunderstood concept, synchronicity. By deftly meshing his interpretation of synchronicity with key concepts in quantum physics and Middle Way Buddhism, Victor Mansfield brings fresh insight to our understanding of synchronicity.

"Sense and Sensibilia" is one of the short treatises by Aristotle that make up the Parva Naturalia. He discusses attributes, like those that are common to all living things. They include waking and sleeping, youth and old age, inhalation and exhalation, life and death.

Aristotle’s writings cover many subjects, including aesthetics, biology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government. They constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. "On Sleep and Sleeplessness" attempts to explain the reasons for sleeping. He argues that sleep and wakefulness are both affections of the activity of the primary faculty of sense-perception.

Emma Goldman outlines her beliefs on property, the church, love and marriage, and violence. She states that students of the history of progressive thought are well aware that every idea in its early stages has been misrepresented and that the adherents of such ideas have been maligned and persecuted. In conclusion, Goldman claims that only anarchism makes nonauthoritarian organization a reality, since it abolishes the existing antagonism between individuals and classes.

In 1903, Louisa, an impoverished young widow goes to Glastonbury to care for her ailing aunt. One day while sitting beside the ruined abbey church, she experiences a vision from the past of a woman who was guardian of one of the three sacred wells on the Isle of Avalon - the red and white wells situated at the foot of the Tor are known to this day, but the black well, which reveals the future, has lain unrecognized for centuries. Further visions follow, revealing the lives of the women whose gift of seership marked them out as keepers of the dark well.

Sophia Kingshill has written here the history of a unique family tree, travelling back 3,000 years to discover the enduring myths and the vibrant folklore that continue to enchant us and ensure the mermaid's survival.

Of all the original 13 colonies in America, only one owes its conception to one man, and indeed, Pennsylvania was and still remains bound up in the life and character of its founder, William Penn. Here was a man born into a military family who saw his father rise through the ranks of the 17th-century English court to become a friend of the king, and he even considered a military career for himself, only to leave it all behind to become a member of the "Society of Friends", known colloquially as the Quakers.

The lives of Wilbur and Orville Wright are quintessential American stories. But at the end of the 20th century, one of the brothers’ passions became an obsession, making history's first successful powered flights. History for Kids: The Illustrated Lives of the Wright Brothers profiles the lives, careers, and legacies of the famous brothers. Your kids will learn about the Wright Brothers like never before.

Tales of the Talking Picture is a fabulous science-fiction fantasy novel about a boy who comes into possession of an old oval portrait of a woman named Rhiannon Tanglewyst, who happens to be a witch who has been trapped within the picture for centuries. Rhiannon tells Matthew and his troublesome girlfriend, a Goth named Christina, fantastical tales from the future and the past....

By the early 19th century, several European nations had banned slavery, but while the United States had banned the international slave trade, slavery was still legal in the country itself. As a result, there was still a strong financial motive for merchants and slave traders to attempt to bring slaves to the Western hemisphere, and a lot of profits to be gained from successfully sneaking slaves into the American South and the Caribbean by way of locations like Havana, Cuba.

Leadbeater discusses the use and acquisition of psychic powers, although this is not a how-to or an instructional article. He is writing from a philosophical standpoint, addressing students of theosophy who may be experiencing psychic changes through the course of their education and meditations. He cautions students against forcing their psychic will upon others, even if they are doing so with positive intentions and with the other individual's best interests at heart.

This book - which put Liverpool on the paranormal map - is about ghosts - whatever they are. Every culture has believed in ghosts at one time or another: Buddha trained himself to overcome fear by sitting in a haunted cemetery. Spooky tales are not just a contemporary phenomenon - there are several ghosts mentioned in the Old Testament. In the course of a person's lifetime, the chances of encountering a ghost are surprisingly high.

When Mark Twain was growing up, all he wanted to be was a steamboat man. And so Twain ran away in pursuit of his dream. Life on the mighty river for Twain consisted of paddleboats and history, poker games and gamblers, larger-than-life characters and outlandish festivals like Mardi Gras. Twain recorded it all with his keen eye for detail and biting wit.

Terry Giles has lived a classic-American success story. By 30, he had built one of the largest criminal defense firms in Southern California and had generated tens of millions in revenue working with high-profile clients. By 34, he had left the legal profession and had achieved even greater success as an entrepreneur, seemingly overnight. But as Giles observes in The Fifteen Percent, no one goes through life without facing serious obstacles.