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The coronation of King Adrien de Guillory is fast approaching, but there’s one problem: The crown of Staria is missing. Captain Ferrin Leonhart only has a few clues to go by: A young thief caught in the wrong place at the wrong time, rumors of a man in a green cloak, a city guard captain who knows too much…and Silver, the royal tailor and former thief.

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Final Acts. When playwright James Annixter is hit by a taxi and forgets the ingenious resolution of his locked room mystery play, he struggles to find the mysterious man he explained it to...

A short story from the British Library Crime Classic collection Final Acts. The strange new owner of a run-down theatre tells the tale of how a man was killed on its stage many years ago, in full view of an audience, and why the murder was never solved despite the many witnesses.

When Trenton Smith wakes up from a coma to a life she doesn't remember, she has to retrace her life and rebuild relationships with the people that she was once close with.

Holocaust survivor Harry Gordon recalls in brutal detail the anguished years of his youth, a youth spent struggling to survive in a Lithuanian concentration camp. A memoir about hope and resilience, The Shadow of Death describes the invasion of Kovno by the Red Army and the impact of Soviet occupation from the perspective of the ghetto's weakest and poorest class. It also serves as a reminder that the Germans were not alone responsible for the persecution and extermination of Jews.

This audiobook dispels misconceptions about breadmaking and Christian living. Listeners discover kneading dough doesn’t require hours of tedious work, Popeye forearms, or a baking diploma, and a satisfying relationship with God doesn’t require joining the choir, giving away all your money, or becoming a missionary in a remote village in Africa.

You already have a great idea, now all you need is to take it off the ground. Establishing your business doesn’t have to be a daunting process. In fact, it’s simple with access to the right tools to get you started and keep you organized.

Es hätte viel schlimmer kommen können. Sicher, Daniel steckte im Spiel als Barde eines beschaulichen Dorfes fest, aber die Leute waren nett, die Quests reizvoll und die Überlieferungen faszinierend. Trotzdem, mit der Mafia auf der Lauer, würde Daniel bald hart auf die Probe gestellt werden, um nicht entdeckt zu werden.

In the bleak days of 1942, Countess Elisabeth von Trecheim, Berlin-born and city-raised, runs her husband’s family estate in isolated Silesia, while her Panzer officer spouse, Hans-George, confronts the horrors of Stalingrad. Meanwhile, Gideon Rokesby, an English mining engineer, is captured by the Germans in North Africa and endures brutal internment, showing determination to escape. As fate links these characters within a chaotic, war-torn world, a dance of survival, loyalty, and forbidden connection unfolds against the looming collapse of the Third Reich.

While most Lukoi spend their days preparing for a long, dangerous winter, Micah Firekeeper is a toymaker. He lives alone in his great-grandmother’s cottage, making beautiful designs full of color and life. When a fire destroys his home and all of his creations, Micah is taken in by Viv and Sasha, a married couple who live in the underground Compound.

Join us on a journey around the globe and meet the enthusiasts, technologies, and decision-makers that are proving that humans are indeed capable of saving us from ourselves. The challenges may be great, but there are a number of opportunities to stall climate change – perhaps even reverse it. This book offers a glimpse of how to do just that. It will explain how we can equip ourselves with food, clothing, shelter, energy, transport and all in all live good lives without negatively impacting the planet we live on. "If We Act Now" tells us about the barriers to action and how we can overcome them.

When Kev's girlfriend is killed in a hit-and-run, he thinks he's suffered the worst. Haunted by his past, Kev attempts to put his life back together, throwing himself into his new relationship with Stella and his job as a literary agent. Then a book lands on his desk that changes everything. And he quickly realises his nightmare has only just begun.

If you want to be rich and fulfilled, you’ll need to learn from millionaires who didn’t start their careers or businesses looking for fame—all they wanted was to make the earth a better place...and make a living at the same time.

As a young girl, Elena fell while climbing a tree with her best friend, Aleks. Thrown into the shore of the river of the dead, she found a boy named Evander Akti, who was there thanks to a terrible fall of his own…thousands of miles away in Arktos. Together, they turned their back on the river and went into the dark, holding each other tight as they escaped back to the land of the living. But that was only possible because Aleks, left behind to watch Elena fall, made a deal with Death.

In David Whitehouse's most ambitious book to date, he explores how human evolution has been intertwined with the workings of the cosmos from the very beginning, and what the far-distant future may hold, both for the universe and for ourselves. Given enough time, Whitehouse contends, we must communicate with intelligent aliens whose divergent perspective will transform our understanding of the universe. First contact may even come sooner than we think.

Willkommen im Outback – wo das Abenteuer endet und der Albtraum beginnt! "Die Jagd" ist ein harter, blutiger Thriller um einen Roadtrip ins Verderben und eine gnadenlose Verfolgungsjagd durch die Wildnis Australiens. Dass es im australischen Outback etwas rauer zugeht, damit haben Charlie und Delilah durchaus gerechnet. Immerhin sollte ihr Roadtrip durch die dünn besiedelte Wüste mit ihren eindrucksvollen Felsformationen ja ein echtes Abenteuer werden. Als sie jedoch an einer einsamen Tankstelle halten, begehen Charlie und Delilah den Fehler ihres Lebens.

Eine Nacht des Schreckens. Als Maggie ein Kind war, floh die ganze Familie eines Nachts aus dem Haus und kehrte nie wieder dorthin zurück. Maggie selbst hat keine Erinnerung daran, was in jener Nacht wirklich geschah. Jetzt, 25 Jahre später, erbt Maggie nach dem Tod ihres Vaters das Haus. Doch kaum ist sie wieder dort, geschehen unerklärliche und zutiefst schaurige Dinge. Baneberry Hall war in seiner 100-jährigen Geschichte immer wieder Schauplatz grauenvoller Geschehnisse, böser Gedanken – und mehrerer Morde.

Strap in for the global escapades of a scuba-diving fanatic who swapped the streets of Wales for some of the most exotic locations on the planet. The diving bug took hold while backpacking through Australia and South East Asia. The journey continued into South and Central America, ending on a small island off Honduras. While there he joined a tribe of scuba professionals who survived on rum and baleadas while earning $10 a day. Over the next 10 years the world then opened up, leading to working in resorts and liveaboards in the Maldives, Palau, and the Philippines.

What if business was joyful and fun? What if it was so much more than you ever perceived possible? If you were creating your business from the joy of it—what would you choose? What would you change? What would you choose if you knew you could not fail? Business is joy, it's creation, it's generative. It can be the adventure of living.

Embark on a life-changing encounter as you journey through the remarkable life and death of an accomplished naval flight officer and his grieving widow’s path from unimaginable heartache to unstoppable hope. With captivating novel-like and highly accurate military scenes, excerpts of touching long-distance love letters, and raw, unfiltered emotions, Providing Promise isn’t just another memoir—it is a lifeline. Experience your own inner healing and uncover your God-given destiny as you walk alongside one who has seen firsthand how God can turn tragedy into triumph.