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Eve Dallas und ihre Partnerin Peabody untersuchen ein scheinbar sinnloses Verbrechen: Ein Lebensmittelhändler wurde von drei drogensüchtigen jungen Männern ermordet - nur für den Kick? Es ist der erste Fall für Peabody, den sie leiten darf, und sie stolpert gleich in eine heikle Situation: Sie belauscht unfreiwillig ihre Kollegen Garnet und Oberman bei einer Unterhaltung, in der es eindeutig um Korruption geht. Eve und Peabody setzen alles daran, ausreichend Beweise zu finden, um das schmutzige Spiel der Cops zu enttarnen.

In the blistering heat of Nigeria, former Air Force Special Operator Adam Burke is given his objective with a single task: Gather intel. Zero contact. But when Burke stumbles upon a horrifying truth within the presidential compound, zero contact no longer applies. Now, two targets loom large: The corrupt Nigerian leader and a savage warlord, whose sinister connection threatens thousands of innocent lives.

Oceanographer Dawn Wright made history in 2022 when she became the first Black person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest and most unexplored place on Earth—a trip that took her over 10,000 meters beneath the Pacific Ocean’s surface. We know less about the ocean floor than we do about the surface of the moon. To date, barely one-fifth of the seabed has been mapped in high resolution. As an ocean scientist and explorer, Dawn has made it her mission to change that.

I'm not the best at picking men. I always seem to end up with jerks. Controlling jerks, abusive jerks, jerks that only want one thing. You name the jerk flavor and I've probably tas... okay, that wasn't where I was planning on going with that. When an obsessive ex won't leave me alone, I enlist my super-hot, super-interesting neighbor to protect me and end up going on a road trip I would have never expected in a million years.

New Orleans criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn, lately drowning in personal doubts about her life and career, thinks that investigating the corpse she found in the garden of her new home will be the perfect distraction. Together with her boss, chief medical examiner Andy Broussard, she sets out to solve this case that seems plain unsolvable. Though they identify the body as a missing hooker, now dead 27 years, all hope of conviction still seems lost.

Die Schüsse kommen schnell, leise und mit tödlicher Präzision. Innerhalb von Sekunden sind drei Menschen auf der Eislaufbahn im Central Park tot. Die Opfer scheinen willkürlich: eine talentierte junge Eisläuferin, ein Arzt und ein Lehrer. Eve Dallas nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und bald wird ihr eine schockierende Tatsache klar: Der Killer wird von einem Experten in der Wissenschaft des Tötens ausgebildet, und er hat einen perfiden Plan. Der Central Park war nur ein Aufwärmtraining.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas sieht sich mit einem ihrer schlimmsten Feinde konfrontiert - der Büroarbeit. Gerade als sie sich fast schon wünscht, ein neuer Fall würde sie von den Papierbergen erlösen, passiert etwas, das fast schlimmer ist als ein Mord: Isaac McQueen, ein gewalttätiger Pädophiler, den Eve kurz nach ihrer Ausbildung gefasst hat, ist aus dem Gefängnis geflohen. Und er scheint sich ein Ziel gesetzt zu haben: sich an ihr zu rächen. Sein perfides Katz- und Mausspiel führt Eve und ihren Mann Roarke ausgerechnet nach Dallas, wo die Dämonen ihrer Vergangenheit schon auf sie warten.

In the year 2000, private investigator Peter Andrassy, a native Hungarian and retired NYC detective, may abandon investigatory work. Since moving back to Budapest, he’s struggled to find new clients and believes technology has passed him by.

Attorney Justin Glass's practice, housed in a shabby office on the north side of Saint Louis, isn't doing so well that he can afford to work for free. But when eight-year-old Tanisha Walker offers him a jar full of change to find her missing brother, he doesn't have the heart to turn her away. Justin had hoped to find the boy alive and well. But all that was found of Devon Walker was his brutally murdered body - and the bodies of twelve other African American teenagers, all discarded like trash in a mass grave.

When the beautiful Kit goes to meet an anonymous stranger - who's been sending her roses - the man drops dead at her feet before she even could even get his name. Game on. Andy Broussard soon learns that the man carried a lethal pathogen similar to the deadly Ebola virus. Soon, another body turns up with the same bug. Panic is imminent as the threat of pandemic is more real than ever before.

Reader's Choice Award Winner. Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we must understand both their history and their theology. In this volume, key writings from the house church have been compiled, translated, and made accessible to English speakers.

Lieutenant Eve Dallas vom New York Police Department ist ein alter Hase auf ihrem Gebiet und hat schon jede Menge Fälle aufgeklärt. Das ist natürlich auch den Medien nicht entgangen, die ihr immer mehr Aufmerksamkeit schenken. Dass sie - und ihr geliebter Ehemann Roarke - Objekte diverser Spekulationen sind, lässt sie meistens kalt. Doch nun ist Eve nicht mehr nur im Fokus der Medien, plötzlich interessiert sich auch jemand anders für sie und ihr Leben, auf eine fast besessene Art. Es gibt in New York jemanden, der sie für außergewöhnlich hält und jeden Tag an sie denkt.

Der Fitnesstrainer Trey Ziegler war in bester körperlicher Verfassung -, wenn man von dem Küchenmesser in seiner schön gebräunten Brust absieht. Lieutenant Eve Dallas übernimmt die Ermittlung - und sie muss nicht lang recherchieren, bis sie auf eine ganz Reihe von Frauen aufmerksam wird, die von ihm geliebt und verlassen wurden: Trey war der Inbegriff eines Machos. Während Eve eine lange Liste an potenziellen Feinden bearbeitet, muss sie ihre Abneigung gegen das Opfer verdrängen, um das Geheimnis seines Todes zu entschlüsseln - und schließlich den kaltblütigen Mörder zu stoppen.

In Stop Asking Jesus Into Your Heart, J. D. shows that faulty ways of presenting the gospel are a leading source of the confusion. Our presentations may not be heretical, but they are sometimes misleading. The idea of "asking Jesus into your heart" or "giving your life to Jesus" often gives false assurance to those who are not saved - and keeps those who genuinely are saved from fully embracing that reality. Greear unpacks the doctrine of assurance, showing that salvation is a posture we take to the promise of God in Christ, a posture that begins at a certain point and is maintained for the rest of our lives.

The world's largest retailer, Walmart, has moved into Europe, with UK as its next target after Germany. Walmart operates about 3,601 stores, employs more than 910,000 people globally, and last year's sales amounted to $137.6 billion (85.7 billion pounds). This figure no doubt makes the owners of many corner shops and small retail chains shudder. About 90 million customers are being served on a weekly basis.

Microdosing has been getting a lot of hype lately as more and more people attest to the life-changing effects taking small doses of psychedelics such as magic mushrooms have had in their lives. However, as a microdosing newbie, you might be feeling out of your depth with all this talk of microdosing and trippy mushrooms.

Secrets About Growth Hormone shows you how growth hormone levels drop as we get older, when to intervene, and what treatment options are available to optimize your health. Carefully listen to this audiobook before making any decisions about using GH supplements.

War between empires is now inevitable, but Dillon and Sherisza have never accepted being pawns of fate. With the technology at their disposal, they're called upon to do whatever they can to prevent the war or, at least, make sure the Kwaagi and the other powers of the known galaxy emerge victoriously. If they push the bounds of what their ship can do, they may be able to do more than that. Are the theories of time travel correct, or can history be altered to save the future? And how just how far will Sherisza go to protect her people, her love, and her cubs?

A lot has changed for Dillon Mackey in just a few months in space. Solving the mystery of who wiped out his mentor's people has closed one chapter, but if anything, life has become more complicated on that front. An attack upon their Kwaagi friends adds a new wrinkle to things, but that's hardly the worst of it as a mysterious black ship begins pursuing Dillon and Sherisza across space-time to issue a deadly warning. What lies beyond the veil of space-time, and what new dangers will it bring into their lives as they try to save her species?

Arden and Pate had been a while in the making. It seemed like they were always missing each other...until the one week they didn't. It was magic, and Arden thought he'd found the one. Considering his family's history of falling hard and fast, he hadn't even questioned that Pate would be his happily ever after. And then, he showed up at Pate's house, only to be greeted by the alpha's ex. Arden wasn't usually one to shy away from confrontation, but in this, he knew he didn't have the strength to fight.