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Throughout her long career of “afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted,” the cause closest to Molly Ivins’s heart was working to protect the freedoms we all value. Sadly, today we’re living in a time when dissent is equated with giving aid to terrorists, when any of us...

Loretta Larson is attractive and accomplished. She has so much money that her teaching salary is not enough for her to notice. But what she does not have is a man who loves her. She suffers in a damaging relationship with a cruel and dishonest banker.

Violetta hat ein Riesenprojekt: Sie muss verhindern, dass ihr Lieblings-Eiscafé von der Behörde geschlossen wird! Zum Glück kommt ihr großes Idol Stella Lightfoot, die supercoole Abenteurerin aus dem Fernsehen, in die Stadt. Ganz klar - Stella muss helfen. Doch plötzlich - Zack! - ist Violetta nur noch so groß wie ein Eislöffel. Wieder einmal vor Aufregung geschrumpft! So wird die Rettungsaktion wirklich kompliziert.

Ten-year-old Trudy loves Papa more than anybody else until she hears him slap Zoe, her mother. She is so angry at him she wishes he'd die. When he accidentally sets fire to the family mansion and dies in the fire, she is not prepared for the shock.

From the author of Frostborn comes Book 2 in the acclaimed Thrones and Bones fantasy-adventure trilogy for fans of Lloyd Alexander and Brandon Mull. Karn Korlundsson is a gamer. Not a riddle solver. But in order to rescue his best friend, Thianna Frostborn, he will need to travel to the...

Heute ist Violettas ALLERGRÖSSTER Tag: Endlich ist sie groß genug, um auf der COOLSTEN und SCHNELLSTEN Achterbahn zu fahren: dem SILBERBLITZ! Doch auf einmal ZACK! ist Violetta nur noch so winzig klein wie ein Fischstäbchen! Violetta ist geschrumpft! Den SILBERBLITZ kann sie erst mal vergessen. Doch dann findet sie heraus, dass ihr neues Mini-Format manchmal unglaublich praktisch ist - vor allem, wenn man sich als Detektivin betätigen und einen GEMEINEN DIEB dingfest machen muss!

Im Frühjahr 1900 fahren die Schriftstellerin Lou An­dreas-Salomé und Rainer Maria Rilke ge­mein­sam für mehrere Wochen nach Rußland...

Chris Astor is a man in his early forties who is going through the toughest stretch of his life. Becky is Chris's fourteen-year-old daughter, a girl who overcame enormous challenges to become a vibrant, vital young woman - and now faces her greatest obstacle yet. Miea is the young queen of a fantasy land that Becky and Chris created when Becky was little, a fantasy land that has developed a life of its own and now finds itself in terrible, maybe fatal trouble.

Violetta darf sich um den kleinen und verdammt frechen Pflegehund Chip kümmern. Wie aufregend! Und da passiert es: Zack! Violetta ist geschrumpft! Jetzt ist sie so groß, dass sie auf Chip reiten kann! Was nun? Doch dann merkt sie, dass ihr Mini-Format mal wieder unheimlich praktisch ist, denn Chip gehorcht auf einmal bestens! Da kann der große Hunde-Wettkampf, den das Tierheim veranstaltet, ja kommen!

Este es un manual practico para construir nuestra salud, armonia y paz. Nos brinda mas de 350 herramientas simples, cortas y gratuitas, para resolver nuestros problemas. Nos ensena como es posible estar bien con nuestro cuerpo, nuestra mente, y nuestra vida. Se recomienda utilizar estas herramientas practicas en forma de habitos diarios. Estos nuevos habitos o aspectos de nuestra vida, se distribuyen a lo largo de 21 capitulos.

Prowling the dirty, crime-ridden byways of a city in the midst of violent post-war change, he kept a wry sense about the frailties of human life. Ralph Bell co-stars as Lt. Travis Rogers, and Parker Fennelly supplies his trademark Vermont wit as Craig's elevator operator, Jake, in ten digitally restored and re-mastered episodes of bookies, broads, masquerades, and murders!

A guide to the modern woman on finding the rules to living a sweet life by being fierce, confident, and by believing in yourself. Hoping to help inspire woman and men on finding inner peace, trusting your intuition and going after what you want. You will be taken on a spiritual journey onto different ways of looking at life. A series of life stories that will help find meaning to life, motivate those who want to give up, and inspire others to always do better. It gives you insights on friendships, love, spirituality, and motherhood.

Jesse Sienna doesn't believe that love can last. His parents' marriage was caring but passionless, and his own romantic history tells him that love can burn bright, but that it cannot burn for long. So when his elderly father, Mickey, moves in with him and seems unable to understand Jesse's no-strings-attached relationship with Marina, his current girlfriend, Jesse barely pays attention. It's just another example of how different they are - and more evidence that he and his father will never connect on any meaningful level.

Lou Sepulveda C.P.P. is a 36 year sales and sales management veteran in the security alarm business. Lou sold security systems belly-to-belly to literally thousands of happy customers. In this book Lou shares his vast security sales knowledge to assist new and experienced security salespeople achieve record sales performance.

On a warm summer night Jimmie Lee was catching the lightning bugs when he heard his dog barking at something that he had found and he looked over to where Scruffy was then he went to see what all the barking was about.

An aging man desperate to keep his much younger wife from leaving him tries a highly experimental youth serum... but does it work too well?

He's making news with his fists, his gun…and the ladies. The San Francisco Sun's freelance field stringer Stuart "Stringer" MacKail needs a new story to sell to pay the bills. His editor sends him back to MacKail's home town in Calaveras County for an update on an old legend about a stagecoach robbery by "Sulky Jack" and its missing treasure. Stringer's feet barely hit the ground when the bullets begin flying and it quickly becomes clear that folks are still trying to find the treasure and will stop anyone who gets in their way.

Stringer was just doing his job when he went to hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at a railway stop in Granger, Wyoming. But Stringer's job is to write about the speech - not get shot at! So suddenly a certain reporter has a powerful curiosity about who wants him six feet under. There's just one hitch: Stringer can't be sure if the bullet was meant for him or old Teddy. Now all MacKail has to do is dodge a pack of hired killers, swap lead with a few train robbers, match wits with a renegade Shoshoni, and bed a few lusty ladies on a trail that can end on the front page - or the obituaries….

From Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose, authors of Shrub, Bushwhacked is a hilarious, no-holds-barred look at George W. Bush and his administration, and an essential book for understanding the full, destructive impact of his presidency. For years, bestselling political commentator Molly Ivins has been...

When miners dig up the Yana Indians' sacred burial ground, the tribe goes on the warpath. And after a couple of deputy sheriffs are found with so many arrows sticking out of them they look like porcupines, the miners grab their guns and axes. Even a little Indian war is big news in the fading days of the Wild West, so Stringer rides out to investigate. But something just ain't right. For one thing, the arrows that killed the deputies are not Yana arrows. And the varmints who dug up the Indian graves aren't miners.