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In the summer of 1138, war between King Stephen and the Empress Maud takes brother Cadfael from the quiet world of his garden to the bloody battlefield. Not far from the safety of the Abbey walls, Shrewsbury Castle falls, leaving its ninety-four defenders loyal to the empress to hang as traitors. With a heavy heart, Brother Cadfael agrees to bury the dead, only to make a grisly discovery: 95 bodies lie in a row, and the extra corpse tells Cadfael that the killer is both clever and ruthless. But one death among so many seems unimportant to all but the good Benedictine.

Imagine a world in which you own nothing and rent everything. Most of the protein in your diet comes from bugs. You are not allowed to have more than one child, and your financial and medical data are instantly transferred to a centralized government database via a subdermal microchip. Controligarchs warns that this will be our existence if the supranational elites of the World Economic Forum get their way.

The return of a Brighton girl turned movie star spells nothing but trouble for Detective Superintendent Roy Grace in the gripping crime novel Not Dead Yet, by award winning author Peter James. Gaia Lafayette has a movie to shoot back home and Grace is in charge of her security. Yet when a...

How to Do Things You Hate is a primer on how you can embody the self-discipline to live the life you want. It's not easy; otherwise everyone would be there. It requires surmounting boulders, crossing oceans, and not a small amount of pain. It's always worth it, but are you able to get there? Are you tough enough? Can you find the motivation inside you somewhere? Are you able to taking it on the chin?

Trading is a stressful occupation with mental and emotional traps on every side. Our instincts drive us to self-destruction: holding plummeting stocks in the hope of a sudden recovery, or obsessing over the minute-to-minute movements of our holdings. What if there were a trader who knew how to avoid these traps and could teach us to trade from a place of inner calm and peace of mind? Peter Castle has been a successful trader in financial markets for almost 30 years. He also happens to be a Zen monk.

Two acclaimed albums and an upcoming US tour - Joy Division had the world at their feet. Then, on the eve of that tour, the band’s troubled lead singer, Ian Curtis, killed himself. The next time they got together, they were a new band. That band was New Order - their label was Factory Records; their club, The Haçienda. Their distinctive sound paved the way for the dance music explosion that followed, earning them the reputation as one of the most influential bands of their generation and changing the course of popular music.

DEMON CLAWS The battle against the demons has been won. The town of Tibbet’s Brook is enjoying a peaceful winter until the body of local businessman Rusco Hog is discovered on the old Tanner farm, his fatal injuries pointing towards a demon attack. BUTTER COOKIES For Selia Barren, the Town Speaker, the evidence doesn’t add up. She suspects foul play. Rusco didn’t become the richest man in town by making friends, and it seems everyone in Tibbet’s Brook has a motive.

En usædvanlig tør sommer udtørrer Thornfield-reservoiret, og frem dukker resterne af Hobb's End, den lille Yorkshirelandsby, der blev oversvømmet 60 år tidligere. Det samme gør skelettet af en brutalt myrdet kvinde, og kriminalkommissær Alan Banks må nu finde frem til en morder, der har undgået straf i over et halvt århundrede. I en tør tid udkom første gang i 1999 (og på dansk i 2003) og er nummer 10 i serien om kriminalkommissær Alan Banks.

Factory Fireside is a podcast series exploring the evolving world of Data & AI, spanning strategy, technology, agents, and real-world implementation. We talk with leading practitioners to help you make smarter decisions when starting, running, and scaling Data, AI, and Agentic solutions in your organisation.

The interconnected stories in this book are diverse, and span several decades. They range from an adventure to find a fallen star, hunting a mythical beast, building up the settlement, and exploring the wider world. As with Peter’s first two novels, this book is part guide to survival, and part guide to homesteading and living off the land. This book is set just after the end of the first two, which converged at the end. All three books are told without specific dialogue, as if being recounted around a campfire by an old friend.

Bunte Farben, große Träume und ein Osterfest, das alles andere als gewöhnlich wird! In »Tintino rettet Ostern« erlebt ihr die Geschichte eines kleinen Hasen, der mit Mut, Fantasie und ganz viel Herz beweist, dass nicht alles perfekt sein muss, um etwas Besonderes zu sein. Wenn sich im Osterhasental die Hasenkinder voller Eifer auf das große Fest vorbereiten, tauchen die Hörer in eine magische Welt voller Farben und Freude ein – ein spannendes und zugleich fröhliches Hörspielabenteuer, das zum Staunen, Lachen und Träumen einlädt.

Als Gerda ihm begegnet, ist sie überrascht: Kein finsterer Schatten, kein kaltes Grauen – sondern ein Mädchen. Dieses Wesen nimmt sie mit auf eine Reise. Dorthin, wo Zeit und Schmerz keine Bedeutung mehr haben. Dorthin, wo wir erkennen, wer wir wirklich sind. In zwölf fein verwobenen Erzählungen begegnen Menschen dem Tod und finden einen neuen Blick auf das Leben. Ein Buch über das große Loslassen – und das stille Heimkommen zu sich selbst.

Willkommen zu einem einzigartigen Mentaltraining, das Ihre innere Einstellung zu Erfolg, Geld und Reichtum transformiert. Dieses Hörbuch nutzt die kraftvolle Kombination aus Subliminal-Techniken und gezielter Voice Modulation, um Ihr Unterbewusstsein auf finanziellen Erfolg, Wohlstand und Zielerreichung zu programmieren. Erleben Sie, wie Ihr Mindset Schritt für Schritt auf Fülle, Luxus und unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten ausgerichtet wird. Während Sie entspannt zuhören, wirken gezielte Affirmationen und unhörbare Subliminal-Signale tief in Ihrem Unterbewusstsein – ganz ohne Anstrengung.

Welcome Into The Paradox—the podcast designed to safely house all those fringe subjects that polite society pretends don't exist. We are your mental bunker for the unbelievable.We dissect UFO sightings, ancient mysteries, and conspiracies so dense they defy logic... but we never forget the punchline. This show operates on multiple levels of parody within the paradox itself, meaning we take the research seriously, but we take ourselves just seriously enough to know we’re probably all targets.Your host through this beautiful madness is Peter—also known by the designation Piggsy—and I ...

From the adventures of a lonely logger who, deep in the forest, joins his workmates to dance dressed as a woman, to the story of an obsessive boarding-school romance, to the dizzying spectacle of a gender apocalypse brought about by an unstable ex-girlfriend, Peters' keen eye for the rough edges of trans community and desire reveals fresh possibilities. Acidly funny and breathtaking in its scope, with the inventive audacity of Lauren Groff or Jennifer Egan, Stag Dance provokes, unsettles and delights.

Villani's life is his work. It is his identity, his calling, his touchstone. But now, over a few sweltering summer days, as fires burn across the state and his superiors and colleagues scheme and jostle, he finds all the certainties of his life are crumbling. Truth is a novel about a man, a family, a city. It is about violence, murder, love, corruption, honor and deceit. And it is about truth.

Private Patrick Duffy was forced to flee Malaya as a child and was left orphaned when his mother died in a Changi prison. Now, returning to fight a fearless enemy, he must confront the ghosts of his past if he is to find any hope for the future. Michael Macintosh is forging his own path to escape his mother's obsessive control. Sailor, soldier and mercenary, he will soon face war again in the brutal jungles of Vietnam. Sarah Macintosh ruthlessly crushes anyone who gets in her way and has vowed to destroy her sister-in-law, Jessica Duffy-Macintosh.

When Benjamin Nickels discovers he's the proud new owner of a derelict hobby farm, inherited from a crazy uncle he's never met, he's too excited to question his good fortune. He tells off his boss, quits his job, and heads out of town to Lucky Nickel Acres.

Earth is falling. Will our call for help be heard? The Saints of Salvation is the extraordinary conclusion to Peter F. Hamilton’s Salvation Sequence: a high-octane adventure from a master of the genre. 'The most powerful imagination in science fiction' – Ken Follett, author of The Pillars of...

A comprehensive, long-form history podcast about Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge and the Pol Pot Regime.