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Charlie McKay couldn't be happier with her life. Taking care of her daughter and everyone else around her is a labor of love. But the truth she's buried lurks beneath the surface, and letting the oh-so-tempting Craig Sutton into her world is the last thing she needs. Purchasing the small-town bar is only one of the reasons Craig Sutton moved to Blue Creek. Despite having his own agenda, Craig is unable to resist getting involved with the McKays. And the closer he gets to Charlie, the more entangled he wants to become.

Down through the ages, men have been accustomed to call that to them was unknown, unexplained, or incomprehensible - a mystery. There has been a tendency to wrap veils of mystery around natural phenomena, around the causes of daily experience in the lives of men, and even around God.

Students of divine science rejoice in the all-inclusiveness of this teaching. Nothing is excluded; all is to be understood and interpreted aright. An omnipresent god does not confine the revelation of himself to any one channel, but he flows into expression wherever he is given the right of way. Therefore, every ardent and persistent seeker discovers truth, and as a result, contributes something toward the well-being of mankind.

Ryan Morgan, a married man, comes to Banning in a panic. He is being blackmailed with incriminating photos of Ryan with an attractive coworker. To Banning, with years of experience as a private eye, there is nothing unusual about that. What is unusual is that the photos show the pair in places where they have never been.

For Baltimore detective Mark Banning it starts out as a typical missing persons case: a man seeks his help in finding his daughter who disappeared after meeting with a man she met online. Mark enlists the assistance of his police detective friend Ed Taylor in the case. When the search results in finding the dead bodies of the girl, the man she met online, and the father as well, it becomes much more than that. But there was another involved: a mysterious phantom witness who may have the answer to the entire mystery.

Victorian London night: A lamplighter discovers the body of a very old man lying dead in an alley. Scotland Yard calls in the eminent physician Dr. Conan to determine the cause of death. The brilliant and opinionated Conan is often consulted by Scotland Yard. But his sometimes unorthodox solutions frequently have him butting heads with incredulous Yard officials. Despite the man's apparent age, Dr. Conan determines that the victim is no older than 30 and died as the result of rapid aging.

After uncovering a devastating secret, Casey McKay left her beloved hometown and pretended not to look back. For years, the truth her sisters hid from her has kept her away. Now, in desperate need of Casey's help, her sisters have hired a PI to find her. As a private investigator, Ryan Keller is used to getting into sticky situations, but nothing could have prepared him for the likes of Ms. McKay. Unable to resist her appeal for help, Ryan returns with her to Blue Creek. Little do they know they are walking right into a deadly plot to destroy the McKay sisters.

One of the reasons Mark Banning had become a private detective was to help those with seemingly "lost cause" cases no one else would take. The case Diedre Hammond begged him to take seemed hopeless - DNA evidence proved her brother had raped and killed a six-year-old. Months had passed since Diedre's brother, Sam, had been executed, protesting his innocence up to the moment of execution.

In "Got Me Twisted", New York diva Ebony Queen heads south after her mother's murder and tries to reinvent country bumpkin Reshunda - but it won't be easy! In "Arrested Development", Kelly joins the police force to get in the good graces of her love interest, Dante - but what happens when her brother gets out of prison and finds out her boyfriend is the same cop that brought him down? And in "Greed", Jackie and her parents escaped the projects and now live the high life - but what's going to happen to her if they get murdered?

Dahlia Kennedy's 16th birthday marks a decade of mysterious dahlias arriving and strange, lonely dreams of being in a forest. The only difference of this birthday, however, is that for the first time, someone is there with her. And he's practically from a whole other era. The more often Dahlia visits Rowan in his land of Ambrosia, the stronger their connection grows. But is Ambrosia real? Is he real? What's going on between the two of them, exactly, and why does he insist that she keep it to herself?

Seventeen year-old Jonas Norton is trying to come to terms with what his blood disorder has robbed from him, including his two most favorite things: basketball, and competing in Hatchet Racket, Wanless' annual hatchet-throwing contest. The facts that his father works constantly to pay for his blood tests and Jonas can actually see the disappointment in his eyes for being such a failure only make matters worse.

Fred Reichheld's 2006 book The Ultimate Question - that question being, "How likely is it that you would recommend this company to a friend or colleague?" - challenged the conventional wisdom of customer satisfaction programs. It coined the terms "bad profits" and "good profits" and pointed to a faster, much more accurate way of gauging customers' real loyalty to a company. Richard Owen and Laura Brooks are co-developers, along with Reichheld, of the methodology behind answering the question.

Founded by James Oglethorpe on February 12, 1733, the Georgia colony was envisioned as a unique social welfare experiment. Administered by twenty-one original trustees, the Georgia Plan offered England's "worthy poor" and persecuted Christians an opportunity to achieve financial security in the New World by exporting goods produced on small farms. Most significantly, Oglethorpe and his fellow Trustees were convinced that economic vitality could not be achieved through the exploitation of enslaved Black laborers.

Keira Miller, frisch von der FBI-Akademie, wird mit ihrem ersten Fall beauftragt. Ein brutaler Mord hat die Hauptstadt erschüttert, aber dank eines Videos, sitzt der Täter bereits in Haft. Die Sache scheint glasklar zu sein, doch die Agentin zweifelt an der Schuld des vermeintlichen Mörders. Ihre eigenen Ermittlungen führen die junge Frau schließlich immer tiefer in den Sumpf eines Hacker-Kollektives. Zusammen mit dem ehemaligen Black-Hat Steven Wong, macht sie sich auf, um den wahren Schuldigen zu fassen.

Few have faced adversity like Alvin Brooks has. He was born into an impoverished family, he nearly lost his adoptive father to the justice system of the South, and he barely survived a health crisis in infancy. However, his greatest challenges would be learning how to navigate a racist society as a young boy and then later protecting his beloved wife, Carol, and their six children. Despite all the adversity he faced, Brooks became a lifelong leader and a servant of his community.

Die Zwillingsschwestern Emily und Elisa leben mit ihren Eltern auf einem Bauernhof. Eines Abends, als die beiden nicht einschlafen können, schleichen sie sich in den Pferdestall und finden durch Zufall heraus, dass der freche Hengst Eddy, in Wahrheit ein sprechendes Einhorn ist...

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president of the United States. These achievements were not in spite of her background but rather because of it. She persevered by being steadfast in her political convictions and unwilling to compromise on the issues she believed in.

Endlich ist es da! Das zweite Hörbuch aus der Eddy-Einhorn-Reihe. Ungeduldig warten die Zwillinge Emily und Elisa auf den nächsten Neumond. Gemeinsam mit ihrem Freund Eddy Einhorn brechen sie auf in ihr nächstes Abenteuer, doch wieder verfehlen sie ihr Ziel, und dieses Mal landen sie zu ihrem Schrecken bei finsteren Piraten.

02.11.2025 – Der Tag, an dem die Welt fast unterging... Die American White Natives hatten mit ihrem Plan Erfolg und stürzten die USA durch einen verheerenden Atomkrieg mit China in Chaos und Anarchie. Das Weltbild änderte sich schlagartig, doch aus der Asche der einst stolzen Nation erwacht ein neues Amerika! Die "NAP – New American Police", eine von Präsident Warren aufgestellte Miliz, gelingt es allmählich, die verbliebenen großen Städte und noch bewohnbaren Gebiete unter ihre Kontrolle zu bringen.