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This audiobook brings together 500 profound insights from 250 of the world's most influential minds. With quotes from Rosa Parks to Babe Ruth, Georgia O'Keeffe to Fyodor Dostoevsky, this collection captures the timeless essence of human thought and experience. In our fast-paced world, these quotes offer a moment of pause. They challenge, inspire, and illuminate, providing a lens through which to view our own lives and the world around us.

Eine Wandertour führt die zwei Freunde Jochen und Peter in die Grafschaft Arnstein. Dort wurde vor 200 Jahren der gefürchtete Hexenmeister Mordian Treskow hingerichtet, von dem ein seltsamer Fluch überliefert ist: "Wenn zwei Monde am Himmel stehen, kehre ich zurück!" Als sich ein Komet der Erde nähert, erfüllt sich dieser Fluch: Mordians Seele wird zu neuem Leben erweckt und ergreift Besitz von Jochen, der ein Nachfahre des Hexenmeisters ist.

Every Superhero League needs an origin story, but who would have thought it would have been about a barkeep named Frank? When Frank finds corruption within the Police Department, everything he thought was true starts to unravel.

Die Suche nach den Worten der Macht ist für die Sonderermittler bisher eine einzige Enttäuschung, immer wieder scheint der Zirkel der Sieben ihnen ein Schritt voraus zu sein. Endlich bietet sich eine Gelegenheit, die Bemühungen des Geheimbundes zu durchkreuzen. Die Hinweise mehren sich, dass ein weiteres Artefakt im Himalaya verborgen liegt. Oscar Wilde bricht zu einer Expedition auf, die ihn auf das "Dach der Welt" führen soll. Noch ahnt niemand, welche Gefahren im Hochgebirge lauern. Denn für viele, die den Pfad der Toten betreten, wird es eine Reise ohne Wiederkehr.

Die Jagd auf den "Rätsel-Killer" geht weiter für die FBI-Agentin Olivia Parker und Officer Decker. Jetzt haben sie es nicht mehr nur mit einem perfiden Gegenspieler zu tun, der die Ermittler mit jedem Mord weiter zu verhöhnen scheint, sondern auch mit dem Misstrauen der Behörden. Decker und Parker geraten zusehends in die Defensive und haben keine Hilfe von außen zu erwarten. Hält da jemand seine schützende Hand über den Täter und was weiß eigentlich Olivias Vorgesetzter, FBI-Chef Crispin? Das so unterschiedliche Duo muss sich zusammenraufen.

Ein mysteriöser Todesfall und eine bis zur Unkenntlichkeit verkohlte Leiche lassen Mycroft Holmes aufhorchen. Irene Adler und ihr Gefährte Mister Wu werden auf den Fall angesetzt. Sie gehen den wenigen Spuren nach und müssen schnell feststellen, dass es da noch jemanden zu geben scheint, der sich für den ermordeten Privatdetektiv Philipp Callahan interessiert. Wer war Callahan? Woran hat er bis zu seinem Tod gearbeitet und warum musste er sterben? Wer ist der geheimnisvolle Taubenmann? Zusammen mit dem Fotografen Birdland macht sich Irene Adler auf die Suche.

1984 is a classic novel whose relevance continues to confront us every day. Some people thought it was a book about the future of the past. The future is now. 1984 in the 21st Century offers listeners 25 different opinions and viewpoints on this seminal novel from right to left on the political spectrum, with pieces from teachers to journalists and writers, lawyers and politicians, and union activists. The essays range from academic treatises to personal reminiscences to political rants and screeds, and even fiction and theater.

James Moriarty macht auf der Überfahrt von New York nach England die Bekanntschaft mit einem Mann namens Lambert, der nach Salisbury reist, um ein geheimnisvolles Erbe anzutreten. Doch bereits auf dem Dampfer ereignen sich gefährliche Dinge. Es scheint, als habe es jemand auf Lamberts Leben abgesehen. Moriarty begleitet den jungen Mann und handelt dabei nicht ganz uneigennützig. Auch er ist an dem Erbe interessiert, denn es handelt sich um den Nachlass des legendären Erfinders Wolfgang von Kempelen. In England angekommen, macht Moriarty eine erstaunliche Entdeckung.

A single father, Jason, and his son, Colin, find themselves trapped in a storm/bomb shelter, only to be rescued into a world that is very different from the one they left. As a result of a rapidly moving and very deadly plague during their entombment, they are rescued into a very different world.

Count Witon has grown weary of the constant war between the races, so he plans to create a new society: A utopia for anyone who longs for peaceful coexistence. Recruiting pilgrims from every city and species, they set off to a small, yet promising island together.

J.R. Ferguson is a retired farmer. His acreage has been leased to a young couple he once rescued from the muddy access road that runs through his cornfield. As a result, he examines the road after every heavy rain both for stranded lovers and to examine the road's condition. One day, he finds trash in the form of various kinds of medication bottles strewn on the side of the road. With his boots sinking in the soft mud, he collects the litter and returns with the bottles some of which are labeled "Low Dose Aspirin", something he takes daily since his heart attack.

The story of Ronnie, a young boy who is raised in the wild by a pit bull he calls "Killer". Years after Killer takes Ronnie to his lair, Ronnie has grown, and Killer has grown old. Eventually Ronnie must find his way home after many years of living with Killer in the wild.

Officer Paul Lee has been on the Waverly police force his entire working life. Now, nearing retirement, he finds he’s lived a lonely life filled with regrets. Having seen the worst that humanity has to offer, he lives in fear and distrust, not liking the man he’s become. In the course of a murder investigation, he learns of an experimental drug that reverses aging. The possibility of living a new life, the life he wants, looms in front of him.

Due to a side effect of a medication taken in an experimental drug trial to cure Vitiligo, a pigment disorder, four people with dramatically different backgrounds are thrown together. Two never live the lives they worked so hard to create. The other two return to their youth and begin new lives - backed by lifetimes of experience and unexpectedly altered values. Will the greed of others tear them apart, or will a lifetime of loneliness bring them together?

Once a year, bloodthirsty Astrorses land on Earth’s farming moon to raise their young. Jedediah Easton never thought twice about competing in the Astrorse Races until his daughter Sage entered to try and save his farm. Drawn to him for safety and financial problems of her own, Jedediah’s ex-wife Elizabeth steps back into the life they tried to build together. They race time to train a wild Astrorse to compete for the winner’s purse while dodging the dangers of an uncivilized universe.

Louis wants what his parents had: all-encompassing love. He never believed he’d find it until a chance meeting with a man in his childhood vacation spot. Unfortunately, a brief encounter is all they have before Mal disappears. When Louis unexpectedly meets up with him again, he refuses to let go, not willing to trust that fate would allow them to meet a third time.

The Right Choice is an efficient, solution-oriented book to give you data, decision points, and details to help shape this life-changing decision by providing a framework to work from. If you or someone you love is choosing a college to attend, it’s important to know the reasons for why to attend a public college vs. a private college vs. a religious college. This book will help you narrow your options by helping you answer these questions:

One of the definitive detectives of American crime fiction comes to radio - with a matchless mind, a relentless eye for detail, and just a bit of an attitude. That's Philo Vance - S.S. Van Dine's famous amateur criminologist of the 1920s and 1930s, ready for radio in the 1940s. Jackson Beck stars as Vance, with Joan Alexander as secretary Ellen Deering, and George Petrie as District Attorney Markham in 16 mind-challenging mysteries!

Dracula looks on in horror at the monster's duck pouting on Instagram: teen vampires glistening in the sun with fabulous hair, werewolves with hipster beards.... He decides enough is enough. He will salvage the monster image with the monsters of old, and remind the world that they are so much more than fantasy objects for teenage girls.

Poetry in one form or another has been around almost as long as language. We have used it to communicate our joys and heartbreaks, our victories and our losses. But fear has also been a constant companion, and our ghost stories and monsters stretch their claws back into history as far as the eyes can see. The Configuration Discordant is an exploration of not only that fear, but of our global journey through poetry. One hundred poems exploring 75+ forms of poetic expression from the humble haiku to the mysterious Qasida.