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When two operatives go dark in Tampa, chasing the trail of an oligarch with ties to the demonic underworld, Vigilant Lock - the nation’s first and last line of defense against occult attack - sends their best to the rescue: Harmony Black, a troubled investigator and an elemental witch with a keen but tangled mind; and her partner Jessie Temple, the daughter of a supernatural slasher and the inheritor of her father’s powers.

Stu Schaefer - 20-year celebrity weight loss expert - reveals how to lose weight faster and easier than ever before, and keep it off - without restricting foods, counting calories, hours of exercise or any other crazy diet. You'll discover how to re-activate your body's natural fat-burning mechanism – and reset your metabolism – so your body starts burning fat like a furnace. You'll also get the best nutrition, exercise, mindset and other cutting edge weight-loss techniques. Thousands of people have been able to lose 20-30 pounds in a matter of weeks - and keep it off for good! Now it's ...

When Sergeant Charlie McCabe returns from fighting in Afghanistan, she hopes to leave the war behind. Instead, she comes home to a father whose gambling has put him in deep trouble with a violent loan shark. She finds work as a professional bodyguard, but to save her father, she needs to get serious cash together fast. However, her father isn’t the only one who needs saving. When Charlie’s first client - a wealthy executive with a shady past - narrowly escapes a bomb plot, Charlie’s investigation leads her into the heart of Boston’s criminal underworld.

Believing her lover has been killed, Nessa - the living archetype of the wicked witch and a fairy tale brought to murderous life - flies across the Mojave Desert on a mission of vengeance. Meanwhile, Marie is stranded on a dystopian, parallel Earth, forced to confront her own dark side as she comes face-to-face with the architect of an insidious plot.

Ein Kind auszutragen ist das Natürlichste der Welt und die Natur hat hierfür alles perfekt eingerichtet. Und trotzdem ist es wohl die aufregendste Zeit im Leben einer Frau, die besondere Herausforderungen und Unsicherheiten mit sich bringt. Damit Sie Ihre Schwangerschaft ungetrübt, frei und genau auf Ihre individuelle Weise genießen können, ist ab sofort dieses Hörbuch an Ihrer Seite: Es versorgt Sie mit wichtigen Informationen und den besten Tipps rund um den Schwangerschaftsprozess, körperliche Veränderungen und gesundheitliche Aspekte.

Mit dieser Hörbuchversion des Bestsellers "Die Gesetze der Gewinner" erfährst Du in 30 "Coaching-Einheiten" die Grundsätze für ein erfolgreiches und erfülltes Leben - im Auto, zu Hause oder entspannt im Urlaub. Bodo Schäfer hat Jahrtausende alte Weisheiten und Erfolgsstrategien zusammengetragen und in die heutige Zeit übersetzt. "Die Gesetze der Gewinner" bezeichnet er selbst als sein Lebenswerk. Du erfährst die entscheidenden Strategien, mit denen Du in allen Lebensbereichen ehrgeizige Ziele erreichen kannst.

Bodo Schafer is a successful time management trainer. Through his time spent as a financial guru, Schafer has come up with a set of 30 laws that, when followed, can drastically improve the quality of one's life. The laws give you the tools used by this world's elite in order to gain control of your life and attain the confidence you need to move forward with all the gusto and purpose of a true winner.

In Slough House, dem Abstellgleis des MI5, werden Erinnerungen wach – nur leider keine guten. Cathrine Standish kauft wieder Alkohol, und Louisa Guy wühlt in den Trümmern einer alten Liebe. Jackson Lamb quittiert das höchstens mit Flatulenz und einem Schluck Whiskey, doch selbst ihn holen die dunklen Schatten seiner Vergangenheit ein. Auf der Suche nach einem altbekannten Verräter schickt er seine Truppe ins Feld – aber nicht alle kehren zurück.

The best-selling social media book of the year! Too busy to spend hours trying to learn the fundamentals of social-media marketing? This is the book for you!

Hard-bitten bodyguard Charlie McCabe is lucky to be alive after her recent foray into Boston’s criminal underworld. So she’s taking no chances with this next job: protecting Hayden Cobb, key witness in the trial against a trio of murderous cops known as the East Boston Three. If Cobb drops dead, the Three walk. After an attempt on Cobb’s life, Charlie suspects the Three have somehow put a hit on him from behind bars, and the assassin’s still at large.

Some people need to wear leg braces. What does that mean? Listeners learn how leg braces can help and what daily life is like for someone who wears them.

At its essence, marketing today is about answering one question: “How can we be heard?” How can we rise above the din of infinite options to create sustainable meaning with an audience or group of customers? Following the old rules of digital engagement is not enough...not nearly enough. Even being "great" is insufficient in the face of overwhelming competition redefining the limits of excellence every day.

Was haben eine Ritterrüstung, die Tabakdose Friedrichs des Großen und der WM-Fußball von 1954 gemeinsam? Es sind drei von 100 Mosaiksteinen der deutschen Geschichte, stumme Zeugen der Vergangenheit. Hermann Schäfer, einer der führenden Vertreter der deutschen Museumsszene, fügt sie in dieser Sammlung zusammen. Anschaulich und gut verständlich dokumentiert er die Geschichte der Objekte und macht zugleich auch ihre erstaunliche Umdeutung im Dienst politischer Interessen und gesellschaftlicher Umbrüche deutlich. Durch ausgefeiltes Sounddesign und mit Hilfe der Sprecher Stefan Wilkening und Katja Bürkle wird der Hörer in verschiedene Klangsituationen und damit auch akustisch in die Vergangenheit versetzt.

1970: Fourteen-year-old Tony becomes seduced by the skinhead movement, sucked into a world of brutal racist violence and bizarre rituals. It's a milieu in which he must hide his homosexuality, in which every encounter is explosively risky.

Have you ever had trouble with using your mind to your advantage? Has it always been hard to think clearly and retain the information you are learning? The solution is to adopt a new way to learn and adopt a new lifestyle. You must redefine your mind as a new mind - one that is bulletproof, programmed to jump any mental wall in its path.

The message of modern physics is that physical reality has, at its frontiers, all the aspects of a transcendent order. At the foundation of things, elementary particles can exert instantaneous long-distance influences on each other, can be meaningfully said to have mind-like properties, and can exist in states which are, as Heisenberg wrote, "not quite real, but between the idea of a thing and a real thing."

When Amy Nettle was whisked from her dead-end small town life to the Saunders Academy, a brooding Gothic fortress in the heart of an endless storm-tossed ocean, she was promised an education in witchcraft. She got more than she bargained for. Beyond the brutal lessons that pushed her to her mental and physical limits, there were leviathans and killer mermaids in the water, lethal magic in the air, and an invader determined to make sure none of the new students survived long enough to see their graduation day.

In this third and completely revised edition of his classic book, bestselling author and college educator Mark Schaefer explains why many marketers are "sleepwalking" through the social media world because they haven't kept up with new consumer trends. Schaefer untangles the world's least understood business practices in his easy-to-understand personal style.

Camille lives to embody the perfect traditional wife—cooking, cleaning, homesteading, and documenting it all for her followers. When Camille discovers a crumbling well hidden in the wheat field behind her new house, she is drawn to it, despite its proximity to an intimidating local forest. Soon, she's haunted by vivid dreams she believes are divine. Then something visits her—something not quite angelic.

Die 18-jährige Quinn ist ihrem Traum, Journalistin zu werden, so nah wie noch nie. Sie hat nicht nur einen Ausbildungsplatz im berühmten Trinity Media House ergattert, sondern auch ein Zimmer in der schönsten WG Londons. Schnell wird ihr neuer Alltag jedoch zu einer echten Herausforderung: Quinn landet in der Redaktion eines Gossipmagazins, und ihre Chefin macht ihr von Anfang an das Leben schwer. Nachdem sie unbeabsichtigt eine Falschmeldung über Popstar Milo Bricks veröffentlicht und seine Fans gegen die Redaktion schießen, muss Quinn es wieder ausbaden.