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Fasten your seat belts for an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King and Bev Vincent. This exciting new collection includes an original introduction and story notes for each story by Stephen King, and brand-new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill.

Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King news website on the web! This anthology includes both original stories like a brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like The Blue Air Compressor by Stephen King, and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja's love of the macabre at a very young age! Now, let's join Lilja....

TWiV is a podcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick.

From the Norman Conquest to the Battle of Bosworth Field - how Britain was invaded and became a nation. The first volume in the stunning four-volume Brief History of Britain series. From the Battle of Hastings to the Battle of Bosworth Field, Nicholas Vincent tells the story of how Britain was born. When William, Duke of Normandy, killed King Harold and seized the throne of England, England’s language, culture, politics, and law were transformed.

On my 17th birthday, I learn a terrible secret about my family. My future is in the hands of four brutal men, and what awaits me at their hands is too terrible to imagine. Four men who desire me. Four men who vow to possess me. Four men who think they can destroy me.

Slàinte! A Christmas Eve party at snow-covered Vik castle, where the Christmas Star diamond is on display. Good food, dancing and a visit from Santa. What could possibly go wrong? When Santa appears down the chimney, looking far more crispy than expected, it is clear that something has gone very wrong. With the castle cut off from help, a murderer in their midst and the Christmas Star stolen, it's up to Losers Club to investigate. As they follow the network of secret passages to learn more about their fellow guests, they realize that everyone has a motive. Including one of their own.

This insightful look into one of mankind's favorite artists traces the magic and melancholy of Vincent Van Gogh. Out of Vincent's letters to his brother Theo, as collected by Irving Stone, we have selected an exciting and sensitive series of quotations. The quotations in My Life and Love Are One revolve around three themes - love, art, and turmoil. Centered around emotion and creation, Vincent's writing and philosophy is as expressive as his art.

Matthias Hegel ist forensischer Phonetiker und der beste Audio-Profiler Deutschlands. Er ist imstande, nur anhand von Tönen, Geräuschen, Dialekten und Stimmfarben ein psychologisches und optisches Profil von Menschen zu erstellen. Dank ihm sitzen einige der gefährlichsten Straftäter im Gefängnis. Erpresser, Geiselnehmer, Attentäter, von denen die Ermittler oftmals nur kurze Audiomitschnitte hatten. Hegel ist faszinierend, charismatisch, schwer durchschaubar. Und: Er sitzt in Einzelhaft. Vor einem Jahr hat er eine obdachlose Frau bestialisch ermordet.

Fate turned on me, chewed me up, and spat me out. I’ve been dragged down into the depths of hell until my lungs burned and the light of day turned blood red. But I’m still breathing.

She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry’s eloquent wisdom to ponder the many joys and challenges of being a woman. Caroline Kennedy has divided the collection into sections that signify to her the most notable milestones, passages, and universal experiences in a woman’s life, and she begins each of these sections with an introduction in which she explores and celebrates the most important elements of life’s journey.

When Delilah Marlow visits a famous traveling carnival, Metzger's Menagerie, she is an ordinary woman in a not-quite-ordinary world. But under the macabre circus black-top, she discovers a fierce, sharp-clawed creature lurking just beneath her human veneer. Captured and put on exhibition, Delilah is stripped of her worldly possessions, including her own name, as she's forced to "perform" in town after town. But there is breathtaking beauty behind the seamy and grotesque reality of the carnival.

The most recent research tells us that seaweed is one possible solution for our future on the planet. It could feed human beings, reduce plastic pollution, absorb enough carbon to cool the atmosphere, reconstruct generative ecosystems, treat certain illnesses that are incurable today, replace land livestock farming that exhausts the environment, and give jobs to coastal populations. The seaweed revolution is a hope for tomorrow!

The city of Coldlake, where everything appears bright and sunny, but is all blood and darkness beneath the surface. A city where killers hide in plain sight, and the ones you trust can turn on you in a heartbeat.

There are many ways you can start monitoring your finances today so that you can finally breathe and take control of your financial future. It's going to take some dedication, sacrifice, and awareness, but you'll be back in the driver's seat and on the road to success in no time. Let your friends know about your goals, and acquire an accountability partner to help you with your financial plans. These strategies have helped the author and countless others achieve financial independence.

Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to ultimately share its discoveries with companies as large as Wal-Mart or as small as the corner bakery.

Der nächste Teil der Audible Original Bestseller Serie nach einer Idee von Sebastian Fitzek! Im 5. Thriller der AURIS-Reihe macht ein psychopathischer Kollege mit dem absoluten Gehör Jagd auf den forensischen Phonetiker Matthias Hegel. Der Mann, der das Verbrechen hört, und die hartnäckige True-Crime-Podcasterin Jula Ansorge müssen ein weiteres Mal zusammenarbeiten und dabei all ihr Können aufbieten, um sich durch einen Parcours voller tödlicher Rätsel und Fallen zu kämpfen, während ihr schier übermächtiger Gegner einen akustischen Anschlag plant, mit dem er in die Geschichte eingehen will.

This accessible, all-encompassing guide will help you to achieve success and confidence, a sense of well-being, and an inner strength that you never dreamed possible. How? Through positive thinking—a form of thought that involves looking for the best results from the worst conditions.

Julius Kern steht vor einer neuen Herausforderung. Siebzehn Frauen hat der so genannte Schläfenmörder in verschiedenen Bundesländern bereits getötet...

Ein Serienmörder treibt in Berlin sein Unwesen. Sein drittes Opfer, eine ältere Dame, wird in einem weißen Leinenhemd aufgebahrt auf ihrem Esstisch gefunden. Spuren gibt es keine, denn die Wohnung ist klinisch rein geputzt - ein Alptraum für jeden Ermittler. Das LKA Berlin steht vor einem Rätsel und die letzte Hoffnung, den "Putzteufel-Mörder" zu finden, ruhen auf Julius Kern. Schon einmal konnte er einen grausamen Massenmörder fassen. Doch Kern ist damals daran fast zerbrochen und beim aktuellen Fall führen alle Spuren scheinbar ins Leere. Während er nur langsam zu seiner alten Form zurückfindet, hat sein Gegner bereits das nächste Opfer im Visier und Kern muss erkennen, dass er den Mörder nur mit Hilfe des Mannes fassen kann, den er in seinem Leben nie mehr wiedersehen wollte...

Sol Reyes has had a rough year. After a series of workplace incidents at her university lab culminates in a plagiarism accusation, Sol is put on probation. Dutiful visits to her homophobic father aren’t helping her mental health, and she finds her nightly glass of wine becoming more of an all-day—and all-bottle—event. Her wife, Alice Song, is far more optimistic. After all, the two finally managed to buy a house in the beautiful gated community of Maneless Grove. However, the neighbors are a little too friendly in Sol’s opinion.