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They’re back! The all-star cast multi-award-winning cult hit comedy returns, with more surreal goings-on in the lives and loves of the doctors and staff at East Hampton Hospital (warning: contains very little medical content).

By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed “Gino”), a twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led thirteen scientists and explorers on an ambitious expedition to the east coast of Greenland and into its vast and forbidding interior to set up a permanent meteorological base on the icecap, 8,200 feet above sea level.

Dieses Mal heißt es: XXL-Spiele in Real Life. Riesige Spielfiguren, spannende Aufgaben und jede Menge Spaß warten auf die drei. Ob beim hungrigen Mampfenden Max, dem flinken Max Mäuseschreck, beim kniffligen 3D-Geister-Memory oder dem überraschenden Pop-up Stitch – hier ist Spannung garantiert.

Mit seinem ambitionierten neuen Werk CIRCLE OF DAYS lädt Welt-Bestsellerautor Ken Follett uns ein, an seiner Seite eines der größten Mysterien der Weltgeschichte zu erkunden: Stonehenge Ein Mann mit außergewöhnlicher Gabe Seft hat ein besonderes Auge für Feuersteine und weiß, wo sie zu finden sind. In der Hitze des Hochsommers überquert er die Große Ebene, um den Ritualen beizuwohnen, die den Beginn des neuen Jahres anzeigen. Beim Markt zur Sommersonnenwende will er einen seiner Steine eintauschen und Neen suchen, das Mädchen, das er liebt.

In der Hitze des Hochsommers überquert Seft, ein begnadeter Feuersteinhauer, die Große Ebene, um den Ritualen beizuwohnen, die den Beginn des neuen Jahres anzeigen. Joias Vision von einem großen Steinkreis inspiriert Seft und wird zu ihrem gemeinsamen Lebenswerk. Doch als Dürre die Erde plagt, wächst das Misstrauen zwischen Hirten, Ackerbauern und Waldbewohnern - und eine grausame Gewalttat führt zu offenem Krieg.

Riley Iverson weiß, dass es keine gute Idee ist, für einen heterosexuellen Jungen zu schwärmen. Als Jackson von denselben Träumen heimgesucht wird, ist klar: Ihre Verbindung reicht über Zeit und Raum hinaus. Inmitten eines konservativen und queer-feindlichen Umfelds in Florida erzählt dieser gefühlvolle Roman von Ausgrenzung, Freundschaft und dem Mut, sich selbst und seine wahre Liebe zu finden – gegen alle Widerstände.

Celebrated historian John Hirst offers a fascinating exploration of the qualities that made Europe a world-changing civilization. The Shortest History of Europe begins with a rapid overview of European civilization, describing its birth from an unlikely mixture of classical learning and Christianity and German warrior culture. Over the centuries, this unstable blend produced highly distinctive characters - pious knights and belligerent popes, and beyond - and its coming apart provided the dynamic of European history in modern times.

After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror and soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

Letzte Nacht verbrachte ich mit einem Fremden, der mich meinen eigenen Namen vergessen ließ. Heute Morgen ist er mein neuer Chef. ...Und in genau 12 Wochen werde ich ihm sagen müssen, dass er Vater unseres Kindes wird. Letzte Nacht ließ ich mich von einem Fremden gegen eine Badezimmerwand drücken, bis ich nicht mehr atmen konnte. Jetzt? Dieser Fremde ist Troy Gunner – Milliardär, Bastard und mein neuer Boss. „Ms. Durall." Die Art, wie er meinen Namen sagt, verrät mir, dass er sich an alles erinnert. „Willkommen bei Gunner Industries."

"Dragons have invaded Crumbling Castle, and all of King Arthur’s knights are either on holiday or visiting their grannies. It’s a disaster! Luckily, there’s a spare suit of armour and a very small boy called Ralph who’s willing to fill it. Together with Fortnight the Friday knight and Fossfiddle the wizard, Ralph sets out to defeat the fearsome fire-breathers. But there's a teeny weeny surprise in store.

The world’s greatest detective, Hercule Poirot – legendary star of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile – puts his little grey cells to work solving a baffling Christmas mystery.

What if your boss asked you to have his baby? With one catch: You have to do it the old-fashioned way. Normally, I would've told him to take his offer and shove it. But my mom needs my help. And I can't afford to save her myself. In comes Arsen Adamov with a devil's deal on a silver platter. Have his baby. Then walk away—no strings attached. I'd do anything for my mom. And spending a night with my gorgeous, dangerous, billionaire boss isn't exactly torture.

In this volume, Traleg Kyabgon offers a fresh translation of the slogans as well as in-depth new commentary of each. After living among and teaching Westerners for over 20 years, his approach is uniquely insightful into the ways that the slogans could be misunderstood or misinterpreted within our culture. Here, he presents a refreshing and clarifying view, which seeks to correct points of confusion.

Being a good lover isn't easy. With more freedom, knowledge, and body awareness, today's woman knows better than to settle for predictable, performance-based sex. Tantric Secrets for Men offers everything a man needs to know in order to satisfy a woman's physical, emotional, and spiritual yearnings. Employing the ancient secrets of physical ecstasy, men learn to transform rote sex into passionate lovemaking, pleasure into ecstasy, and partnership into union.

Famed as the ultimate penalty for traitors, heretics, and royalty alike, being sent to the Tower is known to have been experienced by no less than 8,000 unfortunate souls. Many of those who were imprisoned in the Tower never returned to civilization and those who did, often did so without their head! It is hardly surprising that the Tower has earned itself a reputation among the most infamous buildings on the planet.

In Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, one of our very best writers brings the opulent world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue, and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s coutiers. But the bloody theatre of Cromwell’s ascension will leave no one unscathed.

Far too often, public discussion of science is carried out by journalists, voters, and politicians who have received their science secondhand. The Story of Western Science shows us the joy and importance of reading groundbreaking science writing for ourselves and guides us back to the masterpieces that have changed the way we think about our world, our cosmos, and ourselves.

Two husbands secretly agree to a night of passion - with each other's wives; a slighted old man takes an elaborate and chilling revenge on his tormentor; a sculpture comes between a scheming wife and her put-upon husband.... Lust highlights a domestic familiarity always on the edge of something much, much darker.

Hercule Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. There is one strange condition attached to this request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family.