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Trent Reznor, founder of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) began creating music early in his life and cites his Pennsylvanian childhood as an early influence. Hi provided what some have called "grim and gripping" music throughout the nineties. He is a loner who likes to express himself in his individualistic and creative style. He has also contributed to Marilyn Manson. Reznor says that music was his means of escaping a small town life.

For over a hundred years, girls have fought to attend St. Bernadette’s, with its reputation for shaping only the best and brightest young women. Unfortunately, there is also the screaming. When a student begins to scream in the middle of class, a chain reaction starts that impacts the entire school. By the end of the day, seventeen girls are affected—along with St. Bernadette’s stellar reputation. Khadijah’s got her own scars to tend to, and watching her friends succumb to hysteria only rips apart wounds she’d rather keep closed.

Somnia is evolving, and Murmur is confronted with enemies both old and new. She must lead her guild, Fable, through a dungeon filled with riddles and puzzles to claim the first of 12 keys required to achieve victory. But things are not as they seem: Glitches abound, enemies rally against Fable, and unexpected threats move in the shadows. As the system becomes increasingly complex, Laria and Shayla battle through mismatched coding, and Storm Corp discovers they’ve left some anomalies in the game out of their reports. Anomalies like Wren.

As Murmur reels in the wake of the secret her friends tried to keep, her grip on what is real and what is virtual begins to slip. What's more, she's no longer sure whom she can trust. Stalked across the continent by a rogue with a vendetta, Murmur is forced to dig deep and develop her abilities before she finds a knife in her back. Suspicion surrounds the AIs as well. Their behaviors are too human, their reports too perfect. Shayla and Laria must uncover the truth before the system raises concerns and Murmur is lost forever.

In a world ravaged by a deadly pandemic, former rock star Chris Price leaves New York and sets out on a long journey home to England. It’s been six years of devastation since the plague killed his wife and daughter, and Chris is determined to find out if any of his family has survived. His passage leaves him scarred, in body and mind, by exposure to humankind at its most desperate and dangerous. But the greatest ordeal awaits him beyond the urban ruins, in an idyllic country refuge where Chris meets a woman, Pauline, who is largely untouched by the world’s horrors.

Shelby Anderson is on the brink of the happiest day of her life—a Christmas Eve wedding to the man of her dreams, Reed, a charming restaurateur. But as the holiday season unfolds, unexpected challenges threaten to turn her perfectly planned day upside down. While Shelby juggles last-minute wedding details, her friends from the Waverly Lane book club are facing their own holiday surprises. Lacy, a successful romance novelist, is navigating new opportunities that could change everything, while Cami takes a bold step toward her future.

Una mujer sin hogar deambula por la costa oeste de Estados Unidos, haciéndose pasar por una niña; un periodista catalán que ha logrado catapultar su carrera a partir de la fabricación de noticias falsas está a punto de ser desenmascarado; en una opulenta villa de la llanura de Escania, Suecia, un ama de casa se aferra como puede a una vida aparentemente perfecta, tratando de no prestar atención a los oscuros secretos de su marido… De geografías mentales y culturales distintas, a todos ellos los une la autocompasión y una enfermiza propensión al engaño.

To an outsider, Anthony Hanna lives a charmed life. He’s a firefighter - every boy’s dream job. Even better, he regularly features in the Australian Firefighters Calendar. He’s a former police negotiator who worked on the frontline of critical operations. And as a teenager, he was a champion pole vaulter with Olympic potential. In this frank, honest memoir Anthony talks about the reality of living with mental illness.

Why do people with addiction use drugs self-destructively? Why don’t they quit out of self-concern? Why does the rat in the experiment, alone in a cage, press the lever again and again for cocaine—to the point of death? In this pathbreaking book, Hanna Pickard proposes a new paradigm for understanding the puzzle of addiction.

It’s a split second decision. What if he figures out who she isn’t? Daisy needs to stop a mall project from ruining her town. A billionaire stands in her way. And she isn’t exactly well-versed in faking her identity. That is, until she does it. The problem is, he doesn’t like her one bit. Will she make it out of his beach house without blowing her cover?

In einem verlassenen Haus in den Wäldern von Ångermanland wird ein Mann in einem Keller aufgefunden. Er ist verhungert. In der kleinen Bergbaugemeinde Malmberget, nördlich des Polarkreises, findet man ebenfalls einen Mann. Auch er wurde in einen Keller eingeschlossen und dem Tod überlassen. Er lebt noch, kann jedoch keinen Grund nennen, warum er dort festgehalten wurde. Die junge Polizistin Eira Sjödin wird von ihrem Chef Georg Georgsson in die Ermittlungen einbezogen. Aber auch zahlreiche private Probleme halten sie in Atem.

On Hamra's thirteenth birthday, she receives nothing but endless nagging and yet another errand to run in the Langkawi jungle that looms behind her home. No one has remembered her special day. And so, stifled and angry, Hamra ignores something she shouldn’t: the rules of the jungle.

Als Gemma Rose, stolze Besitzerin eines Tearooms in den Cotswolds, ihre kleine Tigerkatze Müsli bei der Katzenausstellung im Dorf meldet, rechnet sie nicht damit, über einen Mord zu stolpern. Und als ihre Mutter, die überall ungefragt ihre Nase hineinsteckt, und die neugierigen „Silberlocken“ die Morduntersuchung selbst in die Hand nehmen, bleibt Gemma nichts anderes übrig: Sie muss sich ihren Schnüffeleien anschließen.

Herbst 1923. Deutschland befindet sich auf dem Höhepunkt der Hyperinflation. Das Geld verliert stündlich seinen Wert, Existenzen werden vernichtet, die Menschen sind verzweifelt. Auch an den Bewohnern von Gut Greifenau geht die Wirtschaftskrise nicht spurlos vorbei. Doch dann kommt ausgerechnet die Inflation Konstantin zu Hilfe, und er kann das bedrohte Familiengut retten. Als Konstantins geliebte Frau Rebecca ein Mädchen zur Welt bringt, scheint das Glück vollkommen.

High school sweethearts Ruby Harper and Carter Scott had it all: Love, adventure, and a plan for their future. But it all went south when Ruby suddenly vanished without a trace leaving Carter heartbroken. Ruby thought she was making the right decision five years ago when she left home without telling anyone that she was pregnant. But her choice to return home to Baton Rouge is a complicated one, with hopes of finding a good job to give her daughter a better life.

1918 ist der Frieden mit Russland in greifbarer Nähe. Nach einem Mordanschlag ist es fraglich, ob Konstantin das noch erleben wird. Immerhin pflegte die Dorflehrerin Rebecca ihn aufopferungsvoll. Graf Adolphis indes ist verzweifelt. Durch den Kauf von Kriegsanleihen ist das Gut hoch verschuldet.

Die Geschichte eines Gutes in Hinterpommern und der Menschen, die darauf leben, und der 1. Teil der großen Greifenau-Saga. Mai 1913: Konstantin, ältester Grafensohn und Erbe von Gut Greifenau, wagt das Unerhörte: Er verliebt sich in eine Bürgerliche, schlimmer noch - in die Dorflehrerin Rebecca Kurscheidt, eine überzeugte Sozialdemokratin. Die beiden trennen Welten: nicht nur der Standesunterschied, sondern auch die Weltanschauung. Für Katharina dagegen, die jüngste Tochter, plant die Grafenmutter eine Traumhochzeit mit einem Neffen des deutschen Kaisers - obwohl bald klar ist, welch ein Scheusal sich hinter der aristokratischen Fassade verbirgt.

Isabell und ihre Großmutter Pauline treten ein Erbe in Köln an - Paulines Geburtshaus. Doch die alte Villa am Rheinufer birgt dunkle Geheimnisse. Bald sieht sich Isabell mit der Frage konfrontiert, ob ihr Liebesglück mit den Geheimnissen ihrer Familie zusammenhängt. Denn ausgerechnet Julius, Isabells neue Liebe, scheint tief in die schmerzliche Familientragödie verstrickt.

Before America joined World War I, a small group of Americans volunteered for the French Foreign Legion to help defeat the Central Powers. Historian David Hanna profiles seven of these volunteers: a poet, an artist, a boxer, a stunt pilot, a college student, a veteran of the Spanish American War, and an advertising executive. All seven men were united in courage; and some, like poet Alan Seeger, paid the ultimate sacrifice.

We are all salespeople, and the success we achieve in life depends on how well we sell our ideas to others. Paul Hanna, Australia's leading motivational speaker, shares techniques used by successful sales professionals who not only reach their sales targets every month, but blow them apart. In You Can Sell It you will discover how to: Close every deal, every time. Use referrals to double your sales.