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Das ferne Land Ningi, einst idyllisch und wunderbar, zeigt zunehmend Risse. Alice und ihre Freunde erfahren dies hautnah, als sie vor den Trümmern ihrer zerstörten Schule stehen und auserwählt werden, dem König von der Zerstörung zu berichten. Was als Flucht aus ihren schwierigen Familienverhältnissen beginnt, entwickelt sich schnell zu einer aufregenden Reise voller Geheimnisse und Gefahren. Wer verfolgt sie? Wem können sie noch trauen? Und welche Rolle spielt der mysteriöse „Weiße Reiter“, der angeblich das Volk vor dem Bösen schützen soll?

Wuthering Heights is a haunting tale of obsessive passion and destructive revenge set against the bleak Yorkshire moors. The story follows the turbulent lives of Heathcliff, a brooding and vengeful foundling, and Catherine Earnshaw, whose deep, conflicted love sparks a relentless cycle of cruelty. Their turbulent relationship affects two generations, intertwining the fates of the Earnshaw and Linton families. Through raw emotions and bitter conflicts, Emily Brontë explores the destructive power of love, social class, and the relentless grip of revenge. Ultimately, tragedy and redemption ...

Powerful testimonies from two survivors of the NSW Police workforce play out over eight episodes. Former police lawyer, Lina Nguyen is both rape victim, and survivor, chillingly groomed by a cop she trusted at a police farewell party. Mark Davidson was the sniper at the heart of the Lindt Cafe Seige at Martin Place, in 2014, who remains traumatised by what wasn't revealed in the Coronial Inquest into that event. They're passionate about justice, and together challenge everything that lies at the heart of police culture and the legal system as we know it. Sound Engineer: Judy Rapley

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Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own. When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies and souls in their care - and that of the galactic diaspora - are in danger.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

Travelling home from a European holiday, Iris Carr ends up alone at the station after a quarrel with her friends. Struck by a mysterious assailant and waking up just in time to board the train which will take her on her journey to London, things seem to be looking up after a chance meeting with the affable Miss Froy. But when Iris passes out and reawakens, Miss Froy is nowhere to be found. The other passengers deny any knowledge of her existence and as the train speeds across Europe, Iris spirals deeper and deeper into a strange conspiracy.

The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1,000 years, through the Middle Ages. It is not a complete autobiography, as it was written in his early 40s, and he lived long afterwards, producing another important work (City of God). It does, nonetheless, provide an unbroken record of his development of thought and is the most complete record of any single person from the 4th and 5th centuries. It is a significant...

Because of the diseases it spreads, we have learned to distance ourselves from our waste, but the long line of engineering marvels we’ve created to do so - from Roman sewage systems and medieval latrines to the immense, computerized treatment plants we use today - has also done considerable damage to the Earth’s ecology. Now scientists tell us: We’ve been wasting our waste.

Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translators’ Preface)Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past. He was schooled traditionally, took a craftsman-like approach to his work, and desired academic recognition, although he was never accepted into Paris's foremost school of art. Sculpturally, Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, deeply pocketed surface in clay. … Rodin… modeled the human ...

Whether you called it electro, indie dance, or were too busy scouring the internet for MP3s to care about a genre name, Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor connects the disparate parts of an under-documented era in the first book focused on the musical and cultural phenomenon called bloghouse.

In Karlstad, nine-month-old Beatrice is missing from her pram. Her parents are in shock and the media is in a frenzy. DI Charlie Lager is struggling with her own demons when she's called to investigate, forced to push them aside as the case intensifies. As lead after lead goes nowhere, Charlie starts to feel like nobody actually wants the truth to come out about Beatrice as reluctant locals shut down in the face of her questions. And with each passing hour, the chance of finding Beatrice alive becomes less and less likely....

A tragic past. Thirty years ago, the body of a teenage boy was found in Gullspång's lake, and his best friend vanished from her home. Paul Bergman's death was ruled a suicide; Francesca was never found. An unsolved case. Drawn back to Gullspång, Detective Inspector Charlie Lager is haunted by the strange house she knew as a child, and by the missing girl who once lived there. Convinced that the original investigation was flawed, Charlie is determined to uncover what really happened all those decades ago.

Wie viel ändert sich wirklich, wenn wir heiraten? Und warum heiraten wir überhaupt? Lina Mallon ist den tiefen Fragen des Lebens noch nie aus dem Weg gegangen: Wo will ich hin? Wer will ich sein? Und vor allem: Wer will ich sein, wenn ich liebe? Sie hat sich ihre Unabhängigkeit lange erkämpft und möchte sich diese auch in einer Beziehung erhalten. Die Ehe war für Lina nie eines ihrer Ziele und Heiraten spielte keine große Rolle.

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A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village, replete with Tudor houses and quaint cottages. In her writer's mind she pictures the sordid truth beyond the veneer, a seemingly laughable proposition - until the coming of the letters. Anonymous letters from a poisoned pen, sowing discord and defaming everybody from the Rector to the 'queen of the village' Miss Decima Asprey. Naturally, where there is venom in the air and dark secrets are threatening to come to light, the shadow of death is not far behind.

Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller's life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb.

Sofia Hjortén ist in ihre Heimat Ulvön, eine kleine Insel im Schärengarten der Höga Kusten zurückgekehrt. Nach einem Schicksalsschlag steht ihre Karriere als Kommissarin in Stockholm still, der Polizeidienst in der malerischen Küstenregion ist unaufgeregt. Doch dann wird an Mittsommer ein Mann grausam am Bootssteg erschlagen. Die Mordermittlungen spülen für Sofia vergessene Gefühle an die Oberfläche, denn dringend tatverdächtig ist ihr ehemaliger Freund Fredrik Fröding.

When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capable Pauline Marchrose is the successful applicant. This is good news for Sir Julian, the college director, who greatly admires her diligence and ability. Mark Easter, Sir Julian’s agent, feels admiration for her too, which rapidly becomes romantic attraction. But Mark already has a wife, albeit in name only. And Sir Julian’s wife, Lady Edna Rossiter, discovers that Pauline Marchrose is the same woman who jilted her cousin Clarence after he was ...

Billionaire mogul Benjamin Knight turns my world upside down. Off-limits and irresistible, his allure is a challenge I can't resist. Our words clash, igniting tension. I'm here to write his story, not get entangled in it. But scandal looms, and he grants me unrivaled access—secrets laid bare.