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In our fast-paced society, we often overlook the needs of our inner selves. This best selling guide shows how to add depth, meaning, and spirituality to your life by nurturing the spirit. By teaching you how to sense the sacredness of everyday things, it will help you solve emotional problems, ease frustration, and gain new perspectives on what living means.

Herbst 1906: Der Funker Charlie Ingram wird tot im Funkraum des Ozeandampfers URANUS aufgefunden. Bei ihm der erste Offizier Harald Tennel. Die Tatwaffe: ein Messer, das Tennel gehört. Der Fall scheint klar. Kapitän Dyle vertraut seinem langjährigen Weggefährten und will ihm helfen, seine Unschuld zu beweisen. Er kontaktiert DIE DENKMASCHINE.

Ist der Sträfling Oscar Rian wirklich der, für den er sich ausgibt? Oberinspektor Greywood Usher von der Polizei in Chicago hat daran seine Zweifel. Wie gut, dass der Inspektor einen Lügendetektor hat. Leider hat er aber auch den neugierigen Pater Brown am Hals, der zufällig gerade einen Studienfreund in Amerika besucht. Und der Pater hat so seine Zweifel, ob eine Maschine wirklich die Wahrheit herausfinden kann.

Die wenigen verbliebenen Arten leben isoliert rund um den Äquator und sind vom Aussterben bedroht. Gleichzeitig ist die Menschheit auf das Überleben der Kreaturen angewiesen, da in der DNS dreier Arten der Schlüssel für dringend benötigte Medikamente vermutet wird. Aus diesem Grund wird die Abenteurerin Zora Bennett mit einem Team losgeschickt, um genetisches Material eben jener drei Spezies zu beschaffen. Doch dann landen die Gruppe nach einem Zwischenfall auf einer einsamen Insel und machen eine schockierende Entdeckung!

A world on the precipice of the apocalypse. A secret forged in the flames of war. A chance to start over. For John Sutton, only one of those three things matters. Retired from a decade of brutal war, he wants nothing more than a quiet pastoral life while he does his best to stem the steady increase of his Doom Points before they hit 100, signaling the start of the end. He’s been given a small farm on the outskirts of the empire as a thanks for his service, but no matter how far he travels, it's impossible to escape the war's devastating effects on the world.

Titan was one of the nation’s most loved and respected Heroes, until an infidelity scandal tore his image and family apart. After decades spent out of the limelight, Owen Daniels has decided to take up the mantle of Titan once again to try and make amends for his years away. Unfortunately, the Titan Scandal is still common knowledge, and no Hero team wants such a polarizing figure. With no other options, Owen is forced to take a job overseeing a group of corpies, corporate-sponsored Supers who do rescue work… as long as there are cameras around.

Idina Moorfield and her team face a new threat—silent, potentially deadly, and coming from within Hellion Squadron this time. Video footage of their last mission is threatening the program's anonymity, making tensions rise. Bravo Team even took out their last target, but they still can't seem to win. Is Hellion Command falling apart from the inside out, because even their commander can't keep his magic under control. Commander may have found a pattern to their problems, but hang on, it's bigger than anyone thought.

In Waking Up, Volume 2, Sounds True publisher and founder Tami Simon speaks with seven teachers about their personal understandings of spiritual awakening—how it takes place, what changes (and what doesn't), and how their experiences can inspire and inform our own realizations.

The mysterious barons — either hybrids of another race or genetic evolution gone mad — are dying. Kane, once a keeper of law and order in the new America, is part of the driving machine to return power to the true inheritors of the Earth. California is the opening salvo in one baron's savage quest for immortality—and a fateful act of defiance against earth's dangerous oppressors. Yet their sanctity is grimly uncertain as an unseen force arrives for a final confrontation with those who seek to rule, or reclaim, planet Earth.

Near what was once the Pacific northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever. Resisting the temptation to settle in that idyllic land, the group is captured and forced deep beneath an extinct volcano to an isolated community of in-bred scientists. These psychopathic descendants of a 20th century government research team are blindly laboring to find better ways of genocide, unaware that the world they are striving to slaughter has already died.

Prometheus returned to his solar system, and de Finita’s forces prepare to defend what’s theirs. The AllSeer’s return threatens to conquer both militaries in one genius move. He’ll obliterate Mars and force Prometheus to make an impossible choice: Save his friend or save his insurrection. Will de Finita bend the knee or watch billions burn alive beneath the AllSeer’s magnificent power? Will Prometheus let his friend die? Or will he abandon everything that what he’s built and risk his own life for someone he once loved?

Everything you know about vampires is wrong, as struggling actress Esther Diamond discovers after taking a job as a victim in The Vampyre, an off-Broadway cult hit in Manhattan. Not only is she besieged by fang-wearing vampire groupies, fanatical anti-vampire activists, and the bloodsucking paparazzi, but she also has to put up with broody lead actor Daemon Ravel, who claims to be a real vampire. But when one of Daemon's fan girls turns up dead - and drained of all her blood - Esther is determined to help.

Ten mind-altering tales from some of the best new drama writers. There's a crack in reality. Our world has brushed up against another, and something is breaking through. Ordinary people are experiencing strange disruptions, as inexplicable events and bizarre elements from the other side start to interfere with their lives....

For The Penguin Book of Murder Mysteries, writer and anthologist Michael Sims did not summon the usual suspects. He sought the unfamiliar, the unjustly forgotten, and little-known gems by writers from outside the genre. This historical tour of one of our most popular literary categories includes stories never before reprinted, features rebellious early “lady detectives," and spotlights former stars of the crime field—Austrian novelist Auguste Groner and prolific American Geraldine Bonner among them.

A rogue agent has come in from the cold and wants to spill his secrets. The Organisation wants Ishmael to find out if Frank Parker is who he says he is, what he really knows, and why he has emerged from the shadows after all this time. Ishmael heads to Ringstone Lodge in Yorkshire where Parker is being held to find that an atmosphere of fear and suspicion prevails. As he and his fellow residents are menaced by a series of alarming and inexplicable incidents, Ishmael sets out to prove that it’s human trickery rather than any supernatural being behind the seemingly ghostly goings-on.

England's 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the reign of new monarchs William and Mary signified a turning point for Restoration comedy with laws being passed to restrict playwrights' freedoms. The latter years are marked by a shift towards more moral storylines, mixing humour with social and political issues, alongside the lighthearted 'comedy of manners'. The works in this collection bring together these complementary styles, full of humour while also focusing on hard hitting themes.

Zwei Jahre waren vergangen, seit das Sternenschiff "Drakon" die Umlaufbahn des Planeten "Paradise" verlassen hatte und die Crew ein letztes Mal mit der Basisstation auf der Erde in Kontakt getreten war. Als ein weiteres Lebenszeichen von Commander Meredith und seiner Mannschaft ausblieb und sie von ihrer Mission nicht planmäßig zurückkehrten, schickte die Erde einen Rettungstrupp ins All. Unter dem Kommando des erfahrenen Raumfahrers Michael Traker machte sich das Sternenschiff "Confidence" auf den Weg nach "Paradise".

Der Juni 1987 verändert das Leben von vier Teenagern, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Will Bowers, Nancy Donner, Denis Willburn und Dave Law erleben einen wahr gewordenen Albtraum in ihrem kleinen amerikanischen Örtchen. Fernseher und Radios haben urplötzlich Störungen und es erklingt ein schreckliches Geräusch, das den Teens in den Ohren schmerzt, doch für Erwachsene ist es noch viel schlimmer, sie drohen den Verstand zu verlieren, werden wahnsinnig und stürzen sich sogar auf geliebte Menschen.

Eine als Wild-West-Banditen verkleidete Bande begeht diverse Überfälle auf Banken und Juweliergeschäfte in und um London. Was von der Presse zunächst noch mit einem gewissen Schmunzeln betrachtet wird, schlägt jäh in Panik um, als es zu den ersten Toten kommt. Inspector Anthony Stafford und sein Partner Graves müssen sich den Banditen stellen, von denen sie noch nicht wissen, ob diese sich nur hinter der Western-Verkleidung verstecken oder inzwischen wirklich in ihren Rollen als schießwütige Reinkarnationen aufgegangen sind.

In der britischen Militärbasis Aldershot geschieht ein Mord: Colonel Barclay liegt erschlagen auf dem Boden des heimischen Salons, neben ihm seine ohnmächtige Ehefrau. Alle Beweise scheinen darauf hinzudeuten, dass Mrs. Barclay die Mörderin ist. Natürlich ist die Militärpolizei keineswegs erfreut, als Sherlock Holmes sich in die Untersuchung einmischt, um herauszufinden, was wirklich geschehen ist.