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Set in our world, spanning the near to distant future, the author, Arwen Elys Dayton, explores the possible consequences of advanced medical breakthroughs and how they may shape and reshape humanity. From organ donation to plastic surgery to full bodily reconstruction, these stories take you by your (for now, organic) hand and lead you into a future where the line between person and machine becomes increasingly blurred. Deeply thoughtful, poignant, horrifying and action-packed, this novel strikes new ground while also seeming so strangely...likely. Just try to disconnect.

Growing up in 1950s Detroit, they live in a perfect “Dick and Jane” house, where their roles in the family are clearly defined. Jo is the tomboy, the bookish rebel with a passion to make the world more fair; Bethie is the pretty, feminine good girl, a would-be star who enjoys the power her beauty confers and dreams of a traditional life. But the truth ends up looking different from what the girls imagined. Jo and Bethie survive traumas and tragedies.

Bill Sherrill's thoughtful memoir shares his path from Depression-era dropout to the highest echelons of LBJ's administration and international business. It details his combat experience on Iwo Jima, the inner-workings of the Federal Reserve Board, the development of Galveston Island's first recreational communities, and the founding of the Wolff Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Houston's C. T. Bauer College of Business. It Makes Me Wonder provides inspiration for those who want to improve their own lives, as well as those who want to help others find success.

The Replaceable Founder explores the dynamics of the entrepreneurship world and explains how founders can capitalize on emerging trends to optimize, automate, outsource, and create truly sustainable businesses.

Daduschu wächst bei dem Getreidehändler Shindurrul, einem Freund seines Vaters, auf, nachdem er seine Eltern bei einem Nomadenüberfall verlor. Und Shindurrul schmiedet einen gewagten Plan: er will, dass Daduschu mit zwei Handelsschiffen ans Ende der Welt segelt. Dazu kommt noch eine ganz besondere Aufgabe für den jungen Mann. Der babylonische König Hammurabi möchte, dass er herausfinden, ob andernorts neue und bessere Kanäle gebaut werden können, denn der Boden Babylons versalzt allmählich.

Deutschlands beliebteste Quiz-Show steht vor der Tür. Und dieses Jahr findet sie nirgendwo anders als in der Heimatstadt von Wolfram Tannenberg statt. Unter anderem nimmt auch ein Teil seiner Familie, nämlich Vater, Bruder und Neffe, als ein Kandidatenteam teil. Doch während der Livesendung meldet sich ein skrupelloser Erpresser - er verlangt den Hauptgewinn von 10 Millionen Euro! Sein Druckmittel sind die Sprengsätze, von denen der behauptet sie im Keller des Gebäudes deponiert zu haben. Als dann ganz in der Nähe auch noch zwei Bomben explodieren, realisiert Tannenberg, dass er schnell handeln muss, wenn er eine Katastrophe verhindern will.

Ruthless, clever, and unbelievably violent, the Russian mafia has rapidly taken over the criminal underworld in the US, and law enforcement has been unable to stem the tide. When a powerful Russian mob family declares war by publicly executing two high-profile American politicians, the message is unmistakable - opposition will be met with overwhelming deadly force. With no other viable options, the President creates a clandestine assassinations team to find and eliminate the unreachable men running this deadly criminal operation.

The Winchester witches are at it again, and this time they’re going to find trouble. Of course, they always find trouble. So...situation normal? Take a walk on the wild side as Bay Winchester learns a little bit about life, death, magic, monsters, and love.

"Aren't you a terrorist?" "There are no roles for people who look like you." "That's a sin." "No girls allowed." They've heard it all. Actress Alia Shawkat reflects on all the parts she was told she was too "ethnic" to play. Former NFL player Wade Davis recalls his bullying of gay classmates in an attempt to hide his own sexuality. Holocaust survivor Fanny Starr tells of her harrowing time in Aushwitz, where she watched her family disappear, one by one. What made them rise up through the hate? What made them overcome the obstacles of their childhood to achieve extraordinary success?

In near-future America, film critic Noah Body uploads his reviews to a content aggregator. His job is routine: watch, seethe, pan. He dreams of making his own film, free from the hackery of commercial cinema. Faced with writing about lousy movies for a website that no one reads, Noah smuggles into his work episodes from his trainwreck of a life. We learn that his apartment in Miniature Aleppo has been stripped of furniture after his wife ran off with his best friend - who Noah believes has possessed his body.

In the summer of Star Wars and Son of Sam, a Long Island schoolgirl is found gruesomely murdered. A local prosecutor turns a troubled teenager known as JT from a suspect to a star witness in the case, putting away a high school football star who claimed to be innocent. Forty years later, JT has risen to chief of police, but there's a trail of a dozen dead women that reaches from Brooklyn across Long Island, along the Sunrise Highway, and it's possible that his actions actually enabled a killer. That's when Lourdes Robles, a relentless young Latina detective for the NYPD, steps in.

Was heißt Piff Paff?, will sein Vater von Hakan wissen. Ein naiver Gutmensch, der hinterm Mond lebt, findet Hakan. Schnell muss man sein, was tun fürs Glück. Begeistert spinnen Hakan und seine Freunde darauf hin, einmal ein Jugendcafé zu eröffnen. Umso verständnisloser blickt er daher auf seinen so wenig tüchtigen Vater, der vor vielen Jahren aus der Türkei nach Deutschland eingewandert ist. Gebetsmühlenartig empfindet Hakan seine Vorwürfe, unsinnig seine Ängste. Als sein Vater eines Tages verschwindet, macht Hakan sich auf die Suche - nach dem Menschen, der sein Vater ist, und nach sich selbst.

Emma G.’s dream has come true! Her BFF has tickets to a Boyz3000 concert in the Bahamas, and Emma’s their number one fan. Her parents say she can go...if she pays for part of the trip. What? How? The concert’s in nine days! Determined, she enlists friends, pulls off crazy schemes, and discovers hidden talents that could change her life!

Rick and Kenny's Pa was right -- troubles really do happen in threes. First Pa's truck was robbed, then Pa ran off, leaving Rick, Kenny, and Ma to fend for themselves, and now Ma has disappeared, too. Rick just knows Ma would never leave them on purpose -- but then, where is she? Waiting in Uncle Henry's trailer park doesn't seem like the best way to find out. Instead, the brothers, along with their new friends, Connie and Julie, decide to search the abandoned Wonderland Amusement Park next door for answers.

Night Watch usually acts as a setup crew for the day shift, but when Billy is called to a 4:00 a.m. fatal slashing of a man in Penn Station, his investigation of the crime moves beyond the usual handoff. And when he discovers that the victim was once a suspect in the unsolved murder of a 12-year-old boy - a brutal case with connections to the former members of the Wild Geese - the bad old days are back in Billy's life with a vengeance, tearing apart enduring friendships forged in the urban trenches and even threatening the safety of his family.

An der Jammerhalde, einem düsteren Nordhang im Pfälzerwald, wurde im Dreißigjährigen Krieg ein grausames Massaker verübt...

Dewey Andreas, still reeling from recent revelations about his own past, is ready to retire from the CIA. But he's the only available agent with the skills to carry out the CIA's plan to stop North Korea, which has made a secret nuclear deal with Iran. The plan is to inject a singular designer poison into the head of the North Korean military and in exchange for the nuclear plans provide him with the one existing dose of the antidote. But it goes awry when Dewey manages to inject a small amount of the poison into himself.

Wolfram Tannenberg, frischgebackener Leiter der Kaiserslauterer Mordkommission, wird in seinem ersten Fall gleich mit einem mysteriösen Verbrechen konfrontiert...

In der Asche eines Krematoriums wird ein wertvoller Platinring gefunden. Er trägt die Gravur "In ewiger Liebe, deine Leonie"...

Auf der Jagd nach dem Mörder Santer wird Old Shatterhand von Winnetou getrennt und macht die Bekanntschaft eines alten Scout, mit dem er gegen den Ku-Klux-Klan kämpft. Als er seinen Blutsbruder wiedertrifft, erfährt er etwas über das tragische Schicksal von Winnetous großer Liebe. Gemeinsam mit Old Firehand wollen sie dem Mörder von Ribanna das Handwerk legen - und erleben eine unerwartete Überraschung.