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Le vieil homme dans la haute tour mystérieuse à la périphérie de la ville se considère comme le plus grand alchimiste de tous les royaumes. Il est le maître des élixirs. Il le prouve de manière impressionnante avec ses potions magiques extraordinaires, comme la "malédiction de l'ombre curieuse" ou le "miroir de la mort". Que d'autres préparent des potions d'humilité et de modestie. En enquêtant sur une mort mystérieuse, le soldat de la garde municipale trouve une lettre portant le sceau du roi. Il ne peut pas résister.

Luca Windborne is out for revenge. For as long as he could remember, his whole life had been leading to the moment where he would taste the nectar of the death of the Count Vinsaro of Rehma. Until, that is, he arrives in the chamber of his enemy to discover him already dead. His life takes a turn onto a path he could not have envisaged, into a world of magic and secrets that connect to his family's past.

Journalist Ruth Porter is hungry for a story. Nothing good ever happens in Manchester. Until she discovers a string of murders that have recently been attributed to the notorious Craig Malton. There are lots of people that want Malton behind bars - and that's exactly why his arrest seems too convenient . . .

The Revolution of Money delves into the captivating journey of money's evolution, a narrative that unravels the intricate relationship between technology, history, and society at large. This book explores the pivotal role money plays as the backbone of our society's most significant challenges and opportunities. Two thousand years ago, humans used a wide variety of materials as money. Today, 90% of our money exists as digital computer entries. How did we arrive at this current system? And what may happen to money in the future?

Der neue Mittelalter-Roman von Sam Feuerbach - sein erster Einzelband In jungen Jahren kehrt der Henkerssohn Tuni seinem Heimatdorf den Rücken, da er sich seinen Unterhalt lieber mit Gelegenheitsarbeiten verdient, als in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters zu treten. Seine Laute führt er stets mit sich, wobei sein Talent als Barde im Verborgenen bleibt. Ausgerechnet das Schafott soll dies ändern. Am Wegrand findet der Pergamentmacher Alarik eine verwirrte Fremde. Außer an Bibelzitate kann sie sich an nichts erinnern, nicht einmal an ihren Namen.

Aksaray’ın mütevazı bir sokağında daracık bir oda... Gençliğinde oldukça güzel olduğu her halinden belli olan yaşlı bir kadın küçük ama temiz ve derli toplu olan bu odada bir köşeye çekilmiş elindeki nakışı işliyordu. Zihnini meşgul edenbin bir düşünce, yüzünde zaman zaman keder ve endişe ifadelerine yol açıyordu. Yaşlı insanlar geride bıraktıkları gençliklerinin mutlu günleri hatırlarına geldiği zaman böyle mahzunlaşırlar. O güzel günlerin bir daha yaşanamayacağını ve geriye dönüşün mümkün olmadığını düşünmek, yaşanmış acıların hatıra gelmesinden daha fazla acı verir onlara.

Voor de lezers van J.D. Barker, Daniel Cole en alle kijkers van The Blair Witch Project. De regel van drie wacht geduldig en trouw Eerst kwam hij voor mij nu komt hij voor jou. Eerst geloofde ik niet in de regel van drie. Althans niet meteen. Het was gewoon een verhaal dat mensen elkaar vertelden op de campus. Een gerucht dat mijn vriend had opgevangen over een jonge studente, Amy, die een leven vol ongeluk had gekend: haar zus was omgekomen bij een ongeval en haar ouders hadden zelfmoord gepleegd. Daarna raakte Amy geobsedeerd door het getal drie: ze was ervan overtuigd dat zij óók gedoemd was om te sterven.

Der US-Präsident: Mörder, Macher oder Marionette? Er war der Außenseiter. Mit seiner Wahl hat niemand gerechnet. Oder etwa doch? Der neue US-Präsident Stephen Baker ist kaum im Amt, da droht ihm ein Blogger mit explosiven Enthüllungen – und wird kurz danach tot aufgefunden. Baker gerät unter Verdacht: hat er den Mord befohlen? Gejagt von Presse, FBI und einem Killer sucht Bakers Beraterin Maggie Costello nach der Wahrheit – und gerät auf die Spur einer perfiden Verschwörung ... Rasant, realistisch und erschreckend plausibel – Sam Bourne ist der Meister der Spannung.

My life has been upended with a three-word text, and a meeting with my boss’s boss nearly finishes me off. I’m in a downward spiral, and I have no intentions of pulling out. My brother Hank has other ideas. He’s called in a big gun, Gabriele Torrente, who drags me to New York and pushes me to get myself together. At a family event, I hook up with the hottest guy I’ve ever met, intending to just relieve some tension. The guy turns out to be more than I could imagine.

Max has settled nicely into life in Welling. He's got the best boyfriend ever born and a life he never imagined he could have. He's also written his new screenplay, and the hottest director in Hollywood has snapped it up enthusiastically. Things take a turn for the worse when one of the actors is murdered, and the best suspects are Max, his family, and his houseguests. The sheriff is no help at all, so Max needs to discover who the killer is before someone ends up behind bars.

Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he’d seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the world: SoftBank, backer of Arm Holdings, Yahoo, Nvidia, TikTok, Uber, T-Mobile, Alibaba and WeWork. The Money Trap is Sama’s thrilling, stranger-than-fiction personal odyssey detailing his experiences alongside SoftBank’s iconic founder Masayoshi Son – a visionary maverick who wants to be remembered as ‘the crazy guy who bet on the future’ and whose mission is ‘happiness for everyone’.

Książka obejmuje kilkanaście najlepszych rozmów z podcastu "Making Sense", z gośćmi takimi jak Daniel Kahneman, Timothy Snyder, Nick Bostrom czy Glenn Loury. Zakres tematów jest bardzo szeroki: od natury świadomości i wolnej woli, przez politykę i ekstremizm, aż po etykę w życiu codziennym. Nadając sens tym zjawiskom, rozmówcy pokazują, jak można się odnaleźć w nowoczesnym świecie.

In One with My Lord, Sam Allberry examines the doctrine of union with Christ through a rich study of New Testament scriptures. Each chapter is short enough to be listened to as a devotional, giving believers a fresh lens to view the gospel daily as they pursue holiness, resist sin, build community, and worship God. In a time when people are searching for a place to belong, One with My Lord reminds believers that they have a perfect home in Christ.

America's political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes listeners from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today's parties, overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the Founding.

Tag the dog can do all kinds of things with his squeaker ball—chew it, toss it, and especially squeak it. Then, one day, the squeaker comes to life! Tag is delighted, but the resident cat is suspicious. Where the cat sees a mystery, Tag sees only magic. Which one is right?

In today’s political climate, it’s hard not to get discouraged. Isolated, doom scrolling, lacking a sense of purpose or community...it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the dire state of American democracy and do nothing, because why try when the odds are never in our favor?

The murderess crow longs to return to freedom and independence. But the shadows of the past, the encounters of the present, and the tasks of the future are deadlier than ever. Not only an old enemy, a little girl and a whole nation drain her strength... At Castle Cragwater, Karek finds no peace. The king is fighting a deadly disease, the smoldering civil war and the unrest at court are hardly controllable, and then his comrades also make a terrible discovery.

Fridays of Rage provides a glimpse into how Al Jazeera strategically cast its journalists as martyrs in the struggle for Arab freedom while promoting itself as the mouthpiece and advocate of the Arab public.

A big-hearted bird, who loves to find things and loves to help, gets tripped up by homonyms and gets everything wrong! Will she ever get it right? Then the bird’s friends take a second look at the goofed gifts and realize that, with a little creativity, the magpie gave them just what they needed.

Following the French and Indian War, white settlers pour over the Appalachians and down the Ohio River. But native tribes of the Northwest Territory have long inhabited this land—and they are willing to fight to remain. Leading the Shawnee is Tecumseh—courageous, discerning, and capable of assembling fifty thousand warriors to rise together to chase the white settlers back east when he commands. How will warriors from Florida to Canada know when the command has come? For twenty years his answer has been the same: “I will stomp my foot.”