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Le parole di Holmes furono poco più di un sussurro, mentre accostava fulmineo la bocca al mio orecchio, andando ad accarezzare il lobo quasi impercettibilmente con il labbro inferiore. "Che cosa farebbe se mi succedesse qualcosa di irreparabile?" mormorò, le labbra sempre più pericolosamente vicine. "Io non credo che riuscirei mai a perdonarmelo." Sherlock Holmes e John Watson vivono insieme nel loro appartamento al numero 221b di Baker Street. La tensione sessuale tra i due diventa irresistibile.

In eighth-century Austrasia, a spirited girl in the town of Würzburg brashly defies convention by pursuing the time-honored art of parchment-making. But Theresa's dreams are shattered when unimaginable tragedy strikes, forcing her to flee and tearing her family apart. Set adrift as a fugitive, Theresa relies on her uncommon education and the sympathy of strangers to survive. When she encounters Alcuin of York, a shrewd and influential monk with close ties to King Charlemagne, she hopes her luck might have finally changed. Yet all is not what it seems.

You won’t find the place on any map. It’s somewhere else, hidden away in a wondrous parallel reality of mystery, awe, and terror. This both is and isn’t the “Old West”. They share the same stark and unforgiving terrain and exist in the same timeframe, primarily the 1800s. But there the similarities cease. In Spirit County, for example, death is often not the end, but the beginning. Sometimes even the middle. Mythological creatures prove real...and deadly. Towns can disappear by daylight and return with the setting sun.

Bereits als 17-Jähriger tritt Friedrich Freiherr von Trenck in die Leibwache von Friedrich II. ein. Dem preußischen König imponieren die Begabungen und der Ehrgeiz Trencks. So dauert es nicht lange, bis er ihn zu seinem Adjutanten macht. Doch dann verliebt sich der junge Adelige ausgerechnet in Amalie, die Lieblingsschwester des Königs. Amalie erwidert Trencks Liebe, aber leider durchkreuzt diese Beziehung Friedrichs Pläne. Dieser hat bereits einen anderen Gemahl für seine Schwester ausgewählt: den Kronprinz von Schweden.

In a quartet of tribute tales from theses authors that both idolize and have recently encountered Hank's works, the voice of the poet laureate of the gutter is restored, so that once more the good duker can take a swing.

James Crowley has ridden the road to Crescent City before, but never with companions like these. Never with a woman whose very presence jeopardizes everything he’s fought for over the past two decades. The swamps are a brutal, nasty place filled with creatures most people think only exist in nightmares and fever dreams. When Crowley, along with Rosa, Bram Stoker, Harker, and Irish stumble upon such a creature, and one of their party finds themselves mortally wounded, they must find help in the most unlikely of places.

Estudantes do primeiro grupo sofrem porque pensam que os outros estão mais bem preparados para o mundo do trabalho. Estudantes do segundo grupo sofrem porque nunca sabem se estão fazendo o suficiente. Foi pensando nessa realidade que decidi escrever o Guia Incompleto, Desatualizado e Provisório para Estudantes Universitários. É um guia para estudantes universitários, mas pode ter utilidade para qualquer pessoa, em qualquer fase da vida.

Todo circuito Paralímpico, incluindo preparação, treino e campeonatos, além da própria competição em si, é um processo desafiador. Imagine, além disso, viver essa experiência no extremo oposto do Brasil, no Japão, com as barreiras da língua, cultura e fuso horário. Por fim, some esses ingredientes à pandemia da COVID-19. Esse é o cenário de Jogos Pandêmicos: um diário de viagem da psicóloga esportiva do Comitê Paralímpico Brasileiro, Bruna Macedo Soares. E que viagem!

Newbery Medal winner Kelly Barnhill spins a wondrously different kind of fairy-tale: In most fairy tales, princesses are beautiful, dragons are terrifying, and stories are harmless. But this isn't most fairy tales... Princess Violet is plain, reckless, and quite possibly too clever for her own...

Cette histoire de Loup commence comme une histoire de loup : Loup a faim ? Il mange ! Ici, une petite fille habillée en rouge, là, un mouton tout blond. Mais le troisième jour, tout dérape. Alors que Loup guettait, son voisin de gauche passa : "Oh, Loup ! Quelle belle surprise !" dit le voisin qui regardait son petit ventre rond. "Il est pour quand, ce petit-là ?" Loup regarda son ventre bien rond, il pâlit, il rougit, s'excusa et rentra.

Vivants ou fossiles, les oursins sont des animaux étranges à nos yeux. Sans queue ni tête, ils sont une clé pour comprendre les mystères de l'évolution. Chercheur acharné, Bruno David a poussé l'enquête sur les échinodermes des plaines du Bassin parisien jusque dans les abysses, en s'aidant des outils les plus inattendus. On découvre ainsi, entre autres, que les oursins n'ont pas toujours un aspect de petites boules piquantes, qu'il existe des oursins kangourous, ou encore qu'il arrive aux crabes de maltraiter les oursins.

The Ascendant Humans have conquered Earth and banished mankind to a distant star. There, the refugees war in space over the resources rationed to them. In an orbital habitat, Commander Rylan Shaw labors against the inter-colony arms trafficking when an informant gives him horrific news. The ruthless cartel boss, Lilith, has stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. Worse, she has permission from the Wardens, humanity's robot overlords, to unleash them upon the system.

Spencer Hayes, along with his girlfriend, Kate, and their dog, Finn, enjoy a life most people only dream about. Living aboard their 31-foot sailboat, Restless, they make the most of all that paradise has to offer. But that changes in the blink of an eye when EMPs strike the east coast of the United States.

"Io sono solo, Rachele, e vedo che tutto è finito." Così Mussolini nell'ultima telefonata alla moglie, a poche ore dall'arresto e dalla morte. "L'Ucraina non esiste" disse Putin. "E, se esiste, è una colonia russa." "Mario, che fai? Mi lasci sola?" Giorgia Meloni si aggrappò con una battuta a Mario Draghi che il 23 ottobre si congedava da Palazzo Chigi, dopo le consegne alla nuova padrona di casa. Sapeva quanto enorme fosse il compito affidatole dagli elettori in uno dei momenti più difficili del dopoguerra. Una "grande tempesta" che attraversa un secolo di storia italiana e internazionale.

When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it’s understandable to be nervous. Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan Soto has a Personal Brain Assistant—a cybernetic implant—that allows him to firewall pesky emotions like worry and guilt and redact memories of bullet-riddled corpses. Unfortunately, Cowan soon learns it was his suspect’s PBA which allowed a ruthless hacker to puppet her into a shooting rampage.

A audiobook about three best friends who do everything together, until they each realize that sometimes having time alone can be nice too. Rabbit, Duck, and Big Bear are best friends. They do everything together and go everywhere together except for one place. They never go down the long and...

Europa, Anno Domini 1122. Endlich ist die Stauffermark zur Ruhe gekommen. Die Wunden der Vergangenheit sind langsam verheilt. Die Burg Falkenstein, Sitz einer verschworenen Gemeinschaft aus den Tagen des ersten Kreuzzuges, ist in neuem Glanz auferstanden. Justus und Elias, die königlichen Findelkinder und Enkel von König Albrecht, durchlaufen die Lehrjahre wahrer Ritterschaft. Konrad und Katharina von Falkenstein führen sie in die Geheimnisse und Tiefen der Dinge ein, die vor den Toren Jerusalems ihren Anfang genommen hatten. Der Tag von Elias' Ritterschlag steht kurz bevor.

Museion, fiabeggiando con l'arte è una collana di fiabe per bambini ambientate nel mondo dell'arte. Il protagonista di ogni fiaba è Alan, un bambino di 9 anni, ricco di immaginazione che, nei suoi momenti di solitudine, escogita di parlare con un'amichetta che vive nelle sue emozioni.

Eine Tragödie von erstaunlicher Aktualität: Der junge Wissenschaftler Victor Frankenstein ist von der Idee besessen, einen künstlichen Menschen zu erschaffen. Mit seinen Experimenten ignoriert er die Gesetze der Natur. Doch als er Erfolg hat, wendet er sich mit Schrecken von dem Monster ab, das er selbst ins Leben gerufen hat.

Reese Roberts was the guardian of Iron City. Its fearless protector. The only one willing to do whatever it takes...until he was shot on the streets and left paralyzed from the waist down. Now, the vigilante known as the Roach has disappeared. It’s been years since Reese could take on crime and clean up the streets. He’s a shriveled old drunk. But when a copycat steals his suit and takes justice into his own hands, a new killer emerges. It’s time for Reese to re-emerge from his shell and fight back.