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Gründe, warum ich aufhören muss, an Linnea zu denken: 1. Sie ist zu jung für mich. 2. Sie ist das Kindermädchen meiner Tochter. An der Stelle könnte ich doch schon aufhören, oder? Ich bin das lebende Klischee. Der alleinerziehende Vater, der scharf auf das Kindermädchen ist. Aber es kommt noch schlimmer: 3. Sie ist meine Schwägerin. Meine Frau starb, als unsere Tochter noch ein Baby war, und Linnea war damals ein ruhiger, unscheinbarer Teenager. Ich kannte sie kaum.

Discover a fresh new take on the traditional art of macramé, a craft that was incredibly popular in the '70s and is currently enjoying a renaissance. Macramé projects are the best way to bring the current trend for interiors into your home. This book includes on-trend macramé projects for inside and outside the home. Choose from an assortment of projects - with “easy” and “more advanced” versions so you can develop your skills as you go.

FBI Special Agent Zoe Prime suffers from a rare condition which also gives her a unique talent: She views the world through a lens of numbers. In Face of Fury, women are turning up dead, victims of a serial killer who carves a mysterious symbol on their bodies. The symbol holds some mathematical significance, and Zoe struggles to know if he is killing in the order of PI. But when her theory falls apart, Zoe must second guess everything she thought she knew. Has Zoe’s talent met its match? And can she save the next victim in time?

Jack Steel joined Blackhood Ops to keep his country safe. His family safe. What he didn't expect was a choice between saving an innocent person or stopping terrorists. He knows what his orders are, he's just not sure he can follow them. Millions of lives hang in the balance, along with Steel's conscience. But it doesn't look like he'll make it through the day.

Three more mystifying cases perplexing Det. Luca. This box set contains: Book four, Third Chances - the clock is ticking...as the hunt for a serial killer continues. Book five, A Cold Hard Case - half the time, the killer gets away with it...and the case goes cold. And book six, Cop or Killer? - breaking the law to protect your family is reasonable...until it's not.

Martina está pasando por un momento difícil en su matrimonio que coincide con la restauración de la fachada de la casa, unas obras que sumergen su piso en la oscuridad. Para evadirse de este ambiente claustrofóbico, Martina se mete de lleno en la preparación de su siguiente novela, recopilando recuerdos de antiguos inquilinos de la finca. Un sinfín de anécdotas y confidencias, con nombres y apellidos, que acercarán al lector al mundo que se oculta tras esas imponentes piedras.

To found a colony on a new world, they left everything they knew behind. With no possibility to return, only the hope of a better life keeps them going. But for Rica, Pimly, and Craig, the bizarre death of a friend leads them into a twisting maze of lies and deceit. The more they uncover, the stranger their new world becomes. Every step forward turns the place they have come to call home into a labyrinth of secrets with mysteries hidden inside. They will struggle against law, murder, and madness in their pursuit of the truth. But some truths are worse than lies.

Reckless, angry and adrift, Bigger Thomas has grown up trapped in a life of poverty in the slums of Chicago. But a job with the affluent Dalton family provides the setting for a catastrophic collision between his world and theirs. Hunted by citizen and police alike, and baited by prejudiced officials, Bigger finds himself the cause célèbre in an ever-narrowing endgame.

At four years old, Richard Wright set fire to his home in a moment of boredom; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was - temporarily - an alcoholic. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life, about fear, hunger and hatred, while his mother's long illness taught him about suffering. In a world of White hostility and subjugation it would be his love of books and pursuit of knowledge that would propel him to follow his dream of justice and opportunity in the north.

"Lettera al padre" ("Brief an den Vater") è una lettera di Franz Kafka al padre, scritta nel 1919 e pubblicata postuma nel 1952. In questa lettera, come nei "Quaderni in ottavo", lo scrittore rende con chiarezza quei presupposti filosofici e psicologici che nei suoi romanzi tanto sono nascosti dallo stile e dai temi volutamente surreali e oscuri.

Der Auftakt einer Reihe um drei wunderbare Freundinnen und ihre Suche nach der großen Liebe von Bestsellerautorin Franziska Erhard. Neue Stadt, neues Leben? Nach einer schweren Enttäuschung wagt Ruby in London einen Neuanfang. Ihr Ziel: ein Platz im Traineeprogramm einer bekannten Parfümeriekette. Nicht ihr Ziel: sich vom Charme des charismatischen Juniorchefs Beau Rutherford überwältigen zu lassen. Was gar nicht so einfach ist, denn ausgerechnet er wird ihr Mentor – und er spürt ebenfalls die besondere Chemie, die beide verbindet.

A lovely young teacher is brutally assaulted by her honors class.... A tiny infant is thrown from the top of a double-decker bus to smash on the pavement below.... An elderly man is burned to death by a gang of rampaging teenagers.... And as child after child is sucked into the ever-spreading whirlpool of violence, school security chief Max Donnelly works frantically to discover what is turning six hundred thousand innocent youngsters into deadly machines of destruction - racing against time to prevent their dreadful power from being unleashed against a helpless city.

Detective Luca knows there are hundreds, if not thousands of killers out there. When he receives a strange call about an unsolved murder, the evil that struck 25 years earlier resurfaces. A teenage girl brutally murdered. A younger brother who was with her that night. A devastated mother, unable to move on. Contemplating fatherhood himself, Luca commits to solving the horrific crime. He'll find the killer, offering the family a measure of closure. But there is a carousel of suspects, the original investigation was botched, and someone is trying to stop Luca.

The Summer People tells the tale of heroes and foes, cloaked men and sorcerers, serpent people, and the enigmatic Romani. An unlikely band of heroes, young Jake and the twins, Eli and Ash, join forces with a mysterious stranger, Merwin of the Order of Rasputin. Together, they seek to recover what was taken: their parents, a kingdom's lost throne, a hero lost to the ages, and the truth behind the mysterious Summer People. Amid tragedy and betrayal, victory and failure, the fate of an entire kingdom hangs perilously in the balance.

Love and death, bullets and blood.... Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself in the unenviable position of having to arrest a young man for murder on suspicious evidence. But the cards are stacked against the young firebrand who calls himself Johnny Nevada. One, Johnny has gotten Judge Hoagland’s daughter pregnant, shaming and enraging Hoagland himself. Two, Johnny warned Dave Bliss he was going to kill him because Bliss ordered Johnny to stay away from Bliss’s daughter, Sarah, whom the young Casanova was also sparking. Johnny made the warning public and two weeks later Bliss was dead.

This prayer journal was carefully designed for the prayer warrior Christian woman, who is ready to meet the husband God has for her. The woman who is ready to get married but understands that prayer, fasting, and constant conversation with the Holy Spirit needs to be ever-present in your life, especially when you are asking God for your divine partner. The prayer journal contains 52 prayers for you to dig deeper into your personal relationship with God by improving your prayer life.

American heiress Laurel Van Gilder has arrived in Oxford to present a prestigious award. Laurel rents a bicycle and crashes into a car belonging to Professor Gideon Welles. Knocked unconscious, she is taken to hospital and wakes the next day, Gideon having stayed by her side all night. Bickering and sniping at each other over whose fault it was, they are relieved to see the back of each other, but there is a spark Laurel can’t ignore.

When the head of Army Black Ops is murdered by assassins, Steel and Christie hunt the killers, and become the hunted. The Jack Steel series is now in development for a major motion picture. From the snowy Virginia forests, to the frigid interior of Alaska, to a lush mountain on St. Croix Island, Steel and Christie will face off against a powerful mercenary organization that wants them dead. Someone is using murder to reshape the U.S. government. And that person has a score to settle with Steel.

With the help of NASA, a computer glitch, and a ghost, Bram Morrison, a robotics engineer, may have given science a new means to put death on hold. But despite the new landscape he’s opened up, the Great Beyond is still territory with no solid ground for science to stand on. Still helping Torula Jackson realize her dream of studying what happens to consciousness after death, Bram risks his reputation and future by revealing his growing belief in the bizarre. It will take more than apparitions in 3D glass chambers to convince scientists and doctors that the afterlife exists.

All aboard the Scomo Express as our hero pulls back the lid on the life and times of one of history's great leaders and humbly serves up a steaming meat pie of everyman wisdom for the hungering masses. These are the unofficial chronicles of Scotty's first 18 months in his new role as head honcho of the largest marketing firm in the country - the Australian federal government - as it unfolded, completely devoid of any self-aggrandisement, doublespeak, sleight of hand or other dirty shenanigans played by the Opposition.