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In this thrilling road trip from "Peking to Paris", a woman tries to save her car, her marriage, and her confidence from breaking down. In May 2007, leaving China’s Great Wall is Car 84, one of 128 antique autos racing in the Peking to Paris Motor Challenge. It’s guided by one Dina Bennett, the world’s least likely navigator: a daydreamer prone to carsickness, riddled with self-doubt, and married to a thrill-seeking perfectionist who is half-human, half-racecar. What could possibly go wrong?

When a bomb is discovered in the White House during the first year of Phillip Grand’s tenure as president of the United States, press secretary Jamie Carter takes her daughter, Faith, to the one place she believes to be safe - an address in Wyoming given to her years before by reputed mobster Don Bailino. Bailino - thought to be dead by just about everyone, except recently retired FBI special agent Paul Wilcox - has been laying low out west for more than three years, but is propelled out of hiding to protect the woman he loves and the daughter he’s fathered.

New York Governor Phillip Grand’s infant daughter disappears without a trace from her crib. Hours later, newly divorced and out-of-work writer Jamie Carter is abducted by a dark, handsome stranger in a crowded New York City park. Jamie is whisked upstate, where she is forced to care for the kidnapped Baby Grand in a plot to delay the execution of mobster Gino Cataldi.

Centocinquantasei scintille del genio letterario di Dino Buzzati: è questo il contenuto di In quel preciso momento, una raccolta di prose brevi, racconti lampo, note, appunti, divagazioni, parabole, riflessioni, memorie in cui si ritrovano tutti i temi più cari allo scrittore bellunese, che riesce a ridurre alla quintessenza, a condensare nel giro minimo di una battuta la sua interpretazione del mondo.

Have you ever wondered how some doctors are making millions, working less hours, and have the most supportive and devoted teams, all while having incredible family relationships? Do you find yourself thinking more about dealing with a difficult staff member than you do on your patients? Are you ever frustrated with the fact that your formal education never actually taught you what it takes to run a successful business?

When Jim Nealon walks into Lizzie Flynn's shop and proposes that she help him make jigsaws, Lizzie agrees. Jim shows her the photographs he intends to use, and now the picture that was Lizzie's life is in the air, swirling around in a thousand pieces and threatening to fall. As she scrambles to put her life back together again, Lizzie realises that it can't be done, and it never was a real picture anyway. This is a story of Lizzie's journey towards the truth.

It gives us considerable pleasure to be able to offer to the public the “inside” record of those of former District Attorney Markham’s criminal cases in which Mr. Philo Vance figured so effectively. The true inwardness of these famous cases has never before been revealed by S. S. Van Dine, Mr. Vance’s lawyer and almost constant companion, being the only person who possessed a complete record of the facts and has only recently been permitted to make them public.

Alvin Benson is found slumped over an easy chair in a room locked from the inside with a bullet in his head, and Wall Street and the high society of Manhattan are set ablaze with the news of the playboy stockbroker’s death. But when NYPD’s top detectives and ballistics experts can’t solve the mystery, it falls to Philo Vance, an art connoisseur and amateur sleuth, to find the killer. Vance’s intellectual and artistic background helps him uncover a series of odd clues, starting with a missing toupee and false teeth, and soon he is delving deep into the case.

Miss Catherine Owen hat alles, was man im Leben begehren kann: Sie ist reich, schön und beliebt. Das Einzige, was ihr zu ihrem Glück fehlt, ist ein Adelstitel. Ihre Schwester hat einen waschechten Marquis geheiratet, da kann ihr Catherine in nichts nachstehen.

This short, but brief information expounding on Homelessness, Human Rights and Immigration in the United States of America is described today. Often refers to the United States of America as "a country of immigrants." During the last four centuries, people have traveled great distances to reach the United States to escape war, avoid political persecution, and find the freedom to practice their faith. Still, others came for the possibility of acquiring their own property or just for the prospect of finding a job and elevating themselves out of poverty.

This Way to the Universe is a celebration of the astounding, ongoing scientific investigations that have revealed the nature of reality at its smallest, at its largest, and at the scale of our daily lives. The enigmas Professor Michael Dine discusses are like landmarks on a fantastic journey to the edge of the universe.

The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur. The title is taken directly from the Qur'an, 27:16, where Sulayman and Dāwūd are said to have been taught the language, or speech, of the birds.

Otto ska till doktorn för att bli mätt och vägd ... och vaccinerad. Det sista har Otto verkligen ingen lust med. Men om han får använda sin Superhaj-dräkt ska det nog gå bra. Och kanske kan han till och med låna några av sina superkrafter från pappa.

Otto retar sin lillasyster Elsa eftersom hon fortfarande använder blöjor. Men Elsa vill lära sig att kissa på pottan och bli lika stor som Otto. Därför får hon pröva att gå utan blöjor. Hon är så duktig att Otto blir lite avundsjuk. Dina Gellert (f. 1961) är självlärd illustratör och barnboksförfattare. Hon debuterade 1994 med "Den dag Leopold blev ond" och har därefter skrivit och illustrerat en lång rad böcker för de minsta. År 2009 mottog Dina Gellert Orla-priset för bästa bilderbok tillsammans med Elin Bing.

The United States of America was knocked back into the 19th century after a major terrorist attack. Paul and Nic’s journey continued to free the United States of United Nations Troops and full-out war in Mexico with troops loyal to the Republic of Texas. The remaining patriots on the east and west are in a pitched battle with foreign invaders trying to exploit America’s natural resources, China and North Korea on the west, and European troops on the east coast

Catherine Clarke defied her family's expectations when she married Gabriel, a handsome Lebanese businessman. After moving to Gabriel's homeland and welcoming a baby daughter, Catherine knew she had to acclimate herself to the strange new world. Yet both her husband and her surroundings became more volatile and threatening than she could have ever imagined. When Gabriel forbids her to return to the States, Catherine devises a plan to deceive him, but she vastly underestimates how far he will go to punish her.

Nakam tells the story of “the Avengers” (Nokmim), a group of young Holocaust survivors led by poet and resistance fighter Abba Kovner, who undertook a mission of revenge against Germany following the crimes of the Holocaust. Motivated by both the atrocities they had endured and the realization that murderous antisemitic attacks on survivors continued long after the Nazi surrender, these fifty young men and women sought retaliation at a level commensurate with the devastation caused by the Holocaust, making clear to the world that Jewish blood would no longer be shed with impunity.

Lori and Tom marry too young after they discover she is pregnant. Their families are riddled with alcoholism and dysfunction, but they plan on having a normal, healthy family. Sadly, they don't know how to. Tom's drinking escalates, and so does Lori's. She is too preoccupied with his drinking and lack of intimacy to think about her own problem with alcohol.

England, 1865: Celine verlässt das aufregende London, um in dem beschaulichen Dorf Roscave mit ihrem Vater eine Schneiderei zu eröffnen. Sie rechnet mit geschwätzigen Nachbarn, langweiligen Nähaufträgen und matschigem Wetter.

All men (and women) are created equal, but that doesn't mean that they are all the same. Entrepreneurs are different. Small business owners make up three percent of America s population, but they create two-thirds of the new jobs in our economy. They are hunters, and hunters have provided for others for thousands of years. Management books tell entrepreneurs how to become farmers. They try to teach hunters to run their businesses using a farming cycle. Ancient farming wisdom has been translated into the modern day management tasks of planning, budgeting, standardizing, and measuring.