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Kölden tränger in i märgen. Genom det kalla mörkret vandrar två små flickor: Astrid och Marta. Astrid tar hand om sin lillasyster Marta, som plågas av en svår feber. Men det verkar inte finnas någonstans att ta vägen, inte nu efter att världen verkar ha gått under. Långa nätter med bombräder, döda människor överallt, trasiga, ihåliga byggnader ... Men i fjärran ser de en byggnad som verkar hel: en kyrkspira pekar obesvärad upp mot himlen. De tar sig snabbt dit men inser snabbt att de inte är ensamma om att leta sig till kyrkan ...

Sent en kväll får DN-journalisten Walter Bengtsson ett telefonsamtal från en främmande kvinna. Hon säger att hennes namn är Lena Wall och hon är angelägen om att få träffa honom - genast. De stämmer träff, men kvinnan dyker aldrig upp. Och på vägen hem från det misslyckade mötet mördas Bengtsson. Kort därefter hittas även Lena Wall död. Nu är det upp till polisen att hitta de skyldiga. Men är det en slump att de mördades nästan samtidigt, eller har någon dödat dem för att sanningen inte ska komma fram?

This historical fiction novel continues with Margaret's journey from the time she and her Canadian husband participated in the 1854 Crimean War. Doctor Margaret travels alone to India to be with her parents at the American Presbyterian Mission at Futtehgurh, and then on to her posting at a hospital in Delhi. There she has to not only overcome work pressures but also deal with her intimidators and intrigues of the Mughals, at the Delhi Red Fort.

Penguin Island is Anatole France’s most searching and satirical novel. A humorous critique of customs and laws, rituals and rites, its subject is human nature, but its characters are penguins in the mythical land of Penguinia. The story of the strutting penguins and their virtues and vices is not merely a burlesque allegory of French history, but a satire of the history of mankind.

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.

Following a long fight with breast cancer, Tracy's death ended their 13-year marriage. In the months after his loss, Frederick Marx wrote about their time together (falling in love, their shortcomings, her illness, and how they made each other better). Marx recounts his relationship with his partner - not as a saint, but as a person. Then he describes his struggle to go on without her.

Maggie Walsh has entered the convent. Abandoning her dreams to be an actress or a writer, Maggie embraces church teaching that says the convent is the path to perfection. It is 1960. Church reform is a few years away, but when it comes, radical changes unfold swiftly. Maggie embraces that change. Her brother, Jack, who tries at every turn to get Maggie to come to her senses, involves Maggie in civil-rights and anti-war activities - forcing her into conflict with her superiors. Maggie must choose: Will she keep peace in the convent or follow her conscience?

This masterful biography by one of Germany’s best known journalists was the leading nonfiction best seller in Germany. Fest shows Hitler as the receptacle of the dreads and resentments of a shaken social order, gifted with an uncanny instinct for all that was hollow behind the appearance of power, at home and abroad. Though a warped human being, he was neither clown nor puppet, as many liked to think; Hitler appears here as an enormously astute politician, impressing and hypnotizing Germans and foreigners alike with the scope of his projects and the theatricality of their presentation. Fest uncovers in Hitler a constantly destructive personality....

Zweisprachiges Hörspiel: Deutsch und Englisch! Der kleine Bussard Horst möchte keine Mäuse fangen. Er spielt lieber mit den Mäusen und Marienkäfer Marie. Seinen Eltern gefällt das gar nicht! Doch dann wird die Bussardfamilie von Krähen bedroht...

Civil war devastated the country and left Rachel Sawyer stranded in a dead-end job as a seamstress with no prospects for marriage. Men are thin on the ground in Massachusetts, so Rachel and her best friend travel west, to Seattle, with the handsome Talbot brothers. Jason Talbot, the eldest brother and wealthy owner of a lumber company, is so far beyond her reach that falling in love with him is the most non-sensical thing she could do. So, of course, she does. But after one sensual midnight encounter, Jason pushes her away.

Men are the ones gifted with all sorts of power in our society, but a dirty little secret is that so many of them long to strip themselves of this power, to be tied down, gagged, spanked, taken, owned. They want to ease the burdens of manliness, if only for a little while, to be "ordered" to do all the naughty things they've dreamed of. Please, Ma'am shows some of the tantalizing possibilities out there for sniveling men and the women who love them.

Pièce radiophonique bilingue : En français et en anglais ! Marie la coccinelle rencontre la petite hirondelle Isabelle. Comme Isabellechante des berceuses à longueur de journée, personne ne veut plus l'écouter. Cela rend Isabelle très triste. Lorsque sa famille veut migrer vers le Sud, Isabelle reste auprès de son amie Marie, qui est tombée malade. Bilingual radio play: In French and English! Ladybird Marie meets little swallow Olivia. Nobody wants to hear Olivia's good-night-songs any more which she is singing all day. Olivia is very sad about this. When her family flys south, Olivia decides to stay at home with her sick friend Marie.

Pièce radiophonique bilingue : En français et en anglais ! Le petit Busard Benoît ne veut pas attraper de souris. Il préfère jouer avec elles. Cela ne plaît pas du tout à ses parents ! Mais voilà que la famille Busard est menacée par de méchants corbeaux... Bilingual radio play: In French and English! Ladybird Marie meets the little Buzzard Ben who doesn't like to catch mice. He prefers to play with them. His parents don‘t like this! But then the buzzard family is threatened by crows.

Zitronenfalter Zitro möchte sich unbedingt verlieben. Egal was er auch probiert, irgendwie klappt es nicht mit dem Verlieben. Doch dann passiert etwas, mit dem er nicht mehr gerechnet hat...

Marienkäfer Marie trifft die kleine Schwalbe Ina. Keiner möchte mehr Inas Gute-Nacht-Lieder hören, die sie den ganzen Tag über singt. Darüber ist Ina sehr traurig. Als ihre Familie in den Süden fliegen will bleibt Ina bei ihrer kranken Freundin Marie.

Kan deckarförfattare mörda ostraffat? De framgångsrika deckarförfattarna Cameron och Lisa Murdoch från Nya Zeeland är ett lyckligt gift par vars böcker toppar bestsellerlistorna över hela världen. Under sina bokturnéer har de i flera år skämtat om att de vet allt om hur man kommer undan med mord. Det är trots allt deras jobb att skriva om det. När deras sjuårige son Zach försvinner undrar polisen och allmänheten därför om de har bestämt sig för att bevisa vad de så länge har hävdat...

New York Times best-selling author Jeffery Deaver has long thrilled fans with tales of masterful villains and their nefarious ways, and the brilliant minds who bring them to justice. Now the author of the Lincoln Rhyme series has collected his award-winning, spine-tingling stories of suspense, stories that will widen your eyes and stretch your imagination.

Bill Blair finds the land by accident - three wooded acres in a rustic community south of San Francisco. The year is 1954, long before anyone will call this area Silicon Valley. Struck by a vision of the family he has yet to create, Bill buys the property on a whim. In Penny Greenway he finds a suitable wife, a woman whose yearning attitude toward life seems compelling and answerable, and they marry and have four children. Yet Penny is a mercurial housewife at a time when women chafed at the conventions imposed on them.

This fictional classic describes the factual persecution endured by the early Christians living in the catacombs beneath Rome through the character of Marellus, a captain in the Praetorian Guard and despised Christian. Penned by an anonymous 19th-century author, Martyr of the Catacombs has challenged and encouraged the faithful for over a hundred years.

In The Napoleon of Notting Hill, his first novel, G. K. Chesterton creates a witty satire of staid government, set in a London of the future. Auberon Quinn, a common clerk who looks like a cross between a baby and an owl and is often seen standing on his head, is one day told that he has been randomly selected to be His Majesty the King. He decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement - with delightful results.