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Did you know that you can be stupid, incompetent and even moderately repulsive and still make a a fortune in television? It's done every day! Did you know that you can be a cowboy star without knowing how to ride a horse? That you can earn more than the president of a network merely by knowing how to open a refrigerator door? And that you can be a famous news commentator without knowing anything but how to sound worried? These and many more television careers await you, all described with loving detail....

Candy just got out of the shower when she heard someone at the door. She put on her robe that hangs on the back of the bathroom door. She hardly ever wears it, except for the rare occasion like this. As Candy walked through the living room, she could see through the glass front door a man she’d never seen before. He was tall, tan, 34 years old, had blond hair, and dressed like a banker, wearing a decent suit from The Men’s Wearhouse. But he was too built, too poised to be a banker. He was definitely a cop.

Who is 'ER? What is she? A medieval beauty whose likeness was carved on a brass burial plate back in the 14th century.... Switch to the 1960s. The lady is still snugly interred at the bottom of what is now an English garden attached to a rented house in the sleep town of Poke-on-Thames. Along comes a schoolteacher/archaeology buff fresh out of St. Louis, Missouri, who exhumes her from a bed of dahlia corms. The discovery - a rare and valuable find - sets off a chain of events that shatters the town's perennial tranquility to its staid foundations.

There are two kinds of women who work, says Shepherd Mead, author of How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying and How to Get Rich in TV without Really Trying. One is the Working Girl, the handmaiden of business: She does what men tell her to do - she types, totes coffee, gripes in her cubicle. The other kind is the Career Girl: She thinks like a man, acts like a woman, and can soon end up in a four-window office making more money than anybody. Marie Frale, new employee at American Household Products, hadn't put many carbons in backward before she got the point.

From the author of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying comes...A confidential manual prepared as part of a survival kit for Americans living in Britain, showing how to get rich in England, how to rise quickly and easily to the top of British society, examining the blessings, foibles, and weaknesses of British life, and providing the reader with his just share of wealth, warmth, wisdom, and happiness.

From this classic audiobook, learn everything you need to know to succeed with women without really trying First published in 1957, this guide is a timeless and humorous manual for men of all ages who seek to become irresistible to women.

London, 1782. Desperate for her politician husband to return home from France, Caroline 'Caro' Corsham is already in a state of anxiety when she finds a well-dressed woman mortally wounded in the bowers of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. The Bow Street constables are swift to act, until they discover that the deceased woman was a highly paid prostitute, at which point they cease to care entirely. But Caro has motives of her own for wanting to see justice done and so sets out to solve the crime herself.

Greater Than a Tourist: Crossville, Tennessee, USA by Linda Shepherd, will offer the inside scoop on visiting Crossville, Tennessee. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. You will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay.

The Army of Regent Arrosh advances on the forces loyal to Saalshen, homeland of the serrin people, as the serrins' friends are in full retreat. Their only hope is to reach the city of Jahnd - the serrin word for haven - across the Ipshal River. The Army of Lenayin marches with the Regent, but Sasha, sister of newly crowned King Koenyg, can no longer stomach the awful cause for which her people fight.

Sasha is a fighter, the likes of which the highland country of Lenayin has never seen. Spurning her royal heritage to be raised by the great warrior Kessligh, Sasha's exquisite swordplay astonishes all who see it. But she is young, untested in battle, and often led by her rash temper. In the complex world of Lenayin loyalties, her willfulness is attracting the wrong kind of attention. Lenin is a land divided by its beliefs: the Verenthane of the ruling class, and the pagan Goeren-yai, amongst whom Sasha now lives.

For 200 years Tracato has been the center of enlightenment, as the serrin have occupied human lands and sought to remake humanity anew. But the serrin have not destroyed Rhodaan's feudal families entirely, and as Tracato faces the greatest threat to its survival in two centuries, old rivalries are stirring. Sasha must assist her mentor Kessligh to strengthen the Tracato Nasi-Keth, yet with one royal sister siding with the feudalists and another to be married to Tracato's most powerful foe, her loyalties are divided.

Petrodor is a city of alleys and shadows, where life is cheap and the only respected currency is blood. Away from the hills of her Lenayin homeland, Sasha is fighting a new battle in the dark alleys and wealthy houses of Petrodor. An influential trading center, Petrodor holds the key to preventing the coming war between Lenayin and the mighty Bacosh. Together with her mentor Kessligh, Sasha attempts to navigate the political intrigues of the port city and find a new way to stop the war.

The church of God, which includes all the denominations and persuasions of the faith, is in a crisis that appears to have no ready solution. The church's response to the crisis has for the most part been a general resignation and acceptance of the way things are, with course changes aimed at coping with rather than contesting the social, cultural and political changes that have occurred in the world. But it has not worked, and it will not work, for it is not what God in His Word says to do. We have become ineffective laborers in His vineyard....

Angelina Donati has come to New York to kill a man. She holds the magician Eli Leventhal responsible for killing her friend. As the gifted problem child of a house of magical assassins, she does not expect that Leventhal's vast age, wealth, and power will save him. But Eli Leventhal is gathering great forces to fight a far larger war against his longtime magician foe—Riley, the mayor of New York, whose real name is something far older and more frightening.

Am Ufer eines Sees wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Ein rostiger Stacheldraht ist um ihren Hals gewickelt und die Schulter mit einem dreiflügeligen Schmetterling tätowiert. In ihrer Hosentasche entdeckt Spezialermittlerin Laura Kern eine Botschaft, bei der ihr das Blut in den Adern gefriert. "Ich bin die Zweite" steht auf einem Papiertaschentuch geschrieben. Doch wer ist dann das erste Opfer? Eine weitere Nachricht führt Laura zu der nächsten Toten, die ebenfalls grausam zugerichtet ist.

Mitten in einer kühlen Sommernacht wird eine Tote vor den Mülltonnen eines Krankenhauses gefunden. Spezialermittlerin Laura Kern findet heraus, dass die Frau zuvor in dieser Klinik behandelt wurde. Ein Überwachungsvideo zeigt sie mit einem Unbekannten, dem sie scheinbar freiwillig folgt. Laura ahnt sofort, dass dieser Mann nicht zum letzten Mal zuschlägt. Und tatsächlich ist die nächste Patientin bereits spurlos verschwunden. Beide Frauen wurden von ihren Lebensgefährten misshandelt. Es sieht fast so aus, als ob der unbekannte Mann sie aus ihrer misslichen Lage befreien will.

As her stultifying marriage is unravelling, and in the midst of mourning the loss of her creative self, Caro Tanner has a nightmare about Peter, an old love whom she hasn't seen in 20 years. She takes this as a sign he still needs her. With her three children safely off to summer camp, Caro embarks on a pre-Facebook pre-cell phone road trip to recapture who she once was and what she thinks she once had.

The last peaceful night’s sleep Luke ever had ended with a bark, and a scream! Archie’s urgent growling roused Luke into unimaginable horror. Gone were the nights around the fireplace cuddling with fiancée, Katie, and in their place...the dead. Now Luke and his German Shepherd, Archie, must survive long enough to find her.

Wenn der Teufel die letzte Hoffnung darstellt, kann das Gute dann überhaupt existieren? Der vermeintliche Weg zur Rettung Engellands beruht auf einem Zauber, der ein Herz unter sieben Personen aufzuteilen vermag. Die Vergessenen Sieben, an die sich Jahrhunderte später niemand mehr erinnern wird, nehmen ihren Platz in der Geschichte ein. Sie sind es, die über den Lauf des Schicksals entscheiden werden. Sie werden die Welt retten oder deren Untergang sein. Es ist alles eine Frage der Perspektive, denn das Böse ist Ansichtssache.

The legendary battle-carrier UFS Phoenix is on the run in Outer Neutral Space. Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande and Major Trace Thakur are determined to use neutral territory to broker a peace between humanity's warring factions, away from Fleet's strong arm. But as machinations in Fleet Command send a legendary warrior from Trace's past on a sworn path to kill her, there arises in the territory of an insectoid foe an ancient enemy from the nightmares of Spiral history, bent on Phoenix's destruction….