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Parallel Earth, Resources Negligible, recommended for colonisation. Before Thread, Dragons and Holds the Yokohama, Bahrain and Buenos Airies, three mighty colony ships from earth, delivered nearly six thousand colonist to their green, beautiful new home. But just as the settlers started to adapt to their new home the world would change forever with the arrival of an unknown terror from the skies - the first thread falls that would consume everything in their part.

LA TRILOGIE CULTE DE LA GRANDE AUTRICE DE FANTASY LAINI TAYLOR EN LIVRE AUDIO. Partout sur la Terre, des êtres ailés laissent des empreintes noires sur des portes. Ailleurs, dans une officine sombre et encombrée de bocaux, une créature étrange commence à manquer de dents humaines. À Prague, une jeune étudiante en art se retrouve au coeur d'une guerre millénaire entre deux peuples. Elle s'appelle Karou, a dix-sept ans, et remplit ses carnets de dessins de monstres qui peut-être sont réels. Elle parle de nombreuses langues - pas toutes humaines - et a les cheveux bleus.

When humanity first arrived on PERN the hold of the Colony Ship Bahrain held twenty five dolphins who would be used to populate the seas of the new world. Generations later their descendants would prove vital to the world's survival. When Readis and his uncle are saved by a pod of 'shipfish' he is stunned when the animals start to speak to him. As the story of their rescue spreads further it comes to the attention of AIVAS, who recounts the history of the dolphins who came to PERN and their connection with the first settlers of PERN.

Guide your company’s leadership out of the Dark Ages! Set in the Middle Ages and told in ten captivating stories—with humor and wisdom—Shine the Light illustrates the principles of enlightened leadership and the way forward to success.

Noah Ryan was my whole life. From start to end, it was always him. He taught me pain, patience, forgiveness, and the impact of the footprints I will leave in the sands of time. But most of all, he taught me what it meant to truly give my heart to another. It was short-lived and intense—a soul-shattering type of love—but it was mine, and I clung to it right until the end.

PERN has been turned upside down by the knowledge that AIVAS has shared, revolutionising medicine, music and technology. Against the backdrop of deep suspicion of this new source of wisdom, every dragon and rider will be called upon to enact it's audacious plan to defeat the thread of thread for all time.

Kate Rickman seems just like any other 19-year-old girl. She goes to university, she dates nice, normal boys and she works in her local tourist office at the weekend. But Kate's not really normal at all. 'Kate' is in fact a carefully constructed facade for a girl called Jennifer Jones ‒ and it's a facade that's crumbling fast. Jennifer has spent the last nine years frantically trying to escape from her horrifying past. Increasingly desperate, Jennifer decides to do something drastic.

A sugar plantation, a waterlily pond, and a decades-old deception are the backdrop for When Lily Ponds Ripple. It is a forceful narrative about the West Indian twins, Florence and Charlotte Montague. Their rivalry for the same man underscores just how close loyalty and betrayal are. The revelation of a family secret takes the Barbadian sisters from their sheltered island to London and Germany. In Frankfurt, Florence becomes a notable author, while Charlie’s career leads her from the London stage to Hollywood.

Nach 47 Jahren ist es nicht zu spät, dass das ermordete Mädchen seine Geschichte erzählen kann – Hochspannung von Bestsellerautorin Loreth Anne White. Die Knochen schweigen nicht, wenn man die richtigen Fragen stellt. Unter einer Kapelle in den kanadischen Bergen wird bei Bauarbeiten ein menschliches Skelett entdeckt. Viel deutet darauf hin, dass es sich um die junge Annalise Jansen handelt, die vor fast fünfzig Jahren spurlos verschwand. Mithilfe der forensischen Anthropologin Dr. Ella Quinn beginnt Detective Jane Munro zu ermitteln.

Does the idea of speaking in front of an audience make you nervous? You're not alone. Most people experience a natural fear of public speaking, but it doesn't have to hold you back. With the proper guidance and tools, you can turn your anxiety-ridden monologues into awe-inspiring speeches that captivate, educate, and motivate. This book offers practical strategies to help you overcome fear, boost your confidence, and deliver impactful speeches with self-assurance and skill.

Fragile Laura Fitzpatrick has lived her entire life with the certainty of an early death, and her wealthy family hasn’t been able to do anything to change her fate. Over the years, she’s come to think of death as a friend, a long-lost companion she is bound to meet again someday. But she isn’t prepared to meet Death himself, human for a short time, up in the snowy mountains of Colorado. She only knows he is the one she loves, the one she is waiting for.

Based on diary entries, news articles, published sources, interviews, and personal memories from the author and other family members, Crossing the Yellowstone: The Saga of a Montana Ranch Family is a classic American drama of challenges met and legacies left. In 1894, Andy Mercer journeyed on horseback from Missouri to the Great Plains, with plans to homestead in the West.

Poverty is big business in America. The federal government spends about $900 billion a year on programs that directly or disproportionately impact poor Americans, including antipoverty programs. States and local governments spend tens of billions more. Ironically, these enormous sums fuel the "corporate poverty complex," a vast web of hidden industries and entrenched private-sector interests that profit from the bureaucracies regulating the lives of the poor.

Madeline is desperate to finally be taken seriously, but that doesn’t seem to be the case when her boss asks her to write a puff piece of billionaire party boy, Liam Davenport. Liam just wanted a quiet life roaming the world. When his father dies, leaving him to face the media storm surrounding Davenport Outdoors, he’s forced to trade in his hiking boots for tailored suits.

From Alma Rosé, the orchestra's main conductor, niece of Gustav Mahler and a formidable pre-war celebrity violinist, to Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, its teenage cellist and last surviving member, Sebba draws on meticulous archival research and exclusive first-hand accounts to tell the full and astonishing story of the orchestra, its members, and the response of other prisoners for the first time.

Queen Margaret knows she must protect the crown - and her son Prince Edward's claim to it - at all costs. With her husband, King Henry, increasingly frail, it is up to Margaret to fight for their inheritance. And as the Wars of the Roses rage on, her enemies and their wives lurk close, threatening to unravel everything she is trying to protect.

In 1943, German SS officers in charge of Auschwitz-Birkenau ordered that an orchestra should be formed among the female prisoners. Almost fifty women and girls from eleven nations were drafted into a hurriedly assembled band that would play marching music to other inmates, forced labourers who left each morning and returned, exhausted and often broken, at the end of the day.

The fall Renaissance Faire is in full swing, and Mia Connors is back in action, helping her family with their holistic beauty booth for the season. She’s thrilled for the distraction because life is so good she’s practically forgotten about Jake Archer, the undercover US Marshal who accused her of murder then stole her heart three months ago. Too bad he vanished without warning the second the case was closed. When a customer is fatally poisoned at her family’s booth, and Jake reappears to point the finger at Mia—for the second time, she’s not sure which occurrence is more shocking.

Despite a few harrowing incidents with nervy Bridezillas, Addy Winters’ small town party planning business has been murder free—until now. But then, she’s never before been hired to throw a star-studded after-death party for a client who has their death scheduled on their calendar. When Leno Masterson—former classmate, now legendary rocker with a flair for drama—turns up dead four days earlier than he’d planned, Addy suspects that someone helped him along.

Der Sommer, der mir gehörte. Sechs Wochen, aber gleichzeitig ein halbes Leben, das vor ihr lag. Mit zäh fließenden Honigtagen am See und Radfahrten über Waldbodenteppiche aus Tannennadeln. Mit kühlen Wasserspritzern auf geschlossenen Lidern, Pommes Rot-Weiß, kurz bevor das Schwimmbad schloss, statt dem geplanten Abendbrot drinnen am Tisch, tiefblauem Himmel über dürren Fichten und senfgelben Feldern. Es ist das erste Mal seit sechs Jahren, dass die alleinerziehende Musiklehrerin Lisa einen Sommer ohne ihren Sohn vor sich hat. Doch die lang ersehnte Freiheit bringt auch Zweifel mit sich.