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Playboy Roger Carr is handsome, wealthy, and connected. As an occasional lawyer, he’s the right man to send to the French Riviera to secure a villa for an important client. It’s the perfect assignment, complete with fast cars and fast women, until strange things begin to happen and Roger realizes that someone is trying to kill him.

Two patients in comas, not expected to live: when they both recover, sharing the same bizarre symptom of blue urine, it’s a medical miracle that Dr. Roger Clark cannot explain. One of the patients happens to be Sharon Wilder, a beautiful Hollywood starlet. When she offers Dr. Clark the chance to accompany her to the private Caribbean island called Eden, he has to accept—if only to learn more about the bioengineering company Advance, Inc., and their promise to make your wildest dreams come true.

Bei einer Jahrhundertflut an der Nordsee brechen die Deiche der Elbmarschen nordwestlich von Hamburg. Die meisten Einwohner verlieren alles, zurück bleibt nur Verwüstung. Die Räumung des Gebiets wird staatlich angeordnet, doch eine Gruppe um den Deichhauptmann Thies Cordes will bleiben und ruft einen eigenen Staat aus: »Koogland«. Cordes allein entscheidet, wen er aufnimmt. Die Krankenschwester Lara darf bleiben, denn medizinisches Personal wird dringend benötigt. Was Cordes nicht weiß: Lara will herausfinden, was mit ihrer Schwester Alina geschah, die vor Kurzem in Koogland spurlos verschwand.

Listeners will go deep into a Vermont sugar bush and its web of plastic tubes, mainline valves, and collection tanks. They will visit sugarhouses crammed with gas evaporators and reverse-osmosis machines. And they will witness encounters between sugar makers and the tourists eager to invest Vermont with mythological fantasies of rural simplicity.

Wie gut Hunde uns Menschen tun, ist längst wissenschaftlich erwiesen - im Kontakt mit ihnen sinkt der Blutdruck, das Immunsystem wird gestärkt und Stress reduziert. Sie schenken uns Lebensfreude und nicht selten locken sie aus der sozialen Isolation. Stephanie Lang von Langen bildet seit über zehn Jahren Therapiehunde aus. In ihrem Buch erzählt sie von den kleinen und großen Wundern, die die befellten Therapeuten vollbringen können: Kinder entwickeln sich besser, Senioren kommen in Schwung, Einsame fangen an zu erzählen und Reha-Patienten werden wieder mobil.

Set in a futuristic community where poverty is the norm and immense privilege is the stark exception, Chase Applegate's golden upbringing was not enough to persuade him to uphold the injustice, greed, and power wielded by the 16 families. His struggle to help the less fortunate, including Maggie, the maid with whom he falls in love, while battling the very powers who raised him brings listeners on a journey at once terrifying and liberating.

Lang Lang started learning to play the piano when he was three years old in Shenyang, China. Today he is one of the world's most outstanding pianists. In this engrossing life story, adapted by Michael French, Lang Lang not only recounts the difficult, often thrilling, events of his early days, but also shares his perspective on his rapidly changing homeland.

Leagues below the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Protected by a wall of coral reef and blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht has been deemed unrecoverable by every diver in the world. Until James McGregor is offered a shot at it. For McGregor, a thirty-nine-year-old diver with a long history of unsavory salvage jobs, it's his last chance at a big payday. But the more he learns about the wreck, the more questions he uncovers—because none of the survivors are telling the same story.

For American radiologist Peter Ross, it sounded like the perfect vacation: deliver one study in Spain and then spend the rest of his time on a Mediterranean beach. But he wasn't planning on meeting Angela Locke, a dark-haired beauty with a big problem—she's on the run from two warring gangs, each dead set on finding a mysterious artifact, and they'll kill anyone who stands in their way. It's a desperate fight for survival across the European continent as Peter and Angela race to uncover a centuries-old secret before they become its next victim.

Steven Jencks has planned the perfect crime. Working with two skilled associates, he will hit the Reina, a super-luxury hotel off the coast of Spain, and then walk away with the haul of a lifetime. As the ultimate pro, Jencks has even run his plan through a complex computer simulation to account for every possible variable … Except three. Their names are Annette, Cynthia, and Jenny. And no computer could ever simulate what these three femmes fatales have up their sleeves.