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Before her suspicious death, Rigby Croxford's wife, Helen, fingered an African politician as the head of an international wildlife poaching syndicate. Plans to avenge Helen's death are put on hold when an ex-lover from Rigby's past reenters his life. The woman's daughter has disappeared in Africa. She enlists Rigby's help, but her agenda is not what it seems to be.

Kämpfe gegen die dunkle Seite in dir. Jedes Jahr zur Sommersonnenwende soll in einem abgeschiedenen Dorf eine junge Frau dem Dämonengott geopfert werden, um ihn gnädig zu stimmen. Jede von ihnen wird am Waldrand an ein Holzkreuz gebunden und Nodir dargeboten, bis er sie zu sich holt. Voller Entsetzen hört Sóley, wie bei dem diesjährigen Fest ihr Name vom König ausgerufen wird. Doch kurz vor der Opfergabe gelingt ihr das Unmögliche: Sie kann sich mithilfe ihrer Freundin Layla befreien und flieht in die Tiefen des Waldes.

Beloved children's television host Fred Rogers is the 31st hero in the New York Times bestselling picture book biography series for ages 5 to 9. As a shy, young boy, Fred Rogers found comfort in telling stories through puppets. When television grew in popularity, he knew he wanted to create a...

When an ATF raid on a cult compound goes horribly wrong, the cult leader and his band of deadly terrorists escape. On the run and desperate, they need a place to hide. A remote family farm makes for the perfect place. But there’s one big problem. The family that lives there has a guest—a drifter they picked up by the name of Jack Widow.

The Kingdom of No Worries is the story of three young friends who create their own kingdom on a piece of land that emerges in the middle of the river that runs through their city. Inspired by their actions to create a democracy that is a model of social tolerance and global thinking, the surrounding community turns out in the thousands to participate in what becomes a radical cultural hub of the city. Over the course of one hot summer the boys grapple to learn what a democracy is and to oversee its demands.

A few years ago, I wanted to buy a little book of prayers for a friend and was surprised that there didn’t seem to be much available. It was this that motivated me to put together Hope: Changing Rooms. In these uncertain times, we all need hope wherever we find ourselves, and especially as we face important or challenging decisions.

Endless Seasons is a collection of poems about oil, the Niger Delta, and emotions. Oppression, pain, corruption, exploitation and injustice are themes that run through the poems. There is the recurrent theme of female subjugation, as well as the deep personal struggles of the African woman. In diverse ways, the poems poignantly portray the sufferings of the women, men, and children of Africa.

Raz Frewer just made a bet with the Devil. He needs a cure to save his dying wife, and Lucifer has it—a mystical lamp, but its pieces were scattered around the globe centuries earlier. If he can find them, he'll get his cure; if he can't, the Devil gets his soul.

‘A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed’ FINANCIAL TIMES ‘This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It's a book for our times, enduringly fascinating and appealing...

Both historically and in the present, the Supreme Court has largely been a failure In this devastating book, Erwin Chemerinsky—“one of the shining lights of legal academia” (The New York Times)—shows how, case by case, for over two centuries, the hallowed Court has been far more likely...

It was supposed to be a holiday, with nothing more challenging than babysitting, navigating familial politics, and arguing about the proper way to brew tea. But when dragon prince Thuan and his ruthless husband Asmodeus find a corpse in a ruined shrine and a hungry ghost who is the only witness to the crime, their holiday goes from restful to high-pressure. Someone is trying to silence the ghost and everyone involved. Asmodeus wants revenge for the murder; Thuan would like everyone, including Asmodeus, to stay alive.

In these ten absorbing series, award-winning authors Naomi Alderman and Philip Ball and guest presenters Tracey Logan, Kevin Fong, Simon Schaffer and Lindsey Fitzharris take a look at the many amazing events and characters from science's long history. In this collection, which runs close to 23...

Welcome to Flamford, the town sanity forgot. Edgy, sharp-tongued City burn-out Andy Chambers has been advised, for the sake of his health, to take a break from his stressful London lifestyle and get some rest. So he goes to stay with his estranged uncle, Jeff Whitaker, at his seaside home in Flamford - but, as he soon discovers, living with his relative is far from relaxing.

Die Nautilus liegt noch immer auf dem seltsamen Wüstenplanten. Die verbliebene Besatzung entschließt sich zu einer Erkundungsmission und trifft auf merkwürdig vertraut wirkende Bewohner und eine uralte Stadt. Doch schnell wird klar, dass dort eine tödliche Bedrohung lauert.

Lunar New Year should be a time for familial reunions, ancestor worship, and consumption of an unhealthy amount of candied fruit. But when dragon prince Thuan brings home his brooding and ruthless husband Asmodeus for the New Year, they find not interminable family gatherings, but a corpse outside their quarters. Asmodeus is thrilled by the murder investigation; Thuan, who gets dragged into the political plotting he'd sworn off when he left, is less enthusiastic.

Rigby Croxford's introduction to the United States proves to be more perilous than anything he faced in Africa. His efforts to defend his famous brother-in- law, a television newscaster, from a sex scandal puts him at odds with men bent on destroying America.

Life gives you so many opportunities to go out there and take action. There are so many things you can do, but without action, nothing will come to fruition. Many people wait for the opportunity to come to them, but it's when you go after the opportunity that things actually happen for you. The people you see who are successful are not successful because some great thing happened to them or because they're just smarter or better than you. It’s because they actually went out and took action on the things that they wanted to do.

Improve your grades and test scores with smarter study methods. It may be surprising, but you probably do not know how to get the most from your time and effort studying for school or training on the job. Most of us try to "memorize it all and hope for the best during exams." The best students don't memorize things they need to actually understand.

Imagine you’re a high school kid, a football player in a small Texas town, totally focused on attending West Point. In an instant, your plans are derailed in a horrific auto accident. For Philip Jalufka, life has presented a series of challenges, starting with an accident that required the jaws of life to extract him from a crushed car. With each setback, Philip found the strength to make decisions that guided him to personal and professional success. Following a detour to West Point, he graduated the Academy with honors and went on to serve in the elite U.S. Army Special Operations.

This electrifying novel of passion, greed, murder, and revenge follows the sweeping saga of one prominent French family in postwar Paris, Beirut, and Saigon. The Pelletiers are a prominent French family living in Beirut. The patriarch, Louis, has built a successful business that he hopes to pass...