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Natalie Butler, jeune journaliste ambitieuse, découvre par hasard une correspondance secrète entre son père et Stella Emerson Crowne, l'épouse d'une légende du rock. Cette révélation bouleverse tout ce qu'elle croyait savoir sur l'homme qui l'a élevée et sur l'histoire de sa famille. Poussée par une curiosité dévorante, elle se lance dans une quête de vérité qui la mène jusqu'à Seattle, où elle rencontre Easton, le fils de Stella. Mystérieux et séduisant, ce musicien talentueux fuit les projecteurs autant qu'elle les recherche.

Nachdem im Zuge einer Hundeschau ein preisgekrönter Pudel verschwunden ist, werden Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson mit den Ermittlungen betraut. Der verzweifelte Besitzer glaubt an eine Entführung, doch auch ein Mord kann nicht ausgeschlossen werden.

Beginnend mit den 1880er Jahren und in das 20. Jahrhundert hineinragend, stellte Holmes seinen Status als brillantester und erfolgreichster Detektiv der Welt immer wieder unter Beweis. In der Reihe Die neuen Abenteuer werden einige der bislang unter Verschluss gehaltenen Aufzeichnungen von Dr. Watson über die Fälle des Sherlock Holmes nun erstmals der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht.

Some secrets are best left at the bottom of the ocean. But since that’s not in Jack Ryan, Jr.’s nature, he’ll battle all of China to stop them from finding a weapon of immense destructive power in the latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Jack Ryan Jr. is on Guam to...

Nicholas always strived for perfection, but he never could measure up to his mother’s unreasonable demands. His hopes of passing the prerequisites for the pre-med program at the prestigious Plankton University are dashed when he fails out. Until he encounters Professor Jackson. For an introductory class, her standards are way too high. Maybe Nicholas can reason with Professor Jackson. Maybe he can make her see his point of view. Maybe they can come to an agreement about his grades? Because the only other alternative is to kill her.

Shortly after the death of renowned socialist theorist Karl Marx, the trustee of his estate, Friedrich Engels, approaches Sherlock Holmes for help. As the mourners arrive in London for Marx's funeral, a mystery unfolds that culminates in a showdown at Highgate Cemetery.

If you’ve found comfort in the Wizarding World before, then you’re in the right place. Join Harry Potter influencer, Jessica Stewart, for sleep stories inspired by the magical universe to help you relax and fall asleep. Let the magic unfold as we explore familiar landscapes and untold adventures in the world of Harry Potter. If you’d like to hang out with me during the day you can find me over on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jessdreamsofmagic/

What does it mean to be truly unshakeable? How do you ensure that insult and injury do not harm you? Seneca knew how to endure the unendurable. Despite being one of the most rich and powerful men in Rome, but his life was a sustained exercise in surviving forces beyond his control. He was nearly...

For almost decades I hosted and produced a two-hour weekly world music show, for an NPR member station in Richmond Virginia and throughout the world online. And in that time, I had the opportunity to interview some amazing musicians, film makers, authors and more.So instead of letting those interviews die in the dustbin of audio history, I’ve decided to dig them up, dust them off and breathe new life into them here, on The World Music Show — Interviews from the archives — with Ian Stewart.These interviews are for the true music nerds who want to find out more about the artists they ...

Written as a letter of a friend who’s not sure he’s on the right path De Tranquillitate Animi is one of the most intimate and practical works of Stoic philosophy. Serenus confesses to a restless indecision, a “sickness of the soul” that keeps him vacillating between public duty and...

Aaron Conner lives a quiet life. He waits tables at a local restaurant, helps keep the apartment building he lives in maintained, and is slowly beginning to realize the cute lawyer upstairs might see more in him than his handyman skills. But he once walked a very different path. Strangeness at...

Can happiness be built, or does it only arrive by chance? Seneca takes up what he calls the question everyone rushes toward without stopping to think about: what is a happy life, and how is one actually achieved? Addressed to his elder brother Gallio, this is the Stoic legend at his most...

When and why are you justified in withdrawing from public life? In the brief but remarkably rich essay On Leisure (De Otio), the Stoic philosopher Seneca explains his choice to withdraw from public life into contemplative retirement. Born to a wealthy and literary family, Seneca was brought to...

Volume 13 of The Chronicles of Canada Series. This volume sheds light on the often misunderstood Americans who chose to remain loyal to the Crown of England during and after the American Revolution. While the vast majority of American writings which detail the Revolution paint the Loyalists (sometimes called Tories) in the most negative fashion, this volume explains the reasons behind their election to flee to Canada (and other countries) rather than remain on American soil. While no exact numbers exist of Loyalists who fled to Canada in 1783-1784, the estimates of John Adams and others of the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Marco arrives in Ciudad Juárez with two suitcases and a simple wish: to disappear. He's running from a hollow life in Mexico City—a job that numbs, a relationship that failed, a self he no longer recognizes. He imagines paradise as solitude, as the...

What is the Da Vinci code and what is all the fuss about? Despite being a work of fiction, the bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code has a plot based on a number of concepts and ideas that the author claims to be true. This book explores the locations, historical facts and theories, and the sources of inspiration behind the novel in order to reveal the true key to the Da Vinci code.

Desde la muerte de su mujer, Dean Evers se pasa las tardes apoltronado en el sofá viendo partidos de béisbol. Durante una de estas tardes solitarias, mientras mira un partido de los Devil Rays contra los Mariners, la visión de una figura entre las gradas lo saca de su letargo. Dos filas detrás de la multitud, en el asiento asignado a un invitado especial, alguien le mira fijamente desde el otro lado del televisor.

For 17 years, Colonel Henry Wong and the United Planets Space Force have fought the Kenmiri Empire. They drove the alien overlords back from humanity's borders into their own stars and found allies among the Kenmiri's slaves and subjects. Now the war is over. A great Gathering has been called of the allies who fought the war, but they only ever shared a common enemy. With the Kenmiri in retreat, a thousand new agendas are revealed.

You can’t truly understand the last decade of the 20th century without a look at the muddy, electrifying rock music that would come to define it: grunge. For such a short-lived genre—at least in the mainstream—grunge had a lasting impact on American music and culture. It also provides a unique lens through which to examine the post-Reagan, pre-internet America of the 1990s. In the six lectures of The Story of Grunge, you’ll explore the rise and evolution of the genre, tracing it from Seattle subculture to MTV and the Billboard charts, all the way to its decline and evolution into new forms.

For months, Princess Lorraine Adamant has fled from star system to star system in a desperate attempt to evade the minions of her uncle, the man who murdered her entire family to seize power in the Star Kingdom of Adamant. Thanks to the crew of her ship and her loyal bodyguard, Vigo Jarret, Lorraine has finally reached her goal: the homeworld, Earth. There, she plans to lay her case before the United Worlds, the oldest and greatest of humanity’s nations.