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The assassination of Julius Caesar is one of the most notorious murders in history. Even now, many questions remain about his death: Was Brutus the hero and Caesar the villain? Was Mark Antony aware of the plot? Using historical evidence to sort out these and other puzzling issues, historian and award-winning author Stephen Dando-Collins recaptures the drama of Caesar's demise and the chaotic aftermath as the vicious struggle unfolded for power between Antony and Octavian.

I ruinerne af det gamle Nordamerika ligger nu landet Panem, som består af tolv distrikter. Hvert år tvinger magthaverne i Panem hvert distrikt til at udvælge en pige og en dreng, som skal deltage i Dødsspillet - den årlige kamp om liv og død på direkte TV. 16-årige Kattua bor sammen med sin mor og lillesøster i det fattigste af alle distrikterne. Den dag hun står frem og frivilligt tager sin lillesøsters plads i Dødsspillet, betragter hun det som en dødsdom. Men Kattua har før haft døden tæt på, og hun er klar til at kæmpe for sit liv.

Amber Collins releases her full catalogue with The Omni Collection! Contained in this volume is nearly 140 stories, almost one million words. Stories included are Interview with a Giantess, Kate’s Birthday Present, Late Night Size Club, Lauren’s Invention, Let’s Park, Nerdy Girl Gets Even, Shrink Ray on Campus, Shrink the Abuser, Sidetracked Scientific Breakthrough, The Billionaire, The Businesswoman, The Cake Baker, The General’s Daughter, The Hotel, and more.

A journey through the life and music of Phil Collins. Stories, songs, memories - each one represented by a different letter, from A to Z. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

So many people - including professing Christians - live aimless, purposeless, and defeated lives without knowing who they are or what they have. This should not be the case when god has so much to say about your identity and your inheritance in Christ. Hakeem Collins shares inspiring, prophetic encouragements that will start your day with a fresh word from Heaven. Quiet your soul and listen to hear god's voice speaking vision and victory over your life.

I haven’t spoken to my mother or sisters in years, but everything changes when I lose my husband. And I know it’s finally time to tell them why I’ve pushed them away. But as I approach my childhood home, my heart drops at the sight of police tape across the porch, and it shatters when I’m told my mother’s body has been recovered from the lake behind the house. I’m too late. Pushing all our differences aside, my sisters and I desperately search her house for answers. But something isn’t right. Her clothes are missing, and everything is covered in a thick layer of dust.

Beautiful, homicidal Julie has one lethal solution for every problem. And now Nolan and his sometime sidekick Jon have gotten on Julie's “problem” list. If a pair of out-of-town hitmen can't do the job, Julie will do it herself.

What if a retired NYPD officer is asked to investigate a mysterious death at the National Authors Conference where various attendees offer their theories and suspicions? Murder...They Wrote answers this question as Agapé Jones, retired NYPD detective, tries to determine the truth surrounding the death of Robert Dyer, noted poet and critic.

World-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how violence differentially affects people according to their class, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity. These invisible workings of overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms "lethal intersections," where multiple forms of oppression converge to catalyze a set of violent practices that fall more heavily on particular groups. Collins challenges listeners to reflect on what counts as violence today and what can be done about it.

In The Great Dechurching, Jim Davis and Michael Graham along with renowned sociologist Dr. Ryan Burge examine the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching—the largest and fastest religious shift in US history—to drill down to exactly why people are dechurching with respect to beliefs, behavior, and belonging.

I thought I'd escaped being given to an alien warrior. I was wrong. I was one hour away from washing out of the Alien Bride Games. None of the Khanavai warriors had chosen me, and I was scheduled on the next shuttle off the filming station. Then, a bright red alien passed me in a hallway—and the next thing I knew, we were all over each other. Bad enough that my name had been drawn in the Bride Lottery. Now, even though they're supposedly over, I'm back in the Games. And not the usual ones, either—a whole new set of challenges, just for me. Guess it'll make for good television back home.

The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is generally considered to be the first detective novel, and it established many of the ground rules of the modern detective novel. The story was originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round. The Moonstone and The Woman in White are widely considered to be Collins' best novels, and Collins adapted The Moonstone for the stage in 1877, although the production was performed for only two months.

Welcome to Dark Erotica III: No Escape a Mars Audio Books’ collection of four stories exploring the world of erotic pain and troubled love. After all, who doesn’t long to hear the whoosh of the crop, the whack of the paddle on a soft, fleshy behind...and the plea for mercy? Behind the sunshine there is always darkness.

From their graves in the field, the oldest part of Paulstadt’s cemetery, the town’s late inhabitants tell stories from their lives. Some recall just a moment, perhaps the one in which they left this world, perhaps the one that they now realise shaped their life for ever. Some remember all the people they’ve been with, or the only person they ever loved. These voices together build a picture of a community, as viewed from below ground instead of from above.

Eva Stewart has taken up a new hobby: photography. What better place to take pictures than the Great White Heron Refuge? While capturing the local wildlife on film, she stumbles across a dead body. Of course, the murder-mystery book club jumps on the case. Can Eva and the book club find another killer, or have they finally gotten in over their heads?

It's time to pick out the week's hall monitor at Mrs. Puff's Boating School, and Spongebob is next in line! The unsuspecting citizens will never be the same after SpongeBob wreaks total havoc in this uproarious underwater tale.

Propelled into society by his ever-hopeful father, Frank is introduced to a variety of professions in order to make his fortune. Not industrious by nature, however, Frank finds working life a challenge, and by his 25th birthday, he has failed medicine, portrait-painting, caricaturing, and even forgery. Disenchanted with life, he despairs of ever finding something to commit to — until he meets Alicia Dulcifer and her inexplicably wealthy father.

A bumper collection of classic ghost stories and strange supernatural tales.

My Secret life, the gargantuan erotic autobiography of a wealthy Victorian English gentleman has been described as "the strangest book ever written"...

On a Californian campus in the 21st century, Professor Enzo Yakuda is on the verge of retirement. Although he is a Zen Buddhist, a lifetime’s thought and study have not led to inner calm but to an obsession that begins to haunt him and take over his life. Yakuda believes he can prove the self-repair function of Computer One, the international civil computer network, will cause an inevitable confrontation with humanity. His nightmare is that in raising the alarm, he may cause the annihilation of the human race.