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Deena Harrison was one of Leighford High School's “characters” - setting fire to the toilet block and throwing boys down stairs. But she had the voice of an angel and could act the skin off a rice pudding. The autumn she came down from Oxford, there was something of a crisis in the Drama department at Leighford High. Mrs Carmichael was in danger of losing her baby and the Little Shop of Horrors was in danger of closing down. So Deena comes back to help out.

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of Plato's philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years. The works which are most often assigned to Plato's early years are all considered to be Socratic dialogues, written from 399 to 387.

Charles Dickens started his literary career as a journalist reporting for ‘The Morning Chronicle,’ a profession which encouraged his observing eye. This collection of essays and short stories was first published in that journal and anticipates, and frequently demonstrates, the genius that was to come.

Privateersman Harry Ludlow and his partner and younger brother, James, find that murder and intrigue take up more of their time than the hunt for fat trading vessels. Arriving in the squalid, seething port of Genoa, they find it a tinderbox of tension, fed by the discovery of a hanged British sea captain and packs of English and French sailors at each other's throats.

What is sinister preacher John Laputa doing on a remote Scottish shore in the moonlight hours? Young David Crawfurd and his friends are lucky to escape with their lives when they disturb his rituals. Years later David travels to Africa and meets the minister again, this time in company with the evil Henriques.

Germany, 1945. British agent Stephen Felinski is parachuted into Hitler's fast-collapsing empire with orders to reorganize a group of Soviet agents abandoned by Moscow. Thirty years later, a top British politician defects to the Russians, and Felinski is called out of retirement to help - because of a friendship formed among the ruins of Nazi Germany. The link is The Special Collection, a daring and meticulously planned Soviet attempt to bring social and industrial chaos to Britain.

Miroslav Nedbal, Mathematiker an der Prager Karlsuniversität, wird unbeabsichtigt in einen Kriminalfall verwickelt. Eines Morgens im Oktober wird Vladimír Lamac, ein führender theoretischer Physiker, tot aufgefunden. Die Leiche liegt im Park eines Schlosses, in dem die Akademie der Wissenschaft en ein Symposium abhält. War es Selbstmord, Unfall oder Mord? Spielt eine unbekannte Frau eine Rolle bei seinem Tod? Nedbal versucht gemeinsam mit seinem Freund, dem Journalisten Pavlíček, das Geheimnis um Lamačs Tod zu lösen.

Over nine hundred years have passed since song and hammerfall rang beneath the snows of Ice-Cloak. The remnants of the dwarves live in exile in the human kingdoms, eking out their survival as itinerant tinkers and farriers. The young dwarf-maid Tourmaline dreams of better things than mending pots for the humans. When horror strikes her caravan, she and a desperate band of dwarves escape into the wild north in pursuit of a fool's hope.

The Great Emu War, which unfolded in Australia in 1932, stands as one of the most peculiar conflicts in history, pitting humans against a flightless bird. Following World War I, many Australian veterans were given land to farm in Western Australia. However, their efforts were thwarted by an unexpected adversary: the emu population. These large, flightless birds descended upon the newly cultivated fields, wreaking havoc on crops and causing significant economic strain for the farmers.

Es ist endlich geschafft! Professor Flax sitzt im Gefängnis von Algier und wird streng bewacht. Doch mit Hilfe seiner verbündeten Kreolin und einem neuerlichen, abscheulichen Verbrechen, schafft Flax es erneut zu fliehen. Natürlich nehmen Holmes und Watson sofort wieder die Verfolgung auf. Diese führt sie nach Korfu. Lange sind die Beiden auf der Suche nach einer neuen Spur, bis Holmes diese schließlich anhand einer Falschmünzerbande entdeckt...

Da sie schon länger kein schmackhaftes Tier mehr haben zur Strecke bringen können, suchen sich zwei hungrige Wölfe ein menschliches Ziel: Das herzliche aber naive Rotkäppchen, das auf dem Weg zu seiner Großmutter ist. Die Tiere des Waldes versuchen, dem Mädchen zu helfen, aber sowohl die äußerst eigene Großmutter, als auch der nicht gerade helle Jäger erschweren die Mission. Frei nach dem Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm.

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902 tells the twin stories of mostly uneducated women immigrants who discovered their collective consumer power and of the Beef Trust, the midwestern cartel that conspired to keep meat prices high despite efforts by the U.S. government to curtail its nefarious practices.

We are in the midst of a healthspan revolution that will enable us to live vitally beyond 100 years old. Advanced diagnostics are now able to catch any disease at inception, while advanced therapies in clinical trials have the potential to reverse disease while also slowing, stopping, and potentially even reversing aging. Peter Diamandis, MD, designed Longevity Guidebook as an easy to use roadmap to help you understand the power of this healthspan revolution (driven by AI, CRISPR, gene therapy, and cellular medicine).

Pater Brown beauftragt Bruder Silvanus, Pater Edmund Ford in der Downside Abbey in Somerset aufzusuchen, um über ihn Abt Thomas ausfindig zu machen und sicher nach Waltham Abbey zurückzubringen. Als weder Pater Edmund noch Abt Thomas in der Abtei auffindbar sind, entdeckt Bruder Silvanus in Pater Edmunds privater Bibliothek einen Hinweis, der ihn direkt in den geheimnisvollen Selwood Forest führt...

Können fiktive Alpträume Realität werden und ihre Opfer finden? Eine unheimliche Serie von Todesfällen gibt der Polizei Rätsel auf und sorgt in der Öffentlichkeit für erhitze Debatten. Einige Tote werden in ihren Betten gefunden, ihre Gesichter vor Grauen verzerrt, auf dem Nachttisch findet sich jeweils eine Hardcover-Ausgabe des neuesten Bestsellers aus der Feder des amerikanischen Horrorschriftstellers Abe Hoven! Schon bald gerät der Autor ins Visier der Ermittler und der Presse. Handelt es sich hier um einen makabren "Gag" zur Förderung seiner Buchverkäufe?

In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively introduction to one of America's premier art forms. He tells us what to listen for in a performance and includes a guide to today's leading jazz musicians. From Louis Armstrong's innovative sounds to the jazz-rock fusion of Miles Davis, Gioia covers the music's history and reveals the building blocks of improvisation. A true love letter to jazz by a foremost expert.

Hannay to the rescue once more! This time...our hero is summoned from his tranquil life in rural Oxfordshire to save the world from a financial conspiracy which threatens the global economy. Hannay comes to believe that the villain behind all this must be Dominick Medina. But can such a brilliant, charming idol of the nation be using Eastern magic to suborn industrialists, magnates and other such pillars of society as his slaves?

In this daring debut, Susan Elia MacNeal blends meticulous research on the era, psychological insight into Winston Churchill, and the creation of a riveting main character, Maggie Hope, into a spectacularly crafted novel.

They were born in the middle of a battle, into a world at war. And from their first moments of life, twins Satyrus and Melitta were fighting for survival. Their father, a Greek mercenary, was cut down not long after they had taken their first breath; their Scythian mother was cruelly murdered when they were still children.

A classic of literature and the author's best-known work. Adapted many times for cinema. A major motion picture in summer 2016.