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Hollywood icon Laura Dern breathes new life into Louisa May Alcott’s classic. With their father away at war, Meg, the oldest and prettiest sister, and Jo, the tomboy, take care of Beth, the shy one, and Amy, the artist. When their beloved 'Marmee' must leave to nurse Father, who is badly wounded in the war, the girls sustain themselves by putting to use the lessons of loyalty and patience they had learned from their family.

A devastating terrorist attack in the heart of Washington, DC, and the arrest of the terrorist leads to a trial that threatens to expose the dark underbelly of America's national security. The Russian president is gravely injured and fixated on revenge, while a gay Russian dissident is arrested and put on trial in Judge Tom Brewer's courtroom. With the world's attention fixed on Tom and this case, secrets from his past explode during the course of the trial, which place him at the very center of the case and make him the only man who can try to stop the world's slide into war.

Harry Bauer is a professional assassin. He is employed by Cobra, a shadow agency that provides certain, select Western governments with total deniability, while taking out the trash. Bauer is very good at what he does. In fact, he’s the best. So when the brigadier, his overall boss, tells Bauer to go to Canada, pick up a woman and escort her to DC, he is understandably pissed: He eliminates bad guys, he’s not a nursemaid.

With her husband stranded in a war-torn country halfway around the world, a university professor – on whom the burden of managing their small family has suddenly fallen – tries to maintain order at home. Her young daughter seems not to mind, or even really notice, the father’s absence. But as the weeks go on, mounting pressure on the narrator to balance family and work begins to take a toll.

Hanson, the planet's most talented brotherly pop trio are from Tulsa, USA. Zac, Isaac and Taylor charted worldwide and evne provided the soundtrack for the movie The Borrowers! They may be young however they had all the professional know how to help them succeed. The brothers began by making their own recordings and after two single they got a record deal. In this exclusive audiobiography they reveal how their family keeop them stable and help in all business decisions.

It was obvious that Take That's Gary Barlow would follow a solo career. "I'd always been a solo artist," says Gary, and the other members of the band were aware that the band was built around me. When Robbie Williams decided to quit the band, it only hastened the eventual split of the UK's most successful boy band. After that split many people saw Gary as the new George Michael but he sees himself more like Elton John - someone who is ultra creative in songwriting.

Meet the members of the Equinox Society: Claire, a caustic but compassionate demonologist; Amanda, a witch who wants to help; William, an occultist living in a haunted brownstone; and other ordinary people who share a fascination with the bizarre and otherworldly. Their reports explore private fears and personal demons, offering glimpses of the nightscape all of us inhabit. A troubled vampire who stalks an abandoned shopping mall. A dead teen who emails from the past. An arsonist who starts real fires with her dreams.

Aliyah Kahn ist eine kleine Trickbetrügerin, die ihrem Gewerbe auf den Straßen von London nachgeht, indem sie Touristen das Geld aus der Tasche zieht. Ihr loses Mundwerk und ihre Aufsässigkeit haben sie nicht nur um ihren Platz an einem renommierten College gebracht, sondern bringen sie auch heute noch regelmäßig in Teufels Küche. Zu allem Überfluss hat sie sich mit einer vermeintlich sicheren Geschäftsidee auf die falschen Leute verlassen und steht jetzt bei mächtigen und sehr gefährlichen Leuten mit einer Viertelmillion Pfund in der Kreide.

In the summer of 1937, Amelia Earhart is the most famous woman in the world - a record-breaking pilot, a best-selling author, and a modern woman shattering the glass ceiling in the early days of aviation. And then she vanishes. In Tampa, Florida, 15-year-old Lizzie Friedlander spends her afternoons glued to her father’s radio, tapping into the enormity of a world she longs to travel. Lizzie can hardly believe her ears when she picks up a radio signal from a faraway source that sets her heart racing: “Amelia Earhart calling SOS!”

Als aufgebrachte Bauern eine Viehpfändung vereiteln, gerät in einer norddeutschen Kleinstadt alles aus den Fugen. Intrigen und politische Ränke werden geschmiedet, dem Spiel um Geld und Macht kann sich keiner entziehen. Mit diesem lebendigen, zutiefst menschlichen Roman entwirft Fallada ein reiches Panorama des innenpolitischen Elends der Weimarer Republik. Als "Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben" im März 1931 erschien, entbrannte in der Öffentlichkeit eine erregte Debatte.

President Jack Spiers and former Secret Service agent Ethan Reichenbach throw caution to the wind, committing themselves publicly as the first out male lovers and partners to occupy the White House. Jack moves Ethan into the Residence, but as Ethan settles into his new role as first gentleman of the United States, not everyone is thrilled with their choices. When it seems like the world turns against them, Jack and Ethan must turn to each other, finding the strength together to press on.

Der Floh Grüter Blasius lebt glücklich und halbwegs zufrieden auf seinem Schweinebauernhof. Seine Leidenschaft ist das Dressurreiten. Nichts ist für ihn interessanter, als sein Reittier zu beobachten und die Natur des Menschen zu entschlüsseln. Aber obwohl er der Beste ist, wird ihm der Titel "Dressurreiter" von Trabbelsberg verwehrt. Also wird ein Plan entwickelt, um das große Ziel zu erreichen.

The operation to subjugate the "World Word," which has gone haywire following news of Elea's death, begins. Kia, Kuze, Mestelexil, Tu, Uhak. The fates of these five individuals intersect in unexpected ways on a high-speed train. Kuze is planning on assassinating the queen, but Mestelexil and his...

Es war Liebe, als sie heirateten, und fünfzig Jahre später war es auch Liebe. Dazwischen kam, vier Jahre vor ihrer goldenen Hochzeit, dieser Moment, in dem sie sich etwas eingestanden: dass ihr Liebesleben zu wenig Schwung hatte, weniger, als sie es sich gewünscht hatten. Bernhard und Magda Bauer sind seit 1966 verheiratet. Beide sind Rentner, Bernhard Bauer nach einer beruflichen Laufbahn in der Werbewirtschaft. Sie leben in einem Haus am Stadtrand von Wien sowie in Teneriffa und haben einen Sohn.

Die Bauern standen daneben in einem Haufen, taten nichts und sahen sich das Feuer an. Niemand wusste, was er anfangen sollte, niemand verstand etwas, und ringsherum waren Getreide- und Heuhaufen, Schuppen, Haufen trockenen Reisigs. Auch Kirjak und der alte Ossip, sein Vater, standen da, beide angeheitert.

Jessica Nagoshi, the beautiful heiress to her father's billion-dollar empire, is being groomed, along with her brother Peter, to take control of Nagoshi Inc. That is, until she is brutally murdered in the greenhouse of her father's extensive Wellesley estate. Jessica was in her third year pre-law at the prestigious Deane University and the police enter the hallowed halls of the most expensive college in America to begin their investigation.

On September 11th, 2001, Kris Caldera was a junior member of the CIA's Alec Station, the unit dedicated to finding and stopping Osama Bin Laden. They failed. Ten days later, he was on the ground in Afghanistan with a Special Forces team. On the battlefield, he meets Special Forces Sergeant David Haddad. David - Arab American, Muslim, and gay - becomes the man Kris loves, the man he lives for, and the man he kills for, through the long years of the raging wars. When a botched mission rips David from Kris' life, Kris' world falls into ruin and ash.

Mit Gendarmen und Richtern kann man so einiges erleben. Davon können die Bauern so einiges erzählen. Georg Queri und Ludwig Thoma schildern das in ihren vier Kurzgeschichten auf amüsanter Weise. Mit passender Musik und authentischen Tönen unterlegt - ein Schmankerl für Freunde Bayrischer Geschichten.

Have you lost the art of reading for pleasure? Are there books you know you should read but haven't because they seem too daunting? In The Well-Educated Mind, Susan Wise Bauer provides a welcome and encouraging antidote to the distractions of our age, electronic and otherwise. In her previous book, The Well-Trained Mind, the author provided a road map of classical education for parents wishing to home-school their children, and that book is now the premier resource for home-schoolers.

Poetycka i filozoficzna zarazem opowiesc o innosci i wykluczeniu. Bohaterem powiesci jest Hans - kaleki wychowanek sierocinca, który w odosobnionym osrodku szkoli sie do roli pilota. Choc wokól toczy sie wojna, niepelnosprawni mieszkancy Gotteswind staraja sie budowac wlasna, okaleczona wersje normalnosci - rozmawiaja, smieja sie, próbuja czytac, uczyc sie, spacerowac. Wraz ze swoimi opiekunami tworza swoisty mikrouklad wladzy, namietnosci i pozadania.