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Meet Noah - an A-honor-roll student, award-winning swimmer, and small-town star destined for greatness. There weren't any signs that something was wrong until the day he confesses to molesting little girls during swim-team practice. He's sentenced to 18 months in a juvenile sexual-rehabilitation center. His mother, Adrianne, refuses to turn her back on him despite his horrific crimes, but her husband won't allow Noah back into their home.

Winner of an Obie and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and directed by Tony nominee Leigh Silverman, Yellow Face is as timely as ever, wrestling with issues of cultural appropriation, complicity, and artistic freedom. It’s brought to life in this audio-only revival by a stunning all-star cast (many playing themselves) led by Daniel Dae Kim.

An orphan leaves Dark Ages London, taking a dangerous journey and posing as a Jew to study medicine in Persia, in "an adventurous and inspiring tale" (Library Journal). A child holds the hand of his dying mother and is terrified, aware something is taking her. Orphaned and given to an itinerant barber-surgeon, Rob Cole becomes a fast-talking swindler, peddling a worthless medicine. But as he matures, his strange gift - an acute sensitivity to impending death - never leaves him, and he yearns to become a healer.

The future is a dangerous place. Keeping the world stable and peaceful when competing corporate interests and nation-states battle for power, wealth, and prestige has only gotten harder over the years. But that's the United Nations' job. So the UN has changed along with the rest of the world. When the UN's "soft" diplomacy fails, it has harder options. Quiet, scalpel-like options: The Dead - biologically enhanced secret operatives created by the UN to solve the problems no one else can.

Mein Name ist Noah. Ich bin erst siebzehn, doch ich habe bereits alles verloren – mein Zuhause, meine Familie, meine Freunde. Den Glauben an eine Zukunft hat Noah längst verloren, als plötzlich zwei Fremde auftauchen. Sie suchen einen Weg nach England. Doch die Insel gilt bereits seit Jahren als durchseucht, niemand wagt sich freiwillig dorthin. Was wollen die beiden Fremden dort und weshalb brauchen sie ausgerechnet Noahs Hilfe?

After witnessing the murder-suicide of his parents as a child, Noah suffers from a form of PTSD that has left him without emotion, without a conscience, and without the ability to function as a normal human being. Noah finds structure in the US Army and becomes an exemplary soldier, but when his self-imposed programming is put to the test by the murderous acts of his superior officer, Noah finds himself quickly made expendable. Now, an ultrasecret organization known as E & E wants Noah's talents, offering him a chance to survive - as the most deadly assassin the world has ever known.

Amerikanske Noah Gordons bestsellerroman om Rob J. Cole, der vokser op i det 11. århundredes sygdomshærgede London. Da hans far og mor dør, kommer han i lære hos en excentrisk badskær, med hvem han rejser land og rige rundt og sælger mirakelkure til de syge. Rob opdager, at han har talent for at helbrede og beslutter sig for at blive læge. Dette fører ham ud på en større rejse, som ender i Persien, hvor han kommer i lære hos den tids største healer.

Der letzte Orphan – der neue Thriller Bestseller von Gregg Hurwitz! “Töte. Oder werde getötet.” Betäubungsmittel für Großwild, Luftunterstützung, ein Einsatzteam in voller Kampfmontur, ein Konvoi mit Spezialfahrzeugen, Fesseln und eine Kapuze. So sieht eine persönliche Einladung der US-Präsidentin aus ... wenn der Gast Evan Smoak, Deckname Orphan X, heißt. Vor Jahren war er der beste Auftragskiller der US-Regierung, bis er sich entschied, als "Nowhere Man" seine eigenen Ziele zu jagen. Erstes Gebot: "Lass keinen Unschuldigen sterben." Doch die US-Präsidentin verlangt genau das von ihm.

Veronica Cruz has been through hell and back. After disconnecting with the world two years ago to be at the side of her dying mother, she's left alone, unemployed, overweight, and feeling a decade older than her 28 years. When her best friend coaxes her into joining the local gym to ditch her depression and rejuvenate her life, she meets Noah. What she least expected was for him to fall for her, but he has. There's just one problem: Noah is eight years younger.

Noah Klieger war 13, als er sich während der deutschen Besatzung Belgiens einer jüdischen Untergrundorganisation anschloss und half, jüdische Kinder in die Schweiz zu schmuggeln. Noah Klieger war 16, als er im Morgengrauen als Häftling in Auschwitz ankam, bei Minusgraden. Noah Klieger hatte noch nie geboxt, als am Tag seiner Ankunft im Konzentrationslager gefragt wurde, ob sich Boxer unter den Häftlingen befänden und seine Hand nach oben ging.

Dr. Robert Judson Cole travels from his ravaged Scotland homeland, through the operating rooms of Boston, to the cabins of frontier Illinois. In the wilderness he befriends the starving remnants of the Sauk tribe, who have fled their reservation. In the process, he absorbs their culture and learns native remedies that enrich the classical medical education he received at Edinburgh University. He marries a remarkable settler woman he had saved from illness.

The art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his Sydney apartment block. His adult children, Martin and Evie, must come to terms with the shock of their father’s death. But a sculpture has gone missing from a museum in Palermo, and Noah is a suspect. The police are investigating. None of it makes any sense. Martin sets off to Palermo in search of answers about his father’s activities, while Evie moves into Noah’s apartment, waiting to learn where her life might take her.

Michael Kind is raised in the Jewish cauldron of 1920s New York, familiar with the stresses and materialism of metropolitan life. Turning to the ancient set of ethics of his Orthodox grandfather, with a modern twist, he becomes a Reform rabbi. As insecure and sexually needy as any other young male, he serves as a circuit-rider rabbi in the Ozarks, and then as a temple rabbi in the racially ugly South, in a San Francisco suburb, in a Pennsylvania college town, and, finally, in a New England community west of Boston.

Set in rural Oklahoma, Into Captivity They Will Go tells the story of Caleb Gunter, a boy whose mother has convinced him he is the second coming of Jesus Christ and that together they are destined to lead the chosen into the Kingdom of Heaven. Believing the Seven Seals detailed in Revelation have been opened, he and his mother flee their home to join a tongue-speaking evangelical church and to prepare for the end of the world. But after tragedy ensues, Caleb must rebuild his life without the only support he has ever known - his mother and the church.

Der brutale Fall ins Nichts. An einem nebligen Abend startet ein Privatjet zu einem Flug nach New York. Wenige Minuten später stürzt er in den Atlantik. Alle Passagiere sterben - nur der Maler Scott Burroughs und der vierjährige JJ überleben inmitten der brennenden Trümmer. Und Scott gelingt das Unmögliche: Er schafft es, den Jungen an das weit entfernte Ufer zu retten. Doch keiner von beiden kann sich an die Geschehnisse vor dem Absturz erinnern. Während die Suchtrupps fieberhaft nach den Leichen und der Blackbox fahnden, drängen sich neue Ereignisse in den Vordergrund.

Der brutale Fall ins Nichts. An einem nebligen Abend startet ein Privatjet zu einem Flug nach New York. Wenige Minuten später stürzt er in den Atlantik. Alle Passagiere sterben - nur der Maler Scott Burroughs und der vierjährige JJ überleben inmitten der brennenden Trümmer. Und Scott gelingt das Unmögliche: Er schafft es, den Jungen an das weit entfernte Ufer zu retten. Doch keiner von beiden kann sich an die Geschehnisse vor dem Absturz erinnern. Während die Suchtrupps fieberhaft nach den Leichen und der Blackbox fahnden, drängen sich neue Ereignisse in den Vordergrund.

Roberta Jeanne d'Arc Cole is favored to be named associate chief of medicine at a Boston hospital. She is married to a surgeon. They own a trophy residence on historic Brattle Street in Cambridge and a summer house in the Berkshire Hills. Everything melts away. Her gender and her work at an abortion clinic cost her the hospital appointment. Her marriage fails. Crushed, she goes to the farmhouse in Western Massachusetts, thinking to sell it, and finds an unexpected life.

In 1856, Lieutenant Henry Aaron Bird makes a startling discovery: a speechless, shipwrecked young girl, living a feral existence on a remote Pacific island. When he exhibits her as a "wild girl" in the chaotic sprawl of early San Francisco, this golden-haired child without a past will be seen by the populace as a scientific curiosity, a titillating image of female savagery, or, for many, a symbol of the unspoiled body of that young country. For Bird, she is a fragile ward in need of protection, whom he keeps drugged and confined when not using her to further his reputation.

Three young men from different backgrounds have graduated from medical schools and have become surgical fellows at a leading teaching hospital in Boston. They learn to become surgeons, to communicate with patients and families, and to be observed and appraised by their peers and professors on daily rounds. And each month, each attends the meeting of the Mortality Conference, known to all as the Death Committee, which examines every patient loss for possible human error, in order to prevent it from happening again.

Mit tugendhafter Erscheinung und abgründiger Seele schleicht der Vampir von Düsseldorf durch die Schatten und tötet seine Opfer. Tauche ein in die düstere Welt der 1920er Jahre, in der das Lachen der Menschen von Angst und der Grausamkeit eines Mörders erstickt wird. Kein Ort, keine Person ist sicher, wenn der Vampir zuschlägt. Seine Spuren sind ebenso mysteriös wie grausam und die Ermittler stoßen an ihre Grenzen, während der Serienmörder seine Jagd auf unschuldige Seelen fortsetzt.