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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 New York Times-bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs. Wounds heal, bonds grow stronger, and celebrations continue...Welcome back to beloved Mitford. After twelve...

A publishing event: #1 New York Times–bestselling author Jan Karon returns—and invites her millions of fans to join her again in Mitford. After five hectic years of retirement from Lord’s Chapel, Father Tim Kavanagh returns with his wife, Cynthia, from a so-called pleasure trip to the...

The first novel in Jan Karon’s bestselling and beloved Mitford series--now available in a new 20th Anniversary Edition, including an introductory letter by the author It's easy to feel at home in Mitford, North Carolina. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and...

#1 New York Time bestselling author Jan Karon delivers the wedding that millions of Mitford fans have waited for. It’s a June day in the mountains, with more than a few creatures great and small, and you’re invited—because you’re family. Over the course of ten Mitford novels, fans...

Most of us spend a third of our waking lives at work. Work shapes our schedules, relationships, identities, and economies—but is it actually making us happy? This crucial question is explored in depth by leading Oxford researchers Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and George Ward, who provide the richest, most comprehensive picture of workplace wellbeing yet. In Why Workplace Wellbeing Matters, the authors clarify what workplace wellbeing is (and is not) and offer a framework for how businesses can approach and improve it

Follow Father Tim and Cynthia on their journey to research his Kavanagh ancestry in the Irish countryside. Vacation—the very word has been foreign to Episcopal priest Tim Kavanagh. Now retired from tending his flock in the village of Mitford, he is making good on a promise to show his wife...

Fest & Flauschig mit Jan Böhmermann und Olli Schulz. Der preisgekrönte, verblüffend fabelhafte, grenzenlos fantastische Podcast für sie, ihn und es.

Join Father Tim on a profoundly personal journey back to his childhood home in this charming novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Jan Karon's Mitford series. Thirty-eight years have passed since Father Tim Kavanagh left his Mississippi hometown, determined not to return. Then he...

Wer träumt nicht davon, eine Superkraft zu haben! Vielleicht superstark oder superschnell zu sein. Aber mit den Füßen schmecken??? Was soll das denn für eine bescheuerte Superkraft sein? Genau das passiert Ricky, dem Cousin von Justin Chase (größter Pechvogel aller Zeiten).

In September 1714, the elector of Hanover crossed the North Sea to be crowned king of Great Britain. His reign as George I marked the beginning of a close yet fraught relationship that would shape the destinies of both Britain and Germany, with profound consequences for Europe and the modern...

Dramatised readings from the award-winning Jan Carson, plus bonus interview with the author herself Northern Irish writer Jan Carson won the EU Prize for Literature 2019 for her novel The Fire Starters, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023. Her work has been...

Ein eitler Kaiser, der sich um nichts anderes als um seine Kleidung kümmert, heuert zwei Weber an, die ihm versprechen, die schönsten Gewänder der Welt zu nähen. Das Tollste daran aber sei, so behaupten die Beiden, die in Wahrheit Betrüger sind, dass Dummköpfe die Kleider nicht sehen könnten.

Brought to you by Penguin. **WINNER of the EU Prize for Literature** Dr Jonathan Murray fears his new-born daughter is not as harmless as she seems. Sammy Agnew is wrestling with his dark past, and fears the violence in his blood lurks in his son, too. The city is in flames and the authorities...

Der Physiker Nikola Tesla galt lange als vergessen - doch seine unglaublichen Erfindungen waren es nie. Ein ausgerechnet in Deutschland wiederentdecktes Öl-Porträt des genialen Ingenieurs bringt Hacker T-Rex auf die Spur eines mysteriösen Experiments, in dem Tesla quasi "aus dem Nichts" Energie erschaffen zu haben scheint. Doch T-Rex erkennt das wirkliche Geheimnis Teslas. Und die übergroße Bedeutung, die diese Entdeckung - ähnlich wie Teslas Entwicklungen des Wechselstroms und der Funktechnik - wieder einmal für die Menschheit haben könnte.

This audiobook narrated by Zeb Soanes offers a pioneering account of the surging global tide of market power and how it stifles workers around the world. 

When a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be - until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago to a Burmese woman they have never heard of. Intent on solving the mystery and coming to terms with her father’s past, Julia decides to travel to the village where the woman lived. There she uncovers a tale of unimaginable hardship, resilience, and passion that will reaffirm the listener’s belief in the power of love to move mountains.

A Bridge Between Psychiatry and Holistic HealingThis book is a collaborative record of a forty-year journey, written by two people who have approached the concept of "well-being" from different but complementary directions.Farid is a board-certified psychiatrist. For over three decades, his work...

Victor er en lille abe, der bor ude i junglen. Victor kan kun lide appelsiner, og han gider slet ikke smage noget nyt. Desværre løber han en dag tør for appelsiner! Nu må Victor alene ud i junglen og lede efter noget andet at spise. Som et hørespil med lyd og musik kan historien opleves...

København 2019. Danmark er aldrig blevet det samme igen, efter et terrorangreb i 2017 ramte Danske Central Bank. Stemningen i befolkningen og på Christiansborg er domineret af frygt og afmagt og en ny og endnu skrappere terrorpakke er på vej for at genetablere den tabte tryghedsfølelse...

Jørgen von Wowern testamenterer sin formue til alternativ aids-forskning og falder derefter ud ad et vindue. Politiet kalder det selvmord, men hans far, politidirektøren, er overbevist om, at det er mord, og hyrer den tidligere politimand, Frans Hjejle, til at opklare sagen. Efterforskningen...