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Irene Adler wird an Bord des Schiffes von zwei Besatzungsmitgliedern gefangen gehalten. Die beiden verfolgen einen Plan, der nicht nur die Sonderermittlerin der Krone in Lebensgefahr bringt. In London ist es Rasputin fast gelungen, die Geheimgesellschaft davon zu überzeugen, dass das britische Königshaus hinter der plötzlichen Vermehrung der Goldmenge steckt. Er trifft sich mit einem Mitglied des Oberhauses, um auch das Parlament für seinen zerstörerischen Kampf gegen die Krone zu gewinnen.

Inspired by the real-life memoirs of Edinburgh's first detective, James McLevy, here are more fantastic fictional adventures featuring the tenacious Victorian crime-solver. Once again, McLevy and his faithful sidekick Constable Mulholland patrol the dark wynds and back alleys of 1840s Leith tracking down evildoers—aided by a surprising ally: the beautiful and resourceful brothel-keeper Jean Brash.

When my best friend Josie asked me to cover for her new job, I didn't hesitate. I'm nice like that. The plan: Meet the rich client. Take notes of their measurements and fashion tastes. Then hand over to Josie. Job done. But Josie didn't tell me the client is six-foot-four Hollywood hunk, Blaze Hopkins. My ultimate onscreen crush. I can't stop my face glowing red as I wrap the tape measure around his hot body. When he asks me questions, I reply with squeaks and giggles. Total fangirl move.

In 12 complete sessions, you’ll gain the insights you need to master the Five Fundamentals of better living: gain an unshakable confidence and a glowing self-image; improve your health, strength, and energy; achieve a rewarding career with ironclad job security; find financial freedom; and enjoy satisfying relationships. These Five Fundamentals build on one another to help you form a complete life that's nothing short of extraordinary.

Many entrepreneurs launch new businesses without carefully analyzing the financial prospects in advance. They think that they can produce and sell products at a profit and that this will be sufficient. All they need to do is sell enough of the products to create profitable businesses. But this is seldom the case.

Successful entrepreneurs are those who think better and more successfully than unsuccessful entrepreneurs. One of the most important tools that you can use to make better business decisions is a break-even analysis on every product or service that you offer. Let business expert and world-renowned speaker Brian Tracy show you how to determine your break-even point, how to market and sell your product, and the Seven Step Formula to Profitability.

This powerful, practical, mini-MBA in the key strategies, methods and techniques of the best managers in the most profitable companies, will save you years of hard work in getting the same or better results.In this practical, proven 12-lecture program, you’ll learn priceless lessons to set you on the road to management success.

Seeking to make their fortunes in human society, the elves of the underworld involve themselves in stock car racing, child pornography, and worse, and three runaway kids find themselves in a heap of trouble. 

Frank Einstein (A), kid genius scientist and inventor, along with Klink (B), a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity, and Klank (C), a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity, create an Antimatter Motor using the three states of matter: solid (D), liquid (E), and...

When marijuana enthusiast Blue McKenna suffers an apocalyptic case of writer's block, reality TV seems like an easy way out. A conglomerate of kooky contestants invades the polygamist community of Navel, Utah, to compete in a TV reality show. Participants include Steven Finch, a lovable stoner who develops a conspiracy theory involving a rock band called the Rectal Surgeons, and Randall Smoot, a member of the Gay Mafia.

Doremus Jessup, a newspaper editor, is dismayed to find that many of the people he knows support presidential candidate Berzelius Windrip. The suspiciously fascist Windrip is offering to save the nation from sex, crime, welfare cheats, and a liberal press. But after Windrip wins the election, dissent soon becomes dangerous for Jessup. Windrip forcibly gains control of Congress and the Supreme Court and, with the aid of his personal paramilitary storm troopers, turns the United States into a totalitarian state.

Now you can Make More Sales Faster when you learn the techniques that have made Brian Tracy a best-selling author and internationally known business speaker and consultant.

Deed Corrigan earned his reputation as a gunfighter - the hard way. But now, after forging cattle trails and fighting off the Comanche, he’s setting his sights on a brighter future. With the help of his older brother Blue, a Civil War veteran who lost his arm in battle, Deed turns the Rafter C homestead into a successful, working cattle ranch. But when a land-grubbing banker tries to wipe out the competition - slaughtering ranchers, robbing farmers, and building an army of hired killers - Deed and Blue have no choice but to fight back with everything they’ve got. 

Relationships are everything! Fully 85 percent of your happiness and fulfillment in life is associated with other people. Wonderfully enough, relationship skills can be learned by anyone. You can learn to be more loving, patient, kind, compassionate, and caring with your family members and friends. Brian Tracy has invested 25 years studying the most effective relationship skills. In this program, he brings you 21 of the greatest ideas ever discovered to build loving relationships.

Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his friends - just like lots of other Americans. But everything changed when the United States went to war with Japan in 1941 and the government forced all people of Japanese ancestry to leave their homes on the West Coast and move to distant prison camps. This included Fred, whose parents had immigrated to the United States from Japan many years before. But Fred refused to go.

Collecting two classic tales by the legendary O. Henry, All-American Stories presents a humorous, wry look at America and Americans from the Old West to the blinking lights of Broadway. "An Afternoon Miracle" tells the story of a Texas Ranger, a beautiful and a scurrilous outlaw who is wreaking havoc across the plains. And "The Song and the Sergeant" is a hilarious look at scene-stealing actors and lovesick playwrights.

Every dragon seeks his destined mate, but the process to turn the woman he once thought was his killed her and devastated him. Finn Conleth will never risk his heart again. His team is his family now. When his body eventually gives out, he'll leave, living his last days alone. Delaney Hamilton moved across the country to escape the freak fires that plague her. But when another suspicious fire erupts and rapidly escalates around her, her hopes for a new life go up in smoke. She has no choice but to turn to the mysterious men who come to her aid. 

You'll love this collection of stories featuring quirky, yet lovable family members. In "Translating Aunt Edna", three boys decide to play a trick on their aunt, who insists on teaching them new vocabulary words. The English language can be complicated - there are so many words that describe the same thing! You’ll discover many of them in this silly story about a group of siblings who decide they are sick of learning new words!

The micro-nation Christiania has been threatened from without by the Danish government for decades. Nowadays, it is equally menaced by schisms from within.

In Fateful Lightning, two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. He examines the strategy, the tactics, and the logistics of the Civil War and brings the most recent historical thinking to bear on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South.