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Ten-year-old Comfort Snowberger has attended 247 funerals. But that's not surprising, considering that her family runs the town funeral home. And even though Great-uncle Edisto keeled over with a heart attack and Great-great-aunt Florentine dropped dead, just like that, six months later, Comfort knows how to deal with loss, or so she thinks.

Li has a father and a sister who love her. A best friend, Mirabae, to share things with. She goes to school and hangs out at the beach and carefully follows the rules. She has to. Everyone she knows - her family, her teachers, her friends - is an alien. And she is the only human left on Earth. The Abdoloreans hijacked the planet 16 years ago, destroying all human life. Li's human-sympathizer father took her in as a baby and has trained her to pass as one of them. The Abdoloreans appear human. But they don't think with human minds or feel with human hearts.

Having barely escaped the clutches of the Guard, Sefia and Archer are back on the run, slipping into the safety of the forest to tend to their wounds and plan their next move. Haunted by painful memories, Archer struggles to overcome the trauma of his past with the impressors, whose cruelty plagues him whenever he closes his eyes. But when Sefia and Archer happen upon a crew of impressors in the wilderness, Archer finally finds a way to combat his nightmares: by hunting impressors and freeing the boys they hold captive.

Death, accidental and early, has always been Abby Walters's preoccupation. Now 33 and eager to settle down with her commitment-shy boyfriend, a recurring dream from her past returns: a paralyzing nightmare of being buried alive, the taste of dirt in her mouth cloying and real. But this time the dream reveals a name from her family's past. Looking for answers, Abby returns home to small-town Minnesota for the first time in 14 years, where she reconnects with her high school crush, now a police detective on the trail of a violent criminal.

For as long as Fei can remember, there has been no sound in her village. Her people are at the mercy of a mysterious faraway kingdom, which delivers food in return for precious metals mined from the treacherous cliffs surrounding them. When villagers begin to lose their sight, their rations shrink and many go hungry. Fei's home, the boy she loves and her entire existence is plunged into crisis, under threat of darkness and starvation. Then Fei is awoken in the night by a searing noise, and sound becomes her weapon....

Werther er en ung og opprørsk romantiker med et hvileløst sinn, som forelsker seg i den stillferdige og vakre Lotte. Hun er imidlertid allerede forlovet med Werthers venn - den respektable embedsmannen Albert - som hun senere også gifter seg med. Werther må utad skjule sin altoppslukende lidenskap for Lotte og misunnelse når det gjelder Albert. I en spiral av seldestruktiv adferd og pinsel ender han med å betale den ultimate prisen for sine forbudte følelser.

Da novellen Amokløper/Amok utkom i 1922, var begrepet ”amok” fremdeles et ukjent begrep. Zweig lånte det fra indonesisk kultur, hvor det beskriver en tilstand der en person angriper en fiende i blindt raseri og forsøker å drepe både fienden og alle andre som står i veien. Som mange av Zweigs verker har Amok/Amokløper en psykologisk bakgrunn. Den handler om en leges ekstreme besettelse og forfølgelse av en kvinne som er blitt gravid utenfor ekteskapet og som nå vil ha legen til å utføre en abort.

Clover O'Reilly is super psyched to run for class president. As the second oldest of five sisters, she struggles to be heard in her ginormous family. But when you are president of the seventh grade, everyone has listen to you! Comedy magician Mike the Unusual feels confident onstage. Offstage, life can be tricky. It's okay that his classmates don't understand him, but it bugs him when his dad suggests he needs more friends. Is he willing to give up his passion to win friends...and votes? Clover and Mike compete to rule their school in this uproariously funny sequel.

Just nine years after American women finally got the right to vote, a group of trailblazers soared to new heights in the 1929 Air Derby, the first women's air race across the U.S. Follow the incredible lives of legend Amelia Earhart, who has captivated generations; Marvel Crosson, who built a plane before she even learned how to fly; Louise Thaden, who shattered jaw-dropping altitude records; and Elinor Smith, who at age 17 made headlines when she flew under the Brooklyn Bridge. Born to Fly is the gripping story of the fearless women pilots who aimed for the skies - and beyond.

Mirabelle’s past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents’ tragic deaths to her guardians’ half-truths about why she can’t return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday - and discovers a world she never could have imagined. In Beau Rivage, nothing is what it seems - the strangely pale girl with a morbid interest in apples, the obnoxious playboy who’s a beast to everyone he meets, and the chivalrous guy who has a thing for damsels in distress.

Phaet Theta is a fugitive. Hiding in plain sight with her friend Wes’s family on the drowned planet Earth, Phaet discovers the rugged beauty of the world her ancestors once called home. All her life, she’s been taught to fear the “Earthbound”, and their generosity and kindness surprise and touch Phaet. But when the Lunar Bases attack Wes’s isolated village, Phaet’s past catches up with her, and she’s forced to choose: Stay on Earth and fight beside the boy she’s falling for, or stow away on a Moon-bound ship so she can save her brother and sister from the government.

Lina Winterbock lives in the mountain strongholds of Solace. She's an apprentice to the archivists, the wise men and women whose lives are dedicated to cataloging, studying, and preserving the objects that mysteriously fall from the sky in the scrap towns.

Große Freude bei den Kindern der Klasse 4a der Bärbel-Rapunzel-Grundschule: Es geht auf Klassenfahrt – und zwar zu einer echten alten Burg. Auf dem Programm steht u.a. Zelten, Kanufahren und Lagerfeuer machen. Die 4a ist begeistert. Doch das Lachen vergeht der Klasse schnell, als sie merken, dass ein gruseliger Geist in den alten Gemäuern der Burg herumspukt. Von Frau Kleinitz, ihrer Klassenlehrerin, ist keine Hilfe zu erwarten, denn sie glaubt nicht an Geister. Also machen sich die Grundschul-Superhelden daran, dem Spuk auf die Spur zu kommen.

Beim Hören wirst Du verstehen, warum Dinos noch leben und was das mit der Geschichte der Erde zu tun hat. Mit Evolutionstheorie, dem Wettbewerb der Tiere und der Tatsache, dass wir besser überleben, wenn wir sehr, sehr unterschiedlich sind. Du wirst verstehen: Diese scheinbar kleine Frage ist mit der Klimakatastrophe, der Gut-Schlecht-Gleichzeitigkeit, Massensterben, T-rex-Klettergerüsten und Insel-Kiwis verbunden. Und mit uns. Mit der Frage, wie wir leben wollen. Und wie wir mit unserer Menschen-Magie die Welt verändern.

Beim Hören wirst Du verstehen, warum Sterne leuchten und was das mit tanzenden Teilchen, Luftdruck und Wärme zu tun hat. Mit dem Kohlenstoff-Kreislauf des Lebens, CO2 und Pflanzen. Mit der Entstehung des Universums, der Milchstraße und unserer Welt. Du wirst verstehen: Bei dieser kleinen Frage geht es um Leben und Tod. Und um Bausteine, die in Sternen entstehen. Bausteine, aus denen alles auf dieser Erde gebaut ist. Auch wir. Denn wir sind aus Sternenstaub. Wir schauen nicht nur in den Sternenhimmel. Wir sind ein Teil davon.

Wenn ein düsteres Geheimnis zur Bedrohung wird Erin freut sich unbeschreiblich auf ihren Besuch in Adams Villa am Meer. Doch allein der Anblick des großen Hauses löst eine Gänsehaut bei ihr aus – sie spürt, dass von dem Gebäude etwas Bedrohliches ausgeht. Während sich Adam schon nach kurzer Zeit immer merkwürdiger verhält und sich nur noch in seinem Labor verschanzt, nimmt Erins unheimliches Gefühl zu.

内容紹介：オンラインゲームで実際に起きた人間関係のトラブルをもとにボイスドラマ化。

In this staggering work of documentary and poetry, Mai Der Vang reopens a wrongdoing that deserves a new reckoning. As the US abandoned them at the end of the Vietnam War, many Hmong refugees recounted stories of a mysterious substance that fell from planes during their escape from Laos in the mid-1970s. This substance, known as "yellow rain," caused severe illnesses and thousands of deaths. These reports prompted an investigation into allegations that a chemical biological weapon had been used against the Hmong in breach of international treaties.

Die Sehnsucht nach der großen Bühne, harte Arbeit, erste Erfolge, bittere Niederlagen, Comebacks und der Weg nach ganz oben: Vanessa Mai legt beeindruckend ehrlich ihre ganze Geschichte offen und zeigt, warum es sich lohnt, für die eigenen Träume zu kämpfen. Musik und Tanz als Lebenselixier – aber wie können Träume Wirklichkeit werden? Der lange Weg zum Ruhm und was es braucht, um Widerstände zu überwinden. Ein Leben im Scheinwerferlicht und wie Vanessa Mai es schafft, sich treu zu bleiben.

'Work hard, get paid.' It's simple. Self-evident. But it's also a lie—at least for most of us. For people today, the old assumptions are crumbling; hard work in school no longer guarantees a secure, well-paying job in the future. Far from a gateway to riches and fulfilment, 'work' means precarity, anxiety and alienation. In this audiobook, beautifully narrated by award-winning actor Libby Mai, Amelia Horgan poses three big questions: what is work? How does it harm us? And what can we do about it?