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Lubji Hoch escapes from the Nazis, moves to Berlin and changes his name to Richard Armitage. After a successful career in the British Army, he takes over a struggling newspaper and with unrivalled ruthlessness begins building his media empire. Meanwhile, Keith Townsend, the son of a millionaire and Oxford educated, returns to Australia from London to take over his father's newspaper with similar ambitions. As both men move their quest for power to the world stage, they realise they are more than a match for one another's brilliance and ambition.

The expected never happens... a man calls unexpectedly on his mistress and sees another man leaving her flat. Accusing her of being unfaithful, he quarrels with her, strikes her. She dies. Leaving unseen, he tips off the police so that the other man is arrested and charged... Has he achieved "The Perfect Murder"? A tantalising opening to "A Twist in the Tale", a fantastic collection of short stories from bestselling author Jeffrey Archer.

Separated at birth by a desperate nurse who loses a millionaire's son to cot death, twin boys grow up without any knowledge of the other. Nat Cartwright lives with his middle-class birth parents and grows up to becomes a war hero in the Vietnam War before returning home to run for office in the Republican party. Fletcher Davenport becomes the only son of the millionaire couple. After graduating from Yale, he builds a reputation as a prolific criminal defence lawyer before he too delves into politics as a Democrat.

"Think and Grow Rich" is a motivational personal development and selfhelp audiobook written by Napoleon Hill and inspired by a suggestion from Scottish-American businessman Andrew Carnegie. While the title implies that this book deals only with how to achieve monetary wealth, the author explains that the philosophy taught in the book can be used to help individuals do or be almost anything they want in this world.

This collection of 20 bedtime stories will help your child drift into a peaceful sleep, by concluding his day with delightful adventures, important teachings and symbolic imagery for enlightening dreams. Classic children's stories and fairy tales are an essential part of any kid's development. Our audiobook collection means to bring together the fairy tales, stories, myths and legends which have fed the children of many generations in the years when the imagination is awakening and craving stimulus and material to work upon. This compilation, specially designed for small children, includes folk tales, classic tales by Charles Perrault and Hans Christian Andersen, and stories from the Arabian Nights, narrated in a warm and soothing way:

Connor Fitzgerald is the CIA’s most deadly assassin. On the brink of his retirement, he is sent to Russia for one last hit. Except this isn’t just another job. After a fall out between the CIA and the White House over the assassination of a prominent Colombian politician, his boss is now using the Russian Mafia to cover her tracks. Fitzgerald is not going to St Petersburg to kill, he’s going to die. A page-turning, political thriller about espionage and betrayal by the acclaimed British writer, Jeffrey Archer.

The fourteen short stories in To Cut a Long Story Short show Jeffrey Archer’s great skills with a wide variety of character, of subject and of setting, but all with that trademark twist in the tale. Every reader will have their own favourites: the choices run from love at first sight across the train tracks to the cleverest of confidence tricks, from the quirks of the legal profession - and those who are able to manipulate both sides of the Bar - to the creative financial talents of a member of Her Majesty’s diplomatic service - but for a good cause.

An imprisoned man is certain that his supposed murder victim is very much alive... a female driver is pursued relentlessly by a menacing figure in another vehicle... a young artist gets the biggest break of her career... a restless beauty manages the perfect birthday celebration... an escaped Iraqi on Saddam Hussein's death list pays an involuntary visit to his homeland... How will they react? How would you? "Twelve Red Herrings" is the third collection of irresistible short stories from master storyteller, Jeffrey Archer.

Gautama Buddha is also known as Siddharta Gautama, or simply the Buddha, which means "Awakened" or "Enlightened". Born a prince, he chose a path of ascetism only to realize that it was as profound an illusion as self-indulgence. He achieved Enlightenment after 49 days of meditation; his awakening led him to discover the cause of suffering and the ways to eliminate it. These discoveries founded Buddhism, and his "Four Noble Truths" still form the heart of its teachings.

Are you ready to embrace universal law and live a natural life? If there is one overall message to this audiobook, it is that we must avoid being overwhelmed by life, to realise that there is something larger than us which is willing to shoulder the burdens. If we can live by faith instead of fear, we have found the secret door to success that she speaks of. Scovel Shinn devoted her life to helping people recognize the link between their attitudes and their level of happiness.

Landon, journaliste accompli, est embauché pour écrire la biographie de son fantasme de toujours. Pendant trois mois, Landon Braxton aura un accès privilégié à « la coqueluche d'Hollywood », avec un objectif clair : dénicher l'inédit, le croustillant, ce qui se cache au-delà de l'image publique. Mais confronter l'idole de toujours à la réalité est un défi. Comment Landon peut-il écrire le livre qui lui a été commandé sans trahir la confiance difficilement acquise de Kenneth ?

Lyla Dune returns to her North Carolina hometown hoping for a fresh start, but instead finds history repeating itself—quite literally. Recently dumped and with her career as an opinion columnist floundering, thirty-year-old Lyla retreats to Echo Cove to oversee the sale of her childhood home. But when she digs up a high school time capsule and finds her forgotten diary, the summer before college begins to eerily replay. As a dangerous hurricane looms again, Lyla must confront the fears that cost her Travis a decade ago—and the dream of becoming a fiction writer she abandoned.

Elisa und Beatrice begegnen sich in einer Sommernacht am Strand und werden beste Freundinnen, doch könnten sie kaum unterschiedlicher sein: Eli lebt versunken in einer Welt von Büchern, während Bea es genießt, sich öffentlich zu inszenieren und täglich neue Bilder von sich ins Internet zu stellen. Sie wird zum Star, der davon träumt, über die sozialen Netzwerke mit tausenden von Bildern von Italien aus die Welt zu erobern. Bis sie eines Tages spurlos verschwindet und Eli vor der Frage steht, wer ihre Freundin, die jeder auf der Welt zu kennen glaubt, wirklich ist.

Una giovane indaga sulle sue radici in un villaggio montano avvolto da nebbia autunnale e riti ancestrali, tra preparativi per l'inverno e legami con la natura selvaggia. Un gruppo enigmatico di Girovaghe, figure eteree con poteri onirici, spinge la protagonista verso un viaggio audace nella Valle della Lastra. Un viaggio tra segreti su entità mitiche, risveglio di energie vitali e intrecci tra mondo reale e visioni magiche.

Ein Mord – und Millionen schauen zu. Bei einer Marine-Veranstaltung in Rouen wird ein Matrose getötet – unter den Augen von Millionen von Zuschauern. Kommissar Gustave Paturel und seine Kollegin Colette, seit 30 Jahren ein eingespieltes Team, stehen vor dem schwersten Fall ihrer Karriere. Wie konnte der Mörder unerkannt entkommen? Und gibt es eine Verbindung zwischen dem Toten und dem geheimen Schatz, nach dem in den Wassern der Seine gesucht wird?

Von Sigrid Nunez, Bestseller-Autorin von »Der Freund«, kommt dieser faszinierende, autobiographische Roman über ihre Jugend in New York City. Eine junge Frau blickt zurück auf ihre Anfänge: den chinesisch-panamaischen Vater und die deutsche Mutter, die sich im Nachkriegsdeutschland begegnen und zusammen nach New York City gehen. In den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren dort aufwachsend, flüchtet sie sich in Träume, die von den Geschichten ihrer Eltern inspiriert sind, und dann in die Welt des Balletts.

Erzählendes Sachbuch über das Unbehagen der Gegenwart Alles easy – könnte man meinen angesichts der hübschen Instagram-Welt in hippen Pastellfarben. Aber was sollen dann diese ewigen Gedankenschlaufen? Was haben schlaflose Nächte auf Instagram zu bedeuten? Und wie kann Jean-Paul Sartre bei Panikattacken helfen? Persönlich und präzise schreibt Nina Kunz – Schweizer Kolumnistin des Jahres 2020 – über das Unbehagen der Gegenwart und geht der Frage nach, warum sich ihr Leben, trotz aller Privilegien, oft so beklemmend anfühlt.

Was macht man, nachdem man von seinem Verlobten vor dem Traualtar stehen gelassen wurde? Für Fiona ist die Antwort klar: Sie wagt einen Neuanfang und zieht mit ihrer Tochter Tara in eine idyllische Kleinstadt an der Westküste Irlands, um sich ihren Traum vom eigenen Brautmodengeschäft zu erfüllen. Von den Einwohnern wird sie freundlich aufgenommen – außer von ihrem Nachbarn Cillian. Dieser ist verschlossen, launisch und nur zu seinen Alpakas nett.

Millie Cunningham hat alles unter Kontrolle: ihre Karriere als Assistant Sportsdirector. Doch dann liefert das Football-Team der Arizona Wildcats immer miserablere Ergebnisse ab, sodass ein neuer Coach her muss. Und plötzlich hat Millie ein Problem. Denn bei dem neuen Trainer handelt es sich ausgerechnet um Ford Ellis: Ex-Footballstar, Single Dad und der Mann, der ihr Herz in tausend Stücke zerbrochen hat. Jahrelang musste sie bei seinem Anblick den Fernseher abschalten. Doch jetzt ist Ford hier – und weit und breit kein Ausknopf in Sicht.

A good story takes us in a new, fantastic world; the pleasure is all the greater if it keeps us inside for long enough. We have carefully selected for you ten long stories, for you to enjoy the craft of the writer as much as the opportunity of evasion good stories bring to us; they will make perfect bedtime stories, to accompany young children as long as they need to get into a peaceful sleep. Enjoy these tales by Charles Perrault, Hans Christian Andersen, and from the "Arabian Nights" (or "One Thousand and One Nights"), narrated in a warm and lively way.