Survival Drama

As a teen girl, you are likely feeling pressure and stress from every direction. Having good, healthy relationships with friends you can count on makes all the difference. In this guide, psychologist and teen expert Lucie Hemmen offers ten tips to guide you toward creating and maintaining the social life you want. Even better, the real experts that make this guide special are older teen girls who have recently been where you are now—and have plenty to say about it.

Did you know that woodpeckers are capable of learning simple codes? Hooded crows can form connections with humans? A jay's call affects the behaviour of surrounding squirrels? All these fascinating bird activities and more are revealed in The Hidden Life of Garden Birds. Unusual feeding behaviour is just the tip of the iceberg. From territorial conflict and strange relationships with man, to breeding and nesting oddities, this book exposes all the drama behind garden birds' everyday survival - making it the perfect gift for birdwatchers.

One last mission. It's a promise familiar to Captain John Duggan. Each final battle has another following it, with another after that. They come to him with the inevitability of death. His latest task seems no different to the others before it. As events progress, Duggan begins to believe - he starts to see how his life might change at the end of it and how the lives of billions in the Confederation may be saved if he succeeds. This time, his superiors plan no less than the destruction of the Helius Blackstar itself.

Im unendlichen Nichts des Weltraums erwacht ein einsamer Astronaut aus der Kryostase. Etwas ist schiefgegangen. Er weiß weder wer, noch wo er ist. Erst nach und nach findet er heraus, dass er Teil einer ihm unbekannten Crew war, die mehrere Jahrhunderte lang geschlafen hat. Alle anderen sind tot, in ihren Stasistanks gestorben. Einzig ein beschädigter, aber freundlicher Roboter scheint sich mit ihm an Bord zu befinden. Das Raumschiff ist in einem schlechten Zustand und leidet unter merkwürdigen Fehlern: Türen, die sich öffnen und schließen, Lichter, die flackern.