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Viel lieber würde Dr. Siri Paiboun wie gewöhnlich Leichen untersuchen, doch ist er zu einer politischen Konferenz im Norden von Laos geschickt worden. Da fällt einer der Genossen tot vom Stuhl, Dr. Siris Diagnose: Langeweile. Währenddessen schlägt sich seine Assistentin Dtui in der Hauptstadt mit einer Leiche herum, die sich als höchst explosiv erweist. In ihrem Bauch findet sich eine Handgranate, die wohl für Dr. Siri gedacht war. Und plötzlich bekommt Dr. Siri es mit einem Fall zu tun, der die Langeweile rasch verfliegen lässt..

He’s the Man With No Name and the owner of No Alibis, a mystery bookshop in Belfast. But when a detective agency next door goes bust, the agency’s clients start calling into his shop asking him to solve their cases. It’s not as if there’s any danger involved. It’s an easy way to sell books to his gullible customers and Alison, the beautiful girl in the jewellery shop across the road, will surely be impressed. Except she’s not – because she can see the bigger picture.

As the creator of the Radical Forgiveness books and workshops, Colin Tipping knows that this is more than just a theoretical question. According to Colin, unconditional forgiveness is not only necessary for mental well-being, but also catalyzes our ability to bounce back from illness. With Radical Forgiveness for Healing, Colin presents a blueprint for applying this powerful framework to your day-to-day health.

In the early 18th century, the Pirate Republic was home to some of the great pirate captains, including Blackbeard, "Black Sam" Bellamy, and Charles Vane. Along with their fellow pirates - former sailors, indentured servants, and runaway slaves - this "Flying Gang" established a crude but distinctive democracy in the Bahamas, carving out their own zone of freedom in which servants were free, Blacks could be equal citizens, and leaders were chosen or deposed by a vote.

Als auf dem Seziertisch von Dr. Siri die Leiche einer jungen Frau landet, schlittert er prompt in seinen nächsten Kriminalfall. Denn das Mädchen wurde brutal ermordet: an einen Baum gefesselt, gefoltert und erwürgt. Dr. Siri muss nicht nur erkennen, dass es sich um eine ganze Mordserie handelt, sondern auch, dass der Killer es nicht allein auf hübsche Frauen abgesehen hat - auch dreiundsiebzigjährige Pathologen schweben in höchster Gefahr.

Meet Sergeant Colin Taylor, he has been a valuable member of the police force for over 20 years, five of which have been spent policing the 'quiet' Isles of Scilly, a group of islands off the southwestern tip of the Cornish peninsula. Colin has made it his purpose to keep the streets of Scilly free from anchor thieves, goldfish abductors and other culprits, some drunken, intent on breaking the law. This book is the first-hand account of how he did it.

In einem laotischen Dorf geschieht Merkwürdiges: Bei einem Überfall wird eine Frau getötet. Es folgen Trauerfeier und Einäscherung - kurz darauf taucht das Opfer wieder auf, kerngesund und bester Laune. Und weil die Frau seit dem Vorfall offenbar eine spirituelle Verbindung ins Jenseits pflegt, gelingt es ihr, den Fundort lange verschollener Gebeine zu bestimmen.

La frontera entre México y Guatemala es el escenario donde se desarrolla esta historia. Roberto Hart Ibáñez, jefe de un poderoso cártel mexicano de la droga, invita a Juan, un viejo amigo, a unirse al negocio. Juan y su grupo de sicarios se encargan de "limpiar" de enemigos el territorio por donde pasa su mercancía. Él está enamorado de Brenda, una ex guerrillera nicaragüense, que trabaja primero para Tomasito Aranda, el Profeta, un contrabandista y líder espiritual, y luego para don Roberto, quien le brinda protección.

The Doctor and Antimony arrive on the planet Santiny, just as it comes under attack by General Tannis and his Canisian battle fleet. Meanwhile, his other companion, Ace, finds herself under the guidance of the mysterious Casmus, who seems to foresee an important and unusual role in store for her. As the adventure lurches from Santiny to contemporary London and on to Gallifrey, it becomes clear that the Canisians' next target is to be Earth.

An exciting adventure for the 10th Doctor, read by Nicholas Briggs. Elvis the King Spaceport has grown into the sprawling city-state of New Memphis - an urban jungle, where organized crime is rife. But the launch of the new Terminal 13 hasn't been as smooth as expected. When the Doctor arrives, he finds the whole terminal locked down! The notorious Invisible Assassin is at work again, and the Judoon troopers sent to catch him will stop at nothing to complete their mission.

Laylora, the Paradise Planet, is a world of breath-taking beauty, where peace-loving aboriginals live in harmony with their environment. Or do they? The Doctor and Rose arrive to find that the once-perfect eco-system is showing signs of failing. The paradise planet has become a death trap as terrifying creatures from ancient legends appear and stalk the land.

Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they've been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own sense of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise of the West's first one-armed gunslinger.

Colin Quinn has noticed a trend during his decades on the road - that Americans' increasing political correctness and sensitivity have forced us to tiptoe around the subjects of race and ethnicity altogether. Colin wants to know: What are we all so afraid of? Every ethnic group has differences, everyone brings something different to the table, and this diversity should be celebrated, not denied. So why has acknowledging these cultural differences become so taboo?

Ever since Prue McKeel returned home from the Impassable Wilderness after rescuing her brother from the malevolent Dowager Governess, life has been pretty dull. School holds no interest for her, and her new science teacher keeps getting on her case about her dismal test scores and daydreaming in class. Her mind is constantly returning to the verdant groves and sky-tall trees of Wildwood, where her friend Curtis still remains as a bandit-in-training. But all is not well in that world. Dark assassins with mysterious motives conspire to settle the scores of an unknown client....

A guilty liberal finally snaps, swears off plastic, goes organic, becomes a bicycle nut, turns off his power, and generally becomes a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears and the rest of the planet from environmental catastrophe while dragging his baby daughter and Prada-wearing, Four Seasons-loving wife along for the ride. And that's just the beginning.

Hometown Tales is a series of books pairing exciting new voices with some of the most talented and important writers at work today. Some of the tales are fiction and some are narrative nonfiction - they are all powerful, fascinating and moving, and aim to celebrate regional diversity and explore the meaning of home.

Ben Small is good at English but rubbish at mathematics. Branded a cheat by the headmaster of Cottomwall Grammar School because of the inconsistencies in his test results, Ben feels he has no choice but to run away. Due to the storm, he beds down for the night in the science lab of his school where, quite by chance, he meets a talking snake called Adder. Hearing Ben's story, Adder asks Ben to come with him to Mathamagical, the city of Maths, to help them solve an English problem and stop a war with the Advancing Alphas.

In the Shadow of the Moon tells the story of the most exciting and challenging years in spaceflight, with two superpowers engaged in a titanic struggle to land one of their own people on the moon. Drawing on interviews with astronauts, cosmonauts, their families, technicians, and scientists, as well as rarely seen Soviet and American government documents, the authors craft a remarkable story of the golden age of spaceflight as both an intimate human experience and a rollicking global adventure.

Blockchain in Business explains the concepts of Blockchain in simple-to-understand language aimed at the common man. After all, a fundamental shift can only happen when everyone embraces this new technology.

Many nations, peoples and special interest groups believe that violence will advance their cause. Warfare has changed greatly since the Second World War; it continued to change during the late 20th century, and this process is still accelerating. Political, technological, social and religious forces are shaping the future of warfare, but most Western armed forces have yet to evolve significantly from the Cold War era when they trained to resist a conventional invasion by the Warsaw Pact.