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It is 1958, and 17-year-old Landon is revelling in his youth: dating girls and even claiming to have been in love. He is a world apart from shy, reclusive Jamie Sullivan, a Baptist's daughter who carries a Bible with her schoolbooks, cares for her widowed father and volunteers at the orphanage. But fate will intervene. Forced to partner up at the school dance, Landon and Jamie embark on a journey of earth-shattering love and agonising loss far beyond their years. In the months that follow, Landon discovers the true depths of the human heart....

Hurra, die Schule geht los! Doch Direktor Alberich freut sich ganz und gar nicht. In den Ferien sind zwei Lehrer krank geworden und es gibt niemanden, der für sie einspringen könnte. Oder? Er bittet Mäusepilotin Mathilda um Hilfe. Wird es den beiden gelingen, bis zum Schulbeginn für Ersatz zu sorgen?

Production is a lively cultural process with its own rules and structures. In order to understand production correctly, it must be learned and experienced. Not in the lecture hall - but on the shop floor! Like every other discipline, production, too, is a field of enterprise with its own rules and structures comparable with a kitchen. A top cook learns the hard craft over several years, despite the fact that the taste is not of the same quality for every cook. And that is how it is, too, with production.

Whether it’s your first job in Japan or a plan for career transition, working in the recruitment industry can be extremely rewarding, fun, and lucrative. This guide will walk you through the ins and outs of the Japanese recruitment landscape, provide actionable tips, and set you up for success throughout the entire interview process.

Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey.

A fictional portrayal of an aging revolutionary, this novel is a powerful commentary on the nightmare politics of the troubled 20th century. Born in Hungary in 1905, a defector from the Communist Party in 1938, and then arrested in both Spain and France for his political views, Arthur Koestler writes from a wealth of personal experience.

In this fourth volume, Roland, Eddie, Susannah, and Jake survive Blaine the Mono's final crash, only to find themselves stranded in an alternate version of Topeka, Kansas, one that has been ravaged by the superflu virus. While following the deserted I-70 toward a distant glass palace, Roland recounts a story about a seaside town called Hambry, where he fell in love with a girl named Susan Delgado, and where he and his old tet-mates Alain and Cuthbert battled the forces of John Farson.

Seit der Antike haben sich Menschen immer wieder die Frage nach dem guten Leben gestellt: Wie soll ich leben? Was macht ein gutes Leben aus? Welche Rolle spielt das Schicksal? Welche Rolle spielt das Geld? Ist das gute Leben eine Sache der Einstellung oder geht es vielmehr um das Erreichen von Lebenszielen? Ist es besser, nach Glück zu streben oder Unglück zu umschiffen? Jede Generation stellt sich diese Fragen neu. Die Antworten sind im Grunde stets enttäuschend. Warum?

How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people imagine.

It is 1942, and World War II is raging. In the months since Pearl Harbor, the US has plunged into the war overseas—and on the home front, it has locked up tens of thousands of innocent Japanese Americans in concentration camps, tearing them from their homes on the West Coast with the ostensible goal of neutralizing a supposed internal threat. At each of these camps the government places a white lawyer with contradictory instructions: provide legal counsel to the prisoners, and keep the place running.

The Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the fifth century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing. Joined here are the sheer drama of Herodotus' narrative of the Persian invasions of Greece, and the endless curiosity - turning now to cannabis, now to the Pyramids - which make his book the source of so much of our knowledge of the ancient world.

A loving shepherd cares for his flock of sheep and goats. Woolly, the lamb, is sweet and beloved, while Felon, the goat, is mean and wicked. When the trusting lamb is misled by the cunning goat, the devoted shepherd Emmanuel leaves his flock in search of him. In the end, Woolly learns two important lessons. This gentle parable imparts powerful principles and lifelong, moral lessons. It helps children grasp and understand how easily one can be influenced and be led astray.

Christian Morgenstern ist ein Meister des Sprachspiels und der Spaß-Lyrik. Die vorliegende Auswahl umfaßt Klassiker wie "Das Nasobém", "Das große Lalula" oder "Die beiden Esel"...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The American Story and How to Lead and host of PBS’s History with David Rubenstein—David Rubenstein interviews living American presidents and top historians and journalists who reflect on the US presidency, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Maggie Haberman, Ron Chernow, and more.

Born on the mean streets of Boston, Vinnie Bruno learns a life of crime. The judge sent him to a juvenile detention center to teach him a lesson for a string of robberies. But instead of learning his lesson, Vinnie recruits his crew - the men who become his chosen family. Under cover of the perfect alibi, they break out at night to commit a range of thefts and sophisticated crimes. From the nefarious profits of these scores they build a cache of weapons and a significant stash of money.

In Jersey Boy Takes Flight, you are taken on an extraordinary journey through the life of a man whose adventure began as a child, growing up in a middle-class, blue-collar family in Newark, New Jersey. Discover the carefree escapades of a boy in the 1950s and early 60s, engaging in boy scouting, hunting, fishing, and his ultimate passion - baseball. Yet, these innocent exploits soon collided with a country in turmoil, a nation grappling with assassinations, race riots, voting rights protests, anti-war movements, the dawn of space exploration, and the ever-expanding conflict in Vietnam.

El Gusano Blanco viaja sobre un gigantesco iceberg llamado Yikith, el cual puede maniobrar como si se tratase de una nave. Desde su colosal ciudadela, el Gusano Blanco contempla los mares y asola grandes extensiones deshabitadas y yermas debido al frío insensato que produce su presencia. Sus víctimas son prolijamente congeladas, y ni siquiera exponiendo sus cadáveres al fuego se logra derretir el hielo antiguo que este dios abominable ha colocado en sus venas.

Don Paico, viejo vagabundo, ha engañado por años a campesinos de la zona con su historia de la mano pegada. Sin embago, el nuevo juez de la región, don Simón Antonio, consigue desenmascararlo.

Una vez más, Holmes irrumpe en casa del doctor Watson a horas intempestivas y sin avisar, para que lo acompañe a resolver un extraño caso. El fallecimiento del coronel Barclay, de los Royal Mallows. Ambos amigos se encuentran con la muerte de un respetado militar, felizmente casado, y sin móvil ni explicación aparente. Tras una discusión del matrimonio, cuando el servicio logró entrar en la habitación, el coronel yacía muerto en el suelo junto a su esposa, víctima de un desmayo.

Elena. Eine einzige Fehlentscheidung bedroht alles, was ich mir mühsam aufgebaut habe. Ich dachte, er würde mir aus Nettigkeit helfen, doch viel zu spät habe ich bemerkt, dass er dabei nur seinen eigenen Vorteil im Sinn hatte. Nun bin ich ihm ausgeliefert, und es gibt nichts, was ich dagegen tun kann. Mein Leben? Auf dem Abstellgleis. Doch dann taucht plötzlich er auf. Viel zu gutaussehend und seltsam interessiert an mir. Was soll ich nur tun? Ich kann ihm mein Geheimnis nicht verraten. Doch ich fühle mich von ihm angezogen.