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When building inspector Eric Vance dies in a workplace accident eighty stories above Chicago — killed by a pigeon, a frayed cable, and forty dollars' worth of budget cuts — he doesn't get the afterlife. He gets a job assignment.

Timothy Rolls never wanted to be a hero. He wanted a cup of tea, a quiet evening, and to get home safely. Instead, he got evidence. The kind that gets people killed. In a provincial town where a murderer walks free and reputation is everything, one small man stands between justice and a very convenient suicide. What saves him has nothing to do with courage, police, or luck — and everything to do with an orange he nearly didn't pick up.

„Ein Gläschen voll“ ist der Podcast für ehrliche Gespräche, spontane Gedanken und alles, was uns gerade beschäftigt. Wir (Leni und Lina) sind zwei beste Freundinnen, schenken uns ein Gläschen ein – mal Wein, mal Sekt, mal Aperitif oder Cocktail – und quatschen so lange, bis das Glas leer ist. Zwischen Alltag, Freundschaft, lustigen Geschichten und den kleinen und großen Themen des Lebens ist alles dabei. Ganz ungefiltert, entspannt und mit einem Gläschen voll in der Hand. Jeden letzten Donnerstag im Monat gibt es eine neue Folge. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/...

A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village, replete with Tudor houses and quaint cottages. In her writer's mind she pictures the sordid truth beyond the veneer, a seemingly laughable proposition - until the coming of the letters. Anonymous letters from a poisoned pen, sowing discord and defaming everybody from the Rector to the 'queen of the village' Miss Decima Asprey. Naturally, where there is venom in the air and dark secrets are threatening to come to light, the shadow of death is not far behind.

Travelling home from a European holiday, Iris Carr ends up alone at the station after a quarrel with her friends. Struck by a mysterious assailant and waking up just in time to board the train which will take her on her journey to London, things seem to be looking up after a chance meeting with the affable Miss Froy. But when Iris passes out and reawakens, Miss Froy is nowhere to be found. The other passengers deny any knowledge of her existence and as the train speeds across Europe, Iris spirals deeper and deeper into a strange conspiracy.

Tom Jones is considered one of the first prose works describable as a novel. The novel is divided into 18 smaller books. Tom Jones is a foundling discovered on the property of a very kind, wealthy landowner, Squire Allworthy. Tom grows into a vigorous and lusty, yet honest and kind-hearted, youth. He develops affection for his neighbor's daughter, Sophia Western. On one hand, their love reflects the romantic comedy genre popular in 18th-century Britain. However, Tom's status as a bastard causes Sophia's father and Allworthy to oppose their love; this criticism of class friction in society ...

He's watching me again. The dragonborn warrior—a stranger. What does he want from me? I search my memories, desperate to place that face… those dangerous eyes. But nothing comes. The councilors are losing patience. I'm running out of time. As the heiress to the Red Queen, I must name one of the clan leaders as my future husband. But all I can think about is him.

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“A fast-paced, twisty, delicious debut, The Lake Club explores long-buried secrets, burgeoning romance, and the gossip that fuels small towns and exclusive clubs." —KRISTY WOODSON HARVEY, New York Times bestselling author of Beach House Rules Two women in a wealthy lakeside suburb clash over...

They say mated dragonborns can hear each other. I never believed it. Not until I was trapped in an abandoned building, surrounded by flesh-eating monsters, terrified and alone. My body was failing, but my mind reached into the void, begging for someone to hear me. Then the door burst open. The...

Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own. When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies and souls in their care - and that of the galactic diaspora - are in danger.

Being a genius Medical school graduate and a sporty and active girl, Aliya dies suddenly in a car accident... only to find herself reborn in a completely different body in the middle of a half-ruined castle during Medieval times. While confused and dismayed, Aliya realizes she has been given a second chance in life - so she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work on restoring the castle and her new life.

James Hawthorne is cold, calculated, and twice my age, with a glare sharp enough to cut through steel. From the moment I become his assistant and challenge him, the war begins. He thrives on control, and I refuse to back down. Sparks ignite—clashing at first, but soon turning into something far more dangerous.

A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying popularity, with Ruth Scurr's recent reimagined "autobiography" of Aubrey, breathing new life into this classic for the next generation of readers. - Summary by Nicole Lee

Schon als Kind war Morgan wild. So wild wie das Meer, das gegen die Klippen donnert, auf denen ihr Zuhause ruht: Tintagel Castle. Dort wähnte sich Morgan seit jeher in Sicherheit. Doch dann wurde ihr Vater in den Krieg berufen, und kehrte nie wieder. Stattdessen kam Großkönig Pendragon nach Tintagel - und mit ihm Merlin, der Zauberer.

A young woman struggles to finish her PhD on stars and galaxies. Instead, she obsessively tracks the experience of her own body, listening to its functions and rhythms, finally locating in its patterns the beginning of illness and instability. As she discovers the precarity of her self, she begins to turn her attention to the distant orbits of her family members, each moving away from the familial system and each so different in their experiences, but somehow made similar in their shared history of illness and trauma, both political and personal.

Eingesperrt im Klassenzimmer. Matheklausur! Plötzlich dringt eine maskierte Person ins Klassenzimmer ein und diktiert mit geladener Pistole Aufgaben, die erbarmungslos die Geheimnisse aller an die Oberfläche zerren. Arroganz, Diebstähle, blinder Opportunismus, Lügen - hinter sorgsam gepflegten Fassaden tun sich persönliche Abgründe auf. Fiona ringt fassungslos mit ihrer Handlungsunfähigkeit, Mark verspürt Genugtuung, und Herr Filler schwankt zwischen Aggression und Passivität.

NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places there may be some accidental variation from the original text ... Listener be warned! Here is some more information about the genesis of the LibriVox Ulysses project. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)Still one of the most radical novels of the 20th Century, James Joyce's Ulysses is considered to have ushered in the era of the modern novel. Loosely based on Homer's Odyssey, the book follows Leopold ...

She keeps the roads honest, and the spirits on speaking terms. When wagons bog down, animals panic, or the Wilds turn hostile, caravan shaman Anya Stormbloom does what ledgers and swords cannot. She bargains with Air, Earth, Fire, Water, and Spirit. What should have been a routine run to Redstone turns into a gauntlet: shade-tainted paths, wildfire country, flooded crossings, and a market town on the brink. Each solution adds a line to her oath-ledger, and reveals a storm no shaman should face alone.

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