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On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center. 

Dr. Henry Lodge provides the science. Chris Crowley provides the motivation. And through their New York Times best-selling program, you’ll discover how to put off 70 percent of the normal problems of aging - weakness, sore joints, bad balance - and eliminate 50 percent of serious illness and injury. Plus, prominent Neurologist Allan Hamilton now explains how following “Harry’s Rules” for diet, exercise, and staying emotionally connected directly affects your brain - all the way down to the cellular level.  

Nachdem Eric und seine beiden Schwestern den Kontakt zu Nea verloren haben, beginnt für sie eine gefährliche Odyssee. Sie werden von einer Gruppe Piraten als Geiseln genommen, die die umkämpfte Hafenwelt Sculpa Trax nach Beute plündern. Mehrere Syndikate und Piratenclans sind gerade dabei, den Planeten unter sich aufzuteilen, als klar wird, dass die Kinder weit wertvoller sind, als sie zunächst erscheinen. Die verschiedenen Parteien beginnen schnell, sich für Eric und seine Schwestern Salaya und Eynie zu interessieren.

In the distant future, Spaceways Incorporated detects a scarce and expensive mineral on a planet far beyond our galaxy. They send a well-trained crew on the spaceship Odyssey to mine the minerals; however, a major malfunction changes everything. The crew must escape the ship and head for the nearest planet. They find themselves marooned on a world that is millions of years younger than earth and have to fight for survival on the Planet of Dinosaurs.

Award-winning author and celebrated neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, MD, combines his understanding of the human brain with nearly 30 years' experience training horses to offer wisdom on such universal themes as leadership, motivation, ambition, and humility. The results are showcased in more than 100 thoughtful essays that treat working with horses as a metaphor for personal, professional, and spiritual growth.

Thirteen bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors are contained in this first of volume of a must-listen collection. 

What is dreaming, and what causes it? Why are dreams so strange, and why are they so hard to remember? Replacing dream mystique with modern dream science, J. Allan Hobson provides a new and increasingly complete picture of how dreaming is created by the brain. Focusing on dreaming to explain the mechanisms of sleep, this book explores how the new science of dreaming is affecting theories in psychoanalysis, and how it is helping our understanding of the causes of mental illness.

Murder comes in two familiar forms. Whether as a crime of passion with high emotions or a cold dispassionate plot to take life in order to gain in some way, the act strikes us all as somehow inhuman. Beneath us as civilised beings. But however we cloak our animal instincts the need to remove a human being and gain relief from abuse or gain from money, the term is just the same – MURDER. Robert Louis Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, J M Barrie, W W Jacobs and many others bring their literary heft to bear in as calculating a way as any killer could.

Im Auftrag der Zefren Company führt Nea Bergungsoperationen durch, die sie in die entlegensten Regionen der Galaxis führen. Bei ihrer aktuellen Mission trifft sie auf Iona. Die Scavengers. So nennt man die Banden von Glücksrittern und Abenteurern, die in den Hinterlassenschaften zahlreicher Kriege nach Schätzen und Geheimnissen suchen.

Beast Nea Diehl gehört zu den fähigsten Scouts, die für die Hafenbehörde auf der Welt Sculpa Trax arbeiten. Allerdings bewegt sie sich auch gerne jenseits der gesetzlichen Pfade. Die Mannschaft des Scavenger-Schiffes Rimmon, unter dem Kommando von Zeb Greenwood, gehört zu ihrem engeren Freundeskreis. Mit dieser Gruppe von Glücksrittern wagt sie sich auch diesmal auf einen abenteuerlichen und vielversprechenden Beutezug. Alles läuft bestens, bis sich Piraten und imperiale Truppen für ihre Schätze zu interessieren beginnen. Die Scavengers.

Dominic Porter und die Menschen, die mit ihm von der Erde geflohen sind, haben auf dem fernen Planeten Zeres Zuflucht gefunden. Was auf den ersten Blick wie ein friedliches Paradies wirkt – unberührte Natur, endlose Weiten, ein Neubeginn fern aller Zerstörung – entpuppt sich jedoch bald als trügerische Fassade. Denn unter der stillen Oberfläche dieses scheinbar perfekten Planeten lauern Geheimnisse, älter und dunkler, als es sich jemand vorstellen kann. Und schon bald erkennen die Überlebenden: Hier sind Mächte am Werk, die sie weder verstehen noch kontrollieren können.

Am Lagerfeuer oder in der kalten Winternacht wurden sie früher erzählt: Gruselgeschichten, von Generation zu Generation weitergetragen. Ein eigenes literarisches Genre entwickelte sich daraus, und weltberühmte Autoren betätigten sich auf diesem Feld. Hören Sie klassische Geschichten und Novellen, die sich mit den Themen Horror, Schauer und Grusel befassen, darunter: Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde, Der Sandmann, Der Vampyr von John Polidori, zahlreiche Geschichten von Edgar Allan Poe, Die Insel des Dr. Moreau von H.G.

In an extensive examination of this impassioned debate, Richard Breitman and Allan J. Lichtman find that the president was neither savior nor bystander. In FDR and the Jews, they draw upon many new primary sources to offer an intriguing portrait of a consummate politician - compassionate but also pragmatic - struggling with opposing priorities under perilous conditions.

As he traveled through and lived in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru, the newly re-named “Doctor” Alonzo found himself surrounded by indigenous peasant leaders and communities in raucous tribal celebrations, social movements for change, wonders of nature, and marvels of human kindness and romance while hitchhiking to the very tip of South America and its glaciers and penguins. But also sometimes unexpected dangers - near-death illness in the jungle, and getting shot at in a police-military crossfire.

A delightful collection of light-hearted classic stories from some of the greatest Victorian and Edwardian-era writers.

A stunning collection of the most significant short stories by some of the world's greatest writers. Each story packs a great tale into around 20 minutes of concise and evocative narrative. Perfect for the 20-minute commute, the jog around the block, or the bed-time wind down.

Produced by SonicMovie.net, SonicMovies are premium audios with strong vocal performances enhanced by music and sound effects to such an extent that they sound like movies. Included here are 13 SonicMovies from H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, and more.

Professor Allan J. Lichtman, who has correctly forecasted thirty years of presidential elections, makes the case for impeaching the 45th president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Impeachment will ’proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation...

Catch the Sky is the first in-depth look at the life of a police helicopter pilot. Kimball pulls no punches, unfolding his nail-biting personal story in enthralling detail. From death-defying rescues to stories both bizarre and humorous, Catch the Sky puts you inside the helicopter cockpit for a breathtaking ride you'll never forget.

Kimberly, a young, attractive 30-something, has just spent the last 16 years locked up for murdering and consuming a man who tried to attack her. Now that she is free, she soon finds old habits die hard.