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Dr. Oliver Sacks's books Awakenings, An Anthropologist on Mars and the best-selling The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat have been acclaimed for their compassion in the treatment of patients affected with profound disorders. In A Leg to Stand On, it is Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey.

In einem entvölkerten Amerika versucht eine Handvoll Überlebender die Zivilisation zu retten. Ihr Gegenspieler ist eine mythische Gestalt, die man den Dunklen Mann nennt, die Verkörperung des absolut Bösen. In der Wüste von Nevada kommt es zum Entscheidungskampf um das Schicksal der Menschheit.

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of...

I’m Zee Kennedy. Quiet. Reserved. Predictable. When my brother died, everyone thought I was just the good guy who stepped up to take his place in the band. No one knew what I was hiding. The one thing I’ve been fighting for. For six years, I’ve never lost focus. Not until one chance encounter with Alexis Kensington. Now she’s become my greatest temptation. I knew better than to touch her, but now that I’ve had a taste, I can’t get enough. Her kiss becomes my air. Her body my salvation. She needed a savior and somehow she became mine.

Gracie Reed is doing just fine. Sure, she was fired by her overly “friendly” boss, and yes, she still hasn’t gotten her mother into the nursing home of their dreams, but she’s healthy, she’s (somewhat) happy, and she’s (mostly) holding it all together. But when a mysterious SUV pulls up beside her, revealing Chinese cinema's golden couple Wei Fangli and Sam Yao, Gracie’s world is turned on its head. The famous actress has a proposition: Due to their uncanny resemblance, Fangli wants Gracie to be her stand-in.

Mein Herz setzte einen Schlag aus, als ich stehen blieb und mich ihm zuwandte. Vor einigen Jahren änderte sich ihr Leben schlagartig, als ihr Vater Schulden anhäufte und ihre Eltern sie und ihre Schwester allein lassen mussten. Shin-Hye traf die Entscheidung, ein Idol zu werden, um ihre Familie wieder zu vereinen, ohne zu ahnen, dass sie Sun-Ho begegnen würde. Mit seiner einnehmenden Ausstrahlung scheint das Chaos vorprogrammiert. Denn Liebe und Gefühle existieren für das Entertainment nicht.

Als Kailyn an ihrem ersten Tag im College ihrem damaligen Teenie-Schwarm, dem Schauspieler Daxton Hughes, buchstäblich in den Schoß fällt, wird daraus schnell tiefe Freundschaft. Doch mit Dax' Verrat hatte sie am Ende nicht gerechnet ... Als er sie acht Jahre später um Hilfe bittet, will sie ihn mit seinen Problemen nicht allein lassen. Schnell ist das Knistern zwischen ihnen beiden so heiß wie nie zuvor. Aber kann Kailyn einem Mann, der gebrochene Herzen quasi garantiert, je wieder vertrauen?

The mysterious enemy has come, and Tyler Barron and his allies prepare for the final battle, the desperate struggle to save the Rim. Barron’s spacers are ready to fight, as always, but this time they know little of the enemy, and they face technology far beyond their own. They will fight to the end if necessary, battle with their final breaths to hold back the deadly enemy. They will stand alongside their old enemies, the Hegemony, united for one massive battle, one all out effort to stop the Highborn.

If you're not daring to believe God for the impossible, you may be sleeping through some of the best parts of your Christian Life. “This book is not a Snuggie. The words on these pages will not go down like Ambien. I’m not writing to calm or coddle you. With God’s help, I intend to...