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Auf Quintus Fixlein lastet ein Fluch – sein 32. Lebensjahr soll sein letztes sein. Aber weil er sein genaues Alter nicht kennt, genießt der Leipziger Lehrer sein Leben. Er erbt viel Geld, steigt beruflich auf, findet eine Braut und wird schließlich sogar Pfarrer. Doch dann schlägt das Schicksal zu... Jean Paul gilt als der wildeste und witzigste Erzähler der Goethezeit. Sein gesamtes Werk steht für eine poetische Freiheit, die keine Werte und Normen propagiert, sondern vielmehr das Gegensätzliche liebt.

Dieses ist die überaus witzig geschriebene Lebensgeschichte des Gymnasiallehrers Egidius Zebedäus Fixlein...

In The Fix, McQuade draws on her decades of experience as a federal prosecutor to reveal how systems of organized crime and political opportunism exploit the levers of power—using corruption, cruelty, and chaos as tools to dominate institutions and eliminate accountability. With clarity...

Eleven years ago, Cami Cortlandt’s mother and sister died cruelly in a violent home invasion. The trauma and notoriety still linger, but Cami has managed to build a life in her hometown despite everything she’s lost. Then one day it all comes rushing back. A distorted voice on the phone: Would you like a do-over? A disturbing video of a room with bars on the window, trapping a young boy inside who looks achingly, impossibly familiar. Four days to find him.

Amos Decker, David Baldacci's unique special agent, who suffered a head injury that resulted in giving him the gift of a remarkable memory, takes on another case in The Fix. Walter Dabney is a family man. A loving husband and the father of four grown daughters, he’s built a life many would be...

Why his boss at Torus Intercession chose him to figure out who may, or may not, be trying to kill Benjamin Grace, is beyond Shaw James. Protecting a paranormal investigator from whoever—or whatever—may be trying to kill him is completely out of Shaw's wheelhouse, and how is he supposed to help find an attacker when the guy he's sent to protect maintains that the threat is ghostly in origin? It's insane, and Shaw does not do insane. Benjamin Grace is going to be a problem. But Benji is nothing at all like Shaw imagined he'd be, and the fixer is spellbound from their first meeting.

On the way home from school in 1986, Craig Pelling decided to buy a can of Coke. He wasn’t to know a seemingly innocuous visit to the local newsagent would dramatically change the course of his life. Fast forward to his forties, Craig finds himself trapped in a loveless marriage, earning a...