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Immer wieder taucht er in Rebeccas Umgebung auf: der geheimnisvolle Junge Lucian, der keine Vergangenheit hat und keine Erinnerungen...

Sie lenken die Gedanken der Menschen aus dem Verborgenen und stürzen sie ins Unglück, Dämonen! Nur die Jäger können sie bezwingen. Dämonenjäger gelten als unmenschlich und brutal. Dennoch sind sie Godwanas einziger Schutz vor einem Feind, den normale Menschen nicht bekämpfen können. Wer als Dämonenjäger geboren wird hat keine Wahl, er muss seine Bestimmung erfüllen oder ist des Todes. So ergeht es auch der jungen Anjani. Weil sie ihre wahre Natur nicht ewig verbergen kann, entschließt sie sich schweren Herzens, ihre Familie zu verlassen und den Kampf aufzunehmen.

A True Story (Ancient Greek: Ἀληθῆ διηγήματα, Alēthē diēgēmata; Latin: Vera Historia or Latin: Verae Historiae), also translated as True History, is a long novella or short novel written in the second century AD by the Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.

From his agent's phone call offering him the role of Estragon, Lucian Msamati brings brilliantly to life the experience of co-starring with Ben Whishaw in James Macdonald's celebrated production of Waiting for Godot in London's West End. Through rehearsal room highs and lows, workaday laughs and tears, literal stumbles and grumbles, we journey with Lucian, his fellow actors and creatives, and Beckett's play, sharing in the personal and dramaturgical discoveries they make and the inevitable emotional contours of an experience as intense as this one.

Who are we, and how do we relate to each other? Luciano Floridi, one of the leading figures in contemporary philosophy, argues that the explosive developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is changing the answer to these fundamental human questions. As the boundaries between life online and offline break down, and we become seamlessly connected to each other and surrounded by smart, responsive objects, we are all becoming integrated into an "infosphere".

My guardian angel is a drunk. Evelyn Casey's life is at a standstill. She's in her mid-twenties, struggling with the dating scene in San Francisco. Nothing seems to be working out, and she's starting to think that she'll live out her days in her crummy apartment with her overbearing roommate, Brooklyn. It's absurd, but sometimes Evey longs for a guardian angel to show up and save the day. And then he does. Seriously.

Die Hochkultur der Zwerge ist untergegangen. Zurück blieben nur erbärmliche Kreaturen, die ihre Seelenpein mit Pilzbier zu betäuben versuchen. Den Sinn für die Wirklichkeit gänzlich verloren, kennen die Zwerge nur einen Schuldigen für den Untergang ihres Reiches: die Menschen! Bei einem Unfall wird der Zwerg Fargil vom Nachschub an Pilzbier abgeschnitten. Zwangsweise ausgenüchtert erkennt er den Verfall seines Volkes, und will ihm zu neuer Größe verhelfen. Aber auch unter den Menschen gibt es jene, die nicht hinnehmen wollen, ständig von den Zwergen bedroht zu werden.

In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud’s early childhood: Sigmund Freud’s grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into successive English public schools. Following Freud through art school, his time in the navy during the war, his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece, and his return to Soho - consorting with duchesses and violent criminals, out on the town with Greta Garbo and Princess Margaret - Feaver traces a brilliant, difficult young man’s coming of age.

We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey through the families that have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads.

Das Zeitalter der Elfen ist vorbei, ihr Inselkontinent für immer verloren. Beseelt von dem verderbten Wasser erheben sich dort bizarre und nach Blut gierende Bestien, die das Land scheinbar unbewohnbar machen. Gegen alle Wahrscheinlichkeit haben dort dennoch einige Elfen überlebt, im Bestreben ihre Zivilisation neu zu errichten. In diesem ewig währenden Überlebenskampf geraten Nemira und Enowir in dunkle Machenschaften, die angetan sind ihr Volk erneut ins Unheil zu stürzen. Ein erbarmungsloser Kampf um die Seele der Elfen entbrennt.

Lucian Marcello is aware of the expectations following him as the oldest son of one of North America's most infamous Cosa Nostra Dons. Family in his world is more than blood and sharing a last name. It's the honor, respect, business, and the life. Being a Capo is just a stepping stone until it's time for him to take on the role of underboss but a chance meeting with her could be the one thing he'd risk it all for.

Tarile si natiunile sunt diferite. Asemanatoare si diferite. România intra si ea, fireste, în acest joc al asemanarilor si deosebirilor. Nu cumva este totusi si mai diferita? Cu alte cuvinte, nu se situeaza oare mai "excentric", sub tot felul de aspecte, în raport cu ceea ce ar fi o medie sau o relativa normalitate europeana? Modul extravagant în care s-a derulat psihodrama politica din vara anului 2012 a lasat impresia ca tara e defecta.

The second half of William Feaver's Baillie Gifford Prize-shortlisted work of biography: the definitive story of the epic life of one of the 20th century's most important artists. William Feaver, Lucian Freud’s collaborator, curator and close friend, knew the unknowable artist better than most. Over many years, Freud narrated to him the story of his life, ‘our novel’. Fame follows Freud at the height of his powers, painting the most iconic works of his career in a constant and dissatisfied pursuit of perfection, just outrunning his gambling debts and tailor’s bills.

In February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a bloody escalation of a conflict that had begun eight years earlier. What drove Vladimir Putin to launch Europe's largest land war since World War II? Putin's Revenge features insight from Lucian Kim's first-hand reporting on key moments, such as Russia's occupation of Crimea and the beginning of the Russian-backed insurgency in eastern Ukraine. This book tells the story of the lead-up to the invasion with revelatory detail and fresh analysis, shedding new light on a conflict that has roiled the post–Cold War order.

Seit einiger Zeit schläft Sheriff Lucian Wing im Büro. Seine Frau hat ihn rausgeschmissen. Doch einem Sheriff, der seine häuslichen Probleme nicht im Griff hat, vertrauen die Wähler nicht. Und schon gar nicht der neue Vorsitzende: ein Ehrgeizling von außerhalb, der keine Nerven hat für Wings Methode der Geduld. Mehrfach sind junge Rowdys in seltsame Unfälle verwickelt; bei der Vernehmung später sind sie auffällig wortkarg und verlassen kurz darauf die Gegend.

Alpha bear shifter Aspen was ready to begin his new life in the big city. He has a job lined up, a lease signed, and his truck packed. All he has left is to get there. Too bad that’s easier said than done, because his truck picked the middle of nowhere to break down—alongside a bear den’s land of all places. When Aspen seeks permission to spend the night, he plans to keep his head down and just mind his own business and he does, until he hears the scream that changes everything.

Orphaned at birth, Oliver Twist is born into the grimmest of 19th century English workhouses with a life of grinding poverty ahead of him. But the boy is a fighter and after being evicted from the workhouse for asking for 'more' and surviving a stint as an undertaker’s assistant, he walks many miles to London and finds a whole new life with a gang of young pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger and their guardian Fagin.

The Bell vibrated with a low, guttural tone—too deep for the ear, but heavy in the ribs. It wasn’t ringing. It was gathering. Calloway turned as Graves and Thorne crossed the threshold. Her eyes didn’t show fear—just fatigue sharpened by defiance. Calloway (dryly): Took you long enough. Graves (already at her wrists): Traffic was hell. Her shackles were lined with symbols—sacramental, but wrong. Graves worked the lock with a practiced flick. Thorne: We stopping a ritual or robbing a bank? Graves: With these bastards, it’s the same thing. Click.

De câte ori nu am auzit spunându-se despre un agent de vânzări că are succes pentru că este "dotat de la natură"? Dar nimeni nu spune despre un doctor sau un inginer că s-a născut înzestrat de la natură. Pentru că ştim cu toţii că aceste meserii se deprind în urma unui studiu sistematic. Tot astfel, activitatea de agent de vânzări este o ştiinţă ce se poate învăţa ca oricare alta. Allan Pease, cel mai cunoscut expert din lume în limbajul trupului, ne prezintă tehnicile uluitoare prin care puteţi avea succes ca agent de vânzări.

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