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Niemand kennt meinen Namen. Ich bin Seventeen. Und weit mehr als eine Zahl. Hinter Ereignissen, die du kennst, stehen Killer, die du nicht kennst. Wenn die Diplomatie versagt, kommen wir zum Zug. Offiziell gibt es uns nicht, aber jede Regierung der Erde nimmt unsere Dienste in Anspruch. Wir retten die Welt, deinen Arsch. Seit hundert Jahren. Sechzehn Leute haben diesen Job vor mir gemacht. Ich bin 17. Der gefürchtetste Auftragskiller der Welt. Aber um der Beste zu sein, muss man die Besten schlagen. Mein nächstes Ziel ist 16, so wie mich eines Tages 18 töten wird.

Die gewaltsame Ermordung der Familie Primrose vor 17 Jahren schockierte die Nation. Sloane Abbot will für ihren Podcast den Fall noch einmal aufrollen und spürt den Gefängnispsychologen TK Phillips auf, der sich vehement für eine Berufung einsetzte, und überzeugt ihn, ihr zu helfen. Gemeinsam finden sie Beweise, die ein neues Licht auf die Primroses werfen - und darauf, wer ihren Tod gewollt haben könnte.

Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and no one knows this better than New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but what...

A childhood illness she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. A terrifying encounter on a remote path. A mismanaged labour in an understaffed hospital. Shocking, electric, unforgettable, this is the extraordinary memoir from Costa Novel-Award winner and Sunday Times best-selling author Maggie O'Farrell. It is a book to make you question yourself. What would you do if your life was in danger, and what would you stand to lose?   

It’s 1992. Like every other seventeen-year-old boy, Joe has one eye on his studies, the other on his social life – smoking, Britpop, girls. He’s looking ahead to a gap year full of travel and adventure before university when his teacher – attractive, mid-thirties – takes an interest in...

A tense, powerful thriller from the bestselling author of Six Four 1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet of the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the...

1985. Kazumasa Yuuki, a seasoned reporter at the North Kanto Times, runs a daily gauntlet against the power struggles and office politics that plague its newsroom. But when an air disaster of unprecedented scale occurs on the paper's doorstep, its staff are united by an unimaginable horror and a once-in-a-lifetime scoop.

Die Blamage, mit siebzehn noch das einzige ungeküsste Mädchen in der Abschlussklasse zu sein, ist etwas, das Sandy Cardington nicht einfach so hinnimmt. Mit dem First Kiss Project hat sie vor, diesen Status ein für alle Mal zu ändern. Während ihre Eltern außer Landes sind, lädt sie eine ganze Liste an qualifizierten Jungs zu ihrer Geburtstagsparty ein, womit das Projekt eigentlich ein Kinderspiel sein sollte. Allerdings hat sie nicht mit ihrem Bruder gerechnet, der Tage zuvor vom College nach Hause kommt und ihr einen Strich durch die Rechnung macht.

Madison Lansford and Shannon Fletcher met when they were ten years old. Madison—daughter of wealthy parents and Shannon, daughter of their live-in maid and cook—became fast friends, yet both knew their place in life. There was never a doubt that they would become lovers . . . there was also...

To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work - and what makes it fail - is crucial to understanding its long-term health and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it. 

The 17 chapters in this new course are based on classic presentations that reveal principles that, once applied, lead to success and life achievement. Once you have defined your definition of purpose, the other 16 principles will help you to reach goals that only a very small group of people will ever achieve. The choice is yours, and the time is now. This course takes you to the original source. What you are about to hear is the foundation of the natural, built-in success system in each of us.

The artifact we found on Vesta changed everything. Sure, we were able to patent the new technologies we managed to reverse engineer, and make a hefty sum. But we could never have anticipated where these discoveries would eventually lead. The board of directors still wants to see what we come back with, but those of us on the ship know that there's something far more significant than Hegemony credits out here. And we have to do it right by humanity.

Museums across Europe are being plundered by audacious thieves hunting ancient artifacts that CIA Agent Jacob Snow discovers are key to an enigmatic device – the Archimedes Sphere. Alongside gutsy archaeologist Jana Peters, he must outwit a shadowy tech magnate bent on chaos, uncover the hidden gears of history, and stop a scheme that could unhinge the globe's financial markets.

The victims have nothing in common. Different cities. Different methods. Different lives. The only link: each one was publicly shamed online before they died. A rude customer caught on camera. A parking lot bully. A woman who went viral for all the wrong reasons. FBI Behavioral Analyst Maya Castillo has profiled killers for a decade. But this case breaks every rule. The murders are too precise, too distributed, too fast. No single person could be responsible — and yet the pattern is undeniable. Then Maya finds the gap. Seventeen seconds of dead surveillance footage at every crime scene.

Running away from his family and second-language problems, Richard Young With-No-Chinese-Name finds refuge in his college darkroom and his friends. Like shutterbug ZZ. Like the seemingly unattainable Samantha. Like gung-ho Janice and laidback Jacqueline. And seventeen looks like a great age to...

Seventeen is a hitman, the best in the world, so-called because there were 16 before him, stretching back through the decades. Every government organisation in the world wants his services and every other high-level hitman has placed a target on his back. Because to be the best, you have to beat the best. When Seventeen is ordered to find and kill his predecessor, the hit goes wrong and hunter turns to hunted. An ultraviolent duel develops between two assassins at the height of their powers, but when they fight themselves to a standstill, the real target of the hit emerges.

Dive into Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William, a witty exploration of first love through the eyes of the charmingly naïve 17-year-old, William Sylvanus Baxter. Set in a quaint Midwestern town just before the onset of World War I, this delightful novel by Booth Tarkington masterfully blends humor with a nostalgic look at youth. Originally published as a series of sketches in the Metropolitan Magazine in 1914 and later compiled into a bestselling novel in 1916, Seventeen remains a timeless reflection on the follies and joys of young romance. (...

'A map for how feminism can move forward inclusively' (GRAZIA), featuring essays by writers including Brit Bennett, bestselling author of The Vanishing Half, and Afua Hirsch, bestselling author of Brit(ish) Black Lives Matter * Trans Rights * Sex Workers' Rights * Body Positivity * Disability...

SMOKIN' SEVENTEEN by Janet Evanovich featuring Stephanie Plum. Raves for Janet Evanovich's novels: 'Stephanie Plum in ass-kicking form...utterly delightful' (Cosmopolitan); 'A laugh-out-loud page turner' (Heat); 'Plum is not just a smart private eye but a heroine with a sense of humour' (Daily...

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