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Bestselling author Max Hastings offers a welcome re-evaluation of one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history—the Cuban Missile Crisis—providing a people-focused narrative that explores the attitudes and conduct of Russians, Cubans, Americans, and a terrified...

Avery's had her eye on her brother’s best friend for years. But when she finally gives in to her attraction to Henry, what was meant to be a fling might just turn into something more. Now, Avery and Henry's infamous back and forth might just pull them into uncharted territory... falling in love.

In Depression-era Chicago, private eye Nathan Heller is caught between the Mob and City Hall in a battle for control of the 1933 World’s Fair while he attempts to find a lovely actress’ missing brother. Along the way, Heller meets an array of famed heroes and villains from Eliot Ness to Al Capone, climaxing with the detective dangling off a beam of the Fair’s sky tower.

Eine mysteriöse Seuche befällt die Hauptstadt der Menschen auf Erdenheim und verbreitet Tod und Verfall. Der habgierige Fürst beschuldigt die Hortlinge in den Sümpfen und schickt ganze Generationen in einen verlogenen Krieg. Auf der Suche nach Rache kehrt der angebliche Deserteur Krayac in eine Welt zurück, in der sich die Reichen hinter hohen Mauern verstecken und die Schwermut sich unter der verarmten Bevölkerung ausbreitet. Doch bevor Krayac die Wahrheit über die Herkunft der Seuche erfährt, muss er sich einer Gilde todbringender Meuchelmörder stellen.

A “must-read” (Booklist) from Harvard Business School Professor and Codirector of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership: A guide to making better decisions, noticing important information in the world around you, and improving leadership skills. Imagine your advantage...

Tim ist 16, als er die gleichaltrige Lena unter Drogen auf einer Party vergewaltigt. Vier Jahre später wird er aus der Haft entlassen und soll ein neues Leben beginnen. Doch die Auswirkungen seiner Tat dauern an - und lassen weder ihn noch Lena los.

Worte sind Waffen: Wil Parke ist ein einfacher Zimmermann. Oder zumindest glaubt er das. Bis er auf einer Flughafentoilette in Portland von zwei Männern angegriffen wird. Sie behaupten, er sei der Schlüssel in einem geheimen Krieg, ein "Ausreißer", immun gegen die Kraft der Worte. Sie zwingen ihn mitzukommen in die Geisterstadt Broken Hill, deren gesamte Bevölkerung bei einem Chemieunfall vor zwei Jahren ausgelöscht wurde. Dort soll ein mächtiges Artefakt verborgen liegen, das den Krieg ein für alle Mal beenden könnte.

When his plane crash-lands in the Mexican desert, Walter Faber experiences the first of several remarkable coincidences that lead him almost unconsciously on a personal journey into his past. Faber is a truly dedicated technologist-engineer: he distrusts emotions and believes only in the calculable. Yet it is by a series of totally incalculable events that he encounters a lost friend, a former lover, and a daughter he has never known, until gradually he is caught in a tragedy of starkly classical horror.

Austin Romero: No one's fast enough to outrun grief. Trust me, I've tried. I ran away from the city and took a job as the lead detective back in my old home town of Blue Creek, New Hampshire. I expected to bump into past ghosts, but I never expected those ghosts to reopen old wounds. The biggest ghost of them all: Charlie Marsh. He was the man who had stolen my heart when we were teens, and who now couldn't even remember a single day we had spent together. Which makes it exceptionally awkward when he becomes my first client.

Mabel "Maybe" Willis died a virgin at the very young age of 24. She leaves behind her parents, Betty and Bruce, her brother, Evan, a laptop filled with one too many Jason Momoa memes, and a Kindle library with more books than one human being could ever finish in a lifetime. Cause of death: a text message. Okay. So, I didn't die. But I may as well have. One minute, I'm a woman trying to find her way in the world, and the next, I'm the sender of six of the most embarrassing text messages that have ever been sent in the history of time - or the cell phone. Whatever.

Caden Blackwood ist ein gefeierter Football-Star, das größte Arschloch des Planeten und leider mein Stiefbruder. Und ausgerechnet in seinem Wagen lande ich nach einer durchzechten College-Party, um mit ihm gemeinsam ins Strandhaus unserer Familie nach Malibu zu fahren.

From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For...

Lernen Sie die wichtigsten Wörter und Redewendungen für Alltags- und Reisesituationen in Schwedisch...

Here he is, husband and father, scruffy romantic, a shambolic scholar - a man adrift in the wake of his wife's sudden, accidental death. And there are his two sons who like him struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness, while the boys wander, savage and unsupervised. In this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, goad, protector, therapist, and babysitter.

Kaum jemand begegnet so vielen Berühmtheiten, wie ein Hotelier der Luxusklasse. Max Keller erzählt mit viel Humor, etwas Drama und einem Hauch von Selbstironie, von seinen vielen Begegnungen mit den Größen der High Society der 60er bis 90er Jahre. Geschichten aus Luxushotels in Hongkong, St. Moritz, Gstaad und nicht zuletzt Wien bieten einen Einblick in das aufregende Leben des ehemaligen Hoteldirektors Keller.

Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan. Cults prey...

The fully updated second box set in the #1 New York Times bestselling The Last Kids on Earth series, for every fan who wants to read them all! Join Jack, Quint, June, and Dirk on all their apocalyptic adventures with this follow-up to the Monster Box. Box includes: The Last Kids on Earth and the...

At an exclusive school somewhere outside of Arlington, Virginia, students aren’t taught history, geography, or mathematics—at least not in the usual ways. Instead, they are taught to persuade. Here the art of coercion has been raised to a science .Students harness the hidden power of...

You can't kill the dead! Like any good monster, the zombie has proven to be ever-evolving, monumentally mutable, and open to seemingly endless imaginative interpretations: the thralls of voodoo sorcerers, George Romero's living dead, societal symbols, dancing thrillers, viral victims, reanimated ramblers, video-gaming targets, post-apocalyptic permutations, shuffling sidekicks, literary mash-ups, the comedic, and, yes, even the romantic.

Zwei Brüder. Ein Podcast. Alltagsgeschichten, Meinungen und Gespräche zwischen Ernst und Chaos. Authentisch, ehrlich und manchmal herrlich ungeordnet.