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Mr. Thomas Bennet's untimely death brings not only grief to Longbourn—but, with it, the weight of uncertainty. The estate, entailed away from the female line, now faces a legal challenge from Mr. Collins, a cousin as odious as he is ambitious. But Longbourn has never been a house of ordinary women. With the quiet strength of their grandfather's guidance, the five Bennet sisters step forward—not as ornaments of society, but as defenders of their legacy.

Alles könnte so schön sein auf Floribunda, wo Bendix Brodersen seit Kurzem dabei hilft, das größte Geheimnis der Menschheit zu hüten. Doch dann dümpelt eines Tages plötzlich eine Yacht vor der Nachbarinsel Guano im Meer. Touristen! Ein Plan muss her, um die Eindringlinge wieder zu vertreiben. Bevor diese herausfinden, welche außergewöhnliche Tierart die Insel seit Millionen von Jahren beherbergt.

An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author's own diagnosis.

When Ellie Kent moves to an English village with her new husband Graham, she fears the villagers will always see her at that young American who snared their attractive vicar during his sabbatical in California. But this challenge is nothing compared to what happens when she stumbles across a body in the churchyard. The villagers insist they don't know the murdered man, so suspicion mounts that the killer must be the incomer - the vicar's new wife. As evidence piles up against her, Ellie tries to stay one step ahead of the police to unravel a decades-old literary mystery and love story.

Alice Roberts uses the latest research to uncover the evolutionary history hidden in all of us, from the secrets found only in our embryos and genes - including why as embryos we have what look like gills - to those visible in your anatomy. This is a tale of discovery, exploring why and how we have developed as we have. This is your story, told as never before.

Die epische Endzeitreihe mit Suchtfaktor geht in die nächste Runde. Der Kampf von Mensch gegen Natur wird noch spannender, noch dramatischer, noch nervenaufreibender! Terras Naturkatastrophen stürzen die Welt immer mehr ins Chaos. Krieg und Zerstörung sind die Folgen. Mitten im australischen Outback bekommt Liam nur wenig davon mit.

Der Priesterdetektiv Pater Brown wird von Scotland Yard beauftragt, einen mysteriösen Fall zu lösen, bei dem sein Glaubensbruder Gabriel verschwunden ist. Da Pater Brown in dieser Angelegenheit persönlich involviert ist und ihm der nötige Weitblick fehlt, bittet er Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson um Unterstützung. Gemeinsam durchsuchen die Drei die Klosterzelle von Bruder Gabriel und entdecken dabei einen Hohlraum im Boden.

Nachdem Pater Brown, Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson in Bruder Gabriels Klosterzelle wichtige Unterlagen zu seiner Pflanzenforschung sichergestellt haben, stoßen sie in seinem Chemielabor auf einen entscheidenden Hinweis auf die mittelalterlichen Ruinen im Epping Forest. Schnell machen sie sich auf den Weg dorthin, da sie befürchten, dass Bruder Gabriel dort einem lebensbedrohlichen pflanzlichen Experiment unterzogen wird.

Il y a toujours deux versions d'une même histoire... Anna Andrews s'était juré de ne plus jamais remettre les pieds à Blackdown, ce village où elle a grandi et vécu un cauchemar qu'elle n'est pas près d'oublier. Pourtant, c'est précisément à Blackdown qu'on retrouve une femme sauvagement assassinée. Anna, correspondante pour la BBC, n'a d'autre choix que se rendre sur place pour couvrir l'affaire... Elle est sous le choc en découvrant l'identité de la victime : il s'agit d'une de ses amies d'adolescence.

Per Vani le parole sono importanti. Nel modo in cui una persona le sceglie o le usa, Vani sa leggere abitudini, indole, manie. E sa imitarlo. Infatti Vani è una ghostwriter: riempie le pagine bianche di scrittori di ogni genere con storie, articoli, saggi che sembrino scaturiti dalla loro penna. Una capacità innata che le ha permesso di affermarsi nel mondo dell'editoria, non senza un debito di gratitudine nei confronti dell'uomo che, per primo, ha intuito la sua bravura: Enrico Fuschi, il suo capo.

How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter provides a guide for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. A much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it.

A dark and twisted story about a sleepy town with a dark secret--and the three kids brave enough to uncover it. Perfect for fans of Stranger Things. Every thirteen years in the town of Eden Eld, three thirteen-year-olds disappear. Eleanor has just moved to the quiet, prosperous Eden Eld. When...

Read by the author, Alice Loxton. Biggest books to look out for in 2024 – The Guardian 'Loxton is the next big thing in history' – Dan Snow At eighteen, your life is full of of what-ifs and why-nots. You have everything to look forward to – unless you’ve got the plague. From a young...

Homme ou femme, jeune ou vieux, salarié ou retraité... ils sont cinq à franchir le pas de la petite bibliothèque tenue par Sayuri Komachi en plein coeur de Tokyo. Leur point commun: ils sont au croisement de leur vie. A chacun Sayuri Komachi, énigmatique bibliothécaire attentive aux autres, proposera un ouvrage totalement inattendu, bien loin de celui qu'ils croyaient être venus chercher.

In The Anxiety Toolkit, Dr. Alice Boyes translates powerful, evidence-based tools used in therapy clinics into tips and tricks you can employ in everyday life. Whether you have an anxiety disorder, or are just anxiety-prone by nature, you'll discover how anxiety works, strategies to help you cope with common anxiety "stuck" points and a confidence that - anxious or not - you have all the tools you need to succeed in life and work.

Foreword by Kim Kardashian West The true-life story of the woman whose life sentence for non-violent drug trafficking was commuted by President Donald Trump thanks to the efforts of Kim Kardashian West—an inspiring memoir of faith, hope, mercy, and gratitude. How do you hold on to hope after...

After a drunken night of hot sex in Vegas, strangers Will Patterson and Dr. Patrick McCloud wake up married. A quickie divorce is the most obvious way out - unless you’re the heir of a staunchly Catholic mafia boss with a draconian position on the sanctity of marriage. Throw their simmering attraction into the mix and all bets are off!

Une jeune Anglaise, Alexis, ignore tout de l'histoire de sa famille maternelle, tant sa mère, Sophia, fait peser sur le passé une chape de plomb qui empoisonne leurs relations. Pour dénouer ce nœud obscur, Alexis décide de se rendre dans le village natal de Sophia, en Crète. Et découvre que juste en face se trouve Spinalonga, l'île où l'on déportait les lépreux. Quand elle apprend que son arrière-grand-mère y serait morte, elle décide d'élucider tous ces mystères.

Certains étés vous marquent à jamais... Comme chaque été, Belly, sa mère et son frère passent les vacances chez Susannah et ses deux fils, Conrad et Jeremiah. Belly connaît les deux garçons depuis longtemps et est, depuis toujours, attirée par le ténébreux Conrad, même s'il semble indifférent à ses attentes. Sous le soleil éclatant, les nuages pointent à l'horizon : Belly tente d'oublier Conrad comme elle peut, tandis que Jeremiah lui annonce qu'il l'aime.

The Haunting of Hill House meets Knives Out in a bid for an inheritance that will leave Helen Vaughan either rich...or dead. Helen Vaughan doesn't know why she and her mother left their ancestral home at Harrowstone Hall, called Harrow, or why they haven't spoken to their extended family since...