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Als Holmes an einem drückenden Sommertag mit seinen Bekannten auf Coney Island spazieren geht, hätte er nie vermutet, dass ihn der Fluch von Auburn noch einmal einholen würde. Der ermordete Bankier James Pullman hinterlässt seine attraktive Frau und zwei kleine Kinder, die sich offenbar alle gerne in dieser Affäre an Holmes wenden. Er ist sich bewusst, dass Lady Pullman ein Opfer all dieser Machenschaften ist, da sie offenbar über keinerlei Einzelheiten Bescheid wusste. Aber könnte sie auch Täterin sein? Denn, was hatte ihr Kutscher und Hausdiener im Gefängnis von Auburn zu suchen?

Sherlock Holmes wähnt sich selbst schon im sicheren Hafen eines wohlverdienten Feierabends, nachdem er bei Sergeant Travis vom New Yorker Polizei Dezernat erneut zur Lösung eines äußerst merkwürdigen Falles beigetragen hat. Doch als er es sich am späten Nachmittag im Museum vor Kandinskys „Rauchenden Schloten" bequem macht, bekommt er Besuch von einer neuen Bekannten. Für Lady Pullman ist der Mord an ihrem Ehemann, dem ehemaligen Bankier James Pullman noch längst nicht abgeschlossen und damit auch nicht ihr Interesse an Sherlock Holmes' Talenten.

Developed for women with busy schedules, discover a truly achievable daily routine to boost energy and motivation—and make you unstoppable.

Do you know someone who has an amazing ability to persuade people? That person might be a co-worker who always gets exactly what he or she wants from the company president. Or a salesperson who inevitably seems to land all the new accounts. Or neighbors who never have the slightest difficulty with their kids. We've all encountered someone who can convince and persuade others, almost by magic. But it isn't magic. It's a skill you can learn, an acquired ability that Roger Dawson calls Power Persuasion.

Professionals and entrepreneurs do a great job of keeping up appearances. But if they're honest with themselves, they're short on living the life they really want. Train Your Brain for Success provides the perspective to analyze how you got where you are and, more importantly, learn the skills to get where you truly desire to be. Train Your Brain for Success explains specific ways of thinking and acting that will get anyone where they want to go, fast.

Der Sinn des Lebens: Herr Spessa schaut sich während der Fussball-WM gemeinsam mit Freunden Spiele an. Seine Frau fand das bis anhin nicht toll, doch diesmal ist sie regelrecht begeistert. Herr Spessa befürchtet deshalb, dass seine Frau einen Liebhaber hat. Falsche Polizisten: Der Vater von Maloneys Klient wird beinahe das Opfer von Trickbetrügern. Ein falscher Polizist fragte nach Bargeld in der Wohnung und erklärte dem alten Mann, dass das Geld nicht sicher sei. Maloney soll den falschen Polizisten ausfindig machen.

Return to the world of the Wingfeather Saga (more than one million copies sold!) with Andrew Peterson and his all-star author friends. Immerse yourself in a land of bomnubbles and quarreling cousins, sea dragons and book publishers, thieves and Fangs and secret maps. Here within these pages lie...

Twenty-six-year-old Lieutenant Commander Jacob Miller is now on his second combat tour in the Western Pacific. He's survived the Battle of Midway and been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. But now the war is grinding away at him. And another bloody battle is always just around the corner.... Commander Warren Troost is determined to prove himself worthy of his family's outstanding naval legacy. He's already earned a Navy Cross for his bravery at Pearl Harbor, but now he has to do all he can just to stay alive....

Mr Funny's car is a shoe! It looks very funny when he drives to the zoo. But can he cheer up the animals? Mr Dizzy always gets things confused, until one day he happens upon a wishing well... Mr Bump tries his hand at many jobs, but keeps getting fired! Will he ever bump into one that's suitable...

Across the worlds of Shadow, Corwin, Prince of blood royal, heir to the throne of Amber, gathers his forces for an assault that will yield up to him the crown that is rightfully his. But, a growing darkness of his own doing threatens Corwin's plans, an evil that stretches to the heart of the perfect kingdom itself where the demonic forces of Chaos mass to annihilate Amber and all who would rule there.

Treacheries, trickeries, assassination attempts and bloody family intrigues have finally maneuvered Merlin, aka Merle Corey, into the Courts of Chaos. Thanks to a series of conventionally fatal "accidents" engineered by his mother Dara and uncle Mandor, Merlin third in line to occupy the throne.

Üble Sachen: In diesen drei Fällen hat es Philip Maloney mit fragwürdigen Damen und dreisten Gesellen zu tun – wobei Bomben eine besondere Rolle spielen: Zur Verunsicherung, Bedrohung bis hin zur Erpressung, aber auch bei einem Unfall, der vielleicht kein Unfall war. Zwielichtige Akteure sind Protagonisten, welche das nicht unberechtigte Gefühl haben, schlauer als die Polizei zu sein – aber den genialen und noch schlaueren Privatdetektiv nicht auf dem Radar hatten.

We are familiar with the medical opinion that a daily glass of wine is good for the health and also the rival opinion that any more than a glass or two will set us on the road to ruin. Whether or not good for the body, Scruton argues, wine, drunk in the right frame of mind, is definitely good for the soul. And there is no better accompaniment to wine than philosophy. By thinking with wine, you can learn not only to drink in thoughts but to think in draughts.

In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today’s fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive - and to understand what we are - is to acknowledge the reality of sacred things.

Privatdetektiv Philip Maloney ermittelt mit Charme, Schalk und unverkennbarer Raubeinigkeit. Seine Fälle werden ihm von seinen Klienten zugetragen und beginnen harmlos, doch stößt Maloney im Laufe der Ermittlungen meistens auf eine Leiche. Widerwillig muss er mit der Polizei zusammenarbeiten. Der zuständige Beamte ist nicht der Hellste und löst lieber Kreuzworträtsel als Kriminalfälle. Am Ende klärt immer Maloney den Fall.

Privatdetektiv Philip Maloney ermittelt mit Charme, Schalk und unverkennbarer Raubeinigkeit. Seine Fälle werden ihm von seinen Klienten zugetragen und beginnen harmlos, doch stößt Maloney im Laufe der Ermittlungen meistens auf eine Leiche. Widerwillig muss er mit der Polizei zusammenarbeiten. Der zuständige Beamte ist nicht der Hellste und löst lieber Kreuzworträtsel als Kriminalfälle. Am Ende klärt immer Maloney den Fall.

Per migliaia di anni, i piu grandi guaritori himalayani hanno affinato una potente scienza di guarigione dedicata alle malattie fisiche, ai disturbi psicologici e alle sfide spirituali. I metodi di guarigione naturale piu efficaci sono stati trascritti su antiche pergamene. Ora, in questo rivoluzionario resoconto di vita vissuta, molti di questi segreti di guarigione sono rivelati dagli incontri dell'autore con il leggendario maestro guaritore dottor Naram.

“One thing in particular the high priest wants to make you aware of, no one has ever gotten out of our secret society alive. You and I were brought into it by the special workings of the spirit, and we are to be in subjection to them, not they to us.” With these words Roger’s friend tried to convince him to remain within the camp of the prince of darkness—but Roger had caught a glimmer of Light and was determined to learn more.

In this third and final volume of the Corellian trilogy, Han and Luke lead the Alliance in a mad scramble against the Selonian rebels for control of the planetary technology. When a loyalist ship approaching Selonia is blasted out of space, Han Solo quickly realizes that rebel forces are...

The Underdark: Beneath the surface of Faern lies a whole different world. A world of drow, deep gnomes, and other denizens of the dark. A world of cities like Menzoberranzan and Skullport, of warriors and rogues like Drizzt Do'Urden and Liriel Baenre and numerous others. Leave the security of the surface world and seek out the darkness that lies below. Welcome to the Realms of the Underdark.