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The killer left a body posed like a confession. And an invitation with his name on it.Detective Evan Rourke has spent three years learning to live with the one moment he hesitated. Now a disgraced neuroscientist is dead in a locked penthouse, arranged too perfectly — and every piece of...

Die Ballsaison ist eröffnet! England, 1809. Die junge Frances und ihre Freundinnen Prudence und Rose können es gar nicht erwarten, ihre erste Ballsaison zu besuchen. Gemeinsam fiebern sie Londons schier unzähligen Vergnügungen rund um die Debütantinnenbälle entgegen. Doch ihre Freundschaft wird auf die Probe gestellt, als Frances versucht, den begehrtesten Junggesellen der Saison auf sich aufmerksam zu machen. Dabei wollte Prudence ihn erobern - und Frances hat eigentlich ganz andere Vorstellungen von ihrem Leben und der Liebe.

Brought to you by Penguin. Celebrate a decade of Critical Role with this anthology featuring the perspectives of ten characters who fought alongside – and against – Vox Machina, with a foreword by cast member Liam O’Brien. In these ten stories, see the legendary adventuring party anew...

Lords, Ladys und die große Liebe. London, 1807: Als die theaterbegeisterte Emma in eine Notlage gerät, muss sie sich von Lady Darlington als Gesellschafterin anstellen lassen. Die Lady will ihre Tochter Anthea mit dem reichen Nachbarn Mr Livingston verheiraten - ausgerechnet mit Emmas Hilfe. Leider scheint sich Anthea mehr für den berüchtigten Dandy Ambrose Beauchamp zu interessieren als für den Nachbarn. Geschickt versucht Emma daher mit einem Theaterstück der Liebe auf die Sprünge zu helfen.

Wie arbeitet ein Hirnchirurg? Wie fühlt es sich an, in das Organ zu schneiden, mit dem Menschen denken und träumen? Wie geht man damit um, wenn das Leben eines Patienten von der eigenen Heilkunst abhängt? Und wie, wenn man scheitert? Mehr noch als in anderen Bereichen der Medizin ist es in der Hirnchirurgie so gut wie unmöglich, nie einem Patienten zu schaden, denn Operationen am Innersten des Menschen sind immer mit unkalkulierbaren Risiken verbunden. Man kann die Arbeit von Hirnchirurgen mit dem "Entschärfen einer Bombe" vergleichen.

A collection of the BBC’s dramatisations of Ngaio Marsh’s most famous sleuth: Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn. Includes 'A Man Lay Dead', 'A Surfeit of Lampreys', 'Opening Night' and 'When in Rome'.

Peanut butter and chocolate. Cheese and wine. Sex and rock n' roll. History is full of great pairings. Get ready for your new favorite: Lesbians and Space! Join a host of intrepid explorers heading to the outer reaches of the galaxy, exploring planets, space stations, strange new worlds and interesting aliens. Launch into stories that span the cosmos, covering Space Opera, Xenobiology, Space Stations, Adventure, and Spaceships!

Griechische Mythologie mit neuem Twist in tollem Venedig-Setting! Eigentlich hat Ava gelernt, ihre Wut im Zaum zu halten. Doch nun ist sie doch explodiert, und ihr Widersacher ist plötzlich wie versteinert! Als ihre Mutter davon erfährt, ist der Fall klar: Ava muss auf die Accademia del Forte, ein besonderes Internat In Venedig – und ihr Bruder Jax kommt gleich mit. Eine aufregende neue Welt tut sich auf: Ava lernt, dass auch die gruseligen Monster der griechischen Mythologie Nachkommen haben. Sie selbst stammt von Medusa ab! Mit den anderen Nachfahren soll sie lernen, ihre Kräfte zu kontrollieren.

On a cold February night, the police find the third corpse on the quayside in the Pool of London, her body covered with flower petals and pearls. The killer walked away singing. When the cargo ship Cape Farewell sets sail, she carries nine passengers, one of whom is known to be the murderer. Which is why Superintendent Roderick Alleyn joins the ship at Portsmouth on the most difficult assignment of his professional career....

Stanley Kubrick, the director of a string of timeless movies from Lolita and Dr. Strangelove to A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, and others, has always been depicted by the media as the Howard Hughes of filmmakers, a weird artist obsessed with his work and privacy to the point of madness. But who was he really?

The April Fool’s Day had been a roaring success for all, it seemed - except for poor Mr. Cartell, who had ended up in the ditch - forever. Then there was the case of Mr. Percival Pyke Period’s letter of condolence, sent before the body was found - not to mention the family squabbles. It was a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn.

Wealthy Sir Hubert Handesley's original and lively weekend house parties are deservedly famous. To amuse his guests, he has devised a new form of the fashionable Murder Game, in which a guest is secretly selected to commit a 'murder' in the dark, and everyone assembles to solve the crime. But when the lights go up this time, there is a real corpse....

Today, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing, polarized world dominated by Chinese-American rivalry. The European Union and its surrounding nonmember states, despite initial successes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, have failed to implement a strategy for success in the twenty-first century. Britain's exit from the Union has weakened both sides, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has thrown these shortcomings into sharp relief. How should states across the continent position themselves in the decades to come?

The season had begun. Débutantes and chaperones were planning their luncheons, teas, dinners, balls. And the blackmailer was planning his strategies, stalking his next victim. But Chief Detective Inspector Roderick Alleyn knew that something was up. He had already planted his friend Lord Robert...

Der Moment, in dem du gehen willst ... Hannah will Tom verlassen. Morgen sagt sie es ihm. Doch dazu kommt es nicht. Hannah und Tom wissen nicht, dass morgen alles anders sein wird. Dass Hannah ihre Pläne aufgeben muss und Tom nie wieder in sein altes Leben zurückkehren kann. Auch wissen sie...

Lord Pastern fired his revolver. The figure in the spotlight fell, and the coup-de-theatre had become murder. Could Inspector Alleyn believe Pastern had let hatred of his future son-in-law go too far? Or would the tangle of jealousies and blackmail among the guests reveal another murderer?

It started as a student exercise, the knife under the drape, the model's pose chalked in place. But before Agatha Troy, artist and instructor, returns to the class, the pose has been re-enacted in earnest: the model is dead, fixed for ever in one of the most dramatic poses Troy has ever seen. It's a difficult case for Chief Detective Inspector Alleyn. How can he believe that the woman he loves is a murderess? And yet no one can be above suspicion.

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When he isn’t training as a Warden to become half the hero his father was, Griff Sayer is in the business of breaking hearts all across the town of Mayfair, although that slows down after settling in with his current boyfriend. Griff's ex-best friend, Mal Pryce, meanwhile, is in business with whatever or whoever puts good money in his hands. Now in their mid-twenties, Griff and Mal have only exchanged scathing looks and carefully barbed jabs since the fight that sent them their separate ways years ago.

The American Revolution saw Britain lose control of its prize colonial possessions across the Atlantic. A new nation emerged which would gradually make its mark on the world stage. In this History A Level series written by Dr Ben Marsh of the University of Kent and Head of History and senior examiner Phil Lyons, we will be examining this fascinating period of history, including the causes of the war of Independence, why Britain lost it and why America won, and the establishment of the constitution.