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Hauptkommissarin Lena Lorenzen begleitet die groß angelegte Suchaktion nach einem vierzehnjährigen Mädchen auf der nordfriesischen Insel Föhr. Die vermisste Maria Logener stammt aus einer ultrareligiösen Familie und wird von allen als ungewöhnlich reif für ihr Alter beschrieben. Am zweiten Tag der Suche wird sie mit aufgeschnittenen Pulsadern an einem einsamen Strandabschnitt gefunden.

Is your organization in danger of Mission Drift? Without careful attention, faith-based organizations drift from their founding mission. It's that simple. It will happen. Slowly, silently, and with little fanfare, organizations routinely drift from their purpose, and many never return to their original intent. Harvard and the YMCA are among those that no longer embrace the Christian principles on which they were founded. But they didn't drift off course overnight. Drift often happens in small and subtle ways.

Retired four-star general Stan McChrystal has lived a life associated with the deadly risks of combat. From his first day at West Point, to his years in Afghanistan, to his efforts helping business leaders navigate a global pandemic, McChrystal has seen how individuals and organizations fail to mitigate risk. Why? Because they focus on the probability of something happening instead of the interface by which it can be managed.

Everything is falling apart for April Reid. Her latest relationship has self-destructed, and the library she runs has been sold to a ruthless corporation that plans to tear it down. All she wants is to forget about her problems. But when she meets Vicki Blake at a bar one night, April finds that her problems are only just beginning.

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Riana's terrified of these fierce Kordolians. They fight like demons and possess strange alien technology which makes them damn hard to kill. After her nerve-wracking experience on the superfreighter Hendrix II, she wants nothing to do with them. All she wants to do is live a peaceful Kordolian-free life back on Earth. Too bad the Board of Corrections is on her case over past misdemeanors. Too bad someone's trying to kill her. She has no idea why.

When Stalin came into power in 1924, the Communist government began persecuting dissident writers. Though Stalin spared the life of Boris Pasternak - whose novel in progress, Doctor Zhivago, was suspected of being anti-Soviet - he persecuted Boris' mistress, typist, and literary muse, Olga Ivinskaya. Boris' affair with Olga devastated the straitlaced Pasternaks, and they were keen to disavow Olga's role in Boris' writing process.

This Cutting Cords Guided Self-Hypnosis program was designed to assist the listener in identifying, cleansing, and releasing toxic ties, life patterns, and relationships as well as protecting one's energetic space.

One steamy night in Paris, I had a quick and dirty fling with a Scotsman who wouldn't tell me his name. Ten months later, my boss sends me to Scotland to broker a business deal with tech mogul Evan MacTaggart. There's just one problem. The seductive billionaire is the man from Paris, and I still can't resist him. The moment Keely O'Shea walked into my office, I knew I could never let her go this time. For 10 months, I've dreamed about the beautiful, sensual woman who drove me out of my mind.

The year is 1897. Sherlock Holmes and his lovely young American daughter Lucy James must foil a plot to destroy Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebration, defeating the high-ranking traitor who has eluded them in their previous adventures. If they fail, the Queen and thousands of innocent people will die, and the British Empire will fall into chaos.

Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain's Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine - always men - have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence - civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions - they have much to teach us.

This is Bella Springs, a new city where women have taken complete control. The founder, Stacy Farber, built the city with one ambition in mind: ensure female supremacy. She wants to see the men of the world enslaved, and she’ll prove it’s possible here in this new city. This collection of short stories illustrate what life is like when women rule. The men here are subjugated, owned, and humiliated on a daily basis. When the future is female, men had better prepare to surrender. Women have all of the advantages. In Bell Springs, being male is the biggest disadvantage of all. This 78,000 ...

El amor aparece cuando menos te lo esperas.... ¿Cuántas veces hemos escuchado esa frase? Pero no siempre se tiene esa suerte. Esta es la historia de Patrick, Alex y Will. Tres personas que, cansados de buscar a la persona que creían que les cambiaría la vida, se rindieron y, simplemente, se sentaron a esperar.

One of the wealthiest Russian oligarchs, Alex Volkov is as ruthless as he is magnetic. He always gets what he wants, and what he wants is me, in his bed. He’s the kind of trouble every woman should run from. The bullet his bodyguard took for him proves that. I should stay far away, but for one night, I give in to temptation. Before I know it, he’s pulling me deeper into his world of excess and violence, invading not only my life but my heart. How much trust can I place in a man so dangerous? How much do I dare risk for his love?

Anna McNuff had never run a mile without shoes on before. And yet, one British summer, she set off to run a (very) wiggly route from the Shetland Islands to London–on a mission to cover the distance of 100 marathons…in bare feet.

Faith is thrilled to land a job as a nanny for a wealthy, recently divorced mother of two. The pay is great, and the kids are angels. The only problem is their mother, Eve. She’s uptight, controlling, and impossible to please. The worst part? Faith can’t stop thinking about her. When Faith discovers a side to her new boss that she never expected, it becomes clear that behind Eve’s strict façade is a passionate woman bursting to break free and make Faith hers.

As one of the Kordolian Military's infamous First Division, Lodan Vorkan's one of the most feared warriors in the Nine Galaxies. He doesn't like the unpredictable, and humans are exactly that. Humans are trouble. Humans bring chaos. When he encounters the strange human called Tasha, all his warning alarms go off. She isn't anything like the other humans. She's faster, stronger—artificially so. She has secrets; she tells lies. A trail of blood-scent lingers around her. She is not the kind of human he would imagine as his mate. But Lodan's control is about to be sorely tested.

Eine grenzübergreifende Ermittlung in einem Vermisstenfall. Von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin Anna Johannsen. In der Nähe der dänischen Stadt Odense wird eine Leiche gefunden. Der Pass der Toten stellt sich als gefälscht heraus, doch der DNA-Abgleich führt die Ermittler zu Sophia Jepsen, die im Alter von 16 Jahren auf der Halbinsel Holnis spurlos verschwunden ist.

Zwischen Pellworm und Nordstrand wird eine Frauenleiche aus der kalten Nordsee geborgen. Die Obduktion bestätigt den Verdacht auf ein Tötungsdelikt. Außerdem findet die Polizei heraus, dass Maren Witte zwei Wochen vor ihrem Tod heimlich entbunden und das Kind in einer Babyklappe abgegeben hat. Lena Lorenzen übernimmt den Fall und ermittelt auf Pellworm - der Insel, auf der Maren aufgewachsen ist.

You are about to embark on the most monumental journey of all archaeological discoveries. The mother lode that would make the likes of Indiana Jones salivate. The true land of gold in all of history which leads to the location of the Garden of Eden and Land of Creation identifying the Rivers from Eden en route. Why is this important? You will never understand geography, history nor especially Bible prophecy without this restored knowledge of what many will consider the most illustrious realm on Earth. Without this, one cannot interpret archaeology with mastery, lecture on history with ...