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La sixième enquête du commissaire Brunetti. Alors que Venise sort doucement de l'hiver, le commissaire Brunetti s'ennuie à la questure. Jusqu'au jour où il reçoit la visite d'une très belle jeune femme, religieuse défroquée. Parce qu'un certain nombre de morts suspectes sont survenues dans l'institution où travaille celle-ci, elle a préféré quitter son ordre et demander l'aide de la police.

Eighteen-year-old orphan Harriet Thomson has resided with a distant cousin’s aristocratic household since the age of five, first as companion to Prudence, the youngest daughter of house, later as carer of Pru’s ailing father. When he dies, she has to make her own way in the world and finds work as companion to the elderly Countess Arden, who resides in the Dower House on the Hertfordshire estate of the dashingly handsome Duke of Fairbridge.

You are about to discover how exactly you can master the craft of bread baking to become a perfect baker that can consistently make incredible baked stuff all the time! You will discover: How bread baking has evolved over time, how it’s being practiced today, and how it should be done for the perfect bread, the ingredients you need to bake bread, how to get the right ones and store them properly, how to select your baking tools and equipment, the steps you need to take to bake properly, and the techniques to utilize, how to make dough, and so much more!

Discover the fastest path to organizational growth and impactful messaging through the immersive world of live events. In this book, you'll gain invaluable insights from my 18 years of experience producing world-class events nationwide. Million Dollar Event unveils the strategies that have propelled me to serve prestigious clientele, including US presidents, professional sports teams, Fortune 500 companies, Grammy Award-winning artists, social media influencers, christian ministries, and numerous non-profit organizations.

Once every 10,000 years, the walls between worlds grow thin. The stars align and Hell is close. It is the time of The Sha'Daa. The mysterious Johnny The Salesman is up to his usual tricks, offering dark magic trades if one is brave enough to barter with him. Johnny's latest ally, the immortal tattoo artist Haumea, just might have the answer to saving the planet from destruction, if she can create enough supernatural tattoos at Mom's Bane tattoo parlor to turn the tide against evil.

Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central & Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989—but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations and a country like the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European, although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague.

"Hadjí Murat" es una novela histórica escrita de primera mano, ya que Tolstói conoció a algunos de sus protagonistas durante su permanencia en el Cáucaso. La acción transcurre en torno a 1850, bajo el reinado del zar Nicolás I, que se caracterizó por llevar a cabo una política expansionista y de absolutismo represivo. De hecho, el retrato que del zar se hace en la obra nos le describe como un hombre arbitrario, poco justo y demasiado orgulloso.

When two British schoolboys decide to test the truth of the ancient Spartan tale of Romulus and Remus, they are soon stuck with the task of recovering a missing baby and making up ever-more elaborate lies to cover their tracks. This highly imaginative madcap farce could only have been crafted by Leon Garfield, the award-winning author of Black Jack.

In his many years as a commissario, Guido Brunetti has seen all manner of crime and known intuitively how to navigate the various pathways in his native Venice to discover the person responsible. Now, in the 30th novel in Donna Leon's masterful series, he faces a heinous crime committed outside his jurisdiction. He is drawn in innocently enough: two young American women have been badly injured in a boating accident, joy riding in the Laguna with two young Italians.

Als im Morgengrauen eine aufgedunsene Leiche im Kanal gefunden wird, ist ein eleganter Lederschuh die einzige Spur, die Brunetti hat...

Melissa, Matt, and Jason were the most unlikely childhood friends. They started as innocent high schoolers who were all simply trying to navigate the ups and downs of life, society, and hormones, to successful adults who were living in different parts of the country, but still bonded by a warmth that they have never found elsewhere, despite leaving each other on bad terms.

Samstagabend auf dem Campo Santa Margherita. Nach einem Drink lassen sich zwei Touristinnen von ein paar Einheimischen zu einer Spritztour in die Lagune verführen. In der Dunkelheit rammt das Boot einen Pfahl, und die Amerikanerinnen enden bewusstlos auf dem Steg des Ospedale. Warum alarmierten ihre Begleiter nicht die Notaufnahme, wenn alles nur ein Unfall war? Je hartnäckiger Brunetti ermittelt, desto näher kommt er einem Monstrum, vor dem sich selbst die Mafia fürchtet.

Sid Hansen is a remorseless, death-dealing super-soldier - and he works at Gamestop. That’s right. Kill Team One now has a job in a videogame retail store filled with cranky customers, shoplifters, crying kids, and people who just haven't figured out how to use Steam yet. A global organization of radical Islamists have tracked Sid all the way from the mountains of Afghanistan, where he may or may not have been kinda sorta responsible for just some itty bitty little crimes against humanity. Hell-bent on revenge, they’ve planned the largest martyrdom operation ever conducted.

When one of his wife Paola's students comes to visit him, with a strange and vague interest in investigating the possibility of a pardon for a crime committed by her grandfather many years ago, Commissario Brunetti thinks little of it, beyond being intrigued and attracted by the girl's intelligence and moral seriousness. But when she is found murdered, clearly stabbed to death, Claudia Leonardo is suddenly no longer simply Paola's student, but Brunetti's case ...

A successful walrus hunt means Anna and her beloved Kinauquak will soon be joined in marriage. But before they can seal their promise to one another, a tsunami wipes their village from the rugged shore ... everyone except Anna and her little sister, Iya, who are left alone to face the Alaskan wilderness. A stranger, a Civil War veteran with golden hair and blue eyes, wanders the untamed Aleutian Islands. He offers help, but can Anna trust him or his God? And if she doesn't, how will she and Iya survive?

Vladimir Lenin (speaking Russian) was the main theoretician and practical leader of the Blosheviks. He was voted the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR. Leon Trotsky was a communist theorist, prolific writer, and leader in the 1917 Russian Revolution. Josef Stalin (speaking Russian) was the General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party and a key leader in World War II.

Are you ready to transform your life? If you are fed up with feelings of discontentment and are now ready for a life full of passion, unstoppable energy, and unceasing motivation, then this is the book for you.

In her previous books, Vicki Len put listeners in the sandals of now obsolete laborers, ranging from funeral clowns to armpit pluckers, and untangled the twisted threads of superstition and science in antiquity. Now, in this book of astonishing true tales of love and sex in long-ago Greece, Rome, and other cultures around the Mediterranean, she opens the doors to shadowy rooms and parts the curtains of decorum.

Anna Karénine est une jeune femme mariée à Alexis Karénine et mère d'un jeune garçon. Elle se rend à Moscou chez son frère Stiva Oblonski. En descendant du train, elle croise le comte Vronski. Anna tombe amoureuse de Vronski, cet officier brillant, mais frivole. Elle lutte contre cette passion et finit pourtant par s'abandonner avec un bonheur coupable. Puis Anna tombe enceinte. Elle décide d'avouer son infidélité à son mari.

Oregon, Sommer 1983 - eine Serie mysteriöser Todesfälle rüttelt das Küstenstädtchen Harmony Bay aus seinem friedlichen Schlaf. Sheriff Cody, den es nach dem Tod seiner Frau dorthin verschlagen hat, wird bereits kurz nach seiner Ankunft zur Pflicht gerufen, denn es geschehen merkwürdige Dinge: Ein Gefangenentransport zerschellt an einer Klippe, ein russischer Spion ist wie vom Erdboden verschluckt und es tauchen immer mehr Leichen auf, die merkwürdige Einstiche im Rücken aufweisen.