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The wife of a renowned panic room architect desperately clings to his bloody handkerchief in their vacated hotel. Amid a rash of abductions, he was captured. She is alone, terrified and running for her life, but refuses to evacuate the country without her husband, Christian Bleu. "He would never leave me. How could I abandon him?" she tells the United Embassy agent.

Irene Adler wird an Bord des Schiffes von zwei Besatzungsmitgliedern gefangen gehalten. Die beiden verfolgen einen Plan, der nicht nur die Sonderermittlerin der Krone in Lebensgefahr bringt. In London ist es Rasputin fast gelungen, die Geheimgesellschaft davon zu überzeugen, dass das britische Königshaus hinter der plötzlichen Vermehrung der Goldmenge steckt. Er trifft sich mit einem Mitglied des Oberhauses, um auch das Parlament für seinen zerstörerischen Kampf gegen die Krone zu gewinnen.

Eine Gruppe Überlebender soll in Australien eine neue Kolonie errichten. Justine und die Crew der "Montanari" wollen die Siedler unterstützen, als sie plötzlich von mutierten Riesenschlangen attackiert werden. Jemand will die Kolonie gezielt sabotieren und schreckt nicht einmal davor zurück mittels neuester Technologie das Wetter zu manipulieren. Während Justine und die anderen verzweifelt ums Überleben kämpfen, schmiedet Frederico Navarro Pläne, um Präsidentin Sharp ihres Amtes zu entheben.

Ein Killer-Auto macht die als Abkürzung beliebte "Rattlesnake Road" in der kargen Wüstenlandschaft von Arizona zu einem Schauplatz grausiger Unfälle. Es taucht aus dem Nichts auf und verschwindet genauso wieder. Der Polizei gelingt es nicht, das Fahrzeug zu stoppen; stattdessen muss einer ihrer Leute selbst mit dem Leben bezahlen. Die Reporterin Joan Easton ist fest entschlossen, dem Geheimnis des "Geisterautos" auf die Spur zu kommen, und begibt sich dabei in tödliche Gefahr.

Pen Yas ben Min’s cousin was one of the legendary heroes of the wars against the giants until her untimely death. Pen has grown up in her famous cousin’s shadow, but when she’s given a quest to plant the seed of the magical Fourth Tree, she has a chance to step into the light—and usher in a new age for her country.

The Walk is a book written to those who have expressed a desire to follow Christ as his disciple. It assumes no prior understanding of what that means, nor does it assume that the person has actually come to the point of professing faith. It uses as a starting point someone who is simply wondering, "What next?" Stephen also addresses those who have grown up Christian and may be wondering how to step out in their own faith.

You may feel as if you don't control your emotional energy, that it's an inevitable consequence of the world around you and the forces bearing down on you. But that's not the case. To reach your full potential, you can learn to recognize and harness the energy in your brain. Leading neuropsychologist Julia DiGangi will teach you how through eight "codes." Some of the codes will surprise you. All will fortify you. You will learn why these codes work and how to apply them to your own challenges through exercises and reflections.

Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world.

As the Joubert Sisters navigate a world of impending war without their full magic, the Prince of Bone fights for his life—torn between the land of the living and the land of the dead—only to discover the Court of Achlys means more to him than he ever knew. Agatha untangles the prophecy that set their realm aflame. Winnie and the Druids prepare for war. Seleste faces physical setbacks in a foreign land. And Sorscha? Ah, Sorscha and her sass discover secrets in the catacombs of Araignée.

The delectable Phryne Fisher has been invited to the Last Best party of 1928. When three of the guests are kidnapped, Phryne finds she must puzzle her way through the scavenger hunt clues to retrieve the hostages. This is another sparkling mystery from Australia's Queen of Crime, Kerry Greenwood.

A novice once set out upon the road of a warrior. It was the dawn of a legend, a journey that is almost complete . . . But first, Fel'annár must face one last enemy, the greatest known to elvendom. Gra'don. The most powerful of all the Nim'uán. With victory assured in the north, what's left of the king's forces must return home, to one last war. But the vastness of the invading army and its unnatural allies spells disaster for the lands of Ea Uare.

Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the “Man” in the 1960’s by hopping a train. Untrusting, uneducated, and violent, he spends 18 years on the streets of Dallas and Fort Worth. Meet Ron Hall, a self-made millionaire in the world of high-priced deals—an international arts dealer who moves between upscale New York galleries and celebrities. It seems unlikely that these two men would meet under normal circumstances, but when Deborah Hall, Ron's wife, meets Denver, she sees him through God's eyes of compassion.

I thought I’d hit rock bottom when I turned 16. The day I broke my first love's heart, ending things before I could ruin his career as a rock star. But damn, was I wrong. Things got progressively worse from that moment on, until now. Eight years later, when I find myself homeless, jobless, covered in blood, and running from a ghost of my past.

In The Organized Mind, Daniel J. Levitin, PhD, uses the latest brain science to demonstrate how those people excel - and how readers can use their methods to regain a sense of mastery over the way they organize their homes, workplaces, and time. With lively, entertaining chapters on everything from the kitchen junk drawer to health care to executive office workflow, Levitin reveals how new research into the cognitive neuroscience of attention and memory can be applied to the challenges of our daily lives.

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements: You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world...or you can join the service. With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth.

Taz is the ruthless leader of an elite group of bandits who rule the streets of Oklahoma City. No one has met the mysterious boss who gives them their orders via laptop, but the arrangement works for everyone involved. Their criminal enterprise keeps them rolling in dough, allowing them to purchase property and businesses all over town. When Taz falls in love with Sacha, an ambitious young lawyer, he makes an unexpected enemy. Cliff, another lawyer at the firm, wants Sacha for himself, and he'll stop at nothing to win her back from the thug she's with.

Glen Runciter runs a lucrative business - deploying his teams of anti-psychics to corporate clients who want privacy and security from psychic spies. But when he and his top team are ambushed by a rival, he is gravely injured and placed in "half-life," a dreamlike state of suspended animation. Soon, though, the surviving members of the team begin experiencing some strange phenomena, such as Runciter's face appearing on coins and the world seeming to move backward in time.

Steve and his friends are back at the wheat farm, trying to find a way to secure their crops from hostile mobs, when their old friend, Georgia, comes to them for help. Georgia's village is in the middle of a serious skeleton attack. The skeletons appear at dawn, and nobody can go to bed without risking death. Steve and the gang agree to help, but the journey to Georgia's village isn't easy, especially with a new batch of rainbow griefers on their trail.

Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change. Chisholm spent her formative years moving between Barbados and Brooklyn, and the development of her political orientation did not follow the standard narratives of the civil rights or feminist establishments.

After an assassin makes a failed attempt on their boss’s life, five bodyguards head off on a quest to capture or kill the man. When the hit man is revealed to be the legendary Tanner, the men grow more determined. Killing a man like Tanner would make someone a legend themselves. With their target injured and ill-prepared for the desolate and wintry landscape he finds himself in, the guards are certain Tanner will fall to one of them.