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From the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller comes a thrilling story about a woman with an extraordinary life, based on a true story. Minnie Gray is an ordinary young woman. She is also a spy for the British government. It all began in the summer of 1928... Minnie is supposed to find a nice man...

Von der Autorin des Bestsellers Die sieben Männer der Evelyn Hugo und Daisy Jones & The Six kommt ein epischer neuer Roman über die außergewöhnlichen Anstrengungen, die wir unternehmen, um über unsere Grenzen hinaus zu leben und zu lieben. Joan Goodwin sieht zu den Sternen auf, seit sie denken kann. Als Professorin für Astrophysik hat sie ihre Leidenschaft zum Beruf gemacht, und sie ist glücklich, wenn sie ihrer Nichte abends unter freiem Himmel die Sternbilder erklären kann.

Enter Shamanism’s Secret World of Insight, Wisdom, and Healing Over 40,000 years ago, the first shamans ventured into the spirit realms in search of wisdom and healing. What they found, teaches Sandra Ingerman, was a secret world of teachers, animal spirits, and the soul fragments of those...

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 1996 Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea at Margate. For reasons best known to herself, Jack’s widow, Amy, declines to join them . . . On the surface a simple tale of...

IT'S THE MOST MURDEROUS TIME OF THE YEAR… Puzzle compiler and former Christmas sceptic Edie O’Sullivan returns in the newest seasonal mystery from bestselling author and ‘Queen of the Christmas Mystery’ Alexandra Benedict. When Edie O’Sullivan wins a two-day Christmas break in a hotel...

Four Books, One Unifying Vision: Spanish Mastery...Each story is not just a lesson in language but a closer step towards fluency, making learning both effective and deeply enjoyable.

Eleven magical short stories to enjoy round the clock from one of the world's best-loved children's authors, Enid Blyton. Join Twiddle the gnome on his search for his grumpy runaway donkey Kick-up, find out what happens when the rocking-horse, teddy and all the other toys come alive, and laugh...

Read by the author, Sandra Brown. ‘Completely gripping . . . Sandra Brown found evil in the person of her own father; and she confronted it as few could have done . . . Everyone will want to read this amazing story’ – Andrew O’Hagan, author of Caledonian Road Sandra Brown was eight when...

Perhaps no other television show captures our innate fascination with crime and criminals better than the original Forensic Files. Examining true crime cases from murders to insurance fraud, hit-and-runs to kidnappings, every case featured on the show is solved in large part with the help of forensic science like DNA evidence. In Forensic Files Now, author Rebecca Reisner shares her own gripping retellings of 40 favorite cases profiled on the show along with fascinating updates adapted from her popular blog, ForensicFilesNow.com.

Faites la connaissance de l'anticonformiste et intransigeante Elizabeth Zott. Votre capacité à tout changer commence ici et maintenant. Elizabeth Zott n'est pas une femme ordinaire. Elle serait d'ailleurs la première à faire remarquer qu'il n'en existe pas. Nous sommes au début des années 1960 et, à l'Institut de recherche Hastings où elle est chimiste, les hommes ont une vision très peu scientifique de l'égalité.

All of Cecelia Alao's friends call her Cece. All one of them. But she and Therese are so close that one friend is all Cece needs. Both at school and in their shared Minecraft world, Cece and Therese are inseparable. 

Set off on an outdoor adventure with this collection of 30 classic tales by the world's best-loved storyteller. The perfect holiday read for children aged 7 and up! From stolen dogs and disappearing necklaces to journeys to faraway lands, these fun-filled stories are packed full of mystery and...

Sex trafficking. Not Thailand. Or the Philippines. Or Russia. America. Rich or poor, black or white, girls disappear across this country every day, pulled into the nightmarish world of prostitution and drugs. Mex Anderson is back, tasked with finding three missing girls before it's too late. Three girls. Three girls who could live in your town, your neighborhood, or in your own home. Caught up in a cruel system fueled by lust and money, all three young women must find the courage within themselves to survive. And Mex must come to terms with his own loss and face his demons head on.

Laura Templeton found out the hard way that nothing in life is guaranteed. The daughter of a wealthy hotelier, she had always known comfort, privilege, and security. But by the age of thirty, her storybook marriage had been destroyed by her husband’s infidelity. Laura’s divorce left her both emotionally and financially devastated - but determined to rebuild her life without the Templeton fortune.

When Lara meets super-cute new boy Caiden, she begins to think that the way to his heart is to give herself a glow up. But her friends are not impressed. You should never glow up for a boy, only for yourself! As Lara and her friends embark on their project of empowerment and self-love, Lara shares all of her innermost thoughts with her online journal. How can she keep her hair under control when she's playing football? Why is she so fast on the pitch yet so uncoordinated off it? And how will she ever convince Caiden to take an interest in her?

As a New England mother struggles to support her family in the wake of her husband's service in the Civil War, her four daughters struggle, too - caught between childhood dreams and the realities of burgeoning adulthood. For Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March, raised in integrity and virtue, negotiating the right path in life means making choices that will either narrow or expand their destinies.

Stories of ultimate revenge, from freshly sold human meat and uncontrollable robots, to life-sucking MP3 players and reality TV where death is the penalty - all told with dark humour and gruesome relish, and made even more fiendish by retro illustrations, chilling facts and a puckish message from the author. This is Anthony Horowitz at his most wicked. 

Twenty-seven magical short stories to enjoy round the clock from one of the world's best-loved children's authors. Sheila is astonished when her toys walk themselves home, poor Prickles the Hedgehog thinks the moon has fallen out of the sky, and find out just how mischievous Twinkle the elf is...

Wie entstehen Kriege? Und wie Frieden? Ulrike Herrmann untersucht in diesem Hörbuch große internationale Konflikte und analysiert, dass die Gründe nicht nur historisch, psychologisch oder politisch sind. Sondern dass oft ökonomische Faktoren ausschlaggebend sind. Sie zeigt am Beispiel Russlands, wie die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung des Landes permanente Kriege auch in Zukunft wahrscheinlich macht.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'AMAZING.' NANA AKUA, GB NEWS 'A perfect combination of candid personal insight and scientific research, this highly readable guide covers it all, from cigarettes to jumping jacks...' Dr Flaminia Ronca When journalist Sandra Parsons suffered a serious back injury in...