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Brought to you by Penguin. From bestselling YA authors comes thirteen dazzling contemporary romances inspired by the songs of Taylor Swift! If you could live inside one Taylor Swift song for a day, which would you pick? In this shimmering anthology, thirteen best-selling and acclaimed authors do...

Do you want to handle, stop, and overcome your social anxiety? No more worry, doubt, and overthinking in social situations. It's time to free yourself from limiting beliefs and to finally become the confident, fulfilled, and happy person you've always wanted to be. Nothing will change in your life until you change. And the only way for you to TRULY change is to allow your subconscious mind to understand that you have become a different person. Therefore, your old paradigm and your old subconscious programs have to be replaced with a new paradigm and completely new programs that lead you to the...

Portuguese Short Stories for Beginners (A2) Skill Level is crafted specifically for learners at the A2 level, offering 30 engaging short stories that strengthen and expand your comprehension of Brazilian Portuguese. Each story is designed to introduce intermediate grammar, practical vocabulary, and everyday sentence structures, helping you progress naturally in the language. To support your learning, every story includes a vocabulary list translating key words from Portuguese to English, making new terms and expressions clear.

German Short Stories for Beginners (A2) Skill Level is designed specifically for learners at the A2 level, offering 30 engaging short stories that enhance and refine your understanding of German. Each story introduces simple sentence structures, essential vocabulary, and everyday expressions, helping you gradually build your language skills.

A Storytellers' reworking of Caesar's Commentaries as a new version. This follows the original line-by-line to create a modern voice that is faithful to Caesar's exacting text.

For readers and viewers of The Perfect Storm, opening this long-awaited new work by Sebastian Junger will be like stepping off the deck of the Andrea Gail and into the inferno of a fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho. Here is the same meticulous prose brought to bear on the...

As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool Civic Hall, the talented yet obnoxious conductor Sir Noel Grampian is shot dead in full view of the Municipal Orchestra and the audience. It was no secret that he had many enemies - musicians and music critics among them - but to be killed mid-flow suggests an act of the coldest calculation. Told through the letters and documents sent by DI Alan Hope to his wife as he puzzles through the dauntingly vast pool of suspects and scant physical evidence in the case.

Wurde Patrizia Berg von ihrem Ehemann umgebracht? Oder ist ihr eigener Sohn der skrupellose Mörder? Matthias Hegel muss die Antwort finden – um jeden Preis. Im 4. Teil von "Auris", der Thriller-Reihe von Vincent Kliesch und Sebastian Fitzek, stehen Jula und Hegel vor einem düsteren Rätsel, dessen Wahrheit nur die Tote selbst zu kennen scheint. Der 17-jährige Silvan Berg wurde gerade aus der Psychiatrie entlassen. Als er auf dem Seegrundstück seines Elternhauses einen Schmetterling betrachtet, zerreißt ein panischer Schrei die Luft.

"French Short Stories for Beginners (A2) Skill Level" is specifically designed for learners at the A2 level, offering 30 engaging short stories that gently challenge and enhance your French comprehension. Each story introduces fundamental sentence structures, common idiomatic expressions, and essential vocabulary, helping you solidify your understanding of the language. To support your learning journey, every story is paired with a detailed vocabulary chart that translates key French words into English, ensuring clarity and ease of reading.

The Joy of Addiction is a laugh-a-minute, stranger-than-fiction, tragicomedy about a teenager who hurtles into the abyss of drug and alcohol dependency. It is a true story with an unblinking insight into the mindset of an addict and an invaluable message of recovery.

The retired hero of humanity—the man who decided to hide in his woodland cottage after his bloody business was done—has finally gained access to the dungeon beneath his cottage. Levels, gear, challenges, heart-pumping—and risk-free, non-dramatic, non-world-ending—scenarios await the hero, his devoted wolf-woman partner, his pet plant monster girl, and their cottage guests.

Jedes Jahr verschwinden durchschnittlich 23 Passagiere spurlos auf Kreuzfahrtschiffen. Noch nie ist jemand zurückgekommen... bis jetzt! Eine Transatlantikpassage wird zum Albtraum.Packender Psychothrill auf hoher See - ein Ort, wie geschaffen für das perfekte Verbrechen - ohne Polizei und ohne Entkommen.

Er spielt das älteste Spiel der Welt: Verstecken. Er spielt es mit deinen Kindern. Er gibt dir 45 Stunden, sie zu finden ... doch deine Suche wird ewig dauern. Erst tötet er die Mutter, dann verschleppt er das Kind und gibt dem Vater 45 Stunden Zeit für die Suche. Das ist seine Methode. Nach Ablauf der Frist stirbt das Opfer in seinem Versteck. Doch damit ist das Grauen nicht vorbei: Den aufgefundenen Kinderleichen fehlt jeweils das linke Auge. Bislang hat der "Augensammler" keine brauchbare Spur hinterlassen.

Italian Short Stories for Beginners (A1) Skill Level: Italian Reading Practice is specifically tailored for learners at the A1 level, offering 20 engaging short stories that introduce the basics of Italian comprehension. Each story features simple sentence structures, essential vocabulary, and commonly used expressions, helping you build a strong foundation in the language.

Con man Milan Berg has a photographic memory. But he’s hiding a secret: He can’t read. Unable to interpret the world around him, Milan finds increasingly crafty ways to navigate it. That is, until he comes across a car in traffic with a girl in the back seat. She desperately holds a written note up to the window, but what does it say? Fearing the girl is in mortal danger, Milan determines to search for her. As he follows a series of clues, each darker and scarier than the next, he’s thrust into a nightmarish odyssey with a deepening, disturbing progression: The clues are tied to his past.

Das Immunsystem als Blockbuster: vom Macher des YouTube-Kanals "kurzgesagt". Philipp Dettmer, Gründer und Kopf von "kurzgesagt - in a nutshell", einer der weltweit erfolgreichsten Wissenskanäle auf YouTube, erklärt unser Immunsystem anschaulich, unterhaltsam und witzig - passend in eine Zeit, in der viele genauer wissen möchten, wie die Immunabwehr unseres Körpers eigentlich funktioniert.

"German Short Stories for Beginners (A1) Skill Level" is an essential educational tool designed to support the language learning journey of beginners. This book offers 20 short stories meticulously written to align with the A1 skill level, ensuring that each narrative is suitable for learners who are just starting to explore German. Each story is carefully crafted to provide clear and manageable reading practice, enhancing vocabulary and comprehension.

Sebastian Barry's writing career has been as long and varied as it has extraordinary. Intimate, revealing and generous of heart, these three lectures—written and delivered as part of his three-year tenure as the laureate for Irish fiction—reflect on his life and career so far, and some of the formative moments and people he's met along the way.

As a young man, Leon Nader suffered from insomnia. As a nightwalker, he even turned to violence during his nocturnal excursions and had psychiatric treatment for his condition. Eventually he was convinced he had been cured - but one day, years later, Leon's wife disappears from their flat under mysterious circumstances. Could it be that his illness has broken out again? In order to find out how he behaves in his sleep, Leon fits a movement-activated camera to his forehead.

Coup de foudre entre Ciara et Oliver, tous deux récemment arrivés à Dublin, qui décident de passer ensemble le confinement. L'un d'eux n'y survivra pas. Le crime parfait vient-il d'être commis ? Ciara et Oliver se rencontrent alors qu'ils font la queue à la caisse d'un supermarché de Dublin. Oliver propose à Ciara d'emménager chez lui afin qu'ils passent ensemble le confinement. La police retrouve un corps en décomposition dans l'appartement d'Oliver.