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Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of 19th-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a 16-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known....

Felix Allsey is a travel writer with a keen eye for the paranormal, and he's carved out a unique, if only slightly lucrative, niche for himself in nonfiction; he writes travelogues of the country's most haunted places, after haunting them himself. When he convinces the owner of the infamous Rotterdam Mansion to let him stay on the premises for two weeks, he believes he's finally found the location that will bring him a best seller. Then things start going wrong: screams from upstairs, figures in the thresholds, and more than what should be in any basement.

Set in the dark heart of Africa, Rotters is a hard-core mix of biology, forensic science, military adventure and graphic zombie horror wrapped up in a leaking body bag. When a deadly new virus emerges in the Congo river basin of central Africa, Dr. Peter Barry must lead an elite military recon team deep into the heart of the rain forest in a desperate race against time to discover the source of the virus. Each step closer to their goal brings new revelations about the virus, themselves, and the unimaginable fact that zombies are real.

Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks.

Das Hörbuch zur Animations-Serie "Trolljäger!" An Monster unter seinem Bett glaubt der 15-jährige Jim längst nicht mehr. Er hat ganz andere Probleme, wie z. B. seinen Loser-Status in der Schule loszuwerden oder endlich die Aufmerksamkeit der schönen Claire Fontaine zu erregen. Doch das ändert sich eines Abends: Eine gewaltige Pranke schießt unter seinem Bett hervor, packt ihn an den Füßen und im nächsten Moment erwacht Jim in einer feuchtschimmeligen Höhle des Trollreichs! Für Jim beginnt das größte, aufregendste und gefährlichste Abenteuer seines Lebens. Vom weltweit erfolgreichen Regisseur von Pans Labyrinth und Hellboy.

From the frenzy of the 2012 Olympics to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, here Jonathan Coe chronicles the story of modern Britain by way of a cast of characters whose world is being upended. There are newlyweds who disagree about the country’s future and, possibly, their relationship; a political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his lavish town house while his radical teenage daughter undertakes a relentless quest for universal justice; and Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father.

A new world offered Felicity Grant hope of riches, plentiful forests, and an arranged wedding engagement - but no one mentioned the monsters. Felicity’s father squanders the family fortune, then decides to travel across the sea to build a new life. She leaves behind her world of airships and automatons for one of the horse-drawn buggies. When the Grants arrive at port, they find it deserted. Meals are half-eaten on the tables, and fires smolder in the cookhouse. However, the inhabitants are still out there, only they’ve changed - and they’re hungry.

Jonathan Coe's new novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks, and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world.

Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change.

Bravo Company is just a regular combat infantry unit,assigned to a humanitarian aid mission in Africa. When contact is lost with medical personnel investigating the outbreak of the Haet-Mombau virus, Bravo Company is hastily plunged into an emergency rescue mission that thrusts them directly into a battle with an enemy beyond their worst nightmares. Facing incredible odds, an unbelieving command, and a foe who refuses to die, the men of Bravo Company struggle to complete their mission and escape Africa alive.

Hirka is stranded in a rotting world, with nothing but a raven and a notebook to connect her to the life she left behind in Ym. She came in search of her family, believing that she could protect Rime and the rest of Ym from the ancient evil of the blind. Instead, what Hirka finds in this new world are people willing to do anything for the blessing—or the curse—of eternal life. And for Rime, the threat of the blind is only growing stronger… Separated by worlds, unsure who to trust, and in danger from all sides, Hirka and Rime fight to end a thousand-year quest for power and revenge.

The Making Change with your Money Podcast A show about people who experienced a big life transition that changed their definition of financial success.

Kyle Brubaker, a carefree California surfer, finds little to celebrate in a small Wisconsin town until he meets beautiful and spirited Marianne Avery. But their budding romance is snuffed when they are brutally attacked by three hoodlum brothers. With his life unraveling around him, Kyle accepts an offer of help from a mysterious carnival fortune-teller. Soon after that, things really go to hell....

On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.

In meinem Business Podcast teile ich Impulse und Inspirationen rund um das Thema „Leben von Menschlichkeit im Business - als Führungskraft und in Teams“. Ich gebe dir Inputs zu Methoden, die ich ausprobiert habe, Erkenntnisse aus der Zusammenarbeit mit meinen Kund:innen, meine Erfahrung als Führungskraft und meine Erlebnisse in der Zusammenarbeit in Teams. Auch werde ich mit dir die eine oder andere Visualisierungsübung oder Meditation teilen, damit du voller Kraft, Energie und Klarheit im Business für dein Team und dein Umfeld da sein kannst!

Something has happened to the world. People are going mad, the very foundations of society are crumbling. Only Adam Keller, testing a prototype environment suit, apparently remains safe - but for how long? Can anything be done, can any of it be reversed, before everything goes to rot?

'Fruen beder os tage plads i en sofa og vil vide, om vi kan udrydde alle slags skadedyr. Jeg ved ikke helt, hvad hun mener med 'alle slags'. Det er næppe katten i hendes skød, hun taler om. Wulf smiler og siger, at det eneste, vi ikke kan udrydde, er rotter på loftet. 'Det drejer sig nu ikke om rotter,' siger damen. 'Men mus.' Magiske Dick og Jack Stump er blevet skadedyrs-bekæmpere. Og det er mindst lige så farligt som at være detektiv.

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Fünfhundert Jahre nach dem von allen nur als "Etwas, das passiert ist" bezeichneten Ereignis ist eine neue Gesellschaft entstanden. Eine Gesellschaft, in der die eigene Stellung davon abhängt, welchen Teil des Farbspektrums man sehen kann. Dies ist die Welt, in der Eddie Russett und Jane Grey leben. Jane und Eddie müssen die engen Regeln der Farbpolitik überwinden und die Wahrheit über ihre Welt herausfinden: Was ist sie, wo ist sie, ja sogar, wann ist sie? Während sie die Lügen entlarven, die ihre Existenz bedrohen, kommen sie zu einem beunruhigenden Schluss: Sie sind nicht allein.