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The island was abandoned for fifty years. So how did the body get there? Three hundred miles from the mainland in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean lies Navigaceo: a tiny island that was hastily abandoned fifty years ago and has been uninhabited ever since. Until now. Tess Macfarlane is a documentary filmmaker tasked with capturing the wild beauty of Navigaceo. Accompanied by a small team of researchers, her job is to film everything she sees. But Tess sees too much: a body. It's clearly a recent murder.

One bitterly cold February night at the remote MacKinnon Hotel, Remie Yorke begins her last shift at the front desk as the snow begins to fall. She has booked a one-way flight for the next day—and she's never coming back to Scotland. Or so she thinks. As the storm quickly invades the surrounding Highlands, the roads become impassable and the phone lines fall dead. When the icy temperatures plummet further, an injured man stumbles into the hotel lobby from the blizzard. Police Constable Don Gaines has been in a car accident on the mountain road, and Remie welcomes him to safety.

Want to be more confident—starting today, not someday? Here’s the good news: You can be! Confidence isn't some mysterious characteristic—it's a skill anyone can acquire. If you want to feel confident going anywhere, anytime, and meeting anyone—if you'd like a calm core of confidence that doesn't depend on where you are or who you're with—then you're in the right place. In this empowering audiobook, three-time TEDx speaker Sam Horn reveals her step-by-step plan.

This is a very good read. It is the first novel in an action-packed multi-book military saga that follows the life of a combat soldier from his early years in the Korean War to his middle age in Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere in Israel and the middle east in wars that are in the immediate future. It is fast paced and action-oriented as casualties and a willingness to sign up for additional front line tours and new wars result in Roberts shouldering responsibilities far beyond his years. Fans of WEB Griffin, Larry Bond, Tom Clancy, and Harold Coyle will enjoy this great addition ...

When Misty was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and her sister were kept as slaves on a mountain ranch where they were subjected to almost complete isolation, sexual abuse, and extreme physical violence. When Misty reached her teens, her parents feared she and her sister would escape and took them to an Amish community where they were adopted and became baptized members. Misty was devastated to once again find herself in a world of fear, animal cruelty, and sexual abuse.

Five-hundred kilometres from land in the middle of Atlantic Ocean lies Navigaceo. A tiny island that was hastily abandoned fifty years ago and has been uninhabited ever since. Until now. Tess Macfarlane is a documentary filmmaker tasked with capturing the wild beauty of Navigaceo. Accompanied by a small team of researchers, her job is to film everything she sees. But Tess sees too much: a body. It's clearly recent. It shouldn't be there. And the victim is wearing the same expedition uniform as her colleagues.

After their strategic "marriage of commerce" three years ago, Rule quite forgot about Violet Griffin, the teenage heiress to a Boston manufacturing fortune. He simply spoke his vows, took over her father's business, and returned to England to resume his usual pursuits: high-priced wine, high-stakes gambling, and highborn women. Yet when Violet, now a sophisticated woman, unexpectedly appears at Rule's London town house, husbandly duties no longer seem so odious.

Is that a lion? Is it an eagle? NO, it's a griffin, the winged king of beasts! Glossy feathers, powerful wings, and the heart and body of a lion make up this fantastical creature. Ever wondered what a griffin eats? How does it fight against evil? Where does it live? Wonder no more! Embark on a noble journey to learn all about griffins.

Remie Yorke has one shift left at the Mackinnon Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands before she leaves for good. Then Storm Ezra hits. As temperatures plummet and phone lines go down, an injured man stumbles inside. PC Don Gaines was in a terrible accident on the mountain road. The only other survivor: the prisoner his team was transporting. When a second stranger arrives, Remie reluctantly lets him in from the blizzard. He, too, is hurt. He claims to be a police officer. His name is also Don Gaines.

Anne is killed, vengeance is exacted, and arrows fly, when William and his company of archers conduct cutting-out expeditions to take French and Moorish prizes and search for the priceless religious relics that were seized amidst the fighting and taken from Constantinople while it was being sacked by the crusaders. It is another of Martin Archer's exciting and action-packed novels in his epic "The Company of Archers" saga about a serf who rose to become the captain of what was left of a company of crusading English archers—and what happens to him and his men after he leads the survivors ...

Author Michael Cameron Adams has done something new. This exciting and action-packed novel uses fiction to look at the war America and its allies might have to fight in the near future—and the experiences that will happen during the war to the men and women who are now in the military or about to join it. What is new is that the author has done this by revising and setting into the immediate future War Breaks Out, a novel by Martin Archer about the harsh realities of a war that might have happened in the past. Much has been made of the advances in warfare and weapons and the changes in ...

In the midst of our hectic, overscheduled lives, caring for the soul is imperative. Now, more than ever, we need to pause - intentionally - and encounter the Divine. Soul care director Barbara Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. She reflects on how these disciplines are woven into the African American culture and lived out in the rich heritage of its faith community.

The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to the past and give us insight into a long-vanished world that, for all its imperfections, continues to fascinate.

The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unsuspecting victims on the sands of an estuary and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship's captain. This British Library anthology collects the best mysteries set on choppy seas, along snaking rivers and even in the supposed safety of a swimming pool, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Phyllis Bentley and R. Austin Freeman.

A Christmas party is punctuated by a gunshot under a policeman’s watchful eye. A jewel heist is planned amidst the glitz and glamour of Oxford Street’s Christmas shopping. And lost in a snowstorm, a man finds a motive for murder.... This collection of mysteries explores the darker side of the festive season, from unexplained disturbances in the fresh snow to the darkness that lurks beneath the sparkling decorations.

At the beginning of the 16th century, a religious revolution shattered the outward appearance of conformity among Europe's Roman Catholics...a conformity that had been the basis of Western European unity for over a thousand years. Why did it happen? In this brilliant history, Professor Mosse exposes the crisis of the Papacy in preceeding centuries and shows how the need for reform was continually being delayed until it was simply too late.

Eine einsame Insel, fünf Menschen und ein Mörder Mehrere Tagesreisen von der nächsten Küste entfernt liegt mitten im Atlantik die seit Jahrzehnten verlassene Insel Navigaceo. Dorthin ist die Dokumentarfilmerin Tess unterwegs, um zusammen mit vier Wissenschaftlern die einzigartige Natur zu untersuchen. Aber schon kurz nach ihrer Ankunft entdeckt Tess ein Skelett, das Überreste der gleichen Uniform trägt, die auch ihr Team nutzt. Offensichtlich ist der Tote erst vor wenigen Monaten hier gestorben. Doch wer war er? Und wie hängt er mit ihrer Expedition zusammen?

Eine schmerzhaft-schöne Geschichte über Liebe, Verlust, Hoffung – und über eine Frau, die zurück ins Leben findet. Nach einem Schicksalsschlag sucht Rosie Zuflucht auf ihrer Heimatinsel vor der Küste Irlands: auf Roaring Bay mit seinen zwei Stränden und anderthalb Bars, den Klippen, Schafen und Vögeln. Jahrelang hat die Suche nach ihrer verschwundenen Tochter ihr Leben bestimmt und ihre Ehe in eine tiefe Krise gestürzt. Nun erlebt Rosie endlich wieder Momente des Glücks. Den Sommer über springt sie als Kapitänin ein und steuert die Fähre ihres gesundheitlich angeschlagenen Vaters übers Meer.

First published between 1870 and 1893, Émile Zola’s 20-book cycle chronicling four generations of the Rougon-Macquarts was a shocking exposé of the decadence, degradation and moral decay of 19th-century France. It included some of his greatest novels, among them his masterpiece, Germinal. These innovative, ambitious dramas, first broadcast on Radio 4 over 24 hours in 2015-16, are a radical reimagining of Zola’s classic series, introducing us to 104-year-old matriarch, Dide, imprisoned in an asylum in southern France.

Das Hotel in den Highlands, in dem Remie Yorke als Managerin arbeitet, wird ausgerechnet am letzten Tag der Saison von einem frühen Schneesturm von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten. Kein Telefon mehr, kein Internet. Zum Glück verfügt das Hotel über ein Notstromaggregat. Dann stehen mitten im Sturm nacheinander zwei Fremde vor der Tür. Jeder der beiden behauptet von sich, ein Polizist zu sein, der einen geflohenen Mörder sucht und Remie und die Gäste schützen will. Remie weiß genau: Einer der beiden ist wirklich Polizist. Der andere aber ist ein brutaler Mörder.