Mostrando resultados por autor "Gerald" en Todas las categorías

Zu finden sind diese Quellen - in der Natur. Und Natur ist dort, wo Kinder Freiheit erleben, Widerstände überwinden, einander auf Augenhöhe begegnen und dabei zu sich selbst finden. Aber ist Natur nur das "große Draußen", Wiesen, Wälder und Parks, Spielstraßen und Hinterhöfe? Oder lässt sich Natur vielleicht auch drinnen finden - zum Beispiel in der großen weiten Welt hinter den Bildschirmen? Anschaulich und eindrucksvoll entwickeln die beiden Bestsellerautoren eine neue Balance zwischen Drinnen und Draußen, zwischen realer und virtueller Welt.

We all worry. Although many of our worries are never realized, we continue to live with daily anxiety, constantly fearing the present and the future - things that are or things that never will be. In How Can I Stop Worrying?, Gerald M. Bilkes examines God's gracious path for trading anxiety for a deep peace through Jesus Christ that can fortify and guard us, regardless of our circumstances, in a way that brings glory to God.

It’s spring 1962, and a sergeant with the Memphis Police Department is found dead only hours before his scheduled testimony before a grand jury. Was it suicide, or was it murder? What was he going to testify about? A handwritten note left by the sergeant and addressed to the district attorney disappears.

Tune in to learn basic living skills to navigate life.

Becky Connors lived in the same place for most of her life. An old southern town, one of the oldest in her home state of Florida. Even though she traveled extensively and lived in many places, Becky returned home to her "slice of Heaven" located on the beautiful Gulf Of Mexico in the Forgotten Coast. All of her group had remained close since elementary school and later in their university days at Auburn University.

Dr. Rachel Bisette is drawn to the Four Corners area in the American Southwest to lead the search for a vaccine against a lethal pandemic. One elusive indigenous woman, Eva Yellow Horn, carries the gift of immunity. In her search for Eva, Rachel discovers power beyond science, the secret of an environmental disaster, and the truth of her parents' death.

Ob alleinerziehende Mutter, Berufseinsteiger oder wohlhabender Rentner: Dieses Hörbuch bietet Anregungen und Vorschläge für alle, die wissen wollen, wie man mit seinen Finanzen am besten umgeht. Die Beiträge stellen liebevoll und detailliert entworfene Einzelschicksale vor, die dem Hörer zeigen, wie man in einer vergleichbaren Lage gut und gewinnbringend wirtschaften kann. Tipps zu Versicherungen, Anlagekonzepten und zur Altersvorsorge runden die Beiträge ab.

In Larson's Luck, Gerald Vance takes us on a light hearted jaunt into hot shot space ship pilots, piracy and the good part of breaking the rules. Just how does Larson stay so lucky? Listen and you just may find out.

Frightened, my wife nudges me awake, certain that she heard a noise somewhere in the house. I hear the intruder a moment later. Our home is in a run-down part of town where burglaries and robbery have become commonplace. Worried about our 18-month-old in an adjoining room, I get up, grabbing a golf club I know to be in our closet, and go out to investigate. There's just sufficient light to illuminate the form of a man close to me in the hall.

Doctor Felix Hoffmann is a seasoned physician at a Berlin hospital, respected by colleagues and devoted to his intelligent girlfriend, Celine. It’s a life filled with medical work, televised soccer games, and the chill of German beer. And when a former patient shows up dead by causes unknown, curiosity and sheer medical devotion propel Hoffmann to investigate. But his autopsy order goes unfulfilled as the body is cremated and hospital records vanish.

Whether Christmas is a time of unbridled joy, a season of past reflections, or an ordeal to be endured until the return to normalcy after the New Year, its impact is pervasive in most of our lives. Everyone's feelings are super sensitized, every emotion is heightened. The happy become giddy, the sad become despondent, the lonely become lonelier – unless, yes unless – the magic of Christmas has its way. So it is for the characters in these stories.

Have you ever been thinking that it's time to start saving money, but you just can seem to get around to it? Personal finance sometimes feels like a money management burden that will never leave you debt-free. In fact, Thomas Jefferson felt the same way. He had some very profound feelings about debt in both his public and private worlds, and he left behind some wise insight that allows us to realize we're all in the same boat, with the same worries.

Die Wahrheit über die genetischen Experimente auf dem Mars ist ans Licht gekommen. Prompt tauchen neue Missionen von der Erde im Orbit des Roten Planeten auf. Die widerstreitenden Fraktionen ringen um die Kontrolle über die neue Technologie. Die überlebenden Kolonisten sind den Neuankömmlingen dabei bloß im Weg - im besten Fall müssen sie als Sklaven und Laborratten herhalten. Schlimmer noch: Die Truppen von der Erde sind gut bewaffnet und bereit, einen Krieg zu entfesseln, um die Macht über die Kolonie und ihre Bewohner an sich zu reißen.

In 1892 Paris, Julius Stewart painted The Baptism, a Vanderbilt family scene that contains an embarrassing secret. In the present day, art historian Grace Atwood becomes obsessed with the painting and its hidden clues for reasons that have more to do with her personal ghosts. Either her doting husband is trying to make her think she's crazy, or she really is in the early stages of dementia.

Eighteen months ago, Divinity Parker mysteriously disappeared from her school playground. Everyone, including the FBI, believes her to have been killed or trafficked. A resident of a Georgia town insists she knows where the missing girl is. Though Forrest Spencer and his law colleagues are dubious about this claim, Divinity's mother tasks them with the identification and recovery of her daughter. They find the child alive and thriving. What troubles Spencer and his team is why Divinity, only one and a half years gone, wishes so vehemently to remain distant from her California home.

Is that the jingle of sleigh bells Fionnuala hears, or the jangle of handcuffs?

In the heart of rural Missouri, former physicist-turned-preacher Evan Wycliff is no stranger to mystery—or pain. Still grieving the death of his fiancée and navigating the spiritual minefield of small-town faith, he’s trying to live a quiet life. But when Melissa Benton, a troubled teen mother with epilepsy, is forcibly taken from her sister’s trailer by child welfare officers—and separated from her newborn—Evan’s life of uneasy peace is shattered. He quickly learns Melissa isn’t just another runaway. Her baby may be the illegitimate son of Luke Shackleton, a wealthy ...

As at home with Galileo and his daughter in Florence as he is with Diderot in Enlightenment France, William and Alice James in fin-de-siècle Boston, or the latest research on the genome, Gerald Weissmann distills the lessons of history to guide us through our troubled age. His message is clear: "Experimental science is our defense-perhaps our best defense-against humbug and the Endarkenment."

Würde ist ein großer Begriff. Gleich in Artikel 1 des Grundgesetzes heißt es: "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar." Doch was genau ist Würde? Was bedeutet es, wenn uns unsere Würde genommen wird, weil wir etwa in der digitalen Welt nur noch als Datensatz zählen oder im Netz geschmäht werden? Wenn wir uns selbst würdelos verhalten oder andere entwürdigen?

Christmas Karma is author Gerald Everett Jones' homage to Anne Tyler, whom he regards as his literary mother. It's about the travails of a dysfunctional family around the holidays, narrated by an angel who has a wicked sense of humor. Main character Willa Nawicki is bewildered by a series of curious karmic events that literally ring her doorbell during the frantic season, awakening years-old resentments and stimulating ever-more-intense personal confrontations.