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Sam Coffey and Tom Vance had been partners for years, but after the accident neither could stay on at the K-Bar Diamond spread. Now, Sam has more enemies than any man has a right to. Too many enemies, and too few friends, and those friends are no where to be found. If Sam Coffey lives long enough to crawl out of the Mexican desert, it will be nothing short of a miracle.

Contrary to what schools taught, it was the Spanish who first arrived at Canada's West Coast. They found gold near present day Hedley and made off to the coast. The gold was buried present day University of British Columbia, where it has yet to be found. This is the story of how it got there, and the attempts to locate it over the years.

Most people in the US support abortion access, but having nuanced conversations about restrictions and bans can seem impossible. Join two OB-Gyns on the front lines of abortion care as they make sense of the ever-evolving consequences of our government ceding the expert decision-making power of medical professionals to lawyers and courts. Each short episode features stories and science from physicians, researchers, abortion-seekers and other expert witnesses to the impact on all of our lives. Whether you’re out drinking with the dudes, doing playground duty with other parents, or being ...

Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin: his one-hundredth birthday party. Escaping through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several deaths, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent but very human police.

Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new Maasai warriors - which have him running back to Stockholm as fast as you can say circumcision without anaesthetic.

När Jerker Gudmundsson på Nationella Operativa Avdelningen (NOA) får i uppdrag att lösa mordet på tre kommunalråd börjar en resa in i beställningsmordens värld på dark web, men leder snart till en kamp mot terrorism. Jerker Gudmudsson är en medelålders polis, alltför glad i mat och dryck, men det hindrar honom inte från att, tillsammans medsina kollegor, ta sig an fallet och dessutom möta kärleken i den unga filippinska bartendern Marilyn.

Roadie and Errol have demons inside them. Together, these young brothers can see a person's darkest secret or take all of their knowledge. But these powers come at a price. Every time the boys use them, the demons inside gain more control. When two of their classmates go missing, Roadie and Errol must use their powers to save them. Can the boys rescue their classmates without letting the devils inside consume them?

Listening to From 50 to 500 enables you to become a more capable leader, someone who positively impacts the full range of results defining organizational success. We address the challenges small business leaders face as their companies grow from 50 employees to 100 and beyond.

När överläkare Pia Fjällstedt försvinner under mystiska omständigheter, blir det inte vilket fall som helst för Sundsvallspolisen. Åtminstone inte för kriminalinspektör Sofia Waltin, eftersom Pia Fjällstedt är hennes faster. Dessutom har Sofias pappa länge haft en konflikt med sin syster och hamnar högt upp på listan över dem som kan tänkas ha med försvinnandet att göra. Också Sofias kollega Johan Axberg får problem att skilja yrkesroll från privata bekymmer när hans nya flickvän blir misshandlad av sin exman.

Mort Dansing was lost between two worlds: he was a white man raised by Apaches. After Dansing's village was destroyed and his wife murdered, he returned to white society, hoping to punish the traitor who led the killers to the village encampment.

Austin Everett grew to young manhood beneath the hungry tongue of a willow switch and the cruel fists of the one man who should have been his protector: his own father. But when a mysterious night rider killed his father, Austin put aside the misery his life had been to track down the murderer. Also on the trail of a killer, former lawman Alto Martinez was traveling the very same path as Austin, and in the boy he saw a part of himself....

A madcap new novel from the one-of-a-kind author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden. It's never too late to start again. And again. It's always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in South Stockholm, it's particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman currently staying in room seven.

Der "Hundertjährige" ist zurück - jetzt endlich die Fortsetzung des Weltbestsellers! Was als beschauliche Heißluftballonfahrt zum 101. Geburtstag geplant war, endet für Allan Karlsson auf hoher See, wo er von einem nordkoreanischen Schiff aufgefischt wird. Als er erfährt, dass der Kapitän in geheimer Mission für Kim Jong-un unterwegs ist, nimmt das nächste wahnwitzige politische Abenteuer für Allan Karlsson seinen Lauf.

Findes verden, eller gør den ikke? Findes tiden, eller gør den ikke? Findes der en ‘gud’, eller gør der ikke? Holger Bech Nielsen, dansk højenergifysiker på internationalt niveau, gør status efter et langt liv i fysikkens tjeneste. Han har søgt og søgt efter mening, men hvad har han fundet? I "Teorien om alt" fortæller den pris-vindende fysiker om sit liv og sin gerning - og ikke mindst om sit utrættelige forsøg på at finde Teorien Om Alt - at forklare, hvordan hele universet hænger sammen, og måske også, hvordan mennesket passer ind i ligningen.

Snön ligger tung i Sundsvall den Luciakväll när den före detta rockstjärnan Rick Johnson under mycket egendomliga omständigheter mördas på ett hotellrum. Kommissarie Johan Axberg inleder en utredning som visar att superstjärnans glättiga fasad dolde många obehagliga överraskningar, däribland nära kontakter med den ryska maffian. Det hela kompliceras av att det enda vittne som sett mördaren på nära håll ligger i koma på Sundsvalls sjukhus. Och samtidigt planerar mördaren att slå till igen.

Det är den kallaste vintern på decennier och kylan slår hårt mot det lilla jämtländska samhället Svartviken. Byns uppskattade luciafirande står för dörren, men själva lucian, sextonåriga Ebba Lindgren, dyker inte upp till sin egen kröning. Hon lämnade hemmet för att gå de femhundra meterna till kyrkan, men kom aldrig fram. Nya och gamla konflikter blossar upp när alla plötsligt misstänker alla. Efter fem dagar lägger polisen i Östersund ner sökandet efter Ebba. Dagen därpå hittas hennes lärare brutalt knivhuggen till döds i sitt kök.

Det är valborg i Uppsala - studenternas stora högtid. Men den uppslupna stämningen förtas när två kvinnliga studenter våldtas inom loppet av några dygn. Kort därpå hittas ännu ett offer. Den här gången är kvinnan strypt till döds och utstuderat placerad i den anatomiska teatern i en av universitetets äldre byggnader. Oron sprider sig och polisen befarar att det kommer begås fler brutala överfall.

The gentle, off-beat narrator of The Circus is perfectly content with his quiet life. By day, he works in a bakery, and by night, he obsessively organizes and reorganizes his record collection: It’s all just the way he likes it. But when his childhood friend, Magnus, comes calling out of the blue, the contours of our narrator’s familiar world begin to shift. On a visit to the circus together, Magnus volunteers to participate in the magician’s disappearing act, and midway through the routine, he vanishes. Is this part of the act? What’s happened to Magnus?

When I was a child, I loved old men, and I could tell that they also loved me. And so we meet our deliciously incisive narrator: a popular English professor whose husband, a charismatic professor at the same small liberal arts college, is under investigation for his inappropriate relationships with his former students. The couple have long had a mutual understanding when it comes to their extramarital pursuits, but with these new allegations, life has become far less comfortable for them both.

Dazzlingly inventive, witty and mysterious: a writer pieces together the story of a young man's death in an exhilarating narrative puzzle reminiscent of the hit podcast Serial. A young man dies in a car crash - accident or suicide? An unnamed writer with an agenda of his own sets out to piece together Samuel's story. From friends, relatives and neighbours, a portrait emerges of a loving son, reluctant bureaucrat, contrived poser, loyal friend. But who was Samuel really, and what happened to him?