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The Summons: Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi. Now the judge is a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. The Brethren: They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. In prison these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, dispense a little jailhouse justice, and contemplate where their lives went wrong. Or they can use their time in prison to get very rich, very fast.

A BBC radio recreation of the Marx Brothers’ lost shows, starring Michael Roberts and Frank Lazarus. First broadcast on America’s NBC network between 1932-33, Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel charted the exploits of shady lawyer Waldorf T Flywheel (played by Groucho Marx) and his dopey assistant, Emmanuel Ravelli (played by Chico Marx). The original recordings were lost, but the scripts were rediscovered and edited by Michael Barson. These were published as Flywheel, Shyster & Flywheel: The Marx Brothers Lost Radio Show and licensed for a dramatic adaptation by the BBC.

As you know, running a successful chiropractic practice is a juggling act. You need clinical expertise to provide impeccable care to your patients. You also need the know-how to run a small business. You've probably been well prepared by your education and experience for the technical ins and outs of chiropractic practice. Yet, what training has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Chiropractor fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful practice from scratch or maximizing an existing practice's performance.

An alternative history of the US space programme, dramatised by Dirk Maggs. What if John F. Kennedy survived the assassination attempt and developed the space programme? President Nixon, with the help of former president JFK, has just green-lit NASA’s first manned expedition to Mars. Aboard the expedition is Natalie York, a geologist who risks everything she loves for the chance to go to space; Phil Stone, former X-15 test pilot; and Ralph Gershon, a Vietnam War hero intent on being the first African American to reach another planet.

It was once a utopian dream. But today’s internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. The roots of this crisis, argue Frank McCourt and Michael Casey, lie in the prevailing order of the internet. In plain but forceful language, the authors—a civic entrepreneur and an acclaimed journalist—show how a centralized system controlled by a small group of for-profit entities has set this catastrophe in motion and eroded our personhood.

No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller is exactly what the title promises. This is more than another book about the Bernie Madoff scandal, this is a fast-paced, blow-by-blow, true-crime story that you have to hear to believe. In a true David and Goliath tale, the underdog number cruncher uncovers the largest financial fraud in history, and has to fight everything and everyone in the system to bring it down.

With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood in Rhodes where she’d grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium. Probing and courageous, candid and sly, Stella is a modern-day Scheherazade whose stories reveal what it was like to grow up in an extraordinary place in an extraordinary time—and to construct a life after that place has vanished.

Contents: - Washington Irving. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - Edgar Allan Poe. The Gold Bug - Herman Melville. Bartleby, the Scrivener - Bret Harte. The Luck of Roaring Camp - Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Fyodor Dostoevsky. The Dream of a Ridiculous Man - Rudyard Kipling. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi - Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper - Anton Chekhov. The Lady with the Dog - D.H. Lawrence. The Prussian Officer - James Joyce. Araby - Ivan Turgenev. First Love.

Jack Higgins (the pen name of Henry Patterson) was the internationally bestselling author of 85 novels. He shot to fame with The Eagle Has Landed, which sold 50 million copies worldwide and became a hit film. Adapted for radio, it is included here, together with its gripping sequel The Eagle Has Flown and the sensational Falklands War thriller Exocet.

The family is uncommonly close: Michael's childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle Irving, glamorous Hollywood screenwriters, are doubly related— Hankie is his father's sister, and Irving is his mother's brother. The two families live near each other in Laurel Canyon. In this strangely intertwined world, even the author's grandmothers—who dislike each other—share a nearby apartment.

In den Tiefen des Rheins liegt ein herrliches Gold. Wer daraus einen Ring schmiedet und der Liebe entsagt, erlangt unendliche Macht. Als die Rheintöchter den Nibelungenzwerg Alberich verschmähen, raubt dieser das Gold, schmiedet den Ring und unterwirft sein Zwergenvolk. Der Göttervater Wotan lässt indessen eine Götterburg erbauen. Ihren Erbauern, den Riesen Fasolt und Fafner, verspricht er die Göttin Freia, seine Schwägerin, als Lohn. Er bekommt Ärger mit seiner Frau und bietet statt Freia den Riesen das Rheingold an.

Pericles, prince of Tyre, leaves home to escape death only to win a jousting contest and marry a princess. Once he can return home, his family sails with him, but a storm separates them, so Pericles returns alone. Years later, Pericles finds his daughter and reunites with the wife he had thought was dead.

This bundle, titled Mindfulness Bible, has two audiobooks inside that have helped me find peace in this noisy and frantic world and reduce my stress in ways I never thought was possible!

Siegfried wächst bei dem Nibelungenzwerg Mime im Wald auf. Dort versucht Mime, die zerbrochenen Trümmer des Schwertes Notung zusammen zu schmieden. Mit dem Schwert soll Siegfried den Lindwurm Fafner erschlagen, der den Ring der Macht in seiner Drachenhöhle bewacht. Als es Mime nicht gelingt, schmiedet Siegfried das Schwert selbst. Er erschlägt den Lindwurm und trinkt dessen Blut, das ihn unverwundbar macht. Ein Waldvogel rät ihm, den Ring an sich zu nehmen und weist ihm den Weg zu Brünnhilde, die hinter einem Feuerwall schläft.

Is cyberterrorism the next great threat? Listen to a discussion with features Reuters editor-in-chief Stephen J. Adler, George Washington University’s Center for Cyber and Homeland Security Director Frank J. Cilluffo, Marc Gordon, Constitutional law scholar Michael McConnell, and Mike Sheehan.

Pater Brown stellt sich der größten Herausforderung seines Lebens - denn diesmal soll er einen Mord aufklären, der vor vielen Jahrzehnten in einem weit entfernten Land begangen wurde. Es gibt keine lebenden Zeugen mehr und auch keine verwertbaren Spuren der Bluttat. Schon bald stellt sich dem Geistlichen die alles entscheidende Rätselfrage: "Wo versteckt ein weiser Mann ein Blatt?

Der Organist der Kirche wird während des Gottesdienstes vor aller Augen erschossen. Wer hat ein Interesse daran, einen harmlosen Kirchenmusiker zu ermorden? Neben der heimtückischen Bluttat gibt ein mysteriöser Zettel in der Hand des Toten Rätsel auf. Wer ist Penelope?

Der Basar, den die christlichen Kirchengemeinden von Heaven‘s Bridge veranstalten, wird von einem schrecklichen Todesfall überschattet: die alte Mrs. Cameron fällt einem vergifteten Lebkuchen zum Opfer.

Nach ihrer Ankunft in Punin werden Gundar und seine Gefährten Zeugen eines seltsamen Schauspiels. Aus heiterem Himmel gehen die Bürger sich an die Kehle, auch Ragna und Hothar. Ein böser, mächtiger Zauber vergiftet Punins Atmosphäre. Die Freunde verfolgen einen geheimnisvollen Fremden, der dafür verantwortlich zu sein scheint. Er verliert eine schwarze Tulpe, das Erkennungszeichen einer neuen Unterwelt-Bande. Sie treibt seit mehreren Monden ihr Unwesen.

Es hätte alles so schön werden können bei der großen Glaubensbefragung der Gemeinde durch den Pastor auf dem Katthulthof. Michels Mama hat extra Unmengen an gutem Essen zubereitet. Hätte Michel seinen Vater nicht aus Versehen auf dem Lokus eingesperrt und alle Schuhe auf einen Haufen gestapelt! Aber dann zeigt er den Lönnebergern doch noch, dass er ein brauchbarer Junge ist: als sein Freund Knecht Alfred fast an einer Blutvergiftung zu sterben droht, ist es Michel, der ihn im schlimmsten Schneesturm ganz alleine zum Arzt bringt.