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South Florida is home to a wide range of different communities and life-styles. Inland from all these beaches is the city of Greenhaven; an oasis of genteel respectability and refined sensibilities, holding itself proudly aloof from all its tawdry neighbors. That is, until they found the dead body on the beach.

In 1773, 63-year-old literary giant Samuel Johnson joined James Boswell, a 32-year-old Scottish lawyer, on an historic horseback expedition across the Scottish Highlands to the Western Islands. The unlikely duo's travelogue records their fascinating conversations and encounters with great wit and incredible detail. Johnson, one of the 18th century's most celebrated writers, provided an elegant and stately account of everything from Loch Ness's medicinal waters to Scotland's puzzling lack of trees.

Deep in the Bavarian forest, archaeologists unearth a medieval human skull with a brick stuffed in its mouth. When Annja Creed catches wind of the strange discovery, the TV host and archaeologist rushes to join the dig. But the superstitious locals are furious, fearing the excavation has angered one of the chewing dead - those who rise from their graves to feast on human flesh and blood. And soon she and her colleagues are facing down violent mobs and death threats. As far as Annja is concerned, though, the vampire myth is a load of bunk. Then a child goes missing.

Deep in an archaeological dig in England's Midlands, Annja locates a braided necklace around a mummified king's neck. Made of an unusual material - not quite obsidian, but gleaming with multihued color - the torc is an astonishing find. But someone knows exactly what the torc means. And he will do anything to get his hands on the Tear of the Gods. When the dig is compromised and innocent archaeologists are slain, even Annja herself is left for dead. Now she is fleeing for her life, not knowing the terrifying truth about the relic she risks everything to protect.

Miami was never a town, not even a village; it sprang to life out of the tropical wilderness, as a fully formed magical city. London, Paris, and Rome are just three of the world’s cities that are crammed full of history; events, personalities, stories that never fail to fascinate and entertain. But they have had two-thousand years to evolve those stories. Miami is barely one-hundred years old but is already as full of history as any place else on the planet.

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Benjamín Labatuts neuer Roman über John von Neumann, einen der genialsten und wegweisensten Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er ist ein so bewundertes wie gefürchtetes Ausnahmetalent: John von Neumann. Vom frühen 20. Jahrhundert bis in die Nullerjahre reichend, erzählt MANIAC die Geschichte John von Neumann, der zunächst in Berlin und Budapest lebte und in den 30er Jahren vor den Nazis in die USA floh, der maßgeblich am Manhattan Project, dem Bau der US-amerikanischen Atombombe in Los Alamos, beteiligt war und durch seinen Computer MANIAC den Bau der Wasserstoffbombe ermöglichte und Vordenker für Künstliche Intelligenz war.

The Alhambra Golf Course is located in the heart of a genteel South Florida city. Resembling a traditional English village green, it is surrounded by the manicured lawns of magnificent houses and is the pride of the citizens of Greenhaven. But the tranquility of this urban oasis is threatened by a brash and vulgar, billionaire developer with bad hair who wishes the convert Greenhaven’s precious jewel into a towering hotel multiplex onto which he can affix his name in gold letters.

Der Lotus: Klaus und Veruca stehlen den Mönchen, die die Geschichte Chinas dokumentieren, eine Schriftrolle und entkommen. Po und Wandelnde Klinge kommen ihnen zu Hilfe. Doch Älteste Huang glaubt, Zhen, eine von den Mönchen, sei der Übeltäter. Die Kaiserliche Leibwache ist verständigt, Zhen wird in einem Käfig gefangen gehalten. Da Zhen aber Auskunft über Klaus und Veruca geben kann, beschließt Wandelnde Klinge, sie zu befreien. Po hat ein Problem damit, sind doch die Mönche die einzigen, die ihn noch als Drachenmeister anerkennen.

Die miau-tastischen Spiele: Der Tag der Miau-tastischen Spiele ist da. Gabby und ihr Team fordern die „Doodads", die Gewinner des letzten Jahres heraus! Drei spannenden Spiele gilt es zu meistern. Und beide Teams liefern sich ein Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen. Wer wird in diesem Jahr den begehrten Pokal nach Hause bringen?

Sid Carter is an American CPA who receives a letter from a stranger in Nigeria offering him a generous percentage if Sid will only help him export his $60 million fortune out of Africa. Acting on a whim, Sid finds himself drawn into a world of intrigue that takes him to Paris, the Sahara desert, Switzerland and finally into the Islamic mosques of Cleveland.

An industry overseer, Digital Commerce 360 estimates that consumers spent $861.12 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2020, up an incredible 44 percent year over year. Truly a staggering sum to be sure. Most of us have forgotten how terrifying e-commerce was just a few years ago. Fraud and identity theft were rampant at the turn of the century in 1999. More importantly, Silicon Valley did not have the answers, either. That’s when Michael Keresman saw an opportunity to refine the digital payments process. Only his name or his company, CardinalCommerce may not sound familiar.

"Die Handschuh-Herausforderung": Po bricht auf eine Schlemmerreise durch China auf. Sein erstes Ziel ist Pei-Peis Haus der Fettknödel im Dorf Wankun. Dort befindet sich auch der WuGao-Handschuh, der seinem Besitzer unglaubliche Macht verleiht. Aus diesem Grund haben es Klaus und Veruca, zwei Kriminelle aus England, auf ihn abgesehen. Po versucht vergeblich, die beiden vom Diebstahl des Handschuhs abzuhalten. Zu seinem Vater Mr. Ping zurückgekehrt muss er erfahren, dass der Kaiser ihm der Titel Drachenmeister entzogen hat, nachdem das Dorf Wankun verwüstet wurde.

In Havana, Cuba, on the eve of the Revolution, two brothers are swept apart by the unpredictable tides of history which will change, unite and finally destroy them both. Half a century later, returning home after a long boating weekend, Raymond and Margaret Doyle were horrified to discover an alligator in their swimming pool. They were even more upset to find a half digested corpse, also floating in their pool, wearing a pin-stripe, woolen suit in the middle of August.

Miami is not unique among American cities for having so many homicides. It is unique however, for having so many bizarre and exotic ones. The book describes twenty some homicides which range from the usual crimes of passion and mob hits to robberies gone-wrong and political assassinations.

This satirical view of college professors features a philosophy professor who believes logic will solve all problems from bringing justice to everyone to personal relationships. His problems include convincing his colleagues to unionize and dealing with a history professor who believes he is the 21st-century version of Henry VIII and an English Lit professor who believes she can become Ann Boleyn.

The seven volumes of In Search of Lost Time have been translated into more than a dozen languages, including several different English versions, but the twelve volumes of A Dance to the Music of Time have been translated into only three other languages. There have been more than three thousand books written about Proust but less than a dozen written about Powell. This book seeks to compare the two novels and the two novelists, and attempt to explain or at least explore the disparity in their respective receptions."

Der Physiker Nikola Tesla galt lange als vergessen - doch seine unglaublichen Erfindungen waren es nie. Ein ausgerechnet in Deutschland wiederentdecktes Öl-Porträt des genialen Ingenieurs bringt Hacker T-Rex auf die Spur eines mysteriösen Experiments, in dem Tesla quasi "aus dem Nichts" Energie erschaffen zu haben scheint. Doch T-Rex erkennt das wirkliche Geheimnis Teslas. Und die übergroße Bedeutung, die diese Entdeckung - ähnlich wie Teslas Entwicklungen des Wechselstroms und der Funktechnik - wieder einmal für die Menschheit haben könnte.

Steve Brill beschließt, den auf seinem Land befindlichen Grabhügel gegen den ausdrücklichen Rat seines Nachbarn Juan Lopez zu öffnen. Angeblich soll es eine unheimliche Bewandtnis mit dem merkwürdigen Erdhaufen haben. Der Farmer jedoch glaubt nicht an Geister, Flüche und Dämonen und rammt daher beherzt den Spaten in den Boden...

Heiß, heiß, heiß: Immer wieder, vor allem nachts, verschwindet Aggro von ihrem Schlafplatz. Entweder hockt sie am Feuer, oder sie begibt sich ins Tal der kochenden Quellen. Sie hat sogar keine Hemmungen, in einen Vulkankrater zu fliegen und die Hitze zu genießen? Warum das alles? Aggro häutet sich, findet diesen Vorgang jedoch dermaßen peinlich, dass sie ihren Freunden nichts davon erzählt.