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Second Lives takes us on a revelatory journey through the electronic looking glass as Tim Guest investigates one of the most bizarre phenomena of the 21st century: virtual lives.

Cody Roche ist nicht nur jünger, agiler und bescheidener als Wayne McLair, seine Weste weist auch die exakt richtige Zahl an Knöpfen auf. Die Zusammenarbeit der beiden droht zu kippen, doch gilt es, ein gemeinsames Ziel zu verfolgen: die Goldreserven der Roten Schlange! Um der neuen La Zorra zu helfen, muss das Team ausgerechnet in die Höhle des Löwen ... in das Büro des Superintendents der DMP!

Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West, and founded a successful business. But walking down the street one day, he and his fiancée are attacked by two men, and his fiancée is killed. Sinking back into anonymity, Driver realises that his past stalks him - and will not stop. He has to turn and face it.

Sales Team Management: The Samurai Way is a groundbreaking book for sales managers and executives who want an organic control to high sales performance. Based on real-life results and personal research into how world-class achievement can be attained through old-fashion grit and new-era psychological best practices. This book is a simple listen that helps listeners choose which of the processes are needed to achieve their own strategic objectives. It also provides examples of actual tools and frameworks for sales managers to use, and it provides straight-forward advice.

These short stories are brimming with the big-heartedness, warmth and homespun humor that the author is known for. Geoffrey Thomas introduces curious characters in this mesmerizing story based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale.

Each soul's journey through life on planet Earth is an adventure. The greater picture of the billions of lives and their stories is a cosmic phenomenon we can never fully comprehend. But with our God-given intuition and creative power, we can imagine. And in our lives, we learn that there is inner guidance available to us if we merely tune in.

Western Missouri. Former army scout Jack Gregory returns from battle to a homestead in ruins. A wanted man with no place to go, he chooses an even deadlier career - as a scout for General George Armstrong Custer. Under a new name, Jack serves bravely in the Seventh Cavalry. But when Custer’s disastrous leadership ends in devastating slaughter, Jack sets off to forge his own destiny. Winning a small ranch in a card game, he hopes to settle down and live a peaceful life.

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a young man living in Jerusalem witnesses the effects of terrorist bombings on the citizens' everyday lives.

Hercule Poirot ist sich seiner Sache sicher: Um den abgetauchten Mr. Davenheim wiederzufinden, wettet er mit seinem Freund Hastings, dass er nur eine Woche dazu braucht ihn aufzuspüren - ohne sich aus seinem Sessel zu erheben. In einem anderen Fall eilt ihm sein Ruf voraus: Poirot steigt aufgrund einer Autopanne in einem Gasthof ab und wird gebeten, eine verschwundene Frau wiederzufinden. Selbstverständlich eine Kleinigkeit für den belgischen Meisterdetektiv.

At the turn of the millennium, Holly's lifelong dream of writing music for a major orchestra quickly spirals into a hellish nightmare. Ensnared in a tangled web of deceit at the highest levels of Government, the beautiful 30-year-old composer is sucked into a lion's den of debauchery from which there is only one avenue of escape. When a suppressed childhood memory rears its ugly head she wreaks vengeance on the psycho ex-rock star who violates her.

Literatur trifft Philosophie. Michael Köhlmeier ist ein großer Erzähler und Konrad Paul Liessmann ein brillanter Philosoph, der auch komplizierte Denkfiguren anschaulich erklären kann. In der Kunst, dem Mythos philosophische Wahrheiten zu entlocken, ergänzen sie sich perfekt. Zu zwölf Schlüsselbegriffen unseres Lebens erzählt Michael Köhlmeier eine Geschichte, inspiriert von antiken Sagen oder Volksmärchen; dazu zeigt Konrad Paul Liessmann in seiner Interpretation, was er aus diesen Geschichten über die Spielregeln und Möglichkeiten unserer Welt herausliest: Antworten auf grundsätzliche Fragen unseres Lebens.

In Patrick Dacey's stunning debut, we meet longtime neighbors and friends - citizens of working-class Wequaquet - right when the ground beneath their feet has shifted in ways they don't yet understand. Here, after more than a decade of boom and bust, love and pride are closely twinned and dangerously deployed: A lonely woman attacks a memorial to a neighbor's veteran son; a dissatisfied housewife goes overboard with cosmetic surgery on national television.

In this short story from Nathan Englander's collection For the Relief of Unbearable Urges, a mental patient tries to get help from a rabbi to smooth over family problems his manic episodes cause.

This story is excerpted from The Emperor's New Clothes: And Other Stories by Geoffrey Thomas. These short stories are brimming with the big-heartedness, warmth, and homespun humor that the author is known for.

In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted 'death of print' has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are a thing of the past, as we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication but have become so intuitive as to hail us taxis before we leave our offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange.

This story is excerpted from The Pied Piper of Hamelin: And Other Tales by Geoffrey Thomas. These short stories are brimming with the big-heartedness, warmth, and homespun humor that the author is known for.

This story is excerpted from The Legendary Casey Jones: And Other American Folktales by Geoffrey Thomas. These short stories are brimming with the big-heartedness, warmth, and homespun humor that the author is known for. Geoffrey Thomas introduces extraordinary characters in this mesmerizing tale of American heritage.

This story is excerpted from The Emperor's New Clothes: And Other Stories by Geoffrey Thomas. These short stories are brimming with the big-heartedness, warmth, and homespun humor that the author is known for.

This story is excerpted from The Legendary Casey Jones: And Other American Folktales by Geoffrey Thomas. These short stories are brimming with the big-heartedness, warmth, and homespun humor that the author is known for.

A stylish piece of noir fiction; now a major film starring Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan. Drive is about a man who does stunt driving for movies by day and drives for criminals at night. Sallis combines murder, treachery, and payback in a sinister plot with resonances of 1940s pulp fiction and film noir. Told through a cinematic narrative that weaves back and forth through time and place, the story explores Driver's near-existential moral foundations, intercut with moments of bloody violence.