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In a busy maternity ward, first-time father Dan meets Jada, a dad welcoming his fifth — no, sixth? — child into the world. Dan and Jada come from very different places: both called Glasgow. Dan is a successful TV writer with a townhouse in the West End and a shiny Tesla ready to drive his wife and baby home. Jada is a hustling, small-time criminal who is already planning how to separate Dan from some of the luxuries Jada has never been able to enjoy in his tiny flat in a Brutalist sixties council block. Both men find that the birth of their sons has fired their ambitions.

Meet Nives: widow, Tuscan through and through, survivor. Nives recently lost her husband of 50 years. She didn’t cry when she found him dead in the pig pen, and she didn’t cry at the funeral, but now loneliness has set in. When she decides to bring her favorite chicken inside for company, she is shocked, confused, and a little bit guilty to discover that the chicken’s company is a more-than-adequate replacement for her dead husband.

Welcome to Ringworld, an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. The gravitational force created by a rotation on its axis of 770 miles per second means no need for a roof. Walls 1,000 miles high at each rim will let in the sun and prevent much air from escaping. Larry Niven's novel, Ringworld, is the winner of the 1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel, the 1970 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and the 1972 Ditmars, an Australian award for Best International Science Fiction.

Alex Niven charts the astonishing rise of Oasis in the mid 1990s and celebrates the life-affirming, communal force of songs such as “Live Forever,” “Supersonic,” and “Cigarettes & Alcohol.” In doing so, he seeks to reposition Oasis in relation to their Britpop peers and explore one of the most controversial pop-cultural narratives of the last thirty years.

John Niven's little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes terrifying. In 2010, after years of chaotic struggle against the world, he took his own life at the age of 42. Hoping for the best while often witnessing the worst, John, his younger sister Linda and their mother, Jeanette, saw the darkest fears they had for Gary played out in drug deals, prison and bankruptcy.

An auteur, together with his lead actors, is at a prestigious European festival to premiere his latest film. Alone one morning at a backstreet café, he strikes up a conversation with a local woman who takes him on a walk to uncover the city's secrets, historic and personal. As the walk unwinds, a story of love and tragedy emerges, and he begins to see the chance meeting as fate. He is entranced, wholly clear in his mind: her story must surely form the basis for his next film.

Dan è uno sceneggiatore televisivo frustrato ma di successo che è finalmente diventato papà. Jada è un piccolo criminale di quartiere che ha appena avuto il suo sesto figlio. I due conducono esistenze agli antipodi. Eppure, dal loro incontro fortuito in ospedale in una livida mattina di Glasgow nasce un legame. Quando Dan si troverà a fare i conti con una tragedia che spezza un uomo, sarà proprio Jada a tendergli una mano. A modo suo, con un sacco di droga e alcol, ma anche senza giudicare. E chissà che, aiutando Dan, Jada non finisca per salvare sé stesso.

Objectives and Key Results is the first full-fledged reference guide on Objectives and Key Results, a critical-thinking framework designed to help organizations create value through focus, alignment, and better communication. Written by two leading OKRs consultants and researchers, this audiobook provides a one-stop resource for organizations looking to quantify qualitative goals. You'll learn how OKRs came to be and how leading companies use them every day to help teams and employees stretch their thinking about what's possible.

The world named Mount Lookitthat was never meant for humans - it was shrouded in lethal mists. Life existed only on one plateau, unreachable except from space. But the disastrous decision to colonize the planet could not be reversed. So the settlers survived somehow - under a ruthless dictatorship. Mount Lookitthat was rebellion-proof. Then fate dealt the colonists a wild card named Matthew Keller, who had a talent that neither he nor anybody else knew about. At last the colonists had a glimmer of hope!

The Mote In God's Eye is their acknowledged masterpiece, an epic novel of mankind's first encounter with alien life that transcends the genre. No lesser an authority than Robert A. Heinlein called it "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read".

After being thrown out of the window of his luxury apartment, science-fiction writer Allen Carpentier wakes to find himself at the gates of Hell. Feeling he's landed in a great opportunity for a book, he attempts to follow Dante's road map. Determined to meet Satan himself, Carpentier treks through the nine circles of Hell, led by Benito Mussolini, and encounters countless mental and physical tortures.

Ein Gespräch voller überraschender Wendungen Nives hat kürzlich ihren Mann verloren, nach langjähriger Ehe. Zuerst gefasst, bald aber einsam auf ihrem Hof, beschließt sie, ihr Lieblingshuhn Giacomina ins Haus zu holen, und muss erstaunt feststellen, wie gut ihr diese Gesellschaft tut. Als Giacomina sich eines Abends plötzlich nicht mehr bewegt, weil sie zu lange auf die Waschmaschinenwerbung gestarrt hat, gerät Nives in Panik: Sie ruft Loriano Bottai an, den befreundeten Tierarzt, den sie wie alle anderen Dorfbewohner seit Jahrzehnten kennt.

Vill du ta dina tyska kunskaper till nästa nivå? Med Lär dig tyska genom berättelser får du uppleva språket på ett naturligt och engagerande sätt – genom korta, fängslande berättelser utformade speciellt för dig som befinner dig på A2–B1-nivå.

Vill du lära dig franska och fördjupa dina språkkunskaper på ett sätt som känns naturligt och lustfyllt? I den här ljudboken tar du dig in i språket genom engagerande franska kortberättelser – noggrant utformade för dig som letar efter material på A2–B1-nivå eller en levande fortsättningskurs i franska.

Vill du lära dig italienska och fördjupa dina språkkunskaper på ett sätt som känns naturligt och lustfyllt? I den här ljudboken tar du dig in i språket genom engagerande italienska kortberättelser – noggrant utformade för dig som letar efter material på A2–B1-nivå eller en levande fortsättningskurs i italienska.

Denna ljudbok är utformad för svensktalande som vill förbättra sin engelska på en medelnivå genom engagerande och realistiska berättelser. Varje kapitel följer vardagliga situationer som resor, arbete, vänskap och kulturmöten, vilket gör det lätt att relatera till innehållet och samtidigt bygga ett praktiskt ordförråd.

Nives Meroi è un'alpinista che ha cominciato una gara appassionante: in competizione con una spagnola, vorrebbe diventare la prima donna a conquistare tutti e quattordici gli Ottomila del mondo. Adesso è a quota dodici. Nives scala con suo marito e con un giovane fotografo, senza portatori d'alta quota, senza usare ossigeno. Il loro rapporto con la montagna è di assoluta purezza. Erri De Luca, anch'egli arrampicatore appassionato, è amico di Nives e la segue da tempo nelle sue imprese.

Scarlet har uppfostrats till att vara tuff och självständig. Men när hon vid tjugo års ålder plötsligt blir ensamstående mamma, kan hon inte låta bli att oroa sig inför framtiden. Som ogift förälder känner hon en skam som ingen av hennes väninnor kan mäta sig med – och då är de ändå långt ifrån perfekta. Helen har både giftermål och skilsmässa i bagaget, Sylvia bär ärr från ett liv som ständigt offer, Jocelyn känner sig instängd i överklassens tråkiga normer och Audrey plågas alltid av det ena problemet efter det andra.

Newlywed Lisa Niver was on the adventure of a lifetime. She had quit her job, rented out her condo, and was traveling around Asia. To the outside world, Niver was a woman living out her dreams of exploring ancient ruins in Cambodia and seeing orangutans in Borneo. In private, she was keeping a dark secret. But, when she found herself lying on a sidewalk in Thailand, looking up at the sky in severe pain, she knew things had to change. At age forty-seven, Niver found the courage to set course on a new life.

Från början ser det ut som om det enbart rör sig om ett bedrägeri. Ett av de största som drabbat en svensk bank. Pengarna flyttas mycket snabbt mellan olika konton över hela världen. Kriminalinspektör Göran Ålund arbetar på Rikskriminalen. Av en ren slump får han upp ögonen för Daniel Klein, en misstänkt ekobrottsling som varit under utredning flera gånger men hittills aldrig blivit dömd. När Ålund börjar syna Klein i sömmarna, visar det sig att han sannolikt är inblandad i bedrägerihärvan.