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Pittsburgh has recently (and more than once) been called the most livable city in America; yet the old image of smoky skies and steel mills spewing forth grit has never quite disappeared. Its history as a dirty industrial center is a part of its residents, a part of their toughness. The people of the steel city fight.

This Christian self-help book is based on the teaching of America’s early college presidents who - from the founding of Harvard in 1636 until the early 20th century - inspired the most optimistic, prosperous, and generous society in history. For 300 years, almost every American college was run by a minister or prominent Christian thinker. Although representing many denominations, they collectively developed an enormously popular student seminar on how to find spiritual satisfaction in the larger world beyond home and church.

In this book, noted military historian William Breuer documents espionage - in all its forms - as it evolved in the hands of both Allied and Axis agents of intelligence and counterintelligence. Here you'll find riveting tales of patriotism and treachery, subversion and sabotage, kidnappings and assassinations, and bribes and blackmailing - with frequently startling revelations about the secret wars behind both the battlefields and the headlines.

This sixth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time offers a variety of works by some of the most lauded writers in the field of suspense and literature.

Crime, thriller, and noir fans will delight in this fourth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, an exciting series featuring short fiction by legendary writers, past and present. From Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and Georges Simenon to Lawrence Block and Sara Paretsky, this unique collection—compiled and edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler—is a captivating mixture of mystery and suspense.

The sonnets of William Shakespeare are among the most famous love poems in the English language. This recording presents them in their entirety, allowing a new generation to discover Shakespeare's emotional power, mastery of language, and insight into the human condition. Acclaimed actors from the past fifty years perform the entire sequence of 154 sonnets—along with "A Lover's Complaint" and selected songs—delivering the full range and power of virtuosity, emotional power and bristling intelligence that made Shakespeare great.

Can teenagers be turned on to serious reading? What kind of teachers can do it, and what books? To find out, Denby sat in on a 10th-grade English class in a demanding New York public school for an entire academic year and made frequent visits to a troubled inner-city public school in New Haven and to a respected public school in Westchester County.

An adaptation of the business classic Getting Things Done for teenage readers The most interconnected generation in history is navigating unimaginable amounts of social pressure, both in personal and online interactions. Very little time, focus, or education is being spent teaching and coaching...

In one of London's most elegant shops, a decorative doll in green velvet adopts some rather human, and sinister, traits. . . . A country gentleman is questioned about a murder that has yet to be committed. . . . While summoning spirits, a medium is drawn closer to the world of the dead than she...

Mary, Byron, Rebecca, and Luke have done their best to move on with their lives and forget the strangeness that lurks beneath the surface of Beacon Point. But while Alan Graves, the enigmatic radio host, may be long gone, his specter looms large over the group—literally.

In this series we listen to short stories that are NOT by perhaps the most well-known author of this type. But the many other rich talents in the volume may have treated the subject matter a little differently, or were perhaps just overlooked in the stampede to applaud the winner, but these authors are of equal merit.

In this series we explore the many facets of love through literary talents that span both time and country. Love is good. It’s positive, a source of joy, nourishment and all over goodness. But sometimes other more malevolent forces come to play. They infect that love, they see their form as better. Instinctively we would shy away but sometimes its pull is too powerful, almost attractive. We are drawn closer into the shadows.

DARK ROMANCE. Tauche ein in die düstere und leidenschaftliche Welt der schottischen Highlands, wo Liebe und Schmerz untrennbar miteinander verbunden sind. In diesem fesselnden Hörbuchsammelband erwarten dich vier packende Geschichten, die von dunkler Romantik, verbotenen Begierden und der Suche nach Vertrauen handeln. GENTLEMAN LESSONS: Edda kehrt in ihre Heimat zurück und trifft auf den geheimnisvollen Kyle, der ihre verletzliche Seele berührt.

Nemo hat einen Plan: Er will dem mysteriösen Päckchen-Verschicker eine Falle stellen. Das könnte ein guter Plan sein – doch leider geht er schief. Und damit haben Nemo und seine Freunde drei Probleme: 1. Drache Drago wird lebendig. 2. Die Drachenspucke hat überraschende Nebenwirkungen. 3. Die einzige Person, die Drago in ein harmloses Stofftier zurückverwandeln kann, befindet sich am anderen Ende der Welt. Also fasst Nemo einen neuen Plan. Einen guten Plan. Doch leider geht auch dieser schief.

Ding-dong, die Post ist da! Was für ein Monster wohl diesmal in dem mysteriösen Päckchen steckt? Die Freunde Nemo, Oda und Fred können ihr Glück kaum fassen, als ihnen ein Einhorn entgegenblickt – denn das Tier namens Magic kann Wünsche erfüllen! Jetzt können sie all ihre Träume wahr werden lassen und die der Boringer Bürger gleich mit. Aber vielleicht ist mit dem rülpsenden und pupsenden Einhorn doch nicht alles so super wie gedacht.

For an atheist it’s a great deal, though it does suggest atheism may have a weak point. For those of faith it’s a matter of jam now and purgatory tomorrow. A bargain many artists feel is something they can live with. For agnostics it’s usually a question of can the afterlife really be that bad, would workplace regulations reach all parts of heaven and hell. However, in this volume the terms are agreed and the Devil pays his fees and the character his dues, each happy to wait a few decades for the eternal payback.

Most famous for his Hornblower series, iconic writer C. S. Forester tells tales of adventure like no other. This BBC radio collection features modern adaptations of five of his acclaimed novels, including The African Queen (famously adapted as an Oscar-winning film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn) and The Gun, which was turned into the hit Hollywood movie The Pride and the Passion.

Ding-Dong!... Zappenduster! »Für ein neues Monster hab ich echt keine Zeit!« Als Nemo das dritte Päckchen bekommt, bringt er es ungeöffnet zurück zur Post. Erledigt, denkt Nemo. Gut gemacht, denken seine Freunde. – Falsch gedacht. Denn: 1. Es wird plötzlich stockdunkel in der Stadt. Mitten am Tag. 2. Jemand anders muss die Kiste aufgemacht haben! 3. Und das Wesen, das darin war, stöckelt nun frei umher! – Nemo, Fred und Oda wissen nicht, was für ein Wesen. Sie wissen nur, was auf der Kiste stand: »Bitte nicht öffnen – durstig...«

Ein lebendiger Yeti – in unserer Stadt?! "Bitte nicht öffnen!" steht auf dem geheimnisvollen Päckchen, das Nemo bekommt. Klare Sache: Nemo macht es auf... Und dann passieren drei Dinge: – Eine Plüschfigur springt heraus, ein verfressener Yeti-Ritter namens Icy-Ice-Monsta – quicklebendig! – Draußen schneit es – und das mitten im Sommer! –Und der Yeti wird groß. Sehr groß. Zweieinhalb Meter groß! Während die Kleinstadt Boring in Schnee und Eis versinkt, kommen Nemo und seine Freunde ordentlich ins Schwitzen.

Curio nous embarque dans une folle aventure au coeur des phénomènes scientifiques. Au début, il est un peu paniqué... Qu'est-ce qui se passe ? Où je suis ? Et puis au fil des rebondissements Curio comprend, en même temps que nous, le phénomène et enregistre des informations étonnantes et insolites. Une série de 6 épisodes qui donne le goût des sciences : les météorites, les volcans, les momies, le vent, les virus et les dinosaures.