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What if it were possible to upload years of knowledge into your mind in hours? To become an expert in multiple scientific fields, become an MD, or learn several languages - in a single day? The benefit to humanity would be immense. But so would the danger.... Rachel Howard is a brilliant neuroscientist trying to make this capability a reality. But when she crosses paths with Kevin Quinn, a Secret Service agent desperately trying to kill the president, she finds herself at the epicenter of an insidious plot.

Short Stories in Italian for Intermediate Learners has been written specifically for students from a low-intermediate to intermediate level, designed to give a sense of achievement and, most importantly - enjoyment! Mapped to B1-B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference, these eight captivating stories will both entertain you and give you a feeling of progress when listening.

Brimley Manor hat seine besten Tage hinter sich. Schon lange. Das einst prächtige Anwesen ist inzwischen ein Museum für allerlei verstaubte Kuriositäten des ehemaligen Eigentümers. Doch dann bricht ein Feuer aus - und Jack und Sarah entdecken immer mehr Hinweise, die auf Brandstiftung deuten! Die Angestellten von Brimley Manor scheinen allerdings nicht besonders interessiert, den Brand aufzuklären. Sie verhalten sich rätselhaft und offenbar gibt es mehr als ein dunkles Geheimnis, das sich um dieses Haus rankt.

Das historische Rathaus soll verkauft und in ein Luxushotel mit Restaurant umgebaut werden. Die einen halten dieses Projekt für unbedingt notwendig, die anderen sehen darin den Ausverkauf ihres idyllischen Dorfes! Doch aus der friedlichen Auseinandersetzung wird tödlicher Ernst, als einer der Demonstranten angegriffen und mit dem Tod bedroht wird. Können Jack und Sarah den Angreifer rechtzeitig finden und so einen Mord verhindern?

Auf einer Wanderung auf dem Cotswolds Way stürzt eine der Teilnehmerinnen von einem hohen Felsen - war es ein Unfall? Oder ein Mordversuch? Jack und Sarah nehmen die Wanderer genauer unter die Lupe. Und diese Gruppe hat es in sich ... Doch wer von ihnen ist der Täter? Und hat er sein Ziel schon erreicht oder plant er weitere Anschläge? Aber auch das Opfer scheint ein Geheimnis zu haben ...

The New York Times bestselling author and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute blends science and religion in this thoughtful guide that teaches modern believes how to use the leading wellness trend today—intermittent fasting—as a means of spiritual awakening, adopting the traditions our...

England, 1929: Mydworth - ein kleiner verschlafener Ort im ländlichen Sussex. Hier geschieht selten etwas Aufregendes ... Aber das ändert sich, als der junge Adlige Sir Harry Mortimer zusammen mit seiner amerikanischen Frau Kat in seinen Heimatort zurückkehrt. Kaum sind die beiden in Mydworth angekommen, werden bei einer Party im Herrenhaus Mydworth Manor kostbare Juwelen gestohlen. Die beiden Täter kann man auf frischer Tat ertappen: einer wird erschossen, aber der andere kann fliehen.

A fast-paced, raucous ride across America with four joke-slinging entertainers who know how to party and put on a great show. Get a lighthearted look at life on the road and the high-spirited experience of being Irish in America.

Spoiled New York City girl, Hildegarde Graham, is sent to stay with her mother's old nurse in the country. When her parents must take a trip to California, Hildegarde learns the value of simplicity, kindness, and a more democratic sensibility. Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (Feb. 27, 1850 - Jan. 14, 1943) was born in Boston, Mass., to a high-profile family. During her life, she wrote over 90 books, including children's novels, biographies, and poetry. Queen Hildegarde, published in 1889, was one of her most famous works.

Cristy Haviland served eight months in prison, where she gave birth to the child of the man who put her there and might yet destroy her. Now she's free again, but what does that mean? As smart as she is, a learning disability has kept her from learning to read - and that's the least of her hurdles. Georgia Ferguson, a talented educator, receives a mysterious charm bracelet that may help her find the mother who abandoned her at birth. Does she want to follow the clues?

For more than a decade, Minister Analiese Wagner has felt privileged to lead her parishioners along a well-lit path. Her commitment has never been seriously tested until the frigid night she encounters a homeless family huddling in the churchyard. Offering them shelter in a vacant parish house apartment and taking teenage Shiloh Fowler - a girl desperate to rescue her parents - under her wing, she tests the loyalty and faith of her congregation.

With nothing but brains, ambition, and sheer nerve, Charlotte Hale built a career as a tough, do-anything-to-succeed real estate developer. She's at the top of that mountain - but her life is empty. Her friends are as grasping and insincere as she has become. Far worse, she's alienated her family so completely that she's totally lost touch with her only daughter. One terrifying day, facing her own mortality, she realizes that her ambition has almost destroyed her chance at happiness.

On the night her home is consumed by fire, Janine Stoddard finally resolves to leave her abusive husband. While she is reluctant to involve her estranged daughter, she can't resist a chance to see Harmony and baby Lottie before she disappears forever. Harmony's friend Taylor Martin realizes how much the reunited mother and daughter yearn to stay together, and she sees in Jan a chance to continue her own mother's legacy of helping women in need of a fresh start. She opens her home, even as she's opening her heart to another newcomer, AdamPryor.

When Susan Richards adopted an abused horse rescued by the local SPCA, she didn't know that the memoir she would write about the experience would become a best seller - or that she would fall in love.

Sam Kinkade is finally feeling at home as a minister in rural Toms Brook, Virginia, content with his life and Shenandoah Valley congregation. But his plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community are being met with resistance. Fortunately, when the church-run community center is threatened, a stranger named Elisa Martinez walks through his door and Sam realizes he has found a woman capable of building bridges. Elisa isn't looking to make connections. She has come to Toms Brook to hide.

The name of Florence Nightingale is a household word, but the exact nature and scope of her work, and the difficulties and discouragement under which it was accomplished, are unknown to many in the present generation. This story of that justly beloved woman’s life is told by one whose father was in part responsible for Miss Nightingale’s decision to devote her life to nursing. Written with a rare sympathy and beauty of style, this uplifting account of a noble life will inspire young and old alike.

In a cave in the Shenandoah National Park, two bodies are discovered, wrapped in the tattered remains of a lover's knot quilt. In Washington, D.C., Isaac Taylor inherits a nearly identical quilt from a grandmother whose name he never even knew. After narrowly escaping death, newspaper journalist Kendra Taylor retreats to a cabin nestled in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley to heal and sort out her feelings about her troubled marriage.

Needing time to contemplate her troubled marriage, Tessa MacRae agrees to spend the summer helping her mother and grandmother clean out the family home in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. But the three women have never been close.

With nine years and a turbulent childhood between them, Kendra and Jamie have never been storybook sisters. Now Jamie is offering a gift Kendra has long since given up hoping for, the fondest wish of her heart - a baby. Already raising two young girls on her own, Jamie wants to become a gestational surrogate for Kendra and her husband, Isaac. In addition to this amazing gift of life, Jamie has designed a new house for Kendra and Isaac and is overseeing its construction on Isaac's ancestral property.

Odette is a scriptwriter for a popular TV soap opera. When she moves to the small Free State town of Nagelaten, she hopes to leave her problems - of family, fraught relationships and experiences of crime - behind in Joburg. To the dwellers of Nagelaten, Odette appears to be escaping a painful breakup in a place she knows no one - and won't have to share her secrets.