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The collected fables, short stories, and essays of writer, newspaper columnist, and playwright George Ade, who has been called the creator of modern American humor in the early 20th century. Introduced, edited, and revised by storyteller and radio personality Jean Shepherd. Originally published by G. P. Putnam's Sons in 1961.

Seit seiner frühen Kindheit hat Xavier Poitard keinerlei Kontakt mehr zu seinem Vater Arthur. Nachdem seine Mutter unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben gekommen war, war Arthur vor dreißig Jahren von einem Tag auf den anderen verschwunden. Ein Trauma für Xavier. Seine Analyse hat ihn ein kleines Vermögen gekostet, und immer noch plagen ihn heftige Migräneanfälle. Bis zu dem Tag als Xavier, Anzeigenlayouter bei einer Tageszeitung, plötzlich unter den Texten die Todesanzeige seines Vaters entdeckt.

Fifty-eight minutes into her first day on the job, 23-year-old Sheriff Piper Blackwell is faced with a grisly murder, the victim artfully posed amid decorations on his lawn. Drawing on former military training, Piper must prove herself worthy of the sheriff's badge, and that won't be easy. Chief Deputy Oren Rosenberg, Piper's opponent in the recent election, doesn't like her and wants her to fail.

Grégoire Morvan, graue Eminenz des französischen Innenministeriums, hütet dunkle Geheimnisse aus seiner Vergangenheit in Zaire. Dort hatte er in den Siebzigerjahren einen bestialischen Killer zu Fall gebracht. Doch jener "Nagelmann", der seine Opfer einem grausamen Ritual folgend mit Nägeln und Spiegelscherben gespickt zurückließ, scheint einen mysteriösen Nachfolger zu haben. Als eine Serie ähnlich gearteter Anschläge Morvans gesamte Familie bedroht, begibt sich Sohn Erwan, Pariser Polizeikommissar, im Alleingang in den Kongo, um die wahre Geschichte seines Vaters zu ergründen.

2 Erzählungen des Schweizer Autors Jean-Pascal Ansermoz auf der Suche nach dem Sinn und dem Glück und was beides ausmacht. "Regensymphonie" erzählt die Geschichte des 12jährigen Kadirs, der nach der Flucht aus Syrien mit seiner 16jährigen Schwester ohne Eltern in einem italienischen Auffanglager lebt. Als unbegleitete Minderjährige riskieren die beiden jeden Tag, entdeckt und getrennt in Heime gesteckt zu werden.

Humorist Jean Shepherd 1921-1999, perhaps now best known as the creator/narrator of the perennial holiday movie favorite "A Christmas Story", had a long career on radio which culminated during the period of 1956-1977 when he was heard most days on WOR radio in New York, a clear-channel station heard along the Eastern seaboard and points west.

Associant théorie et pratique, un enregistrement inédit qui vous guidera dans l'exercice de la "Marche méditative" pour atteindre la pleine conscience en milieux naturel ou urbain. Dans nos sociétés modernes, nous privilégions l'efficacité et la rapidité, nous courrons après un quotidien minuté et, bien souvent, la marche, jugée oisive, est délaissée. Pourtant, il est primordial de simplement prendre le temps et de savoir revenir à l'essentiel.

“We’ve all been desperate to learn what heavy use of social media does to adolescents. Now, thanks to Twenge’s careful analysis, we know: It is making them lonely, anxious, and fragile—especially our girls. If you are a parent, teacher, or employer, you must read this fascinating book...

Der Serienmörder Jacques Reverdi sitzt im Gefängnis und wartet auf sein Urteil. Der Pariser Journalist Mark Dupeyrat plant einen Bestseller über diesen Mann und "erfindet" zu diesem Zweck Elisabeth, die Briefkontakt mit Reverdi aufnimmt...

Freya Moreton is yoga instructor who's escaped poverty and her own nightmare Mommy Dearest to become a successful entrepreneur. Her high-end clients are society's crème de la crème. At a client's birthday party, she meets his brother, and it's lust at first sight! Tristan Lucas is the poster boy for Prince Charming - wealthy, sexy, and handsome - but it isn't long before the luster dims on the fairy tale, and Tristan show his true self. When he asks her to marry him, she's torn.

7 Checklist Items for Success was made to challenge the conventional status quo of today’s self-help titles. It encourages listeners to alter their perspective to reflect a thankfulness about being alive and a willingness to become a beacon of hope to themselves and others around them.

Jean Sheehan looked like the average wife, mom, and nurse. She was efficient, logical, and grounded. As a nurse who worked in general nursing, pathology, and autopsies, she loved anything to do with health, but her hobby was learning about the spiritual realm. She loved crystals, aromatherapy, healing modalities, and yummy organic food. But nothing could prepare her for what was about to happen. She was being prepared for her awakening and new journey in consciousness for the new millennium.

Keen to move out of the elephant's stomach, that stew of gray mists called weather in Wales, Jean Gill offered her swimming certificate to a bemused Provençale estate agent and bought a house with good stars and its own spring water. Or, rather, as it turns out, a neighbor's spring water that is the only supply to the kitchen, which, according to the nice men from the Water Board, is emptying its dirty water directly and illegally onto the main road.... And there's worse....

When a series of earthquakes strike a Dark Knight mining camp, goblin, and hobgoblin slaves take advantage of the bedlam and revolt. A fast and deadly rebellion erupts, pitting the Dark Knights against their slaves...and against the still-rumbling ground. Casualties on both sides climb as a leader emerges among the slave force - Direfang, a hobgoblin foreman with deep scars and a long, brutal history of servitude. He must rally the surviving goblins and hobgoblins and lead them out of Neraka....

The Summer of Chaos has ended. Ansalon’s nightmare has only just begun.

The gods have departed the world, heralding a new Age of Mortals. But before the dust of war can settle, vast shadows cover the land. Dragons have come to Ansalon, larger and more powerful than any ever seen, and they will wreak havoc on nations still trembling from war. As the lands themselves begin to change under the dire magic of the new dragon overlords, new heroes arise to lead the fight for freedom.

A serial killer is on the loose in Bordeaux. A local chief detective calls wine expert Benjamin Cooker to the crime scene of a brutal murder. The killer has left a strange calling card: 12 wine glasses lined up in a semi-circle with the first one filled with wine. Cooker is charged with the task of identifying the fabulous grand cru and is astonished by what he learns. A second victim is found, with two glasses filled. Is the killer intentionally leaving clues about his victims and his motives?

The Summer of Chaos has ended. Ansalon's nightmare has only just begun. The gods have departed the world, heralding a new Age of Mortals. But before the dust of war can settle, vast shadows cover the land. Dragons have come to Ansalon, larger and more powerful than any ever seen, and they will wreak havoc on nations still trembling from war. As the lands themselves begin to change under the dire magic of the new dragon overlords, new heroes arise to lead the fight for freedom.

France's top wine expert Benjamin Cooker sets off to enjoy the delights of Vienna, a romantic ride down the Danube, a gourmand's visit to Budapest, and a luxury train through the enchanting Hungarian countryside. All too soon, stolen wallets, disappearing passports, guides who are a bit too obliging, and murder mar the trip. Meanwhile, in Bordeaux, Cooker's handsome assistant Virgile faces an annoying rival and a mildew crisis in the vineyards just as Cooker's lab technician is the victim of a mugging.

Fine wines, dirty secrets. It's summer in Bordeaux. There's a heat wave, the vineyards are suffering, vintners are on edge, and wine expert Benjamin Cooker's daughter is visiting. A tragic car accident draws the winemaker detective and his assistant, Virgile, into a case where the stakes are very personal.

A new collection of baffling murder puzzlers and thrilling crime stories. Six of the author's best mystery stories in a novella length collection. Listen to "The Cruise Ship Murder," "No Where to Hide," "The Boxoffice Caper," "Dark Hunger," "The Greensox Murder Case," "MrNice@xxx.com."