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A glass-eyed Jazz Age artist bounces between pre-talkies Hollywood and sinful New York City, dealing with nudes and demons while in pursuit of the perfect model - who had killed herself. This historical novel takes a rollicking ride through one-eyed Mahlon Blaine's adventures and experiences as an early 20th-Century illustrator. Exploring his friendships with the famous and infamous in bohemian San Francisco, pre-talkies Hollywood and other-worldly New York City, this (self) portrait paints the struggles and triumphs of an artist truly committed to his unique singular vision.

"Le jour comme la nuit" : Mgr Patrick Chauvet. Pendant la marche vers la fête de Pâques, nous avons la possibilité de parcourir nos vies, de relire nos gestes et nos paroles, de jeter sur nous-mêmes un regard franc et profond en communion avec le Seigneur. Mgr Chauvet nous propose des applications concrètes, parfois étonnantes d'humanité.

Victor Standish. Some call him the young Indiana Jones of New Orleans. Others call him the teen Ulysses of the French Quarter. The undead and worse spit his name as if it were a curse. Their cornered victims breathe the name as if it were a prayer. Discover Victor's childhood crucible of zombies and betrayal in Detroit that forged him into the legend he is. Watch Alice and Victor go to the New Orleans of 1834 to save the Crescent City of the present.

One girl. One turtle. One epic voyage! When Nelly says she's going to do a thing, she does it. Learn to juggle china cups? Of course! Live on lemons for a month? Why not? Set out in a boat with knitted sails to find her long-lost father, with only her turtle, Columbus, for company? Absolutely! And she won't let anything get in her way.

Ghosts and spirits inhabit the world around us. We can hear and see them if we are only sensitive - or psychic - enough to be aware of them. Re-examining a fascinating assortment of recorded sightings from as far back as Roman times, the author presents a serious look at ghosts, not as chain-rattling spooks, but as actual entities with which we share a greater reality.

From the undead halls of power in colonial Washington, D.C., to the bloody plains of India, to the mystery-shrouded deserts of Egypt, Texas Ranger Captain Samuel McCord is spoken of in whispers lest he take notice of the speakers. Follow his cursed footsteps from 1826 and the death bed of President John Adams to the blood-stained hills and ravines of 1857 India. And finally to 1895 Cairo and the far deserts wastes of Egypt.

Former anti-gang police unit star Loïc Le Goënec has had a chip on his shoulder ever since he was mysteriously kicked off the force. But when detectives uncover a vile ring of sexual deviance with ties to a city official, the commissioner calls his brilliant but rough-edged protégé back into action.

Die Protagonisten sind zwei Geschwister, die sich ein Kinderzimmer teilen. Jana ist sechs und Jonas fünf Jahre alt. Sie räumen seit kurzem ihr Zimmer selbstständig und zuverlässig auf, nachdem zwischen Eltern und Kindern das Thema Ordnung lange Anlass zu Streit gegeben hat. Eines Morgens finden Eltern und KInder das Kinderzimmer in völliger Unordnung vor. Die Eltern glauben natürlich, dass diese von Jana und Jonas verursacht wurde, sie selbst wissen aber, dass es nicht so ist.

Erleben Sie Hamburg, München und Berlin auf akustischen Streifzügen. Über der Elbe in Hamburg kreischen die Möwen, auf dem Viktualienmarkt in München schlendern Touristen und Einheimische zum Einkaufen und zwischen Monumenten deutscher Geschichte erleben Sie das neue Berlin weltoffen und als Vorboten eines ganz neuen lifestyles. Hören's amoi, dann sehn's scho!

GIL - Gesundheit ist Lebensqualität "Gesundheit ist ein Zustand vollkommenen körperlichen, geistigen und sozialen Wohlbefindens und nicht allein das Fehlen von Krankheit und Gebrechen." ("Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.") Definition von Gesundheit der Weltgesundheitsorganisation (WHO). Gesundheit braucht Informationen! Gesundheit braucht Wahrheit! Gesundheit braucht Eigenverantwortung! Welche Faktoren beeinflussen unsere Gesundheit? Was sind die Ursachen für die vielen gesundheitlichen Probleme denen wir derzeit gegenüberstehen? Welche Lösungswege gibt es? Wir fragen nach - bei Experten, bei Betroffenen, bei Gesundheitsanbietern.

A ship lost in the Bermuda Triangle. Nearly half of its passengers the living dead or something even worse. One Texas Ranger on a hunt for a mysterious killer now must protect the living against... Revenants (the truth behind the myth of vampires), Kali's nymphs (flesh-eating insects), Kali herself, the Amal (living shadows who drain men of their life force), Coyote (Native American trickster and chaos bringer), The Gahe (soul-drinking demons of Apache myth).

Ein "Muss" für alle Fans des deutschen FernsehkrimisNach Unterlagen der Kriminalpolizei schrieb Wolfgang Menge einem deutschen Millionenpublikum die Kommissare auf den Leib: wackere, bodenständige Typen, die in geschickt geführten Verhören und pointierten Dialogen auf windige Verbrecher treffen.

Le portrait de Jésus que dessinent les trois premiers évangiles tout au long du récit de la Passion et de la Résurrection laisse apparaître, comme en filigrane, toute une série de figures du Premier Testament : "les figures de l'origine", Adam, Abel, Noé, Abraham et Joseph ; "les figures de l'histoire", de Moïse à Jérémie en passant par Josué, David surtout et Élie; "la figure de la fin" avec le serviteur souffrant qui représente la fin des figures.

Das Hörfeature zum preisgekrönten Erzählband "Die Insel hinterm Mond" von Roland Zoss mit authentischen Tonaufnamen der Inselbewohner...

Ein Prosit auf die Gemütlichkeit: München, da denkt man an Hofbräuhaus, Oktoberfest und Biergärten...

Luke Winters has spent his whole life straddling two worlds, Lakota and White, belonging in neither. He isn't complaining. He feels richer for the twin heritages and for the struggle to be an authentic human being. He has learned to accept himself whether or not he is accepted by anyone else.

Come. The ghosts of those masters are standing upon the last edge of reality. Listen to their fading voices. They wait with the last vestiges of their souls to teach you. Now, before it is too late. Listen to Ghost Writers in the Sky. Learn from the ghosts of the true masters of writing. And as an added bonus, you will laugh along the way. Part ghost story, all manual on how to improve your writing, Ghost Writers in the Sky will leave you a better writer.

What if? Why not? Could it be? These are the eternal questions. In a Time that could have been but wasn't, yet might still be, a young bear cub wanders a strange valley where all the myths of the world are very real... and very deadly. In this timeless fable, the small cub evokes the largest of themes - hope and belonging, desire and compassion - with the lightness of a moonbeam's touch.

This story is a parallel story to The Adventure of the Final Problem Revisited, and both stories are based upon the same idea. In the original story of The Final Problem, the great detective and the evil professor meet just the one time, and twice during that one account. Yet the great detective is resurrected years later while the professor is simply forgotten, in all of our joy to get our detective returned to us, once again.

Join the cursed Texican as he clashes with the last survivor of an extinct species in the Missouri of 1848. He communes with the Spirit of the Earth in the Hawaii of 1866. He is betrayed into the hands of the British government in 1895 Cairo. Thrill to his escapes from ancient death traps in the ruins of the lost city of Tanis. Match wits with him as he duels grey aliens and seeks to decipher the mysteries left behind by the aliens who were the basis for the gods of Ancient Egypt.