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London, 1899: When a mysterious packet is stolen from a diplomatic courier, Sherlock and Lucy are called upon to recover it before its ominous contents fall into the wrong hands. The Baker Street gang uncovers a dark, tangled web of intrigue and an evil plot that could very well bring all of England to its knees. When a notorious criminal is found dead in the bookstore basement, and the bookseller is arrested for the crime, the danger becomes very real, and very personal. Can Holmes and Lucy find the perilous packet, catch the murderous mastermind, and foil the fiendish plot?

From the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. More than 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. Isolated from each other, the two...

Jamie Beckett was just another overworked nobody. Dead end job, crappy apartment, and no way out. Then he met the bleeding elf in the alley. Turns out Jamie is a Leasher. One of a rare few born with the ability to bond powerful beings to himself. When he forms his first bond with the beautiful, dagger wielding elf, Lilly, Jamie gets dragged into a divine game where power and survival are all tangled up.

At an ancient British manor, tragedy strikes the Adair lineage, leaving Sherlock Holmes and Lucy James to sift through the aftermath. With the heir apparent in the crosshairs of suspicion, the stakes are as personal as they are perplexing. As the mystery unfurls like fog over London, Holmes, Lucy, Becky, and Flynn find themselves amid a labyrinth of hidden motives and whispered scandals. In a house where every portrait could hide a clue, can our Baker Street ensemble stitch together the truth from the tapestry of lies?

When you enhance vocabulary skills with the Verbal Advantage Advanced Edition, you will be speaking with the vocabulary power of the top 5 percent of all adults - the most successful, highest-earning people. This extraordinary audio vocabulary course will help you avoid common errors in pronunciation, spelling, grammar, and usage. Every key word is defined, spelled out, carefully pronounced, and used in a sentence. You will never be caught in a blunder again.

Dieses zweisprachige Hörbuch bietet eine lebendige und praxisorientierte Methode für Deutschsprachige, Italienisch zu lernen und das Hörverständnis zu vertiefen. Die ausgewählten Texte stammen aus dem echten Leben – aus Gesprächen, Nachrichten, Reiseberichten, medizinischen Erklärungen, kulturellen Kommentaren und persönlichen Erzählungen – und zeigen, wie Italienisch heute wirklich gesprochen und verstanden wird.

Of the many campaigns during the Middle Ages, few are as remarkable or seemingly impossible to win at the start as the First Crusade (1095-99), and the true crowning achievement of that crusade, which resulted in two centuries of Western European Christian states in the Middle East and the permanent firing of the European imagination, was the conquest of Jerusalem on July 15, 1099 after three weeks of siege.

Dieses zweisprachige Hörbuch bietet eine lebendige und praxisnahe Methode für Deutschsprachige, Französisch zu lernen und das Hörverständnis zu verbessern. Die ausgewählten Texte stammen aus dem echten Leben – aus Gesprächen, Medien, Reisen, Arbeit und Alltag – und zeigen, wie Französisch wirklich gesprochen und verstanden wird. Jeder Abschnitt präsentiert den französischen Originaltext zusammen mit der deutschen Übersetzung. So können Lernende Wortschatz und Grammatik im Zusammenhang erfassen, anstatt isolierte Vokabeln zu pauken.

Barbe Bleue est un homme très laid à cause de sa barbe, bleue, et personne ne veut l’épouser. Un jour pourtant, alors qu’il donne une fête somptueuse dans son château, la fille de sa voisine trouve ce grand Monsieur étrange, à la barbe bleue, très séduisant. Ils se marient, et peu de temps après, Barbe bleue part en voyage en confiant à sa jeune épouse toutes les clés de son château. Elle peut inviter toutes ses amies, aller partout, ouvrir toutes les portes, sauf une qu’il lui interdit…

Ce célèbre conte dont l'origine remonte à l'antiquité égyptienne a traversé les âges et les continents pour s'adapter à toutes les cultures. On ne dénombre pas moins de 500 adaptations artistiques de cette histoire. Charles Perrault a écrit la version la plus connue en 1697, c'est cette version emplie de poésie que vous allez découvrir ou redécouvrir ; Cendrillon vit avec son père, sa belle-mère très méchante et ses deux filles, toutes trois très méchantes avec Cendrillon qu’elles chargent de toutes les tâches de la maison.

Un meunier donne à son dernier fils son plus petit héritage : un chat. Celui-ci, désespéré par sa pauvreté, se demande bien en quoi un petit chat pourrait bien l'aider à surmonter ses soucis d'argent. Mais c'est sans compter sur l'intelligence de cet animal incroyable, inventant mille tours de malices !

Sous le règne du Roi Louis 14, appelé aussi le Roi Soleil, régnait bien souvent dans les campagnes une grande misère. Beaucoup de familles paysannes n’avaient presque plus rien à manger, et les enfants étaient alors les premiers sacrifiés. Cela nous paraît incroyable aujourd’hui, mais dans ces terribles moments de famine, certains désespérés en arrivaient jusque-là. C’est dans ce triste contexte que naissait, issu de la tradition orale comme beaucoup d’autres contes, l’histoire du petit Poucet.

School of Hip: A Different Kind’a Tragically Hip Podcast follows two hosts from opposite sides of the border as they dive deep into the music, history, and mythology of one of Canada’s most beloved bands.Chaz Charles — an American who first stumbled onto The Tragically Hip in the ’90s when they opened for Page & Plant — is finally taking the full journey through the band’s catalogue.Guiding him is Heath McCoy, a Canadian rock journalist who grew up with The Hip woven into the fabric of his country’s culture.Together, they explore every era, every album, and every track: the ...

Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson reisen nach Deutschland an die Ostsee. Professor Schilling, Holmes früherer Studienkollege, bittet den großen Detektiv um Hilfe. Auf der verbotenen Insel Riems befindet sich eine Forschungsstätte. Eine junge, ambitionierte Ärztin wird früh morgens im dortigen Schweinestall tot aufgefunden, nachdem sie sich mit Professor Schilling am Abend zuvor verabredet hatte. Sie wollte den Professor über eine gefährliche Entdeckung berichten, die sie gemacht hat.

Is it too late to regenerate the earth? Call of the Reed Warbler shows the way forward for the future of our food supply, our Australian landscape and our planet. This ground-breaking audiobook will change the way we think of, farm and grow food. Author and radical farmer Charles Massy explores transformative and regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health.

In the six months since the raid that destroyed the makeshift transmitter, the Lost Soldiers have scratched out a permanent base on the world of R’Bak. But life in an often surprising and very alien binary system has not become any easier. Major Mara “Bruce” Lee’s pregnancy becomes a powerful reminder of that: without special indigenous plants, she might lose both her unborn child and her life. And, in the process of securing enough of that rare compound, her friend and crew chief Elroy Frazier will have to risk life, limb, and mind.

Après avoir affronté seule le mariage de son ex et de sa sœur, Léopoldine Courtecuisse en veut à Quentin sur lequel elle comptait pour la soutenir dans cette épreuve. Deux nouveaux meurtres, en plein marché de Noël, vont les contraindre à faire encore une fois équipe. Deux meurtres, deux enquêtes... de quoi occuper la brigade et le « gang des connasses » !

Originally published as a 24-week correspondence course, The Master Key System is a step-by-step process for achieving the success that you’ve always desired. Using the creative power of thought, Charles F. Haanel will help you understand and harness your own mental power in order to manifest the life you long for. Each of the 24 lessons includes study questions and responses to deepen your understanding of the material. Practical and accessible, The Master Key System is a transformative guide to living a fulfilling, successful life.

In true Dickensian fashion, The Old Curiosity Shop offers a humorous yet devastating depiction of both the most honourable and most corrupt members of 19th-century English society. Hailed by Queen Victoria as being ‘interesting and cleverly written', The Old Curiosity Shop introduces listeners to the uniquely colourful characters of Nell Trent, her young friend, Kit, her doting grandfather and the evil moneylender to whom they all fall prey, Daniel Quilp.

Deadwood, late 1876. A rowdy and reckless undertaker’s delight. What better place for a killer to blend in? Enter undertaker Clementine Johanssen, tall and deadly with a hot temper and short fuse, hired to clean up Deadwood’s dead...and the “other” problem. She’s hell-bent on poking, sticking, or stabbing anyone who steps out of line. But when a couple Santa Fe sidewinders ride into town searching for their missing uncle, they land neck deep in lethal gunplay, nasty cutthroats, and endless stinkin’ snow.