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1984 is a classic novel whose relevance continues to confront us every day. Some people thought it was a book about the future of the past. The future is now. 1984 in the 21st Century offers listeners 25 different opinions and viewpoints on this seminal novel from right to left on the political spectrum, with pieces from teachers to journalists and writers, lawyers and politicians, and union activists. The essays range from academic treatises to personal reminiscences to political rants and screeds, and even fiction and theater.

Im ländlichen England wird eine Gruppe friedliebender Mönche auf bestialische Weise ermordet. Zunächst fehlt jegliches Motiv für die abscheuliche Bluttat. Lediglich ein altes Tagebuch scheint entwendet worden zu sein. Noch ahnt niemand, welche Bedrohung für das Empire und die gesamte Menschheit heraufzieht. Als ein bekannter Kryptologe ebenfalls auf brutale Art ermordet wird, ruft dies Mycroft Holmes und die Sonderermittler auf den Plan. Eine erste heiße Spur scheint in die Vereinigten Staaten zu führen. Offenbar muss ein weiterer Gelehrter um sein Leben fürchten.

James Moriarty macht auf der Überfahrt von New York nach England die Bekanntschaft mit einem Mann namens Lambert, der nach Salisbury reist, um ein geheimnisvolles Erbe anzutreten. Doch bereits auf dem Dampfer ereignen sich gefährliche Dinge. Es scheint, als habe es jemand auf Lamberts Leben abgesehen. Moriarty begleitet den jungen Mann und handelt dabei nicht ganz uneigennützig. Auch er ist an dem Erbe interessiert, denn es handelt sich um den Nachlass des legendären Erfinders Wolfgang von Kempelen. In England angekommen, macht Moriarty eine erstaunliche Entdeckung.

A single father, Jason, and his son, Colin, find themselves trapped in a storm/bomb shelter, only to be rescued into a world that is very different from the one they left. As a result of a rapidly moving and very deadly plague during their entombment, they are rescued into a very different world.

Count Witon has grown weary of the constant war between the races, so he plans to create a new society: A utopia for anyone who longs for peaceful coexistence. Recruiting pilgrims from every city and species, they set off to a small, yet promising island together.

J.R. Ferguson is a retired farmer. His acreage has been leased to a young couple he once rescued from the muddy access road that runs through his cornfield. As a result, he examines the road after every heavy rain both for stranded lovers and to examine the road's condition. One day, he finds trash in the form of various kinds of medication bottles strewn on the side of the road. With his boots sinking in the soft mud, he collects the litter and returns with the bottles some of which are labeled "Low Dose Aspirin", something he takes daily since his heart attack.

The story of Ronnie, a young boy who is raised in the wild by a pit bull he calls "Killer". Years after Killer takes Ronnie to his lair, Ronnie has grown, and Killer has grown old. Eventually Ronnie must find his way home after many years of living with Killer in the wild.

Officer Paul Lee has been on the Waverly police force his entire working life. Now, nearing retirement, he finds he’s lived a lonely life filled with regrets. Having seen the worst that humanity has to offer, he lives in fear and distrust, not liking the man he’s become. In the course of a murder investigation, he learns of an experimental drug that reverses aging. The possibility of living a new life, the life he wants, looms in front of him.

Due to a side effect of a medication taken in an experimental drug trial to cure Vitiligo, a pigment disorder, four people with dramatically different backgrounds are thrown together. Two never live the lives they worked so hard to create. The other two return to their youth and begin new lives - backed by lifetimes of experience and unexpectedly altered values. Will the greed of others tear them apart, or will a lifetime of loneliness bring them together?

Once a year, bloodthirsty Astrorses land on Earth’s farming moon to raise their young. Jedediah Easton never thought twice about competing in the Astrorse Races until his daughter Sage entered to try and save his farm. Drawn to him for safety and financial problems of her own, Jedediah’s ex-wife Elizabeth steps back into the life they tried to build together. They race time to train a wild Astrorse to compete for the winner’s purse while dodging the dangers of an uncivilized universe.

Dr. Brian Miller, a physicist, is investigating what might be a buried ship along with the military and NASA. During the investigation, he accidentally triggers a time-travel mechanism designed for ultra-long-distance communications. He discovers he's landed in his 18-year-old body, but the original occupant is still present.

The Right Choice is an efficient, solution-oriented book to give you data, decision points, and details to help shape this life-changing decision by providing a framework to work from. If you or someone you love is choosing a college to attend, it’s important to know the reasons for why to attend a public college vs. a private college vs. a religious college. This book will help you narrow your options by helping you answer these questions:

One of the definitive detectives of American crime fiction comes to radio - with a matchless mind, a relentless eye for detail, and just a bit of an attitude. That's Philo Vance - S.S. Van Dine's famous amateur criminologist of the 1920s and 1930s, ready for radio in the 1940s. Jackson Beck stars as Vance, with Joan Alexander as secretary Ellen Deering, and George Petrie as District Attorney Markham in 16 mind-challenging mysteries!

Dracula looks on in horror at the monster's duck pouting on Instagram: teen vampires glistening in the sun with fabulous hair, werewolves with hipster beards.... He decides enough is enough. He will salvage the monster image with the monsters of old, and remind the world that they are so much more than fantasy objects for teenage girls.

Poetry in one form or another has been around almost as long as language. We have used it to communicate our joys and heartbreaks, our victories and our losses. But fear has also been a constant companion, and our ghost stories and monsters stretch their claws back into history as far as the eyes can see. The Configuration Discordant is an exploration of not only that fear, but of our global journey through poetry. One hundred poems exploring 75+ forms of poetic expression from the humble haiku to the mysterious Qasida.

Comet Cove is a city where everyone gets their own special powers when they come of age. Everyone, that is, except for Samael Judd. Ordinary in a world of extraordinaries, Sam faces the possibility of exile should his powerlessness be discovered. When a Fragment doesn’t accept themselves, their Aura doesn’t give them the powers they’re promised, making them a Blank. But a solution exists: If Sam can confront the part of himself that he would rather stay buried, he just might be in the clear. That is, until he finds out he’s revealed his secret to the wrong person.

Gloria Rank has lived her entire life in the dark. Blind since birth, she has made a name for herself as a respected talk radio show host in New Jersey. When her younger sister, Anna, has her identity stolen and a man is murdered outside her apartment, Anna becomes the prime suspect in an FBI investigation. But when bodies begin piling up around her, the FBI has to admit that she is being stalked by a murderer.

Lukas und der Schlunz nehmen mit der ganzen Familie an der Gemeindefreizeit teil, die auf einer geheimnisvollen Burg stattfindet. Da gibt es natürlich jede Menge zu erleben: Es soll einen verschollenen Geheimgang geben und in der Kirche wurden neulich etliche der goldenen Geräte gestohlen. Ob die Kinder dem "unsichtbaren Wächter" auf die Spur kommen, der nachts durch die Flure spuken soll? Lukas ist bei all den Abenteuern nicht ganz wohl. Ein Detektiv hat ihm erzählt, ein neuer Killer sei beauftragt worden, den Schlunz ums Leben zu bringen.

San Cristobal, Galapagos-Inseln. Montag, 3. August, 12.00 Uhr. Niemand der zweihundertfünfzig Passagiere der SARDONIA achtete auf die drei Männer, die in letzter Minute an Bord gingen. Auch die Besatzung war ahnungslos, wer den Luxuskreuzer betrat. Nur der Kapitän war eingeweiht. Unbehaglich blickte er den Neuankömmlingen entgegen. Schließlich war einer von ihnen ein gefährlicher Mörder. Der Kapitän übernahm es persönlich, gemeinsam mit seinem Zahlmeister den ungebetenen Fahrgästen ihre Kabine zu zeigen. Noch lag die SARDONIA im Hafen von San Cristobal.

Joe Miles must save a family from the killing torrents of a flash flood - while under fire from thieves after a railroad payroll. Once fired for being old, he's still young enough to be a hero.