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In this followup to his hugely popular Midnight Storm Moonless Sky: Indigenous Horror Stories, Blackfoot storyteller Alex Soop plunges us again into enthralling tales that mix reality with dark terror. Within its stories, Whisper at Night and They Will Come reveals ancient theories of the paranormal, post apocalyptic scenarios, impossible wells of grief, and monstrous phobias. Soop scares the wits out of listeners, all the while uncovering overlooked social anxieties and racism affecting Indigenous Peoples across North America.

Whether you just started your first entry-level job, run the entire company, or just feel trapped by your condo association bylaws, it’s time to it’s time to learn how to get big things done and make a lasting impact. From local government to the White House, Harvard to the world of venture capital, Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai have taken on some of the world’s most challenging bureaucracies—and won. Now, they bring their years of experience to you, teaching you strategies anyone can use to improve your organization through their own stories and those of fellow bureaucracy hacker.

Idina Moorfield and her team face a new threat—silent, potentially deadly, and coming from within Hellion Squadron this time. Video footage of their last mission is threatening the program's anonymity, making tensions rise. Bravo Team even took out their last target, but they still can't seem to win. Is Hellion Command falling apart from the inside out, because even their commander can't keep his magic under control. Commander may have found a pattern to their problems, but hang on, it's bigger than anyone thought.

Most leaders believe in momentum—a phenomenon that's easy to perceive but difficult to define. Which is why so few have been able to explain how to spark it, sustain it, or steer it to unbridled success. Until now. In this groundbreaking book, bestselling author Don Yaeger and leadership expert Bernie Banks uncover what it takes to turn a single moment into unstoppable momentum. Drawing from eight years of research, over 250 interviews, and thousands of survey responses, they reveal a proven model for building momentum across sports, business, politics, and the military.

England's 'Glorious Revolution' of 1688 and the reign of new monarchs William and Mary signified a turning point for Restoration comedy with laws being passed to restrict playwrights' freedoms. The latter years are marked by a shift towards more moral storylines, mixing humour with social and political issues, alongside the lighthearted 'comedy of manners'. The works in this collection bring together these complementary styles, full of humour while also focusing on hard hitting themes.

Cairo, 1912: The case started as a simple one for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities - handling a possessed tram car. Soon, however, Agent Hamed Nasr and his new partner, Agent Onsi Youssef, are exposed to a new side of Cairo stirring with suffragettes, secret societies, and sentient automatons in a race against time to protect the city from an encroaching danger that crosses the line between the magical and the mundane.

Matthias Hegel ist forensischer Phonetiker und der beste Audio-Profiler Deutschlands. Er ist imstande, nur anhand von Tönen, Geräuschen, Dialekten und Stimmfarben ein psychologisches und optisches Profil von Menschen zu erstellen. Dank ihm sitzen einige der gefährlichsten Straftäter im Gefängnis. Erpresser, Geiselnehmer, Attentäter, von denen die Ermittler oftmals nur kurze Audiomitschnitte hatten. Hegel ist faszinierend, charismatisch, schwer durchschaubar. Und: Er sitzt in Einzelhaft. Vor einem Jahr hat er eine obdachlose Frau bestialisch ermordet.

When he graduates with his law degree, handsome and charismatic Langston Hudson is ready to hit the ground running as a lawyer with his family's firm, but a routine traffic stop during a night out with his friends quickly derails his plans and turns his world upside down. Langston and his friends are arrested after officers find half a million dollars' worth of drugs in his car. When Jacqueline Hudson learns of her son's arrest, she immediately begins to build her case. She is one of the top lawyers in the country, with a reputation for being a shark in the courtrooms.

In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days of high school and on the precipice of all the things teenagers look forward to when anything in life seems possible . . . from falling in love, to finding their dream jobs, to becoming who they were meant to be. In 2019, Kasey has returned to her small Southern hometown of Goldie for the first time since high school—and she still hasn’t told even her closest friends the truth of what really happened that summer after graduation, or what made her leave so abruptly without looking back.

Die Magie von Geschichten zieht sich wie ein roter Faden durch Neil Gaimans Werk. So auch durch diese Kollektion von Erzählungen und Gedichten, in der ein mysteriöser Zirkus sein Publikum in Angst und Schrecken versetzt, Sherlock Holmes in einem seltsam verzerrten viktorianischen England einen royalen Mord aufklären muss oder eine Gruppe von Feinschmeckern nach der letzten ungekosteten Gaumenfreude forscht. Neil Gaimans erzählerisches Genie und sein beängstigend unterhaltsamer Sinn für schwarzen Humor machen diese Sammlung zu einer Geschenkbox voller Zauber.

From Mike Pesca, host of the popular Slate podcast The Gist, comes the greatest sports minds imagining how the world would change if a play, trade, injury, or referee's call had just gone the other way. Upon Further Review takes classic arguments conducted over pints in a pub and places them in the hands of writers, athletes, and historians. From turning points that every sports fan rues or celebrates to the forgotten would-be inflection points that defined sports, it answers age-old questions, and settles the score, even if the score bounced off the crossbar.

All hell has broken loose, and the McPhearson clan is right in the middle of the chaos. After finding out their beloved foster mother, Claudette McPhearson, was anything but the sweet old woman they thought her to be, Javon, Shanelle, and the rest of their siblings hit the ground running in order to keep the Syndicate operating and to keep themselves alive. That also means they have to lose some of the people they love the most.

Die Sherlock Holmes Box 17 beinhaltet die Hörspiele "Gottes Mühlen", "Der zehnte Earl", "Die Spuren auf der Treppe" und "Mr. Marburys Hände".

Kommissar Erik Wolf steht vor einem Rätsel: Warum wurde Magdalena Feddersen so gewaltsam umgebracht? Zumal der Hauptverdächtige Mathis Feddersen, der Neffe der Toten, ein perfektes Alibi hat. Zu allem Überfluss findet sich am nächsten Tag im versiegelten Haus des Opfers eine weitere Leiche. Mamma Carlotta, Wolfs italienische Schwiegermutter, die auf der norddeutschen Ferieninsel zu Besuch ist, mischt sich unverzüglich in die Ermittlungen ein - schließlich handelt es sich bei der zweiten Toten um ihre nette Reisebekanntschaft aus dem Flugzeug.

Young, poor, and black, when his hopes of NBA stardom are dashed, he beats the odds by fighting his way back, creating EDM beats, and driving race cars, becoming one of America's top brain surgeons.

Lummerland in neuem Hörspielgewand. Kaum ein Kind, das sie nicht kennt: Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer sind beste Freunde – seit dem Tag, an dem Jim in einem Paket auf der Insel Lummerland ankam. Klar, dass Jim Lukas begleitet, wenn es gilt, Prinzessin Li Si aus der Drachenstadt zu retten oder die Wilde 13 zu bezwingen. Sie treffen auf skurrile und lustige Wesen wie Scheinriesen und Schildnöks, bestehen gemeinsam mit ihrer Lokomotive Emma jedes Abenteuer und lösen schlussendlich sogar das Geheimnis um Jims Herkunft.

Lummerland in neuem Hörspielgewand. Kaum ein Kind, das sie nicht kennt: Jim Knopf und Lukas der Lokomotivführer sind beste Freunde – seit dem Tag, an dem Jim in einem Paket auf der Insel Lummerland ankam. Klar, dass Jim Lukas begleitet, wenn es gilt, Prinzessin Li Si aus der Drachenstadt zu retten oder die Wilde 13 zu bezwingen. Sie treffen auf skurrile und lustige Wesen wie Scheinriesen und Schildnöks, bestehen gemeinsam mit ihrer Lokomotive Emma jedes Abenteuer und lösen schlussendlich sogar das Geheimnis um Jims Herkunft!

Police Brutality and White Supremacy demands accountability and justice for those responsible for and impacted by police violence and terror. It offers practical solutions to work against the promotion of white supremacy in law enforcement, Christianity, early education, and across the public sphere.

Aurelius, Gawain, and Leon are on their way to the tomb of carnage to learn the truth of Leon’s powers...but there will be those that stand in their way. Joined by allies both old and new, they set forth into the unknown. Meanwhile, the new King Alistair wages war against the world, hoping to bring everyone under a new banner: a new world order, where he will rule not only as a King, but as a God. But can Leon walk the path destined for him and save the world - or will darkness take over the land?

Clyde W. Ford uses the lives of individual Black men and women as a lens to explore the role they have played in creating American institutions of power and wealth—in agriculture, politics, jurisprudence, law enforcement, culture, medicine, financial services, and many other fields—while not being allowed to fully participate or share in the rewards. Today, activists have taken the struggle for racial equity and justice to the streets.