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Humanity has joined the ranks of the Commonwealth, an expanding civilization incorporating dozens of sentient species within an interstellar government. That civilization is now threatened by another, one so ruthless nearly all hope of survival has been abandoned. At a hidden research station, a team of scientists studies a piece of the enemy’s technology, hoping against hope to discover any means to fight back.

When beloved local teacher and devoted mother, Claire Nelson, is discovered murdered in her kitchen, stab wounds covering her delicate pale skin, FBI Special Agent Val Costa is drawn out of retirement. Claire’s two children are in pieces, and Val won’t rest until they have the justice they deserve. Battling nightmares about the serial killer she escaped just weeks ago, Val has her work cut out for her. A church regular, Claire was adored by her neighbours and spent her spare time helping the homeless. Who would want to hurt this beautiful soul?

Private Investigator Martina Monroe has no room for grief. Nearly a year after she failed to prevent her husband’s death, a battered woman depends on her for safety. But when she arrives too late and finds the female dead, the tormented detective’s only solace is a deeper relationship with the bottle. Struggling with sobriety and doing her job, Martina still has to protect another client battling a stalker. And if she doesn’t get her act together soon, one more victim may pay the price for her mistakes.

On a beautiful spring morning in 1989, neurosurgeon and spine expert Volker Sonntag was just finishing rounds at Saint Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. At that same moment 16 miles away, a hard-charging boy named TJ veered his bike into the path of a speeding pickup truck. The impact all but killed the boy, leaving him with a shattered leg, severe internal injuries, a massive blood clot near the brain stem, and - but for the fragile spinal cord - a complete separation of the skull from the spine.

Back from break, PI Martina Monroe clears the air with her boss at Drakos Security & Investigations and is ready to jump right into solving cold cases for the CoCo County Sheriff’s Department. Diving into the cold case files Martina stumbles upon a pattern of missing young women, all of whom were deemed runaways, and the files froze with minimal detective work from the original investigators. The more Martina digs into the women’s last days the more shocking discoveries she makes.

Auf der Erde und den von Menschen besiedelten Planeten schreibt man das Jahr 3441: Perry Rhodan kommt mit dem Raumschiff MARCO POLO von einer Fernexpedition in die Milchstraße zurück und wird Zeuge eines atemberaubenden Schauspiels. Tausende von Sonnen und Planeten tauchen auf, gehüllt in riesige Blasen - es ist der Schwarm. Dann verlassen gigantische Raumschiffe, die sogenannten Manips, das kosmische Gebilde.

Welcome to Former Insomniac with Ivo H.K., founder at End Insomnia. After suffering from insomnia for 5 brutal years and trying "everything" to fix it, I developed a new approach targeting the root cause of insomnia: sleep anxiety (or the fear of sleeplessness). In this podcast, I talk about the End Insomnia System and I share tips, learnings, and insights from overcoming insomnia and tell the stories of people who did so you can apply the principles to end insomnia for good, too.

Five years on from the adrenaline-fueled days of the Cold Case Squad, PI Martina Monroe is now a managing partner at the renowned, Drakos Monroe Security & Investigations. She spends her days running the firm—a safe desk job—allowing her to spend more time with her sixteen-year-old daughter and less time in the line of fire. But her quiet life shatters when a meeting with the desperate parents of Katie Kimble, a young woman missing for two years, pulls her back into the fray.

Bei ihrer Rückkehr in das 27 Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernte Wegasystem stoßen Perry Rhodan und seine Freunde abermals auf die eroberungssüchtigen Topsider. Rhodan und die Mitglieder des Mutanten-Korps nehmen den Kampf gegen die Invasoren auf und finden dabei die Spur, die zu dem legendären Planeten des ewigen Lebens führen soll. Doch der Weg dorthin ist mit tödlichen Gefahren gepflastert, die zu überwinden den ganzen Mut und alle Intelligenz der irdischen Raumfahrer in Anspruch nimmt.

Eine immer noch zeitgemäße Science-Fiction-Oper: "Die Dritte Macht (Perry Rhodan Silber Edition Nr.1)" von Clark Darlton und K. H. Scheer bildet den Start der berühmten Perry-Rhodan-Saga. Josef Tratnik liest die abenteuerliche Geschichte mit viel Leidenschaft und macht das Hörbuch für Sie zu einem ganz besonderen Vergnügen!

In the thick of the current cold case investigation, PI Martina Monroe receives a hand-written letter from a desperate mother pleading for Martina and Hirsch to reopen the cold case of the woman’s missing daughter and five-year-old grandson. Feeling a deep connection to the request, Martina knows that Hirsch and she have found their next case.

Anna is a possession. She is owned by the man named Will, shielded from the world of struggles by his care. He loves her, protects her and then breaks her. Anna is obedient, dutiful and compliant. Anna does not know her place in the world. When she falls pregnant, Anna leaves her name behind, and finds the strength to run. But the past - and Will - catch up with her in an idyllic town with a dark secret, and this time, it's not just Anna who is at risk.

A fascinating collection of travellers' tales, featuring weird innkeepers, ghouls and ghosts, robbers and murderers, card sharpers and confidence tricksters, dead bodies in odd places....the very thing for anyone busy planning a vacation this year....

With his promotion to a field operative, “Twigs” thought it was finally his time to step into the spotlight and be the hero he always wanted to be. However, when he finds himself working alongside "Shiver", the most dangerous woman in the whole megatropolis of Umbrae, he soon realizes that he might just be the sidekick.

Your years in seminary are meant to prepare you for ministry, but it can also be a very challenging time. Many students struggle with the rigorous study and the challenges to their personal and spiritual lives. Surviving and Thriving in Seminary is designed to prepare current and future seminary students for what's ahead.

A collection of the funny, curious verse written during the 19th and 20th centuries, read by some of Britain's most renowned actors. Humorous and whimsical verse are collated together in these timeless readings of poetry from our funniest writers. Performed by Sir John Gielgud; Imogen Stubbs; Tim Pigott-Smith; Peter Orr; Wendy Hillier.

Immer noch zieht der mysteriöse Schwarm durch die Milchstraße; aufgrund der Strahlungswelle, die das kosmische Gebilde aussendet, werden die Bewohner der Galaxis in den Zustand der Verdummung versetzt. Auf zahllosen Welten herrschen Chaos und Verzweiflung. Nur wenige Immune gibt es, darunter Perry Rhodan, die terranischen Mutanten und die Zellaktivatorträger. Gemeinsam nehmen sie den Kampf gegen das grausame Schicksal und die unheimlichen Fremden auf, die den Sternenschwarm lenken. Mit einem kleinen Raumschiff, der GOOD HOPE, und einer verzweifelten Gruppe von Gefährten folgt Perry Rhodan den Schiffen des Schwarms.

On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima - one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific theater in World War II - Private Jack Lucas, who was only 17, and three other Marines engaged in a close-proximity firefight with Japanese soldiers. When two enemy grenades landed in their trench, Lucas jumped on one and pulled the other under his body to save the lives of his comrades. Lucas was blown into the air as his body was torn apart by 250 entrance wounds. He was so severely wounded that his team left him for dead. Miraculously, he survived.

This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life - and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "denied area" operations in Eastern Europe, hunting Bosnian War criminals, or providing actionable intelligence to US government and coalition forces in Iraq, Roy usually found himself at the right place at the right time.

Das Notsignal des auf dem Mond havarierten arkonidischen Schiffes lockt außerirdische Intelligenzen ins Solsystem. Die Menschheit, die Perry Rhodan gerade vor der atomaren Selbstvernichtung bewahrt hat, sieht sich den gefaehrlichen Individualverformern gegenueber. Rhodan entdeckt auf der Venus eine uralte Basis, die er in den Besitz der von ihm gegruendeten Dritten Macht bringen kann. Dort schult er parapsychologisch begabte Menschen, positive Mutanten mit ungewoehnlichen Faehigkeiten.