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A call from an ex-husband is never welcome. For Berkeley cop Jill Smith it wins a Nobel Prize for chutzpah. Her ex wants a favor. His "friend" and co-worker, Anne Spaulding, is missing. Anne's ransacked apartment - complete with blood-sprayed walls - gives Jill the chilling feeling that her ex may be up to his arrogant neck in murder. Now Jill's out with the street people of Berkeley and the crazies of People's Park to uncover the fate of a welfare worker. But her best suspect is her ex: the former "significant other" who still pushes her buttons.

At 28, writer Kayleen Schaefer's brother was one of the most promising young filmmakers in Hollywood, having shot to success as the writer and director of "Chapter 27," starring future Oscar-winner Jared Leto as John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman. Then, five years later, to the surprise of those closest to him, he left it all behind - abandoning his career, his family and his life, without telling anyone where he was going.

The Forest of Bleeding Trees is a horrific delight, a fast-paced ride that will leave you breathless and exhilarated until you reach the unexpected but satisfying end. First you have the straight-shooting but heroic Johnny Treadwell, a handsome young man with backwoods charm and unwavering devotion to his family. He’s also the guardian of a thousand sorrows. Enter the mysterious gothic Lili Macluster, a darkly beautiful daughter of the richest, though most preternatural, family in town - and keeper of a thousand secrets.

Lars, der kleine Eisbär lebt mit seinen Eltern am Nordpol. Eines Tages treibt er mit einer Eisscholle in sein erstes großes Abenteuer. Er kommt bis nach Afrika, wo er Hippo, das Flußpferd kennenlernt.

Hippo hilft ihm, zusammen mit Drago, dem Adler, und Orka, dem Wal, den Weg zurück nach Hause zu finden...

Thirty years have passed since Christine and her father, Heinz, vacationed together. It was such a disaster - an exasperated Heinz left the moody teenager at a gas station to teach her a lesson - that Christine vowed never to travel with him again. But now her mother is insisting that Christine and her best friend, Dorothea, take Heinz along on what is supposed to be a relaxing girls’ trip to the beach. And she’s not taking no for an answer. Suddenly Christine and Dorothea have a chaperone, though high school is long since over.

How do individuals change the course of history? How can a single nation cause unimaginable changes worldwide? What causes great leaders to rise and fall and the boundaries of great civilizations to shrink and grow? This short overview of wars, battles, and infamous historical figures answers these questions and more. Chapter by fascinating chapter, you'll learn about the good and the bad times. This audiobook is not a boring timeline of events. Instead, each chapter covers a theme, period, or event that shaped modern warfare.

Lars, der kleine Eisbär trifft am Nordpol auf Lena Schneehase, die in einer Schneegrube gefangen ist. Er hilft ihr aus der Not und beide wandern zur Polarstation. Dort gerät Lars in Gefahr und wird von Lena gerettet...

Making the choice to add a dog, as an addition to the family unit, is not something to be taken lightly. This is a very big and important decision and should be given due consideration. Get all the info you need here.

Although the citizens of Berkeley are famously tolerant, that progressive attitude disappears at the property line between the homes of Dr. Hasbrouck Diamond and Leila Sandoval. In the Berkeley hills , there are no worse neighbors than Diamond and Sandoval. What began as a tiff about garbage cans and street parking has exploded into full-blown war, drawing in the city, the press, and now—to the irritation of detective Jill Smith—the police department.

Carrie Hansen won’t let her failing health stop her from fulfilling her own last wish. Vowing to transform an aging plantation house into a beautiful wedding venue, she plans to live out her last days celebrating happiness. But between renovation problems and family interference, Carrie fears she’ll never see anyone walk down the aisle. Civil War soldier Thomas Gentry took his final breath back in 1861 and has been haunting the crumbling manor ever since. So when the new owner messes with his routine and starts renovating the place, he vows to preserve the status quo.

Precisely because the dance floor stands apart from the everyday world, allowing dancers to play, experiment, and take on new roles, it also serves as a stage for human behavior. Antoinette Benevento, a former national ballroom dancing champion and co-owner of Fred Astaire Dance Studios, has been a student of that stage for 25 years. She has discovered that getting out on the dance floor is a powerful and empowering metaphor for living fully in all realms of life.

Forty-six-year-old divorcée Christine is finally happy - or so she thinks. She has an amazing boyfriend but she also has a drama-filled family she fears might scare him off. And when Christine spies her dependable Aunt Inge in the company of a man who is most certainly not her husband, it sends the family drama into overdrive - and delivers an unexpected wake-up call to Christine. Because after witnessing the newfound passion with which 60-something Inge is tackling each day, Christine becomes aware of the mounting frustrations in her supposedly fabulous life. Sick and tired of playing it safe, Christine finally decides the time has come to make some big changes.

Until the helicopter crash, Jill Smith never knew fear. A homicide detective in the leftist enclave of Berkeley, California, she has faced down her share of thugs, thieves, and killers, but since surviving the downed helicopter, her nerves have been shot. Unwilling to submit to her anxiety, she goes back to work. The chef and owner of Paradise, an upscale restaurant in Berkeley’s so-called “Gourmet Ghetto,” is found on the floor of his own kitchen, poisoned by the soup he was seasoning.

At first the townspeople of Cherryvale welcome the rising medium Kate Bender and her family. Kate's messages from the Beyond give their tedious dreams hope and her mother's potions cure their little ills—for a price. No one knows about their other business, the shortcut to a better life. And why shouldn't their family prosper? They're careful. It's only from those who are marked, those who travel alone and can easily disappear, that the Benders demand their pound of flesh. But even a gifted seer like Kate can make a misstep.

Quite a few conspiracy theories exist as to what Area 51 really is about. There are quite a few people who believe that the government has been covering up the existence of aliens since the 1950s and that the aliens and their UFOs are present in Area 51. Throughout this book, you will learn more about Area 51, including the government, the UFOs, facts about aliens, and much more. Then you can decide what you think is really going on in this area.

Um Gummireifen biologisch abzubauen, hat ein gewisser Professor Rindenblatt eine "Gummifressende Paprika" erfunden. Na ja, wer´s braucht. Unglücklicherweise ist die Paprika abgehauen und treibt ihr Unwesen in der Stadt. Die Furiosen 5 bekommen den Auftrag die Riesenpaprika zu finden und einzufangen. Aber wie fängt man eine immer weiterwachsende Paprika ein? Zumindest im Internet findet man dazu nichts...

Ein uralter, magischer Becher wurde von einem berühmten Professor entdeckt. Ist ja nichts Besonderes, aber dieser Becher ist der Hammer. Wenn man daraus trinkt, bekommt man Mega-Kräfte. Als der Becher und der Professor auf geheimnisvolle Weise verschwinden, werden die Furiosen 5 beauftragt, den Becher und den Professor wieder zu finden. Wie langweilig! Bis das Team Bekanntschaft mit einem durchgeknallten Geist macht. Okay, nicht langweilig, sondern echt spannend...!

Adelbert von Chamisso, bekannt durch seine Märchenerzählung "Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte", war nicht nur Dichter, sondern auch ein angesehener Naturforscher. Zwischen 1815 und 1818 segelte er auf dem russischen Expeditionsschiff "Rurik" um die Welt. In Brasilien und Chile, auf den pazifischen Inseln, in Alaska und Kalifornien machte er unglaubliche Entdeckungen, traf auf neue Kulturen und erlebte auf See so manches Abenteuer.

In Berkeley, people don't just disagree; they make careers out of it. And in a city where anything goes, where burned-out '60s hippies haunt the shadows along Telegraph Avenue, no one can outrun the past. Now police detective Jill Smith is plunged into a case that's pure Berkeley: a tangled tale of sins and retribution that has led to one man's disappearance, and another man's murder.

After six months of perfect weather, the people of Berkeley, California, have forgotten how to drive during a thunderstorm. Newly christened homicide detective Jill Smith is on her way home to a chocolate ice cream dinner when she gets caught in a traffic jam at the city’s only roundabout. At the front of the line, she sees the trouble: a flipped-over Cadillac and one dead driver. The man behind the wheel was one of the city’s leading citizens, a philanthropist in a town that puts charity first.