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Mächtige Finanziers wurden ins Gefängnis gesteckt, weil sie Insider-Informationen an Personen weitergegeben hatten, damit diese auf der Grundlage von Wissen handeln konnten, das sie nicht haben durften. Regierungsbeamte sind zurückgetreten, weil sich die Antwort auf die Frage "Was wussten Sie und wann wussten Sie es?" als schlecht für sie herausstellte. Wissen ist Macht, und in letzter Zeit ist die Sechste Welt voll von interessanten Geheimnis...

Everybody loves a pirate...except maybe another pirate! Here is a treasure trove of poems for the scalawag in everyone. Climb aboard, hoist your sail, sit back like a lazy bucaneer and enjoy rhymes that will bring out the fun loving rogue in you!

Welcome to a clutter of crazy cat poems! Funny, frisky and always fabulously feline here are more than enough ridiculous rhymes to keep even the most curious cat or cat lover happy and lickin his whiskers for days. So curl up with your favorite feline and discover the Cats of Cairo and other feline frolics!

A horribly scary bagful of tasty rhyming treats for kids who love Halloween and adults who love kidding about Halloween. Silly, scary and always fun these spooky rhymes will make you want to trick or treat all year long!

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Far from the Madding Crowd was Hardy's fourth novel, gaining significant popularity and critical attention. It tells of Gabriel, an up-and-coming shepherd, who falls in love with a proud and vain young beauty Bathsheba, who refuses his offer of marriage as she values her independence too much. The novel can be described as an early piece of feminist literature and is regularly studied in schools. This is part of the 'Young Adult Classics' seri...

A former parole officer shines a bright light on a huge yet hidden part of our justice system through the intertwining stories of seven parolees striving to survive the chaos that awaits them after prison in this illuminating and dramatic book. Prompted by a dead-end retail job and a vague desire to increase the amount of justice in his hometown, Jason Hardy became a parole officer in New Orleans at the worst possible moment. Louisiana's incar...

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London 1814: Der Einzelgänger James Keziah Delaney kehrt in seine Heimat London zurück. Nach zehn Jahren in Afrika wurde er sogar für tot erklärt. Nun plant er, endlich das Erbe seines Vaters - ein Schifffahrtsunternehmen - anzutreten und sich so eine neue Existenz aufzubauen. Dieses Erbe erweist sich aber als höchst schwierig - es lauern Feinde mit tödlicher Agenda an jeder Ecke. James muss sich seinen Weg durch die ihm feindlich gesinnte Lon...

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Watching Michael Moore in action -- passing off manipulating facts in Bowling for Columbine, spinning statistics in Stupid White Men and Dude, Where's My Country?, shamelessly grandstanding at the Academy Awards, and epitomizing the hypocrisy he's made a king's fortune railing against -- has spurred authors David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke to take action into their own hands. In Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man, Hardy and Clarke dish...

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All of them, " Terrin said. "Oh. Oh, of course. We know all of the prophecies will be fulfilled eventually, but in the near future, which ones are most likely ..." "All of them, " Terrin said again. Lloyd Hsu, a young adept in a beleaguered church, sees these words as an ending. An end to his church's decades of waiting. An end to oppression, an end to desperation. The conflict he and his fellow church members have been waiting for is here, an...