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Ein neuer Fall für Kommissar Van Veeteren - die furiose Geschichte eines fast perfekten Mordes.An einem sonnigen Augustmorgen wird Leopold Verhaven aus dem Gefängnis entlassen, wo er wegen Mordes in zwei Fällen insgesamt 14 Jahre seines Lebens verbrachte. Acht Monate später entdecken spielende Kinder seine übel zugerichtete Leiche. Warum wurde er ermordet? Weil jemand fand, er sei noch nicht genug bestraft worden? Oder hatte jemand Angst vor i...

Schräg, berührend, herzerwärmend: die besten Weihnachtsgeschichten aus dem Hohen NordenWeihnachten: Fest der Liebe und der Verstimmungen. Zeit für Aufbrüche und Ausbrüche. Im Norden ist das nicht anders als sonstwo - vielleicht noch ein klein wenig irrer und existentieller, denn wo sich die Landschaft weiß und weit erstreckt, ist im Zweifelsfall auch die Einsamkeit umfassend. Der norwegische Schriftsteller Levi Henriksen beleuchtet sie in sein...

München am Ende der turbulenten 1920er Jahre: Kajetan ist auf der Flucht, weil er den korrupten Machenschaften der Münchener Polizei auf die Spur gekommen war. Vom Grenzort Zellach aus versucht er über die Berge nach Österreich zu fliehen. Doch dann verirrt er sich in einem Schneesturm, den er überlebt, nur um sofort in die nächste Bredouille zu geraten: Man nimmt ihn als vermeintlichen Mörder des Zellacher Wirts Thannheiser fest. Als der örtl...

Unterhaltsame Wissensvermittlung mit Anspruch und Spaß!Hape Kerkeling ist wieder unterwegs - diesmal aber ist es eine Zeitreise: Durch die Geschichte der Menschheit von den Anfängen bis heute. "Unterwegs in der Weltgeschichte" reist mit ihm an Orte, an denen der Lauf der Weltgeschichte noch heute abzulesen ist und an denen wirkliche Zeitenwenden eingeleitet wurden: Ob an die Wiege der ersten Kulturen im Zweistromland und in Ägypten, auf die Ak...

Christmas. St. Patrick's Day. Easter. As the calendar's days stack up, so do the bodies littered in the streets of Gotham City. A murderer is loose, killing only on holidays. The only man that can stop this fiend? The Dark Knight. In a mystery taking place during Batman's early days of crime fighting, Batman: The Long Halloween is one of the greatest Dark Knight stories ever told. Working with District Attorney Harvey Dent and Lieutenant James...

With more than 12 million books sold, bestselling author Dan Gutman's My Weird School series really gets kids reading.Ella Mentry School is just plain weird! This box set includes:#1: Miss Daisy Is Crazy!#2: Mr. Klutz Is Nuts!#3: Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy!#4: Ms.

No longer can we be Barack Obama’s sheeple and let the American Dream be trampled, beaten, and burned to the ground!From the #1 New York Times bestselling author and revered radio host, the Savage manifesto you hold in your hands is the best defense against the “trickle up poverty” theory of Obamanomics, which is dragging America into a Marxist-Socialist death spiral and threatens to destroy the free nation we love. Now updated with a new intr...

Picture Day is just about the most important day of the year, and Nancy has her outfit all figured out. That leaves only one thing—picking a hairstyle! Nancy considers the options. Pigtails? A bun? Long and loose? Then Nancy gets a brain wave, and she reaches for the scissors. . . .Join Nancy in this comical and endearing addition to the Fancy Nancy I Can Read series, with a list of fancy words on the last page.

Like most women, whether they’ve chosen the Fortune 500 career path or have had five kids by 35, Anna David wondered if she’d made the right choices. Then she came upon the book Sex and the Single Girl by Helen Gurley Brown, Cosmopolitan’s fearless leader from the mid-sixties to the late nineties. Immediately connecting with Gurley Brown’s unique message of self-empowerment combined with femininity, Anna vowed to use Sex as a lesson plan, vent...

Woof! Woof! Woof!Marley barks all day long, so will his family still pay attention whensomething important happens? Join Marley in this easy-to-follow beginning reader.

Bring the warm glow of Christmas past into your home with nostalgic Williamsburg flavor. The perfect holiday gift, this gorgeously illustrated, handsomely designed book will become a family keepsake and a seasonal celebration of our nation's past. Packed with traditions, crafts, recipes, and customs that span three hundred years of American Christmases, this volume traces the rise of the holiday from colonial times to the present. Exclusively ...

One of the most acclaimed young voices of his generation, Blake Butler now offers his first work of nonfiction: a deeply candid and wildly original look at the phenomenon of insomnia.Invoking scientific data, historical anecdote, Internet obsession, and figures as diverse as Andy Warhol, Gilles Deleuze, John Cage, Anton LaVey, Jorge Luis Borges, Brian Eno, and Stephen King, Butler traces the tension between sleeping and conscious life. And he ...

Hedgehogs Trundle and Esmeralda, along with their new friend Jack Nimble, sail out into the Sundered Lands to find Esmeralda's aunt, who they hope will help them unravel the clues to find the next of the six crowns.

They were the NFL’s ultimate outlaws, black-clad iconoclasts who, with a peculiar mix of machismo and brotherhood, of postgrad degrees and firearms, merrily defied pro football corporatism. The Oakland Raiders of the 1970s were some of the most outrageous, beloved, and violent football teams ever to play the game. In this rollicking biography, Peter Richmond tells the story of Oakland’s wrecking crew of psychos, oddballs, and geniuses who won ...

They spawn in the middle of the ocean but spend their adult lives in freshwater. They can overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles and even cross over land. They are revered as guardians and monster-seducers by New Zealand’s Maori, yet are often viewed with disgust in the West. They are a multibillion-dollar business in the Asian food market. They are often mistaken for snakes. They are eels—one of the world’s most amazing and least underst...

A whirlwind romance from the New York Times bestselling authors of Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist! "I've left some clues for you. If you want them, turn the page. If you don't, put the book back on the shelf, please." 16-year-old Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on her favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. Dash, in a bad mood during the holidays, happens to be the first gu...

»Was soll eigentlich dieses ganze Tamtam um den Tod?«, fragt nüchtern Julian Barnes' Mutter. Aber ihr Sohn kann deshalb oft nicht schlafen: »Ich erklärte ihr, mir widerstrebe eben der Gedanke daran.« Und so erzählt er die anekdotenreiche Geschichte vom Leben und Sterben der sehr britisch zugeknöpften Familie Barnes. Seine wahren Angehörigen sind für den Autor jedoch Schriftsteller und Komponisten wie Stendhal, Flaubert und Strawinsky. Brillant...