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In her compelling and intimate portrait, presidential historian Barbara A. Perry captures Rose Kennedy’s essential contributions to the incomparable Kennedy dynasty. This biography - the first to draw on an invaluable cache of Rose’s newly released diaries and letters - unearths the complexities behind the impeccable persona she showed the world. The woman who emerges is a fascinating character: savvy about her family’s reputation and resilient enough to persevere through the unfathomable tragedies that befell her.

India, 1922. In Panikhat, 50 miles from Calcutta, the wives of officers in the Bengal Greys have been dying violently, one every year and always in March. All the deaths are bizarre and seem accidental. The only link between them is the small red roses that mysteriously appear on the women’s graves on the anniversaries of their deaths. The first victim perished in a fire, the second was bitten by a cobra, another was thrown off her horse into a ravine, while the fourth drowned.

Mission in der Tiefsee. Ein neuer Auftrag für die Tierflüsterer: Die Wesen im Nachtblauen Meer brauchen ihre Hilfe. Chuck, Coco, Paul, Enisa, Amy und Mohit lernen Segeln und Tauchen. In der neuen Umgebung beweisen sie Mut und Geschick: Sie schwimmen mit Haien, retten Schildkröten und treffen in der dunklen Tiefe auf fantastische Meerwesen, die sie in eine andere Welt entführen. Doch die Tierflüsterer sind nicht die einzigen Besucher unter Wasser.

The future stretches out in front of Sarah Dobbs like the pure blue Texas sky. Leaving the past behind in Philadelphia, mail-order-bride Sarah arrives in San Antonio ready to greet her groom, Austin Canfield, a man she has never met but whose letters have won her heart from afar. But there is one problem - he has died. And Sarah cannot go back East. 

In einem Land am Ende der Welt... Whisperworld! Jedes Kind hat schon von diesem Land gehört – es liegt am Ende der Welt, unberührt und ungestört. Dort leben vom Aussterben bedrohte Tierarten und geheimnisvolle Fabelwesen. Die angehenden Tierflüsterer Amy, Chuck, Mohit, Paul und Coco fliehen überstürzt aus dem Deepwood. Eine Karte von Whisperworld wurde gestohlen und verrät ihren Aufenthaltsort. Ihr neues Ziel: die Wüste Sablo Diablo. Dort lernen sie ein neues Teammitglied kennen und stoßen auf ein Rätsel.

Ziemlich vorlaut, tollpatschig, aber auch mutig, feinfühlig und hilfsbereit: Das ist Rosalie, die kleine Blumenfee. An ihrem siebten Geburtstag darf sie endlich in die Blütenwaldschule! Dort hört sie vom Feenbriefkasten, den jedoch nur gut ausgebildete Feen finden. Rosalie versucht es trotzdem - und verirrt sich. Zum Glück sind Rosalies Freunde, die Nebelfee Nikki und der Trolljunge Jokkel, immer zur Stelle! Hinreißendes Fee-Abenteuer für alle Mädchen ab 6 Jahren. Magisch und frech gelesen von Astrid Kohrs.

Hörst du das Flüstern? - Komm mit auf eine Reise ins Unbekannte! Whisperworld! Jedes Kind hat schon von diesem Land gehört - es liegt am Ende der Welt, unberührt und ungestört. Dort leben vom Aussterben bedrohte Tierarten und geheimnisvolle Fabelwesen. Fünf Kinder wurden von Doktor Noa auserwählt und beginnen ein neues Leben als Tierflüsterer. In Whisperworld lernen Coco, Chuck, Amy, Mohit und Paul den Umgang mit den Tieren, Fabelwesen und der Natur.

On a hot summer’s day in 1880 the beautiful Lady Rosella is cutting a basket of blooms in her beloved Rose Garden at her aunt’s house in Hampshire. It is her seventeenth birthday and no one remembers it except for Thomas, the gardener’s boy. Later she is driven to Winchester and has an unpleasant encounter with two raucous gentlemen in the local tavern before going on to fit her first ball gown that her aunt has given her the money for just before she died. But who is the lovely masked woman she glimpses in the mirror at the dressmakers, a glorious vision clad in rose-pink silk?

Luring Nazi officers from smoky taverns to their deaths was not what Evi Strobel bargained for when she agreed to join the Dutch Resistance. But that is what she did until that fateful night she was saved from rape by a downed American Airman. Nor did Zoe Visser expect to be picking pockets for Dutch ID cards for use by escaping Jews, much less leading frightened enemies of the Reich toward uncertain treks to the Belgian border.

Returning to the "Aunt Hill" from a two-year trip around the world, 20-year-old Rose Campbell suddenly finds herself surrounded by male admirers, all expecting her to marry them! Rose is rich and pretty, and she suspects many of these suitors are more interested in her wealth than her dreams. But she is determined to live her own life and find her own love, despite the many plans of aunts, uncles, and cousins. Louisa May Alcott wrote this delightful sequel to Eight Cousins at the request of her many fans.

Seeking adventure, shy Kitty Greenlee joins the Women’s Army Corps. In 1944 England, as secretarial support to the Eighth Air Force, she encounters her dream man - a handsome lieutenant who only has eyes for her blonde friend. Uncomfortable around men, Kitty doesn’t think the handsome officer could want someone like her.

The Great War is over, but Marabel's father still has not come home. Soon to graduate from her mother's School for White-Blouse Professions in London, Marabel misses him dearly. Otherwise her ambition is to become a country postmistress, where she need not deal with other people. Then the King sends her on a quest. Her mother gives her a magic heirloom and Marabel—dragging her 10-year-old brother Thomas with her—flies through time and space to retrieve the soldier who won the Great War's greatest medal. She is to bring him to a royal celebration at Stonehenge—in only two weeks!

When Allison Mack's boyfriend and his family are killed in a car wreck, she suspects that her life will never be the same. She knows it for sure when her dead boyfriend comes to visit her on her sixteenth birthday. He warns her to beware of Under Places and then disappears again, only to reappear later. Is she losing her mind, or is something supernatural going on? Ally finds out something startling about her own family. They are all in terrible danger, and she might be the only one who can save them...

In this second thrilling instalment of the Gunnie Rose series, Lizbeth Rose is hired onto a new crew for a seemingly easy protection job, transporting a crate into Dixie, just about the last part of the former United States of America she wants to visit. But what seemed like a straight-forward job turns into a massacre as the crate is stolen. Up against a wall in Dixie, where social norms have stepped back into the last century, Lizbeth has to go undercover with an old friend to retrieve the crate as what's inside can spark a rebellion, if she can get it back in time.

Once there were two worlds connected by five magical gates. Then the gate keepers closed the gates and disappeared. The gate keepers have returned. Nadia de Quinones was exiled when her nephew, the crown-prince was abducted on her watch. She'll let nothing stand in the way of her redemption, not even discovering her heart bonded and a connection to an ancient magical gate. Lord Gregor Cyrene is sworn to protect his country's royal heirs. After the youngest prince's life is threatened, Gregor sets out to discover who is responsible and suspects the answer lies with Nadia.

Giselas far var en berømt violinvirtuos, da de kom til Wien. Han drømte om at erobre valsekongen Johan Strauss' by, mens Gisela håbede at finde den fuldendte mand, troede hun, hendes drømme var gået i opfyldelse; men så fandt hun ud af, hvem hendes elskede i virkeligheden var ... Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) var en engelsk forfatter til romantiske romaner, der er blevet solgt i adskillige millioner eksemplarer.

It's been five months since Special Agent Sydney Parnell survived a violent confrontation with a gang of brutal thugs, an encounter that left her physically and emotionally scarred. Deep down, Sydney fears she isn't ready for another investigation. But when a woman is murdered on the train tracks and a child goes missing, she knows she's the only one who can lead the hunt for the killer. While Denver police and the FBI chase down blind alleys, Sydney focuses on a single cryptic clue left behind at the crime scene.

Iraqi war vet and former railway cop Sydney Parnell is now the youngest homicide detective in Denver's Major Crimes Unit. In the past, gut instinct has served her and her K9 partner well. But it's not a trait Len Bandoni, her old nemesis turned reluctant mentor, admires. Not until Sydney's instincts lead to their first case: a man tortured and beaten to death, then left in a refrigerated train car with cryptic messages carved into his body.

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Freddy hat sich gut auf der Geisterschule eingelebt und freut sich auf das große Spektakel: das Blutrote Schulfest! Alle Schüler basteln sich die wildesten Kostüme. Und auch die große Schlacht um den Schlamm-Pokal wirft ihre Schatten voraus. Es scheint jedoch, als wolle der fiese Mr Midget den Wettbewerb sabotieren! Freddy und seine Freunde müssen seine Machenschaften aufdecken, bevor es zu spät ist. Denn Mr Midget setzt sogar Blutsauger gegen die Menschenschüler ein und bringt sie so in ernste Gefahr.