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The Roses met at an auction on Cape Cod. Oliver had just bought a Staffordshire figurine-one of a pair-but Barbara outbid him for its mate. The figurines belonged together, and so did the Roses. Now the two objets d'art sat together on a shelf in the Roses' home-symbols of the passion their owners shared. A passion that united them and now was about to tear them apart.

Simultaneously novel, memoir, commonplace book, confession and critique, It is the story of every man and woman cursed with too much consciousness and too little comprehension. Above all though, it is the story of Jen Fain, a journalist negotiating the fraught landscape of contemporary urban America. Party guests, taxi drivers, brownstone dwellers, professors, journalists, presidents and debutantes fill these dispatches from the world as Jen finds it.

A missing son. A kidnapper who's dead. Nobody believes her. Nothing will stop her. When Doctor Jemma Sands' five-year-old son goes missing, only she believes that a vengeful patient has stolen her child. How do you convince police to search for a dead woman? As her world falls apart, Jemma realises she is the only one who can save her son. If somebody took your only child, how far would you go to get him back?

For most managers and professional recruiters hiring qualified employees is a difficult and often frustrating task. In today's constantly changing job market, traditional hiring practices are no longer effective. But according to a recent survey, over 5000 CEOs ranked hiring and retaining top people as their top priority. With the help of Power Hiring, your quest to secure the best will be met with amazing results and professional recognition.

Vizepolizeikommissar Carl Mørck wird zur Aufklärung eines brutalen Todesfalls von der Mordkommission in Kopenhagen hinzugezogen. Wie sich herausstellt, gibt es eine Verbindung zu einem mehrere Jahre zurückliegenden und ausgesprochen brisanten cold case. Ausgerechnet jetzt geht es Carls Assistentin Rose sehr schlecht. Sie wird von grauenhaften Erinnerungen aus ihrer Vergangenheit heimgesucht. Sie kämpft mit aller Macht dagegen an - und gegen das Dunkel, in dem sie zu ertrinken droht. Und welche Rolle spielen die jungen Frauen Michelle, Jasmin und Denise, die sich zu einem starken und hochexplosiven Kleeblatt verbündet haben?

This book is written for everyone involved in the hiring process. It will help hiring managers and recruiters find and hire more top-notch people for any job, from entry-level to CEO. Using the two-question Performance-based Interview, anyone who is involved in assessing candidates will quickly be more effective and more accurate. Just as important, it will help job-seekers find better jobs by giving them an inside view of how most companies look for, assess and hire new employees. Hiring top talent starts by clarifying expectations up front.

Wer seinen Körper kennt, bleibt länger jung: Bestsellerautorin und TV-Ärztin Yael Adler nimmt uns in diesem umfassenden, erkenntnisreichen und hochspannenden Hörbuch über das Älterwerden mit auf eine innovative Körperreise von den Zellen bis zu den Knochen - mit vielen Aha-Effekten zum Alterungsprozess und möglichen Gegenmaßnahmen. Wir können es nicht ändern, dass wir älter werden - aber wir können sehr wohl etwas daran ändern, wie dies geschieht.

Am 2. März 2002 verschwindet eine Frau spurlos auf der Fähre von Rødby nach Puttgarden, man vermutet Tod durch Ertrinken. Doch sie ist nicht tot, sondern wird in einem Gefängnis aus Beton gefangen gehalten. Wer sind die Täter? Was wollen sie von dieser Frau? Und: Kann ein Mensch ein solches Martyrium überleben? Der erste Fall für Carl Mørck, Spezialermittler des neu eingerichteten Sonderdezernats Q bei der Kopenhagener Polizei, und seinen syrischen Assistenten Hafez el-Assad, der seinen Chef nicht nur durch unkonventionelle Ermittlungsmethoden überrascht.

Carl Mørck (Justus von Dohnányi), Kommissar der Kopenhagener Mordkommission, wird in das Sonderdezernat Q beordert, das sich mit der Klärung alter ungelöster Fälle beschäftigen soll. Damit ist er aus dem Weg und funkt nicht in laufende Ermittlungen - so die Idee seiner Vorgesetzten. Auch Mørck ist das durchaus recht, er hofft auf einen ruhigen Posten. Doch alles kommt ganz anders. Mørcks neuer Mitarbeiter Hafez el-Assad (Denis Moschitto), der eigentlich als Putzhilfe eingestellt worden ist, macht ihn auf einen Fall aufmerksam - vor fünf Jahren ist eine junge Politkerin, Merete Lynggaards (Carolin Kebekus), spurlos verschwunden.

Our guests include amazing people who have suffered loss and learned to not only survive but actually thrive after their loss. They will provide real life insight into loss, survival and redemption. This show will address recovering from a tragedy of a suicide of a loved one. The topics to be covered include grief, the family dynamics of recovering from loss and how to live a life of meaning after the tragedy of suicide.

Former childhood star and die-hard romantic Millie is bound for Key West from Washington DC, determined to fulfil a promise to her elderly best friend, Mrs Nash, by reuniting her ashes with her long-lost love. And if this grand gesture also happens to reassure a recently heartbroken Millie that believing in love isn't foolish, all for the better. When flights are grounded, Millie is forced to catch a ride with Hollis, an also-stranded near-stranger from her ex's grad school.

Alyssa Cressfield always wanted a pet - a big, sexy man who would look impressive on a leash. Now, she is finally ready to realize her dream. She visits a pet training center, intending to buy a trained pet. Instead, she finds Jax, a fierce human-alien hybrid freshly caught from space, still untamed and unbroken. Alyssa has never encountered an untamed pet before. She can't resist temptation; she must have him.

Bibi Fortunata was the hottest ticket in town; singer, actress, and celebrity. Two years ago she was arrested on suspicion of murdering her lover and his new mistress, who was also Bibi's best friend. Bibi was front-page news in a way her publicists had never dreamed. But the police were never able to prove anything and Bibi was set free, with the cloud of suspicion and murder still hanging over her. Bibi left for Barcelona where she quite simply disappeared. But when Bibi's daughter comes to Mac Reilly and Sunny Alvarez for help, they can't resist the temptation to solve this mystery....

An ihrem 60. Geburtstag begeht eine Frau Selbstmord. Ihr Tod führt zur Wiederaufnahme eines ungeklärten Falls aus dem Jahr 1988, der Marcus Jacobsen einst mit seinem besten Ermittler Carl Mørck zusammengeführt hat. Bald ist klar: Seit drei Jahrzehnten fallen Menschen einem gerissenen Killer zum Opfer, der tötet, ohne dass ihm ein Mord nachgewiesen werden kann. Er wählt Opfer und Todeszeitpunkt mit Bedacht und Präzision. Bis jetzt konnte niemand ihn stoppen.

Auf Zypern wird eine Tote aus dem Wasser geborgen. Offenbar eine Geflüchtete aus dem Nahen Osten. Auf der sogenannten "Tafel der Schande" in Barcelona, wo die aktuelle Zahl der ertrunkenen Flüchtlinge angezeigt wird, ist sie das "Opfer 2117". Doch die alte Frau ist nicht ertrunken, sondern wurde ermordet. In Kopenhagen spielt der 22-jährige Alexander das Computerspiel "Kill Sublime". Das Foto des "Opfers 2117" hängt direkt vor ihm.

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Fen Dexter's quiet life on the idyllic California coast is interrupted one stormy night when a blood-covered man shows up on her doorstep, claiming to have had a car accident. He tells her that he is on his way to San Francisco to help the police solve the murder of his fiancée. Unable to make it to the hospital because of the storm, he stays the night at Fen's, and the attraction between them is obvious. The next morning he heads to the hospital where Fen's niece, Vivi, is an ER doctor. Vivi is treating the most recent target of a serial killer whose signature move is to leave a note saying "Please Don't Tell" taped across his victims' mouths.

You are about to discover the methodology behind the most powerful strategy to transform your body fast. You see, whether you realize it or not, your subconscious mind can help you stay motivated and committed to your weight-loss journey so that you enjoy it and never fall off track. Are you tired of depressing diets, soul-crushing workouts, and yo-yoing back and forth? Would you like to change your relationship with health, fitness, and dieting?

Science fiction can often seem to be pure imaginative fantasy, but many authors are more fluent in real science than many readers and viewers may realize. Professor Charles L. Adler of St. Mary’s College of Maryland was the perfect choice for this subject, as he is both a longtime science-fiction fan and a real-world scientist. Professor Adler’s talent for using literature to shine a light on science - both the accurate and not-so-accurate versions employed by creators, spanning two centuries - makes this course a great survey for fans of both science fact and science fiction. 

What if someone you accidentally killed came back to haunt you? When the perfect crime results in the kidnap and murder of Megan, his only child, East End villain Mickey Speight is grief-stricken. But now, nearly 30 years later, Megan sends a message to her father, gone-to-ground in present-day Margate. As the messages from his dead daughter keep coming, Mickey teams up with a young American female therapist to discover whether this really is a voice from beyond the grave, or if somebody has loomed out of Mickey’s past wanting revenge.