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A young architect is on his way to work by train, reading the newspaper and pondering his thoughts. A woman with a headscarf takes a seat in the compartment, carrying a large carrier bag. When she leaves the compartment a short time later, the bag is still there. Beat hears a soft whimper and curiously takes a look at the mysterious bag: it contains a baby, no more than a week old.Beat and his wife have already tried everything to have a child. Their desire to have a child is strong, they are wealthy and could offer a child a lot, but it just wont work out with a pregnancy. This child needs a mother, his mother. What should he do?

O, full of scorpions is my mind.The spellbinding story of love and murder, power and paranoia, and the internal struggles of a married couple as they try to control their destiny, and one anotherThis official tie-in edition to the Donmar Warehouses acclaimed 2023 revival of Shakespeares extraordinary psychological drama features rich and revealing behind-the-scenes material exploring how the production was conceived and developed.Starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo, and directed by Donmar Associate Director Max Webster, this bracingly fresh version used binaural sound technology to place the audience inside the minds of the Macbeths, asking us: are we are ever really responsible for our actions?It was first staged at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in December 2023, and transferred to the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End in October 2024.In addition to the version of Shakespeares text performed, this volume also includes a fascinating rehearsal diary, colour photos, and interviews with its leading cast and creative team: Tennant, Jumbo and Webster, plus designer Rosanna Vize, sound designer Gareth Fry and composer and musical director Alasdair Macrae.

The Stone of the Oath is a historical novel about war, religion, love, revenge and oaths.It is also a declaration of love from the daughter (translator of the novel into German) to her father, who always fought for the freedom of his country. This novel was translated from Albanian into German in his honor. It is a monument to the suffering of thousands of Albanians since the Middle Ages; the struggle for existence and the fight for independence are told from the Albanian perspective. The Eidstein as a place name always plays an important role, as not only great decisions are made there, but also a great hero of Albanian history, Mirosh Danai, finds his final resting place there.

Lisy has everything she could have wished for: a husband, two wonderful children and a fulfilling job. Even the pandemic cant affect her thriving interior design firm.On a new job, she meets Stefan, the husband of her client. This fateful encounter turns her life upside down and throws her emotions into turmoil.Stefan is a successful lawyer, but not really happy. His flaring interest in Lisy clearly shows him how deadlocked his marriage has become. He feels magically attracted to her and is desperate to find out if its mutual. While Lisy is in the midst of emotional chaos and her perfect life turns out to be more and more of a facade, Stefan is overtaken by the demons of his past...

Erik, Joren and Fin are spending the afternoon in the forest when they suddenly encounter a dark knight. Before they know what is happening to them, he takes them prisoner and brings them to the castle of the Count of Schauenburg. Seemingly having landed in another time, they make the acquaintance of various castle inhabitants and learn that from now on they must live in Schauenburg Castle and serve the count. When the initial shock wears off, the three friends willingly embark on the exciting adventures that life in the Middle Ages has in store for them: They experience an exciting hunt, make the acquaintance of highwaymen and forge new friendships. Nevertheless, they are overcome by homesickness. Will they escape and find their way back through the magical forest border?

Max, plagued by back pain and painful memories of his dead girlfriend, roams a dreary new world as a border patrol agent, confined only to the mainland of Europe after a natural disaster. Enclosed by an artificial atmosphere - the Dome - the remaining people live off the remains of the old civilization. But supplies are running low. When Max learns of a gap in the Dome, he sets out. On his mission, he meets Fera - the girl from the hostile East who is on the run from her power-hungry adoptive father. During their grueling journey, the two become closer and closer, and Max is finally faced with the question of how far he is willing to go to reach his goal.

After the untimely death of her husband Toby, Lady Victoria Howard discovers that she possesses the magical gift of time travelling, using an enchanted mirror in her grandmothers attic. During her foray through the mirror, she travels back in time, meeting people linked to her own aristocratic family, several generations earlier, which opens up some interesting questions for Victoria.In steamy, time-travelling adventures that would rival Outlander, Lady Victoria Howard travels to a variety of different time periods and countries, enjoying exciting new experiences and pleasures. From World War Two Paris, where she assumes the identity of a spy, to Marrakesh, where she meets a fellow time traveller. From being worshipped as a goddess by Vikings to Hollywood film sets where Victoria runs into Clark Gable as Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind. In the present day, Victorias horizons are widened to new possibilities both in her sex life and personal life. She begins to learn truths about some of the people closest to her, and she begins to question her relationship with the sexy Jonathan and her best friend, Sally. Maybe having the ability to travel through time could be just as helpful as it is complicated.Mirror Hours by Lady Victoria Howard is the full story about steamy time traveling romance that will thrill fans of Outlander and Bridgerton."Fun, smart and slightly rebellious, Victoria sounds like a character you can believe in and get behind, making the story all the better." Alice Broster, Bustle UKFor [anyone] who enjoys indulging in a little bit of erotica on the discrete, LVH is your new fantasy dream come true." Elizabeth Hazard, ProvokrLady Victoria Howard is a pseudonym and part of a universe for an adult romance series that combines passion and history to create unforgettable fantasy encounters that will be enjoyed by fans of Bridgerton. A 34-year-old widow, Lady Victoria is nervous about dating again until she discovers that she possesses a magical gift that opens up a world of exciting adventures that Tinder users can only dream of.

Livro definitivo do cartunista e ilustrador Orlando, um dos mais conceituados do mercado brasileiro. A obra é do tipo dois livros em um, com duas capas, e traz uma fase focada do artista, especialmente entre 1980 e 1990, quando seus trabalhos na redaço eram feitos a mo, com tintas e pinceis. Traz cartuns e charges tratando de costumes e dos governos Fernando Collor de Mello e Itamar Franco. O segundo volume, mais recente, traz cartuns mais livres e finalizados basicamente no computador, ainda assim, desenhados a mo. A obra tem prefacios de Spacca e Mariliz Pereira Jorge.

Mallorca is one of the most popular vacation destinations in Europe. Over 300 days of sunshine a year, Caribbean-like sandy beaches with turquoise seawater, a year-round infrastructure and the islands excellent accessibility make Mallorca a solid investment. Clearly, so many people here are putting their money into concrete gold, which means the real estate market is flooded with agents. What makes a good real estate salesperson successful in Mallorca, and what are the ups and downs of this industry? You will find the answers in this book!

Like a dangerous virus, a man invades the life of advertising copywriter Anja Berger. He talks about scent marketing and claims that he has created a scent composition to seduce her and spend beautiful nights with her. Will he succeed? Kai Mertens, the junior boss of the advertising agency for which Anja works, thinks about the future on a trip abroad, about whether he should continue to advertise short-lived cheap products that fill garbage dumps and ruthlessly exploit our nature. He invites his friend, the art historian and painter Claus Hoffmann, who no longer finds his life worth living after the death of his childhood sweetheart, on his trip. Can nature fill the emptiness inside him with its beauty and give his life a new meaning?

Dark does not know how many generations of humans and magical beings he will influence when he founds his Cult of Dragon Mages. He cannot know how many will die to banish the Dark God Sombra. But Dark knows that evil must not be allowed to gain power over Carrera.Some five hundred years later, the time has come. And Dark is lucky, because apart from setting up a wedding, it doesnt seem to take much to save the land. But every wedding is just the beginning, sometimes of something good, sometimes, however, of much further suffering. But the prophecy seems to come true and slowly the most important characters come together. The vampire hunter, master swordsman, shapeshifter, warrior and Amazon find each other.

Fatma grows up in poor circumstances in Turkey and experiences what it is like to be the child of a guest worker in Germany. Not only her own Turkish culture, but also that of her host country becomes foreign to her. She doesnt feel at home anywhere, not least because she and her mother keep commuting between Germany and Turkey. Fatma cannot find peace. Womens disenfranchisement, chadors and forced marriages on the one hand, freedom of movement, dress codes and personal freedoms on the other. And is Christianity so different from Islam? Do Christians really live more freely? In an adventurous way, Fatma escapes forced marriages several times, which is definitely tinged with humor. Will she manage to unite the two cultures for herself?

In the midst of the Canadian mountain landscape, a stressed and permanently dissatisfied manager finds inner peace. Under the loving guidance of a wise old lady, they experience the beauty of nature and reflect on their own lives and the true meaning of contentment while observing the social behavior of a pack of wolves. The book combines the insights of successful literary works, various religions, teachings and wisdom of primitive peoples, and observations from the animal and plant world into a sensitive, comprehensible, and empathetic narrative. The story and its conclusion represent the lowest common denominator of these sources and offer the reader an inspiring guide for imitation: the eight pillars for a self-determined and contented life.

Every brain is capable of great things, regardless of physical conditions. Therefore, there is no such thing as a smart or stupid brain. A doer is well aware of personal prerequisites and can thus recognise the best in every event and will act accordingly.Who doesnt want to be a doer? This is not one of those "Ill make you successful" books to mould you into a doer. You have to do that yourself.This book just gives you a guide to get you a little closer to your dream every day. It is neither easy nor difficult. There is only one condition: You must and can act alone. Recognise the doer in you.What are you waiting for?

God save all here.Summer, 1847. People are getting used to the corpses lying by the road and along the ditches. For John Mitchel - lawyer, journalist, activist, politician - the word famine will forever conjure the hollowed faces of Irelands dead, the liquid Gaelic of the past now mute on their tongues. Propelled by disgust at the injustice, Mitchel will do all he can to fight for the destitute, the starved, the forgotten. His odyssey will take him all the way to America - that land of promise - but it will draw him into a terrible paradox, blurring the lines that divide liberation from dispossession and forcing him to ask: can one act of devastating cruelty and oppression prevent another?

O FENÓMENO LITERÁRIO INTERNACIONAL«UM THRILLER PERFEITO! UMA MISTURA EXPLOSIVA DE MISTÉRIO E SUSPENSE COM UMA PRECISÃO NARRATIVA INCRÍVEL!» AmazonHÁ SEMPRE UMA BOA RAZÃO PARA UMA PORTA ESTAR FECHADA.

O que é que o passado familiar significa para as nossas vidas?Uma história arrebatadora de uma mulher que, entre dois continentes e cem anos de história, procura desenterrar o segredo da sua família ha muito escondido. No dia em que Diana descobre que o seu marido lhe e infiel, a jovem advogada recebe a noticia de que a sua querida e adorada tia-avo esta muito doente. Sem pensar duas vezes apanha o primeiro avio de Berlim para Inglaterra para se despedir. Emmely tem uma ultima vontade: Diana tem de descobrir um antigo segredo de familia ha muito escondido. Para isso a sua tia-avo deixa-lhe uma serie de pistas espalhadas pela grandiosa manso, que devera encontrar e interpretar com a ajuda do mordomo, o senhor Green.Aos poucos Diana, vai descobrindo uma complexa historia familiar, que remonta ao seculo XIX e a conduz ate as irms Grace e Victoria Tremayne, proprietarias de uma plantaço de cha em Ceilo. Pistas que a levam para longe de Berlim, do seu marido, ate a exotica ilha no Sri Lanka, onde conhece Jonathan Singh, um historiador e escritor local.A medida que o tragico passado de Grace e os pecados da familia so revelados, Diana vive novas experiencias e sensaçes, encontrando inspiraço na coragem da sua antepassada, para compreender o seu proprio destino e repensar o valor da felicidade e do amor.

On an estate in the Altmark region, the young farmmaster Friedrich Landsberg, the child of Lithuanian emigrants, founds a family. Their son Otto grows up sheltered. In Havelberg, Paul Siebert, who comes from a poor background, finds happiness with the teachers daughter Margarethe, who gives him a daughter, Alwine. The cloth merchant couple Gottfried and Mathilde Ohme successfully build up a business and have two children, Antonia and Arthur.The happiness of the three young families does not last long, however, as the First World War tears the families apart. With the end of the monarchy, everyone hopes for a better future, but the Weimar Republic is on shaky ground. When the Nazis come to power, the fate of the three families takes another dramatic turn.

Simon Armitage turns Hansel & Gretel into a darkly glittering fairy tale for grown-ups. In vivid and trenchant language, he puts a contemporary spin on the tale we know from the Brothers Grimm. Here is a twenty-first century story, whose preoccupations are poverty and hunger, war and flight, a shifting dystopian landscape where nothing is quite as it seems.Text and illustration fuse beautifully to summon a nightmarish vision that nonetheless contains humour and humanity and the possibility of a more hopeful future to come.

Professor George Grey is world-renowned for her pioneering research into octopus intelligence. Recently bereaved, her closest relationship these days is with her research subject: Frances, who resides in a large, purpose-built tank in Georges campus accommodation.But when ambitious anthropologist Harry enters her life, his breathtaking new theory threatens to tear her world apart in more ways than oneA play for two actors and one octopus Octopolis by Marek Horn is a fascinating and funny exploration of love, grief, and what makes us human. It premiered at Hampstead Theatre, London, in September 2023, directed by Ed Madden.A grownup campus romcom, with profound and complex ideas about consciousness and intelligence - GuardianA tangled, tentacled tale unabashedly cerebral - The TimesFunny, touching, and surprising an intimate two-hander that reveals itself to be about vastly expansive ideas Marek Horns writing is probing and incisive manages to express very complex ideas, both academic and interpersonal, with a surprising lucidity, and with moments of unexpected comedy an intricately intellectual piece of theatre, diving headfirst into questions of sentience, religion, grief, and community from a uniquely smart writer you could watch or read Octopolis several times over and continue to notice something new if you go to the theatre to think, to learn something, to do some introspection, its unmissable - Broadway WorldFascinating a game of whos-watching-who as a rapid-fire sparring of wits and intellect dive and propel through the murky waters of grief, spirituality, and admiring love - WhatsOnStage