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Discover the amazing natural healing powers of bone broth, the ancient cure-all that is making waves as today's newest health food trend. The miracle broth has been said to heal inflammation, improve skin, aid digestion, and strengthen joints, among a long list of other wellness benefits. While hotspots from New York City to Portland are dishing out cups of bone broth for upwards of $9 a piece, it is surprisingly inexpensive and easy to make at home--and...
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"A charming mystery." - Publishers Weekly on book one in the Dr. Bannerman Vet Mystery series
It's springtime in rural Manitoba, and the snow has finally left the exotic animal farm when an ostrich finds and swallows a shiny object. (Because this is what ostriches do.) Cue veterinarian and amateur sleuth Dr. Peter Bannerman, who surgically removes the object, which looks like an ancient Viking artifact. Soon after, people around are horrified by...
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Lil Starling and husband Joe receive an invitation from her best childhood friend to go back to her hometown of Warsaw, NY to receive accolades for solving a fifty-one-year-old murder. Simultaneously, her friend, Federal Judge Stone, informs Lil that several federal inmates could be released from federal prison on a technicality. The technicality spawned appeals that stemmed from the prosecuting attorney that threatened Lil and Joe. She was about...
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John Mariner's wealthiest client, Nathan Livingston, retains John and his retired Houston PD detective friend, Larry Wagner, to identify the killer of his blackmailer, Colton Weber, and retrieve and destroy incriminating photos showing him with other women in an intimate setting. As they track down the killer and the photos, Weber's sister, Denise, one of the women in the incriminating pictures, dies of an overdose. That sets off a scramble for the...
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Former police detective Michael McLaren is looking forward to spending Christmas at his grandfather's ancient Hall. Not only because it will be his first holiday with his grandfather and uncle, but also with his lady love, Melanie.Everything seems perfect for the Scottish Highland getaway. Even Mother Nature is contributing snow, adding a festive and romantic overtone to the gathering. But McLaren's holiday plan gets snowed under when a dead man is...
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The master of the Golden Age British-style detective novel presents his redoubtable sleuth Dr. Gideon Fell in a baffling murder mystery set in the Swiss Alps Young Audrey Page has been warned against joining the aging film star Eve Eden and her temperamental friends at a Swiss chalet. Trustingly, she goes anyway and finds herself encircled by terror when a murderer strikes. With its eerie similarities to a crime that dates back to World War II, the...
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Italicus, ein junger Offizier mit germanischen Wurzeln, hat sich die Anerkennung der römischen Gesellschaft mühevoll erarbeitet. Doch seine Herkunft und die Geschichte werfen lange Schatten. Sein Onkel Aminius, ein Feind der Römer, war für die blutige Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald verantwortlich, bei der die römischen Legionen von den germanischen Stämmen vernichtend geschlagen wurden. Als Italicus den Auftrag des römischen Herrschers Kaiser...
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For the sake of honey, Bognor investigates a cabal of treasonous monks As the friars of the abbey gather for group prayer, Brother Luke stays in the garden. His tardiness is not due to an overenthusiasm for his potatoes, but to the fact that he is lying face down in the dirt, strangled to death by his own crucifix. For Simon Bognor, this will prove inconvenient. A special investigator attached to the British Board of Trade, Bognor knows that Brother...
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The story full of twist and mysteries tells about two twin brothers Cradock and Clayton Nowell, who are often mixed updue to their striking similarity. Their father and a nanny don't know who's the elder one. Their life is full of teenage adventures, the romanticism of the first love and beauty of the beauty of the nature around their home. Yet, the idyllic life comes to an end as one of the brothers gets shot by a stranger and the other one is accused...
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Taking inspiration from the infamous Panama scandals of 1892 and 1893-the biggest corruption bust of the nineteenth century-and Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Purloined Letter," Leblanc hurls Arsène Lupin headlong into a high stakes quest for the truth that threatens his honor and his life.
Two of Lupin's accomplices are present during a burglary at the home of Deputy Daubrecq. One is guilty and the other innocent but both will be sentenced...
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Moving back to Yorkshire was the last thing DI Tom Richmonds thought he would do. His superiors are also perturbed by his decision to transfer. Surely after the murder of the young girl, Yorkshire is the last place he should want to be? Is this Richmond's attempt to make peace with the past, or does he have ideas about reopening a bungled investigation?
Whatever Richmond's intentions, events soon overtake him. When a local biographer is found murdered,...
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Clare Curzon sets her crimes in the leafy Thames Valley, a lovely enough part of old England where one of the old villages seem right out of a nineteenth-century painting. But, people are the same mix of good and bad whatever scenery surrounds them, and Superintendent Mike Yeadings has as much human dissolution to deal with as if he policed the London streets. Searching for a killer in The Body of a Woman, the superintendent and his sergeants, Beaumont...
13) Teardown
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Johnnie LoDuco has finally gotten work, but between a nosy neighbor and jewel thieves out for vengeance, the overtime may just kill him.
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In der Einleitung nimmt Elke Burtscher Bezug auf Naturwesen im Allgemeinen. Sie geht zum einen auf die Entfremdung von der Natur ein, um im Anschluss mit der Beschreibung des Geistes der Natur einen Bogen hin zur persönlichen Beziehung zu Mutter Natur, zum Kontakt zu Wesenheiten der Natur und zu Pflanzenwesenheiten zu spannen. Das Kernthema kommt durch Gedichte und Illustrationen zum Ausdruck. Anhand von Graphit-bzw. Kohlezeichnungen lässt Elke...
15) Hanami
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Ein tief in der japanischen Kultur verankerter Brauch ist das Hanami-Fest, bei dem man im Frühling in Parks oder an Flüssen zusammenkommt, um der Blüte der japanischen Kirschblüte (Sakura) beizuwohnen.
Wenn aus der Pandemie etwas Gutes entsprungen ist, dann die Gelegenheit, dem eigenen Leben ebenfalls ein Hanami-Fest zu widmen. Zurückzublicken auf das, was einem selbst zur Blüte verholfen hat und vielleicht auch, was einen bisweilen hat verwelken...
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Der Blick auf unser Leben erscheint plötzlich in einem anderen Licht. Alles verändert sich. Drei Geschichten erzählen von zufälligen Begegnungen, von Verlieren und Finden, von Sehnsucht, Hoffnung und Entscheidungen, von Geheimnissen und der Flüchtigkeit des Glücks.
Dominik ist ein erfolgreicher Geschäftsmann, dessen Ehe nur noch von seiner kleinen Tochter Clara zusammengehalten wird. Sein Leben gerät ins Wanken, als er seine große Liebe wiedertrifft....
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From the author of the Agatha Raisin television series...DEATH OF A TRAVELING MAN: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery.
Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has-horrors!-been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean and his girlfriend have parked their rusty eyesore of a van in the middle of the village. Hamish smells trouble, and he's right as usual. The doctor's drugs go missing. Money vanishes. Neighbors...
18) The Glass Wall
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One freezing February evening, a Filipino barman named Ramon witnesses someone plunging from the seventh story of a luxury penthouse. Instead of calling the police, he heads straight for the apartment from which the body has fallen. It belongs to an old woman with a mysterious past, who could not get out of bed by herself.
Superintendent Mike Yeadings and Sergeant Rosemary Zycynski lead the investigation. Searching for a link between a teenage drug...
19) Keltenland
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Nach ihrem blutigen Einsatz in Osttirol, kehren die beiden Brüder, Sergio und Max, in ihre alte Heimat, ins schwäbische zurück. Der illusionslose, wortkarge noch Europol-Polizist Max, der das Recht vertritt, aber Gerechtigkeit sucht und der empathische, humorvolle Genussmensch Sergio, der junge Rentner. Hier im geschichtsträchtigen, beschaulichen Oberschwaben wollen sie mit ihrer Family die Rente genießen. Doch auch hier, auf dem historischen...
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Zwei Kölner Senioren im Jahr 2127 in Not.
Die neue Onko-Regierung in Köln will alle alten Menschen ab 70 aus dem Straßenbild verschwinden lassen, weil sie zu kostenintensiv geworden sind. Die Zukunft gehört den Kindern und den jungen Menschen.
Daher sind sie jetzt auf der Flucht und auf der Suche nach einer neuen Heimat.
Ob die wohl in Ouranopolis in Griechenland ist?
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