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Four chronically homeless people - Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger - seek refuge in a warm movie theater when a severe Arctic front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world and, once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favor of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck.

Würde ist ein großer Begriff. Gleich in Artikel 1 des Grundgesetzes heißt es: "Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar." Doch was genau ist Würde? Was bedeutet es, wenn uns unsere Würde genommen wird, weil wir etwa in der digitalen Welt nur noch als Datensatz zählen oder im Netz geschmäht werden? Wenn wir uns selbst würdelos verhalten oder andere entwürdigen?

Alex und Enea sind zurück in der Kristallsphäre und müssen feststellen, dass es dort zu einer Katastrophe gekommen ist. Die Reaper haben die Kontrolle über die virtuelle Realität übernommen. Diese hybriden Identitäten, die sich aus hochleveligen NPCs entwickelt haben, töten menschliche Spieler und verschlingen deren Neurogramme. Ihre Gier nach Neurogrammen ist unersättlich. Niemand ist vor den Reapern sicher, alle kämpfen ums Überleben.

She will pay the price for her father’s sin. I’ll use my beautiful prisoner to get him. To make him suffer. Make him believe I'm hurting her the way he harmed my sister. And when I’m done tormenting him, I will offer a trade: her life for his. I owe him a slow, painful death. Revenge is my due. But Kateryna is strong in ways I didn’t expect. Broken before I ever got to her, she's a willing participant for my torment. She turns the tables on me, seducing me with her laughter. Her wild, crazy appetite for pain and pleasure.

It all started one night when a selfless woman helped a drunken stranger get home safely from a club. Little did they both know that after that one night, their lives would change forever. A friendship was forged, an undeniable love was born, and secrets were revealed that took them on the journey of a lifetime. A family was created: a daughter and a son who were Connor and Ellery's world.

I am an alpha wolf, one of the youngest in the States. I can pick any she-wolf in the pack for a mate. So why am I sniffing around the sexy human attorney next door? The minute I catch Amber’s sweet scent, my wolf wants to claim her. Hanging around is a bad idea, but I don’t play by the rules. Amber acts all prim and proper, but she has a secret, too. She may not want her psychic abilities, but they’re a gift.

In my opinion, the New Covenant is one of the most misunderstood subjects in the Church today. Many years ago, I wrote a blog about it and triggered reactions I never expected in my wildest dreams. Some of the reactions were very strong and aggressive and did not come from unbelievers but from well-meaning Christians, church leaders, and pastors.

Dragons invade a proud city. Mike Merlino is the magical guardian of Pittsburgh and vows to solve the problem. The young wizard learns that his only chance to defeat the evil dragons is to find a mythical musical instrument...Will Mike unearth the elusive instrument and use it to reclaim his city?

Uncovering a diabolical Nazi plot, Marge Emerson is secretly reassigned to a medical post in France. There she meets a conscientious objector and finds his outspoken belief in God a challenge to her own fragile faith. When David shares his desire to return to Europe after the war and build an orphanage for Germany's homeless children, Marge is drawn to this selfless, compassionate man.

Les dix enfants particuliers sont désemparés : Miss Peregrine, changée en oiseau, est prisonnière de son état, suite à l'attaque des Estres, des âmes damnées. Ils n'ont plus qu'un espoir : trouver une Ombrune susceptible de redonner à la directrice de l'orphelinat sa forme humaine. Le petit groupe d'enfants échoue sur une rive de Grande-Bretagne, en 1940, alors que la Seconde Guerre mondiale fait rage. Aussitôt pris en chasse par des Estres déguisés en soldats, ils se réfugient in extremis dans une boucle temporelle.

Dix ans après avoir obtenu leur diplôme, cinq anciens camarades de fac se réunissent pour le week-end dans un chalet au beau milieu des montagnes Catskill. Ces retrouvailles ne sont pas un enterrement de vie de garçon, contrairement à ce qu'ils affirment, mais plutôt une tentative pour empêcher l'un d'eux de sombrer dans l'addiction. Après le suicide présumé de leur amie Alice, ils sont bien décidés à ne pas laisser survenir un nouveau drame.

Nine remarkable men produced inventions that changed the world. The printing press, the telephone, powered flight, recording, and other innovations have made the modern world what it is. But who had these ideas and made realities of them? As David Angus explains, they were very different: quiet, boisterous, confident, or withdrawn. But all had a moment of vision that they combined with single-minded determination to battle through numerous obstacles and produce something that really worked.

Neither an advocate nor a critic of cultured meat, Benjamin Aldes Wurgaft spent five years researching the phenomenon. In Meat Planet, he reveals how debates about lab-grown meat reach beyond debates about food, examining the links between appetite, growth, and capitalism. Could satiating the growing appetite for meat actually lead to our undoing? Are we simply using one technology to undo the damage caused by another? Like all problems in our food system, the meat problem is not merely a problem of production. It is intrinsically social and political.

Commander Jonathan Radec is dead. However, the commander has already died once before, and for some death is but a doorway.... After making a shocking discovery that reveals the truth about a long-held misconception, the crew launch a desperate rescue mission to Tartarus. The only way to reach there, aboard the Sunfire, which was once the Confederation Navy's newest, most powerful heavy cruiser, but is now nothing more than a ghost ship, adrift amongst the stars.

Like Solomon with his magic ring, famed Austrian ethologist Konrad Lorenz was a gifted student of the animal world. King Solomon's Ring, which brought him worldwide recognition, is a delightful collection of observations and insights into the lives of our furry and feathered friends, from our familiar furry companions to water shrews and jackdaws. A must listen for any animal lover.

Reeling from the explosion that tore through Malakan's house, Hayden rushes back to Solomon's Fang to tell the others. Learning more about the incident sends Hayden on a new mission that makes him doubt what he thought he knew and reveals secrets about the past he doesn't remember. When a powerful Lunaris trainer dedicates himself to training Hayden's magic abilities, he must learn to dig into that past to control the future.

Descriptive study of the book of Acts and its lessons.

Koffi, gifted with powerful magic, has saved the boy she loves—at a terrible price. Now Koffi is a servant to the god of death, and must choose between the life she once had, or the life she could have if she truly embraced her power. Ekon is on the run from the ancient brotherhood he betrayed, and desperate to find Koffi: the girl who saved his life. But as he treks into the greater wilds of Eshoza in search of her, he must also contend with secrets his ancestors never wanted him to know. Separated by land, sea, and gods, Koffi and Ekon will have to risk everything.

The Victorian era was a time of great change and rapid progress. Britain was undergoing the most tremendous development. Scientific discoveries had prompted the Industrial Revolution, which made Britain the world leader in iron and steel production. Science was undergoing a revolution, enabled by the groundbreaking work of Michael Faraday, who led the Royal Institution. Great swathes of Central Africa were mapped by the explorer David Livingstone and the understanding of humankind’s place in the world was being redefined by the theories of the great naturalist Charles Darwin.

When he walked into my restaurant, I thought he was the hottest man I’d ever seen in person. And then he spoke. And I realized who he was. The world now knows him as John Brandt - the ridiculously wealthy, handsome, genius workaholic startup founder and tech entrepreneur. I will always think of him as the annoying geek who's my older brother’s best friend.