The last time I saw my brother's foe, he was getting punched in the nose for bedding my brother's girl-who wasn't really my brother's girl. Now he's on his knees, looking up at me, and I can't help but smile. When the sinfully sexy man says hello, I say hello back. It's the right thing to do after all. But when he asks me to take a ride with him, I know I should refuse. Fresh out of a messy breakup, I'm not looking for anything but fun. So when he tells me...
Die Wanderfotografin Mimi Reventlow lebt seit einiger Zeit in der kleinen Leinenweberstadt Laichingen und kümmert sich um ihren kranken Onkel Josef. Durch ihre offene Art ist es ihr gelungen, die Herzen der Dorfbewohner zu erobern und Freundschaften zu knüpfen. Als eine Katastrophe das Dorf erschüttert, wird sie mit ihren wunderschönen Fotografien für viele der Bewohner gar zum einzigen Rettungsanker. Doch nach einer schweren menschlichen Enttäuschung muss Mimi erkennen, dass sie sich nicht nur...
While Lilly digs into a town beautification project, her friend Tamara O'Connor has greater concerns than well-pruned geraniums. The real-estate-firm owner hasn't been shy about blaming perennial grouch Gladys Preston for thwarting her many attempts to sell off a beautiful beachside property. But accusations fly when Gladys is suddenly found dead – and Tamara is caught standing over the body with a bloody weapon in her hand. As Tamara becomes the prime murder suspect, Lilly and the...
Der unglaublichste Kunstraub aller Zeiten passiert in der Ausstellung der Malerin Ilonka Rosivall. Am helllichten Tage verschwinden Bilder von den Wänden der Galerie. Und das geschieht sogar in Anwesenheit der Detektive Kolumbus & Sohn! Presse und Fernsehen haben natürlich ihre Sensationsmeldungen; und die Malerin setzt als Belohnung für die Wiederbeschaffung ihrer Bilder sage und schreibe 100.000 DM aus! Ja, und Privatdetektiv Donald Kolumbus – der ist sauer …
Young Benjamin Franklin wants to be a sailor, but his father won't hear of it. The other trades he tries-candle maker, joiner, boot closer, turner-bore him through and through. Curious and inventive, Ben prefers to read, swim, fly his kite, and fly his kite while swimming. But each time he fails to find a profession, he takes some important bit of knowledge with him. That tendency is exactly what leads him to become the astonishingly versatile genius we remember today. Inspired by The...
Set in Iran and New York City, this book tells the story of Hamid Mozaffarian, who is as alienated from himself as he is from the world around him. After decades of ambivalent work as an interrogator with the Iranian regime, Hamid travels on a diplomatic mission to New York, where he encounters his estranged family and retrieves the ashes of his father, whose dying wish was to be buried in Iran. Tucked in his pocket throughout the trip, the ashes propel him into a first-person excavation-full...
Before their experiments, inventions, and discoveries that changed the world, the world's most celebrated scientists had regular-kid problems just like you. Stephen Hawking hated school and preferred to spend his free time building model airplanes, inventing board games, and even building his own computer. Jane Goodall got in trouble for bringing worms and snails into her house. And Neil deGrasse Tyson had to start a dog-walking business to save up money to buy a telescope. Kid Scientists...
Fresh from facing allegations of witchcraft and murder, travelling weaver Will Rees, his heavily pregnant wife Lydia, and six adopted children take refuge in Zion, a Shaker community in rural Maine. Shortly after their arrival, screams in the night reveal a drowned body, but is it murder or an unfortunate accident? The Shaker Elders argue it was just an accident, but Rees believes otherwise. As he investigates further, more deaths follow and a young girl vanishes from the community. Haunted by...
Seventeen-year-old Lexi Turner has just been dumped by her boyfriend of three years-on the day she was going to, well, do it with him. And to make matters worse, he dumped her for a lifeforce-sucking demon! Devastated by this turn of events, she decides there is only one way to deal with the situation: get revenge. Enter Jase Holloway-Lexi's former childhood friend and adversary to her ex. The plan is simple: somehow talk Jase into pretending to be her boyfriend to make her ex-boyfriend...
Despite Clinton's commanding lead in the polls, hyper-partisan intelligence officials decided they needed an «insurance policy» against a Trump presidency. Thus was born the collusion narrative, built on an anonymously sourced «dossier,» secretly underwritten by the Clinton campaign and compiled by a former British spy. Although acknowledged to be «salacious and unverified» at the FBI's highest level, the dossier was used to build a counterintelligence investigation against...