What would you do with one more call?The Phone seems to pop innocently into existence for anyone, in what feels like their hour of greatest need. But what is spoken into the receiver changes more in our world than it does in for the dead.Inspired by real events, experienced and debut authors have come together in 2021 to create these epic moments in the lives of rebels, explorers, aliens, killers, orphans, and more.With each story, we're confronted by the question, ...

BOOK 1 — SHADOW EMPIRELucien Blackwood rules a global empire built on power, secrecy, and blood.He trusts no one. Loves no one. Needs nothing.Until Isabella Moretti walks into his world.She is innocence in a city of monsters.He is danger in a tailored suit.Their attraction is instant. Forbidden. Explosive.But Lucien's empire is built on enemies, betrayal, and dark secrets that refuse to stay buried. When Isabella becomes a target, ...

Everyone in My School Knows a Secret About Me — Except MeEveryone is acting strange.Whispers follow me through the hallways. Conversations die when I walk into a room. Even my closest friends won't look me in the eye.They all know something about me.Something I don't.As buried memories begin to surface, I uncover a truth darker than I ever imagined — a childhood accident, a brother I don't remember, and a secret that refuses to stay ...

The Obsidian Covenant is a dark fantasy romance filled with forbidden power, epic battles, and a love that could reshape destiny itself.Elara was never meant to wield magic.Marked by an ancient force older than creation, she becomes the living key to a war that could destroy all realms. Hunted by shadow armies and betrayed from within, she is thrust into a conflict where every choice carries devastating consequences.Kael, a battle-hardened warrior bound by duty and ...

Bei den "Hier und heute"-Köch*innen Olaf Baumeister, Julia Floß, Julia Komp, Lars Middendorf, Fabian Timmer und Alexander Wulf kommt das Beste auf den Tisch, was jede Jahreszeit zu bieten hat. Seit vielen Jahren begeistert das beliebte Nachmittagsmagazin im WDR-Fernsehen täglich montags bis freitags Zuschauer*innen in ganz Deutschland.Im 1. Kochbuch zur Sendung finden Sie die beliebtesten Rezepte fürs ganze Jahr: O...

Wer liebt es denn nicht, zu verreisen und hat in diesen Zeiten besonders große Lust auf Abenteuer? Die jüngste Sterneköchin Deutschlands Julia Komp ist 14 Monate lang in die entferntesten Länder gereist und hat die außergewöhnlichsten Rezepte und die tollsten Reportagen mitgebracht. Sie macht es möglich: Eine Weltreise in den eigenen vier Wänden, mit Kochtöpfen voller Genuss. Ob Indonesien, Äthiopien, Indien oder Weißrussland: Lassen Sie sich von der Sterneköchin entführen, schlendern Sie ...

Zwei ehemals eng befreundete Paare verbringen nach 20 Jahren Abstinenz ihren ersten gemeinsamen Urlaub an dem Ort, wo ihr letzter geendet hatte. Abhängig vom launischen Wetter gestalten sie die Tage am Strand oder mit Ausflügen, wobei der Wortwitz für viele Erheiterungen steht. Seltsame Spuren, die aus dem Meer über den Strand zu Dünen führen, inspirieren das erlahmte Urlauberdasein: der ganze Ort steht Kopf. Spekulationen wuchern, verleiten das Quartett mitzumischen. In Esbjerg findet ein...

Planning to walk a Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Spain? This is the book for you. A collection of tips to help you plan, prepare, train, shop for, and walk the famous Camino de Santiago written by someone who spent 7 weeks walking the Via de La Plata route of the Camino de Santiago. You'll learn what gear you'll need, how to choose the right boots and break them in properly. You'll discover the best ways to condition yourself to walk the Camino de Santiago. You'll discover what to wear ...

The goal of 15 Minutes to Enlightenment: A Simple Daily Practice is to help you achieve greater awareness of your metaphysical, energy presence and your connection to source energy through three, five-minute, easy daily practices. These processes were revealed and developed during more than a decade of teaching events and during hundreds of hours of channeled messages. Gregory's team of metaphysical guides offered this guidance and these tools to help those in the rooms become more spiritu...

Duke Donovan's despot and dictator clients pay him handsomely for the information he provides through psychic and tarot card readings. When not helping others to overthrow the world, or walking his golden retriever, Duke picks up stray men off the New York City streets; artists, musicians, writers, and actors, usually, and nudges their careers forward while sharing his bed with them. His latest find, Broadway conductor, Sam Teak, begins mysteriously poisoning Duke's butler, Malcolm. Duke h...

This book focuses on border deaths at sea. It unravels how the interplay of the law of the sea and rules on jurisdiction widen the opportunity for states to make and enforce rules outside their territory, and questions whether this is also accompanied with an obligation to respect the right to life under the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) when doing so.By embarking upon the challenge of analysing a cross-border phenomenon in which direct encounters between state agents ...

Flash Mob follows famed Broadway director and choreographer Jericho Taylor as he mounts a revival of 42nd Street and produces a series Flash Mobs. Taylor discovers and falls in love with fresh-from-the-Midwest triple threat, Billy Lake and places the young man at the center of his Flash Mobs, which become a viral sensation. The seemingly spontaneous Flash Mob dance events are designed to counter the public's fear caused by a string of terrorist bombings in the New York City area. Aamil, a ...