When a suspicious airplane crash kills Fiona's soon-to-be ex-husband and owner of the local airfield, she becomes the number one suspect. Surrounded by antagonistic in-laws, land-hungry developers, and drug smugglers determined to get their hands on the airfield, she must find the saboteur before she becomes the next victim.

Penny ist zurück! Und steht vor einer Entscheidung, die ihr Leben für immer verändern könnte. Die lang ersehnte Fortsetzung der beliebten Kultreihe »Sieben Pfoten für Penny«. Denn manche Geschichten enden nie. Penny lebt als Tierärztin in England. Da erreicht sie ein Brief: Sie soll sich um die Tochter ihrer verstorbenen Freundin kümmern. Die Reise nach Salzburg bringt alte Erinnerungen zurück. Und konfrontiert sie mit der Frage, was im Leben wirklich zählt. Ein Roman über Freundscha...

'She looked absolutely pure. Nature, in her fantastic trickery, had set such a seal of maidenhood upon Tess's countenance that he gazed at her with a stupefied air: "Tess- say it is not true! No, it is not true!"' Young Tess Durbeyfield attempts to restore her family's fortunes by claiming their connection with the aristocratic d'Urbervilles. But Alec d'Urberville is a rich wastrel who seduces her and makes her life miserable. When Tess meets Angel Clare, she is offered tr...

The new revised third edition of the Oxford Handbook of Prescribing for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals, provides concise, practical, and expert guidance on all aspects of non-medical prescribing. Now thoroughly updated, key advice has been organised by practice specialty, to aid learning and decision making in prescribing practice, and ensure the vital information is always at your fingertips. Using information from the authors' years of experience as nurse practitioners a...

Es hätte ein ruhiger Ausritt werden sollen. Doch ein Gewitter macht Penny ein Strich durch die Rechnung und sie muss auf einem Ponyhof Schutz suchen. Aber dort entdeckt sie etwas Schreckliches: Die Ponys wurden vergiftet! Als dann auch noch die schrecklich unnette Familie Wunderlich, fünf süße Hundewelpen und ein neuer Nachbar bei Penny zu Hause auftauchen, ist das Chaos perfekt. Kann Tierpfleger Elvis, in den sich Penny verliebt hat, ihr beistehen? Die Angriffe auf den Ponyhof reißen nich...

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE was written towards the beginning of Hardy's career as a novelist and can be considered one of his most representative works. In this novel, Hardy's tragic vision is powerfully and narrowly focussed on Egdon Heath and the men and women who live on it. Set against the backdrop of the Heath and the impersonal and eternal forces it represents, the fates of Eustacia Vye, Diggory Venn, Clym Yeobright - the returning 'native' - and others are inexorably played out.

How does a just king, a loyal Defender of the Faith, turn on all that he vowed to protect, betraying Church and country? Was it the limitless power he had, the power to decide between life and death, that gave birth to him placing himself above his Pope and Church? Was it the example of other Henrys before him? This chapter is about one man's infamy and the powerful men and Martyrs God raised up to defend His Church. But before we speak of King Henry VIII, and the Martyrs who died rather t...

Wenn der Wahn ein Monster erschafft, gibt es nur einen Mann, der dem Morden ein Ende setzen kann! März 1483, und der Chirurg Thomas Berrington reist auf Aufforderung seines Meisters widerwillig nach Cordoba. Er rechnet damit, nur einen spanischen Prinzen zu operieren und in seine Heimat des maurischen Al-Andalus zurückzukehren. Doch das Schicksal hat noch etwas anderes für ihn und seinen Begleiter, den Eunuchen Jorge, auf Lager. Ein abartiger Mörder hat junge Frauen umgebracht und aus ihre...

Before Dracula, before Nosferatu... there was Varney the Vampire.A fierce storm rages over an antique English mansion, masking the scratching sounds at a young woman's window. As a jagged flash of lightning illuminates the room, a gaunt, terrifying figure breaks through the glass. He possesses the strength of a fiend, eyes that look like polished tin, and hideously protruding fangs. Flora Bannerworth survives the midnight attack, but she has been marked. Now, the r...

In this book fourteen large metropolitan economies are examined to show how industrial composition and jobs have changed in central cities and suburbs since 1970. Driven by the shift in emphasis from goods toward services, both central cities and suburbs have undergone dramatic changes. The analysis shows that many large central cities have experienced wrenching transformations as a result of low growth or declines in employment and population. However, these cities have continued to be th...

The Angelic DoctorWe go to Italy and France and trace the life of this most brilliant Saint.This Angelic Doctor is most known for his writing the Summa Theologica and the "Tantum Ergo and Panis Angelicus."

Four classics of the genre newly remastered for Kobo: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Vileroy or The Horrors of Zindorf Castle, Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures in Australia, and Dracula's Guest.  The Picture of Dorian Gray  'Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now!'  The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only publ...