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Ein älterer Mann trifft zufällig in einem Café auf Anouk, eine Frau, die verzweifelt wirkt. Ihr Mann geht fremd und sie ist wütend und frustriert. Diese Begegnung gibt dem Mann Anlass, auf sein Leben zurückzublicken und er beschließt auf eine Reise in seine Vergangenheit zu gehen.Dabei stellt er fest, dass er sein Leben bisher nicht so gelebt hat, wie er es eigentlich wollte. Doch wie soll er jetzt noch etwas ändern? In diesem Roman geht es um die Suche nach dem eigenen Lebensweg und die Frage, ob es jemals zu spät ist, um etwas zu ändern. Der Protagonist muss sich mit seinen Entscheidungen und Fehlern auseinandersetzen.Mit einem witzigen und kraftvollen Schreibstil erzählt der Autor eine Geschichte, die sowohl Frauen als auch Männer ansprechen wird, die sich mit Themen wie Selbstfindung, Liebe, Freundschaft und Erotik beschäftigen. Ein Buch, das zum Nachdenken anregt und den Leser bis zum Ende fesselt. Vergeblich suchen wir einen Plan vom eigenen Leben, den jemand für uns schreibt.

I am a Nigerian journalist educated in Nigeria and England in the 1960's where I practised briefly and had the privilege to cover the Nigerian constitutional conference for a local newspaper. That period can now be described as the golden period in Nigerian history. Empathy, decency, and humanity still existed in our national life then. When I came back to Nigeria during the same period, The first assignment given to me was to go into the Yoruba hinterland to get an old woman whose son, living in America was seriously ill and needed an organ donor. She immediately volunteered as a donor. She was brought to Lagos, celebrated, and crowned, the woman of the YEAR. I was later employed by the ministry of information as soon as the civil war started and I was posted to the documentation unit to document activities at the war front. That was a very traumatic period in our national life. When I became the chairperson of media women in Lagos, we decided to give an award to exceptional leaders. The first person to win the award for advancing the lots of girl children In a very innovative and effective way was general David Mark, the Governor of Niger State at the time. I have always believed in the policy of acknowledging good and bad deeds. I was happy to live throughout that period in our national life as a journalist and a woman activist I was the publicity secretary of the National Council of Women Societies, NCWS and a member and the Executive director of the award-winning film for the Better life programme, 'THE JOURNEY SO FAR'. The Better Life Programme was the brainchild of the then-first lady of Nigeria, Mrs Maryam Babangida. Those activities gave me another opportunity to visit every state and many villages all over the country and experience the beauty and diversity of a wonderful country like no other in the world. The country then was still very happy, full of joy and celebrations. Unfortunately, Nigeria has become a nation of pain, hunger, and sorrow, where human lives mean nothing, law and order have broken down and the whole country has been thrown to the dogs. Even the security convoy of the President has been attacked and several security operatives werereportedly killed. The greatest insult of all was when they arrogantly threatened to kidnap the president The nation has definitely gone to the dog.I eventually retired from public service as the Director General of the National Film and Video Census Board. Rosaline Odeh is currently the proprietor of GROTTOAFRIQUE, the gallery of history, based in Abuja, Nigeria and online.wwwgrottoafrique.com

Story of a mysterious man who came to the city at its most turbulent times hit by Naxalites and changed the lives of people who he encountered. A crime thriller and a noir that tells about some incidents that took place in 1970 but become relevant to the present police department when some contemporary incidents escalated in the shadow of the past.

Germany invades mainland Britain. Stormtroopers swarm ashore along the South Wales coast to capture the Steelworks and Coal Mines. Newport is blitzed. Danny O'Shea's house is bombed and his wife is killed. A German motorbike takes a wrong turn down Henry St and the driver is killed by a frantic mob. O'Shea grabs the motorbike and takes his son to his grandmother in Tredegar. They hide the motorbike and walk to the house where they keep out of sight. The Germans find the motorcycle and the search for the culprit begins. Terrified the Nazis will blame him for the soldier's murder, O'Shea grabs his son and heads to Ireland. But on an isolated road they witness Welsh insurgents robbing some boxes from a German truck. The insurgents capture the O'Sheas and keep them prisoner at an old farmhouse. German Captain Eric Weiss, responsible for the boxes, knows his job - even his life - depends on him getting them back and he unleashes a terrible retribution on the local population.But the insurgents are double-crossed and the boxes disappear. Then O'Shea goes to the aid of a dying woman - and both the Germans and the insurgents believe she's told him where the boxes are hidden.Suddenly O'Shea is separated from his son and catapulted into a world of betrayal and brutal double-cross. Pursued by both the Germans and the insurgents, his only concern is to find his son and get him to safety.

"Between the effects of the coordinated terrorist attacks in America and the home-grown hostility against Keika Group, Runa has her hands full running her empire. As Keika Group expands, Japan fights back, seeking regulations that make corporate restructuring inevitable. Nevertheless, Her Little Majesty pushes through the turmoil until Prime Minister Koizumi lands a ruthless blow, threatening to shatter everything she's worked so hard for. Now that the writing is on the wall, what path will she choose?"--

Franz Fichte is a world traveler and adventurer extraordinaire. His good friend and benefactor, Mr. Wieland sends him to the fictional city of New London. Our tale takes place in 1959 and while Europe has been peaceful, things are not always what they seem. A dense fog always covers the city and there are people having strange and dangerous dreams. Franz and his team are assembled to get answers by his contact in New London, a professor at the university. Generously provided with a study, and a bookworm assistant named Gaston. Franz travels to a world between ours called the dreamscape where he encounters horrible and nightmarish visions. Can he get to the bottom of it before it's too late? A mysterious and thrilling read for all ages that explores the horror and darkness of dreams and pits a conflicted and flawed character against supernatural forces.

Le professeur Wittembach, philosophe allemand, se rend en Lituanie pour ses recherches. Il est reçu dans le château du comte Michel Szémioth dont la mère est devenue folle au lendemain de son mariage, après qu'un ours, lors d'une chasse, l'eut emportée «sans doute pour aller la dévorer tout à son aise dans un fourré». Le jeune comte, qui s'est d'abord caché dans un arbre pour observer le savant, reçoit fort bien ce dernier, et lui raconte la mystification dont il a été l'objet de la part d'une charmante jeune fille, Ioulka Iwinska... Mérimée reprend, dans cette nouvelle, la légende de l'hommeours attestée dans bien des traditions, et qu'il a pu découvrir dans les de Saxo Grammaticus ou dans les de Bandello traduites par Belleforest.

Tatiana Ivanovna a consacré sa vie entière à ses maîtres, les Karine, qu'elle a vu naître et grandir. Lorsque la révolution russe les chasse de leur domaine, elle les suite dans leur fuite, jusqu'à Odessa d'abord, puis jusqu'à Paris, dans ce petit appartement du quartier des Ternes, où les exilés tournent en rond comme les mouches d'automne... Justesse et finesse de l'écriture caractérisent ce livre nostalgique. Irène Némirovsky est morte à Auschwitz en 1942. Son roman publié soixante ans après sa mort a obtenu le prix Renaudot en 2004.

Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another, far stranger and more dangerous Earth on their way to fight Santa Anna in the Mexican-American War, Lewis Cayce and his small group of artillerymen, infantrymen, and dragoons have made friends in the Yucatán, helped build an army, and repulsed the first efforts of the blood-drenched Holy Dominion to wipe their new friends out.    As an even more radical cult of Blood Priests arises and begins to pursue its own path to power, the Dominion can’t let its defeat stand. It must crush the heretics and expel them from the land it has claimed.    Fortunately, Lewis Cayce is a professional. He understands defense can only result in a stalemate at best, and a stalemate with the more populous Dominion will only lead to defeat in the end. The lucky few will be enslaved. The rest will be sacrificed in the most horrific way imaginable. The only hope his new allies have is to win—and to do that, his little army must attack the most powerful and diabolical enemy on the planet in its own territory. Achieving victory will take all Lewis’s imagination, the courage and trust of his soldiers—and all the round shot and canister his tiny band of artillerymen can slam out.

Ten Golden Fields is a book of ten very short fiction tales of between 7-10 pages. They are designed for maximum good reading. Characters shine and speak to truth, as they see it. Time periods are the far past, recent past, near present, or near future. Plots are geared to involve readers very quickly. Endings surprise and are compelling. Genres are varied and as readers move from story to story, there is no intended thread, except that stories are difficult to put down until readers know the ending. At that point emotions may be boiled, roiled or coiled.