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King Lear is ready to turn his realm over to his three daughters. His plan is simple: Give the biggest piece to the daughter who loves him most. But honeyed words and hubris blind Lear to the true motives of those around him, plunging king and kingdom into a hell of treachery, madness, and unspeakable acts - with consequences that reveal the worst and best in human nature.

The newspaper refers to the body only as Victim 2117 - the 2117th refugee to die in the Mediterranean Sea. But to three people, the unnamed victim is so much more, and the death sets off a chain of events that throws Department Q, Copenhagen’s cold cases division led by Detective Carl Mørck, into a deeply dangerous - and deeply personal - case. A case that not only reveals dark secrets about the past, but has deadly implications for the future.

Patrick Foley is a haunted man. After losing his family in a brutal Commanche raid, he drifts from town to town seeking justice and revenge. His mission—to track down the killers—has hardened his heart against all men, good or bad. But his icy resolve begins to melt when he arrives in the small Texas town of Christmas Creek—along with a massive winter storm that traps him there with a good woman, her little boy, and some very bad men . . .

El mejor regalo para los abuelos es un libro con alma de poeta. En sus páginas se hace un merecido homenaje a los hombres y mujeres con más edad en cada familia, así como a los abuelos jóvenes. Porque sabemos que de ellos proviene la experiencia y la cimentación de una estirpe, además de que en sus corazones conservan un enorme caudal de amor. A través de historias reales y frases célebres, de reflexiones y poemas, hacemos un recuento de lo que han vivido y de lo mucho que les queda por disfrutar.

In "Boots, Barrack, and Belly Laughs," Mr. Gates breaks down the misconception that military experiences can't be humorous. Quite the contrary, as he unveils the universal language of humor that binds military personnel together.

Barry Lyndon narra el ascenso y caída de una ambición desmesurada: la de Redmond Barry, un joven irlandés decidido a convertirse en un hombre rico e importante. Hipócrita y vanidoso, usa todos sus ardides para escalar en el mundo social del siglo XVIII, hasta alcanzar la cúspide al casarse con lady Lyndon, la joven viuda de un acaudalado conde. Será entonces, sin embargo, cuando descubrirá que, tras subir la montaña, solo queda bajarla.

On the wild western frontier, the three men known as the Jackals stand between the law and the lawless—delivering their own brand of justice with a fast draw, dead aim, and enough bullets to populate Boot Hill. Apache renegade Bloody Hand plays a role in each of the Jackals’ lives. To bounty hunter Jed Breen, he is man with a price on his head. To retired cavalry segeant Sean Keegan, he is a cellmate after a drunken brawl. And to former Texas Ranger Matt McCulloch, he is the key to a mystery that has long haunted him.

Perley’s elder brother, Rubin, who manages the Triple-G Ranch decides to try breeding some Hereford cattle with the ranch’s longhorns. He asks Perley to deliver the contract for the Herefords, a simple task. But nothing ever remains simple when Perley is involved. And for the reluctant fast gun, it means a nightmare journey through hell itself . . .

In a twist of fate, Slash and Pecos are riding hard for the law, dispensing justice as they see fit, and determined to watch their final sunset as heroes... not outlaws. His wicked ways mostly behind him, reformed bank robber Jimmy “Slash” Braddock is getting hitched to his sweetheart. But before the honeymoon, Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. “Bleed-’Em-So” Bledsoe needs Slash and his former partner-in-crime, Melvin “The Pecos River Kid” Baker, to play unofficial Federal mercenaries again—this time saddling up for a trip to Nebraska.

Some say the Wild West is no country for old men. But apparently no one told Eli Doolin and Casey Tubbs. This rowdy pair of cowboys may be a bit long in the tooth but—thanks to the success of their new business venture, the D&T Cattle Company—they’re riding high in the saddle. And raking in the cash. What’s their secret? They rob banks. Disguised as even older men than they are, Doolin and Tubbs have managed to pull off a string of bank jobs without a hitch, making just a few withdrawals to help fund their ranch.

'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view of philosophical pragmatism while making highly rhetorical and entertaining lashes towards rationalism and other competing schools of thought. James is especially concerned with the pragmatic view of truth. True beliefs should be defined as, according to James, beliefs that can successfully assist people in their everyday life. This is claimed to not be relativism. That reality exists is argued to be a fact true beyond the human subject. James argues, ...

What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in Tennessee to be a link in a chain of flag signalers across a ridge of mountains. They encounter a dizzying gorge with a rickety bridge, bears, aching heartache, freezing cold, avalanche, bats, skeletons, deserted cabins, puzzling mysteries, starvation, and more. (David Wales)

A new railroad line is coming to Hansen's Bend—and the Old West will never be the same. Especially for the Callahans. They've been running the local wagon train outfit for years. But now a pompous rail boss named Arbuckle wants to put them out of business. This big-city weasel mocks the Callahans' "slow-poke" wagons-and bets he can finish laying track all the way to the end of the line before Callahan's wagon train even makes it over the mountains. Callahan accepts the challenge—and gets gunned down before it even starts . . .

This is Volume VIII of the National Academy of Sciences Biographical Memoirs series. It is read as 33 sections using the memoir headings. John Wesley Powell (1834-1902) was a leading figure in the geological explorations of the West and helped establish the federal U.S. Geological Survey in 1879. He also led the Bureau of Ethnology and advocated for better treatment and study of Native American tribes and culture. He wrote a definitive study of the arid western U.S., advocating for thoughtful irrigation and land management practices. Powell predicted that water rights purchased by corporations...

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Einen Tag nach Pearl Harbor versammeln sich die schockierten Amerikaner vor ihren Radios und müssen mit anhören, wie Franklin D. Roosevelt den Kriegseintritt der USA erklärt. In Los Angeles plant unterdessen der deutsche Spion Martin Browning einen Anschlag auf den amerikanischen Präsidenten. Er will Roosevelt am Weihnachtsabend töten, wenn dieser vor dem Weißen Haus den Weihnachtsbaum erleuchtet. Wer wird ihn aufhalten?

The Applegate Trail of 1846, describes the events that happened more than 150-years-ago, on the first wagon train, to take the trail through southern Oregon that would later be called the Applegate Trail. This trail left the Oregon Trial near Fort Hall in Idaho, and used the established California Trail through Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and California, to become the new southern emigrant route into the Willamette Valley of Oregon.

*Mystical Christianity” by William Walker Atkinson is a work that explores the esoteric and occult teachings within the Christian tradition. Atkinson, under his pen name Yogi Ramacharaka, approaches Christianity from a mystical perspective, fusing elements of Eastern philosophies with traditional Christian thought. The book invites listeners to discover a deeper, more spiritual interpretation of the Gospels, focusing on Christ consciousness as a state of enlightenment and direct connection with the divine.

Many Christians lived in Asia Minor (later Turkey) before the Armenian and Greek genocide by the Muslims at the outset of the twentieth century. The author; Planes, chronicles his father’s true life experience in an effort to make clear the precious freedoms that we have in the United States. This book presents the true story of a Christian boy and his escape from the genocide of Greek and Armenian Christians.

In der zweiten Folge der spannenden Hörspielreihe Sherlock, der kleine Detektiv stehen Sherlock und seine Freunde Johnny und Lea vor einem tierischen Rätsel: Der Klassenhamster Biscuit ist aus seinem Käfig verschwunden! Zunächst glauben die Kinder, dass der Hamster einfach ausgebrochen ist. Doch Sherlock merkt schnell, dass es sich um ein Verbrechen handeln muss, denn der Käfig ist verschlossen, und es gibt keine Fluchtspuren. Gemeinsam machen sich die drei jungen Detektive auf die Suche nach dem Dieb.