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Watch Dogs: Stars & Stripes (eBook, ePUB)
Infamous hacker Aiden Pearce, main protagonist of the Watch Dogs® games, follows a bloody trail of corruption to the highest levels of government in this gritty action adventure from the bestselling videogame Older, but not necessarily wiser, Aiden Pearce, "the Fox", is a rolling stone, surviving by moving from one shadowy hacker job to the next. While in Baltimore, he's captured by a mysterious agent who insists finding missing cargo full of transhuman tech is something only Pearce can do. When flattery doesn't work, he's blackmailed into taking the job. Worse, he's partnered again with the unscrupulous Jordi Chin. Soon what looks like a simple investigation spirals into a nefarious plot leading all the way to the White House. Yet why should Aiden help a country that only wants him behind bars? For the Vigilante, no one escapes hard justice - not even Uncle Sam.- Shop: buecher
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How to Get Motivated in 60 Seconds: The Secrets to Instant Action (eBook, ePUB)
How can I get motivated when my mental energy feels like ... mush? Life insists we do things like:Get out of bed.Study for exams.Show up for work.Think about exercise.Make sales calls.The list goes on and on. There are so many mind-numbing things we know we should do, but our minds and bodies say, "No!" So what do we really need? How about strategies we can actually use? Instead of feeling defeated and sluggish, we can take iron-fisted control of our minds and get motivated in less than 60 seconds. We can struggle, feel guilty, and fight motivation fatigue for the rest of our lives, or we can learn how to be smarter than our unmotivated brains.Life is short. Let's feel motivated to do what we have to do. No need to suffer. Let our minds work for us, instead of against us. Scroll up and start reading this book now!- Shop: buecher
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Rosie Revere, Engineer
From the powerhouse author/illustrator team of Iggy Peck, Architect comes Rosie Revere, Engineer, another charming, witty picture book about pursuing your passion. Rosie may seem quiet during the day, but at night she's a brilliant inventor of gizmos and gadgets who dreams of becoming a great engineer. When her Great, Great Aunt Rose (Rosie the Riveter) comes for a visit and mentions her one unfinished goal--to fly--Rosie sets to work building a contraption to make her aunt's dream come true. Her invention complete, Rosie attempts a test flight--but after a moment, the machine crashes to the ground. Discouraged, Rosie deems the invention a failure, but Aunt Rose insists that on the contrary, it was a raging success. You can only truly fail, she explains, if you quit. Reassured, Rosie returns to her engineering and inspires her classmates to join in the fun.- Shop: buecher
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Thin
The things 17-year-old Erin Post wants are drastically different from the things she needs. A junior in high school, Erin wants nothing more than to be thin. In reality, she's a depressed girl with a serious eating disorder who needs to stop starving herself. When Erin's mother insists that she see a psychiatrist, Erin runs away to Chicago. There, she meets Lin and Ari, two homeless teens who show her that's there's a lot more to the world than being thin and fitting in. Soon after making her new friends, Erin is given a choice. She can either help her new friends and risk having to face psychiatric treatment, or continue her path toward thinness. A 2017 Golden Pen Award Nominee, THIN is a poignant story of self-esteem, courage and redemption. This is the large print edition of Thin, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.- Shop: buecher
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Thin
The things 17-year-old Erin Post wants are drastically different from the things she needs. A junior in high school, Erin wants nothing more than to be thin. In reality, she's a depressed girl with a serious eating disorder who needs to stop starving herself. When Erin's mother insists that she see a psychiatrist, Erin runs away to Chicago. There, she meets Lin and Ari, two homeless teens who show her that's there's a lot more to the world than being thin and fitting in. Soon after making her new friends, Erin is given a choice. She can either help her new friends and risk having to face psychiatric treatment, or continue her path toward thinness. A 2017 Golden Pen Award Nominee, THIN is a poignant story of self-esteem, courage and redemption. This is the large print edition of Thin, with a larger font / typeface for easier reading.- Shop: buecher
- Price: 26.99 EUR excl. shipping
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The Tell-Tale Heart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 17min
In this unnerving Edgar Allen Poe tale, our narrator insists on his sanity after carefully calculating and committing the brutal murder of an old man because of his monstrous eye. He argues that it is quite sane to cut the body into pieces and hide it under the floorboards. Will our narrator's guilt be his undoing? To what extent will he go to defend his sanity? ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Daniela Acitelli. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002595/bk_mike_002595_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Forsyte Saga, Volume 2, Hörbuch, Digital, 308min
This volume details the struggle between Soames and his beautiful wife, Irene, who leaves him but cannot persuade him to grant a divorce. While Soames cannot accept Irene's dissent, he insists his sister deal as she must with her own failed marriage. Irene gains independence through her friendship with Soames' Uncle, Old Jolyon, who leaves her a fortune in his will, and she flees the country, but Soames follows her. Language: English. Narrator: Martin Jarvis. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/csaw/000223/bk_csaw_000223_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Story of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Hörbuch, Digital, 11min
The Merchant of Venice, though featuring its title character heavily, is most memorable for the Jewish merchant Shylock, who insists on a pound of flesh when a debt cannot be repaid in time. Inevitably, love features as the money borrowed by Antonio, the Merchant of Venice, is for his friend, Bassiano, who wishes to woo the beautiful and talented Portia, who ultimately provides a clever solution and saves Antonio's life. Language: English. Narrator: Ghizela Rowe. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/copy/000080/bk_copy_000080_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Five Million Dollar Cat: A Novella , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 112min
When Amy's sleazy ex reemerges, she is wary, for two good reasons. One, she is still paying off the debts Jack had gotten her in. Two, his scheme, as usual, smacks of fraud. Jack, however, insists that everything is perfectly legal, safe, and easy, especially Amy's part. All she needs to do to earn her share, which would be a quarter million dollars, is - adopt a cat. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Tavia Gilbert. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001555/bk_acx0_001555_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Classic Tales of Horror: The Tell-Tale Heart , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 15min
One of Poe’s most famous stories and a masterpiece of psychological horror, 'The Tell-Tale Heart' is recounted by an unnamed narrator who insists he is not mad, but was driven to murder by his over-acute senses. To prove his sanity, he tells the listener how he conceived of the idea of killing the old man he lived with, how he went about it - and what happened afterwards. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Hayward Morse. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bbcw/003450/bk_bbcw_003450_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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