Resultado de "Leo" em Todas as categorias

Die Vergangenheit lässt der eigenwilligen Frankfurter Kommissarin Mara Billinsky keine Ruhe. Der Mörder ihrer Mutter wurde nie gefunden. Zudem halten der Mord an einer Edel-Prostituierten und ein Bombenanschlag auf der Autobahn das gesamte Kripo-Team in Atem. Eines Tages erhält Mara eine anonyme Warnung: Der "Wolf" sei in der Stadt und im Visier habe er: - sie! Als Mara endlich erkennt, dass sie und ihre Kollegen nur Spielfiguren in einem kaltblütigen Krieg sind, ist es fast zu spät...

- De är beredda att diskutera en kapitulation vid Saint Vallone klockan 14.00 imorgon, sa infanterisergeant Steiner. Den amerikanske majoren stod och gapade. - Men vad ska er führer säga? - Oroa er inte för det, major. Führern kommer inte hänga med så värst länge till. Det är 1944 och Rolf Steiner blir indragen i attentatet mot Hitler och de tyska generalernas fredstrevare i Frankrike. Leo Kessler är en pseudonym som användes av den brittiske författaren och militärhistorikern Charles Henry Whiting (1926-2007). Han skrev cirka 350 böcker, både skönlitteratur och fackböcker.

This audiobook will document the rise to power of the most notorious cult leader of all time. Jim Jones was directly responsible for the deaths of over 900 of his followers. Many of them children. The story of the Jonestown is one of betrayed hope. Jones offered poor and needed people a promised land and in return for giving him their resources and trust, he took their lives.

This is the story of the labourer Emelian, who got married to a beautiful woman. When the king of the land saw Emelian’s wife, he fell in love with her. The king and his advisers thought up various schemes to get rid of Emelian, but they all backfired, so the couple lived happily ever after.

Auf der Welt, die Terra ersetzt hat - ein Mensch findet unverhoffte Relikte. Perry Rhodan ist der Mensch, der von Anfang an mit den Erdbewohnern ins All vorgestoßen ist. Nun steht er vor seiner vielleicht größten Herausforderung: Die Rückkehr von seiner letzten Mission hat ihn rund 500 Jahre weiter in der Zeit katapultiert. Eine Datensintflut hat fast alle historischen Dokumente entwertet, sodass nur noch die Speicher der RAS TSCHUBAI gesichertes Wissen enthalten.

Unlike his two brothers, a merchant and a militarist, Ivan lacks insight into the ways of the materialistic world. He stays on the farm to look after his parents and sister. The story idealizes peasant life while pointing out the devious and destructive aspects of commerce and the military.

Today isn’t just another day in Eudaiz for Madeline. She wakes to find a mark on Ciaran’s shoulder that will take his life before the day ends. An incident occurred in the past that caused this blood debt, and she’s confident she can come back to the past and fix it before it claims her husband. She time-travels with what she considers a solid plan at the time. She has access to the best technology. She’s a mind reader. She has supernatural power. She travels with a vampire friend who has wide connections across multiple worlds. What could possibly go wrong?

Two worlds. Two women. One man and a supernatural war. Sedna and Alyna are the top contenders for the leadership of the most powerful mage organization in the city. Living a few hundred years apart, but they both know being the leader and carrying the baggage that comes with it is the last thing that they want. Fate plays tricks on them both when the bloodstone Scorpio key that their mage organization worships is awakening during the time they are in charge. Their organization needs them to take the leadership and protect the key.

"The Emperor’s Three Questions" is a parable of an emperor who seeks out a holy man for answers to questions he believes will help him to be a great ruler. Knowing that wisdom needs to be experienced, the holy man cannot just tell the emperor. The answers that unfold in the narrative will be better remembered.

Mya signs a contract with the goddess, agreeing to save a thousand innocent souls to redeem herself from a minor sin. As the youngest deity in the court, she has it all: intelligence, power, and an army under her command. Saving a thousand humans should be a walk in the park to her. But more than a thousand years after signing the contract, she still walks the Earth, trying to pay off the impossible debts. Before she gives it all up, Zach comes along. She is witty. He is passionate. They love each other. But is that enough to get Mya out of trouble?

A Prisoner of the Caucasus is an 1872 novella by Leo Tolstoy about two Russian soldiers kidnapped by the enemy for ransom. They were held in custody for some time. They try to escape twice, but one of them succeeds the second time with the help of a local woman.

Tolstoy’s final novella, The Forged Coupon is an examination of the destructive powers of evil. In Part II, the author shows that good works have a domino effect, just as evil does in Part I.

Dangerously cursed items such as Robert the Doll and Annabelle. The Basano vase is an item that has killed almost everyone who purchased it. Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen's tomb is believed to have been responsible for a number of deaths. The Ark of the Covenant is regarded as an intrinsically holy object in the Jewish faith and a physical manifestation of the presence of God among his people and is also perhaps the most dangerous item in existence to those not of this faith.

When dark magic descends and super technology fails, power rises from the heart. Lyla has it all: beauty, intelligence, and the protection of a legion of soldiers. That is, if she stays in her universe. When a two-minute job turns into an impossible mission, the princess from the most powerful universe is stranded on Earth with a lone guard. Michael only takes Lyla to Earth because it is supposed to be a small mission. Now, not only the job goes pear-shaped, but technology also fails them.

Prompted by his late-in-life conversion to Christianity, Tolstoy's novella describes the early Christians' philosophy and their difficult road to freedom of religious expression. Also included is a prefatory story, "A Talk Among Leisured People", which presents the divergent views of enthusiastic, optimistic youth as compared to their elder's mundane acceptance of life and its burdens.   

Tattoos, schwarze Kleidung, raue Schale: Kommissarin Mara Billinsky hat einen schweren Stand bei den neuen Kollegen der Frankfurter Mordkommission, die sie nur "die Krähe" nennen und erst Ruhe geben, als Mara auf Wohnungseinbrüche angesetzt wird. Doch dann erschüttert eine brutale Mordserie um einen Unterweltkönig die Main-Metropole. Mara wittert ihre Chance sich zu beweisen, und beginnt auf eigene Faust zu ermitteln. Dabei kommt sie dem Täter gefährlich nah.

This is Part 2 of Totem of Aries. Part 1 is called Prophecy of Aries. The combined completed book is Totem of Aries - the 8th instalment of Circle of Fate series. Today isn’t just another day in Eudaiz for Madeline. She wakes to find a mark on Ciaran’s shoulder that will take his life before the day ends. An incident occurred in the past that caused this blood debt, and she’s confident she can go back to the past and fix it.

Mehr als 3000 Jahre in der Zukunft: Längst verstehen sich die Menschen als Terraner, die ihre Erde und das Sonnensystem hinter sich gelassen haben. In der Unendlichkeit des Alls treffen sie auf Außerirdische aller Art. Ihre Nachkommen haben Tausende von Welten besiedelt, zahlreiche Raumschiffe fliegen bis zu den entlegensten Sternen. Perry Rhodan ist der Mensch, der von Anfang an mit den Erdbewohnern ins All vorgestoßen ist. Nun steht er vor seiner vielleicht größten Herausforderung: Die Rückkehr von seiner letzten ­Mission hat ihn rund 500 Jahre weiter in der Zeit katapultiert.

Tolstoy wrote this fascinating story in 1903. It is a parable about God ‘s creation of work, death, and sickness in order to make mankind happier. Finally, God saw that mankind did not really want to be happy, so he left them alone. 

 God Sees the Truth, but Waits (1872) is the story of a man falsely convicted and imprisoned in Siberia for a murder he did not commit. Tolstoy explores themes of forgiveness, faith, and guilt in this narrative, which inspired a novella by Stephen King and the film The Shawshank Redemption.