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Yoga-Kühe zum Hören? Warum nicht. Aber eigentlich ist dieses kuhle Hörbuch eine höchst unterhaltsame Mischung aus mit Musik untermalten ernsthaften Yoga-Übungen verschiedener Schwierigkeitsgrade und witzigem Yoga-Kühe-Poster zum Ausklappen.

Warum, fragt das neunmalkluge Kind, haben wir morgens "Sand in den Augen", knurrt uns vormittags vor Hunger der Magen, leiden wir nach dem Mittagessen unter bleierner Müdigkeit und müssen wir mittags im Kino immer an der unpassendsten Stelle husten? Welche Erklärungen hinter diesen und vielen anderen Phänomenen stecken, verrät uns der Comedy-Star Hennes Bender - unterhaltsam, aber kompetent.

Voller Sehnsucht erwartet Alkmene die Rückkehr ihres Gatten Amphitryon aus dem Krieg. Endlich angekommen, verbringt sie eine berauschende Liebesnacht mit ihm - nicht ahnend, dass es der Gott Jupiter war, der sich ihr in Gestalt ihres Mannes näherte. Als am Morgen der echte Amphitryon eintrifft, weiß dieser nichts von der gemeinsamen Nacht - und zweifelt an der Treue seiner Frau. Auch Alkmenes innerstes Gefühl ist erschüttert - nie würde sie den geliebten Ehemann betrügen!

Eine charmante, junge Dame verwirrt das geruhsame Leben von Bonvivant und Berufsspieler Paul Cox: Erst schleppt sie ihn in einen illegalen Spielsalon, dann verwickelt sie ihn in einen Mordfall und zu guter Letzt bringt sie ihn sogar ins Gefängnis...

In den Straßen Londons treibt ein brutaler Killer sein Unwesen. Er tötet junge Frauen. Sein Markenzeichen: Er ritzt blutige Kreuze in die Haut seiner Beute. Sie könnte sein nächstes Opfer sein: Alice Quentin, Psychologin im Dienste der Polizei. Die Jägerin wird zur Gejagten. Erst gerät ihr Bruder unter Verdacht, dann verschwindet ihre Freundin. Und bald beherrscht Alice nur noch ein Gedanke: Er wird mich nicht bekommen.

Ein junger Edelmann namens Florio trifft auf dem Weg in die Stadt Lucca den Sänger Fortunato. Am Abend gehen beide auf ein rauschendes Fest in Lucca...

Jon Pertwee, Elisabeth Sladen, and Nicholas Courtney join forces once more for a specially written Doctor Who adventure.

Elisabeth Sladen presents this fascinating collection of interviews, behind-the-scenes set reports, and humorous sketches from BBC radio and television, all centred around the series featuring David Tennant as the good Doctor.

The TARDIS brings the Doctor, along with his companion Sarah Jane, back to the planet Peladon, scene of the earlier adventure The Curse of Peladon. Time has passed, but trouble still lurks in the tunnels of the citadel, as do some very familiar enemies.

When magic meets mundane, sparks fly: These are exciting times in Archers Beach, Maine! An unprecedented Early Season has united townies and carnies in an effort expand into a 12-month resort, recapturing the town's former glory. Kate Archer, owner-operator of the vintage wooden carousel, is caught up in the excitement - and is quite possibly the cause of it. Because Kate leads a double life, as carny, and as Guardian of the land.

Price of Fame, the concluding volume of the life of an exceptionally brilliant polymath, chronicles Luce's progress from her arrival on Capitol Hill through her career as a diplomat, prolific journalist, and magnetic public speaker, as well as a playwright, screenwriter, pioneer scuba diver, early experimenter in psychedelic drugs, and grande dame of the GOP in the Reagan era.

This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass - a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O. J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us.

Erica Donato - Brooklyn girl, urban history grad student, and single mom - is researching the 1930s, when Brownsville was the home of the notorious organized criminals the newspapers called Murder, Inc. She quickly learns that even in rapidly changing Brooklyn, Brownsville remains much as it was. It is still poor, it is still tough, and it still breeds fighters and gangs.

Mapping the Heavens provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries - the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at an accelerating pace, propelled by dark energy and structured by dark matter. Priyamvada Natarajan, our guide to these ideas, is at the forefront of the research - an astrophysicist who literally creates maps of invisible matter in the universe.

A crime of unfathomable horror has a ripple-like effect on four profoundly different souls. Helen, a troubled inmate at Sloatsburg women's prison, is serving a life sentence for the murder of her children. Dr. Louise Forrest, the recently divorced mother of an eight-year-old boy, has forsworn the Park Avenue practice for which she trained in favor of the chief of psychiatry job at Sloatsburg.

It is New York, 1904, and Dulcy Remfrey, despite an idiosyncratic, traveling childhood, faces the predictable life of a woman of the time. But all that changes when her eccentric father returns from his expedition to Africa without any of the proceeds from the sale of a gold mine. It seems he's lost his mind along with the money, and Dulcy's obsessive ex-fiancé (and her father's business partner) insists she come to Seattle to decipher her father's cryptic notebooks, which may hold clues to the missing funds.

From the blockbuster bestselling author of the Eve Duncan novels comes a new, stand alone thriller about a woman with a photographic memory who has lived her life in the Witness Protection Program. What she once saw put her entire family in jeopardy and now, years later, her cover is blown. She’s on the run, and the lives of those she holds dear hang in the balance. As only Iris Johansen can do, you won’t see the twists coming.

Joy Williams has been celebrated as a master of the short story for four decades, her renown passing from one generation to the next even in the shifting landscape of contemporary writing. And at long last the incredible scope of her singular achievement is put on display: 33 stories drawn from three much-lauded collections and another 13 appearing here for the first time in book form.

Grace Smith has never been one to conform to society’s expectations. She flees small-town Indiana to seek adventure—and finds more than she bargained for when she’s hired by an eccentric millionaire to learn codebreaking. Soon she’s using those skills to help head the government’s fledgling cryptanalysis unit.

In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish boy arrives on Elsie’s doorstep in the dead of night on Christmas Eve, Elsie understands that opening the door would put all she loves in danger.