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Danton, Desmoulins und andere wollen Robespierres Maßnahmen nicht weiter mittragen. Im Volk herrscht Unzufriedenheit über die Armut: Ein Bürger klagt, dass sich seine Tochter prostituieren muss. Im Konvent spricht sich Robespierre für die Beseitigung Dantons und seiner Anhänger aus, die den Erfolg der Revolution bedrohen. Danton interessiert sich mehr für leichtlebige Damen und zeigt sich illusionslos und angewidert. Auf die Bitten seiner Freunde willigt er in ein Treffen mit Robespierre ein, das jedoch ergebnislos verläuft. Robespierre beschließt die Vernichtung Dantons, zeigt sich aber von Skrupeln geplagt.

“A fascinating peek behind the making of a megahit, and a delightful bit of nostalgia for those of us who remember life before streaming TV.” —Town & Country Welcome to the O.C., b*tch: it’s the definitive oral history of beloved TV show The O.C., from the show’s creators, featuring...

Manchmal kann das Leben echt fies sein: Eben noch führte Julia erfolgreich eine kleine Pension an der Ostsee und war glücklich mit Clemens und im nächsten Moment verlässt er sie und ihren gemeinsamen Sohn Leon für eine andere. Als wäre das noch nicht schlimm genug, möchte der Ex auch noch ausbezahlt werden! Doch auf Julias Freunde ist zum Glück Verlass: Die halbe Dorfgemeinschaft versucht, ihr mit gut gemeinten Ratschlägen und Kuppelversuchen zu helfen. Und dann ist da noch der charmante Sebastian, mit dem Julia eine Nacht verbracht hat.

Who was the real Diana? What was it like to be so privileged yet so anguished, so beloved yet so self-loathing, so spoiled yet so despairing? The Princess of Wales was all these things--far more complicated, conflicted, and intriguing a person than the wildly disparate saint or lunatic she is frequently portrayed to be.

Nur aus Gefälligkeit nimmt der Fengshui-Meister C.F. Wong die siebzehnjährige Australierin Joyce als Praktikantin in seinem Fengshui-Büro in Singapur auf. Aber dass Joyce nicht mir ein wenig Ablage zufrieden zu stellen ist, damit hat er nicht gerechnet. Ebenso überraschend stellt sich heraus, dass bei seinen Aufträgen jeweils mehr hinter dem schlechten Fengshui steckt.

The long-awaited follow-up to the perennially bestselling writers' guide Story, from the most sought-after expert in the art of storytelling. Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Oscars runs off the page. The cornerstone of...

Robert Elms has seen London change beyond all imagining: the house he grew up in is now the behemoth that is the Westway flyover, and areas once deemed murder miles have morphed into the stuff of estate agents' dreams, seemingly in a matter of months. Elms takes us back through time and place to myriad Londons. He is our guide through a place that has seen scientific experiments conducted in subterranean lairs, a small community declare itself an independent nation and animals of varying exoticism roam free through its streets....

Éste es un libro profundo y a la vez sencillo, que debe leerse con detenimiento y oración. En una época en que los cimientos de la autoridad corren peligro de desmoronarse en la iglesia, en el hogar, en la sociedad y en otros aspectos de la vida en general, el autor nos ofrece consejos y...

The atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed more than 100,000 instantly, mostly women, children, and the elderly. Many hundreds of thousands more succumbed to their horrific injuries later, or slowly perished of radiation-related sickness. Yet the bombs were "our least abhorrent choice", American leaders claimed at the time - and still today most people believe they ended the Pacific War and saved millions of American and Japanese lives.

Stone Barrington and Holly Barker pursue a master spy and murderer in a tropical paradise that’s getting hotter by the minute… Teddy Fay, the rogue agent last seen escaping from an imploding building in Iron Orchid, has been considered dead for some time now. But President Will Lee thinks...

Emelin has finally found the bindings, the key to her victory. But to use them, she needs one last piece of the puzzle… and the only person who can give her that information is a stubbornly silent Thysandra. An uncooperative captive is the least of Em's problems.

Duke Vincentino, the ruler of Vienna, fears that under his mild sovereignty, the people may have become lazy and lax. He decides to “go over cover” in the disguise of a monk and appoint his deputy, Angelo, who is a reputed paragon of virtue, as temporary ruler. On assuming power, Angelo inaugurates draconian provisions regarding sexual propriety. One of the first victims of this new regime is young Claudio, who has impregnated his lover Juliet, and is accordingly sentenced to death.

"Happily Ever After" wasn't supposed to come with a do-over option. But when my husband of twenty years packs up and heads for greener pastures and my son leaves for college, that's exactly what my life becomes. Do-over. This time, though, I plan to do things differently. Age is just a number, after all, and at forty I'm ready to carve my own path. Eager for a fresh start, I make a somewhat unorthodox decision and move to a tiny town in the Sierra foothills. I'll be taking care of a centuries old house that called to me when I was a kid.

Tante piccole idee per un San Valentino speciale. Basta poco per stare bene con la persona amata. E cosa c'è di più bello che vivere insieme questa ricorrenza. In questo manuale tanti piccoli suggerimenti per viverlo al meglio...ed essere felici.

The American Classics Collection is a century-spanning collection of 17 classic novels, short stories, essay, and poetry by American authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Nathan Osgood; Robert G. Slade; Jonathan Keeble, and more. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including Ernest Hemingway; Mark Twain; F. Scott Fitzgerald; Edith Wharton; Frederick Douglass; and H.P. Lovecraft, amongst a host of others.

Reegarded by many as the greatest American novel, Herman Melville’s tale of the hunt for the white whale, Moby-Dick, is a sublime work of the imagination, an American Odyssey. It is at once an adventure story of the high seas, and an exploration of the uncharted regions of the soul.

Cuando muere la señorita Emilia Grierson, por fin el pueblo logra entender las razones de la misteriosa y solitaria vida de esta mujer.

In this book, Katie Brindle teaches listeners how to harness this powerful natural healing system to improve every aspect of their life. Yang Sheng fits and works brilliantly in modern life. Some of the techniques may seem unusual, but they are all simple, quick and effective. Even more appealing, a key principle of Chinese medicine is balance; that means not being perfect or excluding foods or having too many rules or pushing yourself to exhaustion with overwork or over-exercise.

Blending psychological terror and cosmic dread, this Lovecraftian classic explores the fragility of reason and the monstrous history lurking beneath civilization’s veneer. Perfect for fans of eerie atmospheric fiction, haunted estates, and tales of forbidden discovery.

Stone Barrington is back. Stuart Woods has created no better known or loved character than the ex-cop, Manhattan attorney and investigator whose work treads the thin line between the respectable practice of law and the dark side of humanity. In Dead in the Water, Stone has hardly arrived in St...