Backwoods treachery links a string of grisly Minnesota murders. Reporter Paul Cavanaugh is coming home from an afternoon tennis match when he sees an ambulance outside his building's door. A half hour earlier, the mild-mannered Larry Blankenship walked into the lobby, said hello to the doorman, and blew his brains out in front of the elevator bank, leaving behind a note apologizing for the mess. Cavanaugh retreats to his apartment to forget this disturbing scene, thinking the story is over when the police take away the body. But the suicide is only the beginning. A knot of death is tied tight around Blankenship's wife, Kim, an ice-cold beauty from the backwoods of northern Minnesota. As he investigates the string of deaths, Cavanaugh discovers a decades-old atrocity that may explain why the men who know Kim vanish faster than a sunny day in Minneapolis. Review Quote: "A long, smooth con." - Kirkus Reviews "One of the most robust and intelligent thriller writers of the past two decades." - Publishers Weekly Biographical note: Thomas Gifford (1937-2000) was a bestselling author of thriller novels. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, he moved to Minnesota after graduating from Harvard. After eight years as a traveling textbook salesman, he wrote Benchwarmer Bob (1974), a biography of Minnesota Vikings defensive end Bob Lurtsema. The Wind Chill Factor (1975), a novel about dark dealings among ex-Nazis, introduced John Cooper, a character Gifford would revisit in The First Sacrifice (1994). The Wind Chill Factor was one of several books Gifford set in and around Minneapolis. Gifford won an Edgar Award nomination for The Cavanaugh Quest (1976). The Glendower Legacy (1978), a story about an academic who discovers that George Washington may have been a British spy, was adapted for the film Dirty Tricks (1981), starring Elliott Gould. In the 1980s Gifford wrote suspense novels under the pen names Thomas Maxwell and Dana Clarins. In 1996 he moved back to Dubuque to renovate his childhood home. He died of cancer in 2000.
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If you love cute things, then get ready to tie up your bows and prepare yourself for this cute new edition of MONOPOLY: Hello Kitty. Travel across the board of this fast-dealing property trading game and see Hello Kitty in various outfits as she completes her favourite activities in celebration of the 50th Anniversary. This officially licensed Sanrio Kawaii classic game makes a great gift for every Hello Kitty fan, and is not only a must have gift for kids party activites but also family game nights.
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How could a small Belgian brewer become the world's largest brewing group within two decades? Interbrew's transformation into InBev and then into Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB-InBev) is emblematic of the race for unchallenged market domination between the world's four biggest brewing companies. The Beer Monopoly explores how this happened and examines the economic drivers behind globalisation. AB-InBev's takeover of SABMiller - the world's number one and two brewers respectively - closes an amazig epoch in beer history. This book charts the fascinating rise of these two brewing ginants as they showed that dealmaking provided a faster path to profit growth than any sales hike could ever accomplish. The importance of deals - those made and those missed - is also visible in the track record of Heineken and Carlsberg, the brewers on the next two rungs of the global ladder. While all of these brewers pursued the goal of building empires, each had different reasons and faced a viriety of obstacles along the way. Sharing a keen interest in the brewing industry - not to mention a passion beer - two economists, Ina Verstl and Ernst Faltermeier, have provided a timely out-of-the-box analysis of globalisation.
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Get ready for some fun and exciting gameplay with the Hello Kitty & Friends Monopoly Game! This board game is perfect for players of all ages, with a recommended age range of 8+ years. The game includes your favorite characters from the Hello Kitty family and is designed for 2 players or more. With a variety of aspects this game is sure to provide hours of entertainment. So gather your friends and family, and get ready to buy, sell, and trade your way to victory!
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Through the Looking-Glass is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), and is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum and Tweedledee. The mirror which inspired Carroll remains displayed in Charlton Kings. The characters of Hatta and Haigha (pronounced as the English would have said "hatter" and "hare") make an appearance, and are pictured (by Sir John Tenniel, not by Carroll) to resemble their Wonderland counterparts, the Hatter and the March Hare. However, Alice does not recognise them as such. Dinah, Alice's cat, also makes a return – this time with her two kittens, Kitty (the black one) and Snowdrop (the white one). At the end of the book they are associated with the Red Queen and the White Queen respectively in the looking-glass world. Though she does not appear, Alice's sister is mentioned. In both Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, there are puns and quips about two non-existing characters, Nobody and Somebody. Paradoxically, the gnat calls Alice an old friend, though it was never introduced in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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Werden Sie ein wahrer Windows 10-Experte! In diesem tiefgehenden, übersichtlich strukturierten Handbuch finden Sie Hunderte zeitsparende Lösungen, topaktuelle Tipps und geniale Tricks, um ein Betriebssystem zu zähmen, das sich ständig weiterentwickelt. Von der neuen Zeitachse über Microsoft Edge und Cortana bis hin zu Sicherheit und Virtualisierung: Hier erfahren Sie, wie echte Profis die Herausforderungen anpacken. In diesem Buch: - Die neuesten Windows 10-Versionen installieren, konfigurieren und anpassen - Zuverlässigkeit, Sicherheit und Feature-Updates in allen Umgebungen verwalten - Produktivität mit der ständig wachsenden Bibliothek integrierter Apps steigern - Informationen schnell aufspüren mit der Windows-Suche und Cortana - Verbesserungen an Microsoft Edge nutzen, von Erweiterungen bis erleichterter Bedienung - Mit Cortana Aufgaben erledigen, Erinnerungen speichern, Daten abrufen und Fragen sofort beantworten - Geräte, Daten und Identitäten schützen - Malware und Angreifer abwehren - Unternehmen mit Arbeitsplatzkonten, Windows Hello, Biometrie und Azure AD schützen - Universal Windows Platform-Apps bereitstellen, nutzen und verwalten - Inhalte mit OneDrive und OneDrive for Business speichern, synchronisieren und teilen - Effizienter zusammenarbeiten mit den Windows 10-Apps Mail, Kalender und Skype - Hardware- und virtuellen Speicher nahtlos verwalten - Leistung und Akkulaufzeit optimieren, Abstürze verhindern
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"Hello beautiful. I am Popeye." In 1998 I met Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez—alias "Popeye"—lieutenant to the Medellín Cartel's leader, Pablo Escobar Gaviria. Our first encounter was at the high security yard of the Modelo Prison in Bogotá, Colombia. I visited the prison frequently as a journalist for RCN TV. I was always conducting interviews and speaking to the inmates, uncovering news about what was really happening inside the prison. At that time, stories about confrontations between guerrilla and paramilitary factions were everyday news. You could often hear shots inside the prison as the different sides fought for control. I had always wanted to meet one of the members of the Medellín Cartel. I was curious to know who they were, what they looked like, and what these men, who belonged to the most powerful drug cartel that has ever existed in Colombia, were thinking. At the high security yard I was able to talk with two of them. The most notorious was Jhon Jairo Velásquez Vásquez. "Hello beautiful. I am Popeye." The man who sat in front of me stared at me. His pale skin reflected the six years he had been in prison; in fact, it looked as if he had never once stepped outside. Popeye smiled at me with curiosity while his cold eyes examined me from head to toe. We were introduced by another inmate, Ángel Gaitán Mahecha, a man accused of paramilitarism and homicide. My first impression was surprise and curiosity; I also examined him from head to toe. He wasn't quite six feet tall. His slim body and the smile on his face almost put me at ease. I thought this man couldn't possibly frighten anyone, and yet I couldn't forget the number of homicides in which he had been involved. I wanted to see into the mind of the man who planned and participated in the most horrible homicides that the cartel had carried out in their war against the state.
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+ Bücher, die Kinder gerne lesen wollen + Beliebte Themen: Katzen und Superhelden + Mit vielen zweifarbigen Illustrationen + Ausgewogenes Text-Bild-Verhältnis + Große Schrift + Kurze Kapitel + Du bist mutiger, als du glaubst! Wenn der Mond die Stadt in geheimnisvolles Licht taucht, verwandelt sich Kitty in eine echte Superheldin mit besonderen Fähigkeiten. Sobald die Nacht hereinbricht, erwachen Kittys katzenartigen Superkräfte. Sie kann sogar mit Katzen sprechen und all ihre Geheimnisse mit ihnen teilen. Und Kittys erste Mission im Mondschein lässt nicht lange auf sich warten: Ein Kätzchen sitzt in der Klemme und braucht schleunigst Hilfe. Doch die vielen gespenstischen Schatten und die Finsternis machen Kitty große Angst. Ob Kitty über sich hinauswachsen und das Tier retten kann? Der spannende Auftakt einer magischen Abenteuerreihe! Im Schein des Mondes verwandelt sich ein ganz normales Mädchen in eine Superheldin und begibt sich mit ihren Katzenfreunden auf ein Abenteuer. Diese magische Kinderbuchreihe für Mädchen ab 7 Jahren und alle Katzenliebhaber verbindet Coolness mit jeder Menge Action und Spannung. Das stimmungsvolle Setting trifft auf kurze Kapitel, die optimal für Leseanfänger geeignet sind. Die zweifarbigen und flächendeckenden Illustrationen schaffen ein besonderes und cooles Leseerlebnis mit einem innovativen Text-Bild-Verhältnis.
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The Hello Kitty Monopoly Collectors Edition 2010 Tokens Set 4 Cake Toppers is a special accessory set for the Parker Brothers board game. It includes four tokens shaped like Hello Kitty characters that can be used as cake toppers for celebrating game nights or special occasions. This set is designed for 2 players and is part of the Hello Kitty Monopoly Collector's Edition released in 2010, featuring a finance theme suitable for ages 8-16 years and 12-16 years. Perfect for fans of board games and Hello Kitty alike, this set adds a fun and colorful touch to game nights.
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<p> <strong>Zupełnie nieznane oblicze Sławomira Mrożka! Mistrz absurdu, uznawany za mizantropa i introwertyka, okazuje się prawdziwym romantykiem dzięki wspomnieniom prosto z szuflady (i z serca) jego żony.</strong></p> <p> „Zaczynało mi się nudzić. Czekałam w recepcji hotelu już od czterdziestu minut, kiedy zobaczyłam, jak wchodzi wysoki, postawny mężczyzna w dżinsach, z miną Gary’ego Coopera wyrażającą pewność siebie i zarazem nieśmiałość. Spojrzałam na niego, on spojrzał na mnie, uśmiechnęłam się, on się uśmiechnął i w tamtej chwili nie liczyło się nic więcej”.</p> <p> Tak zaczyna się niezwykle osobista opowieść Susany Mrożek, która poznała pisarza w 1979 roku w Meksyku. On był wdowcem, miał 49 lat i tkwił w długiej burzliwej relacji z mężatką. Susana miała wtedy 27 lat, była po rozwodzie i podjęła decyzję, że nigdy więcej nie wyjdzie za mąż. Została tłumaczką i przewodniczką Sławomira, on był jej przyjacielem, bezwarunkowo szczerym. Zakochali się, rozjechali, pisali do siebie, szukali się, spotykali w Europie, rozstawali, wchodzili w nowe związki, ranili, tęsknili. W 1987 roku oświadczył się jej w Paryżu. Bez namysłu odpowiedziała nie, ale to nie koniec tej historii pokazującej głębokie uczucie łączące dwoje dojrzałych i świadomych siebie ludzi – miłość z jej blaskami i cieniami, która jest w stanie przezwyciężyć mroczne, depresyjne tło, nieobce obojgu.</p> <p> Wspomnienia Susany Mrożek, przeplatane listami, jakie para pisała do siebie przez lata, oraz nieznanymi rysunkami Mrożka, pokazują pisarza z zupełnie nieznanej strony. Kto by pomyślał, że Sławomir Mrożek, jawiący się powszechnie jako samotnik stroniący od wszelkich egzaltowanych uniesień, ozdabiał swoje liściki do ukochanej serduszkami i zapakowywał je w koperty z Hello Kitty? Jednak ogromna czułość, jaką Susana i Sławomir darzyli się przez lata, nie ma w sobie nic infantylnego. Czy możliwe jest pogodzenie tych wszystkich sprzeczności: depresji, namiętności, osamotnienia, czułości, beztroski i prozy życia w obliczu chorób i upływającego czasu? Mrożkowie znaleźli na to własny, jedyny w swoim rodzaju sposób, a Susana Mrożek nareszcie uchyla rąbka tajemnicy.</p>
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This Hasbro edition features the beloved Sanrio characters and is perfect for fans of the franchise.
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Für Freunde von zeitlosen Liebesgeschichten: Tolstois wohl berühmtester Roman erzählt die Geschichte von zwei Liebesbeziehungen und hinterfragt dabei, wie die große Liebe im realen Alltag bestehen kann. Beim Anblick der verheirateten Anna Karenina ist es um Graf Wronskij geschehen. Ihre gegenseitige Anziehung muss sich gegen alle gesellschaftlichen Widerstände durchsetzen. Der junge Gutsbesitzer Ljewin hingegen hält um die Hand der jungen Kitty an, die ihn jedoch zurückweist, da sie sich wiederum in Graf Wronskij verliebt hat. Episch und voller Mitgefühl entfaltet Tosltoi einen großen, zeitlosen Liebesreigen der jeden Leser in seinen Bann zieht.-
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Monopoly Hello Kitty Edition If you love cute things, then get ready to tie up your bows and prepare yourself for this cute new edition of MONOPOLY: Hello Kitty. If you love cute things, then get ready to tie up your bows and prepare yourself for this cute new edition of MONOPOLY: Hello Kitty.
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