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Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.

Anne Frank, it has been said, gave a face and a name to the horror of the Holocaust. This is her story. It relates how Anne, her family, and their friends hid in secret rooms - "the Annex" - in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months. Anne, just 13 when the family moved in and only 15 when the Gestapo at last broke down the doors of her secret world, found hope where there was only fear and the first blush of love when outside and all around there washed a sea of hate.

Kit Darling is a maid with a snooping problem. She’s the “invisible girl,” compelled to poke into her wealthy clients’ closely guarded lives. It’s a harmless hobby until Kit sees something she can’t unsee in the home of her brand-new clients: a secret so dark it could destroy the privileged couple expecting their first child. This makes Kit dangerous to the couple. In turn, it makes the couple—who might kill to keep their secret—dangerous to Kit.

Lily Bradley is a respected psychotherapist married to a distinguished professor. They live in a dream house with their two children in close-knit Story Cove. Lily lives a well-ordered life. Or so it seems. As a therapist, she knows everyone keeps things hidden. Even her. Then sensual and free-spirited Arwen Harper rolls into town in her hand-painted VW van, her sixteen-year-old son riding shotgun. Overnight, Story Cove’s secrets are no longer safe. Because Arwen might know her new neighbors better than they know themselves.

Verliebt, verlobt und ... völlig verlassen? Lucy Dixon, personifizierte Fröhlichkeit aus Texas, ist der Liebe wegen in die Chestnut Road gezogen. Aber jetzt verzögert sich der Umzug ihres Verlobten, sodass sie allein dasteht. Und das fast wortwörtlich, weil zudem der Container mit ihrem Hab und Gut auf hoher See verschwunden ist. Als Lucy denkt, schlimmer kann es nicht werden, hört sie plötzlich seltsame Geräusche in ihrem Apartment – spukt es hier etwa? In einem Anflug von Panik greift sie sich den erstbesten Nachbarn, der ihr im Treppenhaus begegnet: Spiele-Entwickler Oliver Bellingcourt.

How does a man addicted to routine - a man who flosses his teeth before love-making - cope with the chaos of everyday life? With the loss of his son, the departure of his wife and the arrival of Muriel, a dog trainer from the Meow-Bow dog clinic, Macon's attempts at ordinary life are tragically and comically undone. A heartfelt novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amateur Marriage and Breathing Lessons, now available as an audiobook.

Through every family run memories that bind it together - despite everything. The Tulls of Baltimore are no exception. Abandoned by her salesman husband, Pearl is left to bring up her three children alone - Cody, a flawed devil; Ezra, a flawed saint; and Jenny, errant and passionate. Now as Pearl lies dying, stiffly encased in her pride and solitude, the past is unlocked and with it, secrets. A classic novel from one of America's greatest living novelists, now available as an audiobook.

Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that will change them in ways they never expected.

When Commander Thomas Pitt is ordered to protect a young woman visiting London from Spain, he cannot see why this is a job for Special Branch. When she disappears in the dead of night from Angel Court, however, he is faced with a dangerous mystery. Sofia preached new, and some say blasphemous, religious ideals, and her life had been threatened. But Pitt senses there is some deeper and more dangerous reason for her kidnap - if that is what it is.

The 31st novel in the popular Victorian crime series featuring Thomas and Charlotte Pitt. Thomas Pitt arrives at a devastating bombing in Lancaster Gate to find two policemen dead and three more gravely wounded. London's anarchists are blamed, but as Pitt and Inspector Tellman investigate they find it looks increasingly like a personal vendetta against those particular men. Did they lie about a drugs raid that went fatally wrong and let an innocent man hang?

How did a photographer who was a relentless playboy, an unashamed womaniser and a leather-clad motorcyclist marry the queen's sister and become the establishment figure Lord Snowdon? The brilliantly talented Antony Armstrong-Jones often humiliated Princess Margaret, yet he was compassionate to the causes he cared about. Since his death in 2017, Snowdon still hasn't escaped the limelight, as more and more is revealed about his wild and intriguing life.

An ordinary girl faces an extraordinary choice in this gripping, coming-of-age tale of secrets and courage set in Nazi Germany, perfect for fans of The Book Thief and Beneath a Scarlet Sky. Munich, 1931. Gretchen Muller has been cherished and protected by Adolf Hitler ever since her father, a senior Nazi officer, sacrificed himself to save the life of the Führer. And now Germany has the chance to be great once more, under the command of her 'Uncle Dolf'.

The Shape of the Ruins is a masterly story of conspiracy, political obsession, and literary investigation. When a man is arrested at a museum for attempting to steal the bullet-ridden suit of a murdered Colombian politician, few notice. But soon this thwarted theft takes on greater meaning as it becomes a thread in a widening web of popular fixations with conspiracy theories, assassinations, and historical secrets; and it haunts those who feel that only they know the real truth behind these killings.

William of Normandy set sail to arrive in England in October 1066 to take the throne and force his right above the Saxon King Harold. Successful in the battle and taking the crown, his army of well-trained knights were rewarded with lands.

At the edge of Moodong Creek, deep within the enchanted Yellowstone Valley, stands the Whispering Tree—a She Oak older than any map, with roots tangled in stories passed down through the wind. This is where the Naming Tree lives. And this is where the story begins.

A trio of stories depicting true life struggles for people in all walks of life. How individuals can spoil what is good in life through the very stubbornness in their own nature.

When Erik Danton fled the Paris Opera House, taking ballerina Meg Giry and her mother with him, they all hoped that they could leave the Phantom of the Opera behind. But both are haunted by their pasts, and drawn together by their lifelong, indefinable relationship.

Hur kan någon försvinna från en hotellsvit i Oslo utan att dörrar eller fönster öppnats och utan att övervakningskamerorna registrerat något? Att denna någon är Helen Bentley, USA: s första kvinnliga president, gör saken än mer oförklarlig och skrämmande. Snart är jakten på kidnapparen i full gång och hela världen följer andlöst sökandet efter den försvunna presidenten. Så också Inger Johanne Vik, mammaledig psykolog och jurist med ett förflutet inom FBI.

Entre amours perdues et secrets de famille, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années 1990, Anne Jacobs nous entraîne dans le deuxième tome de sa trilogie phénomène au cœur des tourmentes du XXe siècle. Une nouvelle saga époustouflante digne de La Villa aux étoffes . Allemagne, 1993. Le son des cloches retentit enfin sur le domaine de Dranitz pour célébrer le mariage de Franziska et Walter après plus de quarante ans passés loin l'un de l'autre. Le bonheur semble désormais possible et tous deux espèrent profiter de cette nouvelle vie avec leurs enfants.

„Return on Innovation“ ist ein Interviewformat, in dem Anne Schlösser und Heike Löffler mit Entscheiderinnen und Entscheidern aus Mittelstand und Konzernwelt über ihr Herzensthema sprechen: erfolgreiche Innovation. Dabei geht es nicht um Buzzwords oder abstrakte Theorien – Anne und Heike bringen echte Erfahrungsberichte aus der Praxis auf den Punkt. Gemeinsam mit ihren Gästen zeigen sie, wie aus Innovationsvorhaben nachhaltiges Wachstum entsteht. Mit inspirierenden Einblicken, authentischen Erfahrungen und konkreten Beispielen machen sie greifbar, was Innovation im Unternehmensalltag...