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In the near future, two convicts (a disgraced senator and her husband) are sentenced to twenty-five years in a cryogenic penal facility for a horrible crime they claim they didn't commit.When the prison malfunctions, accidentally releasing all of the prisoners, the escapees discover that they've been incarcerated for thousands of years and are now the only survivors of a global catastrophe that wiped out all of mankind, an event so devastating...

Regen peitscht über das karge Hochland um Wuthering Heights, als der alte Earnshaw einen Jungen aufliest, den er auf den Namen Heathcliff tauft. In der rauen Schönheit des Hochmoores wächst Heathcliff zusammen mit den Geschwistern Hindley und Cathy auf. Während ihm Hindley mit Hass begegnet, verbindet ihn mit Cathy bald eine enge Freundschaft. Über die Jahre wird aus dieser starken Verbundenheit eine folgenschwere Leidenschaft. Als der alte Ea...

The Boston Bruins are one of the most successful and historic teams in the NHL, with six Stanley Cup championships and counting. Author Dale Arnold, as a longtime broadcaster for the team, has gotten to witness more than his fair share of that history up close and personal. Through singular anecdotes only Arnold can tell as well as conversations with current and past players, this book provides fans with a one-of-a-kind, insider's look into th...

Context and Application Value-Based Management Edited by Glen Arnold and Matt Davies Over the past ten years hundreds of leading companies worldwide have adopted the principles of value-based management (VBM), an approach to corporate strategy and business organisation in which the primary objective is always shareholder wealth maximisation. As VBM has become more widespread the idea of shareholder value has become integral to business. Consul...

Far more important than point A or point B is the journey in between. After graduation, Stan Hachure and his housemates head out in four different directions. Stan's journey includes a year on the family farm, a cross-country road trip, and unexpected responsibilities at a Seattle coffeehouse called Bean's. Stan learns that life rarely turns out the way we plan, not everything has to make sense, and not everyone makes it to point B.

How could an infant be struck down mute? Why would a mute begin to speak after decades of silence? Jeremy Banner spoke not a single word until the age of thirty-two. Isolated inside an obsessive-compulsive silent reality , he is suddenly catapulted into a new life when a random event sparks an ability to speak. Yet this comes at a tremendous cost as everything must balance out in the end. This new life is far more complicated but also more rew...

Taylor Weir's life is on cruise control until a confession from his terminally ill mother calls everything he knows into question. After her funeral, Taylor embarks on a quest for answers that takes him from one corner of Washington State to the other. Little by little he puts the pieces together, but the picture they create is far different than he ever could have imagined.