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Marilyn Monroe's favorite was Miss Milton's Lovely Fudge Pie, and she'd eat it wearing nothing but Chanel No. 5 and a raincoat. Andy Warhol always savored the Lemon Icebox Pie, stealing bites while he watched and sketched other diners through cutout holes in a newspaper he held upsidedown in front of his face. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis came for the frozen hot chocolate and brought JohnJohn and Caroline, who now brings her children. Where did ...

Because Christianity claims to be a historical revelation, says Bruce, the question of the reliability of the documents on which it was founded is a crucial one. Here he presents the most convincing evidence for the historical trustworthiness of the canon of the New Testament.

Readers are introduced to the bizarre concepts of modern physics as the only way to solve a casebook of otherwise impossibly paradoxical crimes. "What better way to explain to nonscientists the sometimes mystifying world of modern physics than by enlisting the aid of that master demystifier, Sherlock Holmes?"--THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW.

With the bulk of the French Army already destroyed and Paris itself wide-open to attack, Petain, then eighty-four, immediately sought an armistice with Germany to halt further bloodshed. While others fled, Petain took what he considered the braver course by staying and doing what he could to safeguard the remnants of his army and his nation. So began his descent into collaboration, treason, and the destruction of all that he had accomplished a...

Carolus Deene becomes involved in his latest adventure when a famous restaurateur is threatened by a protection racketeer and a well-known writer of cookbooks is murdered under extraordinary circumstances.

Five men occupied their usual places in a first-class carriage, but the sixth place was empty . . ." A strange-looking man enters the compartment. When he is told that the sixth seat is taken, he replies, in a deep sepulchral voice, "He won't be coming." He is right.

In a gloomy London suburb, a modern Jack the Ripper stalks at night, killing at random with brutal knife thrusts from behind. Three women fall victim, and the terrorized residents wait to see who will be next.

Everyone knew there'd been a murder, everyone knew who the murderer was, and when this murderer committed suicide by jumping overboard from the cargo boat Saragossa, they thought "Good riddance." Everyone, that is, except Carolus Deene.

Bruce Willis ist Leutnant A. K. Waters, ein Veteran der Spezialeinheit Navy S.E.A.L., die besonders heikle und gefährliche Missionen durchführt. Diesmal soll er in Nigeria Dr. Lena Kendricks (Monica Bellucci) aus einem umkämpften Bürgerkriegsgebiet retten. Doch sie akzeptiert seine Hilfe nur, wenn die Flüchtlinge, um die sie sich kümmert, mitkommen dürfen. Eine nervenaufreibende Flucht durch den Dschungel zur rettenden Grenze nach Kamerun begi...

In 1985 in Columbia, more than 23, 000 people died due to the government's failure to take seriously scientists' warnings about an imminent volcanic eruption at Nevado del Ruiz. In 1993, at Volcán Galeras, the death toll was smaller but no less tragic: despite seismic data that foretold possible disaster, an expedition of international scientists proceeded into the volcano. Two hours later, nine people were dead.Expertly detailing the turbulen...

In a world all but drowned, a man called Bran has been living on an island for ten years. He was sent there in exile by those whose leader he was, and he tallies on the wall of his cave the days as they pass. Until the day when something happens that kindles in Bran such memories and longing that he persuades himself to return, even if it means execution. WALL OF DAYS is a profoundly moving novel about guilt, loss and remembering.

Der Amerikaner Jack (George Clooney) ist Auftragskiller und ein Meister seines Fachs: äußerst präzise, ständig auf der Hut, extrem misstrauisch und nie länger als nötig an einem Ort. Als ein Job wider Erwarten schief läuft, beschließt er, dass sein nächster Auftrag der letzte sein soll. Jack reist nach Italien, um sich in der Abgeschiedenheit eines verschlafenen Bergdorfes in aller Ruhe vorzubereiten. Doch die malerische Idylle trügt: Der Dor...

Der Amerikaner Jack (George Clooney) ist Auftragskiller und ein Meister seines Fachs: äußerst präzise, ständig auf der Hut, extrem misstrauisch und nie länger als nötig an einem Ort. Als ein Job wider Erwarten schief läuft, beschließt er, dass sein nächster Auftrag der letzte sein soll. Jack reist nach Italien, um sich in der Abgeschiedenheit eines verschlafenen Bergdorfes in aller Ruhe vorzubereiten. Doch die malerische Idylle trügt: Der Dor...