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Privatdetektivin Thea Thading hat ihren ersten Auftrag: Sie soll herausfinden, welcher Hund sich am Zaun ihres Nachbarn erleichtert. Doch dann kommt ihre alte Bekannte, die Wittmunder Kommissarin Wilma Menkens, ins Oldenburger Land, gemeinsam mit den Damen ihres Schützenvereins. Nur wenig später liegt Wilma angeschossen im Maisfeld - nicht weit entfernt von einer Leiche mit einem Sack voller Cannabis ... Helga Bürster wurde 1961 in einem oldenburgischen Dorf geboren. Später verschlug es sie nach Süddeutschland, wo sie Theaterwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft und Geschichte studierte. Seitdem lebt sie vom Schreiben und Geschichtenerzählen. Mit ihrer Familie wohnt sie seit 1995 wieder in einem niedersächsischen Dorf.
Before the big pumpkin pie contest at the Haystack Hollow pumpkin festival things have gone missing. Amaya Beet and Helga Splat have stolen the items to use in a ritual that will sabotage the festival, unknowingly bringing forth an army of pumpkin monsters. The adventure includes: 12 original plant and construct monsters 9 Festival locations 4 Maps 3 Kobolds in a robe 1 Pumpkin Invasion
Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.
"Gambling fans will relish the behind-the-scenes look at Vegas [with] a solid action-movie finale." - Publishers Weekly Druperman, the head of a confidential cooperative of the most powerful casinos in Las Vegas, has received a videotape threatening violence against the cooperative's members unless a ransom is paid. The criminals identify themselves only by a code name. As the casino owners dig in their heels and refuse to pay, the stakes get higher. The head of security at the city's top casino, a former LVPD detective, is determined to find the perpetrators, putting himself, and his new love, at risk in the process.
The story of European-Russian collaboration in space is little known and its importance all too often understated. Because France was the principal interlocutor between these nations, such cooperation did not receive the attention it deserved in English-language literature. This book rectifies that history, showing how Russia and Europe forged a successful partnership that has continued to the present day. Space writer Brian Harvey provides an in-depth picture of how this European-Russian relationship evolved and what factors—scientific, political and industrial—propelled it over the decades. The history begins in the cold war period with the first collaborative ventures between the Sovi...