The pelican brief
- 436 pages
- 16 hours of reading
A law student in New Orleans writes a legal brief that ends up making her enemies in high places. Movie tie-in. Reprint.
Christel Wiemken Books
Bletchley Park: the top-secret landmark of World War Two, where a group of young people were fighting to defeat Hitler, and win the war. March 1943, the Second World War hangs in the balance, and at Bletchley Park a brilliant young codebreaker is facing a double nightmare. The Germans have unaccountably changed their U-boat Enigma code, threatening a massive Allied defeat. And as suspicion grows that there may be a spy inside Bletchley, Jericho's girlfriend, the beautiful and mysterious Claire Romilly suddenly disappears.
The Chamber
- 598 pages
- 21 hours of reading
Adam Hill is in his first year at a top Chicago law firm. He volunteers for the toughest assignment any lawyer could ask for. His prospective client doesn't want Adam or his law firm. He is an unrepentent and outspoken racist with a violent past. He is on Death Row for the murder of two Jewish children in a horrific bombing in 1967. Why would he take on Adam, a complete novice, to defend him? And why would Adam want his case so desperately? The answer lies in the past, in a twenty-year-old secret buried in the madness of another time. . .
Gabriel March Walvis strebt eine weltweite Diktatur an und infiltriert politische Gremien sowie die Mafia. Tweed, stellvertretender Chef des britischen Geheimdienstes SIS, und sein Team stellen sich ihm entgegen. Ein spannender Thriller über Rache, Korruption und organisiertes Verbrechen.
Warum können Vögel fliegen? Wie bauen sie ihre Nester? Warum fliegen Zugvögel im Winter nach Afrika? Einfach und anschaulich erklärt dieses Buch die Vögel der Welt - ihre Merkmale und Besonderheiten, ihr Verhalten und die Lebensräume. Ausgezeichnete Illustrationen laden zum Beobachten und Kennen lernen ein.
