Stephanie Harker is travelling through security at O\'Hare airport with five-year-old Jimmy. But in a moment, everything changes. In disbelief, Stephanie watches as a uniformed agent leads her boy away - and she\'s stuck the other side of the gates, hysterical with worry. The authorities, unaware of Jimmy\'s existence, just see a woman behaving erratically; Stephanie is wrestled to the ground and blasted

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She calls herself Rune. She lives a downtown life and works running errands for a couple of documentary filmmakers. At twenty-one, she\'s nowhere, and that\'s not where she wants to be. So, armed with a borrowed Betacam, she embarks on a freelance career of making movies herself. Unfortunately her first attempt - within the hallowed walls of the XXX Velvet Venus Theatre - was unexpectedly interesting.

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When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man’s chest. His conclusion: it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years - now reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their sworn enemy, the Catholic church. In Rome, the

With his battered leather jacket, his trademark Fedora and his bullwhip, Indiana Jones has gone in search of adventure, confronted danger and unearthed an untold wealth of ancient treasures. In Raiders of the Lost Ark\", the fearless archaeologist journeys from Nepal to Cairo to the Mediterranean, dodging poisons, traps and snakes, battling rivals old and new - in pursuit of an ancient artifact that

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In der Welt von Alice Munro ist der beste Weg nicht unbedingt die kürzeste Entfernung zwischen zwei Punkten. Ihre neunte überragende Sammlung von Kurzgeschichten, Die Liebe einer Frau, hat erneut das westliche Kanada als Handlungsort, und das Thema ist klassisch für Munro: Geheimnisse, Liebe, Betrug und das ganz normale Leben. Aber wie wir es von dieser Meisterin der Kurzgeschichte bereits kennen,

\'Cruelty has a human heart . . .\' Even when we mean to be kind we can sometimes be cruel. We each have a streak of nastiness inside us. In these ten tales of cruelty master storyteller Roald Dahl explores how and why it is we make others suffer. Among others, you\'ll read the story of two young bullies and the boy they torment, the adulterous wife who uncovers her husband\'s secret, the man with

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