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Die junge Mia hat schon lange genug davon, in einer Welt zu leben, um die sich völlig verrückte Legenden ranken. Als würde es Dämonen und Geister geben, oder eine Auserwählte, die ebendiese Wesen zu sich rufen kann - so ein Blödsinn! Doch als sie eines Tages versehentlich das Oberhaupt der Dämonen beschwört, kann sie nicht länger leugnen, dass die Legenden wahr sind. Und sie selbst ist ein Teil davon. Sie ist das Mädchen aus der Legende, verantwortlich für die Wesen, an die sie nie glauben wollte. Als wäre das nicht schlimm genug, bedroht auch noch eine Verbrecherorganisation...

After Margaret Maron's first Deborah Knott novel, Bootlegger's Daughter, ran away with the top mystery awards in 1993, this highly acclaimed series has continued to whet our appetite for superb fiction in which the setting is, as the Houston Chronicle noted, "so rich in detail and description of the New South that you can almost hear the North Carolina twang and taste the barbecue." Now, in her fourth outing, Deborah Knott is again in the driver's seat, roaring down dirt roads and checking out crime scenes until . . .

UP JUMPS THE DEVIL.

When truck driver and childhood...

"A witty and affectionate view of the new South--and especially, the new South's new woman," writes the San Diego Union-Tribune of Margaret Maron's award-winning Deborah Knott mystery series. From its first book, Bootlegger's Daughter, which swept every major mystery writing award, this series has been extraordinary--winning a greater audience and brilliantly evolving in content and style. Now, in the seventh book in the series, sexual tension, illicit love, and brutal murder entangle and explode in Deborah Knott's life . . .

Hurricanes rarely make it inland as far as Colleton...

Nachdem Mia erfahren musste, dass ihr eigener Vater die große Verbrecherorganisation der Schattenbringer leitet, bricht für sie eine Welt zusammen. Als wäre es nicht schon kompliziert genug, sich tagtäglich als männlicher Ranger auszugeben und einen gesuchten Kriminellen zu lieben! Langsam wächst ihr die Situation über den Kopf. Wie soll sie ihren Vater aufhalten? Wie wird ihre Beziehung mit Lloyd weitergehen? Und wie lange kann Mia vor ihren Arbeitskollegen noch verbergen, dass sie in Wirklichkeit das Mädchen aus der Legende ist?Bevor sie Antworten auf diese Fragen findet, muss sie...

In SHOOTING AT LOONS, we follow Judge Deborah Knott to the state's lush Crystal Coast, where expensive yachts ride at anchor...and murders wash in on the "Down East" tide.

Asked to sit in for a hospitalized judge in gracious old Beaufort, Deborah hopes to spend a restful week at her cousin's nearby Harkers Island cottage; but her very first clamming expedition turns up the corpse of a well-known fisherman in the shallow waters. Discovering the body puts her right in the middle of the fight between the locals who have long made their living from the sea and the new tide of well-to-do...

New York Times bestselling author Margaret Maron returns with a thrilling new Deborah Knott mystery . . .
THE BUZZARD TABLE
Judge Deborah Knott and her husband, Sheriff's Deputy Dwight Bryant, are back home in Colleton County amid family and old friends. But the winter winds have blown in several new faces as well. Lt. Sigrid Harald and her mother, Anne, a well-known photographer, are down from New York to visit Mrs. Lattimore, Anne's dying mother. When the group gathers for dinner at Mrs. Lattimore's Victorian home, they meet the enigmatic Martin Crawford, an ornithologist...

Since the first Deborah Knott novel, Bootlegger's Daughter, swept the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards for 1993, Margaret Maron has brought to life the landscape and people, the history and current concerns of a contemporary South. As akin to Carson McCullers and William Faulkner as she is to her fellow mystery writers, Maron continues her acclaimed series with a chilling story of suspense: a searing crisis of race and region and other burning issues of the heart . . .

One place the two Souths--black and white--meet is in Judge Deborah Knott's courtroom. From the...

The multiple winner of the most coveted prizes for mystery fiction, Margaret Maron has received immense acclaim for her highly popular Deborah Knott series. Now, in Slow Dollar, her ninth novel featuring the tough and quick-witted North Carolina judge, a ragtag carnival comes to Colleton County--with murder as the main attraction.

Opening night at the annual Harvest Festival carnival and the moonlit autumn evening has brought out half of Colleton County to ride the Tilt-O-Whirl and Ferris wheel, throw quarters at Polly's Plate Pitch, or toss ping-pong balls into bowls of...

La Eneida es una epopeya latina escrita por el poeta romano Virgilio en el siglo I a. C. Fue un encargo del emperador Augusto con el fin de glorificar el Imperio atribuyéndole un origen mítico. Virgilio tomo como punto de partida la guerra de Troya y la destrucción de esa ciudad, y presentando la fundación de Roma a la manera de los mitos griegos. La obra, de casi 10 000 hexámetros dactílicos, está dividida en 12 libros que a su vez se pueden agrupar en dos partes: Libros I a VI, en los que, a imitación de la Odisea, se narran los viajes de Eneas hasta llegar a Italia. Libros VII a...

In an autumnal love story of erotic obsession, possessiveness, remembrance, oblivion, and time, an elderly woman dwells upon a failed love affair of some time past, when she was no longer young but not yet old. The narrator relives meeting her lover, Franz, at the natural history museum, when, for the first time in her life, she experiences all-consuming love and absolute happiness. Ultimately the affair founders because of her inability to believe that Franz will actually leave his wife. After he disappears from her life, she withdraws from the world, waiting for his return and revisiting...

Written by the authority on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and an HCM patient, and fully endorsed by the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association (HCMA), the leading advocacy and support organization, the 3rd Edition of this best-selling guide offers unparalleled insight into all aspects of living with and treating HCM.

Accessible and practical, A Guide to Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy For Patients, Their Families and Interested Physicians 3rd Edition:

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This book provides the framework for a singular reference in the field of pulmonary hypertension. Pulmonary vascular disease is a complex and heterogeneous condition characterized by remodeling of distal pulmonary arterioles that increases pulmonary vascular resistance to affect cardiopulmonary hemodynamic and right ventricular function adversely, resulting in a clinical syndrome of diminished exercise tolerance, shortness of breath, and heart failure-associated morbidity and mortality. Owing to the availability of novel pulmonary circulation-selective pharmacotherapies over the previous...