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One day I was 12 years old and broke. Then Grandma gave me Grandpa's old riding lawnmower. I set out to mow some lawns. More people wanted me to mow their lawns. And more and more. . . . One client was Arnold the stockbroker, who offered to teach me about "the beauty of capitalism. Supply and Demand. Diversify labor. Distribute the wealth." "Wealth?" I said. "It's groovy, man," said Arnold.

If I'd known what was coming, I might have climbed on my mower and putted all the way home to hide in my room. But the lawn business grew and grew. So did my profits, which Arnold invested in many...

"Sometimes having company is not all it's cracked up to be."
Fifteen-year-old Finn is a loner, living with his dad and his amazing dog, Dylan. This summer he's hoping for a job where he doesn't have to talk to anyone except his pal Matthew. Then Johanna moves in next door. She's ten years older, cool, funny, and she treats Finn as an equal. Dylan loves her, too. Johanna's dealing with breast cancer, and Matthew and Finn learn to care for her, emotionally, and physically. When she hires Finn to create a garden, his gardening ideas backfire comically. But Johanna and the garden help Finn...

This award-winning contemporary classic is the survival story with which all others are compared--and a page-turning, heart-stopping adventure, recipient of the Newbery Honor.

Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered Windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present--and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parent's divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self pity, or...

St. Pauli in den Siebzigern des vorigen Jahrhunderts, als das einträgliche Geschäft mit Lust und Laster Hochkonjunktur hat. Der Autor setzt zum dritten Mal Kommissar Max Herbst mit maßgeblicher Unterstützung seines neuen Praktikanten zur Lösung eines Tötungsdelikts im Rotlichtmilieu ein. Die Spur führt zu einem Zuhälterkartell, das es sich zu eigen macht, die Rentenkasse durch Schutzgelderpressung aufzufüllen. Nach zwei Mißerfolgen mit den vorherigen Praktikant:innen handelt es sich bei dem Neuen nunmehr um Rüdiger: den Boxer- Rüden Rüdiger, den Max Herbst von einer verflossenen...

From three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen comes a beloved follow-up to his award-winning classic Hatchet that asks: What if Brian hadn't been rescued and had to face his deadliest enemy yet--winter?

In the Newbery Honor-winning Hatchet, thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson learned to survive alone in the Canadian wilderness, armed only with his hatchet. As millions of readers know, he was rescued at the end of the summer. But what if that hadn't happened? What if Brian had been left to face his deadliest enemy--winter?

Brian Paulsen raises the stakes...

Samuel, 13, spends his days in the forest, hunting for food for his family. He has grown up on the frontier of a British colony, America. Far from any town, or news of the war against the King that American patriots have begun near Boston.

But the war comes to them. British soldiers and Iroquois attack. Samuel's parents are taken away, prisoners. Samuel follows, hiding, moving silently, determined to find a way to rescue them. Each day he confronts the enemy, and the tragedy and horror of this war. But he also discovers allies, men and women working secretly for the patriot cause. And he...

A practical guide to the implementation of state-of-the-art media storage systems.

Keep your media assets organized, searchable, protected, and immediately accessible with a clear understanding of the technical concepts and best practice workflows for deploying storage systems for media servers. Information is organized to focus on the principles of storage, collaborative workflow, compressed video and media formats, and associated topics that use file based workflows. A thorough understanding of the technologies is provided, accompanied by numerous illustrations, tables, examples,...

IN THE OLD DAYS THERE WERE SONGS

Something is bothering Russel Susskit. He hates waking up to the sound of his father's coughing, the smell of diesel oil, the noise of snow machines starting up.

Only Oogruk, the shaman who owns the last team of dogs in the village, understands Russel's longing for the old ways and the songs that celebrated them. But Oogruk cannot give Russel the answers he seeks; the old man can only prepare him for what he must do alone. Driven by a strange, powerful dream of a long-ago self and by a burning desire to find his own song, Russel takes Oogruk's...

Am Beispiel der Hanseforschung und des Hansischen Geschichtsvereins wird herausgearbeitet, wie offiziöse Historiografie im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert immer im Dienst des jeweiligen staatlichen Regimes stand. Beamtetes akademisches Bildungsbürgertum lieferte nationalistische Vaterlandsideologien, nordisch-arischen Rassismus, Judenfeindlichkeit und aggressive völkische Geopolitik. Die nationalsozialistische Ideologie der faschistischen Bewegung entstammte ebenfalls der Feder rechtskonservativer Aktivisten vor allem des Alldeutschen Verbandes. Intellektuelles Kultur- und Bildungsbürgergertum...

In June 1861, when the Civil War began, Charley Goddard enlisted in the First Minnesota Volunteers. He was 15. He didn't know what a "shooting war" meant or what he was fighting for. But he didn't want to miss out on a great adventure.

The "shooting war" turned out to be the horror of combat and the wild luck of survival; how it feels to cross a field toward the enemy, waiting for fire. When he entered the service he was a boy. When he came back he was different; he was only 19, but he was a man with "soldier's heart," later known as "battle fatigue."

When Clara decides to leave California to start her life over, she soon learns that the past she's trying to forget, won't let her. After reuniting with her dad who she hasn't seen since she was a baby, she begins to build a long overdue relationship with him, all while trying to find a job and make new friends. When she meets Duncan, a minor league hockey player, she finds herself struggling to let her guard down long enough to find out if decent guys still exist. Clara seems to be surrounded by fame, yet has the worst fortune.

Exciting book of extreme sports adventures by daring, lifelong adventurer, Gary Paulsen

Der Autor setzt zum vierten Mal seinen unaufgeregten Kommissar Max Herbst mit Hilfe seines Praktikanten, dem Rüden Rüdiger, zur Bekämpfung der Kriminalität im Rotlichtsumpf St.Pauli`s ein.Nachdem die Inkassobeauftragten des Paten von St.Pauli hinter Gittern schmorend auf ihren Prozess warten, ist es Herbst`s Ziel, den Paten zur Strecke zu bringen. Er ist die lenkende Hand.Wo verblieben die vermißten, renitenten Dirnen der Hanseatischen Vermieter weiblicher Geschlechtsteile?Was ist die Wellness-Oase für ein Betrieb?Was sucht der Poussierer Mischa in Gran Canaria-San Agustin- und was...