Anyone for tea and crumpets…and murder?Caro Lamont, amateur sleuth and well-respected animal therapist to Laguna Beach’s pampered pets, works with office mate and tech wizard, Graham Cash, whose beloved Scottish Fold tabby cat, Toria, is purported to have anger management issues. But when Caro drops by the charming Brit’s Tudor-inspired mansion to return Toria, she finds his business partner dead and Cash missing.Caro is left with the cuddly cat and a lot of unanswered questions. Is Cash the killer, or has he been kidnapped? What’s up with the angry next door neighbor? And what about Cash’s girlfriend, Heidi, who isn’t sharing everything she knows with homicide detective Judd Malone?Suddenly there are more secrets and intrigues than there are titles in England. Add in a stranger in a dark SUV stalking Caro, feisty senior sidekick, Betty, hiding in restaurant shrubbery, and wannabe investigative reporter Callum MacAvoy who seems to be constantly underfoot, and you’ve got a cat and mouse mystery of the first order.Caro’s got to solve this murder before the killer lets the cat out of the bag.Sparkle Abbey is the pseudonym of two mystery authors (Mary Lee Woods and Anita Carter). They are friends and neighbors as well as co-writers of the Pampered Pets Mystery Series. The pen name was created by combining the names of their rescue pets Sparkle (Mary Lee’s cat) and Abbey (Anita’s dog). They reside in central Iowa, but if they could write anywhere, you would find them on the beach with their laptops and, depending on the time of day, with either an iced tea or a margarita.Visit them at sparkleabbey.com
Köstlich essen bei Zöliakie Über 140 Rezepte: Gluten zuverlässig meiden. Endlich geniessen ohne Beschwerden! Nach der Diagnose Zöliakie auf frische Brötchen, duftendes Brot und leckere Kuchen verzichten? Überhaupt nicht nötig! Auch wenn Sie Gluten nicht vertragen können Sie geniessen und richtig leckere Gerichte zaubern – und wie das auch mit glutenfreien Mehlen super gelingt, zeigt Ihnen dieses Back- und Kochbuch. – Abwechslung auf den Tisch: Neben vielen tollen Backideen und leckeren Hauptgerichten finden Sie hier auch Grundrezepte für Nudeln, Knödel, Spätzle & Co. – so gelingt die glutenfreie Küche ohne Probleme und klappt auch im stressigen Alltag. – Küchenpraxis: wie backe ich ohne fertige glutenfreie Backmischungen, welche Ersatzprodukte verwende ich wofür und wie binde ich Saucen und Teige? Hier gibt es Antworten und nützliche Tipps! – Basis-Wissen Zöliakie: So finden Sie sich mit der Zöliakie zurecht und erfahren, worauf es jetzt beim Essen und Trinken ankommt. Plus: eine Einkaufstabelle zeigt Ihnen, in welchen Lebensmitteln sich Gluten verstecken kann und wo Sie ohne Probleme zugreifen dürfen. Viel Spass beim Kochen – und guten Appetit!
What’s in a name? From Achilles to zeppelin, the words we use in everyday language invoke a cast of historical characters, from figures of ancient legend to modern-day sports stars. But have you ever stopped to wonder how on earth the names became the words we use so often? How, for example, did Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Garibaldi give his name to something so sweet as a biscuit? Who was the Gordon Bennett whose name has become an expression of surprise or displeasure? And who knew, when Odysseus set off on his ten-year voyage home in Homer’s epic, that long journeys would take his name?Behind so many words are real people with a story to tell. This fascinating book reveals the history behind the most familiar and more unusual eponyms.
For a memoir of World War I, Sir John French’s book 1914: The Early Campaigns of the Great War, does a fairly good job of recounting the facts, however skewed they may be. French, whose full name and titles are quite daunting, was Field Marshal John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres KP, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCMG, ADC, PC (1852 1925). He was Commader-in-Chief of the BEF (British Expeditionary Forces) against the Germain advances through Continental Europe. French, who was stubborn and hotheaded, ordered maneuvers which weren’t the best course of action, for which he was eventually switched out for another commander. Though he was the obvious choice for Commander-in-Chief at the time, French was fighting a 20th century war with a 19th century mindset. Images of him at the time portray him mounted on horseback, a billowing feather in his hat meanwhile the tanks and tear gas are just over the horizon. Thus, this book is not a fair and balanced account of the British forces under French’s command, but it does describe one man’s battle through the „fog of war,“ while offering many up-close and personal insights into the actions and dispositions of the soldiers of the Great War.
November ist eine erotische Novelle von Gustave Flaubert im Herbst 1842 geschrieben, aber nie zu Lebzeiten des Autors komplett veröffentlicht. Die Novelle zählt zu seiner ersten literarischen Erfolge. Im ersten Teil der Novelle ist der Erzähler ein Schuljunge, der seine Sehnsucht nach sexuellem Erwachen und dem Beginn seines erwachsenen Lebens Erzählt. Er sieht sich selbst als Voyeur, verliert seine Jungfräulichkeit mit Marie, eine Kurtisane, die ihre persönliche erotische Erlebnisse erzählt. Gustave Flaubert (1821 – 1880) war ein Französisch Schriftsteller, der zu den grössten Romanautoren in der westlichen Literatur gezählt wird. Er ist vor allem für seinen ersten veröffentlichten Roman Madame Bovary (1857), für seine Korrespondenz und für seine gewissenhafte Hingabe an seine Kunst und Stil bekannt. Warnung: dies ist ein erotischer Klassiker der Weltliteratur, keine Pornographie im heutigen Sinn.
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