Starting Over
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- 11 Lesestunden
Rough sleeper Olivia lands on her feet when kind-hearted Mavis rescues her from life in a supermarket car park, and takes her back to the co-housing development where she lives.





Rough sleeper Olivia lands on her feet when kind-hearted Mavis rescues her from life in a supermarket car park, and takes her back to the co-housing development where she lives.
In these eleven stories, Fitzgerald depicts the Roaring Twenties as he lived them. He masterfully blends accounts of flappers and the smart set with more fantastical visions of America, always imbuing his narratives with his trademark themes of money, class, ambition and love.
When a new detective agency opens in town, Precious Romotswe has an unexpected problem - competition. At the same time her assistant, Mma Makutsi, has problems of her own. As always, solutions can be found at Botswana's No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, thanks to the sensible Mma Ramotswe and plenty of Red Bush Tea.
Vrchní velitel římských legií, kdysi slavný hrdina Římské říše, Maximus Meridas, žil jako legionář, vedl svou armádu k vítězství a věrně sloužil císaři. Když se však o trůn uchází císařův žárlivý syn, nelítostný Commodus, přinutí Maxima k dramatickému útěku a krutě povraždí jeho nejbližší. Maximus je zajat a prodán do otroctví, kde se musí naučit novému způsobu boje - jako gladiátor. Maximus bojuje o svůj život a o svou čest. Bald wird er zu einem der gefürchtetsten Gladiatoren des Imperiums. Als sein Feind Commodus in Rom große Gladiatorenspiele organisiert, verwandelt sich Maximus' Kampf ums Überleben in einen Rachefeldzug... Er offenbart dem Kaiser die grausame Wahrheit. Der Wille des Volkes ist stärker als die Macht des Herrschers.
Contemporary / British English Meet the Larkin family They enjoy a wonderful country life, never worrying about money, work -- or the law. But then, one day, a man arrives from the tax office. Is the taxman going to change the Larkin's lives? Or is his life going to change forever?