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Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success.

Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general—also known as her tough-as-talons mother—has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you’re smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don’t bond to “fragile” humans. They incinerate them.

Die schwarze Standuhr des Hexenmeisters Lucien Massard; liegt wirklich ein unheimlicher Fluch auf ihr? Zwei mysteriöse Todesfälle in der Villa Cartier erregen die Aufmerksamkeit von Auguste Dupin und Edgar Allan Poe. Um diesen Fall zu klären, begeben sich die Ermittler in tödliche Gefahr. Wenn die Uhr zur vollen Stunde schlägt, wird das Schicksal eines Menschen besiegelt. Können Dupin und Poe dem Spuk noch rechtzeitig ein Ende machen und werden sie beide dem Sensenmann entgehen ...?

The stars have cursed us all. After the devastating events at Zodiac Academy, we have to deal with this hollow reality we're faced with. Lionel seeks to destroy us, the Nymphs seek to destroy the entire Fae race, and between all of it, we have to try and survive each day and prove our worth in this forsaken place. I'm afraid of everything falling apart, but it looks like it already has. Death lurks around every corner, and it wants to claim me and my sister. But together, we will overcome the darkness that seeks to defeat us.

The day Jerusalem falls, Miriam Elmahdy knows her life is over. Houses are burning, the streets run red with blood, and a traitorous army is massacring every last resident. There is no surviving this, especially not once Miriam catches the eye of War himself. But when the massive and terrifying horseman corners Miriam, he calls her his wife, and instead of killing her, he takes her back to his camp.

Still working on securing the partnership with Grace Milligan for her fuel refinery while in Fairzie, Trader and Marsh cross paths with a scouting party that has followed stories about a fuel source. That’s only the tip of the spear. That scouting party has been sent by Ironhand Jackson, the boss of El Dorado. In El Dorado, Ant, a woman who works as an enforcer for Hoyt Lynch, the self-made lord of Boardwalk, arrives to kill Jackson. Lynch has learned of the fuel refinery’s existence and desperately needs it because his own fuel reserves are running out.

DARK MAFIA ROMANCE. Spiele nicht mit mir, kleine Blume. Reize nie, was du nicht bändigen kannst. Er ist 15 Jahre älter als sie. New Yorks gefährlichster Mafiaboss. Kalt, unnahbar und ein furchtbarer Macho. Und sie ist gezwungen, ihn zu heiraten! Grace. Nicht genug damit, dass mein brutaler Vater mich wie eine Gefangene hält, jetzt verschachert er mich auch noch an seinen größten Feind! Ich hasse diesen Connor O'Brien von ganzem Herzen, denn er hat meine Mutter auf dem Gewissen.

When Pestilence comes for Sara Burn’s town, one thing is certain: everyone she knows and loves is marked for death. Unless, of course, the angelic-looking horseman is stopped, which is exactly what Sara has in mind when she shoots the unholy beast off his steed. Too bad no one told her Pestilence can’t be killed. Now the horseman, very much alive and very pissed off, has taken her prisoner, and he’s eager to make her suffer. Only, the longer she’s with him, the more uncertain she is about his true feelings towards her, and hers towards him.

D accompanies a convoy delivering a vampire Noble to face public trial for his crimes against humanity. However, the Noble's enemies have targeted the men and women of the convoy, and they are out for vengeance!

Hell Week has begun. Senior students have been tasked with making the freshmen's lives pure torture as we prepare to face The Reckoning—the assessment that will decide whether we stay at Zodiac Academy or lose our places here forever. With the Lunar Eclipse on the horizon, my sister and I have more to worry about than just passing our exams. A dark plot is unfolding and the shadows are drawing closer. It looks like our enemies could be more powerful than we ever realised.

Mortals fall, Ascended rise, and Gods consume. The planar energy crisis is now fact; proof written into the very air of the Nexusplane. For the first time in immeasurable history, the eternally luminescent Realm of the Gods knows night. Everything has changed…The Council continues to operate as it doesn’t; with seemingly no consideration to those outside itself. Within its labyrinth of bureaucracy, officials and agents play their petty games. Not even they can tell if their actions bear any relevance to the imminent threat.

The Celestial Heirs think the stars are on their side. But they don't know what's coming. We have to be smart. Fighting them one on one isn't an option so we have to be stealthy. Remaining under the radar won't be easy, but if we pull it off, they'll never suspect our involvement when their lives start falling apart.

Leon, Aaron e Raphael hanno alcune cose in comune: sono più vecchi, esperti, off-limits e soprattutto sono dei papà, i cosiddetti DILF. Cecilia è molto più giovane di questi uomini, ma ogni volta che li incontra la sensazione che prova è sempre eccitazione. A volte è lei a dominare loro, altre volte sono loro che dominano lei. La raccolta contiene i seguenti racconti erotici: Sottratta alla mafia; Eros - Esperimenti sexy in hotel; Consegna rapida; La maschera del cinema; Dottore, sesso per piacere!; Un viaggio nell’antico Egitto; Vivian; In un bar del centro; Amanti; Il pornodivo; Il massaggio.

Life on the straight and narrow is easier said than done for a pair of crooks like Jimmy “Slash” Braddock and Melvin “Pecos Kid” Baker. But these reprobates are doing their damnedest to make an honest go of it. They’ve managed to safely deliver a church organ to a mountain parish when their sometime employer—Chief U.S. Marshal Luther T. “Bleed-’m-So” Bledsoe—recruits them for a job only fools would take.

I’m a Gemini. Impulsive. Curious. Headstrong. A twin. Heir to a throne I know nothing about. And it turns out, I’m Fae. But of course there’s a catch—all I have to do to claim my birth right is prove that I’m the most powerful supernatural in the whole of Solaria. And sure, technically that’s true as I’m the daughter of the Savage King. But the bit they didn’t put in the brochure was that every single Fae in this Kingdom would claim my throne if they could.

Felicia, Lizbeth Rose’s half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego—capital of the Holy Russian Empire—is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she’s seen as a charity case with no magical ability. But when Felicia is snatched outside the school, the facts of her heritage begin to surface.

Lois Reddle, die junge Gehilfin der renommierten Londoner Anwaltskanzlei Sheddles, wird beobachtet! Seit Tagen verfolgt ein gutaussehender Fremder jeden ihrer Schritte... und verwickelt sie vor der Strafanstalt Telsbury sogar in einen Unfall! Kurz darauf lernt Lois im Büro der Gefängnisdirektorin die Insassin Mary Pinder kennen: eine gebrochene Frau, die vor 25 Jahren für einen Mord verurteilt wurde, den sie nie begangen hat.

Mann und Frau. Mutter und Tochter. Freunde und Freundinnen. In zwölf Stories erkundet Kristen Roupenian das Lebensgefühl von Menschen in einer schönen neuen Welt. Fragile Hierarchien und prekäre Lebenssituationen auf der einen, das Bedürfnis nach Sicherheit und Spaß auf der anderen Seite: Alles ist möglich, aber wer sind wir, wenn wir alles sein können? Mit so viel Einsicht in die Wünsche und Ängste des Einzelnen hat man noch nicht über das Zusammenleben in dieser neuen Zeit gelesen - einer Zeit, in der alles greifbar ist, und es doch immer schwerer wird, auch nur das Geringste davon zu erreichen.

Heinrich Breloers Verfilmung der "Buddenbrooks" wird das Kinoereignis der besonderen Art: Er zeigt das Drama um Glanz und Untergang der reichen Lübecker Kaufmannsfamilie in intimen, anteilnehmenden und vielschichtigen Szenen. Regisseur Heinrich Breloer selbst verfasste unter Mitarbeit von Rainer Zimmer das Erzählmanuskript und setzte den Film in eine einzigartig verdichtete und nachhaltig beeindruckende Hörspielfassung um.

"Du wirst Besuch bekommen von drei Geistern!" Als der Geist des verstorbenen Jacob Marley seinem Geschäftspartner Ebenezer Scrooge diese Worte entgegenschleudert, ahnt dieser noch nicht, dass ihm eine Nacht bevorstehen wird, die er nie vergessen wird. Begleitet von den drei Geistern, die ihn nacheinander aufsuchen, macht sich Ebenezer Scrooge auf eine unglaubliche Reise durch Zeit und Raum, die aus dem bekennenden Weihnachtshasser und Menschenverächter einen neuen Menschen machen wird.