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For 200 years Tracato has been the center of enlightenment, as the serrin have occupied human lands and sought to remake humanity anew. But the serrin have not destroyed Rhodaan's feudal families entirely, and as Tracato faces the greatest threat to its survival in two centuries, old rivalries are stirring. Sasha must assist her mentor Kessligh to strengthen the Tracato Nasi-Keth, yet with one royal sister siding with the feudalists and another to be married to Tracato's most powerful foe, her loyalties are divided.

Petrodor is a city of alleys and shadows, where life is cheap and the only respected currency is blood. Away from the hills of her Lenayin homeland, Sasha is fighting a new battle in the dark alleys and wealthy houses of Petrodor. An influential trading center, Petrodor holds the key to preventing the coming war between Lenayin and the mighty Bacosh. Together with her mentor Kessligh, Sasha attempts to navigate the political intrigues of the port city and find a new way to stop the war.

The church of God, which includes all the denominations and persuasions of the faith, is in a crisis that appears to have no ready solution. The church's response to the crisis has for the most part been a general resignation and acceptance of the way things are, with course changes aimed at coping with rather than contesting the social, cultural and political changes that have occurred in the world. But it has not worked, and it will not work, for it is not what God in His Word says to do. We have become ineffective laborers in His vineyard....

Angelina Donati has come to New York to kill a man. She holds the magician Eli Leventhal responsible for killing her friend. As the gifted problem child of a house of magical assassins, she does not expect that Leventhal's vast age, wealth, and power will save him. But Eli Leventhal is gathering great forces to fight a far larger war against his longtime magician foe—Riley, the mayor of New York, whose real name is something far older and more frightening.

Am Ufer eines Sees wird die Leiche einer jungen Frau gefunden. Ein rostiger Stacheldraht ist um ihren Hals gewickelt und die Schulter mit einem dreiflügeligen Schmetterling tätowiert. In ihrer Hosentasche entdeckt Spezialermittlerin Laura Kern eine Botschaft, bei der ihr das Blut in den Adern gefriert. "Ich bin die Zweite" steht auf einem Papiertaschentuch geschrieben. Doch wer ist dann das erste Opfer? Eine weitere Nachricht führt Laura zu der nächsten Toten, die ebenfalls grausam zugerichtet ist.

Mitten in einer kühlen Sommernacht wird eine Tote vor den Mülltonnen eines Krankenhauses gefunden. Spezialermittlerin Laura Kern findet heraus, dass die Frau zuvor in dieser Klinik behandelt wurde. Ein Überwachungsvideo zeigt sie mit einem Unbekannten, dem sie scheinbar freiwillig folgt. Laura ahnt sofort, dass dieser Mann nicht zum letzten Mal zuschlägt. Und tatsächlich ist die nächste Patientin bereits spurlos verschwunden. Beide Frauen wurden von ihren Lebensgefährten misshandelt. Es sieht fast so aus, als ob der unbekannte Mann sie aus ihrer misslichen Lage befreien will.

As her stultifying marriage is unravelling, and in the midst of mourning the loss of her creative self, Caro Tanner has a nightmare about Peter, an old love whom she hasn't seen in 20 years. She takes this as a sign he still needs her. With her three children safely off to summer camp, Caro embarks on a pre-Facebook pre-cell phone road trip to recapture who she once was and what she thinks she once had.

The last peaceful night’s sleep Luke ever had ended with a bark, and a scream! Archie’s urgent growling roused Luke into unimaginable horror. Gone were the nights around the fireplace cuddling with fiancée, Katie, and in their place...the dead. Now Luke and his German Shepherd, Archie, must survive long enough to find her.

Wenn der Teufel die letzte Hoffnung darstellt, kann das Gute dann überhaupt existieren? Der vermeintliche Weg zur Rettung Engellands beruht auf einem Zauber, der ein Herz unter sieben Personen aufzuteilen vermag. Die Vergessenen Sieben, an die sich Jahrhunderte später niemand mehr erinnern wird, nehmen ihren Platz in der Geschichte ein. Sie sind es, die über den Lauf des Schicksals entscheiden werden. Sie werden die Welt retten oder deren Untergang sein. Es ist alles eine Frage der Perspektive, denn das Böse ist Ansichtssache.

The legendary battle-carrier UFS Phoenix is on the run in Outer Neutral Space. Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande and Major Trace Thakur are determined to use neutral territory to broker a peace between humanity's warring factions, away from Fleet's strong arm. But as machinations in Fleet Command send a legendary warrior from Trace's past on a sworn path to kill her, there arises in the territory of an insectoid foe an ancient enemy from the nightmares of Spiral history, bent on Phoenix's destruction….

The Valkyries find themselves against the wall, their contract forcing them into an all-or-nothing gambit. Their lives and livelihoods on the line, only the combined guile and grit of Valkyrie LLC and their new RSDF allies might see them through.

Beautiful, but a little spoilt, Lottie Thorogood leads a charmed life. Returning home from horse riding one day, she finds a stranger, drinking tea in the family drawing room—a stranger who will change her life forever. After a bad decision cut short her police career, Hannah Sandlin is desperate to make her mark as a private investigator. She knows she has the skills, but why won’t anyone take her seriously? She’s about to become embroiled in a mystery that will finally put those skills to the test and prove her doubters wrong.

A chance meeting with a school friend of Lottie’s brings Hannah a new case. She’s confident Sandlin Private Investigations can find out who’s responsible for the recent threats at Eliza’s house. But as she and Lottie begin to unravel the facts of the present case, they also find themselves involved in a longstanding mystery.

From London’s inimitable mayor, Boris Johnson, the story of how Churchill’s eccentric genius shaped not only his world but our own. On the fiftieth anniversary of Churchill’s death, Boris Johnson celebrates the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth...

Rättsläkaren Julia Schwarz förstår sig på döden. På det rättsmedicinska institutet är hon känd för att vara kallhamrad, och ingenting bringar henne ur fattning. Åtminstone inte så länge hon klarar av att hålla sitt dystra förflutna i schack. Kriminalkommissarie Florian Kessler kallar Julia till en brottsplats vid en myr, då en ung kvinna har hittats mördad. Men mitt under brottsplatsundersökningen händer något ofattbart – Julia hittar ytterligare en ung kvinnas lik. De inser snart att de har att göra med en farlig seriemördare med en djävulsk plan.

Upon the ancient drysine moon/city of Defiance, the UFS Phoenix is being rebuilt, but her crew cannot do so in peace. Parren factions jostle for control of not only Defiance, but of the drysine data-core that Phoenix won at such an awful price. But the parren do not lay sole claim to that ancient knowledge, and within the bowels of the machine-city, something long-dead is awakening. While aliens battle, Captain Debogande struggles to decide his next step. Human emissaries beckon him home, while a terrible new threat drives him toward the far edge of Spiral space.

Der Mond von Engelland war ein Mädchen, das jede Nacht sein schützendes Licht über die Menschen warf, ohne je ein Teil ihres Lebens zu sein. Besonders lagen ihr jene Kinder am Herzen, die vom Schicksal benachteiligt zu sein schienen, denn mit ihnen fühlte sie sich verbunden. Sie war ihre Freundin, die den Monstern unter den Betten und in den Schränken keine Chance gab, herauszukommen, solange sie ihr silbriges Licht in die Zimmer warf.

A veteran of World War I, British RAF Captain C.K. Shepherd arrived in New York in June 1919, bought a top-of-the-line Henderson four-cylinder motorcycle, and headed west on a solo cross-country adventure to see America. He set off on his adventures, arriving in San Francisco two months later. Having completed his voyage, he sold his beloved motorcycle, dubbed “Lizzie”, on the street in San Francisco and then made his way back to his home in Birmingham, England.

Covering topics such as "It's Jesus or Jail," "Marriage, the Hard Way," "Children: The Gift You Can't Give Back," and "All the Things I Don't Know...And All the Things I Definitely Do," stand-up comedienne, actress, and ABC's The View co-host Sherri Shepherd comically chronicles her struggles to...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father’s belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret—one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to the truth about her...