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Oz Porter, a prepper and former Marine sniper, is a man who prepares for the worst. He thought he’d been to hell and back in Iraq, but when he arrives back in his home town of Copperville, his war is not over. Everything has changed, and nothing is as he remembered. What happened? Is this the end?

Selbst in ihren wildesten Träumen hätten sich Martin Banks und seine Computerfreak-Freunde nicht ausmalen können, dass sie eines Tages der Gnade ihres ehemaligen Zauberlehrlings ausgeliefert sein würden, den sie wegen groben Magie-Missbrauchs und ganz allgemein bösen Verhaltens ins Gefängnis gebracht hatten. Wer hätte gedacht, dass der rachgierige Todd entkommen würde, um dann ein Computerspiel voller Wölfe, Weibsbilder, Wüstenei und anderer grauenhafter Gefahren heraufzubeschwören - und seine unglückseligen ehemaligen Freunde darin gefangen zu halten? Ihrer magischen Kräfte beraubt, müssen sich die Möchtegern-Zauberer schrecklichen Gefahren, technischen Pannen und der Gesellschaft ihrer Freunde stellen.

What would you do to live forever, to stay young forever? To find true love again? And if you were a white witch with the magical powers to make it happen and the secret of how to do it, would you? So, when the banshee comes calling for you one rainy, dark night, you'll do what you have to do to get what you desire the most: more time.

Emma G.’s dream has come true! Her BFF has tickets to a Boyz3000 concert in the Bahamas, and Emma’s their number one fan. Her parents say she can go...if she pays for part of the trip. What? How? The concert’s in nine days! Determined, she enlists friends, pulls off crazy schemes, and discovers hidden talents that could change her life!

So what happens after you die? Do you go to heaven or to hell? Or do you go to a special place fashioned just for you based on the life you lived in the real world, based on how you treated people and what you did to them? Follow two brothers and their journey through life, death, and their reward for the lives they lived.

Aldrea, the feisty daughter of a Quenterian scientist, agrees to accompany her parents on a routine mission with mixed emotions. It was better than another resort vacation but lacks the adventure and excitement she craves. So when her father is taken prisoner by a deranged Radical agent on a deserted planet, Aldrea doesn't think twice - she goes after them. But time is running out. With the greatest discovery in Quenterian history in the balance, Aldrea must rescue herself first before the prize they seek kills them all.

For three years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.

The Chosen: a prophecy older than dirt and more dangerous than death. Even as they perfected steam-powered gadgetry and rounded up varmints from Hell, the Jackson brothers didn't believe in it. But when the chips are down, three brothers named for weapons aren't going out without a fight…A walk on the wild side…Attorney by day, demon-hunter by night, Remington Jackson is used to being on the sunny side of the law, even in the Wild West. But it's showdown time, and Remy and his brothers are getting desperate.

The basis of the award-winning film starring Orson Welles, Compulsion gives a shocking fictionalized account of the Leopold-Loeb murder case - in which two young graduates of the University of Chicago kidnapped and killed a child for the intellectual challenge.

Winn Jackson isn't interested in hunting nightmares across the Wild West - even if it's the family business. Unlike his rakehell brothers, Winn believes in rules. As sheriff of Bodie, California, he only shoots actual law breakers. That's what he's doing when he rescues the Contessa Drossenburg, Alexandra Porter, a lady with all the elegance of the Old World - grace, beauty, and class. And then he sees her fangs.

Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback, and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent.

Set in the scorched cityscape of the Reagan-era Lower East Side of Manhattan, The Lotus Crew is Stewart Meyer's harrowing yet humorous tale of loyalty and betrayal in the face of heroin addiction. Two street junkies, the introverted Alvira and the gregarious Tommy, team up to spark a street-retailing crew pushing the best heroin in town. In the abandoned buildings and back alleys of an Alphabet City that is as dangerous as the Wild West, the stamp of the Triad crew on a glassine bag of dope means it's a smoker.

They're the chosen - Winchester, Remington, and Colt - brothers trained to hunt down supernatural beings using the latest steam-powered gadgetry. It's a hard legacy to shoulder, and it's about to get a lot more dangerous…A devil of a job. Colt Jackson has gotten his name on many a wanted poster with success in the family business: hunting supernaturals across the frontier. Lately, though, there's a sulfur stink in the wind and the Darkin population is exploding. A rift in the worlds is appearing.

Deep below the Arctic ice in a sinister government laboratory, alien scientists called the Ghin conduct hideous experiments on human victims in cooperation with the US government. But when one Ghin scientist betrays his handlers and turns the laboratory into a slaughterhouse, the shadow agency that oversees the operation initiates the Judas Protocol, unleashing a Special Ops unit to conceal the government's involvement and to terminate both the scientist and his allies. But the Ghin are not prepared to die quietly....

Artist Penelope had been looking forward to going with her husband, sister, and brother-in-law to see the Grand Canyon...even though she was terrified of heights and, when she got there, couldn’t bear to get too close to the edge. She watched people balancing on one foot, acting foolish, taking photos, oblivious of the death waiting below them at their feet.

Desperate to try something new and get away, Sarah becomes a solitary traveler and goes on an adventure of a lifetime to the Grand Canyon; rides the train from Williams to the South Rim; and sees huge wolves running alongside. Unbelievably, she sees them below in the evening twilight scurrying on the Canyon’s ledges among the trees. She’s told there are no more wolves in the region, but she hears their haunting cries. No one else sees them, and no one else hears them. It is just her, and in the end, she must decide what she will do when she finally comes face to face with one.

Am Ende des bekannten Universums, auf der Hexenwelt Empedeum, sucht der Orden der Gottkaiserin nach einem Zugang zu einer uralten Sternenstraße. In ihrer Verblendung rufen die Hexen ihren Götzen an, das Schwarze Loch Kamastraka, und ahnen nicht, welches Unheil sie damit heraufbeschwören. Derweil sind Iniza und Glanis dem Orden entkommen und leben mit ihrer neugeborenen Tochter unter Piraten auf dem Planeten Noa.

"Schreibe etwas in den Büchern der Schöpfung um, und du veränderst die Vergangenheit. Und mit ihr die Gegenwart und Zukunft. Furia, du hast die Macht, diese Welt zu einer besseren zu machen. Wer schlägt so eine Chance aus?" "Ich", sagte sie. Das Sanktuarium ist untergegangen, aber die bibliomantische Welt wird von einer neuen, übermächtigen Gefahr bedroht. Die Ideen steigen aus dem goldenen Abgrund zwischen den Seiten der Welt auf und verschlingen ein Refugium nach dem anderen. Bald ahnt Furia, dass sie die einzige ist, die die Vernichtung der Welt aufhalten kann, und dass sie dafür einen sehr hohen Preis zahlen muss. Doch ist sie dazu bereit?

Cinder lebt bei ihrer Stiefmutter und ihren zwei Stiefschwestern, arbeitet als Mechanikerin und versucht gegen alle Widerstände, sich nicht unterkriegen zu lassen. Als eines Tages in unauffälliger Kleidung niemand anderes als Prinz Kai an ihrem Marktstand auftaucht, wirft das unzählige Fragen auf: Warum braucht der Prinz ihre Hilfe? Und was hat es mit dem plötzlichen Besuch der Königin von Luna auf sich, die Prinz Kai unbedingt heiraten will?

Als Aura Institoris ihre große Liebe Gillian aus einer Pariser Heilanstalt befreit, gerät sie in ein finsteres Ränkespiel. Die Spur der Verschwörer führt sie nach Prag, jene rätselhafte Stadt mit ihren Traditionen in Alchimie und Mystik. Doch Prag ist in der Hand von Geisterbeschwörern und Betrügern, die mit der Inszenierung magischer Tricks ihr Geld verdienen. Aura stößt auf die mächtige Familie Octavian, deren dekadente Mitglieder finstere Geheimnisse hüten.