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In a colonized land where tigers are being hunted to extinction and ancient magic stirs, two star-crossed teens—Lee Seung, a servant yearning for freedom, and Choi Eunji, a noble girl defying tradition—join forces to try and reshape their respective fates. But their relationship evolves from begrudging accomplices to bitter adversaries as they soon find themselves on opposite sides of a battle over the last tiger, a symbol of their people’s lost freedom and key to the liberation of their country.

Crack in the Sky continues the development of the young Titus Bass as he gradually learns the lore of the mountain man. From a raucous rendezvous of trappers to a searing fight with Comanche, from a frigid winter’s chill to the angry heat of a chase with horse thieves, Titus Bass’s West comes alive in this remarkable novel—and in its final scene, Titus Bass will meet young Josiah Paddock and form the deep friendship explored in Carry the Wind.

Ant Stevenson has many questions, like when did he stop being a virgin? Are there degrees of virginity? And is it different for boys? Especially for boys who like boys? Ant tries to figure out the answers to his questions as he balances his relationships with three very different boys: Charlie, who is both virulently homophobic and yet close friends with Ant; Jack, whose camp behaviour makes him the target of Charlie's rage; and finally Freddie, who just wants Ant to try out for the rugby team.

First, there were the dead in the graveyard, 200 years dead. I'd been hired to raise them to settle a dispute over who owned the land they were buried in. Then there were the three dead teenagers in the woods, slaughtered in a way I'd never seen before. And then they found the dead girl, drained of blood and left in her bed. I knew what that meant of course. It didn't take a degree in preternatural studies to figure out that something was wrong. And I was right in the middle of it. My name is Anita Blake. Welcome to my life ...

You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires. It shortens your life expectancy. And you don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My name is Anita Blake. My business brings me up close and personal with all shapes and sizes of monsters. And not all of them want to kill me.

After witnessing a horrific double homicide, nanny Taylor Templeton calls Flynn Ryerson, the only cop she knows. Despite their personality differences, she trusts Flynn to keep her safe. And when gunfire rings out a mere three hours after the murders, it’s clear the killer intends to eliminate her as a loose end. Flynn is determined to protect Taylor from harm, but the relentless attacks make it clear someone within law enforcement is providing inside information.

Forget everything you think you know about psychedelics. They’re not punchlines. They’re not party favors for aging hippies. Instead, as Alex Abraham discovered, they are an innovative approach that can help heal trauma and chronic pain.

Spuk? - ein Jugendlicher ermordet seine Eltern und verbirgt sich zusammen mit den verwesenden Leichen in der Wohnung. Merkwürdige Klopfgeräusche ängstigen ihn. Erwachen in der Nacht die Toten? Alltag? Ein Mörder versteckt sein Opfer unter einem Sandberg im Hinterhof. Doch fürchtet er die im Sand spielenden Kinder, welche seine Tat ans Tageslicht bringen könnten. Oder gräbt sich die Leiche von selbst wieder heraus? Spuk? Ein deutscher Kriegsveteran beobachtet seinen Doppelgänger, der unermüdlich Leichen in das Dachgeschoss trägt.

Wenn das Licht des Tages stirbt und sich das Totenhemd der Nacht auf Pflastersteine und Asphaltstraßen herabsenkt, geht ein Raunen durch alte Ziegelmauern. Es ist die Zeit des Zwielichts, in welcher die Gebäude im Mondlicht zu träumen beginnen... Die schiefen Palazzi von Venedig flüstern einander längst vergessene Geheimnisse zu. In den verfallenen Häuserblocks von Berlin ertönt ein Wispern. Beide Städte erzählen dem Leser unheimliche Geschichten. Grotesk, bizarr, durchwoben von Schmerz und Angst.

March 1941. Joseph Gunner, an ex-cop of Swedish heritage, arrives back in Glasgow after being wounded in combat. His old boss Drummond persuades him to help investigate a body found in the wreckage of a bombed-out building. When the body turns out to be of a German, mutilated to disguise his identity, Gunner finds himself embroiled in a high level conspiracy that may well cost him his life.

Am Strand von Wangerooge wird die grausam zugerichtete Leiche einer Insulanerin gefunden. Der Täter hat das Gesicht der Frau so entstellt, dass sie zunächst nur anhand ihrer Kleidung identifiziert werden kann. Entdeckt wurde die Tote von dem bekannten Krimiautor Samuel Falkner, der auf die Insel gereist ist, um seine langjährige Schreibblockade zu überwinden. Besonders erschreckend: Die Frau wurde auf die gleiche Weise ermordet wie das erste Opfer in Falkners Schattenmann-Trilogie.

Michails Macht wuchs mit jedem Tag, und sein Adelshaus war wieder aufgeblüht. Allerdings ging es ihren Feinden ebenso gut. Es waren neue auf den Plan getreten, und die alten, die sie schon lange abgeschrieben hatten, meldeten sich zurück. Aber war das wirklich ein Problem? Er war doch ein Heiler, und ein Heilmittel gab es immer. Und die von ihm verordneten "Behandlungen" ließen sich nicht aufhalten! Oh ja, seine Feinde würden teuer dafür bezahlen.

Joel Peterson, an adjunct professor at Stanford Business School and a former JetBlue Airways chairman, achieved success in the business world by applying the concept of intentionality.

The top predictor of growth is not hiding in your invoices or line items but in your sales behaviors. Based on tens of millions of behaviors logged, tracked, and analyzed by more than 400 clients over 20 years, revenue growth consultant and speaker Alex Goldfayn has developed an actionable system of proactive growth statistically proven to succeed.

Master Jack Hawthorne’s tribe have taken control of the entire region and its resources, with his kingdom now spanning across eight different tribal lands. Now that he has taken power over the area and freed its people, the land to the south beckons. But the tribe’s expansion into the south carries many obstacles, putting Jack not only on a collision course with four different powerful forces, but also in search of a lost treasure hidden by pirates, demons and dungeons.

When sisters Lily and Della Pedley are persecuted for the shocking murder of their parents, they flee from their home in Cornwall to a remote and unnamed island in Scotland - an island known for its strange happenings, but far away from the whispers and prying eyes of strangers. Lily is terrified of what her sister might do next, and she soon realises that they have arrived at a place where nothing is as it seems.

Everyone's watched and/or read multiple versions of the fairy tale Cinderella, but what about Cinderfella? This nine-chapter novella has humor, drama, magic (obviously), and of course steamy gay sex. Okay well... not as much steamy gay sex as my debut novella CUMbustion: A Series of Wet Dreams, but trust me; when you reach the sex scene you're going to feel it like those sex flashbacks. It's definitely worth the build-up between David aka Cinderfella and Prince Charles.

Luego de luchar en contra de Pánfilo de Narváez, Hernán Cortés regresó de Veracruz a México Tenochtitlan y encontró la ciudad en medio del caos. Los mexicas llevaban alrededor de dos semanas atacando a Pedro de Alvarado y sus soldados, resguardados en el palacio de Axayácatl. Cortés le exigió a Moctezuma que abriera el tianguis de Tlatelolco y que tranquilizara al pueblo mexica, pero éste le dijo que la única persona que podría calmarlos era su hermano Cuitláhuac y por ello era indispensable que lo liberara.

In Buffalo Palace, the young Titus Bass sights and then sets out into the vast Rocky Mountain country. This is where he has his initial experiences with trapping beaver, surviving the freezing winter, fighting fierce Indians and even fiercer fellow mountain men, and celebrating at the hard-earned summer rendezvous. Most memorably, we walk with Titus as he first sees the immense herd which originally fueled his wanderlust and which now feeds, clothes, and houses the frontier’s pioneers, when he reaches the country lovingly called the “Buffalo Palace.”

My career is over. One stupid game play and I’m left with bad knees and a scrambled brain. And don’t get me started on my personal life, it was already in the toilet. Then a goddess walks into my photo shoot and offers me a job. But one look at Oakley James, CEO of Rogue sportswear, and I want more than the new career she’s offering. I want her.