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Darphopia is the godless land. God was felled many years ago. His power was stolen and dispersed across the land, and years later, Darphopia was born. This is a land of the future that is heavily rooted in the past. A land of monarchies, classes, and greed. The Darphopians have a culture all their own in which technology no longer exists; there is no need for it when everyone has access to the power of God, now deemed the Power Omnipotent.

Her beloved city in dire straits after a bloody civil war, the spell-casting Lady Nyctasia is forced to seek alliance with a neighboring state. But the rumored marriage-treaty has loyal swordswoman Corson whetting her blade…matrimony being no proof against murder. Between NYC and the cloaked assassins stands only a tormented nobleman—whose enigmatic past bears close examination indeed.

Join the last vestiges of Humanity and their alien allies (the reptilian Thrynn, the insectoid Velox, and the plant-based Elowan) as they attempt to carve out their own territory in a sector of space filled with wondrous opportunity and deadly threats. Brave explorers seek out new worlds to colonize while merchants cruise from starport to starport, their holds laden with exotic goods. Not all in this futuristic setting have noble intent. For every prospector and trader attempting to make a difference, a dozen pirates, smugglers, and mobsters engage in all manner of criminal enterprise.

A serial killer active in New York City over a period of years goes quiet. Detective Elton Hendricks and his partner could not close the case. Now, he has returned with a vengeance to an upstate New York town where Detective Hendricks now works. Is this a copycat or has the New York City killer come back? Is he taunting the detectives? Catch me if you can! Now, Detective Hendricks, his partner, family, and friends near them are the targets. They must close this case and quickly.

Once more, my friends and colleagues and I have banded together to compose literature connecting astronomy and mythology to create Of Gods and Globes II. Each one of us chose a name that connected astronomy and mythology.

Detective Sergeant Ignatius Brown was on holiday. His leg not yet recovered from his last brush with death. Still plagued by "night terrors", he was glad of the opportunity to get out of London and join his two cousins on the airship for a quiet cruise. All is not as it seems when a notorious gunrunner is murdered.

Called back to her home town after a series of strange animal attacks, Alana Dodson and her team arrive to find a new species of COUS, Critters of Unusual Size, and the biggest threat that the small town of Fossilridge has ever faced.

When a fragment of a deadly map is recovered from a medieval plague pit in London, the Mapwalker team must cross over into the Borderlands, once more. In a race against time, they must find the remaining pieces of the map in a journey across long-lost cities before the Shadow cartographers wield it against Earthside in a devastating attack.

As a profound thinker, as the most profound thinker the world has ever known, the Buddha had two ways of speaking to people. At one time he would address them in words that expressed the utmost depth of his knowledge. At other times, he would tell them simple things within the compass of their ready understanding, in words that were taken from the ordinary speech used among themselves. In both modes of speech, he spoke what was true.

Told from the perspectives of an ensemble of sinister and desperate characters - an assassin returning from his retirement as a medical college instructor; a young outlaw who fancies himself a lord; a master breeder and smuggler of narcotic beetles; a jaded mercenary captain; and more - it is the story of an expedition to a destroyed city to retrieve a relic on behalf of a mad emperor.

Alex Summers was an army grunt stationed in the boonies of the Alaskan countryside. That was before he and a couple of his buddies got stranded in a forest straight out of his nightmares. Now, trapped on another world, he spends most of his time traveling, seeing new things, and killing them. It's everything the army recruiter promised and more.

Thousands of years ago in the land of Mavina, an evil necromancer tried to take over the kingdom; but thanks to the tireless efforts of a mysterious wizard, his efforts ended in failure. Three thousand years later, the necromancer returns with the plans to take the kingdom once again. Erik AmberLight, a Human/Elf hybrid from a small farming village learned of the necromancer’s return and leaves home to find The Four Great Treasures. The very same items the wizard had used to defeat the necromancer once before.

Indianer-Hörspiel nach J. F. Coopers "Lederstrumpf" in einer spannenden Hörspielbearbeitung von Anke Beckert. In dieser vierten Folge hört ihr "Die Prärie".

Magic and the Mob don't usually mix well. But to survive, Selia Lascari has made both work in her favor. Banished from her hidden island homeland and adopted into a Mob family, Selia has spent nearly a decade learning to live in the "modern" world of technology and doing legitimate business for one of the city's oldest crime syndicates. Being a part of it all, while still feeling very much apart from everything and everyone around her.

Someone wants Catherine dead. Even worse - if possible - is that they also have two parts of the talisman she used during her days as the Lady of Death, which can turn even mundane items into powerful weapons. Long thought destroyed, someone has found the pieces, centuries later, and is determined to reassemble it.

Ante la pregunta: ¿necesitas ser siempre feliz?, y en contra de lo que pueda parecer obvio e indiscutible, quizá merezca la pena evitar tomarnos esta afirmación tan a la ligera y dedicarle unos minutos de reflexión. En este libro encontrarás explicados los motivos por los que debemos oponernos a este pensamiento tan aceptado como generalizado.

In her younger years, Catherine Woulfe was known as the Lady of Death...but those days are long past. Now, at over 300 years old, she is older, wiser...and painfully dull. Instead of using her necromancy skills for things like killing people and taking over governments, she now works as a private investigator, helping people find their lost treasures.

A hit-and-run or something else? The district attorney does not like what she sees, and the police report is not conclusive. She assigns her part-time investigator Brad Petronella to look into the case. The case quickly expands into much more than just a possible road accident. Ranging over a number of upstate NY counties, a major drug network is uncovered.

A simple riddle was the clue that started the sword-for-hire Corson and her sorceress companion, the Lady Nyctasia, on a hunt for the greatest treasure ever hidden. But this long-abandoned treasure is the hoard of the dread Cymvelan Circle, whose scattered members are coming together again to claim what is theirs....

With only her sorcerer’s powers and the swordswoman Corson to protect her, the Lady Nyctasia was forced to flee her beloved city of Rhostshyl. Solving riddles and casting spells, fighting pirates and helping escaped slaves, sword and sorcery have stood back-to-back dueling with adventure. But now, Nyc’s beloved city needs her. This is no street brawl, but a civil war, which Nyc must win...or all is lost!