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Mitch Cahill war ein grandioser Quarterback und gefeierter Footballgott, der alles besaß, was er sich nur hätte wünschen können. Doch einige Auswärtsspiele, Groupies und eine Knieverletzung später ist er geschieden und muss sich vom Profifootball sowie von den New York Titans verabschieden. Letzteres macht ihm nichts aus, aber die Trennung von seiner Exfrau hat er auch nach vier Jahren kaum verwunden und tut sich schwer damit, wieder eine Beziehung einzugehen.

Sieg auf der ganzen Linie! Quinn Atherton hat alles, was ein Mann braucht, um ein verdammt cooler Typ zu sein. Zum einen lebt er den Traum eines jeden Amerikaners – er ist Profi-Footballspieler und kassiert Millionen dafür, dass er mit einem Lederball unter dem Arm über ein Spielfeld rennen darf, während ihm Tausende von begeisterten Zuschauern zujubeln. Zum anderen umschwärmen ihn heiße Groupies, die schneller ihre BHs öffnen können, als er das Wort Touchdown überhaupt über die Lippen bringen kann.

Mit den Männern klappt es einfach nicht! Frustriert muss Claire erkennen, dass sie nicht der Typ Frau ist, den Männer heiraten wollen. Schön und gut... sie haben nichts gegen einen Flirt mit der umwerfenden Rothaarigen einzuwenden und sind auch ganz sicher nicht abgeneigt, ihr das Kleid vom kurvenreichen Körper zu schälen, aber eine langfristige Beziehung scheint in weiter Ferne zu liegen. Doch Claire hat die Nase voll davon, nach Mr. Perfect zu suchen, und beschließt, auch ohne einen Mann an ihrer Seite das Glück zu finden und ein Baby zu bekommen.

Frank Herbert's Dune is one of the grandest epics in the annals of imaginative literature. Now Herbert's son, Brian, working with Kevin J. Anderson and using Frank Herbert's own notes, reveals a pivotal epoch in the history of the Dune universe: the Butlerian Jihad, the war that was fought ten thousand years before the events of Dune - the war in which humans wrested their freedom from "thinking machines."

Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness. The human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy. In Kevin J. Anderson's The Dark Between the Stars, galactic empires clash, elemental beings devastate whole planetary systems, and factions of humanity are pitted against one another.

Activist Elizabeth Devane wished for an end to nuclear weapons. Surely, she thought, if they'd known what they were unleashing, the scientists of the Manhattan Project would never have created such a terrible instrument of destruction. But during a protest action, the unthinkable happened: a flash of light, a silent confusion, and Elizabeth awakes to find herself alone in a desolate desert arroyo... and almost 50 years in the past.

The music of Rush, one of the most successful bands in music history, is filled with fantastic stories, evocative images, thought-provoking futures and pasts. In this anthology, notable, best-selling, and award-winning writers each chose a Rush song as the spark for a new story, drawing inspiration from the visionary trio Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.

Captain Nemo is the fictional life story of one of Jules Verne's most memorable characters from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. It covers his boyhood friendship with the dreamer Jules Verne, adventures aboard sailing ships, battles with pirates, and survival on a mysterious deserted island. Each time he returns home to his beloved France, Captain Nemo shares the tales of his exploits with the struggling writer Verne.

Two continents at war, the Three Kingdoms and Ishara, are divided by past bloodshed. When an outside threat arises—the reawakening of a powerful ancient race that wants to remake the world—the two warring nations must somehow set aside generational hatreds and form an alliance to fight their true enemy.

Kevin J. Anderson's sequel to Spine of The Dragon brings bitter rivalry and blood feud—that might be the downfall of the human kingdoms. Two continents at war, the Three Kingdoms and Ishara, have been in conflict for a thousand years. But when an outside threat arises—the reawakening of a...

Linden is a fiesty faery with a lot on her mind. She and her fellow faeries are under threat: their magic is fading, and if they do not act fast,they will die. When Linden meets Timothy, a human staying in the house opposite her Oak,she knows he can help. Together they embark on dangerous journey to seek more magic - and discover that there is more to fear from other faeries than they could ever have imagined.

After Halley's Comet was destroyed in a magical battle in 1759, the backlash separated the entire New World from the Old in an event known as The Sundering. Now isolated from the rest of the globe, America has become a very different place, where magic works and history has been changed forever.

Wie ist ihr Chef nur auf diese Idee gekommen? Journalistin Vicky soll undercover recherchieren - ausgerechnet in einem Kochkurs für Männer! Gegen ein ordentliches Steak hat Vicky zwar nichts einzuwenden, gegen ihren überheblichen Kochpartner Mitch dafür umso mehr. Als es zwischen Töpfen und Pfannen richtig heiß hergeht, muss Vicky sich jedoch eingestehen, dass sie auch den Mann neben sich ganz schön scharf findet. Ob seine Küsse genauso unwiderstehlich schmecken wie sein Pecan Pie?

Lucy führt ein Leben voller Romantik - jedenfalls beruflich betrachtet. Sie verkauft nämlich Brautkleider und hilft ihren Kundinnen, am schönsten Tag ihres Lebens nicht nur wunderhübsch auszusehen, sondern sich auch wie eine Prinzessin zu fühlen. Privat ist Lucys Leben alles andere als märchenhaft, denn sie selbst wartet vergeblich darauf, dass ihr Traumprinz auf seinem Pferd angeritten kommt.

At long last, millions of Dune fans can now hear the unpublished chapters and scenes from Dune and Dune Messiah. The Road to Dune also includes the original correspondence between Frank Herbert and famed editor John W. Campbell, Jr.; excerpts from Herbert's correspondence during his years-long struggle to get his innovative work published; and the article, "They Stopped the Moving Sands", Herbert's original inspiration for Dune.

It’s the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage—and a PR disaster—the multinational oil company releases an untested “designer microbe” to break up the spill. It's an “oil-eating” microbe, designed to consume anything made of petrocarbons: oil, gasoline, synthetic fabrics, and of course plastic. What the company doesn’t realize is that their microbe propagates through the air....

King Cullin may be known as "the Dragon Slayer", but he fears his son’s legacy will be as "King Maurice Who Speaks with Proper Grammar". The boy keeps his nose buried in parchments, starry-eyed at the idea of noble knights and eager to hand royal gold to any con man hawking a unicorn horn. Tonight, though, Cullin will educate the prince in the truth behind minstrels’ silly songs of glory….

The crew of Moonbase Columbus makes an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon - a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consuming everything they touch. The mysterious structure begins to expand and take shape, and its creators begin to multiply. Is this the first strike in an alien invasion from the stars? Or has human nanotechnology experimentation gone awry, triggering an unexpected infestation?

Two decades after the devastating Elemental War, which nearly destroyed the cosmos, the new Confederation restored peace and profitable commerce among the peoples and worlds of the Spiral Arm. The ambitious, innovative Roamers went back to their traditional business of harvesting the vital stardrive fuel ekti from the clouds of gas giant planets, and the telepathic green priests of Theroc provided instantaneous galaxy-wide communication via their connection to the powerful and sentient worldtrees.

As the second book of the trilogy opens, the humans and Ildirans, having narrowly escaped annihilation at the hands of the Shana Rei and their robot allies in book one, are desperate to find a way to combat the black cloud of antimatter of the Shana Rei. The mysterious alien Gardeners, who had helped them previously, turn out to be a disaster in disguise and because of them, the world tree forests are again in danger.