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DEMON CLAWS: The battle against the demons has been won. The town of Tibbet’s Brook is enjoying a peaceful winter until the body of local businessman Rusco Hog is discovered on the old Tanner farm, his fatal injuries pointing towards a demon attack. BUTTER COOKIES: For Selia Barren, the Town Speaker, the evidence doesn’t add up. She suspects foul play. Rusco didn’t become the richest man in town by making friends, and it seems everyone in Tibbet’s Brook has a motive.

Huren, Zuhälter, Säufer, Spieler, Junkies, Dealer, Diebe, Exsträflinge, Kriegsveteranen, Musiker und Dichter – die Gäste des Wiener Gürtel-Hotels und -Bordells Bauer sind ein bunt zusammen gewürfelter Haufen. Zwölf junge österreichische Autoren sind in dem abgetakelten Etablissement abgestiegen und haben dramatische und sentimentale, packende und berührende Geschichten über das Leben am Rand der Gesellschaft geschrieben.

Two years have passed since comet Anduru skimmed the clouds of Saturn on its way to Earth. Kath and Nolan are looking for answers, trying to find ways to protect Earth from the possibility of an invasive alien species overrunning the planet.

Audible presents a special edition of three Gothic masterpieces: a brand-new Audible Exclusive recording of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Winner of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post)...

Un enemigo poderoso ha llegado a la tierra de los elfos. Quiere esclavizar a todo el que allí vive. Si los elfos van a sobrevivir, necesitarán coraje y esperanza. Los elfos huyen del ejército de sus enemigos y deben refugiarse en el bosque. Margaria se hace amiga de un joven elfo llamado Calicarpio. Juntos, hacen un descubrimiento que permitirá a los elfos luchar contra su enemigo. ¿Pero tendrán la fuerza suficiente?

Mental models are like giving a treasure map to someone lost in the woods. They provide instant understanding, context, and most importantly, a path to the end destination. Now imagine having such a map for all problems and decisions in your life. Battle information overwhelm, focus on what really matters, and make complex decisions with speed and confidence.

The year AD 105. King Decebal of Dacia stubbornly defends the freedom of his people and continues to defy the rule of the Roman Empire. Emperor Trajan marches north again to invade Dacia with the largest army in the history of Rome. Their legendary personal and military conflicts reach a dramatic climax beneath the walls of Sarmizegetusa, the holy city of Dacia and the most formidable mountain fortress of the ancient world.

Un enemigo poderoso ha llegado a la tierra de los elfos. Quiere esclavizar a todo el que allí vive. Si los elfos van a sobrevivir, necesitarán coraje y esperanza. En algún lugar en la profundidad de la montaña se encuentra la vara divina que puede vencer al rey Vanitatis, el peor enemigo de los elfos. Pero nadie sabe dónde está escondida. ¿Podrán Zarzo y sus amigos encontrar el escondite antes de que sea demasiado tarde?

Un enemigo poderoso ha llegado a la tierra de los elfos. Quiere esclavizar a todo el que allí vive. Si los elfos van a sobrevivir, necesitarán coraje y esperanza. Zarzo quiere ayudar en la lucha contra el enemigo de los elfos. Pero Margaria no cree que sea lo suficientemente mayor. Zarzo es difícil de disuadir. Junto a Rakzul, el niño trol, se escabulle hacia el campo enemigo. Tienen un plan. ¿Pero serán capaces de permanecer escondidos de los Puños de Acero y de los monstruos del rey?

What is art? Why do we value images of saints, kings, goddesses, battles, landscapes or cities from eras of history utterly remote from ourselves? This history of art shows how painters, sculptors and architects have expressed the belief systems of their age: religious, political and aesthetic. From the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece, to the revolutionary years of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the artist has acted as a mirror to the ideals and conflicts of the human mind.

Peter Frase argues that increasing automation and a growing scarcity of resources, thanks to climate change, will bring it all tumbling down. In Four Futures, Frase imagines how this postcapitalist world might look, deploying the tools of both social science and speculative fiction to explore what communism, rentism, socialism, and exterminism might actually entail.

From rags to riches—it happens more often than you might think. In fact, it could be you! Are you content with life as it is or do you find yourself dreaming your way to riches? If you answered yes, then you are definitely on the right track because without your imagination—without dreaming—you are not going to get there! You are the only one in control of your destiny and that’s something many of us forget as we get caught up in our day-to-day lives that are filled with work, family, struggles, and financial woe.

The five words come together as two phrases: “I believe” and “In my opinion”. What follows is an archipelago of ideas, pushed up out of the sea of knowledge, by musings born of 75 years of living. I anticipate that many, like mariners of old, will pass by at a distance, cautious of hidden perils. But I hope that some may, like Charles Darwin or Galileo Galilea, pause and ponder.

“It’s not that I don’t love him. It’s that I feel selfish for loving him.” Wyatt Worth has been a grieving widower for 12 long years, devoting himself fully to his work and the care of his daughter, Temperance. But when circumstances bring him face-to-face with the lover he ghosted 12 years ago, Wyatt has to make an important choice: Does he make room in his heart for love, or does he commit himself to his loneliness for the rest of his life?

Es ist der 20. Juni 1948. Das neue Geld ist da. 40 DM "Kopfgeld" gibt es für jeden. Auch für die drei so verschiedenen Schwestern Ruth, Ulla und Gundel, Töchter des geachteten Fabrikanten Wolf in Altena. Für Tommy, den charmanten Improvisateur, für den ehrgeizigen Jung-Kaufmann Benno, für Bernd, dem Sicherheit das Wichtigste ist. Was werden die sechs Freunde mit ihrem Geld machen? Welche Träume und Hoffnungen wollen sie damit verwirklichen?

Wish You Were Dead is a Quick Read short story from bestselling author Peter James. Roy Grace and his family have left Sussex behind for a week’s holiday in France. The website promised a grand house, but when they arrive the place is very different from the pictures. And it soon becomes clear...

Après "Les Routes de la Soie", un regard aiguisé sur les profonds bouleversements du monde d'aujourd'hui. Les nouveaux défis posés à l'Occident deviennent toujours plus complexes. L'Europe a plus de mal que jamais à penser son avenir face aux crises, tandis que les États-Unis sont lancés dans un retrait inédit des affaires internationales, menaçant d'anciennes alliances. Pendant ce temps, sur les antiques Routes de la Soie souffle un vent d'espoir.

The bestselling action adventure series from Peter Gibbons! Must-read for fans of Bernard Cornwell 🗡️💫 Dark Age Britain. A legendary hero rises to unite a divided and threatened land... A country left in ruins after the fall of the Roman Empire is plundered and broken. Saxon hordes have...

Rok v Provenci je první částí volné trilogie vonící levandulí a chutnající po těch nejvybranějších lahůdkách a nejlepším víně. Chronologicky popisuje rok jednoho Brita, který se rozhodl přestěhovat do malé vesnice v malebné francouzské oblasti Provence. S anglickým humorem v jeho nejlaskavější podobě nás autor seznamuje s radostmi i úskalími života cizince, který se rozhodl uskutečnit svůj sen žít v místě, které dosud znal pouze jako turista. Kniha Rok v Provenci získala řadu ocenění, například British Book Awards pro rok 1989 za nejlepší cestopisnou knihu.