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It is 1914, and the storm clouds of war are building on the horizon. In Sydney, Josiah Steele is the new head of the family and grappling with his two very different sons - David, upstanding, decent and heir to the family enterprises; and Benjamin, wayward, restless and a magnet for trouble. To...

Life in Alpha World has been a blessing for Alburet, more then he had ever thought it could be, and still more then he thinks he deserves at times. With allies and friends all around him, and the love of three beautiful, unique women, he knows that this might be the best life has to offer. But all of life has complications, and his are many and varied. A quest from the Overlord requires he level as quickly as he can for the "End Game", or risk losing all the happiness he has found.

Nach Winnetous Tod wird Old Shatterhand zusammen mit den beiden Snuffles Jim und Tim in eine Auseinandersetzung mit dem alten Komantschen-Häuptling To-kei-chun verwickelt. Im Rahmen dieser Ereignisse lernt er den persischen Prinzen Dschafar Mirza kennen. Später wechselt der Verlauf der Ereignisse hinüber in die Wüsten Arabiens und zu den Weidegründen der Haddedihn, wo es ein Wiedersehen Kara Ben Nemsis mit Hadschi Halef Omar gibt.

Town Marshal "Bloody" Joe Mannion and his close friend, Wells Fargo detective Flint Henry, are on the trail of some of the most vicious killers Mannion has ever faced. Flint is killed so it's up to Bloody Joe to single-handedly retrieve the loot the gang stole from a train. He manages to take down the gang and secure the loot only to find himself facing yet another band of vicious killers who want to lay their own grubby hands on the cash. Bloody Joe, however, has other ideas . . . and this ain't his first rodeo.

Landon Hamilton, the champion of humankind in the war between good and evil, had thought he'd seen the last of the demon Abaddon when he destroyed Archangel Avriel's Box. He was wrong. Abaddon is back, summoned to our world by an old acquaintance and desperate for the freedom he was promised.

"My name is Raine Benares—and it sucks to be me right now. I’m a seeker who found the Saghred, a soul-stealing stone that gave me unlimited powers I never wanted. Now I’ve lost the rock—and the magic it gave me—to a goblin dark mage whose main goals are my death and world domination. This is more than incentive enough for a little trip to the goblin capital of Regor with a small band of good friends, not-so-good friends, and one outright enemy.... Don’t ask."

Melena Sanders is locked away in purgatory - which is no vacation - but she'll soon be returning to Alaska, where troubles are mounting once again. Suspicious fires are breaking out, supernaturals are being attacked, and there's an enemy lurking out there waiting for his chance to strike. Her lover, Lucas, is managing to hold their home together during her absence, but he's more than ready for her to return.

In this finale of the Freedom's Fire series, the Free Army tries to salvage victory from what looks like a total loss. They've found a weakness in the Gray-Trog alliance they think they can exploit. But they'll need to ally themselves with the hated MSS and put their trust in people they've sworn to overthrow.

కాశీ మజిలీ కథలు అన్న పేరు వినని తెలుగు వాడు ఉండడేమో. 1934లో మొట్టమొదట సారి ప్రచురించబడ్డ కాశీ మజిలీ కథలను మధిర...

Zehn Jahre sind seit den Ereignissen aus Zepter und Hammer vergangen. Die Angehörigen eines Verschollenen erhalten durch sein Tagebuch Kunde von der Vernichtung eines indischen Fürstenhofs und vom Schatz des Maharadscha, der auf eine einsame Insel gerettet wurde.

"Jungle Tales of Tarzan" is a collection of twelve loosely connected short stories by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, comprising the sixth book in order of publication in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. Chronologically the events recounted in it occur within Chapter 11 of the first Tarzan novel, Tarzan of the Apes, between Tarzan's avenging of his ape foster mother's death and his becoming leader of his ape tribe. The stories ran monthly in Blue Book magazine, September 1916 through August 1917 before book publication in 1919.

Conan - Der Teich der schwarzen Nymphen ist ein spannendes Hörbuch, das auf einer Kurzgeschichte von Robert E. Howard basiert. Es erzählt die Abenteuer von Conan, dem berühmten Barbaren, der zum Anführer einer Piratenbande wird. Auf der Suche nach Beute landet er auf einer verlassenen Insel, wo er einen seltsamen Teich findet, der alles verwandelt, was mit ihm in Berührung kommt. Doch er ist nicht der einzige, der an dem Teich interessiert ist. Eine Horde monströser schwarzer Kreaturen macht Jagd auf ihn und nimmt ihn gefangen.

Einer Gruppe gefangener Nordstaatler gelingt während des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs mittels eines Ballons die Flucht aus einem Lager des Feindes. Stürme blasen sie jedoch aufs Meer und schließlich auf eine unbekannte Insel. Während sie um ihr Überleben kämpfen, bemerken sie bald, dass sie hier nicht allein sind. Jules Vernes' Abenteuergeschichte bildet einen Epilog sowohl zu "Die Kinder des Kapitän Grant", als auch "20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer".

Elf Monate war es her, dass ein Eingeborener vom Stamme der Nuhuris in der Gegend um Zanaho einen riesigen Diamanten fand. Die englisch-französische Firma Priscott & Company in Lokoja entsandte daraufhin einen Schürftrupp unter Leitung des erfahrenen George McCoy nach Zanaho. Einmal im Monat schickte Priscott eine Trägerkolonne mit Medikamenten, Lohngeldern, Lebensmitteln, Werkzeugen, Perlen und Stoffen von Lokoja aus nach Zanaho, wo inzwischen außer neun Weißen auch hundert Eingeborene arbeiten.