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The year is 1954. A decade has passed since Berlin and Tokyo were consumed by nuclear fire, but war claws its way back to a world forever altered. The ailing Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin, strikes NATO with a colossal orbital assault, propelling waves of tanks and over a million soldiers westward—all armed with twenty-first-century tech plundered from a future they never knew.

1793: the onset of Britain's conflict with Revolutionary France. Ex-captain turned privateer, Harry Ludlow finds himself on board the naval 74-gun Magnanime, with his brother James. In command is Oliver Carter, a captain with whom Harry has an unfortunate history. But when James is found standing over the body of a dead officer, old scores appear to be put aside…at least for the time being. Blinded by his own prejudice, Harry sets out to prove his brother’s innocence, but it is soon apparent that his feud with Carter is not the only dark secret aboard the Magnanime.

A refreshing new guide to having the life you want without tiresome struggle and stressing out. Here's a truth that most of us either don't know or may have forgotten: we don't actually get what we want in life, we get what we ARE. So when we become more of what we really are, we get more of what we really want. It's that simple.

Brought to you by Penguin. For fans of The God of the Woods and All the Colours of the Dark, The Living and the Dead is a beautifully written, haunting murder mystery, set in a rural Swedish town, where one community's secrets will be laid bare over the next twenty years . . . On a cold, snowy...

Book three of The Riftwar Legacy The final instalment of Feist’s spellbinding Krondor adventure. Now in a brilliant new livery. ‘Feist writes fantasy of epic scope, fast-moving action and vivid imagination’ – Washington Post A drop in the ocean? A raid upon the high seas signals an...

The Soldier is the first novel in the no-holds barred Rise of the Jain series, by bestselling science fiction author Neal Asher. 'A beautifully complex universe where AIs, aliens and post-humans scheme and struggle – magnificently awesome.' – Peter F. Hamilton Her mission is vital. Her...

Jupiter War is the third and final book in Neal Asher's near-future, science fiction Owner series, set upon an Earth ravaged by disaster. Alan Saul is now part human and part machine, and our solar system isn't big enough to hold him. He craves the stars, but can't leave yet. His sister Var is...

André Hazes (1951-2004) blijft voor eeuwig bij ons, omdat hij met ons, in ons en over ons zingt. Hazes is een meeslepend, spannend en adembenemend relaas over een kleine jongen, die door zijn daden en zijn doen en met bloed, zweet en tranen uitgroeit tot de vlieger die hoog in de hemel is. Hazes is een intiem portret van Nederlands grootste levensliedartiest, met talloze bekende en onbekende verhalen uit het enorme archief van Bert Hiddema.

Während einer Fahrt durch den Nordatlantik stößt die Nautilus auf eine kleine Gruppe Schiffbrüchiger. Kapitän Nemo lässt sie an Bord nehmen, ohne jedoch zu ahnen, dass er sich damit allerhand Ärger und Gefahren einhandelt. Der Forscher und Wissenschaftler Dr. Adams entpuppt sich als ein Mann, der von der Idee besessen ist, die verschollenen Schiffe der John-Franklin-Expedition zu finden. Was er dabei Kapitän Nemo offenbart, ist eine schier unglaubliche Geschichte. Tatsächlich stößt die Nautilus im Eismeer auf ein Schiffswrack.

Sos - Schwäne in Not In den Küchen des Schlosses von Versailles herrscht Panik: Es gibt kein einziges Ei mehr für das Essen des Königs, da alle Eier für die Osterfeiertage gebraucht wurden! Einer der Köche kommt daher auf die Idee, stattdessen Schwaneneier zu servieren. Madame Rosas 100. Geburtstag Madame Rosa, die Elefantendame, ist in Aufregung: Heute Abend soll ihre große, hundertste Geburtstagsfeier stattfinden, doch nichts ist vorbereitet! Zum Glück eilen ihre Freunde Belfort und Lupin zur Hilfe. Wird die Party rechtzeitig gelingen?

Die Einsamkeit des Langstreckenläufers – ›Laufen ist bei uns zu Hause immer großgeschrieben worden, besonders das Weglaufen vor der Polizei‹ – ist die Einsamkeit des jungen Colin Smith, der für einen Diebstahl in eine Jugendstrafanstalt geschickt worden ist. Der Direktor der Anstalt, der Colins Lauftalent entdeckt, will, dass er das Rennen um die Landesmeisterschaft gewinnt. Doch für Colin heißt gewinnen etwas anderes.

Ein spannender Ausflug steht bevor: Die Klasse 5a darf die New Ocean Voyager besichtigen – ein beeindruckendes Kreuzfahrtschiff mit Pools, Restaurants und einer endlosen Wasserrutsche. Begeistert entdecken die Kinder das schwimmende Paradies, bestaunen die moderne Technik und genießen das Abenteuer an Bord – bis plötzlich alles ganz anders kommt. Denn als das Schiff ohne jede Vorwarnung ablegt, finden sich die Grundschul-Superhelden Jonas, Anna, Caro und Finn mitten auf hoher See wieder.

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett is a defining work of hardboiled detective fiction, centered on private investigator Sam Spade. When a mysterious woman hires Spade and his partner to follow a man, the case quickly spirals into murder, deception, and a ruthless hunt for a priceless jeweled falcon. As Spade navigates a web of lies involving a cast of cunning criminals, he relies on his sharp instincts and moral code to stay one step ahead. Set in a shadowy, morally ambiguous world, the novel is known for its crisp dialogue, atmospheric tension, and complex characters.

For thirty years the fictional crime novelist and detective Paul Temple, together with his Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after case in one of BBC Radio's most popular series. They inhabited a sophisticated world of chilled cocktails and fast cars, where the women were chic and...

Following an accident that almost cost him his life, Howard Falcon was not so much saved as he was converted, through the use of prosthetics, into something faster, stronger and smarter . . . but also slightly less human and more machine than he was. And with this change came an opportunity -...

Emperor Iztac is racing against time. He has finally discovered the Nightlords' sinister plan: to use the New Fire Ceremony to raise a sulfur sun that would allow vampires to prey on the living during the day. He has weeks to sabotage the ritual, and no margin of error. But who can he trust in his palace full of spies and traitors?

A world on the precipice of the apocalypse. A secret forged in the flames of war. A chance to start over. For John Sutton, only one of those three things matters. Retired from a decade of brutal war, he wants nothing more than a quiet pastoral life while he does his best to stem the steady increase of his Doom Points before they hit 100, signaling the start of the end. He’s been given a small farm on the outskirts of the empire as a thanks for his service, but no matter how far he travels, it's impossible to escape the war's devastating effects on the world.

The Delta Solution is an action-packed novel pitting Navy SEAL Mack Bedford against the Somali pirates operating off the southerly reaches of the lawless East African republic on the Indian Ocean. For the past three years, these heavily armed tribal brigands have been capturing and holding for ransom massive cargo ships, and violently demanding millions of dollars for their return. Hero Mack Bedford is deployed to obliterate them in the middle of the Indian Ocean, at all costs, once and for all.

This essential biography, by the author most deeply familiar with the vast archives of the Soviet era, offers an unprecedented, fine-grained portrait of Stalin, the man and dictator. Without mythologizing Stalin as either benevolent or an evil genius, Khlevniuk resolves numerous controversies about specific events in the dictator's life while assembling many hundreds of previously unknown letters, memos, reports, and diaries into a comprehensive, compelling narrative of a life that altered the course of world history.

Best-selling author, superstar physicist, and cofounder of the World Science Festival Brian Greene (The Elegant Universe, The Fabric of the Cosmos) and an ensemble cast led by award-winning actor Paul Rudd (Ant-Man) perform this dramatic story tracing Albert Einstein's discovery of the general theory of relativity.