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Nevada, 1869: Beyond the pitiless 40-Mile Desert lies Golgotha, a cattle town that hides more than its share of unnatural secrets. The sheriff bears the mark of the noose around his neck; some say he is a dead man whose time has not yet come. His half-human deputy is kin to coyotes. The mayor guards a hoard of mythical treasures. A banker's wife belongs to a secret order of assassins. And a shady saloon owner, whose fingers are in everyone's business, may know more about the town's true origins than he's letting on.  

Fantastische Abenteuer – jetzt überall erhältlich! 14 Folgen der Grundschul-Superhelden in einer Sammlung! Ob Der Zauberstab, Reise ins Mittelalter, Fluch der Hexe, Alarm im Feriencamp, Die Flaschenpost, Der Dinoknochen, Der sprechende Delfin oder Die geheimnisvolle Villa – Jonas, Anna, Caro und Finn stürzen sich in Abenteuer voller Magie, Rätsel und Überraschungen. Anzüge an, Ohren auf – und rein ins Hörspiel!

From New York Times bestselling author of My Best Friend's Exorcism, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and The Final Girl Support Group, Grady Hendrix takes a break from horror and goes all-in on sci-fi in this novella about backyard rocket jockeys trying to get into low earth...

A collection of the year’s best mystery and suspense short fiction selected by New York Times bestselling author Lisa Unger and series editor Steph Cha. “This form has a special kind of magic, the ability to transport you quickly, intensely, to capture character, time, place, and story with...

Having escaped the clutches of the Lord Protector, Sir Nigel Loring, his son Alan and Little John Hordle have joined with the Mackenzie's and the Bearkillers. Lady Juniper recounts the capture of one of the Lord Protector's most precious treasurers, the Princess Mathilda Arminger. While Sir...

S. M. Stirling presents his first Novel of the Change, the start of the New York Times bestselling post-apocalyptic saga set in a world where all technology has been rendered useless. The Change occurred when an electrical storm centered over the island of Nantucket produced a blinding white...

June, 1993. Claire has been dumped in rural Indianola, Texas, to spend her whole vacation taking care of mean, sickly Grammy. There's nothing too remarkable about Indianola: It's run-down, shabby, and sweltering, a pindot on the Gulf Coast. Except there is something remarkable. Memories shimmer and change. Lizards whisper riddles under the pecan trees. People disappear as if they never existed. Yesterday keeps coming unspooled, like a video tape. And worst of all, a red-lightning storm from beyond our world may just wipe the whole town off the map.

Thanks to the mindspeech lessons she’s receiving from the black dragon, Lily is temporarily benched from Unit Twelve - until her brain acclimates and the risk of total burnout passes. At least she has her new husband, lupi Rule Turner, to keep her occupied. But when her mentor calls in a favor and sends Lily to a murder scene, she’s suddenly back on active status - despite the hallucinations she can’t keep at bay. With one touch, Lily knows the man was killed by magic, but her senses don’t warn her how far the conspiracy goes....

Erlaubnis zur Liebe verzweifelt gesucht... Ein schwarzer Tag für die Architektin Vanessa Stone! Innerhalb weniger Stunden verliert sie ihren Job und erwischt zudem ihren Freund in flagranti beim Seitensprung. Hals über Kopf flüchtet sie zu einer Freundin nach Chicago, um ihre Wunden zu lecken. Von Männern hat sie erstmal die Nase gestrichen voll. Dann lernt sie den schwerreichen Womanizer George kennen, dessen arrogantes Auftreten sie gleichermaßen aufregt wie erregt. Trotz aller Warnungen beginnt sie ein gefährliches Spiel mit dem Feuer.

Unglaublich, was an der Bärbel-Rapunzel-Grundschule alles passiert: Zunächst verletzt sich Finn auf wundersame Weise beim Basketball-Spiel, dann verschwinden aus den Lehrbüchern der gesamten Schule plötzlich die Bilder und Buchstaben. Als auch noch aus den Wasserhähnen der Schultoilette Zitronenlimonade sprudelt und sich die Stimme des Schuldirektors seltsam verändert, versuchen die Grundschul-Superhelden, Licht ins Dunkle zu bringen. Ihre Recherche führt sie zu einem Zauberladen.

Edie Carrigan didn't plan to "get herself" pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, illegitimate pregnancy is kept secret, wayward women require psychiatric cures, and adoption is always the best solution. Not even Edie’s closest friend, Luce Waddell, understands what Edie truly wants: to keep and raise the baby. Twenty-five years later, Luce is a successful lawyer, and her daughter Meera now faces the same decision Edie once did.

Eine zauberhafte Lovestory zum schönsten Fest der Liebe. Liebe geschieht dann, wenn man am wenigsten damit rechnet... Jordan Crawford möchte ihrem kranken Vater einen letzten Wunsch erfüllen. Dazu verschlägt es sie in die verschneite Wildnis Idahos - auf der Suche nach einem Mann, den sie um einen Gefallen bitten muss. Doch statt eines älteren Herrn, den sie erwartet hat, trifft sie auf einen süßen Androiden, ein freches selbstfahrendes Auto - und einen gutaussehenden Tüftler, der sie komplett überrumpelt.

You know what sucks? Cancer. Cancer sucks. Especially when it takes a young life. Like the life of my five year old son. You want to know what I have to say about that? Nothing. Absolutely nothing because I don't have the drive anymore. There's nothing left in me except emptiness. That much is obvious. I've lost my car, my career, and my apartment. At least I have my brother. Actually, I just have a place to stay because of my rich, single brother.

No number has captured the attention and imagination of people throughout the ages as much as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi—or ? as it is symbolically known—is infinite and, in The Joy of pi, it proves to be infinitely intriguing. With incisive historical insight...