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The second novel of The Books of the Elements. The wealthy Governor Saxa, of the great city of Carce, has generously and lavishly subsidized a theatrical/religious event. During this elaborate staging of Hercules founding a city on the shores of Lusitania, strange and dark magic turns the panoply into a chilling event. The sky darkens and the waves crash in the flooded arena. A great creature rises from the sea: a huge, tentacled horror on snake legs. It devastates the city, much to the delight of the crowd.

The Crosses -- renowned Professor of the Occult Simon and irrepressible Elizabeth -- set off on their latest time traveling adventure. Leaving Jack behind to nurse his broken heart, the couple travels to 1852 Natchez, Mississippi to help the next person on grandfather Sebastian's list, Mary Stewart. There's just one problem. Little Mary Stewart, just 8 years old, died two days ago. Mary's spirit cannot rest until Simon and Elizabeth solve the mystery of both her life and death. But Mary cannot speak, and there are those who are willing to kill to keep the past buried.

The city of Chicago is under siege by a terrorist-manipulated weather event. It is weather warfare! People are trapped in their Chicago offices and city apartments. Fear of death has the city paralyzed.

Professor Simon Cross and his assistant, Elizabeth West, thought their time traveling days were over. That's before they stumble across a World War II photograph -- with missing time traveler, Evan Eldridge, injured and in desperate need of help. They find Evan in 1942 London, ill and not quite sure what's happened. He remembers only one thing with crystal clarity -- the whereabouts of an artifact Hitler believes can win the war. That's information every Nazi spy in the country would kill to know.

A sudden change in Council leadership puts not only the Crosses but the timeline itself at risk. The new Council no longer wants to protect time, they want to reshape it - starting with the birth of America during the Revolutionary War. However, that isn't the only birth they plan on stopping. For their ultimate plan to work, Charlotte Cross must never be born. Friends old and new join forces to save Elizabeth and Charlotte and keep the world they know from being erased from history.

Quincy, seines Zeichens der Anführer ein kleinen, aber schlagkräftigen Truppe von Elite-Kämpfern, bemüht sich diese Gruppe durch gemeinsame Abenteuer zusammen zu halten und zu erweitern. Ihr Weg führt sie durch den ganzen Kontinent Aaranthos, auf dem sie als Gruppe oder aber auch nur zu zweit, zahllose Abenteuer erleben. Ihre Hauptaufgabe ist jedoch das Beschützen des Gebietes Stormland, sowie seiner Bewohner, vor dem Bösen und den mächtigen Gegnern, welche die Stadt und deren Einwohner, ja sogar den gesamten Kontinent bedrohen.

It’s hard to be a drunken idiot when the world keeps burning down around you. Cairn, the charming-yet-utterly-irresponsible heir to the Uskarrion throne, is all too happy to toss the crown aside. But an invasion, conspiracy, and rise of a terrifying villain result in his untimely death. Then, Cairn reawakens. It's a decade earlier, and he's in his childhood body. But he remembers everything...there's much to accomplish. First, however, he'd really love to stop himself from dying.

'Jodi Taylor is quite simply the Queen of Time' C. K. MCDONNELL The nail-bitingly tense, rib-crackingly funny new TIME POLICE mission from the million-copy bestselling author of THE CHRONICLES OF ST MARY'S. The Time Police don't think twice about jumping to the past. But, this time, the past has...

A Chronicles of St Mary's short story that is sure to entertain. If you love Jasper Fforde or Ben Aaronovitch, you won't be able to resist Jodi Taylor. Astonishingly, Dr Bairstow has declared a holiday. Even more astonishingly - he's paying for it. Needless to say, there are strings attached...

Their love was a quiet, slow-growing thing that built from friendship, adventure, and shared experiences. In this final chapter of The Immortal Descendants series, Ringo and Charlie begin their own journey of love, laughter, and all the misadventures a pair of Victorian street urchins can encounter when they’ve traveled through time. Where, exactly, is home for two people who have journeyed so far, and if they find it, can they ever truly go back?

Battle of Kursk, 1943. A young German conscript in an elite division of the Wehrmacht and his Kompanie are pinned into a factory. Just before his life is to end, he finds himself awake in a very strange world where animals talk and walk on two. Knowing only terrifying and confusing battles for two years, Hans is elated to be taken out of the colossal struggle which consumed him. Hans' past follows him even into this world, and he soon finds that he is not alone. In this wild new land, Hans must confront the dangers that await him and the reality of the cause he once served.

Abridged edition, read by David Tennant (Doctor Who, Broadchurch) A family Christmas, a blizzard, and a deadly virus let loose. Filled with startling twists, Whiteout is the ultimate knife-edge drama from bestselling author Ken Follett. A Family Reunited As a blizzard descends from the north on...

Als ob es nicht genug verlangt sei, dass ich meinen Freund in einer lächerlichen Reenactment-Kostümierung auf ein Wikinger-Fest begleite, betrügt dieser Arsch mich nicht mit meiner - ehemals! - besten Freundin? Verletzt und wütend klemme ich mich hinters Steuer, um mich bei meiner Jugendfreundin auszuheulen - als ein verdammt lecker aussehender Fremder in A+-Gewandung mir vors Auto und ins Leben fällt.Was geschieht, wenn ein Wikinger in die heutige Zeit gerät?

Bloomsbury presents As Many Souls As Stars by Natasha Siegel, read by Kristin Atherton. 1592. Cybil Harding, daughter of a secret alchemist, was born under cursed stars. Destined to bring disaster to those around her, Cybil is trapped in a grand house with a mother paralysed by grief and a...