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Halloween, 1920. A raging storm strands a train at a remote station deep in the Brecon Beacons. As the wind howls through the mountains and floods spread, something alien lurks in the dark—stalking the trapped passengers, one by one. Young porter Owen Randall is thrust into a brutal fight for survival. His only hope lies in an alliance with a fearless engine driver and a brilliant, mysterious scientist. Armed with nothing but courage, wits, and a trusty steam locomotive, they must battle an unearthly terror with no name—and no mercy.

Hunt, trek, and feast among Neanderthals in this stunning novel by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced by Ben Okri A Penguin Classic When spring comes, the people leave their winter cave, foraging for honey, grubs, and the hot richness of a deer’s brain. They...

A mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that follows a deaf former student of Alexander Graham Bell as she learns to reclaim her own authentic voice. Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a...

The year 1792. With French revolutionary agents traveling freely but secretly between Ireland and England and war with France inevitable, the English government of Mr. Pitt is desperately anxious to uncover any plots between Irish rebels and the French. Lieutenant James Merriman with his ship, the sloop Aphrodite, is ordered to the Irish Sea to assist the principal treasury agent Mr. Grahame in this work. Merriman is plunged headlong into the world of espionage, and when Grahame is seriously wounded, it falls to Merriman to carry on the investigation.

In Victorian London, in an age when steam and clockwork power is all-important, a series of events throws Oliver, Jake, and Charlotte into conflict with the authorities. They come from very different backgrounds and join forces with an escaped slave, a street urchin, and a prostitute to form an airship crew—The Rebel Runaways. With the country in the hands of the army and beset by street gangs, escape is their priority. When they realize the depths to which the corrupt government and a wicked industrialist are willing to stoop, they turn to face the enemy.

Freshly escaped from the caverns of "Home," the Clemens-Bemis Expedition welcomes two young women: bold Hazel and resourceful Conifer. Their journey starts with a bang when they dynamite their way free of the Vallis Alpes, hot on the heels of a renegade member turned outlaw. The pursuit lands them in Lobster Gulch, a rowdy mining outpost brimming with danger, dynamite, and dubious characters.

The Kael'Nyrin Scrolls: Our Children of Starlight is a fusion of speculative fiction and philosophical enquiry, positing that humanity is the product of ancient cosmic stewardship. The story centres on the Kael'Nyrin, trans-dimensional beings of a Kardashev III society, who were master orchestrators guiding life across the cosmos. We, humanity, are their "children of starlight." Their existence is exposed when the Scrolls are found in a crystalline obelisk in the Mariana Trench.

Eine gescheiterte Mission ... bei der Unschuldige starben … Die Flucht vor einer ungerechtfertigten Inhaftierung war nicht das, was Connor im Sinn hatte. Aber an Bord des ersten interstellaren Kolonieschiffs der Erde in Stasis versetzt zu werden, war etwas, worauf er sich nicht hätte vorbereiten können. Für dreihunderttausend Kolonisten brachte die neue Kolonie das Versprechen eines Neuanfangs … eine zweite Chance. Connor mochte der falsche Mann für die Kolonie sein, aber er konnte dafür sorgen, dass sie die kommenden Ereignisse überleben würde.

Led by a man willing to risk everything for power and conquest, armed with technology a hundred years ahead of ours—technology promising salvation to its allies and doom to its enemies—and drawing on a far deeper military history, the Protectorate Expeditionary Force has arrived to invade and incorporate our world into the greatest empire the multiverse has ever known, or die trying.

Suna Levents Treiben als Hackerin im Auftrag der Kadoguchi-Stiftung ist hochgradig illegal. Illegal, aber harmlos – denn wer sich für Informationen über „Particulae", „Ark" und „Türen" interessiert, bei dem kann es sich doch nur um einen von diesen Esoterik-Spinnern handeln. Oder? Als Sunas Dasein von jetzt auf gleich auf dem Spiel steht, ist sie sich da plötzlich nicht mehr so sicher. Dabei bleiben Suna lediglich drei Sekunden, um eine Entscheidung über Leben und Tod zu treffen. Für sich und andere...

The Galizien Sturm offensive is in full swing in the East. The Germans, under the command of General Paul von Hindenburg, have just stormed the Brest-Litovsk Fortress in Western Belarus. They now start their movement southward toward Western Ukraine to outflank General Brussilov. Meanwhile, General August Mackensen’s attack on the Przemysl Fortress continues with the obvious objective of pushing on to the main Russian Army supply hub in Lemberg.

Die Schweiz in naher Zukunft: Die Städte sind zusammengewachsen zur alles beherrschenden »Metropolitane«, während die Alpen für die Stromversorgung zur Sperrzone erklärt wurden. Der junge Wissenschaftler Alesch kehrt in sein Heimatdorf Pradetta zurück, einen abgelegenen Ort im schwindenden Schatten eines Gletschers. Seltsame Wetterphänomene häufen sich am Berg, und schon bald ist Alesch hin- und hergerissen zwischen urwüchsiger Bergwelt und Hoffnung auf Fortschritt.

In 2028, former homicide detective Rachel Hunt is hired by Katherine Richardson, a wealthy descendant of Grace Carrington, to use Sinclair Whitlock's time machine once again. Her task: travel back to Southampton, England, and uncover the fate of Grace, a fifteen-year-old girl, and her governess, Edith Winslow. They disappeared just a day before boarding the Titanic—and the mystery has haunted Katherine's family for over a century.

In 1992, at the dawn of the age of technology, disgraced ex-game show host Manny di Martini schemes for a comeback with a deep-sea television special in the South Pacific. He quickly finds himself in over his head, attracting the attention of a cosmic being who will lead Manny to a television broadcast event much bigger than the entire planet bargained for: evidence of a slumbering alien in a ruined city at the bottom of the ocean. One look at the monster on TV, and humans collectively freak out.

Un Mundo Intacto explora una historia alternativa en la que la humanidad nunca enfrentó la devastación de la plaga. A través de una serie de capítulos profundamente investigados y humanizados, el libro examina cómo el crecimiento demográfico ininterrumpido, las comunidades estables y la ausencia de mortalidad masiva habrían moldeado cada aspecto de la sociedad, la ciencia y la cultura. Desde el arte y la arquitectura hasta la ley, la migración y el medio ambiente, cada capítulo profundiza en las formas en que la continuidad.

I was the Rift Magus, master of space and time, protector of worlds. Reborn in a broken body with only my knowledge intact, I rebuilt myself from nothing. Now the reckoning has come. House Delamere, the architects of my abduction and the force behind demonic pacts and soul-warping corruption, has taken Adrian. My cousin. My friend. They believe they understand power. They are wrong.

Wilbur Brooke’s life has been a slow drift toward irrelevance until Melissa, his Enhanced Living Assistant (ELA), arrives. Funded by the Ministry of Veterans’ Affairs, the AI-powered live-in carer breathes new life into Wilbur, easing his arthritis, improving his health, and filling a void in his solitary existence he hadn’t realised existed. When anti-AI protests erupt across the country and the government moves to strip ELAs of their individuality, Wilbur faces a devastating choice: lose the lifeline Melissa has become–or risk everything to save her.

Ce livre regroupe 10 uchronies qui nous offrent un nouveau regard sur l'histoire de France et rebattent les cartes du passé avec une intensité déconcertante. Car selon toute logique, Vercingétorix aurait dû être le grand vainqueur d'Alésia, Louis XVI n'aurait jamais dû finir à l'échafaud, et Joffre ne devait pas remporter la bataille de la Marne !

Not just another science audiobook and not just another Discworld novella, The Science of Discworld is a creative, mind-bending mash-up of fiction and fact, that offers a wizard’s-eye view of our world that will forever change how you look at the universe. Can Unseen University’s eccentric...

An international bestseller—“an elegant, charming, and heartwarming fable...one part Zelig, one part Siddhartha, and one part Rin Tin Tin” (Vogue)—about an extraordinary fox terrier who helps his Jewish family escape from Nazi Germany, becomes a Hollywood star, and ultimately contributes...