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Maddy dachte, sie wüsste genau, was ihren Tod verursachen würde. Jetzt ist die Liste so lang, dass es unmöglich ist, es vorauszusehen. Die vielleicht größte Gefahr? Kain. Mit jedem Tag, den sie in den Federklingenhallen verbringt, werden mehr Geheimnisse gelüftet, und es ist nur eine Frage der Zeit, bis eines davon ihr eigenes ist. Wenn Kain das von ihr bekommt, was er will … könnten nicht nur diejenigen, die ihn verraten haben, seinen Zorn zu spüren bekommen. Sie muss stark sein. Sie muss sich ihre Flügel verdienen. Sie muss der Verlockung in seinen flammenden Augen widerstehen.

Wenn ich meine Ausbildung zur Walküre überleben will, muss ich mir meine Flügel verdienen. Wenn ich Kain überleben will, muss ich eine Entscheidung treffen, die unsere Welt in Schutt und Asche legen könnte. Ich bin kaputt. Meine Fae-Magie funktioniert nicht, und niemand weiß, dass ich existiere. Meine Schwester hingegen ist auf dem Weg zu großem Ruhm. Sie wurde auserwählt, in den mythischen Federklingenhallen zur Walküre ausgebildet zu werden. Doch als die Walküren kommen, um meine Schwester abzuholen, nehmen sie mich mit.

Auf dem gesamten Planeten erwachen die Epizentren zum Leben und die Erdspalten verhalten sich unberechenbar. Es scheint an der Zeit, dass sich die Menschheit angesichts dieser gemeinsamen Bedrohung zusammenschließt. Doch es gibt zu viele Menschen, die ihre eigenen Interessen über das Allgemeinwohl stellen. Für die adeligen Familien mag dies kein Problem sein, doch für einen Jäger, für den seit jeher das Wohl der Menschheit an erster Stelle stand, ist diese Geisteshaltung nicht vertretbar.

Die von MaHe gelenkte und beschützte Menschheit steht am Abgrund ihrer Existenz. Von Alma, der Erde in einem Paralleluniversum, ergießt sich ein endloser Strom kleinster Energieteilchen auf den Planeten. Sie durchbrechen die Membran zwischen den beiden Paralleluniversen und materialisieren sich in menschlichen Zellen. Dadurch verwandeln sich die Menschen zunehmend in Hüllen der Alphabeten, den Bewohnern von Alma. Eine in der Urzeit von außerirdischen Titanen auf Alma zum Leben erweckte künstliche Intelligenz hat nur ein Ziel – die Ausrottung allen menschlichen Lebens.

Delia Spark has faced her fair share of drama both on and off the stage. But just as she's getting used to being a powerful fire crone, life throws her a twist that would challenge any mother's heart. Contending with revelations about her family's magical legacy, and her impending divorce from her cult-leader ex, Delia must navigate treacherous magical politics, confront long-buried secrets, and race to find the fire dragon before its ancient power falls into the wrong hands.

Wenn sich das organisierte Verbrechen mit Hilfe von Voodoo-Zauber ausbreiten möchte, Menschen verschwinden und ein Zombie sein Unwesen treibt, dann kann nur noch einer helfen! Barry Belmondo, der Voodoo-Priester, der sich in einen Voodoo-Gott verwandeln kann und sich dem Guten verschrieben hat.

In den Vollmondnächten geschehen immer wieder schreckliche Morde im New Yorker Stadtteil Long Island. Captain Clay di Meola und sein Freund und Kollege Harry Walsh versuchen verzweifelt dem Mörder auf die Spur zu kommen. Als ein Zeuge sich meldet und berichtet, dass sich hinter dem Mörder ein Werwolf verbirgt, macht es den Fall nicht gerade leichter. Hatten die Beamten doch noch nie etwas mit solch einem Wesen zu tun und haben daher nicht die geringste Ahnung, wie man solch eine Bestie bekämpfen kann.

I never believed in the whole “light at the end of the tunnel” folly where people, after having a near-death experience, would startle awake in a cold sweat exclaiming, “I saw the light!” But there I was, in this so-called “tunnel” facing a glaring light, when the last thing I remembered was sleeping in my room - the royal bed-chamber, as others called it. Had I died? If so, how? King Grey once benefited from unrivaled strength, wealth, and prestige in a world governed by martial ability but now finds himself reborn in a society dominated by magic.

With accomplished precision and gentle eloquence, Jhumpa Lahiri traces the crosscurrents set in motion when immigrants, expatriates, and their children arrive, quite literally, at a cultural divide. The nine stories in this stunning debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations.

Life is hard enough for a teenage girl in 1950s suburbia without having a mother who may—or may not—be a witch. A single mother at that. Sure, she fits in with her starched dresses, string of pearls, and floral aprons. Then there are the hushed and mystical consultations with neighborhood women in distress. The unsavory, mysterious plants in the flower beds. The divined warning to steer clear of a boyfriend whose fate is certainly doomed.

The ninth floor. Nine armies, each led by rich and powerful aliens from across the galaxy. Each team has one objective: to capture and hold the castle at the very center of the battlefield. Strategy, alliances, pitched battles, and, of course, betrayal ... It all makes for great fun and even greater television. After all, none of these powerful aliens really die when they’re playing war. Except this time. This time, winner takes all. Those who fall, stay in the ground.

The top 10 list is populated. The sponsorship program is open. The difficulty is ramping up. The first three floors were nothing compared to what Carl and Donut now face. The Iron Tangle. An impossibly complicated subway system built out of the world's subterranean railway systems, all combined and then tied together into a knot. Up is down.

Oxford, 1836. The city of dreaming spires. It is the centre of all knowledge and progress in the world. And at its centre is Babel, the Royal Institute of Translation. The tower from which all the power of the Empire flows. Orphaned in Canton and brought to England by a mysterious guardian, Babel seemed like paradise to Robin Swift. Until it became a prison. But can a student stand against an empire?

Across two parallel narratives, Murakami draws listeners into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.

With the empire now off their backs, Forge Eizo welcomes Anne as a permanent member of the family! Eizo offers to buy everyone gifts as rewards for their hard work, but they suggest something else—each member of the household gets to spend an entire day alone with him. Meanwhile, Camilo informs Eizo of a commission request from an unexpected customer: Marius! The count is finally getting married, and he wants a set of custom wedding rings. Just one problem—Marius wants them made from meghizium, a rare and expensive metal that only a handful of blacksmiths in the world can manipulate.

If you drive past the lights of downtown Roswell, north on Route 285 into the darkness of the New Mexico desert, you'll run across a little radio station with a single tower. This is the home of WKLEN talk-radio, broadcast through Tower #57. Fresh out of the local community college and eager to start his career in radio production, Luther Stenson arrives for his first shift as an intern on Evening Sands, a late-night radio show focused on the unexplainable and broadcast throughout the lower forty-eight. Luther’s first night in radio quickly becomes one he’ll never forget.

After a freak lightning accident zaps him dead, 15-year-old Mochizuki Touya wakes up to find himself face-to-face with God. “I am afraid to say that I have made a bit of a blunder...” laments the old coot. But all is not lost! God says he can reincarnate Touya into a world of fantasy, and as a bonus, he gets to bring his smartphone along with him! So begins Touya's adventure in a new, anachronistic pseudo-medieval world. Friends! Laughs! Tears! Inexplicable Deus ex Machina!

The Beginning After the End: Publisher's Pack 2 contains books 3 and 4 of The Beginning After the End series, Beckoning Fates and Horizon's Edge. Though Arthur Leywin would like nothing more than to pursue his studies at the esteemed Xyrus Academy, where he hopes to push his already potent magical abilities to new plateaus and perhaps discover something more about his reincarnation into this world, he finds the politics of the school’s halls even more challenging to navigate than those of the council chambers he once inhabited as King Grey.

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.