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Nick Robles is a criminal trial attorney and a part-time charter boat captain, and he’s had a bad run of karma. The last thing he needs, twenty miles offshore from Port Canaveral, is a dead girl waving to him from a patch of sargassum weeds. A day later, the wealthy and beautiful Karina Terrell walks into Nick’s office. Her philandering husband, Jack Terrell, a Florida state senator, has been hanged from a tree on a secluded beach. Someone has removed one eye and placed it in a leather pouch around his neck. The police consider Karina a suspect.

Sword and Sorcery Fans Rejoice! Pick up the latest issue of Savage Realms Monthly and fill up on stalwart heroes doing battle with the forces of evil in this epic collection of short sword and sorcery fiction. This month's crop of stories starts off with a new tale in the ongoing saga of Redgar and Natali by Willard Black. In addition we have a story of a monster hunter with a cursed sword in search of a fabled blacksmith, along with a swashbuckling adventure of heroes forced to hunt strange creatures in service to an evil sorcerer."Fantastic Sword and Sorcery Action!

Conan, der Barbar, der wohl ikonischste Held von Robert E. Howard, beginnt hier seine Heldenreise. In dem ersten großen Abenteuer, das mit ihm als Titelhelden veröffentlicht wurde, ist Conan bereits König von Aquillonien und muss sich mit blutbefleckter Axt gegen eine finstere Verschwörung wehren und gegen einen Dämon behaupten, den der elende Set-Priester Toth Amon heraufbeschwört. Packende Sword & Sorcery von Allerfeinsten!

Dies ist der 2. Teil einer Zusammenstellung der berühmtesten und besten Schauer- und Geistergeschichten der Literaturgeschichte von wahren Ikonen der Horrorliteratur. Diesmal mit im Gepäck: H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, William Wymark Jacobs, Montague Rhodes James, William Harvey Freyer und Jules Verne.

In diesem faszinierenden Abenteuer zwischen Raum und Zeit wird John O'Brian mit seinem früheren Ich, Conan, der Seeräuber, konfrontiert. In der Dagon-Höhle muss er gegen die Kinder der Nacht kämpfen, dem rätselhaften „kleinen Volk", von dem Robert E. Howard immer wieder geschrieben hat und das er als prähistorisches Urvolk der Britannischen Inseln bezeichnet.

Before AA… Before The Twelve Steps… Soul Surgery defined personal work, was the foundation of sponsorship and step work, and bridged the Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous. The practical evangelical method covers: - Confidence, gained through trust and discretion - Confession of moral...

Defense attorney Audra Reynolds left her small hometown years ago to escape being defined as "the fire chief's daughter." Now she's back to defend a local businessman accused of arson. A case that puts her directly at odds with Maliek Coleman, her father's protégé and the fire department's lead investigator. As they reluctantly work together to uncover the truth, professional boundaries blur and old sparks reignite. But in a town where everyone has secrets, Audra and Maliek discover that the most dangerous flames aren't the ones that destroy buildings.

In this groundbreaking work, renowned media executive Howard Blumenthal (Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?) and leading education researcher Robert C. Pianta challenge everything we think we know about schooling. Drawing from interviews with students across more than seventy countries, along with parents, teachers, and learning experts, Kids on Earth presents a revolutionary "New School" framework that moves beyond traditional educational reform to complete reinvention.

When a deadly virus sweeps through Harmony Falls, Andrew's family finds refuge in an underground bunker. But as the world crumbles, it's not the virus that turns people into mindless, rage-filled killers - it's the vaccine they're told will save them. As Andrew watches the vaccinated population transform into violent monsters, he realizes survival isn't just about staying hidden, but about uncovering the dark truth behind a so-called cure.

As the US struggles to provide affordable housing, millions of Americans live in deteriorating public housing projects, enduring the mistakes of past housing policy. In The Projects, Howard A. Husock explains how we got here, detailing the tragic rise and fall of public housing and the pitfalls of other subsidy programs. He takes us inside a progressive movement led by a group of New York City philanthropists, politicians, and business magnates who first championed public housing as a solution to urban blight.

From the bestselling author of The Cazelet Chronicles comes Elizabeth Jane Howard's Getting It Right, a a touching comedy about a young man trying desperately to get it right. Winner of the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year Award Gavin - a sensitive, shy, hairdresser in the West End - is, at...

Emmanuel is a famous playwright. Lillian is his sickly and embittered wife. They have never fully buried the memory of their dead daughter, Sarah. Rich but discontented, they flit from capital to capital in the company of their hero-worshipping young manager; nomads on the international airlines...

It is twenty years since Julius died, but his last heroic action still affects the lives of the people he left behind. Emma, his youngest daughter, twenty-seven years old and afraid of men. Cressida, her sister, a war widow, blindly searching for love in her affairs with married men. Esme...

An unusual love story, but it happened. An undercover Angel meets the figure of Death and they are drawn to each other. Then, an alien hacker finds a weak link into Life's Database and enters to change some dates of death. This gets the Boatman in trouble. When the Devil discovers the hackers abilities, makes plans of his own. Now, both the Boatman and the Hacker are on the run. Finding Angel at a crucial time is a stroke of luck... or is it? Follow the Angel and the Boatman to an unnatural conclusion. Even in the face of death, anything can happen!

An alien computer whiz hacks into Life's Database and changes history getting the Boatman (a figure of Death) in trouble with Celestial Management. Soon he and the Boatman are on the run from the Devil's goons when an Angel working undercover discovers their dilemma. Follow the Angel and the Boatman in this exciting thriller based on metaphysical truths. Even in the face of death, anything can happen! One thing for sure: You've never heard anything like it.

May's second marriage to Colonel Herbert Brown-Lacy is turning out to be a terrible mistake. Her son, Oliver, leaves home only to drift from one affair to another; his sister Elizabeth follows him, yearning for some kind of secure relationship. While even Alice, Herbert's meek daughter, is...

Anna and Edmund Cornhill have a happy marriage and a lovely home. They are content, complete, absorbed in their private idyll. Arabella, who comes to stay one lazy summer, is rich, rootless and amoral - and, as they find out, beautiful and loving. With her elegant prose the author traces the web...

With an introduction by Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall. Originally published in 1956, The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage and one woman. Observant and heartbreaking, written with exhilarating wit, it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth...

Life had been distinctly lacking in possibilities - until The Visit. But, ever afterwards, just remembering the smell of the Lancings' house would enrapture her, taking her back to that very first day when Lucy and Gerald had picked her up from the station . . . All the longing, excitement and...

From the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard, Love All is a heartfelt story of love and adulthood in the 1960s. 'Graceful, moving' – Daily Express The late 1960s. For Persephone Plover, the daughter of distant and neglectful parents, the innocent, isolated days...