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It took over a year, but Lieutenant Colonel Paul Reiter’s Black Lion regiment has finally liberated their homes. Though they’ve returned to where they started, their war is far from over. A few miles from their hometowns, a massive line of fortifications and defenses sprawls across the border into the Union.

England 1908: Ein geruhsames Leben fernab des Londoner Trubels ... genau das ist es, wonach Lady Emily Hardcastle sich sehnt. Kurzerhand lässt die exzentrische Lady die Koffer packen und zieht mit ihrer tatkräftigen Zofe Florence „Flo” Armstrong in die malerischen Cotswolds. Doch kaum dort angekommen wird ihr Traum vom ländlichen Idyll rüde gestört: Bei einem Spaziergang stolpern die beiden über einen toten Mann im Wald.

Noah and Alex James might have saved Christmas for one year, but the battle for the North Pole is just beginning. After a quiet year at home, the James brothers are feeling a little let down. They haven’t heard from Santa, their magic crystal has stopped working, and it feels like life has gone back to normal. But things are about to heat up.

There's something nasty lurking in the thick fog of San Francisco, roaring in the dark, waiting to be unleashed. Leave it to lucky Tom Turner to have to find out, but first he must evade being shanghaied in the Barbary Coast, destroyed by the murderous ambitions of former Confederate "gentlemen", or punished as a consequence of his own past. Mechanical monstrosities show up on every gas lit street corner and in every suspicious warehouse, threatening the very fabric of his country.

Another collection of great classic novellas by superb storytellers, including Robert E. Howard, E. T. A. Hoffman, Edith Wharton, Bessie Kyffin-Taylor, F. Marion Crawford and more....

Li Jing Zmin has always felt out of step with the world. She notices patterns others ignore and questions things people accept without hesitation. Long before the Jelvias arrived, she learned that fitting in often meant pretending not to see too much. When alien spacecraft landed and humanity calmly accepted that the Jelvias had always been part of life on Earth, Li Jing recognised the same wrongness she had felt all her life. Memories didn’t line up. History felt too neat. Reality had been smoothed into something false. She forms the Wake Up Movement to alert humanity to what she ...

In a stunning display of violence and brutality, the final battles of the Martian Great War begin. With his forces advancing towards the last link between Union forces on the ground and in space, Colonel Reiter leads a regiment of veterans. Battles in Ironton, Pulaski, the mountains of Baltica, and the Union frontier have hardened his soldiers and sharpened their skills to a keen edge. It's this reason he's given his most dangerous mission yet.

El hombre de la arena de E. T. A. Hoffmann comienza con un intercambio de cartas entre Nathanael; Clara, su prometida, y Lothar, hermano de ella. Nathanael, que está en otra ciudad debido a sus estudios universitarios, confiesa en su manuscrito un miedo que lo atormenta desde la infancia: el hombre de la arena, un siniestro ser que, según la leyenda, le roba los ojos a los niños por la noche. Nathanael está seguro de que, cuando era niño, este ser asumió la identidad de Coppelius, el abogado de la familia, quien terminó asesinando a su padre.

When a mysterious signal begins reaching out into deep space, Captain Henry Wells, Commander Qrora, and the rest of Midnight November are understandably concerned. Fearing an ancient enemy of the M'nok is about to attack. Henry and Qrora lead an expedition to the moon to uncover the source of the mysterious signal, and more importantly, to shut it down.

Four short stories about a special and magical place called The Farm. The Farm: A teenager finds himself in a strange place that should be a normal farm. But he finds much more than he could ever imagine. The Enchanted Forest: Years later, the main character from The Farm returns to find out if what he had seen as a teenager was true The Man of Honor: Fairy June tells her story about how the farm became a magical place. Fairy Tales: Fairy May tells her story about why Fairies should not fall in love.

E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is one of the most beloved children's stories of all time and a Christmas classic. The story is the basis for the popular ballet "The Nutcracker." In the story, a young girl named Marie is given a precious nutcracker as a Christmas present by her godfather, the enigmatic Drosselmeier. When the nutcracker is broken, Marie attempts to repair it and stays up late to tend to her new toy, but when the nursery is invaded by an army of mice, the nutcracker comes to life to both drive off the mice and escort Marie to a magical land of living dolls.

¿Y si el secreto para transformar tu vida económica estuviera escondido en una aventura mágica? Este libro revela los 7 principios que convierten a cualquier joven en un imán de oportunidades, confianza y abundancia… contados a través de historias épicas, emocionantes y fáciles de aplicar. El enfoque que te hace imparable, incluso cuando todo a tu alrededor quiere distraerte. La gratitud que desbloquea niveles ocultos del éxito y la energía positiva. La acción que rompe la pereza y convierte tus ideas en logros reales. La fe que enciende tu fuerza interior, incluso en los peores...

Glitch in the system. Ghost in the war. When reality fractures, only memory remains, but what happens when memory fractures too? Paul wakes up in a crumbling motel with no past, no future, and a gnawing sense that the world isn’t right. Outside, the country he loves has become a rotten autocracy. Inside his head, fractured memories, false dreams, and a woman who might not exist are calling him to wake up—again. Reality slips. Time folds. Allies lie. The people he trusts most may be puppets, or programs, or worse: victims of the same thing that's eating away at him. As Paul searches for ...

Valko can see the last moments of a victim's life. It comes at a price - a scrap of flesh cut from his brain and replaced with an implant. Bound to a drug that lets him use his insight but brings with it the pain of synthetic emotion, he's at war with himself. Now, a killer has found a way to hide from him, and two people are dead. Someone wants to keep their secrets buried. The trail leads out into the wasteland where death flies on the wind as nanotech dust. Manipulated and betrayed, Valko must get to the truth before his time runs out.

AN UPLIFTING NOVEL WITH ROMANCE, MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE The Rookies Series Seventy-three-year-old Ginny Faulkner's husband, Leroy, was the Rockland PD chief for twenty years until his death eight years ago. Now, Ginny has virtually taken over the PD and claimed it and all of its officers as her own children. Of course, she has a little help from Leroy's lifelong friend, Dean, a retired doctor. Ginny knows everything that happens in Rockland, most of which she instigated or maneuvered. Now Ginny has taken on the latest class of graduates from the police academy. Four rookies, two male and two ...

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In seiner Kindheit litt der junge Nathanael unter größter Furcht vor einem unheimlichen Wesen, dem "Sandmann", der Kindern die Augen stiehlt. Im Advokaten Coppelius, dem geheimnisvollen Freund seines Vaters, glaubte er diesen "Sandmann" zu erkennen. Ein Aufeinandertreffen mit Coppelius, sowie der rätselhafte Tod seines Vaters traumatisierten Nathanael zutiefst. Jahre später, als Student, trifft Nathanael auf den Wetterglashändler Coppola und glaubt, der böse "Sandmann" Coppelius versuche sich wieder in sein Leben zu schleichen.

A body has been found in a frozen lake, bringing a gruesome act of evil into the light. One look at the victim is enough for DCI Claire Winters to recognise the work of a warped mind. And when another woman is reported missing, Claire’s worst fears are confirmed: this is a killer who plans to...

This classic tale begins on Christmas Eve, when young Marie Stahlbaum and her siblings open their Christmas presents. One toy, a Nutcracker who looks like a soldier, soon become Marie’s favourite gift. That night, the Nutcracker comes to life and battles the evil Mouse King. Once Marie discovers how the Nutcracker came to be cursed, she has many decisions to make. Will she help the Nutcracker defeat the Mouse King? Will she help break his curse? And will she return to the magical kingdom, populated by dolls, to be with her beloved Nutcracker?

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