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Obsessed with the secret of creation, Swiss scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein cobbles together a body he's determined to bring to life. And one fateful night, he does. When the creature opens his eyes, the doctor is repulsed: his vision of perfection is, in fact, a hideous monster. Dr. Frankenstein abandons his creation, but the monster won't be ignored, setting in motion a chain of violence and terror that shadows Victor to his death.

Die Saat von Nibiru – Die ersten Götter entführt die Leser und Leserinnen auf eine faszinierende Reise zu den Ursprüngen der Menschheit – und weit darüber hinaus. Paru, ein junger Absolvent der Akademie auf dem Planeten Nibiru, gehört zu einer neuen Generation, die darauf vorbereitet wird, eine entscheidende Mission zu erfüllen: Die Suche nach einer neuen Heimat für sein Volk, das im Inneren eines sterbenden Planeten lebt. Was wie eine wissenschaftliche Expedition beginnt, entwickelt sich bald zu einer spirituellen und politischen Zerreißprobe.

Imagine an alternate universe where romance and technology reign. Where tinkerers and dreamers craft and recraft a world of automatons, ornate clockworks, calculating machines, and other marvels that. Where scientists and schoolgirls, fair folk and Romans, intergalactic bandits, and intrepid orphans - decked out in corsets, clockwerk suits, and tall black boots - solve dastardly crimes, escape from monstrous predicaments, consult oracles, and hover over volcanoes in steam-powered airships.

A young woman is dead, and another is missing. Two cases worlds apart. When an old friend throws Cutter a case involving the disappearance of a young woman from Detroit’s most prominent family, he sees an opportunity to make some quick cash to keep the bookies off his back. But he soon realizes his client’s problems are a lot more sinister than he thought and finds himself in too deep.

El pensamiento crítico te permite evaluar situaciones de forma clara y racional, ayudándote a comprender las causas subyacentes, cuestionar suposiciones y explorar soluciones. Al aplicar la lógica, estructuras tu proceso de pensamiento, lo que te permite analizar problemas metódicamente y tomar decisiones sólidas y fundamentadas. Este libro te dota de herramientas prácticas para tomar decisiones acertadas con confianza, tanto en tu trabajo como en tu vida personal.

Like everything daredevil Gabe Sharpe does, wooing Virginia Waverly is a high-stakes game. Ever since her brother, Roger, died racing Lord Gabriel, Virginia has yearned to take her revenge on the reckless lord by beating him at his own sport. But when she challenges Lord Gabriel to a race, the hellion called the “Angel of Death” counters with a marriage proposal! Gabe knows Virginia is in dire financial straits — so why not marry her and solve both of their problems?

Crushing on Matthew O’Grady didn’t work out very well for me in the past. When he left Sugar Mountain for the NHL, he took my hopeful teenage heart with him. I was crushed beyond repair, and he never even knew it. But now he’s back in town, working at the resort his family owns and coming into my bar every. single. shift. He claims to want me, but a guy like Matthew doesn’t want any one woman for long. Bella Sanchez is an absolute smoke show. I know I have a reputation for being a playboy; the kind of guy who sleeps around with no strings attached. But that was the old me.

In seinem fulminanten Gesellschaftsroman entwirft Christoph Hein ein mitreißendes Panorama der DDR, von deren Gründung über die dramatischen Entwicklungen des jungen Staates bis zu seinem Scheitern und der Wende. Den überzeugten Kommunisten und ehemals begeisterten Nazi Johannes Goretzka, die alleinerziehende Mutter Yvonne, in Intrigen verstrickte Funktionäre, Intellektuelle und Kellner begleitet Hein auf ihrem Lebensweg in einem Staat, den sie zunehmend als Narrenschiff wahrnehmen. Ein Schiff, das auf immer bedrohlichere historische Klippen zusteuert ….

Damian Griffin was an expert in systems. His life was a glitch... Then, on a Tuesday afternoon, the System arrived, and his world wasn't just redesigned. It was deleted. Torn from his reality and thrust into the perpetual dusk of the Twilight Threshold, Damian is just another Level 0 human in a deadly tutorial. The rules are simple: kill, survive, and grow stronger.

Imprisoned in the Lodz Ghetto, Elsi discovers her mother's desperate attempt to end her pregnancy and comes face-to-face with the impossibility of their situation. Risking her own life, Elsi joins a resistance group to sabotage the regime. Blonde, blue-eyed Matilda is wrenched from her family in Romania and taken to Germany, where her captors attempt to mold her into the perfect Aryan child. Spirited and brave, she must inspire hope in the other stolen children to make her dreams of escape a reality.

Media coverage tends to sensationalize the fight over how trans kids should be allowed to live, but what is incredibly rare are the voices of the people at the heart of this debate: transgender and gender nonconforming kids themselves. For their groundbreaking new book, journalist Nico Lang spent a year traveling the country to document the lives of transgender, nonbinary, and genderfluid teens and their families.

Younger star and LGBTQIA+ advocate Nico Tortorella investigates love, sex, gender, addiction, family, fame, and fluidity through their personal story and the lens of their nonbinary identity “Nico Tortorella embodies the twenty-first-century human.”—RuPaul Nico Tortorella is a seeker...

This is the incredible true story of the greatest spy you’ve never heard of - as told to the author by the woman herself. At the outbreak of World War Two, Nancy Wake’s glamorous life in the South of France seemed far removed from the fighting. But when her husband was called up for military service, Nancy felt she had just as much of a duty to fight for freedom. By 1943, her fearless undercover work even in the face of personal tragedy had earned her a place on the Gestapo’s "most wanted" list.

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR “A heartfelt portrait of a complex family.” —People “Laugh-out-loud-funny.”...

"A wickedly witty and iridescent novel" (Time) from one of England's greatest satirists takes aim at the generation of Bright Young Things that dominated London high society in the 1920s. In the years following the First World War a new generation emerged, wistful and vulnerable beneath the...

A candid Buddhist guide to thriving in messy, real-world love. “Honest, quirky, and compassionate—this is dharma for real relationships.”—Tara Brach, author of Radical Acceptance Partnership is hard, especially after the honeymoon shine has faded. In this refreshingly honest guide to...

Auf sich allein gestellt, begeben sich die Sternenschrottsammler auf die Flucht vor dem berüchtigten Verbrechersyndikat, dem Rat. Doch auch die Kinder Goliaths sinnen auf Rache. Während Morphus und Goliath durch die Galaxis reisen, jeder auf der Suche nach einer Möglichkeit, den anderen zu besiegen, finden sich die Sternenschrottsammler Hudson Powell und Tory Bellona allein und um ihr Leben kämpfend wieder.

Auf Burg Corboi begeben sich Tanja und General Forbett auf die Suche nach ihren verschollenen Freunden. Währenddessen trifft Jan Tenner auf die seltsame „Macht in der Tiefe". Diese enthüllt ihm eine Wahrheit, die sein Weltbild erschüttert. Wird Jan die Kraft finden, seine Mission fortzusetzen?

Unerklärliches geschieht an Bord des Silbervogels. Jan und Tanja werden jäh aus ihrer Realität gerissen und an einen unbekannten Ort katapultiert. Dort lernen sie nicht nur die hilfsbereite Ticraxa kennen, sondern auch den zornigen Hüter jener Welt.

Can two people who have never met make a marriage work? Popular dating site Sociality thinks so, and is marrying London lad Adam to California girl Jessica to prove it. What better way to show that your 'love algorithms' work than to put two complete strangers together in an expensive publicity stunt? But, as livewire Jess and lazybones Adam quickly discover, just because a computer says you're the perfect match, it doesn't make it so!