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Ein eisiger Wind weht durch die Täler des zerbrochenen Reiches. Während Donatus im Schatten seine nächsten Züge plant und der neue Erzherzog allen Berührten den Krieg erklärt, trennen sich die Pfade der Gefährten: Hänsel zieht mit der schlummernden Gretel in die Ferne, um einen geheimnisvollen Verbündeten aus Melchiors Vergangenheit zu suchen. Unterdessen führen Perchta und Melchior die geretteten Kinder nach Lahnstein zu Helmsig – doch dort, wo sie Zuflucht suchten, ist längst das Chaos entfesselt.

The History of Starved Rock provides a wonderful overview of the famous site in Utica, Illinois, from when European explorers first viewed the bluff in 1673 through to 1911, when Starved Rock became the centerpiece of Illinois' second state park. Mark Walczynski pulls together stories and insights from the language, geology, geography, anthropology, archaeology, biology, and agriculture of the park to provide listeners with an understanding of both the human and natural history of Starved Rock, and to put it into context with the larger history of the American Midwest.

Horvath works for the Firm. He's been sent to track down Van Dyke, who ran off with their money. The morning after, he meets Lana. She’s also looking for someone, so they team up. He’s not sure if he can trust Lana, but he’s attracted to her. And she’s all he’s got. The city is dirty, violent, and corrupt. Run by the Syndicate, criminals control the police, the mayor and the city council. Horvath's leads don't seem to lead anywhere. He wanders through the city looking for clues, sipping espresso, drinking whiskey and popping aspirin like breath mints.

You’ve been told humanity crawled out of the mud, figured out fire, built pyramids with sticks, and suddenly invented Wi-Fi. You’ve been fed a neat little timeline that skips over the giants, the gods, the glowing sky chariots, and the inconvenient artifacts that scream, “This doesn’t belong here.” This book is what happens when you stop believing the museum version and start asking: What if the ancient gods weren’t gods at all? What if aliens kickstarted civilization, then ghosted us like a bad Tinder date?

Photojournalist Steve Lurgan returns from the war in Kosovo and falls in love with a Serbian national in modern-day NYC. Meanwhile, Jana Dragana’s career is being compromised by her drug addiction, but her exploiters end up as victims of a mysterious attack. NYPD detective Darko Lucic suspects the murders are part of a larger conspiracy. But is it an underground network of criminals that is behind the killings, or something even more sinister?

In a world obsessed with comfort, Challenges of Stoicism offers a bold alternative: a return to ancient wisdom that builds unbreakable minds. This isn’t a book of quotes. It’s a practical guide to living with discipline, clarity, and resilience—every single day.

Lawrence Karrier is the first to see the beauty while out on his morning run. A solitary thin cloud drifting down from the mountains and settling into the lake, like nothing he has ever seen before. Later in the day as the local factory empties and the bar fills up, the spectacle of a hundred such clouds against the evening sky beguiles the whole town. That is until someone is unfortunate enough to touch one.

A golden age pulp series by Nebula Nominee Ross Rocklynne! For the first time since their original appearance in the legendary pulp Planet Stories in the early 1940s, here are the three novelettes that launched the adventures of Sidney Hallmeyer, interstellar agent - one of the era's most trail-blazing series. In essence, Hallmeyer is a scientific secret agent with a license to kill - entire cultures and worlds! If needed or if so ordered, when they stand in the way of Earth's territorial expansion and dream of empire.

Stellan, a married mid-20s Chicago accountant, dreams of a new life free from a spiteful wife and two unruly young daughters. His salvation comes by way of mobster Dusan “Squeezebox” Kovačević. Stellan stumbles onto a cache of $2.1 million hidden beneath loose floorboards at Squeezebox’s warehouse. He at first resists the temptation, but it proves too tempting. He plots out his theft, and, under the cover of darkness, bolts with the money in his trunk.

Judd Farnon had no choice but to risk death in escaping prison. If he stayed, he was a dead man. An old boarding house where if you are honest, no questions are asked offers him the start of a new life. While trying to forget his past and the events that put him in jail in the first place, Judd finds more and more people are showing up in his room at the boarding house claiming it as their own.

New York, 1800. Three brutal murders. One impossible killer. The police have fingered David Stirling for the crimes, but Lord Muc—feared gang leader in the Five Points—doesn't believe a word of it, and sets out to prove the young man's innocence.

Die Gothics Helen, Paul, Nathalie und Lee wollen einen Toten beschwören, doch statt diesen zu erwecken, steht plötzlich der legendäre Todbringer Duncan Sharp auf dem Friedhof. Wenn er erscheint, hat er stets einen Sarg bei sich, in dem ein Duplikat der Person liegt, die als Nächstes sterben muss. Wen wird es diesmal erwischen und kann man ihn aufhalten, bevor er wieder einen ganzen Ort ausrottet?

Können fiktive Alpträume Realität werden und ihre Opfer finden? Eine unheimliche Serie von Todesfällen gibt der Polizei Rätsel auf und sorgt in der Öffentlichkeit für erhitze Debatten. Einige Tote werden in ihren Betten gefunden, ihre Gesichter vor Grauen verzerrt, auf dem Nachttisch findet sich jeweils eine Hardcover-Ausgabe des neuesten Bestsellers aus der Feder des amerikanischen Horrorschriftstellers Abe Hoven! Schon bald gerät der Autor ins Visier der Ermittler und der Presse. Handelt es sich hier um einen makabren "Gag" zur Förderung seiner Buchverkäufe?

The Paul Burke Mystery novels are a fresh and innovative take on the amateur sleuth murder mystery genre. Set against the backdrop of the beautiful French Riviera, ex-pro cyclist Paul Burke lives a quiet and simple life blogging about sports. In The Bastard Is Dead, Burke is assigned to cover the Tour de France. But when the unexpected happens and Pierre McManus, a team trainer celebrated by fans but hated by his fellow riders, dies just as a stage race ends, it’s a shock to everyone.

What if peace was never something to chase, but something already flowing within you? In The Flow of Surrender, Elijah Ward offers a profound invitation to stop fighting with life and begin trusting the current that carries you. This is not about giving up or ignoring your challenges. It is about releasing the endless grip of control and learning to live from the still, steady place inside where peace has always been.

The experience of smell is the closest thing we have to intimate human contact without actually having it. A woman's perfume, a whiff of tobacco smoke, a little bit of diesel fume, and some spearmint gum might come close to someone's first kiss, for example. Of course, it's impossible to create a first kiss without the human element, but for Jim Bronson, it's the best he can do.

In the eight generations since the last and final war, humankind has moved closer — thanks to genetic engineering — to perfection in every way. That was what Detective Creally Leemling had been taught, even though he was only a Nearly Perfect. And he believed it — until he witnessed things no Perfect could imagine still existed. A mystery on earth’s surface leads this futuristic detective to a mind-shattering discovery, a beautiful young woman and a desperate plan to escape perfection…and survive.

After living robots fell from the sky and began the destruction of the human race, man attempted to rally and destroy them. Man’s destructive weapons were no match against such advanced alien technology. Mankind quickly fell before the greater power. These aliens did not try to ask to speak to our leaders, order that we change our dystopian society, or demand all our magnets. Resolute silence for their presence mystified everyone.

One by one, three ancient talismans disappear. After Columba Riverford’s induction to the Hall of Swords, the sacred sword Genesyx is stolen and Columba is accused of its theft. Meanwhile, Aridisia Myric obtains membership to the Crypt of Scrolls, and the One Scroll Canodex vanishes. Soon after, the One Stone Luxullian disappears and Baron Marl Gneiss’ access to the Vault of Stones is denied. Banished, the three embark on a quest to recover the artifacts and restore their names.

Pech für Commissario Ferro: Der notorische Einzelgänger bekommt mit dem quirligen Toni Grimaldi einen Partner an die Seite gestellt. Zusammen sollen sie einer Bande von Autodieben das Handwerk legen, die sich auf teure Karossen spezialisiert hat. Als ein Mitglied der Bande auf der Flucht vor der Polizei verunglückt und im Krankenhaus landet, erhält der Undercover-Spezialist Grimaldi den Auftrag in die Rolle des Diebes zu schlüpfen, um so Beweise gegen die Verbrecher zu sammeln, während Ferro ihm Rückendeckung gibt.