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"Je suis née sur ces terres encore sauvages du Montana, dans ce ranch où vivaient autrefois les trois fils Edison. Et effectivement, j'étais amoureuse de l'un d'entre eux... " J'avais huit ans lorsque j'ai juré à Kaan Edison que je l'épouserais. Il en avait alors dix-sept... Et puis un jour, j'ai grandi, et il a enfin vu en moi bien plus qu'une petite soeur sur qui veiller. Jusqu'à cette nuit maudite où il nous a tous abandonnés. Pourtant, quatre ans après, quand son père le somme de revenir pour sauver ce qui appartient à sa famille depuis plus de cent ans, il réapparaît.

Après avoir sauvé de justesse sa meute, Kayla est en fuite pour en apprendre plus sur ses origines et échapper à ceux qui convoitent son pouvoir. Elle intègre la société des polymorphes, qui survivent dans le plus grand secret. Là, elle y apprend leurs capacités, leurs coutumes, leur organisation, leur scission... Dans un monde où tout le monde pense la connaître, où tout le monde en sait plus qu'elle-même sur son destin, Kayla semble avoir du mal à se projeter.

Army Veteran Mason Sharpe is killing time on Florida's gulf coast when he meets Ralph Roberts, a heartbroken older man who has come to Florida in search of the woman he loves–a woman who has mysteriously disappeared with a great deal of Ralph's money. Mason immediately suspects that Ralph has fallen victim to a scam artist, but Ralph won't hear a bad word about his true love, Camilla.

When the Earl of Gloucester suddenly dies and the Empress Matilda is forced to return to Normandy it seems that the civil war is about to end and Stephen of Blois will have succeeded in winning his crown. The Warlord of the North takes the fledgling Prince Henry under his wing and begins to train him to become king. When others try to take advantage of the Warlord's position he and his warriors have to dig deep to defeat their enemies. Gradually Henry becomes a man and shows that he has the potential to become a king.

"Wut setzt das Böse im Menschen frei." Rechtsanwältin Aenne Feddersen ermittelt mit zwanghaftem Scharfsinn und nordischem Charme dort, wo Gummistiefel und Fischbrötchen zum Kulturgut gehören. Der Mord an dem Pfarrer auf der Hallig Langeneß ruft Aenne als Pflichtverteidigerin auf den Plan. Ein Drogensüchtiger aus Hamburg wurde am Tatort aufgegriffen, hat aber Schwierigkeiten, sich zu dem Vorfall zu äußern. Die Spurensuche vor Ort konfrontiert Aenne mit der eingeschworenen Gemeinschaft der Halligbewohner, die seit Jahrhunderten alle Belange unter sich regeln.

一九九一年四月。雨宿りをする一人の少女との偶然の出会いが、謎に満ちた日々への扉を開けた。遠い国からはるばるおれたちの街にやって来た少女、マーヤ。彼女と過ごす、謎に満ちた日常。そして彼女が帰国したとき、おれたちの最大の謎解きが始まる。覗き込んでくる目、カールがかった黒髪、白い首筋、『哲学的意味がありますか？』、そして紫陽花。謎を解く鍵は記憶の中に――。忘れ難い余韻をもたらす、出会いと祈りの物語。

Wer ist tödlicher als die Königin aller Piraten? Ihre beste Assassinin... Band 3 der mitreißenden Piraten-Romantasy-Saga von TikTok-Königin Tricia Levenseller! Die Piratenkönigin Alosa hat ihre Assassinin Sorinda beauftragt, einige ihrer vermissten Spione zu retten. Doch dafür muss diese mit Pirat Kearan als Steuermann vorliebnehmen – aber wie soll man auf einem Schiff einem Freibeuter entgehen, der einem nicht von der Seite weicht und auch noch so verflucht attraktiv ist?

As niece of the king, Elise Lysander cares about two things: sneaking into gambling dens, and avoiding an advantageous marriage at all costs. When her uncle holds the life of her deathly ill father over her head, reluctantly, Elise puts her fate into the hands of Legion Grey, the handsome and mysterious dowry negotiator. He may be arrogant and infuriating, but soon Legion incites a blistering, forbidden passion she can’t ignore.

The stories in The Dying Earth introduce dozens of seekers of wisom and beauty, lovely lost women, wizards of every shade of eccentricity with their runic amulets and spells. We meet the melancholy deodands, who feed on human flesh and the twk-men, who ride dragonflies and trade information for salt. There are monsters and demons. Each being is morally ambiguous: The evil are charming, the good are dangerous. All are at home.

On a previous voyage, a mysterious white whale had ripped off the leg of a sea captain named Ahab. Now the crew of the Pequod, on a pursuit that features constant adventure and horrendous mishaps, must follow the mad Ahab into the abyss to satisfy his unslakeable thirst for vengeance.

There’s something out there: A juggernaut of evil bearing down to crush the Republic - unless one lone Jedi, shunned and reviled, can stop it. Revan: Hero, traitor, conqueror, villain, savior. A Jedi who left Coruscant to defeat Mandalorians - and returned a disciple of the dark side, bent on destroying the Republic. The Jedi Council gave Revan his life back, but the price of redemption was high. His memories have been erased. All that’s left are nightmares - and deep, abiding fear.

Adara has been an outsider for as long as she can remember. Born and raised in the earth fae realm, she's a water fae who can't control her magic, making her not just useless but downright dangerous at times. When a training mishap accidentally unleashes a hidden magic inside her, Adara suddenly finds herself on the run. The king wants to use her powers for nefarious reasons, and he'll stop at nothing to obtain her—including kidnapping and torturing Adara's mother.

Meet Charles™, the latest in robot servant technology. Programmed to undertake the most menial household chores, Charles is loyal, efficient and logical to a fault. That is, until a rather large fault causes him to murder his owner. Understandably perplexed, Charles finds himself without a master – therefore worthless in a society utterly reliant on artificial labour and services.

A young royal from the far north, is sent south for a political marriage in an empire reminiscent of imperial China. Her brothers are dead, her armies and their war mammoths long defeated and caged behind their borders. Alone and sometimes reviled, she must choose her allies carefully. Rabbit, a handmaiden, sold by her parents to the palace for the lack of five baskets of dye, befriends the emperor's lonely new wife and gets more than she bargained for.

On the 13th day of Secundus, the bombardment of Terra began. With the solar defences overcome through the devastating strength of the Traitor armada and the power of the warp, Horus launches his assault on the Throneworld in earnest. After withstanding a ferocious barrage of ordnance, an immense ground war commences outside the Palace, with every inch gained paid for in the lives of billions.

Ryan "Quicksave" Romano has begun a new time-loop. His goal? To prevent New Rome's destruction at the hands of the vicious Meta-Gang. To do so, our favorite courier must explore both sides of the law: to become a corporate superhero in one loop, and a scenery-chewing supervillain in the next!

Jason Conrad, a man with the wealth of Bill Gates, decides to preserve for posterity the seeds of as many animal and plant species as possible in a vast and remote underground facility, taking the world's legitimate seed banks and "frozen zoos" to a whole new level. Conrad's secret doomsday complex, though, is staffed by a combination of environmental experts and mercenaries who will stop at nothing to achieve their once-noble ambitions.

Hadjar survived the bloody war for the throne of his homeland. He fought against monsters and enemies that made entire generations tremble in fear. He traversed the vast Sea of Sand, found the mythical Mage City, and witnessed the destruction of an ancient civilization. Then, in the pursuit of knowledge, Hadjar came to Dahanatan, the capital of the Empire.

CIA operative Mark Pierce is a trained killer with a strict moral code—he only targets those who truly deserve to die. So he has no qualms about taking out Victor Vautrin, an international arms dealer supplying fanatical terrorists in West Africa who may soon trigger a brutal civil war. But when he is tasked with other objectives—rescue kidnapped tourists and recover eleven million dollars of stolen CIA money—it quickly becomes clear to Pierce that someone doesn't want him to succeed in his primary mission.

Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the land, and now she's an adult (albeit barely) with responsibilities (she tells herself). Although she still gets in the way, she understands that the only way to save her people is to invoke the pact between her family and the Elder sorcerer who has inhabited the local tower for as long as her people have lived here (though none in living memory has approached it).