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Der Roman zum internationalen Comic und TV-Phänomen. Die Apokalypse: Eine weltweite Plage lässt die Toten wiederauferstehen und Jagd auf Menschenfleisch machen. Die wenigen Überlebenden fliehen in Angst und Schrecken - bis auf einen. Der Mann, den sie später nur "Governor" nennen werden, beschließt, sich dem Grauen entgegenzustellen. Dies ist seine Geschichte...

Following in the footsteps of the New York Times best-selling graphic novels and the record-breaking new television show, this debut novel in a trilogy of original Walking Dead books chronicles the back story of the comic book series greatest villain, The Governor.

With nothing more than a skeleton crew and his 70,000-acre ranch on death watch, Woody finds himself backed into a corner. His neighbor Senator Bell greedily awaits the bankruptcy so he can grab the ranch on the cheap and build the biggest spread in the county. But Woody isn’t out of ideas yet. Determined to pull the ranch back from the brink, he hatches an ingenious plan to snag some orphaned teenagers and put them to work as cowboys.

Even after the bombs fell, even after countries unleashed weapons beyond imagination on one another, even after lawlessness became the norm, people still expect their mail. As a deadman, I'm uniquely suited to deliver it.

Sydney, 1948. Brilliant German surgeon, Hugo Winter, is dead, and his protégé, Lucy Brynne, is tasked with sorting his papers. Among them, Lucy finds glimpses of Hugo’s past that paint a disturbing picture of war and prejudice - a portrait of Australia she can barely recognise. That same week, an intriguing patient comes into her care on the orthopaedic ward at Sydney Hospital: one Mr Jim Cleary. Lucy’s experience as an army physiotherapist, as well as her own very personal knowledge of pain, tell her there’s more to this man’s fractured leg than meets the eye.

The loss of her husband is devastating to Tanjay as she tries to move on without the man she'd thought of as her soulmate. Their lives together had been everything she'd hoped for until the day Michael mysteriously disappeared, and she was left alone to raise their three children. While she struggles to make ends meet, Tanjay fights to make sense of how such a loving relationship ended without warning. She can't figure out what happened to cause her husband to walk out and leave his family behind.

Random, Colorado, is just another stop on the road for solitary gunslinger Gabriel Valance. Known for his drinking, gambling, and womanizing, he prefers to remain a stranger to anyone who crosses his path. But when an upstart gunslinger catches Gabe off guard and shoots him down, he regrets his empty, lonely life with his dying breath....

Die Apokalypse ist über die Menschheit hereingebrochen, und die Toten machen Jagd auf die Lebenden. Im harten Überlebenskampf zählt nur Stärke oder Gemeinschaft. So wie in der Siedlung Woodbury, wo der Governor ein hartes, aber effizientes Regime errichtet hat. Als sich die junge Lilly Caul gerade noch so nach Woodbury retten kann, glaubt sie zunächst, sie sei im Paradies - bis sie eine furchtbare Entdeckung macht: In diesem Paradies herrscht ein Teufel, und er kennt keine Gnade.

Die Toten sind auferstanden und jagen die Lebenden, nichts und niemand ist vor ihnen sicher, und auf der ganzen Welt regiert das Chaos. Außer in dem kleinen Südstaatenstädtchen Woodbury: Dort regiert der Governor mit eiserner Hand über die wenigen Menschen, die die Apokalypse überlebt haben. Dafür bietet er ihnen Schutz vor den hungrigen Toten.

The zombie plague unleashes its horrors on the suburbs of Atlanta without warning, pitting the living against the dead. Caught in the mass exodus, Lilly Caul struggles to survive in a series of ragtag encampments and improvised shelters. But the Walkers are multiplying. Dogged by their feral hunger for flesh and crippled by fear, Lilly relies on the protection of good Samaritans by seeking refuge in a walled-in town once known as Woodbury, Georgia. But Lilly begins to suspect that all is not as it seems....

Wie lebt man weiter nach dem Untergang der Welt? Während die Toten auferstehen und als blutrünstige Bestien umherziehen, kämpfen die letzten Menschen ums nackte Überleben. Im kleinen Südstaatenstädtchen Woodbury hat ein Mann, der sich Governor nennt, ein rücksichtsloses Regime errichtet und hält Menschen wie Tote gleichermaßen in Schach. Doch dann begeht er einen Fehler, der ihn nicht nur die Macht, sondern alle anderen das Leben kosten könnte.

When tragedy strikes Leona Harper, the devastated pastor's wife summons her estranged children home. But parenting young adults in the glass house of the parsonage proves more difficult than reinventing herself. Determined to give her broken family a shot at a second chance, Leona begins the painful journey of putting one foot in front of the other. Reconciliation and healing won't come easy in this zany, trouble-filled, hilarious adventure. Brimming with wit, authenticity, and Southern charm, this series explores the inspirational and emotional healing of a family.

From the author of Walking Around Target All Winter comes a charming, if somewhat disturbing, story of a dysfunctional family and their misguided attempts to stay afloat in our polarized, tribalistic world.Maury and Jill Berg are fleeing the safe harbor of Bear Lake, Minnesota, determined to...

It’s Halloween, and when an elderly billionaire is discovered dead in the locked study of his stately Highland home, DCI Jack Logan and his team must race the worsening weather to get to the scene of the crime. There, among the victim’s extended family and staff, Jack finds no shortage of suspects. Everyone, it seems, had reason to want the old man dead, and they all have something to hide.

The coroner’s daughter is back when a ferocious snowstorm buries Freeport, Michigan—and with it, a deadly secret. When the frozen body of high school senior Ethan Quon is found wedged deep in a snowbank, medical examiner Dr. Emily Hartford is called in to determine how—and why—he died...

Greece. Politics. Love. Danger. Reeling from a failed marriage and spurred on by a burgeoning sense of feminism, twenty-five-year-old Kate accepts a position as a speech therapist in a center for children with cerebral palsy in Thessaloniki, Greece. It is 1974, and the recent end of Greece’s seven-year dictatorship has ignited a fiery anti-American sentiment within the country. Despite this, as her Greek improves, Kate teaches communication to severely disabled children, creates profound friendships, and finds a home in the ancient and historied city.

Louis L’Amour has been best known for his ability to capture the spirit and drama of the authentic American West. Now he guides his readers to an even more distant frontier—the enthralling lands of the twelfth century. Warrior, lover, and scholar, Kerbouchard is a daring seeker of...

A Summer in Suffolk could be just what she needs… When Tilly heads to the river in Willowell, Suffolk, to scatter her dad’s ashes, she’s in need of some rest and relaxation. Life has been tough lately, and she wants a new start. Constance has lived in Fernside forever. She owns the...

Out of the ashes of a devastated Woodbury, Georgia, two opposing camps of ragtag survivors develop - each one on a collision course with the other. Underground, in the labyrinth of ancient tunnels and mine shafts, Lilly Caul and her motley crew of senior citizens, misfits, and children struggle...

Brought to you by Penguin. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ASK AGAIN, YES Rural Ireland, the 1960s, and Greta Cahill must abandon her deserted village to follow her fearless sister Johanna onto a ship bound for America. It's here in New York that she steps out of her sister's...