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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.

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....

Squid Game meets The Left Hand of Darkness meets Under the Skin in this radical literary sensation from South Korea about an alien's hunt for food that transforms into an existential crisis about what it means to be human. After crashing their spacecraft in the middle of nowhere, a shapeshifting...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy! The latest in Jay Bonansinga's New York Times bestselling series! What could possibly go wrong? For one brief moment, it seems Lilly and her plague-weary band of survivors might just engineer a better tomorrow. Banding together with other...

Amos Carver is out camping when he's forced to kill two men. To be fair, they shot at him first. But they missed and Carver didn't. It turns out these men were tracking down a drug addict who stole something valuable from them. A briefcase full of money and drugs. Just before he dies, the drug addict tells Carver that he left the briefcase just over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. He left it with a woman named Sally.

Her eyes were black, wide as though with some sustained surprise, the skin from their outer corners to her small ears taut. Her lips were pale, and nearly too full for her small mouth, like something bled but bruised. He had never seen anyone or anything quite so beautiful in his life. Graham Park is in love. But Sara Fitch is an enigma to him, a creature of almost perverse mystery. Steven Grout is paranoid - and with justice. He knows that They are out to get him.

A deeply compassionate portrait of a cosmopolitan group of friends—a glimpse of the volatility of life under totalitarian rule, from Egypt's most celebrated contemporary novelist. It is 1964 in Alexandria. Nasser has risen to power and, faced with the upheaval of his regime, many Alexandrians...

Her husband was handsome. Charming. Wealthy. Every woman’s dream. Until the night he vowed to bury her where no one would ever find her. Now she’s hiding in the Blue Ridge Mountains, building a life quiet enough that the past can’t follow. But Sheriff Burke Scott sees what she tries to conceal—the flinch at passing headlights, the way she checks over her shoulder. Even his K-9, Rosie, senses the danger she carries. Then the peace shatters. A blacked-out luxury SUV appears on her dead-end road. A private jet lands at the mountain airstrip—silent, unannounced, unmistakably his. He’s found her.

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.

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...

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...