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Temeraire * Book 3 After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majesty’s Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchased from the Ottoman Empire...

Two generations after the Change, Crown Princess Orlaith struggles to preserve the hard-won peace her father brought to Montival - the former Western US. But the Change opened many doors, and through them, powers strong, strange, and terrible walk once more among humankind. With her fire-forged friend and ally Japanese Empress Reiko, Orlaith must take up her sword to stop the spread of the mad malignancy behind the Yellow Raja that has imprisoned her brother, Prince John. 

The Royal Sorceress, Lady Gwendolyn Crichton, will be responsible for the Empire's magical resources when the time comes. Still struggling to overcome prejudice within the Royal College of Sorcerers, she has at least earned the gratitude of much of the aristocracy, if not their respect. Just when Gwen needs to be firmly focussed on training new sorcerers, her adopted daughter Olivia, the only known living necromancer, is kidnapped.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Liberation Day written by Gareth Rubin, read by Nicola Walker and Gareth Rubin. 1952. Soviet troops control British streets After the disastrous failure of D-Day, Britain is occupied by Nazi Germany, and only rescued by Russian soldiers arriving from the...

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Emilia Pardo Bazán nacida en Galicia- España en el siglo XIX, una de las grandes escritoras de la literatura española. Novelista, periodista y ensayista, destacó por su enorme cultura y por introducir en España las corrientes literarias más modernas de su...

Audiolibro narrado en castellano. Arthur Conan Doyle; aunque su nombre estará siempre ligado a Sherlock Holmes, relatos como El cazador de escarabajos permiten descubrir al Conan Doyle más atmosférico y psicológico, un autor capaz de atrapar al oyente en muy pocos minutos y conducirlo hacia...

The year is 1993, and the final days of World War III are here. For nearly a year, the world has been ablaze. What began as brinkmanship between East and West has become an all-consuming inferno. Cities lie in ruin. Nations collapse. In the air, NATO wages a campaign of destruction against the...

The advantage is gone. With trenches behind them and the doorway to the east ahead, victory seemed a matter of time, until the Easterners introduced their own technological terror: poison gas. The new weapon throws the Western Alliance's lines into chaos, causing the first major retreat since...

For Everett Summers, a shell-shocked veteran of the Great War, New York is a disorienting city. Especially when he secures a job as an assistant in renowned magician Harry Houdini’s Ghost Detective Agency. Raging against the new religion of spiritualism being heralded by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Houdini aims to expose the charlatans bilking gullible fools who believe in the unbelievable. But since returning from the battlefield, Everett can’t shake his own ghosts.

H. Beam Piper’s Time and Time Again is a classic mid-century science fiction time travel novel about memory, destiny, and the dangerous power of changing history. After suffering fatal injuries in a future war, Allan Hartley awakens in his own thirteen-year-old body with the full knowledge of...

Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology, which made Cell a number-one best seller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a disturbing window into other worlds. Reeling from a painful break-up, English instructor...

No Easy Deeds is neither a time travel novel nor a rom-com, but it cleverly blends elements of both genres. Genuinely funny, nostalgic, and occasionally touching, it’s another gem of a story from the bestselling British author, Keith A Pearson.

Alternate history, 1119 AD. The bright banner of the Crusade flies over the ruins of Uppsala. The Norse army is shattered, the survivors scattered to the winds, and the sword that was fated to save them is lost to the enemy. A small band of refugees flees before the relentless foe, searching for a new place to call home. Gjaldir goes with them, choosing to fight for his erstwhile captors and the woman and child he loves, rather than seek shelter with his Christian kin, the men who have brought death and destruction to the lands he once hated.

Rom hat überlebt, doch der Preis war hoch. Archimedes gibt sich nicht länger damit zufrieden, nur die Mauern der Stadt zu verteidigen. Er hat das Unmögliche gewagt und die Technologie der Invasoren entschlüsselt, gebändigt und gegen sie gewendet. Jetzt ist die Zeit gekommen, den Krieg dorthin zu tragen, wo er seinen Ursprung nahm. An Bord einer Konstruktion, die jede Vorstellungskraft der Antike sprengt, verlässt Archimedes die vertraute Welt.

Rom, 208 v. Chr. – Die Asche der Ewigen Stadt verdunkelt den Himmel. Zwei Jahre nach dem ersten Kontakt scheint der Frieden trügerisch. Während Rom versucht, die Wunden der Punischen Kriege zu heilen, kehren die Fremden zurück – diesmal nicht als einzelne Beobachter, sondern übermächtig. Mit einer Feuerkraft, mit der es selbst Jupiter und Mars nicht aufnehmen können, legen sie die Foren und Tempel in Schutt und Asche. Archimedes, gezeichnet von den vergangenen Kämpfen, erkennt, dass Logik allein nicht mehr ausreicht.

He Who Fights With Monsters. Das Versprechen der Macht ist der dritte Band einer epischen Lit-RPG-Serie. Die harte Arbeit an den eigenen Fähigkeiten und Strategien hat sich ausgezahlt: Nachdem Jason und sein Team die Prüfung in der Stadt der Gefallenen Echos mit Bravour bestanden haben, gehören sie zur Elite der Abenteurer in Greenstone. Und das, obwohl sie noch nicht einmal den Bronzerang erreicht haben. Doch auch ihr Gegner – der Kult des Erbauers – verschwendet keine Zeit. Die Räder drehen sich langsam, aber tief im Astralraum scheint etwas Grauenhaftes Gestalt anzunehmen.

Monster, Loot und Leveln. Die Stadt der Gefallenen Echos ist der zweite Band des epischen LitRPG-Abenteuers. So langsam gewöhnt sich Jason Asano an sein neues Leben als Abenteurer – er hat sogar ein paar mächtige Verbündete gefunden. Und sich ein paar ebenso mächtige Feinde gemacht … In Greenstone herrscht das blanke Chaos. Zahlreiche Abenteurer haben in einer misslungenen Expedition ihr Leben gelassen, und mindestens fünf weitere wurden von einem gefährlichen Artefakt infiziert und scheinen ihren eigenen Willen verloren zu haben.

This is an Alt History book that features several alternating historical characters.

I had always imagined science as orderly and predictable, a world of rules and neat equations. Yet here I was, standing in front of a machine that should not exist. It was now apparent that the collective minds of the world may not have the complete picture. Stranded in the 1930s, Ryan desperately wants to return to 1980 and reunite with Lucy, the one person who truly understands him. But now the time machine is destroyed and history is unraveling in ways that don’t make sense. (This book is entirely written by the author. No AI used for the content or cover)

Casper Trenchton is a man haunted by his past. Fleeing to the quiet lanes of Shropshire in search of solace, he finds instead a town steeped in secrets. Under the employment of the enigmatic Doctor Mogfadian and his niece, Julie, Casper is drawn into a web of uncanny occurrences. Wendlelow, he soon learns, is no haven; it is a place where darkness festers and ancient horrors stir. Within these pages lie nine chilling, interconnected tales from a town that reason forgot. So stoke the fire, draw the curtains tight, and prepare to be horrified.