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The year 1792. With French revolutionary agents traveling freely but secretly between Ireland and England and war with France inevitable, the English government of Mr. Pitt is desperately anxious to uncover any plots between Irish rebels and the French. Lieutenant James Merriman with his ship, the sloop Aphrodite, is ordered to the Irish Sea to assist the principal treasury agent Mr. Grahame in this work. Merriman is plunged headlong into the world of espionage, and when Grahame is seriously wounded, it falls to Merriman to carry on the investigation.

Weaving back through time, the secret society of eccentric anachronists ensures the best possible future for humanity, making subtle adjustments to the past—saving us from oblivion. Every alteration is carefully calculated, and nothing is left to chance. Until the day Joshua Jones, a teenage thief, breaks into one of their station houses and finds himself transported back to 1944—where he accidentally changes the outcome of WW2.

—AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR Set in a wonderfully reimagined 15th century West Africa, Masquerade is a dazzling, lyrical tale exploring the true cost of one woman’s fight for freedom and self-discovery, and the lengths she’ll go to secure her future. “[Ariel] Blake is adept at describing...

In Victorian London, in an age when steam and clockwork power is all-important, a series of events throws Oliver, Jake, and Charlotte into conflict with the authorities. They come from very different backgrounds and join forces with an escaped slave, a street urchin, and a prostitute to form an airship crew—The Rebel Runaways. With the country in the hands of the army and beset by street gangs, escape is their priority. When they realize the depths to which the corrupt government and a wicked industrialist are willing to stoop, they turn to face the enemy.

Was wäre, wenn die fähigsten deutschen Offiziere den Krieg nach Ihren Vorstellungen geführt hätten? Tauchen Sie ein in eine packende Geschichte, die von einem alternativen Krieg erzählt. Autor Hermann Weinhauer, bekannt für seine nervenzerfetzenden Frontberichte, legt mit "Imperium Germanicum" eine Alternativweltgeschichte der Extraklasse vor. Seine Serie vereint gekonnt die Genres Polit-Thriller und Kriegsroman, wenn Weinhauer die wohl spannendste aller Fragen beantwortet.

Sometime between the years of AD 81 and AD 96, a persecuted Christian called John the Divine went to the Greek island of Patmos and wrote the Book of Revelation. Theologians and scholars to this day do not know if this author was also St. John the Apostle, personal friend of Jesus Christ. However, detractors and the devout alike all agree that the product of “John’s” pen has demonstrated itself as one of the most mysterious books ever written.

In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It's 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on – a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about.

From the small town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the heart of an abandoned munitions site, comes the legend that terrorized the people of West Virginia for over a year and has struck fear into many more across the globe. It was the legend of the Mothman—a creature with glowing red eyes, a wingspan of ten feet, and a scream that echoed through the night.

Morrow und der Junge entdecken die Hütte des alten Sloat, der einst aufbrach, um den Zeuss und die rote Stadt der Götter zu suchen. Der Rattenkönig begreift, dass Morrow mehr ist als ein Mädchen, das seine Erinnerungen verloren hat, doch noch ist sein Geist zu schwach, um das Hotel verlassen zu können. In der Mickies-Stadt beginnt erneut das Sterben. Auf ihrer Flucht durch die Wüste verliert Morrow die Orientierung und findet ihre Freundschaft zu dem Jungen wieder.

My name is Angel, and I’m the only Beta professional matchmaker. I should be getting my own life under control, but instead, I’m helping rejected Omegas find their forever pack bonds. Even if I’ll always be alone. When I save a stunningly beautiful but broken male Omega, for the first time, I wish that I was an Alpha.

Aros trained his whole life to become a leader of Sparta, destined to lead the finest. During a brief peace with Athens, the two sides engage in a joint training at sea. Aros finds himself thrust into command when his superior leaves to avoid a coming storm. Except the brewing squall is supernatural, brought on the by the Gods. Poseidon tests the warriors’ mettle, and after a fierce battle, broaches an offer: be forgotten to history, or travel to Drakor where only one species out of ten practices Hellenism—humans.

The United Sovereign States of Russia struggles to set in place the traditions and legal precedents that will let it turn into a constitutional monarchy with freedom and opportunity for all its citizens. At the same time, they’re trying to balance the power of the states and the federal government. 

Ruby Birk, who lives in Ashland, Oregon, often comes to Lithia Park with her dog Yukon to sketch. She is the quintessential starving artist who never earns enough money through her artwork to pay the rent or purchase groceries. She seems to be filled with angst and is jealous of so-called normal people with normal nine-to-five jobs. Self-doubt is her biggest enemy, and because of her limited faith in the world of art, she is reluctant to leap into the job market and conform to the world around her.

Visualize life in the 2070s. Climate has turned dangerous. Corporations have usurped human rights, and democracies are threatened. Dog Breakfast (DB) co-op stands as a lone bastion of freedom and common sense. The operatives of DB are in a fight for their lives, for corporate mercs outnumber them by thousands to one.

San Manuel Bueno, mártir, es uno de los trabajos más destacados de Unamuno, publicada en 1931, poco antes de su fallecimiento y es considerada como su testamento espiritual. Esta novela corta es una de las obras maestras de la literatura española. La historia de "San Manuel Bueno, mártir" se desarrolla en la aldea de Valverde de Lucerna, situada al borde de un lago en la región de Castilla y León. El protagonista es el párroco del lugar, Don Manuel Bueno, un hombre respetado y amado por su comunidad debido a su profunda bondad y dedicación a los demás.

Toscana, tredicesimo secolo: prosegue l’epica saga fantasy di Guido Cavalcanti e del suo spirito-guida, l’astuto Kabal! I ghibellini sono sconfitti. Mentre l’enigmatico San Pietro convoca l’Ancestrarca Kabal per affidargli una pericolosa missione nella Curia Romana, nella meravigliosa Firenze è tempo di festeggiamenti.

History and fiction collude in Sub Rosa America: A Deep State History, a 4-book series pivoting around the fallout from two historical occult rites performed at the 33º parallel in White Sands, New Mexico and Dallas, Texas: the Creation and Destruction of Primordial Matter in 1945, and one moon node later the Killing of the King. No Brotherhood has been held accountable for either rite. Instead, the Brothers responsible have been rewarded and protected under every Administration.

Russia, 1946, the Nazis recently defeated. Stalin gathers half a dozen of the top Soviet science fiction authors in a dacha in the countryside somewhere. Convinced that the defeat of America is only a few years away, and equally convinced that the Soviet Union needs a massive external threat to...

But once Margaret begins to unravel the secrets of Bletchley Park, Betty finds herself thrust—untrained—into the deadly world of counter-espionage. And as the pair begin a critical game of cat and mouse with each other, the situation rapidly becomes ever more desperate. With a highly dangerous newcomer suddenly arriving on the scene, the fate of Britain's most vital war secret hangs entirely on the outcome of the two women’s deeply personal conflict. But which one of them has really been the cat, and which one the mouse?

The most powerful and evil time diver ever wants him dead. Matt's forced to trust a mysterious woman who is a fellow traveler with a very shrouded past. Will she help Matt, or is she the ultimate femme fatale angling to exact revenge on him? The more Matt learns about the world of time diving, the more he realizes he's in way over his head. Matt also learns that his newly discovered powers of time diving have amazing fringe benefits. When not in mortal danger, he has an opportunity to wander the globe and wander time.