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Saved from the streets as a child, Elora spent her adolescent years in the care of seven vampires. As time goes by and she enters adulthood, emotions evolve into something unexpected.

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

«Entonces tal vez, será realidad el sueño de los muchachos muertos, de esa bella muchacha, edecán de la Olimpiada, caída ante las balas, con los ojos inmóviles y el silencio en sus labios que hablaban cuatro idiomas. Algún día una lámpara votiva se levantará en la Plaza de las Tres Culturas en memoria de todos ellos. Otros jóvenes la conservarán encendida.»

Fasten your falx knives and grab the reins of your quadriga: Rivals 2! More Frenemies Who Changed the World is the funniest look at people who benefited the world through their hatred. This audiobook has it all: death beams, chariot races, flaming costumes, ear-munchers, party fleas, and whatever the opposite of epic poetry is.... No fact is too bizarre, no segue too surreal, and no sequitur is too non for this riotous sequel.

It's one thing to wake up outside in the middle of the night with a decapitated man for company. It's another to have no memory of how you got there—or who you are. She might not know her own name but she knows that several people are out to get her. It could be because she has strange magical powers seemingly at her fingertips and is some kind of fabulous hero. But then why does she appear to inspire fear in so many? And who on earth is the sexy, green-eyed barman who apparently despises her? So many questions . . . and so few answers.

Gentlemen don’t look at engaged women the way Ras Sorrentino looks at me. Ras Sorrentino is the underboss of the most powerful clan in the Camorra. He’s also chaos and danger poured into a sleek Italian suit. The first time I met him, I thought he was there to kill me. The second time, I wanted to kill him. The third was in Ibiza, where I glared at him across the church as my sister married his boss. It’s not his sharp tongue or his taunting smirks that I hate the most. It’s his gaze.

The end of the world has been and gone. There was no one great natural disaster, no all-consuming world war, no catastrophic pandemic. Only scores of storms, droughts, and selfish regional conflicts. Humanity was not granted a heroic end. Instead, it bled to death from a thousand cuts. But where Earth fell apart, Mars pulled together. Engineered men and beasts, aided by Bees – an outlawed distributed intelligence – survived through co-operation, because there was simply no alternative.

A Opus Sky—o conjunto dos três principais satélites de telecomunicação do território nacional, também conhecidos como a starlink brasileira, exigem observação e manutenção constante. Porém o seu bom funcionamento está ameaçado, desde que a astronauta Lilith, que chefia a nave de reparos sozinha, parou de desenvolver seu trabalho, além de não responder a seus superiores na Terra.

The second book in a new trilogy from Joseph Delaney, the author of the internationally best-selling Last Apprentice series. Tom Ward is now spook of the county, and with his apprentice, Jenny, he continues the fight against boggarts, witches, and terrifying new creatures of the dark. Together...

“My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.” My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. As an Ender, one of my father’s Elite guards, it’s my job to do as I’m told. When my older sister is sent as an ambassador to the realm of the water elementals - the Deep - I have no choice but to accompany her as her bodyguard. With the death of the water elemental's King, a deadly battle for the throne begins

Johann Wolfgang Goethe was a colossus of German literature and a true Renaissance man. A novelist, dramatist, poet, humanist, scientist and philosopher, he wrote the first international bestseller, The Sorrows of Young Werther, and his epic masterpiece Faust is one of the most famous and celebrated dramas of all time.

Die aufregende Geschichte der Hansens geht weiter. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta erzählt über die nächste Generation der Familie Hansen. In ihrer neuen Reihe leben die mittlerweile erwachsenen Kinder der Hansens in aller Welt verstreut und müssen ihren eigenen Weg gehen. Hamburg 1924: Amala Hansen, die Tochter von Luise und Hamza, will endlich ihre Familie in Deutschland kennenlernen. Georg Hansen ist dankbar für den frischen Wind, den die ehrgeizige junge Frau aus den USA in die alte Villa bringt.

Regan and company have successfully escaped Hellia. The question that now haunts him is at what cost to the universe? Back in Murgin, Regan has to deal with more mundane threats. If you can call the potential return of the Primordial Dragon a mundane threat. With a new desire to protect his family, the question is how far he will go to ensure that desire is achieved.

Supernatural Bounty Hunter isn’t the sort of thing you see on LinkedIn. But with a rare type of magic like mine, I don’t have many options. So dangerous or not, the job is mine. And it was going fine, until an old as sin vampire stole my mark, and with it, my pay day.

Privatdetektiv Wilde ist dafür bekannt, jedem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen. Das größte jedoch trägt er selbst mit sich herum. Denn als kleiner Junge wurde er in den Wäldern der Appalachen gefunden - ohne Erinnerung, wie er dort hinkam, ohne jegliches Wissen über seine Eltern. Seither ist er auf der Suche nach seiner Vergangenheit. Als er eines Tages endlich eine heiße Fährte aufnimmt, stellt sich heraus, dass seine mysteriöse Herkunft mit einem aktuellen Vermisstenfall verknüpft scheint - und mit einem vermeintlichen Selbstmord.

Eigentlich sollte die Geburtstagsfeier ihrer Tochter ein freudiges Erlebnis sein, doch bei Luise hinterlässt sie ein Gefühl des Zweifels. Wird sie jemals an den Punkt in ihrem Leben kommen, an dem nicht die Geschäfte an erster Stelle stehen und sie mehr Zeit und Aufmerksamkeit für ihr Kind aufbringen kann? Doch da kündigt sich bereits die nächste Herausforderung an. Bei einem Empfang der Verlegerfamilie Jensen gibt es nur ein Thema, den Streik der Hamburger Hafenarbeiter.

Blake London, after finishing his cardiology fellowship, moves to Boston with a single hope: fix as many hearts as he possibly can… including his own. Considering the one woman he's ever loved—his best friend from medical school—got engaged to another man, he needs to move on. But that's easier said than done, and Delaney proves harder to escape than he expected.

After Ember Brycin finds her mother brutally murdered, her mind begins to see things that shouldn’t exist, like creatures that belong in scary fairytales. The more she feels her sanity slipping, the more bizarre and inexplicable things start happening around her, even burning down one of her schools, turning Ember into an outcast. When she and her stepfather, Mark, move to Olympia, Washington, they think it will be a new start. However, things only continue to get worse.

Bogotá. Los noventa. La familia Santiago vive en una comunidad exclusiva y cerrada, a salvo de la agitación política que aterroriza el país. La pequeña de la familia, Chula, que tiene siete años, parece vivir en una burbuja, pero la amenaza de los secuestros, los coches bomba y los...

Sin dalla notte dei tempi scienza e religione dibattono nel tentativo di risolvere i grandi quesiti dell’umanità – Dio esiste o no? E se esiste, com’è fatto? – ciascuna secondo il suo approccio e la sua visione dell’esistenza, ma accomunate dalla dogmatica convinzione di riuscire a trovare la risposta all’esterno dell’essere umano.