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In the realm of Isodoro, just two things stand between Alliance lands and the spears and muskets of the orcish hordes: the wizards of the Order and constant infighting amongst the orcs themselves. In the Alliance capital, young Wit has just been promoted from apprentice to full wizard - and saddled with the very unglamorous task of traveling to a distant iron mine to inspect it for fraud. Worse yet, he's partnered with Wa'llach, a drunken dwarven prisoner who's killed more people than most plagues. Yet those skills are about to become very handy.

Auf dem Weg zu einem Schachturnier wird die 13-jährige Elissa betäubt und entführt. Als sie erwacht, liegt sie in einem dunklen Keller. Ihre Situation scheint aussichtslos - bis Elijah ihr Verlies entdeckt und sie heimlich zu besuchen beginnt. Elijah ist ein Einzelgänger, der mit seinen Eltern in einer abgeschiedenen Hütte im Wald lebt. Er kennt keine Handys und kein Internet. Aber er weiß, dass sein Leben aus den Fugen gerät, wenn er jemandem von dem Mädchen erzählt. Elissa erkennt, dass ihr nur mit Elijahs Hilfe die Flucht gelingen kann.

Der Abschluss der Bestseller-Saga! Der Kampf gegen die Nekorer führen Farin und Ritter Emicho in die Hauptstadt Nabenstein. Dank Ekels dämonischer Zutaten steigt der Totengräbersohn zu der Attraktion am königlichen Hof auf. Allzu schnell muss er sich zwischen Machenschaften und Intrigen beweisen. Der andere Kontinent verlangt Aross mehr ab, als sie zu geben bereit ist. Ihr Weg führt sie zu einer geheimnisvollen Gilde in einem alten Kloster. Je mehr sie über ihre Magie lernt, desto weniger möchte sie wissen.

Händeringend sucht der Totengräbersohn nach einer Möglichkeit, seinen Herrn Emicho zu retten. Hierzu führt ihn eine dringliche Mission über das höchste und unwegsamste Gebirge des Weltenreiches ins geheimnisvolle Sumpfland. Doch die wahre Gefahr der Mission lauert im Verrat, im Misstrauen und in der Verzweiflung.

Sam Manicom's dynamic third book transports you to Southern Africa, South and Central America. Sam has a gift for describing the vibrancy of people and places, and you are led effortlessly through three very different parts of the world by his enthusiasm and his acute observations. Human behavior, drama, passion, disaster, humor, and the pure adrenaline buzz of overlanding such far-flung, wild and exotic places are all here.

Step up to the gates. After years in the wilds, Lenk and his companions have come to the city that serves as the world's beating heart. The great charnel house where men die surer than any wilderness. They've come to claim payment for creatures slain, blood spilled at the behest of a powerful holy man. And Lenk has come to lay down his sword for good. But this is no place to escape demons.

Since ancient times, the pundits have lamented young people's lack of historical knowledge and warned that ignorance of the past surely condemns humanity to repeating its mistakes. In the contemporary United States, this dire outlook drives a contentious debate about what key events, nations, and people are essential for history students. Sam Wineburg says that we are asking the wrong questions.

From New York Times best-selling author Sam Kean come more incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA. There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans bred thousands of years more recently than any of us would feel comfortable thinking.

It's a curious homecoming for Vince, the son nobody seems to remember. Violence is never far from the surface as his unexpected return uncovers a deep, dark secret that triggers catastrophe in Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning Buried Child. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Hale Appleman as Vince; Tom Bower as Dodge; John Getz as Father Dewis; Amy Madigan as Halie; Robert Parsons as Tilden; Jeff Perry as Bradley; and Madeline Zima as Shelly. Directed by Peter Levin.

How Agentic Collaboration Will Transform Service, Loyalty, and Growth. Customer experience is entering one of the most important transformations in modern business history. For years, organizations invested in service platforms, CRM systems, automation tools, analytics dashboards, and digital channels with the hope of creating smoother, faster, and more satisfying customer interactions. Many succeeded in improving efficiency. Some succeeded in improving convenience. But few truly reimagined the customer experience from the ground up. That is now changing.

The classic tales of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, and many more friends in the world of Beatrix Potter.

In Return on Goodwill, Sam Demma demonstrates that the most meaningful returns in life don't come from strategy or self-interest, but from showing up for people with genuine kindness and expecting nothing in return. In a world that feels transactional and increasingly disconnected, Return on Goodwill is a reminder that the way you show up still counts. That noticing people still matters. And that kindness, when done without expectation, quietly changes how life feels. You won't find formulas or strategies for getting ahead.

A missile launches from Pakistan without authorization from the country’s political leadership. Its trajectory carries it across India toward the Andaman Islands, where the British royal family is on an official visit. The world has only minutes to understand what has happened. Anna Renner quickly realizes this is no accidental launch. Someone has used other people’s plans, fears, and ambitions to create a crisis in which every participant sees only one piece of the truth.

He trusts her with his life, but not with his heart. Bible Smuggler Dakota Kimani is fearless in spreading the Gospel. When her friends are abducted by a Somali terror organization, she will do anything to rescue them—even reach out to the one man she wronged and vowed to never again contact. Former Marine Raider Keith McCord isn't one to look the other way when innocents are slaughtered. So yeah, he agrees to help the woman who ripped out his heart. With a team of trusted operators, he infiltrates Somalia and finds himself waging war on terror and old feelings.

Meine Schwester ist tot und Bishop Blackmore hat etwas damit zu tun. Doch die Polizei ist der Meinung, dass all das Blut auf ihrem Grundstück kein Grund ist, ihn direkt zu verurteilen. Weil es keine Leiche gibt. Aber ich werde beweisen, dass er und seine Brüder nicht so unschuldig sind, wie sie sich nach außen geben. Durch einen glücklichen Zufall bekomme ich allerdings die Chance, nicht nur an den Tatort, sondern auch in ihre direkte Nähe zu kommen.

Modern infrastructure moves too quickly for teams to rely on manual operations alone. Cloud environments are becoming more distributed, applications more complex, and the volume of operational data continues to grow. At the same time, development and operations teams are expected to deliver...

Building digital products is not just about following Scrum ceremonies—it’s about delivering real value in fast-moving, uncertain environments. Scrum Delivery for Digital Products focuses on how Scrum actually works when applied to modern software, platforms, and digital services. This book...

Three sisters. One childhood. Three very different lives. We grew up poor, became moms, survived relationships, made questionable decisions, started over more than once, and somehow lived to laugh about it. Now we’re sitting down together to tell the stories we remember, the ones we remember completely differently, and the things we never talked about. Some are heartbreaking. Some are hilarious. Most make us wonder how we got here. Same Mama, Different Trauma. Turns out… that wasn’t normal.

Rumpelstilzchen, ruthless enforcer for the Queen and powerful shadow geist, is missing an important part of himself —his Heart. Enslaved by the evil Queen through black magick, Rumpelstilzchen’s only shot at freedom is to find his Heart —and claim it. What he doesn’t expect is for it to beat inside the beguiling son of a miller. Boy is imprisoned in the palace cells for his family’s failure to pay the royal tithe, and unless he can deliver on his father’s impossible promise and spin a sack of straw into gold, he will die at sunrise.

The next generation of productivity tools won't simply help people work faster. They will help them work differently. Artificial intelligence is changing how software is designed, built, and used. Tasks that once required multiple applications, manual processes, and constant human intervention...