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The Undying: Shades finds American student Jeanie and her young charge, Ren, 15 years after the EMP that wiped out Paris and sent them on the run from the undying. Walking the highways and hiding out in abandoned buildings across France, they eventually find their way to Spain and the walled city of Ronda, where a few dozen survivors have gathered - safe enough from the hunting undying but facing a new threat on the scorched planet: starvation.

Do you feel at home right now? Or do you sense a hovering anxiety or uncertainty, an underlying unease that makes you feel just a bit uncomfortable, a bit distracted and disconnected from those around you? In The Road Home, Ethan Nichtern, a senior teacher in the Shambhala Buddhist tradition, investigates the journey each of us takes to find where we belong.

Nur eins ist dunkler als die Nacht: das Herz dieses Killers Mein Name ist Francis Ackerman junior. Ich bin das, was man gemeinhin einen Serienkiller nennt. Doch ich töte nicht wahllos, und jedes meiner Opfer bekommt eine faire Chance, denn ich fordere es zu einem Spiel heraus. Wer gewinnt, überlebt. Ich habe noch nie verloren. Die meisten Menschen werden mich verabscheuen. Einige, die mir ähnlich sind, werden mich verehren. Aber alle, alle werden sich an mich erinnern. Mein Name ist Francis Ackerman junior. Ich bin die Nacht, und ich möchte ein Spiel mit Ihnen spielen.

Danny owns a used textbook store just off campus, and while Julian has done his level best to make Danny fall for him, all his hard work appears to have been in vain. Danny doesn't seem to view Julian as anything other than that--a roommate and friend. So when new guy in town Andy Baker asks him out on a date, Julian can't think of a good reason to say no.

Jeanie and Ben arrive in Paris just in time for a festive New Year’s Eve celebration with local friends. They eat and drink and carry on until suddenly, at midnight, all the lights go out. Everywhere they look, buildings and streets are dark, as though the legendary Parisian revelry has somehow short circuited the entire city. By the next morning, all hell has broken loose. Fireballs rain down from the sky, the temperatures are rising, and people run screaming through the streets.

Michael Sage is alone. He's been alone for a long time. But that is the way he wants it; that is why he chose the job. Living on a secluded moon in a remote sector of the galaxy at the behest of a huge corporation is a quiet existence for Michael. But when an unexpected visitor arrives with shocking news, his world is thrown into turmoil.

Charlie is the quintessential bear. Big, muscular and hairy. But that isn't the type of men he's attracted to. He is drawn to men like Taylor - short, smooth, and sexy. Taylor is Charlie's idea of the perfect twink. But there's something about Taylor Charlie doesn't know. Taylor is unsure about a lot of things, but when he sees Charlie, he instantly knows he wants him. The only issue standing in his way is how Taylor views his own masculinity. He's afraid that Charlie will leave once he knows the secret Taylor wants to keep hidden.

After years of military service—including a harrowing stint in Iraq—Zackery Bowen returned to New Orleans to tend bar and deliver groceries. In the weeks before Hurricane Katrina hit, he met Addie Hall, a pretty and high-spirited bartender. Their improvised, hard-partying during and after the storm represented what so many want to believe is the indomitable spirit of New Orleans. But in October 2006, Bowen leaped from the rooftop bar of a French Quarter hotel.

When two men break into Leonard Samson's house, beat him unconscious and murder his six-year-old son, the police arrive to a gruesome scene. But they are shocked to find the mutilated bodies of the two intruders in the front room of Leonard's home, while he waits in the kitchen with the surviving members of his family.

From mid-August to mid-September 1863, Union major general William S. Rosecrans's Army of the Cumberland maneuvered from Tennessee to north Georgia in a bid to rout Confederate general Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee and blaze the way for further Union advances. Meanwhile, Confederate reinforcements bolstered the numbers of the Army of Tennessee, and by the time the two armies met at the Battle of Chickamauga, in northern Georgia, the Confederates had gained numerical superiority.

An unprecedented storm is threatening the East Coast, swelling the rivers and muddying the roads, and in a small suburb of Boston, a group of intimates and strangers struggles to confront a rapidly changing world. Vincent, a high school shop teacher, grapples with whether to hospitalize his only daughter. Jack, a research intern at a local college, tries to make sense of the world through the climate data he helps to gather.

We live in an age of connection, one that is accelerated by the Internet. This increasingly ubiquitous, immensely powerful technology often leads us to assume that as the number of people online grows, it inevitably leads to a smaller, more cosmopolitan world. We’ll understand more, we think. We’ll know more. We’ll engage more and share more with people from other cultures. In reality, it is easier to ship bottles of water from Fiji to Atlanta than it is to get news from Tokyo to New York.

In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the Donner Party was synonymous with the most harrowing extremes of human survival.

Moving stories about married couples' powerful and complicated loves, read by actors Frances Sternhagen, Robert Sean Leonard, Keir Dullea, Joanna Gleason, Harold Gould and Joanne Woodward. A native couple's rocky college love affair lasts a lifetime in Do You Know Where I Am by Sherman Alexie. In Karen E. Bender's Eternal Love, a mother nervously chaperones her retarded daughter's honeymoon.

The third part in Pope's Financial Alert series, this hot topic is sure to provoke debate. The theft of identity through credit card scams, "phishing", unscrupulous charitable agencies, and dishonest employees is epidemic, and only growing worse. Pope gives the alarming statistics and then outlines the real, practical steps an individual or family can take to avoid becoming a victim.

Mega-bestselling author Ken Blanchard and celebrated business leaders Don Hutson and Ethan Willis present an inspiring story that reveals the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur. In THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the #1 bestselling business classic The One...

From Ethan Canin, bestselling author of The Palace Thief, comes a stunning novel, set in a small town during the Nixon era and today, about America and family, politics and tragedy, and the impact of fate on a young man’s life. In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents...

Ein abgelegenes Farmhaus in Virginia. Hier versteckt die Polizei die junge November McAllister. Sie ist das letzte Opfer des berühmt-berüchtigten Black Rose Killers und die einzige, die ihm bis jetzt entkommen konnte. Francis Ackerman jr. und Nadia Shirazi persönlich sind auf dem Weg dorthin, um die junge Frau zu beschützen. Aber der Black Rose Killer ist schneller als sie. Er tötet die anwesenden Polizisten und entführt November ein zweites Mal. Damit ist die Jagd offiziell eröffnet, aber es scheint, als könne der Killer selbst Ackermans genialste Schachzüge vorhersagen.

Den Geschmack an Schmerzen und Qual hat Francis Ackerman jr. nicht verloren. Aber er lebt seine Lust an Gewalt nur noch an grausamen Verbrechern und Mördern aus. In seinem ersten Fall als Sonderermittler des FBI trifft Ackerman auf einen Täter, der seinesgleichen sucht: Das sogenannte "Alien" hinterlässt sezierte Leichen in Kornkreisen und hat gerade eine Expertin für Außerirdische entführt. Ackermann gibt alles, um das Alien zu fangen, bevor auch dieses Opfer tot in einem Kornkreis endet. Aber das ist leichter gesagt, als getan.

Oft schon hat der Serienmörder Francis Ackerman jr. seinem Bruder, dem Regierungsagenten Marcus Williams, und dessen Kollegen geholfen, die grausamsten Verbrechen aufzuklären. Mittlerweile ist dem Killer das Agenten-Team der Shepherd Organization sogar irgendwie ans Herz gewachsen. Als die Shepherd-Agentin Maggie in die Hände des berüchtigten Serientäters "The Taker" fällt, nimmt Ackerman deshalb sofort die Verfolgung auf. Die Suche führt ihn und Marcus tief in das Herz eines Indianerreservats in New Mexico.