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Michael and Elizabeth Stewart discovered long ago that they could time travel through an old church’s basement on Long Island. What they didn’t realize was that their actions in first-century Jerusalem could upend life for the world as we know it.

Their encounter with Roman thug Pontius Pilate turns life upside down for billions of future generations. Michael endures family loss and survives in a brutal and violent world with the help of a new friend, Adriel.

Who controls our stories? Christopher Chen’s expectation-defying new play takes an unpredictable trip into the ways storytelling can reshape what we believe about ourselves and others. The play starts with a series of intriguing and seemingly unconnected creative conversations. It then takes a sharp turn when Sylvia - host of the popular interview program, Art Beat - goes missing and her listeners are left to wonder, is this also an art piece? The journey continues and the mysteries multiply in this mind-bending audio play that investigates the very nature of reality.

The four stories narrate the struggles of the tiny island nation of Buron to resist the onslaught of its much bigger neighbor, Garsia, via any means necessary. “Green Monkey Syndrome” describes the disaster of a pathogenic weapon leaked among indigenous tribespeople; “The Gaoka Case” tracks through case files a pharmaceutical offensive designed to take advantage of the enemy’s patriarchal culture; “I Love Thee Winona” and “The Lost Bird” describe campaigns to manipulate disastrous weather patterns and deliver bioweapons through migrating birds.

Older, but not necessarily wiser, Aiden Pearce, “the Fox”, is a rolling stone, surviving by moving from one grey hat hacker job to the next. While in Baltimore, he’s captured by a mysterious agent who insists finding missing cargo full of transhuman tech is something only Pearce can do. When flattery doesn’t work, he’s blackmailed into taking the job. Worse, he’s partnered again with the unscrupulous Jordi Chin.

Der Kapitän der Garcia, Grady O'Connor, war für den Unfall verantwortlich, in dem der Frachter auf ein Riff lief. Jedoch konnte er entkommen und ist seitdem spurlos verschwunden. Treibt er sich vielleicht nachts auf dem Schiff herum? Und wer ist der unheimliche Mann mit der Schlangentätowierung am Handgelenk? Auf einmal steht ein Schuppen auf der Werft in Flammen. Wer hat ein Interesse daran, das Abwracken der Garcia mit allen Mitteln zu verhindern?

The year is AD 316. Imperial persecution has officially ended. For the first time in history, the Roman emperor supports the church. But the fledgling faith’s future still hangs in the balance. Flavia, a Roman senator’s daughter, is sent from her convent by Bishop Sylvester to seek Emperor Constantine’s permission to determine the canon of scripture and build great churches where pagan temples once stood. But God’s enemies are on the move, and the path to the bishop’s goals is fraught with peril.

Fourteen-year-old Tom Röschenberg has inherited a ghost train and its members of the undead are very lively! And it's a suspenseful time for our young Ghostsitter: Vlarad the vampire has consumed too much hamster blood and has now turned into one, and Wombie the Zombie's hundredth deathday is coming right up. But the ritual for celebrating Wombie's deathday is no easy task: It requires a voodoo dagger, a magic ring, and an enchanted cauldron, and if Tom and his undead friends don't perform the ritual in time, Wombie will turn to dust.

Ich bin Malu, die kleine Fledermaus mit dem großen Herzen. Ich nehme Dich mit auf eine Schnupperreise, durch meine Bücher. Eine Reise, die uns in die Wunderwelt des Lebens führt. Lausche 11 faszinierenden Erlebnissen und lerne meine Freunde kennen. Reisen mit mir bedeutet: Entspannung vom lauten Alltag. Abenteuer erleben und nicht nur leben. Den Gedanken freien Lauf lassen, träumen und das Kind in uns hervorzaubern. Wage es und tauche ein, in meine Geschichten für die Seele. Für jedes Alter geeignet.

Bill Bo und seine Kumpanen reisen durch das Land und klauen, was nicht niet- und nagelfest ist. Die bunt zusammengemischte Räuberbande hat das Umherziehen mittlerweile aber gründlich satt und will sesshaft werden - und sie wissen auch schon wo. Die auf einer Insel im Rhein gelegene Burg Dingelstein wäre das perfekte Quartier. Vorher müsste man nur die aktuellen Bewohner vertreiben: Graf von Dingelstein, seine Tochter Desdemona genannt Ding-Ding und ihr Gefolge, allesamt scheinbar leichte Gegner für eine erfahrene Räuberbande.

Der Waise Victor wächst zusammen mit seiner Stiefmutter Ludmilla und seiner Stiefschwester Hanna auf. Eines Tages verlässt Victor jedoch schweren Herzens die gewohnte Umgebung um ein Leben als Beamter zu beginnen. Doch zuvor bittet sein Onkel, der Bruder seines lange verstorbenen Vaters, ihn zu sich auf eine abgelegene Alm in den Bergen. Victor erzählt ihm, dass er nicht heiraten möchte. Sein Onkel macht ihm aber klar, dass das Alleinsein im Alter nicht erstrebenswert ist... Bearbeiter: Klaus Gmeiner, Regie: Hans Conrad Fischer.

In 1967, US Air Force fighter pilot James Shively was shot down over North Vietnam. After ejecting from his F-105 Thunderchief aircraft, he landed in a rice paddy and was captured by the North Vietnamese Army. For the next six years, Shively endured brutal treatment at the hands of the enemy in Hanoi prison camps. Bound in iron stocks at the Hanoi Hilton, unable to get home to his loved ones, Shively contemplated suicide. Yet somehow he found hope - and he became determined to help his fellow POWs survive.

When young journalist Thomas Cleary is sent to dig up quotes for the obituary of a legendary film producer, the man's eccentric daughter offers him entrée into the exclusive upper echelons of Hollywood society. A small-town boy with working-class roots, Thomas is a stranger in this opulent world of private jets and sprawling mansions. Then he meets Matilda Duplaine. Matilda is a beautiful and mysterious young woman who has never left the lush Bel-Air estate where she was raised.

At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, 15-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked down and arrested. But their efforts were not in vain.

Das Hörbuch besteht aus den fünf Kurzgeschichten "Langeweile der Sensation" und "Kein Bettler, nur Schnorrer" gesprochen von Michael Holz, "Menschen am Sonntag" und "Der Altersgenosse" gesprochen von Georg Braun und "Die Kapuzinergruft" gesprochen von Arnold Richter.

Each contributor presents a brand new story set in a distinct neighborhood. Brooklyn Noir mixes masters of the mystery genre with the best of New York’s literary fiction community - and, of course, leaves room for new blood. These brilliant and chilling stories see crime striking in communities of Russians, Jamaicans, Hasidic Jews, Puerto Ricans, Italians, Irish and many other ethnicities - in the most diverse urban location on the planet.

Brand-new stories by: Thomas Adcock, Kevin Baker, Thomas Bentil, Lawrence Block, Jerome Charyn, Suzanne Chazin, Terrence Cheng, Ed Dee, Joanne Dobson, Robert Hughes, Marlon James, Sandra Kitt, Rita Laken, Miles Marshall Lewis, Pat Picciarelli, Abraham Rodriguez Jr., S.J. Rozan, Steven Torres, and Joe Wallace.

Twenty years after the death of her father during the Battle of Altair, Lieutenant Amy Palmer returns to the system as an officer aboard the reconnaissance ship Mirage. Almost immediately disaster strikes and Amy, along with the crew of the Mirage, must face the possibility of performing their final duties. "Final Duty" is a novella set in the same universe as the other two stories in this anthology.

The final adventure...

After leaving the Isle of Man, Aubrey and Jimmy return to the Foundation to confront Hannah about her betrayal and to free the people of Holocene II only to find themselves facing new and more difficult challenges in a world where nothing is as it seems.

After discovering the horrific truth behind the park service, 15-year old Aubrey Van Houten has overthrown its leader with the help of his best friend Jimmy and his girlfriend Hannah. But their victory has left all three parentless and alone in a world where drones still hunt humans. And while the Park Service founder might be dead, he's far from gone. Now, Aubrey's quest to free his people will lead him even farther into a world where nothing is what it seems.

In the post-apocalyptic future, a fifteen-year old boy stumbles on a paradise where the few remaining humans live on the run from deadly drones controlled by a mysterious Park Service. Now this boy must learn to survive in a world he never dreamed existed while searching for answers to why everything he was taught is a lie.