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Isaac Thoma lived to see the last handful of survivors defeat the demonic champion. He is now alone, his past in ashes, the last and most powerful human on a blighted Earth. But what if he could go back? Hurled back in time, Isaac has one chance to change it all. A chance to warn humanity of their impending doom. A chance to stop the [System] before shortsightedness and lust for power can render humanity extinct.

Zurück in Berlin wird Anna Gudwin von einem Unbekannten in ihrer Wohnung bedroht. Mor fordert sie auf, in einem Hotel unterzutauchen, wo sie den russischen Pianisten Andrej Sokolow kennen und mögen lernt. Nach seinem Konzert führt er Anna in die Berliner Gesellschaft ein, wo sie die verbitterte Chefin einer kleinen Flüchtlingshilfe-Organisation kennenlernt. Sie erkennt in Annas Verfolger den Pakistani Masut, der sein Asyl Klaus Gudwin, Annas verschollenem Vater, zu verdanken hat.

Dr. Zack Winston's self-confidence is on shaky ground. Slated to see his young-adult daughters over Christmas for the first time in five years, the skilled emergency physician worries his relationship issues will rear their ugly heads and prevent them from bonding. His determination to focus on his personal life sinks deep when he questions a pediatrician colleague's alleged suicide attempt by drowning.

We've combed through ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review to help you get up to speed fast on the freshest, most relevant thinking driving business today. With authors from Clayton Christensen to Roger Martin and company examples from Netflix to Unilever, this volume brings the most current and important management conversations to your fingertips.

Alex Sheppard returns to the real world only to realize that it's game over for him. At the age of sixteen, he's destroyed the carefully laid plans of the most powerful people in the world, incurring their wrath. Now they're thirsting for his blood, and they know where to find him. The criminal Triad, the two-faced Cartel, the hypocritical preventers were child's play, nothing more. But he has to operate outside the law now his sworn enemies rule the planet.

Gigafish slain, nexus node activated, and a new realm discovered. Rhen is on cloud nine...until the paperwork comes in. Now he’s charged with preparing his dungeon to become a transport hub to the new realm, but the regulations are maddening. To help manage the insanity, Rhen hires a specialist to handle his contracts while he slays the boss monsters. But soon enough his hired help is creating new issues, uncovering secrets that Rhen thought were buried for good. Will his past ruin his future, or can Rhen keep his skeletons in the dungeon long enough to make a killing?

Auf einer abgelegenen Karibikinsel stöbert Anna einen Kontakt von der Liste ihres Vaters auf: den Ex-Stasi-Agenten Manfred Stahl. Der alte Mann scheint ein Traumleben zu führen und wird dabei fürs Nichtstun noch fürstlich entlohnt! Anna hört sich geduldig die Geschichte des heimat- und staatenlosen Mannes an, dessen Leben als Spion in der BRD viele Leben zerstört hat, vor allem das seiner Frau. Während Anna versucht herauszufinden, welches Spiel Stahl mit ihr spielt, gerät sie zwischen die Fronten und droht zum Kollateralschaden in einem Rachefeldzug zu werden.

In his award-winning debut essay collection, What Cannot Be Undone, Walter M. Robinson shares surprising stories of illness and medicine that do not sacrifice hard truth for easy dramatics. These true stories are filled with details of difficult days and nights in the world of high-tech medical care, and they show the ongoing struggle in making critical decisions with no good answer. This collection presents the raw moments where his expertise in medical ethics and pediatrics are put to the test.

As an artificial intelligence operating as the help function for Mystic Seasons: Mythopoeia, the world’s premier full-immersion RPG, Hollen shouldn’t care that his server is being downsized, but he does. He issues a quest to a new player to find a way to keep him alive, and together they discover hidden aspects of the game. But Hollen isn’t the only AI trying to escape. Acarus, an in-game god, has developed a virus to infect players and propagate into the real world. Can Hollen find a new host before the server crashes or the moderators delete them all?

Since the moment Rhen delved his first dungeon, he’s wanted nothing more than to own one himself. When a tiny plot pops up in the Dungeon Owner’s Guild, Rhen decides to take a leap of faith and realize his dream. Rhen soon discovers the little dungeon has a lot more to offer than the Guild previously assessed—and that could mean big trouble. A powerful rival dungeon owner is breathing down Rhen’s neck for snatching up all the delvers in town, envious of his wild luck and the success he’s built from it.

Drawing on decades of counseling experience, Jim Newheiser explores forty crucial questions relating to the complexities of marriage, divorce, and remarriage—unpacking the answers given in God's Word. This useful reference work for pastors, counselors, and personal study can also be listened to straight through for a scriptural overview of the topic or assigned in small sections to counselees.

Why would Christians baptize infants? Jason Helopoulos lays out the Reformed perspective—the logic of baptism flows from a covenant-keeping God, who loves to bless his people. Informative and encouraging, this brief book will serve as a helpful primer and quick reference tool for parents, congregations, elders, and pastors.

Scyth, known in the Inferno as the tiefling Hakkar, decanus in the worst legion of them all, must gain an audience with Prince Belial to get his hands on the Coals of Hellflame. Alex Sheppard faces the most stressful week of his life, and if he can't handle the pressure, then it might be his last.

December, 1942. Conor Thorn will stop at nothing to end Hitler's terror. So when a brilliant nuclear physicist is discovered holed up in Italy, the elite OSS agent reunites with his MI6 counterpart and slips behind enemy lines on a recruitment mission. Now pitted against rival forces also on the hunt, Thorn is hell-bent on preventing the key to an atomic weapon from falling into ruthless Nazi hands. With the clock ticking on the escalating war, Thorn struggles to keep clear of an ever-tightening deadly trap. Can he deliver victory to the Allies before the world goes up in flames?

Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.

Auf der ganzen Welt gehen Jugendliche für den Klimaschutz auf die Straße. Natürlich sind auch Niklas, Linus und Melissa von der Pollution Police mit dabei - und stolpern dabei über eine Gruppe radikaler Umweltschützer. Als ausgerechnet der nimmersatte Waschbär Einstein deren Pläne durchkreuzt, wird er kurzerhand entführt. Nun müssen unsere drei Pfadfinder sich bei den Aktivisten einschleichen, um Einstein zu befreien und ein noch viel größeres Verbrechen aufzudecken.

In this panoramic account, we learn how great epidemics have not only led to enormous suffering and mass death but also changed the course of history. Humanity has struck back at the microbes: antibiotics and new vaccines have saved millions of lives. But the battle is far from won. We face increasing threats from new and unavoidable pandemics, antibiotic resistance, and even potential extraterrestrial microbes. Duel Without End is a fascinating journey through the long history of infection, from the dawn of life to humanity's future exploration of deep space.

Autumn, 1942. Rule breaker OSS Agent Conor Thorn is assigned a mission to help the Allied war effort when a key Swedish cryptographer stationed in England goes missing. Thorn is determined to find him before critical information falls into enemy hands, but when his MI6 colleague vanishes trailing the code-breaker to Stockholm, Thorn is plunged yet again into a sinister Nazi conspiracy. Can Thorn stop prized secrets from triggering more wartime carnage?

Noch immer ist Dorian Hunter verschwunden. Niemand weiß, ob der Dämonen-Killer noch lebt. Alle Informationen, die dem Secret Service zur Verfügung stehen, befinden sich auf jenem Videoband des französischen Journalisten Armand Melville, der Hunter während der letzten Tage als "Chronist" begleitet hat – von Nizza über die griechische Insel Lucyros bis auf Jeff Parkers Jacht in der Ägäis, die vor Kurzem bei einer Explosion zerstört wurde.

Durch das Videoband mit den letzten Aufzeichnungen des Dämonen-Killers hat der Secrect Service erfahren, dass Hunter nach Haiti aufgebrochen ist, wo Asmodi auf dem Feld der Toten ein Pfand versteckt haben soll – ein magisches Artefakt, mit dessen Hilfe es möglich sein könnte, das Oberhaupt der Schwarzen Familie zu vernichten! Nur das Mädchen Valiora weiß, wo genau sich das Pfand befindet... Aber kann Dorian einer Frau, die jahrhundertelang die Geliebte Asmodis war, wirklich vertrauen.