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Endspurt! Die Gralsbruderschaft macht sich bereit, den letzten Schritt zu tun - einzugehen in das Netzwerk Otherland, um das ewige Leben zu erlangen. Die Rätsel um Paul Jonas werden gelüftet, und Renie und ihre Freunde sehen sich mit dem Geheimnis von Otherland konfrontiert. Gefangen in einem...

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY AMY LIPTROT SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 1994 WINNER OF THE SALTIRE SOCIETY LITERARY AWARD 1994 'Intimate, humorous, effortlessly combining the strands of history and folklore, the past and the present, this is a deceptively simple book, like a tale told to a child...

After a summer of adventure, Socks must return to Father to make an accounting of himself. It's time to justify what he's been up to and demonstrate that he remains the predator he was born to be. Failure to meet expectations could easily mean death. Meanwhile, Dirt continues to receive special tutoring from the trees, which comes with its own set of dangers. They're teaching him to speak with beings who dwell beyond perception, hopefully without accidentally getting himself killed. It's proving to be no easy task.

Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He is regarded as a leading pioneer of existentialism and one of the greatest philosophers of the 19th Century. In Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard aimed to understand the anxiety that must have been present in Abraham when God commanded him to offer his son as a human sacrifice. Abraham had a choice to complete the task or to forget it.

What if there were scientific solutions that could wipe out your deepest fears of falling ill, receiving a life-threatening diagnosis, or feeling the effects of ageing? What if you had access to the same cutting-edge tools and technology used by peak performers and the world’s greatest...

In Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division, Peter Hook, bassist for the legendary, groundbreaking band Joy Division, takes readers backstage with the group that helped define the sound of a generation and influenced artists such as U2, Radiohead, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Unlike other books...

IKKE ALLE GÅDER KAN LØSES AF VIDENSKABEN Liget af en mand findes på klipperne ved kysten tæt på den fallerede turistby Hari-ga-Ura.  Tilfældet vil, at professor Yukawa bor på samme pensionat, som den afdøde boede på. Og tilfældet vil, at drabsefterforsker Kusanagi involveres i...

Pothåndbogen – en brugerguide er en underholdende og oplysende guide til, hvordan man får de bedste oplevelser med pot og cannabis. Bogen forholder sig til fup og fakta, skrøner og myter, og fremlægger den nyeste forskning og viden om emnet. Her er hele historien om pot og alt fra...

Wir schreiben das Jahr 3001, Drittes Zeitalter nach der Großen Schlacht. Im Auenland gehen merkwürdige Dinge vor. Sauron, der Böse, ist wieder erstarkt und die Schatten seines Reiches Mordor werden länger. Bald ist ganz Mittelerde vom Untergang bedroht. Sauron fordert sein Eigentum zurück...

To solve a double murder in Cuba, US Army Captain Billy Boyle will need to build unlikely alliances with Havana’s underworld and British intelligence, including Lieutenant Commander Ian Fleming, whose naval wartime service would later inspire the James Bond novels. This installment of James R...

A fiendishly clever, yet cozy entry in the much-loved mystery series starring Judge Dee, whom the Los Angeles Times ranked with Sherlock Holmes. Early in his career, Judge Dee visits a senior magistrate who shows him a beautiful lacquer screen on which a scene of lovers has been mysteriously...

Discourses on Livy, written in 1531, is as essential to understanding Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. Comparing the practice of the ancient Romans with that of his contemporaries provided Machiavelli with a consistent point of view in all his works. Machiavelli's close analysis of Livy's history of Rome led him to advance his most original and outspoken view of politics--the belief that a healthy political body was characterized by social friction and conflict rather than by rigid stability.

The Ultimate Essays Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 30 classic essays analysing everything from war to love, journalism to race, travel to nature, and much more, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are essays by some of the greatest writers of all time, including George Orwell; Thomas Paine; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Henry David Thoreau; Virigina Woolf; Sigmund Freud; Zorea Neale Huston; Langston Hughes; Jack London, and more.

Er gibt sich Mühe, ein Ekel zu sein – und doch schließt man ihn schon nach den ersten Minuten ins Herz. Cesare ist 77 und zieht Bilanz. Von seinen einst hochfliegenden Träumen ist wenig aufgegangen. Seine Methode, mit den Enttäuschungen des Lebens umzugehen: Ironie und Sarkasmus. Das kommt...

Das neue Meisterwerk von John Williams Verbündete, Gegner, Feinde – ein Herrscherleben in all seinen Facetten Octavian ist neunzehn, sensibel, wissbegierig und will Gelehrter werden. Doch als Großneffe und Adoptivsohn Julius Cäsars fällt ihm nach dessen Ermordung ein gewaltiges Erbe zu...

The Essential Classics: Volume 9 brings together 5 of the greatest classics ever written, perfectly read by an esteemed cast including Emma Gregory, Ben Allen, George Blagden, and Peter Noble. From the gripping tale of social confinement in Little Dorrit to the dark exploration of ambition and desire in Nana, this volume covers a range of emotions and struggles. The Immortalist delves into fate and the choices that shape our lives, while Dead Souls brings wit and satirical brilliance to the human condition.

In this second volume of Rise of the Jain, Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war. Their nemesis lies in wait . . . Orlandine has destroyed the alien Jain super-soldier by deploying an actual black hole. And now that same weapon hoovers up clouds of...

Tom Sawyer - das ist das große Abenteuer am Mississippi und der vorwitzige Junge, der es faustdick hinter den Ohren hat! Tante Polly jedenfalls hat ihre liebe Not mit dem abenteuerlustigen Neffen, der ein gefürchteter Pirat werden will. Drehbuchautor Sascha Arango und Regisseurin Hermine...

The new book in the bestselling Reverend Curtis Black series! The Reverend Curtis Black hasn't spoken to his son, Matthew, in over a year-not since Matthew dropped out of Harvard to marry his girlfriend, Racquel, and be a full-time father to their infant son. Curtis knows that it was he and his...

The Earth Chronicles series is based on the premise that mythology is not fanciful but the repository of ancient memories; that the Bible ought to be read literally as a historic/scientific document; and that ancient civilizations--older and greater than assumed--were the product of knowledge...