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Humanity crossed the void. The universe answered back. Aurora Protocol: Book Two - Quantum Dawn pushes the series deeper into the unknown as humanity’s first interstellar ship ventures beyond mapped space and into consequences no equation can fully predict. The Aurora I is a triumph of science...

Award winning author Jamie Lisa Forbes brings us the story of Rowen Hart, the pampered only son of a prominent family in the small community of White Rock, North Carolina. It's the 1950's and Rowen is following the life path his parents have planned for him when his world is upturned by his...

Bloomsbury presents Electronic Dreams by Tom Lean, read by Mark Meadows Remember the ZX Spectrum? How about the BBC Micro, Acorn Electron, or Commodore 64? Did you marvel at the immense galaxies of Elite or master digital kung-fu in Way of the Exploding Fist? For anyone growing up in the 1980s...

Professor Gordon Porter und seine Tochter Jane unternehmen eine Expedition in die Dschungel Afrikas, um die Menschenaffen zu erforschen. Als es zu Konflikten mit dem Stamm der Eingeborenen Baka kommt, erhalten sie Hilfe von unerwarteter Seite: Tarzan, ein junger Mann, offenbar europäischer Herkunft, der bei den Affen aufgewachsen zu sein scheint. Im Jahr 1912 erschuf Edgar Rice Burroughs den berühmten Helden Tarzan, der bis heute als Herr des Urwaldes bekannt ist.

DCI Bill Slider and his team are plunged into a city-wide manhunt when the body of a police officer is found dumped in a canal. Colleagues say PC Peter Bentley was a quiet bloke who kept himself to himself. But as Slider and Atherton dig deeper, it becomes clear that this likeable bobby had secrets. Was he involved in something that got out of control or had something from his past come back to bite him? Soon, the hardships of 'the Job' and the office politics at play make for an intriguing mystery that, this time, feels too close to home...

Was bedeutet das für das heutige Deutschland, für das Land in der Mitte Europas, immer noch die drittstärkste Industrienation weltweit, aufgrund seiner zerborstenen Geschichte aber postnational und als militärische Macht fast unsichtbar? Kann dies angesichts neuer militärischer Bedrohungen für Europa, angesichts des Rückzugs der USA als Garantiemacht und der Gefahr, technologisch und wirtschaftlich den Anschluss zu verlieren, so bleiben?

Founder of the Midnight Dad community Dr. Mark Pitts knows firsthand the unique challenges fathers face as they try to keep pace with the daily demands of work and family life. In Called to Be Dad, he addresses the questions he most often gets from dads about family and fatherhood, like · How...

Brought to you by Penguin. The heartbreaking Japanese classic telling the story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first time In the dying days of the War, Seita and Setsuko must fend for themselves. Firebombs have obliterated their...

'Well-researched and enthralling, Peter Ricketts brings the wartime Foreign Office to life.’ – Tim Bouverie 'The gripping story of how the men and women of the Foreign Office secured Britain's victory in the Second World War and created a new international order.' – Professor Helen...

From the author of American Eden—finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and more—comes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th-century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put...

From an award-winning historian, the definitive history of classical Greece and the rivalry between its two greatest cities. No period has more profoundly influenced the Western world than classical Greece, and at its center stood two cities: Athens and Sparta. Side by side, they beat the...

Bloomsbury presents Hammer of the Gods: King Olaf's Viking Conquest by Don Holloway, read by Mark Meadows. Weaving together Norse sagas and Anglo-Saxon chronicles to vividly depict the violence and spectacle of the Viking age, Don Hollway brings the legendary Olaf Tryggvason to life. Hammer of...

Percy Jackson meets The Labors of Hercules Beal in this hilarious, page-turning fantasy adventure with a heart of gold from two award-winning authors. Simon expected more from life than being orphaned in ancient Greece and stuck in the Underworld for eternity. Determined not to forget who he is...

'A soaring coming-of-age novel.' - THE OBSERVER 'Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny. When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose.' - Bonnie Garmus, LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY In a world where girls and women are...

THE WALL STREET JOURNAL AND USA TODAY BESTSELLING GUIDE TO BRILLIANT COMMUNICATION READERS LOVE SMART BREVITY: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "This book is soooo good" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Love this book, short, punchy, deep, simple and easy to implement" ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Genius wrapped in generosity: it shows you...

William Burroughs closed his classic novel Junky by saying he had determined to search out a drug he called ‘Yage’, a drug that could be ‘the final fix’. In The Yage Letters, a mix of travel writing, satire, psychedelia, and epistolary novel, he journeys through South America, writing to his friend Allen Ginsberg about his experiments with the strange drug, using it to travel through time and space and derange his senses.

Burroughs’ letters reveal his desire to escape the norms of American society which hemmed him in, and the extraordinary steps he took to break free.

Bloomsbury presents Where the Iron Crosses Grow: The Crimea 1941-44 by Robert Forczyk, read by Mark Meadows. The Crimean Peninsula was the setting for the destruction of a number of armies in World War II, both Soviet and German. When the Soviets fortified Sevastopol in 1941 it heralded the...

David Thomas spent over thirty-four years in the criminal justice system, serving in corrections, law enforcement, the courts, and as a defense investigator. Most of his career was focused on investigations, including roles as a detective, detective sergeant, and supervisor of investigations...

Joachim Bauer beleuchtet die Kluft zwischen digitaler Technik und den biologischen und sozialen Bedürfnissen des Menschen. Er zeigt, warum sich menschliche Begabungen nicht an der Fähigkeit zur Datenverarbeitung messen lassen, warum wahre Intelligenz ihren Ursprung in körperlichen Erfahrungen hat und welche Konsequenzen sich daraus für unsere Bildungseinrichtungen ergeben. Der Arzt, Neurowissenschaftler und Bestseller-Autor Joachim Bauer begründet die unverzichtbare Bedeutung der analogen Welt als einzigartigen Ort zwischenmenschlicher Zuwendung und sozialer Resonanz.

Als der Physiker Lukas Heuer am LIGO eine merkwürdige Gravitationswellenanomalie entdeckt, hält er sie zuerst für einen Messfehler. Doch Messdaten deuten auf extrem massereiche Objekte hin, die sich der Erde nähern und dabei eine gravitative Schneise durch das Sonnensystem ziehen. Sollte er recht haben, blieben der Menschheit nur wenige Wochen, um den Untergang abzuwenden. Gleichzeitig macht die Archäologin Mira Najafi zur selben Zeit eine ganz andere Entdeckung: Sie findet einen bislang unbekannten Raum in der großen Pyramide von Gizeh, der voller düsterer Prophezeiungen steckt.