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Mags’ Welt liegt in Scherben. Nicht nur ihre Familie, sondern auch Cyrus hat sie belogen. Weder ihm noch den Knights kann sie länger trauen. Sie flieht von der Akademie, um mehr über ihre Kräfte und die Geheimisse der Loge herauszufinden. Die Suche führt Mags und ihre Freundin Stella zu den Rivalen der Knights, den Heirs of the Serpent. Was sie von ihnen erfahren, stellt alles auf den Kopf, was Mags zu wissen geglaubt hat. Währenddessen sind die Hunter der Knights Mags bereits auf den Fersen. Unter ihnen auch Cyrus, dessen Gefühle für Mags seine Loyalität infrage stellen.

In the future, the leaders of Hive nations–nations without fixed location–clandestinely committed nefarious deeds in order to maintain an outward semblance of utopian stability. But the facade could only last so long. The comforts of effortless global travel and worldwide abundance may have tempered humanity's darkest inclinations, but conflict remains deeply rooted in the human psyche. All it needed was a catalyst, in form of special little boy to ignite half a millennium of repressed chaos.

Lovers Brogan and Lula Gauge have traveled the haunted byways of Route 66 for almost a hundred years. Their deal with the god Cupid has brought Brogan back to life, but the return to the living world hasn’t been easy for him. What’s more, that deal left them deeply indebted to the god. Now the god is demanding his due. To honor their side of the deal, Brogan and Lula must find what Cupid wants found. The god hasn’t given them much to go on other than: find the rabbit that is not a rabbit. Do the right thing.

Alistair knows the risks, but he must take the Ice Queen’s military and the gigante to Planet Phoenix. In order to defeat the Ascendant, Alexander de Finita, and put this nightmare behind him, it’ll take every asset he can bring together. There’s just one problem.

The Simpsons has been predicting major events with scary accuracy for over three decades, from Donald Trump's presidency to Disney buying 20th Century Fox. People just can't seem to get enough and are eager to know what it's going to predict next. This book goes behind the scenes of this adored cartoon series, and the family we've grown to love. Between Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and the rest of the Simpsons family, the show has stolen our hearts, and also left us amazed at how often The Simpsons predicts the future!

The militant Warriors of the Cross, have come to Shadows Fall to capture and wrest control of the legendary Forever Door from Old Father Time and a town they see as being filled by sinners, witches, and demons. James Hart makes a startling discovery about his grandfather. And Mayor Rhea Frazier and the revenant Leonard Ash renew their relationship, after his return from the dead.

The war continues, and the undead ravage the land. Jirom, Horace, and Emanon begin to hope they might free the empire. But can they manage to do so before the dark king conquers the world?

L. E. Modesitt, Jr. moves deep into Recluce's past to chronicle the founding of the Empire of the Legend, the almost mythological domain ruled by women warriors on the highland plateau of the continent of Candar. He tells the story from the point of view of Nylan, the engineer and builder whose job it is to raise a great tower on the plateau known as the Roof of the World. Here the exiled women warriors will live and survive to fulfill their destiny.

Michael is branded a traitor as a child because of the murder of the king’s 9-year-old son, by his father David Kingman. Ten years later on Michael lives a hardscrabble life, with his sister Gwen, performing crimes with his friends against minor royals in a weak attempt at striking back at the world that rejects him and his family. In a world where memory is the coin that pays for magic, Michael knows something is there in the hot white emptiness of his mind.

No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet: No idea how he ended up in the middle of a desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That’s the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to — dazed and confused — until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last thing he remembers: He agreed to help out a friend of Duff MacCallister’s. A pretty lady and her husband at a horse ranch. He also recalls their cross-country trip through hell to deliver the horses safely to market. That’s when the outlaws showed up. That’s when the shooting began.

The present: His daughter, fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, finds herself on the trail of that same cargo when skeletal remains are found near an excavation site in the Texas desert. She’s also dealing with the aftermath of a massacre that claimed the lives of all the workers at a intelligence company on her watch. These two cases are connected by a long buried secret, one that men have killed and died to protect. Caitlin and her outlaw lover Cort Wesley Masters must prove themselves to be as strong as steel to overcome a bloody tide that has been rising for centuries.

El caNino de Santiago es un audiolibro para todos los públicos lleno de amor y humor. Es una oda al amor y a la unión perro-humano y, al mismo tiempo, es una puesta en valor de que lo importante de la vida es vivirla cada día, como bien te recuerda y enseña el Camino de Santiago, porque lo importante de cualquier camino es el propio camino, no la meta. Son siete capítulos dobles que establecen un paralelismo entre el primer Camino De Santiago de Nala y Sara y su camino de vida juntas.

El amor, la felicidad, la esperanza… son nociones que dan sentido a la vida pero que sólo pueden alcanzarse cuando se han superado los miedos y el sol resplandece por encima de neblinas y temores. Brenda Barnaby, la exitosa autora de los best seller Más allá de El Secreto y 333 maneras de...

Premio Lazarillo de Creación Literaria, 2017 Una protagonista científica que inspirará a los jóvenes lectores. La Escuela de Artefactos y Oficios acoge a los jóvenes más brillantes. Son capaces de crear casas motorizadas, sombreros voladores y demás proezas. Ágata McLeod es una de las...

Trapped in the Outlanders era, a century in their own future, Ryan Cawdor and his survivalist companions encounter the Cerberus rebels when both groups are at their lowest ebb. But, unknown to them, they are standing on Site Zero, a critical experimental zone for the sinister Millennial Consortium, traders who specialize in scientific technology. The Consortium’s mysterious director intends to explore these time travelers in unimaginable ways to ensure his mastery of the new world.

”Kan man få en jävla like?” är en roman som blandar värmande feelgood med vass samtidssatir. Utifrån ser det ut som att Molly har allt man kan önska och lite till – jobb på kreddig kommunikationsbyrå, en framgångsrik pojkvän och lägenhet i Stockholms innerstad. Ändå är det någonting som skaver och det var länge sedan hon kände äkta lycka i sin på många sätt ytliga tillvaro.

Flora är Mollys snälla, roliga och lite galna kompis. Tillsammans hittar de på alla möjliga, fantastiska saker. Men gradvis börjar Floras påhitt tänja på gränserna och till sist är det inte alltid så kul längre. Och kanske inte heller så normalt. Flora är vaken på nätterna, hon stjäl och hittar på livsfarliga saker och verkar helt ur balans. Molly vet inte vad hon ska göra, och plötsligt försvinner Flora bara. Vad är det som händer med henne? Dorte Roholte (f. 1958) har skrivit ett stort antal böcker för barn och ungdomar samt för vuxna.

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war, a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed location, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way.

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.

My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental. My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen. The King is missing and his mind is cracked. It is up to me to find him before the Rim is taken over by the bloodthirsty heir to the throne.