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My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins a tale told from his own point of view - a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.

The Earth lies shaken in the aftermath of a conspiracy. Some of the smartest minds on the planet have striven for and died in an effort to scour the skies of four vast alien satellites, but their success has brought a terrible vengeance down upon us. While alien agents stalk the Earth, a team of exhausted scientists and military outcasts struggle to fight them among a planet on the brink - the brink of plague, the brink of war, and the brink of an invasion larger than they can possibly imagine. But they have allies.

Halek Cain has mysteries to solve, people to rescue, and a vendetta to carry out. But he must fix his Reaper augmentations before they kill him. He needs raw materials from Gronic, a technical specialist on Roxo III, and time to put himself right before the Union comes for him. Everything seems like it’s going to work out...until he learns Elise is in trouble. If Cain doesn’t get to her first, everything that happened on Dreadmax will have been for nothing. The Last Reaper will encounter assassins, Union special operators, and a mysterious rival from his past.

Die zweite Novelle aus der Welt der SPIEGEL-Bestsellerreihe »Powerless«. Mara hatte sich eigentlich geschworen, nie wieder einen Fuß in das Königreich Ilya zu setzen. Doch als Kitt Azer eine folgenschwere Entscheidung trifft, wird ihr Interesse geweckt. Mara macht sich auf den Weg, um Kitt und die Bewohner des Schlosses genauer in Augenschein zu nehmen. Doch was sie dabei entdeckt, wird nicht nur Kitts Schicksal in neue Bahnen lenken …

Kaum findet Special Agent Pendergast seine jahrelang totgeglaubte Frau wieder, verliert er sie erneut: Helen wird vor seinen Augen entführt und schließlich tatsächlich umgebracht. Pendergast ist am Boden zerstört und verschanzt sich in seinem Apartment. Währenddessen wird sein Partner Lieutenant D'Agosta von einer bizarren Mordserie auf Trab gehalten, deren Spur schließlich zu Pendergast führt. Widerwillig beginnt der Special Agent zu ermitteln und kommt schon bald einem Geheimnis von Helen auf die Spur, das sein Leben von Grund auf verändert...

“Written in words so intimate, calm, kind, and immediate, this extraordinary book feels like a message from our very own heart….Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most important voices of our time, and we have never needed to listen to him more than now.” —Sogyal Rinpoche Fear is destructive...

OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD RUNAWAY #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER SENSATIONAL #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER “Explosive.”—The Washington Post “Devastating.”—The New Yorker “Unprecedented.”—CNN “Great reporting...astute.”—Hugh Hewitt THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY...

Lake Monroe has given in to her childhood tormentor too many times. She knows it, he knows it, and even their enemies know it. When he returned after being found guilty of a crime he didn't commit - a crime he thought she set him up for, he returned darker than ever, demanding her body and her submission. To survive him, she knew she had to give in to fear once more or suffer the deadly consequences....

Sie war eine Prinzessin. Dann eine Gefangene. Dann eine Gejagte. Und am Ende wird sie Königin sein! Eigentlich stand das Schicksal von Prinzessin Elowen unter einem guten Stern: Zu ihrer Geburt bekam sie fünf Dracheneier geschenkt, und als die Drachen schlüpften, erkannten sie Elowen als ihre Herrin an. Doch der König von Imirath fürchtete, seine Tochter könnte ihn vom Thron stoßen, sobald sie ihre volle Macht erlangt, also sperrte er das Mädchen ins Verlies. Jahre später gelang Elowen mithilfe ihres Onkels die Flucht.

These days, no one in America feels immune to violence. But now, in this extraordinary, groundbreaking book, the nation's leading expert on predicting violent behavior unlocks the puzzle of human violence and shows that, like every creature on earth, we have within us the ability to predict the harm others might do us and get out of its way. Contrary to popular myth, human violence almost always has a discernible motive and is preceded by clear warning signs.

Eine verschneite Nacht. Ein Fremder. Eine verhängnisvolle Begegnung. Megan wollte nur ein ruhiges Weihnachten verbringen, während ein Schneesturm die Hamptons in eisige Stille taucht. Doch als ein Fremder an der Tür klingelt, ahnt sie nicht, dass dieser Abend ihr Leben für immer verändern wird. Was als unerwarteter Besuch beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einem Spiel aus Angst und Verlangen. Fearful Christmas ist der Debütroman von Daniel Heart – ein intensiver Dark-Romance-Thriller, der die Grenzen zwischen Angst und Verlangen verschwimmen lässt.

If you like “edge of your seat suspense/horror” this is your audiobook. Beta readers have described Fears Volume 2 as completely immersive, like they have plunged into the stories with the characters. They described feeling panicked, catching themselves hyperventilating or holding their breath as they read it.

Tommy is a highly skilled doctor. A teacher. A veteran. A fully-patched member of The Dixie Wardens MC. What will it take for this man to accept that he needs to make some changes in his life? Apparently, it'll take a guy in a truck, nearly plowing into him on his bike at seventy miles per hour. Oh, and a twenty-something year old nursing student witnessing the entire thing from only a few feet away.

There’s a new craze at Dread Wood High. Flinch is a game of fear. The more you scare your friends, the more points on the app you get. At first it’s fun, but soon fun is replaced by fear. And Angelo and his friends notice that everyone is behaving more and more strangely every day—almost as if something is taking over their brains. With the fair arriving in town, adrenaline and excitement levels are high. But who are the people behind the super-creepy clown masks? With fights breaking out and Flinch in full force, it’s time for the final showdown at the Fear Ground.

From the Audie-nominated narrator of The Martian. In eleven years' time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships' huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space. These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out.

Piloted by a six-year-old girl, the godlike Skalm guards the Districts of TASC. Her family is long dead. Her adopted father is a synthetic copy of an alien, her nanny an artificial mind connected via subspace to every part of the globe, feeding the young girl information, finding prey to satiate her growing thirst. But the young girl is an innocent, a victim, one of millions the war has already claimed.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An exiled princess teams up with the last man she thought she could trust in the start of a dazzling and unforgettable epic fantasy romance series. As a child, Elowen Atarah was ripped away from her dragons and imprisoned by her father, King Garrick of Imirath. Years...

It's been said that, after 9/11, the 2008 financial crash and the COVID-19 pandemic, we're a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been driving forces - perhaps the driving force - of world history: fear of God, of famine, war, disease, poverty, and other people. In Fear: An Alternative History of the World, Robert Peckham considers the impact of fear in history, as both a coercive tool of power and as a catalyst for social change.

El hombre había desaparecido. El mito no. Músico, mendigo, ladrón, estudiante, mago, trotamundos, héroe y asesino, Kvothe había borrado su rastro. Y ni siquiera ahora que le han encontrado, ni siquiera ni siquiera ahora que le han encontrado, ni siquiera ahora que las tinieblas invaden los rincones del mundo, está dispuesto a regresar. Pero su historia prosigue, la aventura continúa, y Kvothe seguirá contándola para revelar la verdad tras la leyenda.

Die zusammengewürfelte Gruppe um Maki und Maida hat mit den Auswirkungen des Todes der falschen Heiligen zu kämpfen. Als wäre das nicht genug, wird der Zusammenhalt der Überlebenden auf ihrer mühseeligen Reise nach Refin erneut auf die Probe gestellt. Können sie den Gefahren trotzen? Was wird sie in der Festung erwarten? Und wie geht es für sie danach weiter? Mit den Gesegneten im Nacken und dem Tod als ständigen Begleiter, geht der Überlebenskampf in der roten Wüste in die nächste Runde.