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Was hat es mit der geheimnisvollen Hexe des Westens auf sich? Von wem stammt sie ab? Wie wurde sie so böse? Wicked erzählt die aufregende Vorgeschichte des Zauberer von Oz. Elphaba ist als junge Hexe ein ernsthaftes, intelligentes und unglücklicherweise grünhäutiges Mädchen. Ihr Vater ist ein sittenstrenger Prediger, ihre Mutter eine leichtfertige Schönheit. An der Universität studiert sie Biologie und forscht besonders über grundlegende Ähnlichkeiten zwischen Menschen und Tieren. Unterdessen ist aber der Zauberer von Oz dabei, die Rechte der Tiere grausam einzuschränken.

Eine Liebe zwischen Licht und Dunkelheit. Auf den ersten Blick ist Ivy Morgan eine normale junge Frau: Sie genießt das Studentenleben in New Orleans, und ist, seit dem tragischen Verlust ihrer ersten großen Liebe, überzeugter Single. Nur wenige ihrer Freunde wissen, dass Ivy einem Orden angehört, der die Menschen in New Orleans vor übernatürlichen Wesen schützt. Eines Tages wird Ivy von einer Fae angegriffen und schwer verletzt.

Vaasa hat Reids Leben gerettet – doch zu einem hohen Preis: Als Gefangene des dunklen Magiers Ozik wurde sie von ihrem Hexenzirkel, ihrer Magie und ihrer großen Liebe Reid getrennt und soll nun als Oziks Marionette auf dem Thron von Asteria sitzen. Während Ozik seine Intrigen spinnt, muss Vaasa mit allen Mitteln kämpfen, um ihre Magie, ihr Herz und ihre Freiheit zurückzugewinnen. Reid setzt derweil Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung, um Vaasa zu retten, und führt Krieg gegen Asteria. Doch als ihm die Verbündeten wegbrechen, muss er sich allein hinter die feindlichen Linien schleichen.

Miss Alice Bursnell is determined to wreak revenge on Nathaniel Eastwood, Viscount Abingdon, for the seduction, ruin, and death of her beloved twin sister. But how to expose a seducer without falling prey herself? As she gets closer to Nathaniel, she finds she is in serious danger of following in her sister's much-too-tempted footsteps. 

Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin—no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. Still, Elphaba is smart, and not long after entering Shiz University, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens. But Elphaba's Oz is no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere.

Twenty-two-year-old Ivy Morgan isn't your average college student. She, and others like her, know that humans aren't the only thing trolling the French Quarter for fun...and for food. Her duty to the Order is her life. Four years ago, she lost everything at the hands of the creatures she'd sworn to hunt, tearing her world and her heart apart.

On a misty cemetery world, three strangers are drawn together through mysterious circumstances. Each of them has a tale to tell of a narrow escape from death. Amid the toll of funerary bells and the creep and click of mortuary-servitors, the truth is confessed. But whose story can be trusted? Whose recollection is warped, even unto themselves?

In the exhilarating second romantasy novel in Rebecca Robinson’s Dark Inheritance Trilogy, a fiery couple forced apart must navigate a deadly maze of politics and power to reunite across a continent at war. Torn from her husband Reid’s arms and dragged back to her homeland in chains, Vaasa...

In the years between her first public lecture in 1961 and her last in 1981, Ayn Rand spoke and wrote about topics as different as education, medicine, Vietnam, and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In The Voice of Reason, these pieces are gathered together in book form for the first time. Written in the last decades of Rand's life, they reflect a life lived on principle, a probing mind, and a passionate intensity. With them are five essays by Leonard Peikoff, Rand's longtime associate and literary executor.

One of Ray Bradbury’s best-known and most popular novels, Something Wicked This Way Comes, now in a new recording narrated by Paul Giamatti! For those who still dream and remember, for those yet to experience the hypnotic power of its dark poetry, step inside. The show is about to begin...

At Bagley Hall, a notoriously wild, but increasingly academic, independent, crammed with the children of the famous, trouble is afoot. The ambitious and fatally attractive headmaster, Hengist Brett-Taylor, hatches a plan to share the facilities of his school with Larkminster Comprehensive - known locally, as 'Larks'. His reasons for doing so are purely financial, but he is encouraged by the opportunities the scheme gives him for frequent meetings with Janna Curtis, the dynamic new head of Larks, who has been drafted in to save what is a fast-sinking school from closure. 

"THE WICKED is a perfectly executed enemies-to-lovers that feels impossible to put down." —Autumn Woods, USA Today bestselling author of Nightshade He is the king of mafia kings. She's the risk. He’s the ruin. Together, they unleash the storm. Elio They call me “The Wicked.” I’ve...

Po Lam needs absolution. After decades of faithfully serving Mrs. Edevane, Po Lam can no longer excuse a life of bondage and murder. She needs a fresh start. A clean conscience. More than anything, she needs to save Gean Choo from a love that will destroy them all.

Candlewick is done waiting for an alpha to sweep him off his feet. He’s spent the last decade traveling, making trouble, and flirting with the most powerful men in the world. That’s what he’s good at. After he spends a few nights in jail because of said trouble, he doesn’t expect anyone to come for him. He certainly doesn’t expect his fated mate to show up in the jail parking lot riding a dragon.

For Detective Sam Porter, the words "Father, forgive me" conjure memories long forgotten; a past intentionally buried. For Anson Bishop, these three words connect a childhood to the present as he unleashes a truth concealed for decades. Found written on cardboard near each body, these words link multiple victims to a single killer - discovered within minutes of each other in both Chicago and South Carolina - clearly connected yet separated by impossible miles.

In the third installment of the Girl Genius novels, Agatha H. and the Voice of the Castle begins as Agatha Heterodyne returns to her ancestral home, the warped little town of Mechanicsburg. There she must claim her inheritance by convincing the artificial intelligence that animates her family's castle that she is, in fact, the new Heterodyne. But this apparently simple task is made complicated in several ways: An imposter claiming to be the legitimate heir appears.

A Wicked Voice is the tale of a composer haunted by the music of the 18th century and by the exquisite voice of a singer of that period who reputedly sang so beautifully his songs could (quite literally) kill with their beauty.

Hawke doesn’t talk about his past—and it’s not because he has a stutter that rarely lets him speak more than three words at a time. The shadows of what was haunt his every waking hour, but the Broken Chains MC have been a sanctuary he never expected. And Hawke is the sort of man who knows better than to cross lines, especially when it comes to the safety of his brothers. But when Jax, the VP of the Cobras, looks at him like he’s a whole man instead of shattered pieces of the person he was before he left his home behind, he can’t help but want to be just a little bit wicked.

Amber Olivier awakens in a cold sweat, the bitter taste of blood in her mouth and her head throbbing. Not even a hint of light reaches her. She reaches left, right, and above, but within inches, her hands meet a solid structure covered with satin. She bangs on the top of the enclosure, but the cushioned fabric only creates a dull thud. Beyond panicked, she screams until her throat burns and she doesn’t have another breath of air in her.

Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic, Something Wicked This Way Comes, into this first-class audio drama, produced by The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music. Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show comes to Greentown, Illinois, one week before Halloween. Two boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, soon discover the evil of this carnival, which promises to make your every wish and dream come true.