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2022 BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST “Manifoldly clever…brilliant… ‘Glory’ is its own vivid world, drawn from its own folklore. This is a satire with sharper teeth, angrier, and also very, very funny.” —Violet Kupersmith, The New York Times Book Review "Genius."—#1 New York Times...

Kaz Brekker und seinen Krähen ist ein derart tollkühner Coup gelungen, dass sie selbst nicht auf ihr Überleben gewettet hätten. Statt der versprochenen fürstlichen Belohnung erwartet sie jedoch bitterer Verrat: Haarscharf kommen sie mit dem Leben davon, Kaz' Geliebte Inej gerät in Gefangenschaft. Doch Kaz trägt seinen Spitznamen "Dirtyhands" nicht ohne Grund - von jetzt an ist ihm ist kein Deal zu schmutzig und kein Risiko zu groß, um Inej zu befreien und seinen betrügerischen Erzfeind Pekka Rollins zu vernichten.

Since she was born, Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the bowels of Gaea Station alongside the last scraps of humanity, she readies herself to face the Wisdom, the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that gave the majoda their victory over humanity. They are what’s left. They are what must survive. Kyr is one of the best warriors of her generation, the sword of a dead planet. When Command assigns her brother to certain death and relegates her to Nursery to bear sons, she knows she must take humanity's revenge into her own hands.

Magie hat immer einen Preis. Diesmal ist es deine Liebe Die junge Charlotte erhält die Chance ihres Lebens, als sie als Varietétänzerin im sagenumwobenen Luxushotel Lichtenstein anfangen kann, einem berauschenden Ort voller Spektakel und Magie, zu dem nur die Reichen und Mächtigen Zutritt haben – und nun auch Charlie. Sie will auf den verzückenden Bällen tanzen, auf denen Wünsche wahr werden, denn für ihren geheimen Herzenswunsch ist sie bereit, jeden Preis zu zahlen.

Der jungen Halbfae Fayleen steht eine glorreiche Zukunft an der Seite des Fae-Prinzen Keir bevor. In ihr schlummert eine Magie, die der Schlüssel zum Sieg des Gleamy Hofs sein könnte, doch sie will nicht als Waffe für das Königreich eingesetzt werden. Als Fayleen schließlich einen waghalsigen Fluchtplan schmiedet und dem Gleamy Court zusammen mit ihrem Leibwächter den Rücken kehrt, erfährt sie, dass Daemon ihr nicht die ganze Wahrheit darüber gesagt hat, wer er wirklich ist: der verschollene Prinz des Glory Court.

Ein geschenktes Königreich. Ein Bund mit dem Teufel. Eine Liebe über alle Grenzen hinweg. Alizeh, die Königin der Dschinn, steht kurz davor, ihre Krone zurückzugewinnen. Doch zwischen ihr und der Herrschaft steht nichts weniger als ein teuflischer Pakt. Und die Entscheidung, wem ihr Herz in Wahrheit gehört ... Das grandiose Finale der süchtig machenden Bestsellerreihe: voller Magie, großer Gefühle, dramatischer Verwicklungen und mit einer epischen Liebesgeschichte, von der Autorin des TikTok-Sensationserfolg Shatter Me. Gelesen von Nina Reithmeier als Alizeh und Nicolás Artajo als Kamran.

Glory rises from the carnage of the Battle for Earth. Humanity is shell-shocked by how close they came to extinction. Humans don’t know what to do, but they trust their leaders, who are turning to Admiral Jack. And he looks to Glory, Captain Drake, and her crew. With the loss of the planet killer, the Paragon will seek vengeance. They have become even more dangerous because they no longer have to maintain the veil of subterfuge. Their goal hasn’t changed. Death to humanity. Humans. The scrappiest fighters of all the sentient races. But can they stand up to the technologically superior Paragon?

In the Undying Empire's continued, remorseless pursuit of Laran, they sent a new, deadly enemy. The patchwork men. Assembled from the parts of dead warriors and brutal beasts, these monsters are the deadliest Laran has faced. And if that wasn't bad enough, a mysterious woman offers to heal his paralyzed legs by making him a patchwork man himself. Laran continues his fight against the lich emperor and his search for the cryptic Vestiges that grant him system breaking abilities.

You were created to walk and talk with the living God. Prayer is the most natural, powerful, and universal expression of Christian faith. Why then is it sometimes so difficult? Continuing the adventures described in his best-selling memoir, Red Moon Rising, Pete Greig reveals the struggles, miracles, and hard-won insights gleaned from 15 years of 24-7 prayer, mission, and justice.

Once again, reluctant hero Commissar Cain is catapulted into glory in the fourth instalment of this tremendously popular series. Escaping from a disastrous space battle, the commissar and his malodorous sidekick Jurgen crash-land behind enemy lines. Even the sly Cain can't avoid a straight fight this time, as the only way out is to round up what few troops they can find and fight their way back to safety. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of barbaric alien orks stand in their way.

A “meticulously researched and comprehensive” (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa’s Congo At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europe. It borders nine other nations, and since 1996 it has been racked by a brutal war in...

Despite defeating the empire's ghoul commander, Laran is still hunted by the Undying Empire. The Master of Ten Thousand Bones sends hordes of skeletal animals and warrior to kill him and take the mysterious Vestige he recovered from the Pit of the Sleeping Gods. The emperor's bonewalker hunts Laran and the tauran warrior Daisy at every turn. Which would be par for the course if the rats of the city weren't also rising up, rebelling against his all too effective traps.

After the main shipyard is heavily damaged, the enemy advances with a fresh offensive, and losses are piling up with no hope of building replacements. How can the surviving fleet stand up to the new onslaught? The Paragon have been weakened, but they still outnumber the humans. And now they're angry. Relics of the past. Mothballed ships and forgotten warriors, waiting for their names to be called again. The ship from a war fought long ago. Glory as a paradigm for the future.

The Glory plunges immediately into the violence and upheaval of the Six-Day War of 1967 - and continues the dramatic story of Israel’s struggle for survival. A sprawling, action-packed novel, Wouk takes listeners through the terrors of the Yom Kippur War, the famous Entebbe rescue, and the airstrikes on Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor - ending with the final hope for peace.

Glory barely survived its last battle twenty years ago. Captain Drake resigned rather than face court martial. But the enemy is back, and humanity needs everything that can fly. Maybe it’s not the ship at all but the crew. They hold the key. Drake rallies old and young alike to comply with orders so secret even he wasn’t allowed to see them until after the ship left the junkyard. Would it leave? That was another question. The core hadn’t been fired in twenty years.

Josh Walker is loyal, reckless, and every girl's dream. But he only has eyes for December Howard, the girl he has yearned for since his high school hockey days. Together they have survived grief, the military, distance, and time as they've fought for stolen weekends between his post at Ft. Rucker and her schooling at Vanderbilt. Now that Josh is a medevac pilot and Ember is headed toward graduation, they're moving on - and in - together.

Caleb Mitchell gave up everything to protect his home. Shunned by friends and family for abandoning the pacifist beliefs of their religion, abandoned by the love of his life, he left his home world of Canaan to go to the Commonwealth Military Academy on Earth and train to fight in the looming war against the implacable alien threat of the Tahni Imperium. When a training mission with a crew of cadets winds up caught in the middle of one of the worst battles of the war, Cal and his fellow students are officially declared dead.

The Gray Death Legion is in the employ of the Free Worlds League and has even been given a landhold on the planet Helm. But dark forces conspire against them, and the Legion soon finds themselves declared renegade war criminals, fair game for anyone to attack. Now, they are on the run on their home planet, trying desperately to reach safety before the might of House Marik falls upon them. They are about to discover the true motives of those who engineered their downfall. And what they discover will change the Inner Sphere forever....

From the creator of the beloved and universally acclaimed television series BoJack Horseman, a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe. Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael...

The bestselling author of Into the Wild, Into Thin Air, and Under the Banner of Heaven delivers a stunning, eloquent account of a remarkable young man’s haunting journey. Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible...