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The Greatest ArchMage in human history dies to the claws of a juvenile WyrmKin. That’s how mankind’s climb ends—wiped out by Level 34 in a Tower with over four hundred floors, crushed by ancient races that treat human magic like a joke. Jonah refuses that ending. He wakes up regressed to the beginning, hours before the System initializes, armed with decades of hard-earned knowledge and one chance to rewrite everything.

Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicated man high in the government. Daniel Ainslie, his son, is a member of an explosive movement impelled by the naive rebelliousness of the New Left. Hugh MacLennan weaves a complex and story of two generations in conflict. Originally published in 1967, Return of the Sphinx is something of a sequel to the more optimistic Two Solitudes and reflects MacLennan's disenchantment with the world in general and the apparently intractable French-English debate in Canada.

November 1943: Die deutsche Abwehr plant das wohl spektakulärste Unternehmen des Zweiten Weltkrieges. US-Präsident Roosevelt...

Innerhalb einiger weniger kurzer Jahre hat sich David Weber mit seiner Serie um Honor Harrington, der zähesten und tüchtigsten Kommandantin eines Sternenschiffs in der Galaxis, an die Spitze der amerikanischen Science Fiction geschrieben. In diesem Hörbuch berichtet er u. a. von einer Vorfahrin seiner Heldin, die als erster Mensch die Brücke schlägt zu einer der geheimnisvollsten Spezies der Milchstraße - den Baumkatzen von Sphinx. Zum ersten Mal teilt David Weber sein Universum mit zwei bekannten Co-Autoren: David Drake und S. M. Stirling.

An enthralling portrait of the enigmatic woman at the centre of a now vanished Golden Age: Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough. 'Truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' - SUNDAY TIMES The Times Best Biography Audiobook of the Year (2021) One of the most beautiful and brilliant women...

In nur wenigen Jahren hat David Weber sich an die Spitze der internationalen SF geschrieben. Im Mittelpunkt seines Werks steht Honor Harrington, die zäheste und intelligenteste Sternenschiffkommandantin der ganzen Galaxis. Zu ihren Ehren statten David Weber und andere Spitzenautoren der SF dem Universum Honor Harringtons einen Besuch ab und verraten Neues über die Baumkatzen, den erbitterten Kampf zwischen Manticore und Haven und Honors Königin Elizabeth III.

As a sorceress, I’m sworn to serve the sphinx known as the Oracle, a powerful seer gifted abilities by the gods. But when she’s captured in a plot to overthrow the empire, I must help an old flame escape execution. Deryn is a dragon shifter who’s searching for his kind, and is the only one who can help me save the sphinx. Despite our complicated history, we’ve vowed to work together, though love is the one thing we’re forbidden to have. But there’s more to this mystery than we can foresee, and if we don’t find where the sphinx was taken, my magic could lead us to an unexpected, deadly fate.

The sun rides high over the British Empire and the light still sparkles brightly in Amelia Peabody's eye as she returns for her second adventure in archaeology and romantic mystery as recounted in her lively journal, The Curse of the Pharaohs.

It's 1892, and Amelia and her now-husband Radcliffe Emerson have settled down in Victorian England after their escapade in Egypt. They're raising their young son Ramses and everything seems normal–until they are approached by a damsel in distress. Lady Baskerville's husband, Sir Henry, has died after uncovering what might be a royal tomb in Luxor. Despite rumors of a curse haunting all those involved with the dig, Amelia and Radcliffe proceed to Egypt and realize that Sir Henry did not die a natural death.

In diesem packenden Hörbuch entführen wir dich in eine düstere, futuristische Unterwelt – mitten ins All. Erlebe den abgebrühten Schmuggler "Schieber" und seinen treuen Piloten Sam, wie sie mit einer illegalen Ladung Drax auf Io in ein tödliches Katz-und-Maus-Spiel geraten. Sheriff Lead Maxwell ist ihnen dicht auf den Fersen, während die mysteriöse Hackerin Kidman immer wieder für spektakuläre Wendungen sorgt. Diese Mischung aus Science-Fiction, Noir-Krimi und Pulp Fiction wird dich fesseln – ob als aufregendes Abenteuer oder als beruhigende Einschlafhilfe.

Victorian gentlewoman Amelia Peabody Emerson and her archaeologist husband are busy raising their young son; yet Amelia dreams only of the dust and detritus of ancient civilizations. Happily, circumstances are about to demand their immediate presence in Egypt. Sir Henry Baskerville had just...

Forced by necessity into a life of piracy, Senlin and his eclectic crew struggle to survive aboard their stolen airship as the hunt for his lost wife continues. But the Tower of Babel is proving to be as difficult to re-enter as it was to escape.

Hopeless and desolate, they turn to a legend of the tower, the mysterious Sphinx. But help from the sphinx doesn't come cheaply and, as Senlin knows, debts aren't always what they seem in the Tower of Babel.

For the first time in English in over a century comes a new translation of the forgotten sequel to Dumas’s The Three Musketeers, continuing the dramatic tale of Cardinal Richelieu and his implacable enemies. In 1844, Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers, a novel so famous and still...

Her hands were strapped down at her sides so she couldn’t fight, but she had no more fight left inside her. It was the 1970s, here in America, and Christie was about to endure one of many electric shock treatments the doctors hoped would “cure” this young woman of her strange fantasies involving extra-terrestrial life and worlds long lost and forgotten.

In this follow-up to Erich von Däniken's worldwide best seller Chariots of the Gods, the author reveals startling new evidence that could prove his theory that ancient Earth had contact with aliens. Von Däniken claims that an alien race helped to create the pyramids of Egypt, a claim he based upon the ruins themselves.

Using his father's watch as a key, Jake intends to return to Calypsos. Instead he's thrust into a strange desert land where he's joined by his friends Marika, Pindor, and Bach'uuk and his sister, Kady. As they try to figure out what to do next, a surprise attack by the beautiful young Princess...

Poe weiß nun, wo er den finsteren Dr. Baker finden kann. Doch dazu braucht er noch einen Schlüssel. Der einzige Weg führt durch die Katakomben der alten Kirche von Father O'Neill. Dieser ist rätselhaft wie eine Sphinx. Und er hat die Antwort auf eine von Poes drängendsten Fragen.

Raffi, Tinus und Ulli reisen zu ihrem Freund Omar ins phantastische Scheichtum Ben Natti. Abu Ibn Saudi plant mit seiner Verschwörerbande, sich des Emirates zu bemächtigen. Sie stehlen das Heiligtum 'Das Auge der Sphinx', einen kostbaren Rubin. PANKI und seine drei Freunde machen sich daraufhin auf die Suche...

New research and evidence that the Sphinx is thousands of years older than previously thought Contrasts what Egyptologists claim about the Sphinx with historical accounts and new research including reanalysis of seismic studies and updates to Schoch’s water weathering research and...

This program is read by Downton Abbey actor David Robb, and includes footnotes read by the author. In Nicholas Meyer's The Return of the Pharaoh, Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a...