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Ihre Träume liegen Welten auseinander. Die zwanzigjährige Kaycee hat das Gefühl festzustecken. Seit dem Tod ihrer Mutter muss sie daheim die Verantwortung übernehmen und hat ihre eigenen Wünsche zurückgestellt. Aber dann ergibt sich die Chance, ihren großen Traum von einer eigenen Konditorei doch noch zu verwirklichen: Kaycee darf an der Realityshow Bake That Cake! teilnehmen. In der Jury sitzt zudem Schauspieler Leo Campbell, der in echt nicht nur noch attraktiver ist als auf dem Bildschirm, zwischen den beiden knistert es auch gewaltig.

Band 1: Wir schreiben das Jahr 996 nach Christus. Jan, Sohn eines Fischers in der Normandie, wird von den Wikingern bei einem ihrer Streifzüge versklavt und nach Norwegen verschleppt, wo er sich in der rauen Welt der Nordmänner zurechtfinden muss. Zeitgleich muss sich Hurit, die Tochter des Medizinmannes der Beothuk, am anderen Ende der Welt ebenfalls großen Herausforderungen stellen. Das sich die Wege der beiden kreuzen, scheint ausgeschlossen. Und doch...

Adelaide—heiress to the wealthiest man in the Ceithren Empire—has felt a void since her sister's death. Just as she's resigned herself to the empty life her father chose for her, a relic from a world that shouldn't exist plunges her into chaos. Clark—son of the greatest terrorist the empire has ever known—is still reeling from his father's death. Since then, his life has boiled down to two things: his brothers and his next mission. When his mission to bring back a mystical artifact goes awry, he's forced to choose between getting the job done and saving the life of a spoiled socialite.

The New York Times bestseller “A clear and concise account of the history, diplomacy, economics, and societal forces that have molded the modern global system.” —Foreign Affairs An invaluable primer from Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, that will help anyone...

When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development in the first few years of the twenty-first century? The attacks on the World Trade Center on 9/11 and the Iraq war? Or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations?

Er hebt ihre Welt aus den Angeln... Neles großer Traum wird endlich wahr: Sie hat bei Heather & Clark, einer der erfolgreichsten Literaturagenturen Londons, ein Volontariat ergattert. Als sie dann auch noch dem attraktiven Matthew über den Weg läuft und die beiden ein unvergessliches erstes Date haben, scheint ihr neuer Lebensabschnitt perfekt. Bis Matt Nele an ihrem ersten Arbeitstag plötzlich in einem Meeting gegenübersitzt - als ihr Chef. Obwohl eine Beziehung zwischen ihnen verboten ist, knistert es gewaltig.

Adran erwacht einsam auf einer Insel und muss, nur vom Liber Elementis Magicis begleitet, um sein Überleben kämpfen. Dabei stößt er auf zahlreiche Mysterien: Warum bebt die Insel? Was sind die seltsamen Laute, die in der Nacht ertönen? Warum verschwinden ganze Flüsse in Sekundenschnelle? Wäre das nicht genug hat Adran mit einem ganz alten Problem zu kämpfen.

The incredibly moving and uplifting new novel from the author of The Man I Think I Know. Kerry Hayes knows exactly who she is: a single mum, a cleaner and Mariah Carey's biggest fan. Noah Martineau thinks he knows who he is: a successful barrister, with a wife, daughter and big house in Primrose Hill. Strangers with nothing in common. Strangers living worlds apart. But it wasn't always this way...and Noah and Kerry are about to discover just who they really are.

In this thought-provoking masterpiece, H.G. Wells predicts the inventions that will inadvertently lead to mass destruction, forcing the world to "start over." You will see many similarities between H.G. Wells' new world and today's world due to the recent technological revolution. This stimulating novel will leave you wondering if and when the remaining predictions will come to pass!

An AI calling itself Schema has assimilated Earth into its System. As a consequence, everyone gained access to status screens, power-ups, and skills. This AI turned these concepts from fiction to fact. It's easy to become intoxicated with leveling up and becoming stronger. To some, it's too good to be true, like living out a dream. For Daniel, however, it's closer to a nightmare.

What do the hot, genius entrepreneur and I have in common? Absolutely nothing. Taika Parata may be rich as hell, but he’s a total jerk. He spends his days traveling the globe in the lap of luxury while I dreamed of leaving my tiny hometown for a nomadic life and never got further than Boston.

Touched off by a terrorist act in Bosnia and spreading all too quickly beyond the expectations of those who were involved, World War I was an unprecedented catastrophe with a ghastly cost. After this first "total war"-the first conflict involving entire societies mobilized to wage unrestrained war, devoting all their wealth, industries, institutions, and the lives of their citizens to win victory at any price - the world itself would never be the same.

Lanning “Lanny” Budd spends his first 13 years in Europe, living at the center of his mother’s glamourous circle of friends on the French Riviera. In 1913, he enters a prestigious Swiss boarding school and befriends Rick, an English boy, and Kurt, a German. The three schoolmates are privileged, happy, and precocious - but their world is about to come to an abrupt and violent end. When the gathering storm clouds of war finally burst, raining chaos and death over the continent, Lanny must put the innocence of youth behind him.

In the glittering world of Broadway, where dreams take center stage and the city that never sleeps pulses with life, Heather McCarthy, a dazzling Broadway actress at the zenith of her career, meets Grace Elliott, a celebrated romance novelist poised to see her latest masterpiece leap from the pages to the silver screen. As the two women from different worlds collide, their connection is electric, their passion undeniable, and a love story unfolds. But fate, of course, has other plans.

The Second World is a mire of intrigue; the game's creators have left several back doors permitting them to terminate anyone at will, and an unlikely sequence of events has brought someone unsuspecting into their field of attention. One player has managed to upset the game world's balance, and now he's hunted by everyone. Every clan wants to recruit him for his achievements while other powers want him for their own, more sinister purposes.

For decades, the spacefaring species of known space have battled over the largest artifact - and grandest prize - in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. Now, without warning, the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets. If the fallen civilization of the Ringworld can no longer be despoiled of its secrets, the puppeteers will be forced to surrender theirs - everyone knows that they are cowards. But the crises converging upon the trillion puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds go far beyond even the onrushing armadas.

A runaway planet hurtles toward Earth. As it draws near, massive tidal waves, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions wrack our planet, devastating continents, drowning cities, and wiping out millions. In central North America, a team of scientists race to build a spacecraft powerful enough to escape the doomed Earth. Their greatest threat, they soon discover, comes not from the skies but from other humans.

Abigail Swish's life is nothing to brag about: gang-ridden city, orphanage style accommodations, and a matron who's kinda on the evil side. Not that she has to worry about that for much longer. She'll turn 18 soon, and then it's goodbye compound, hello dangerous streets of New York City. Of course, as her luck would have it, she doesn't make it to 18 before her world is turned upside down. One ambushed meeting with an accent-bearing, sword-wielding stranger, and suddenly her entire life as she knows it is a lie.