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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.

Deep below the waters of a world covered in ice, the key to Dark Metal awaits. Along with it, a new threat that brings the war ever closer. In order to stop it, the Messenger and his team must confront a familiar enemy in a new place, but now the stakes are higher, and the battle's results will echo across the galaxy for ages to come. To cap it all off, ships are being stolen from unSpace with no explanation as to why. The Messenger has his work cut out for him here in this dangerous new galaxy. But that's exactly the way he likes it.

Der bahnbrechende sowie zeitlose Klassiker "Krieg der Welten" von H.G. WELLS begeistert seit über 100 Jahren nicht nur die Fans der Science Fiction. In diesem Hörspiel wird das Spektakel um einen Angriff auf die Menschheit aus dem All zum Kopfkino der Superlative und stellt die Frage: Wie verhält sich der Mensch, wenn die Ordnung zusammenbricht? Im Krieg und in der Hoffnungslosigkeit  -  angesichts einer außerirdischen Übermacht, die nur ein Ziel zu kennen scheint: Die Bewohner der Erde zu vernichten.

We begin with the footsteps of a family walking along a beach 950,000 years ago. From here, Montefiore takes us on an exhilarating epic journey through the families that have shaped our world: the Caesars, Medicis and Incas, Ottomans and Mughals, Bonapartes, Habsburgs and Zulus, Rothschilds, Rockefellers and Krupps, Churchills, Kennedys, Castros, Nehrus, Pahlavis and Kenyattas, Saudis, Kims and Assads.

Der bahnbrechende sowie zeitlose Klassiker "Krieg der Welten" von H.G. WELLS begeistert seit über 100 Jahren nicht nur die Fans der Science Fiction. In diesem Hörspiel wird das Spektakel um einen Angriff auf die Menschheit aus dem All zum Kopfkino der Superlative und stellt die Frage: Wie verhält sich der Mensch, wenn die Ordnung zusammenbricht? Im Krieg und in der Hoffnungslosigkeit - angesichts einer außerirdischen Übermacht, die nur ein Ziel zu kennen scheint: Die Bewohner der Erde zu vernichten.

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.

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.

The World is designed to provide listeners of any age and experience with the essential background and building blocks they need to make sense of this complicated and interconnected world. It will empower them to manage the flood of daily news. Listeners will become more informed, discerning citizens, better able to arrive at sound, independent judgments. While it is impossible to predict what the next crisis will be or where it will originate, those who listen to The World will have what they need to understand its basics and the principal choices for how to respond.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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?

The first World War was one of the most devastating conflicts in our history. The tumult and chaos that remained in the wake of the first World War had far-reaching and devastating consequences, not just for Europe and the survivors of the war, but for the entire world. The ruins of Europe provided a fertile breeding ground for fierce nationalism, which led to the rise of the Third Reich and allowed the evil of Adolf Hitler to go unchecked for far too long.

Professor Doom nutzt seine grausame Zauberkraft, um Hobby-Dämonenjäger Jack Slaughter mit einem Fluch zu belegen. Die gesamte Menschheit ist auf einmal hinter Jack Slaughter her. Unter großen Anstrengungen entkommt die Tochter des Lichts seinen besessenen Verfolgern. Doch als sich auch seine eigenen Freunde gegen ihn stellen, scheint es keinen Ausweg mehr zu geben. Wie wird es Jack gelingen, nicht mit Haut und Haaren vernascht zu werden.