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Erleben Sie Robert E. Howards episches Abenteuer "Bran Mak Morn – Könige der Nacht", meisterhaft gelesen von Benjamin Werner. Bran Mak Morn, der letzte König der Pikten, führt sein Volk in einen verzweifelten Kampf gegen römische Eroberer. Mit der Hilfe des wiedererweckten keltischen Kriegerkönigs Kull stellt er sich einem übermächtigen Feind entgegen. Eine Geschichte voller Tapferkeit, düsterer Magie und tragischer Helden – perfekt für Fans von epischer Fantasy und Robert E. Howards meisterhaften Erzählungen.

Erleben Sie das packende Abenteuer Kull der Eroberer - Mit dieser Axt herrsche ich von Robert E. Howard, fesselnd gelesen von Alexander Wohnhaas. In dieser epischen Geschichte muss Kull, der mächtige König von Valusien, seine Herrschaft mit Entschlossenheit und seiner tödlichen Axt verteidigen. Bedroht von Verrätern und dunklen Mächten, kämpft Kull um den Erhalt seines Königreichs.

Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by surprisingly well despite living in a city under military occupation, but a warm house and a full stomach are not enough to make him feel truly alive in such a climate of deceit and betrayal. During a bleak, unending winter, he embarks on a string of violent and sordid crimes that set him on a path from which he can never return. Georges Simenon's matchless novel is a brutal, compelling portrayal of a world without pity; a devastating journey through a psychological no-man's land.

Robert Ervin Howard gilt als Begründer des Sword-and-Sorcery-Genres und Schöpfer unvergesslicher Helden. Turlogh Dubh O'Brien, ein verstoßener irischer Krieger des 11. Jahrhunderts, trägt seinen Beinamen „Der Schwarze" nicht umsonst. In „Der Dunkle Mann" begegnet Turlogh auf einer verschneiten Küste Connachts einem Fischer und bricht auf, um Moira, die Tochter eines Dalcassian-Häuptlings, aus den Klauen wilder Wikinger zu befreien. Die Erstveröffentlichung erfolgte im Dezember 1931 in der Magazine-Ikone Weird Tales .

The Second Emancipation, the second work in a trilogy from bestselling author Howard W. French about Africa's pivotal role in shaping world history, underscores Adam Hochschild's contention that French is a "modern-day Copernicus." The title―referring to a brief period beginning in 1957 when dozens of African colonies gained their freedom―positions this liberation at the center of a "movement of global Blackness," with one charismatic leader, Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), at its head.

In A Continent for the Taking, Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa's most devastating recent history. While he captures the tragedies that have repeatedly befallen Africa's peoples, French also opens our eyes to the immense possibility that lies in Africa's complexity, diversity, and myriad cultural strengths.

Set on the coast of South Carolina, an unknown infection has caused people to die and come back to life as reanimated corpses, attacking any living person. This is the story of the survival of one man who was the benefactor of a shelter that helped him to live through the onslaught of the infected dead.

Begib dich an die stürmischen Küsten des 11. Jahrhunderts und erlebe, wie der keltische Ausgestoßene Turlogh Dub O'Brien in „Die Götter von Bal‑Sagoth" gegen uralte Mächte und brutale Wikinger antritt. In dieser actiongeladenen Pulp‑Fiction‑Erzählung von Robert E. Howard kämpft er sich in ein versunkenes Reich, wo einst mächtige Götter herrschten und nur Blut und Stahl entscheiden, wer überlebt. Benjamin Werner haucht diesem Klassiker eine mitreißende Stimmung ein, die dich in tosende Schlachten und finstere Mysterien entführt – perfekt zum Einschlafen oder für ein packendes Abend‑Abenteuer.

The race is on to free Lord Stelan from the grip of a wasting curse, and only his old, half-elf mercenary companion Elyana has the wisdom - and swordcraft - to solve the mystery of his tormentor and free her old friend before three days have passed and the illness takes its course.

For years we have been told to make lists and obsessively monitor when we’re angry, what we eat, how much we worry, and how often we go to the gym. So why isn’t everyone healthy? Now based on the most extensive study of long life ever conducted The Longevity Project reveals what really matters across the long run—the personality traits, relationships, experiences, and career paths that naturally keep you vital.

AN AUDIOFILES BEST AUDIOBOOK OF 2021 WINNER OF AN AUDIOFILES EARPHONES AWARD: ""This audiobook is simply a delight...a must-listen."" “This extraordinary book is not only a chronicle of Ron’s and Clint’s early careers and their wild adventures, but also a primer on so many topics—how an...

Lady Bronwyn Chase is far from the paragon of society that her mother expects her to be. That's how she finds herself on her brother's passenger liner bound for America carrying a secret packet of letters that could get her into trouble—the kind of trouble that a duke's sister shouldn't be in, the kind that puts spymaster Valentine Medford, the Duke of Thornbury, on her trail. Serious trouble. But as the duke gets closer to Bronwyn and the secrets she's keeping, he'll have to decide between the mysterious woman who calls to him or his allegiance to the Crown.

New Saucerian is proud to offer the original version of Howard Menger's From Outer Space to You, which sent the UFO field into a tizzy after it was first published by Gray Barker in 1959. For years, Menger and his attractive wife, Connie, spread the word about their UFO contacts, and the alien abduction experiences of others, while the "scientific ufologists" scraped their nails on chalkboards in anguish.

Not since Betty Eadie’s Embraced by the Light has a personal account of a Near-Death Experience (NDE) been so utterly different from most others—or nearly as compelling. "This is a book you devour from cover to cover, and pass on to others. This is a book you will quote in your daily...

In his 2005 book, The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler described the global predicaments that would pitch the USA into political and economic turmoil in the 21st century - the end of affordable oil, climate irregularities, and flagging economic growth, to name a few. Now, he returns with a book that takes an up-close-and-personal approach to how real people are living now - surviving The Long Emergency as it happens.

The definitive biography of Steve Kerr, the championship-winning basketball player and head coach of the record-breaking Golden State Warriors Few individuals have had a career as storied, and improbable, as Steve Kerr. He has won eight NBA titles—five as a player and three as a coach—for...

This collection comprises another 40 stories by and inspired by the originators of weird fiction. From White's seminal body-shocker, Lukundoo, through to Howard's dastardly Pigeons from Hell, and Benson's nightmarish The Room in The Tower. Time immemorial; worlds unimaginable.

In Leading Minds, Gardner and his research associate at Harvard Project Zero, Emma Laskin, apply a cognitive lens to leadership, drawing on Gardner's groundbreaking work on intelligence and creativity to offer fascinating revelations about the minds of leaders and those who follow them. This reissue includes a new introduction by the author.

Conan is working for pay as a soldier at the frontier fort of Tuscelan. While out scouting he saves the life of Balthus, and the two become embroiled in a fight for their lives and a war against the invading picts. Can Conan and Balthus defeat the evil sorcerer that has summoned ancient monsters and bound the pictish clans as never before?

When a mysterious monster carves a path of destruction across the southern River Kingdoms, desperate townsfolk look to the famed elven ranger Elyana and her half-orc companion Drelm for salvation. For Drelm, however, the mission is about more than simple justice - it's about protecting the frontier town he's adopted as his home, and the woman he plans to marry.