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An age of industry and magic has created unprecedented opportunities for technological progress. Trains powered by alchemical fuel have made the world smaller than ever, and firearms that burn magical powder have made it more deadly. But as greedy industrialists and power-hungry mages battle for control of the future, a conspiracy threatens to shatter the tentative peace between the continent's great powers. The only man who can expose it is Nathaniel Zane, a soldier-turned-thief who wields dangerous and illegal magic.

New York Times bestselling author Jerry Craft returns with a companion book to New Kid, winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize. The audiobook was a 2020 Audie Awards Finalist for Middle Grade and named an Audible Best Audiobook of the Year...

The complete series 1-5 of the Sony Award Winning BBC Radio 4 show, The Infinite Monkey Cage, presented by physicist Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince. The duo, assisted by a panel of experts and entertainers, tackle subjects such as biology, cosmology, physics and why Brian's hair is always so perfect. Guests include Dara Ó Briain, Jon Ronson, Stephen Fry and Dave Gorman, amongst many more.

In Temporary, a young woman’s workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements in search of steadiness, connection, and something, at last, to call her own. Whether it’s shining an endless closet of shoes, swabbing the deck of a pirate ship, assisting an assassin, or filling in for the Chairman of the Board, for the mythical Temporary, “there is nothing more personal than doing your job.”

Ultramarines sergeants Sicarius and Numitor spearhead an assault on a tau-held world. As they clash with powerful tau battlesuits, the two sergeants discover that the Tau Empire and the Imperium of Man may have as many similarities and differences - but does that matter when the xenos threaten the Emperor's realm?

From the author of the National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf and the WINNER of the 2015 Man Booker Prize for A Brief History of Seven Killings "An undeniable success.” — The New York Times Book Review The Book of Night Women is a sweeping, startling novel, a true tour de force...

Esoteric scholar Manly P. Hall gives a brief biography of the life of the fabled Greek philosopher, Pythagoras, as well as accounts of how he was murdered. He gives a fantastic overview of the teachings of that man. Hall covers his theories of transmigration, symmetrical solids, aphorisms, astronomy, and many other things, as well as what he expected of his students and accounts of his school and initiations.

The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer.

With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award-winning Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost love haunt this thrilling final volume.

Sometimes the path to destiny really sucks ass. I should have died on our last big mission and it's messing with my head. I know I need to get over it, but I just can't. There's a lead on a new Collector and Delta's getting called in to assist. Paralyzed by irrational fears and guilt, I don't know if I can do this again. But if I don't, I'll never meet her.

Haben Sie sich schon einmal mit den aktuellen Zinssätzen auseinandergesetzt, die die Banken für traditionelle Finanzprodukte anbieten? Sie werden schnell feststellen, dass die Produkte, die heutzutage angeboten werden, keinesfalls attraktiv sind. Das ist wohl auch der Grund, warum sich in Deutschland zwei Lager gebildet haben - einerseits geben die Deutschen heute mehr Geld als je zuvor aus, weil sie das Geld nicht mehr anlegen wollen, andererseits gibt es auch jene Anleger, die auf der Suche nach einer Alternative sind.

Emma Fern has won at life: she's a prize-winning author and she's blissfully happy with her husband, Jim. It wasn't an easy rise to the top, but Emma knows you can't achieve success without sacrifice. The trouble is, Jim knows that too. As her literary triumph starts to fade into the past, Emma comes under pressure to write a second bestseller. But her big secret is that she didn't write the first one. She's a fraud, and the only people who ever knew the truth are...no longer a problem.

Twelve years ago, Lei Zhang and her friend Emma Nilsson miraculously lived through the notorious Sorority Row Murders that left twenty-one of their sisters dead. Still wrestling with the trauma but finally out of the limelight, Lei and Emma are now devoted to helping other victims find closure. But most disturbing for Lei - beyond the gut-wrenching survivor guilt - is that the killer was her boyfriend. He’s behind bars, but she’ll never lower her guard again. When a copycat killer targets Lei and Emma, FBI Agent Dante Young is put in charge of anticipating the sociopath’s every move.

Die beiden Delfin-Trainer Chris und Karl werden vom Chef des Meeresparks zur Insel Mako geschickt, um dort mit einer Wärmbildkamera nach Spuren des ominösen Seeungeheuers zu suchen. Dabei stoßen sie im Mondsee auf Ondina, die sich schnell noch unsichtbar machen kann. Die Wärmebildkamera zeigt aber Hinweise auf ein lebendiges Wesen.

Die saarländischen Dörfer veröden zunehmend - nicht nur, dass die Polizei auf dem Land immer weniger präsent ist und zahlreiche Haus-Einbrüche nicht aufgeklärt werden, auch die Einkaufsmöglichkeiten nehmen ab. Genau davon profitiert aber Roland Burg, Inhaber eines Supermarktes in Saarlouis. Sein Mitarbeiter Sohlbach fährt täglich mit einem Verkaufswagen über die Dörfer. Doch eines Morgens wird Sohlbach tot aufgefunden. Michel Paquet und Amelie Gentner von der Mordkommission Saarlouis finden in seiner Brieftasche das Foto einer Frau, die niemand kennt. Da hilft nur eins: Gentner muss mit dem Verkaufswagen auf Tour gehen.

The Vanderbeekers have always lived in the brownstone on 141st Street. It's practically a member of the family. So, when their reclusive, curmudgeonly landlord decides not to renew their lease, the five siblings have eleven days to do whatever it takes to stay in their beloved home and convince...

The Benevolent Satrapy rule an empire of 48 worlds, linked by thousands of wormholes strung throughout the galaxy. Human beings, while technically "free", mostly skulk around the fringes of the Satrapy, struggling to get by. The secretive alien Satraps tightly restrict the technological development of the species under their control. Entire worlds have been placed under interdiction, cut off from the rest of the universe.

For a thousand years, Doro has cultivated a small African village, carefully breeding its people in search of seemingly unattainable perfection. He survives through the centuries by stealing the bodies of others, a technique he has so thoroughly mastered that nothing on Earth can kill him. But when a gang of New World slavers destroys his village, ruining his grand experiment, Doro is forced to go west and begin anew. He meets Anyanwu, a centuries-old woman whose means of immortality are as kind as his are cruel. Now they begin a struggle that will last centuries.

With this satirical novella, English schoolmaster Edwin A. Abbott provides both a mathematical fantasy and pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. The narrator, “a Square,” resides in the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland. When he is visited by a sphere, he is suddenly faced with proof of the existence of three dimensions and is forced to see the limitations of his world.

Tschüs Tyrann! Wie Sie sich von negativen Gedanken befreien und Ihr Leben in die Hand nehmen. In uns allen wohnt ein kleiner Tyrann, der unserem Lebensglück im Weg steht. Er wütet unbemerkt im Hintergrund oder funkt lautstark dazwischen. Dieser geheime Feind in unserem Kopf hemmt unsere Weiterentwicklung, sorgt dafür, dass wir in einer unglücklichen Beziehung verharren oder aus Angst vor Fehlern nichts Neues wagen. Pamela Obermaier und Dominik Borde zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie Ihren inneren Tyrannen überwinden können und die von ihm gesetzten Grenzen überschreiten.