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In this chilling reimagining of Hitchcock’s classic, a group of friends set out on a cross-country trip, only to unknowingly trigger a relentless avian nightmare. Raquel, Robert, Karen, and David are thrown into chaos as the skies turn deadly, forcing them to confront a terrifying truth: not everything is what it seems, and their actions carry consequences far worse than they imagined. As the body count rises, one long-dismissed conspiracy theory proves horrifyingly real in this suspenseful, blood-soaked tale of reckoning.

Jake is working at the neighborhood market under his apartment when the world ends. He expected nuclear war, a computer virus, or even climate change burning everyone to a crisp to bring about the downfall of civilization. But cruel and arbitrary gods from another world? Who would have guessed that? When these cruel gods shuffled Earth like a deck of cards, nothing was in the same place anymore. Monsters, dungeons, and magical items appear scattered across the globe. And suddenly, everyone has access to a new, strange magical card system that gives them magical powers.

Jake arbeitet in einem Laden in einer kleinen Stadt, als die Welt untergeht. Er hatte erwartet, das ein Atomkrieg, ein Computervirus oder gar ein Klimawandel, der alle Menschen verbrennt, den Untergang der Zivilisation herbeiführen würde. Aber grausame und willkürliche Götter aus einer anderen Welt? Wer hätte das gedacht?

Thirty meters tall, 70 tons of quick-striding death and destruction, the armored war machines called BattleMechs are the frontline forces of the crumbling star empire locked in the horror of the endless Succession Wars. Their pilots are MechWarriors, 31st-century knights riding armored machines powerful enough to take a city apart. Grayson Death Carlyle had been training to be a MechWarrior since he was 10 years old, but his graduation came sooner than expected.

Zu Unrecht wegen Mordes an seiner Frau verurteilt, fristet der Vampir Kane seit Langem ein elendes Dasein im berühmt-berüchtigten Prison Camp. Als er während eines Gefangenenaufstandes versucht, zwei seiner Mithäftlinge zu retten, wird er schwer verletzt. Seither liegt er – mehr tot als lebendig – auf der Krankenstation, wo sich die attraktive Krankenschwester Nadya aufopferungsvoll um ihn kümmert. Doch auf Kane wartet ein düsteres Schicksal, und am Ende ist es einzig die Liebe zu Nadya, die ihn möglicherweise vor dem Schlimmsten bewahren kann.

The Gray Death Legion is in the employ of the Free Worlds League and has even been given a landhold on the planet Helm. But dark forces conspire against them, and the Legion soon finds themselves declared renegade war criminals, fair game for anyone to attack. Now, they are on the run on their home planet, trying desperately to reach safety before the might of House Marik falls upon them. They are about to discover the true motives of those who engineered their downfall. And what they discover will change the Inner Sphere forever....

I never thought I'd go to college a virgin, but unless something changes—and fast—that's what's going to happen. In comes Harden Hart, my all-American boy-next-door best friend with an offer to help in a way I'd never imagined. The boy, who turned everything he touched to gold, had a filthy side to him I'd never seen. Oh, and did I mention he's straight?

Few books on software project management have been as influential and timeless as The Mythical Man-Month. With a blend of software engineering facts and thought-provoking opinions, Fred Brooks offers insight for anyone managing complex projects. These essays draw from his experience as project manager for the IBM System/360 computer family and then for OS/360, its massive software system.

Leading the newly-formed Gray Death Legion has been challenging for Grayson Death Carlyle, so when a job comes their way, he’s only too happy to take it. The mission: train the local resistance on the planet Verthandi to resist their Draconis Combine masters. But things do not go well almost from the moment the Legion arrives. Trapped on Verthandi and facing a superior force and a fractured populace, the men and women of the Legion find themselves in a situation that makes the campaign on Trellwan look like a walk in the park.

Don Riley, head of the CIA’s Emerging Threats Group, has never seen anything like this. Riley and his team are tasked with identifying national security threats before they become tomorrow’s bad news. But shortly after an Iranian vessel delivers a surprise attack to a US Navy Warship in the Arabian Gulf, a series of seemingly unrelated attacks crop up around the globe.

The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin. If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin’s masterwork—the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time—warrants one hell of an...

This lavish visual history—featuring over 180 all-new illustrations—is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the iconic family at the heart of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon. For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the Iron Throne of Westeros while...

Der attraktive Wolven Lucan arbeitet als Drogendealer. Nicht ganz freiwillig allerdings, und so ganz ungefährlich ist sein Job auch nicht, denn er schmuggelt die Drogen heimlich für das berühmt-berüchtigte Hochsicherheitsgefängnis der Glymera. Dort begegnet er eines Tages der hinreißenden Rio, der Stellvertreterin des mächtigen Drogenbosses Mozart. Als ein Deal schief geht, und Rio in tödliche Gefahr gerät, ist es an Lucan, die Frau zu retten, die er nicht mehr vergessen kann.

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Novel and widely considered one of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, Walter M. Miller’s A Canticle for Leibowitz is a true landmark of 20th-century literature—a chilling and still-provocative look at a postapocalyptic future.

Sie ersticken in Arbeit? Sie sind abends todmüde, ohne je Ihr Tagespensum geschafft zu haben? Sie tun, was Sie können, bis Sie nicht mehr können? Sie brauchen unbedingt mehr Freiraum? Wenn es so um Sie steht, gibt es für Sie nur eins: Verjagen Sie alle Klammer-Affen! Übernehmen Sie keine Probleme, die nicht ganz klar Ihre Probleme sind, denn wer die Probleme anderer übernimmt, der übernimmt sich.

Last time we saw Jake, he was [redacted to avoid spoilers] with [redacted] in order to travel to [redacted]. He had finally learned [redacted] and [redacted]. He was just starting to [redacted]! So join him now on his new adventure as he [redacted! redacted! redacted!]. Ok, no spoilers allowed, but be prepared for a life-changing, world-spanning, time-twisting conclusion to Jake's story!

We became famous overnight. One day, I was a twenty-four-year-old drummer slinging pizzas to make ends meet, and the next, I was a member of the most popular alternative band ever. Despite being world-famous, there was no connection in it. I'd lost touch with reality, with intimacy. I couldn't find a place to be normal. I'd lived my entire life straight-edged while watching obsession destroy my best friend. Obsession terrified me—that is until I met him.

“J.R. Ward is a powerhouse in the genre and never disappoints!”--Rebecca Yarros, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author "Absolutely unputdownable!"--Jennifer Armentrout, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Crown of War and Shadow is a brand new, sweeping, slow-burn romantasy from #1 New York...

Over the course of twenty-five centuries, Buddhism spread from its place of origin in northern India to become a global tradition of remarkable breadth, depth, and richness. Donald S. Lopez Jr. draws on the latest scholarship to construct a detailed and innovative history of Buddhism—not just as a chronology through the centuries or as geographic movement, but as a dense matrix of interconnections.