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Eine Familie in Not, ein mutiger Privatdetektiv und ein dunkles Geheimnis... Das spannende Finale der Hamburg-Krimi-Reihe von Lara Möller. Privatdetektiv Christopher Diecks wird von einer Bekannten um Hilfe gebeten, eine Reihe von Einbrüchen aufzuklären. Tara Oswald arbeitet für eine Sicherheitsfirma, die für Objektschutz verantwortlich ist und deren Ruf aufgrund der Vorkommnisse am seidenen Faden hängt. Als dann auch noch Taras enger Freund Benni Wagner bei einem der Einbrüche stark verletzt wird, geht Diecks ein Licht auf. Es scheint weit mehr dahinterzustecken als zunächst geglaubt.

Forty-eight of H.P. Lovecraft’s most important stories are brought together in this collection–available only from Audible–selected and with introductions by the award-winning, best-selling Lovecraft editor Leslie S. Klinger. Howard Philips Lovecraft was the early 20th-century genius who, almost singlehandedly, pioneered horror and scientific fiction, only to die in near-obscurity. Rediscovered by critics and scholars in the 1970s, Lovecraft’s work has influenced—by their own admission—every major horror or science-fiction writer of today.

“A frothy confection of sea-foam, young love, and derring-do.” —NPR From the New York Times bestselling author of So This Is Ever After, a young prince must rely on a mysterious stranger to save him when he is kidnapped during his coming-of-age tour in this swoony adventure that is The...

This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas published between 1929 and 1964, containing 11 great classics. No anthology better captures the birth of science fiction as a literary field. Published in 1973 to honor stories that had appeared before the institution of the Nebula Awards, The Science Fiction Hall of Fame introduced tens of thousands to the wonders of science fiction and was a favorite of libraries across the country.

Brynn Miles hielt es für eine gute Idee auf das Weingut ihrer Familie zurückzukehren während sie an der nahegelegenen Uni studiert. Aber als Nesthäkchen der Familie ist ihr Leben komplizierter als gedacht. Dates? Beziehungen? Nicht, wenn sich ihre drei älteren Brüder Roland, Leo und Cooper wie wandelnde Keuschheitsgürtel und Bodyguards verhalten. Für Chase war die kleine Schwester seines besten Freundes Cooper Miles immer uninteressant.

Hermann Karl Hesse (1877-1962) was a German-born poet, novelist, and painter who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1946. His best-known works include Demian, Steppenwolf, and Siddhartha, a novel that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The structure of the novel reflects three of the traditional stages of life for Hindu males (student, householder, and recluse) as well as the Buddha's four noble truths and eight-fold path.

In On Xi Jinping, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd provides an authoritative account of the ideological worldview driving Chinese behaviour both domestically and on the world stage—that of President Xi Jinping, who now holds near-total control over the Chinese Communist Party and is now, in effect, president-for-life. Rudd argues that Xi’s worldview differs significantly from those of the leaders who preceded him, and that this ideological shift is reflected in the real world of Chinese policy and behaviour.

Der entehrte Soldat Carter Sanders wird nach einem Jahr im Gefängnis von einer galaktischen Spezialeinheit rekrutiert. Nach einem einzigartigen Training bei den berühmten Kriegsmönchen des Katzenvolkes der T'zun wird er auf gefährliche Missionen hinter feindlichen Linien geschickt. Auf der Suche nach dem Ursprung der mysteriösen Technologie der feindlichen Lorganer wird er ungeplant in die Schlacht der drei Welten hineingezogen und muss mit alten und neuen Freunden um sein Überleben kämpfen.

On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it. In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through time, the Shrike waits for them all.

A killer is stalking and murdering sorcerers, and Valkyrie Cain is next on his list. While hunting down a cult of magical terrorists intent on taking their revenge on the mortal world, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are drawn into a murder investigation with unsettling similarities to a case they just closed – the case that nearly took the lives of both Valkyrie’s sister and girlfriend. With the body count rising, a special night approaches – a night where the elite of sorcerer society will gather on a remote island to witness a ceremony that could change that society forever.

An epic saga of America’s might-have-been, Voyage is a powerful, sweeping novel of how, if President Kennedy had lived, we could have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Imaginatively created from the true lives and real events, Voyage returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket and includes historical figures from Neil Armstrong to Ronald Reagan who are interwoven with unforgettable characters whose dreams mirror the promise of a young space program that held the world in thrall.

Zwölf dunkle Kurzgeschichten, nach denen das Löschen der Nachttischlampe womöglich etwas schwerer fällt. Ob bei einem nächtlichen Freibadbesuch, beim Joggen im Stadtwald, in einem Erdloch in Syrien oder in uns selbst. Das Böse lauert überall und in den unterschiedlichsten Formen.

Former bounty hunter Boba Fett has survived the Sarlacc pit, nursed back to health and taken in by a tribe of Tuskens on Tatooine. When the tribe is slaughtered, Boba seeks revenge, and sets himself up in Jabba the Hutt's old palace along with his new right hand, assassin Fennec Shand. But the fight for power on Tatooine goes deeper than expected, and Boba will need help from new and old allies in order to secure his position and avenge his tribe. It's just business. Or is it?

Ein grauenhafter Mord ereignet sich direkt in der Baker Street Nr. 221B. Sherlock Holmes und sein Begleiter Dr. Watson stehen vor einem der größten Rätsel ihrer Laufbahn. Holmes und Watson jagen fortan nicht nur einem gewissenlosen Mörder hinterher, sondern müssen zudem versuchen, das Geheimnis um das Verschwinden der Skulptur zu ergründen.

Sometimes things don't work out exactly as planned. The Mesan Alignment has a plan - one it's been working on for centuries. A plan to remake the galaxy and genetically improve the human race - its way. Until recently things have gone pretty much as scheduled, but then the Alignment hit a minor bump in the road called the Star Empire of Manticore. So the Alignment engineered a war between the Solarian League, the biggest and most formidable interstellar power in human history.

My twin brother is a Wizard and thinks he's the only magician in the family. It's actually a little funny that he hasn't suspected anything different over the last 17 years - with my constantly need to keep his idiot face out of danger and stupidity - but that's not today's problem. You see, someone's trying to kill him.

Sie ist seine Feindin und zugleich seine größte Schwäche. Feuerwehrmann Logan Bailey lässt nichts anbrennen, schon gar nicht an der Dating Front. Doch dann bricht er den eigenen Vorsatz und verbringt eine Nacht mit seiner Erzfeindin Cara Goulding. Das hätte nie passieren dürfen - auch, wenn es zugegebenermaßen absolut großartig war. Einmal ist keinmal denkt Logan und beschließt Cara einfach aus dem Weg zu gehen - so schwer es ihm auch fällt. Cara scheint denselben Gedanken zu haben und weicht ihm ebenfalls aus.

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Who has the right to change the world forever? How will we live online? How do we find comfort in an increasingly isolated world? The Carls disappeared the same way they appeared, in an instant. While the robots were on Earth, they caused confusion...

Sci-fi's favorite antisocial AI is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is. And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. Martha Wells' Rogue Protocol is the third in the Murderbot Diaries series, starring a humanlike android who keeps getting sucked back into adventure after adventure, though it just wants to be left alone, away from humanity and small talk.

Battles with demons, intrigue, duels, honey traps, and no shortage of adventure in general . . . the heir of a noble lineage certainly leads an eventful life. We wonder what will change once he becomes a prince? Will his troubles multiply exponentially? Will enemies try to smear the good name of the Morozovs? Or will circumstances inexorably make Ivan march off to war?