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Above, in the cloudlands, Nimh has no memory of her past, only an aching, undying certainty that she has left something - someone - behind. But while she struggles to recall her identity, an imposter wields her name with deadly purpose. Below, on the surface, North looks to the sky, desperate to join the person he loves and return to his world. But with only a traitor willing to help him, and others clamoring for him to take Nimh’s place, his home seems more unreachable than ever.

Tyler, frisch ausgebildeter Musterschüler der besten Space Academy der ganzen Galaxie, freut sich auf seinen ersten Auftrag. Als sogenannter Alpha steht es ihm zu, sein Team zusammenzustellen - und er hat vor, sich mit nichts weniger als den Besten zufrieden zu geben. Tja, die Realität sieht anders aus: Er landet in einem Team aus Losern und Außenseitern.

When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally.

Bewaffnet mit einem mächtigen Schneestein rüsten sich die Eiswölfe zum Angriff gegen die Feuerdrachen. Mit diesem Stein können die Wölfe eisige Temperaturen heraufbeschwören, was eine Katastrophe für die Drachen bedeutet. Nur das Sonnenzepter könnte das Gleichgewicht der Mächte wiederherstellen und einen Krieg zwischen den Tierwandlern verhindern. Also begeben sich die Zwillinge Anders und Rayna auf eine gefahrvolle Suche, zusammen mit ihren Freundinnen und Freunden: Drachen und Wölfen. Denn nur gemeinsam werden sie den ewigen Gegensatz überwinden und für Frieden sorgen.

Die Situation zwischen Eiswölfen und Feuerdrachen droht zu eskalieren. Vallens Hauptstadt Holbard liegt in Trümmern und Anders, Rayna und ihre Freund*innen haben den Zorn von Wölfen und Drachen gleichermaßen auf sich gezogen. In ihrem Versteck in der Schmiede der ersten Drachen überlegen die Freunde, wie sie einen Krieg noch verhindern können. Ihre einzige Chance: Menschen, Wölfe und Drachen zu versöhnen! Doch der Preis dafür ist hoch. Das gleichnamige Buch erscheint im Ravensburger Buchverlag.

Prince North’s home is in the sky, in a gleaming city held aloft by intricate unknown technology. But North believes his sky island is sinking. Its engines are failing, and the key to saving his home is to venture to the place the engines were first created. Nimh is the living goddess of her people on the surface, responsible for providing answers, direction - hope. But in the midst of the surface’s worst crisis yet, a mist that spreads madness and poison, doubts have arisen among the people about Nimh’s divinity.

Audie Award, Multi-Voiced Performance, 2016. The year is 2575, and two rival mega-corporations are at war over a planet that's little more than an ice-covered speck at the edge of the universe. Too bad nobody thought to warn the people living on it. With enemy fire raining down on them, Kady and Ezra - who are barely even talking to each other - are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating fleet, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the academy would touch....

First, the bad news: An ancient evil - you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal - is about to be unleashed. The good news? Squad 312 is standing by to save the day. They've just got to take care of a few small distractions first. Like the clan of gremps who'd like to rearrange their favorite faces. And the cadre of illegit GIA agents with creepy flowers where their eyes used to be, who'll stop at nothing to get their hands on Auri. Then there's Kal's long-lost sister, who's not exactly happy to see her baby brother and has a Syldrathi army at her back.

Jeder in Vallen weiß, dass Eiswölfe und Feuerdrachen tief verfeindet sind. Als der 12-jährige Anders sich in einen Eiswolf verwandelt und seine Zwillingsschwester Rayna in einen Feuerdrachen, wird ihr bisheriges Leben auf den Kopf gestellt. Um zu lernen, was er braucht, um Rayna vor den grausamen Drachen zu retten, schreibt sich Anders an der Ulfar-Akademie ein, einer Schule für junge Wölfe. Wenn er Rayna wiedersehen will, muss Anders über sich hinauswachsen und zeigen, was wirklich in ihm steckt.

The sci-fi saga that began with the breakout best seller Illuminae continues onboard the Jump Station Heimdall, where two new characters will confront the next wave of the BeiTech assault. Hanna is the station captain's pampered daughter, Nik the reluctant member of a notorious crime family. But while the pair are struggling with the realities of life aboard the galaxy's most boring space station, little do they know that Kady Grant and the Hypatia are headed right toward Heimdall, carrying news of the Kerenza invasion.

Es ist nur eine flüchtige Begegnung, doch dieser Moment auf dem größten und luxuriösesten Raumschiff, das die Menschheit je gesehen hat, wird ihr Leben für immer verändern. Lilac ist das reichste Mädchen des Universums, Tarver ein gefeierter Kriegsheld aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Nichts könnte die Kluft zwischen ihnen überbrücken - außer dem Schiffbruch der angeblich so sicheren Icarus.

Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza - but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion? Meanwhile Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground resistance.

Nimh still holds on to her divinity, if only by a thread. In her final confrontation with Inshara, the woman determined to take her place and rule Nimh’s kingdom, both Nimh and her enemy were sent to the world above, in the cloudlands. Now North looks to the sky, left behind on the surface world. Desperate for a chance to join the girl he loves and save his world, North will stop at nothing to find a way back to his home in the sky-city of Ciel. Before it’s too late to save anyone.

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they're worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help.

Prince North’s home is in the sky, in a gleaming city held aloft by intricate engines, powered by technology. Nimh is the living goddess of her people on the Surface, responsible for providing answers, direction - hope. North’s and Nimh’s lives are entwined - though their hearts can never be. Linked by a terrifying prophecy and caught between duty and fate, they must choose between saving their people or succumbing to the bond that is forbidden between them.

AIDAN is the AI you'll love to hate. The advanced AI system was supposed to protect a fleet of survivors who'd escaped the deadly attack on Kerenza IV. AIDAN was supposed to be infallible. But in the chaotic weeks and months that followed, it became clear that something was terribly, terribly wrong with AIDAN....

Everyone in Vallen knows that ice wolves and scorch dragons are sworn enemies who live deeply separate lives. So when 12-year-old orphan Anders takes one elemental form and his twin sister, Rayna, takes another, he wonders whether they are even related. Family or not, Rayna is Anders’s only true friend. She’s nothing like the brutal, cruel dragons who claimed her as one of their own and stole her away. To rescue her, Anders must enlist at the foreboding Ulfar Academy, a school for young wolves that values loyalty to the pack above all else.

Es ist nur eine flüchtige Begegnung, doch dieser Moment auf dem größten und luxuriösesten Raumschiff, das die Menschheit je gesehen hat, wird ihr Leben für immer verändern. Lilac ist das reichste Mädchen des Universums, Tarver ein gefeierter Kriegsheld aus einfachen Verhältnissen. Nichts könnte die Kluft zwischen ihnen überbrücken - außer dem Schiffbruch der angeblich so sicheren Icarus.

Jubilee Chase and Flynn Cormac should never have met. Lee is captain of the forces sent to Avon to crush the terraformed planet's rebellious colonists, but she has her own reasons for hating the insurgents. Rebellion is in Flynn's blood. His sister died in the original uprising against the powerful corporate conglomerate that rules Avon with an iron fist.