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An original spin-off novel set in the popular Star Trek: The Next Generation universe from New York Times bestselling author David Mack. Death slumbers in the ashes of silent planets, waiting to be awakened and unleashed… Twenty years have passed since the interstellar scourge known as the...

Hayden and his group must push their way through the Fortress of the Dark Fae to discover what was taken and the horror of what kept it there. But escaping is only the beginning, and soon they find themselves embroiled in another conflict that brings a new ally into their number. As he learns more about the Underworld he hopes to one day lead, Hayden is forced to come to terms with the brutality of what lies ahead. Choices that could have severe ramifications for everyone.

Genji Tanaka wanted to become the leader of Gakko Academy, but he overestimated his own power. After he lost a battle, the soul of a psy-master from the planet Skayd transferred into the body of the dying teenager. Is the leadership of the school really worth a war of all against all? Especially when you consider that it is a school for wizards, and Genji couldn't even rightfully use the power of his own clan . . .

Suave, unflappable and ambitious, veteran politician Charles Bannister knows his way around the corridors of power. As chief whip, he's adept at keeping MPs in line and squashing potential scandals—aided by his brother-in-law, MI6 Agent Henry Colvil, who whispers useful titbits of information in his ear. His position seems invincible—but nothing is forever, and when the tides of politics turn, Charles finds himself under threat. In these six series, we follow his fortunes and those of his close friend Home Secretary Dougal Baxter. Together, the duo rise, fall and rise again.

While taking a walk, two teen boys wander off into a research center in the middle of a remote village in Nandiland. Intrigued by the workers of this institute, their fear gets the best of them, and they decide to run away and not get caught while spying. They end up in an alternative world that has given them superpowers. Caught in the two realities, can they trust their judgement to figure out what is real?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in collaboration with his friend, William Wordsworth, revolutionized English poetry. In 1798 they produced their Lyrical Ballads, poems of imagination and reflection using "the language of men" - pointing the way forward for a generation of Romantic poets.

Hayden and his women are in for the time of their lives. After uncovering a betrayal that threatens everyone close to him, Hayden is set on a path that may lead him hurtling towards war. The clock is ticking, and Hayden is on a mission through hidden portals and dangerous, unknown areas of the Underworld to find pieces of himself he never knew were missing.

Nigel Shirazi, the Speaker of the Merc Guild, knows that war is coming and he’s not ready. He needs to build up the mercenary forces after years of war, and he’s proclaimed the Phoenix Initiative to give people who want to start new companies the opportunity to do so. CASPers are cheaper and financed at lower rates, and the government of Earth is offering bounties to take the mercs from alien races off the planet. Now is the time!

Reporter Reuben Bourne has broken a promise - to cast a paramilitary white supremacy group in a favorable light. Now, one basically peaceful man, one with a paradoxical attraction for violence, must confront a force of unrelenting hate. Somehow, he must survive - as he leads his family on a desperate flight into a wilderness as unforgiving as the fanatical humans who pursue him.

Chosen by The Guardian as one of the best 100 novels of all time, Disraeli’s classic 1845 ‘condition-of-England’ novel exposes the inequality and exploitation endemic in 19th century Britain, and the vast gulf between the haves and the have-nots. It centres on Charles Egremont, a member of the landed gentry and newly elected MP. With a glittering future ahead of him, he is in need of a suitable wife, and his brother, the Earl of Marney, is keen that he should marry Lady Joan Fitz-Warene.

In the fourth book of the adventures of Aurelia, our girl begins her mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and goes to a land she doesn't know among a people she has only ever heard about. She experiences moments of insight, moments of humor, moments of inspiration, and moments of heartbreak as she navigates the world, and has some interesting and teaching moments in her quest to become whom she was always meant to be.

In the third book of Aurelia's Diaries, our girl is on her own, living with her best friend and enjoying the freedoms of being an "adult". She experiences joy and heartache, silliness and seriousness, heartbreak and happiness, inspiration and despair, romance...and terror. Cheer her on as she heads straight into her long awaited mission for the church.

In this part of the series, Aurelia faces new challenges as she adjusts to a new city, new school, new family, and new friends. She faces whole new challenges as her dating life becomes more complicated. And why is she afraid that one of her best friends may become related to her? What does she realize about the romance she had in the first part?

Dive into the diary of a teenage girl, raised by a widowed father, as she navigates school, work, friends, and a dating life. See her grow into an intelligent and beautiful young woman, who is starting to figure out what she wants from life. Based on the fact that the author always wanted to have a daughter with his wife, this is a speculation as to what that daughter might have been like.

From David F. Gray, author of Gamble’s Run and The Vegas Rift, comes Barriers. Barriers is a collection of 14 mind-bending tales, each treading the line between reality as we know it and the abominations that lie behind the veil of our perception. Experience the horror of ancient beings and cosmic nightmares as you are transported beyond this narrow existence, beyond the known laws of time and space, beyond sanity, even. For no mortal mind can cross these barriers and return unscathed.

This is the story of two retirees who have hated each other since pre-school. They each come into possession of half of a winning lottery ticket that is worth $220 million. That is, if they can put the two halves together.

Three billion people died the day the Veech appeared. Forced to reconcile with the world-shattering fact that humanity isn’t alone in the cosmos, the resulting war for the future of mankind shaped humanity’s destiny and challenged it to grapple with its place in the universe. For the men and women who survived Invasion Day and the devastating war that followed, their stories paint a picture of the everyday struggle and experiences of the regular folk who carved out a living at a time when the very future of our species was uncertain.

Professor Stanley Morgan träumt schlecht...sehr schlecht. Als er einigen seiner Studenten davon erzählt, erfährt er, daß auch die meisten seiner Studenten seltsame Träume haben, unter ihnen seine Freundin Nancy, mit der er der Sache auf die Spur geht. Die Träume bewirken etwas in den Menschen. Es kommt zu gewalttätigen Ausbrüchen, schließlich auch zu Mord.

Jennifer and Jonathan, a showbiz couple, leave their ailing daughter in New York City to come to Hollywood, so Jonathan can audition for a film. And when Jennifer stays with her old friend Michael, a dancer turned social worker, past sins shed new light on the present in the age of AIDS.

Die Anschläge auf das aus insgesamt sieben Gebäuden bestehende New Yorker World-Trade-Center haben die Welt verändert. Zwei Türme stürzen ein. Vier Flugzeuge sollen an diesem verhängnisvollen Tag insgesamt zum Absturz gebracht worden sein. Doch - was war es wirklich, das die Welt mit so dramatischen Bildern für immer erschütterte? Ein Terroranschlag? Eine fatale Inszenierung? Der Hacker T-Rex kommt einer schier unfassbaren Intrige auf die Spur, von deren Folgen sein verstorbener Hacker-Kollege Tron gesagt haben soll, dass man einst vielleicht froh sein werde, wenn stattdessen "nur zwei Türme" einstürzten.