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From the thrilling imagination of best-selling, award-winning Colm Tóibín comes this ambitious, violent and modern retelling of one of our oldest and most enduring stories. On the day of his daughter's wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory. Three years later he returns home, and his murderous action has set the entire family - mother, brother, sister - on a path of intimate violence.

Being the archangel of selflessness got me kicked out of my home. I’d spent my entire existence guiding those to give of themselves and help their fellow angels. Even when Lucifer marched on Heaven’s gate, I once more attempted to get those I called family to see a better way. Sadly, Father didn’t see that and I was cast out of Heaven to be forever be trapped on Earth or worse in Hell.

Veterinary nurse Sage was surprised when a handsome man named Carter arrived in her Brooklyn clinic badly injured and desperately seeking her help. When Sage told him that she could only treat animals, Carter had no choice but to tell her the truth. That he was an animal. A shapeshifting werebear. One of many in New York's Brooklyn borough.

Tras el éxito de La viajera del tiempo, uno de los libros más vendidos en Amazon, Lorena Franco regresa con un nuevo viaje en el tiempo muy visual y cinematográfico. Perderse entre las páginas de este apasionante viaje será una aventura inolvidable en la que una noche cualquiera condicionará el resto de la existencia de Nora Harris, una nueva viajera en el tiempo. Tras la muerte de su abuela Beatrice, Nora Harris hereda su cafetería, un local con tanto encanto como historias vividas, situado en un tramo tranquilo de Front Street, Brooklyn.

Elisabeth Stanford kann es nicht fassen. Für eine mehr als fragwürdige UFO-Story schickt ihre Zeitung sie nach Rosswell in New Mexico. Jenem Ort, in dem in den 50er Jahren bereits einmal Ufos Schlagzeilen gemacht haben. Kaum dort angekommen, scheint jemand auf telepathischen Wege Kontakt mit ihr aufzunehmen und berichtet von einem ultrageheimen Bombenprojekt. Zunächst schenkt sie den geistig übermittelten Worten des Mannes, der sich als Dr. Mertens aus Deutschland vorstellt, keinen Glauben. Doch als sie kurz darauf beinahe einem gezielten Mordattentat zum Opfer fällt, ändert sich alles.

Despite the rumors about Port Lewis, Michael Gates doesn’t expect the house he rents with his sister on Foxglove Lane to be haunted. An eerie meeting with Victor Lewellyn, the resident witch-turned-demon who is bound to the property by dark magic, changes his mind. Michael isn’t looking to start a relationship with anyone, let alone someone like Victor, but the intense attraction between them can’t be ignored. As he dives into the world of magical drug rings, demons, witches, and necromancers, Michael also grapples with the complicated past he left behind in Arizona.

Jack the Ripper, sadistic madman of old London, once thought long dead, has returned to New York in an effort to quench his thirst for blood and mayhem. When the city's vampire enclave finds itself insufficient to deal with a madman of Jack's caliber, Vincent, the enclave head, enlists Leo Malone to put the maniac down before he reveals the existence of vampires as Jack throws the city into the throes of chaos and terror.

New York has a problem few are aware of. Creatures of myth and darkness prowl the night-shrouded streets, preying on those who won’t be missed. At least, those are the rules. Bodies are turning up, and their deaths are far from natural. Our kind’s existence depends on remaining nothing more than folklore and fairy tales, but someone has decided to break the rules. Now, it’s my job to stop a conspiracy before it threatens to expose the truth about vampires and werewolves. My name is Leo Malone.