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Em outubro de 1929, no Maine, algo terrível aconteceu na imponente mansão da família Hope e três pessoas foram assassinadas em uma noite sangrenta. A única sobrevivente, Lenora, instantaneamente se torna a principal suspeita do crime. Apesar disso, a polícia nunca conseguiu provar que ela é a culpada ou muito menos entender o que aconteceu. Desde então, a herdeira vive isolada na mansão, sem nunca sair da propriedade para evitar os olhares curiosos dos moradores da cidade.

The coldest shadows. Arcano-archaeologist Elijah knows that digging into the past can be its own reward - or peril. When he’s hired to find an ancient map purported to lead to a mysterious location at the bottom of the world, his professional curiosity is more than roused. But his quest to simply get his hands on the map is more dangerous than he expected - even for a shadowrunner. He and his own team of runners - including everything from a goblin rigger to a troll street samurai - follow a murky trail that takes them from the ruins of Chicago to the jungles of Amazonia.

New York in naher Zukunft - eine Stadt am Abgrund! Die Cops Liberty Capriso und Mike Quillan verrichten ihren Dienst in Manhattan, dem gefährlichsten Teil der Stadt. Schlimmer noch: Eine neue, brandgefährliche Droge verbreitet sich rasant. Die Polizei sucht fieberhaft nach den Hintermännern. Da wendet sich Bürgermeisterin Goldberg an die Ermittler: Sie konnte nur knapp einem Anschlag auf ihr Leben entgehen.

Kosovo, 1999. In the shadow of an impending NATO bombing campaign, James Palatine of the Army Intelligence Corps has joined an elite unit of the SAS for his first mission behind enemy lines. A woman's desperate cry for help draws them to a remote farmhouse, where Palatine makes a split-second decision that he bitterly regrets. Just hours later he sees a chance to redeem himself - in his own eyes, at least - when his unit finds a young girl close to death in the freezing woods

Little Sister has vanished. The prototype device - real name IPD400 - has powers of surveillance that governments and terrorist organizations would kill for. They might yet. James Palatine, a trained killer with a surplus of conscience, invented the device and is the only person who can operate it. He's determined to retrieve it, and so is Natalya Kocharian - the arms dealer who "inadvertently" sold the prototype to a rogue dealer.

Hotel ballroom lights flicker as the University of Baltimore announces the winner of this year’s Tiberian Research Award in Psychology. Years of toil and sacrifice weigh on Emma’s shoulders. Years of enduring her professor’s unearthly demands. Years of researching mass persuasion on the internet late into the night, living in a single-bedroom apartment on campus while her friends moved away and started families.

Dorothy spent most of her life doing the right thing. Now, widowed and with a cancer diagnosis, she’s ready to cut loose in the world of PIVOT. After learning magic and defending a caravan from a set of elves with a seriously overblown sense of superiority, Dotty had only one request: In her next game, she wanted to be uglier. So, she’s an orc now, tusks and all. And when she finds out that a group of dragons have been posing as gods to prey on orc villages, she is not going to stand for that...even if it means giving a legendary orc shaman the dressing down of his life.

If you were dying of cancer, would you risk entering a game that saved you from pain, even if you chanced dying early? Dorothy Hunt is not willing to go out with a whimper, but rather a bang. The main problem? Not all of her family will support her decision. This time, she gets to choose a body that isn't pretty, isn't bound by the social customs of her family and generation. "Make me ugly." Unused to video games and fighting cancer, Dorothy Hunt is focused on providing the scientists something they can't acquire without her. Data on an older human who is about to die.

A young girl, Andrea Jamieson, loses her father, who is trying to rescue a neighbor during a hurricane. She grows up to become a hurricane ''hunter'' and, through her own efforts and those of her husband and colleagues, accidentally creates the largest hurricane in history. Then it disappears in the Devil's Triangle. So does her husband, flying over the storm to drop Silver Iodide crystals into the eye. Then, 30 years later, the storm - and the plane - are back.

Peter Valois is about to make history. A scientist on a hot project, his days consist of recording brains and sending the files into robots for "conditioning". His plan is to use the results to fix their behavior, and then use the same method with humans. Peter's been on the straight and narrow and everything is going well, until problems with his teenage son force Peter out of his comfort zone. His scheme to save his son backfires when his cutting-edge research attracts the interest of someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

It is Super Bowl Sunday in the year 2022. Five people are due to have dinner in an apartment on the east side of Manhattan. The hosts are a retired physics professor and her husband; they are joined by one of her former students and await the arrival of another couple, delayed by what becomes a dramatic flight from Paris. In the apartment, talk ranges widely. The opening kickoff is one commercial away. Then something happens, and the digital connections that have transformed our lives are severed.

Agent Samantha Ward is challenged with her most elusive foe yet, a mad man who thinks of himself as a god. She has to stop him before his evil plot of revenge is unleashed and someone dies. Can she stop him before it is too late? Or will her super abilities fail her?