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Paul Bunyan—legendary larger-than-life American lumberjack—is a man down on his luck. With a load of family debts on his broad back, he ekes out a miserable miner’s life in Lump Town, a bleak hamlet controlled by famed industrialist El Boffo. When Bunyan's wife Lucette falls ill with a disease caused by the toxic mineral Lump, he embarks on a quest to save her. His only guide: the Chilali—a mysterious creature who speaks only in questions.

Considine and Pete Runyon had once been friends, back in the days when both were cowhands. But when Runyon married the woman Considine loved, the two parted ways. Runyon settled down and became a sheriff. Considine took up robbing banks. Now Considine is planning a raid on the bank at Obaro, a plan that will pit him against Runyon...and lead to riches or suicide. The one thing he never counted on was meeting a strong, beautiful woman and her stubborn father, hell-bent on traveling alone through Apache territory to a new life.

An ex-marine on the run from the nightmares of war. An American scientist and his beautiful wife on a desperate journey to save their marriage. An aging native shaman trying to teach his grandson one last all-important lesson. All are headed up an uncharted river into a confrontation with a mysterious warlord trapped by a deadly curse.

The Crown and Key Society face their most terrifying villain yet: Gaios, a deranged demigod with the power to destroy Britain. To avenge a centuries-old betrayal, Gaios is hell-bent on summoning the elemental forces of the earth to level London and bury Britain. The Crown and Key Society, a secret league consisting of a magician, an alchemist, and a monster-hunter, is the realm’s only hope—and to stop Gaios, they must gather their full strength and come together as a team, or the world will fall apart.

Über ein halbes Jahrhundert lang kämpfen die Frauen der Familie Kölln – um ihre Existenz, um ihr Glück Elmshorn, 1886: Viel zu früh wird Charlotte Köllns Mann durch einen Arbeitsunfall aus dem Leben gerissen. Zeit für Trauer bleibt ihr nicht, die Kornmühle muss weiterbetrieben werden, sonst steht die Familie vor dem Ruin. Als Frau darf Charlotte weder Kredite aufnehmen noch offiziell die Geschäfte führen, doch davon lässt sie sich nicht aufhalten. Als ihr ältester Sohn die Arbeiterin Bertha heiraten will, ist Charlotte gar nicht begeistert. Sie bangt um den Status der Familie, den es zu erhalten gilt.

The year is 2012. The nations of the world are bound together in an alliance of collective security, overseen by the International Patent Office and its ruthless stranglehold on technology. When airships start disappearing in the middle of the Atlantic, the Patent Office is desperate to discover what has happened. Forbidden to operate beyond the territorial waters of member nations, they send spies to investigate in secret. One of those spies is Elizabeth Barnabus.

In this new mystery set in the Patty Hearst era of radical black nationalism and political abductions, a black ex-boxer self-named Uhuru Nolica, the leader of a revolutionary cell called Scorched Earth, has kidnapped Rosemary Goldsmith, the daughter of a weapons manufacturer, from her dorm at UC Santa Barbara. If they don't receive the money, weapons, and apology they demand, "Rose Gold" will die - horribly and publicly.

When monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane comes across the gruesome aftermath of a ritual murder in a London church, he enlists the help of magician-scribe Simon Archer and alchemist extraordinaire Kate Anstruther. Studying the macabre scene, they struggle to understand obscure clues in the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics carved into the victim’s heart—as well as bizarre mystical allusions to the romantic poetry of William Blake. One thing is clear: Some very potent black magic is at work.

Die opulente Erfolgssaga geht weiter! Augsburg 1930. Marie und Paul sind eigentlich glücklich. Ihre Liebe ist stärker denn je und inzwischen haben sie einen gemeinsamen Sohn, den vierjährigen Kurt. Doch aufgrund der weltweiten Wirtschaftskrise kämpft Paul hart um das Überleben der Tuchvilla. Als er an einer Herzmuskelentzündung erkrankt, muss Marie ihr geliebtes Atelier aufgeben, um das Familienunternehmen vor dem Ruin zu retten. Dabei macht sie eine Entdeckung, die das Leben aller Familienmitglieder für immer verändern könnte. Wird es ihr gelingen, das Erbe der Tuchvilla zu bewahren und ihr zu neuem Glanz zu verhelfen?

A scandalous affair. A power struggle for the throne. A sensational rivalry between an English queen and an American commoner. In this electrifying novel, the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue tells the story of the Abdication of Edward VIII—and the two women at the center of it all.

Light-hearted with hidden depths—just like it's two protagonists—this book uses love as a means to understand how two people can truly embrace a second chance when having come from a world of trauma and pain. Does it require cutting off their pasts entirely? Is that even possible? Come Undone will beckon listeners gently into deep waters before of course delivering its happy ending.

1957: Die Jugendfreunde Harry Clifton, ein Arbeiterkind, und Giles Barrington, Erbe einer großen Schifffahrt-Dynastie, sind auch verbunden durch die Liebe zwischen Harry und Emma, der Schwester von Giles. Sie haben bereits vielen Herausforderungen getrotzt: Den Wirren um Herkunft und Erbe, Verrat, Intrigen, Krieg. Emma Clifton bietet sich die Gelegenheit, den Vorsitz der Barrington Schifffahrtgesellschaft zu übernehmen und Macht zu gewinnen. Doch als ihr Sohn Sebastian in einen Autounfall verwickelt wird, legt sich einen Schatten auf Emmas und Harry Glück …

Als letzter lebender Zeuge des Mordes an Spaniens Ministerpräsidenten, hielt sich Josep Jahre lang versteckt. 1874 kehrt er in sein katalanisches...

Robert Jeremy Cole, der Nachfahre des legendären Medicus, findet in der Neuen Welt als Schafzüchter und Arzt sein Glück, doch er lernt auch die Schattenseiten des jungen Amerika kennen: Indianerhass, Sklavenwirtschaft und Bürgerkrieg. Als er vom Stamm der Sauks Land kauft, lernt er die Priesterin und Medizinfrau Makwa-ikwa kennen. Sie weiht ihn in das wertvolle Wissen über die heilenden Kräfte der Natur ein und wird ihm eine unentbehrliche Helferin. Bald jedoch fällt sie einem grässlichen Verbrechen zum Opfer und der beginnende Bürgerkrieg bedroht das geordnete Leben Coles.

Hard Times is the name of a town in the barren hills of the Dakota Territory. To this town there comes one day one of the reckless sociopaths who wander the West to kill and rape and pillage. By the time he is through and has ridden off, Hard Times is a smoking ruin. The de facto mayor, Blue, takes in two survivors of the carnage - a boy, Jimmy, and a prostitute, Molly, who has suffered unspeakably - and makes them his provisional family.

At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium—with her three children and nanny in tow—to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires....

Karen Hollander is a celebrated attorney who recently removed herself from consideration for appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her reasons have their roots in 1968 - an episode she’s managed to keep secret for more than 40 years. Now, with the imminent publication of her memoir, she’s about to let the world in on that shocking secret - as soon as she can track down the answers to a few crucial last questions. A resonant coming-of-age story and a thrilling political mystery, True Believers is Kurt Andersen’s most ambitious novel to date, introducing a brilliant, funny, and irresistible new heroine to contemporary fiction.

As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past.

In the Pulitzer prize–winning classic The Killer Angels, Michael Shaara created the finest Civil War novel of our time. In the bestselling Gods and Generals, Shaara’s son, Jeff, brilliantly sustained his father’s vision, telling the epic story of the events culminating in the Battle of Gettysburg. Now, Jeff Shaara brings this legendary father-son trilogy to its stunning conclusion in a novel that brings to life the final two years of the Civil War.

Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother’s kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever.