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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia merges science with human concerns and ideals, examining the universe's influence in our everyday lives and ultimate fates through relationship between past and present, order and disorder and the certainty of knowledge. Set in an English country house in the years 1809-1812 and 1989, the play examines the lives of two modern scholars and the house's current residents with the lives of those who lived there 180 years earlier.

Master thief, rogue and chancer Gideon Sable is back for another fast-paced supernatural heist—and this time he has the vault of a Las Vegas casino in his sights. Judi Rifkin is one of the world's most successful collectors of the weird and unnatural. In a London underworld filled with criminals with very special talents, Judi is a force to be reckoned with. And Gideon Sable—thief, rogue and chancer—owes her a very large favour. Judi makes him an offer he can't refuse: steal her the legendary Masque of Ra, kept safe in a Las Vegas casino, and she'll wipe the slate clean.

The mountains are brimming with the lure of fortunes — from gold to a booming fur trade. A man at home in this once pristine wilderness, Preacher knows there’s no turning back civilization now. What he doesn’t know is that beyond the plans of some men is a deadly enemy with far more dangerous designs....

Everything you know about vampires is wrong, as struggling actress Esther Diamond discovers after taking a job as a victim in The Vampyre, an off-Broadway cult hit in Manhattan. Not only is she besieged by fang-wearing vampire groupies, fanatical anti-vampire activists, and the bloodsucking paparazzi, but she also has to put up with broody lead actor Daemon Ravel, who claims to be a real vampire. But when one of Daemon's fan girls turns up dead - and drained of all her blood - Esther is determined to help.

It's the late 1930s, and even on the remote island of St Martin's in the Isles of Scilly, war seems inevitable. But the islanders have their own battles to contend with, stuck on a rock flung 27 miles out into the Atlantic with only their natural grit and gallows humour to see them through. When a Penzance GPO man arrives to check on the post office, the islanders decide he must be the undertaker come to deal with the body of the late Post Office manager.

Everything has led to this……But only one warrior will win. The three forces converge on Earth: de Finita, The AllSeer, and Prometheus. Behind them lay the wreckage of millions of lives and planets burned to ashes. In front of each? The greatest empire known to mankind. Destiny.

King Malcom of the kingdom of Redhart is dead. The kingdom has been overrun by the forces of the Unreal. Statues live, corpses walk, and nothing is as it seems. One of Malcom's three sons may assume the throne, but two will have to die. Jordan, the great actor, is hired to impersonate Prince Viktor, who is ill, but can't be seen in public as weak. Jordan's skills are great, but there is much he doesn't know about the prince and his ignorance could kill him if he doesn't acquire allies and learn the truth about life at Castle Midnight.

Hunted by an ungrateful Persian royal family, the rogue agents Samuel and Mehrnaz are on the run to escape the empire they formerly served. Their destination (if they live to see it): the distant fabled land of India. There, on the far side of the Indus, the agents find ancient perils have returned in the weapons-blasted desert left behind by the earth-shattering Mahabharata War. Nightmarish creatures that have grown giant and twisted hunt down their human prey, while other animals have metamorphosized into something stranger still.

Prometheus returned to his solar system, and de Finita’s forces prepare to defend what’s theirs. The AllSeer’s return threatens to conquer both militaries in one genius move. He’ll obliterate Mars and force Prometheus to make an impossible choice: Save his friend or save his insurrection. Will de Finita bend the knee or watch billions burn alive beneath the AllSeer’s magnificent power? Will Prometheus let his friend die? Or will he abandon everything that what he’s built and risk his own life for someone he once loved?

The stranger could be insane. Or he just might be our salvation. Archaeologist Annja Creed is more than curious when a decrepit, ancient-looking man visits her, claiming the end of the world is near. The stranger spins wild tales and speaks as if he actually knew King Arthur. But, strangest of all, he insists that Annja is the only one who can stop the horrible event that is about to happen.

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.

He calls himself The King. Once a respected professor, he was ruined by scandal. Now, he rules his own “country”—an area of western territory where an army of outlaws enforce his laws. Any town he claims as his own must pay “taxes,” collected from bank, stagecoach, and train robberies. When he learns that President Rutherford B. Hayes and General William Tecumseh Sherman are venturing into the far west on a tour of the nation, The King devises a plan to kidnap America’s leaders and expand his empire.

Durchsetzungsfähige Männer, in deren Jobbeschreibung das Wort "Mafia" vorkommt. Frauen, die keine Lust haben, sich sagen zu lassen, was sie zu tun haben. Rohe Gewalt, schmutzige Szenen, wilde Emotionen — das ist die Familie Moretti. Zum ersten Mal sind alle sechs Geschichten in einem Hörbuch erhältlich. "Tied To Rage": Nachdem meine Mutter sich im Urlaub Hals über Kopf verliebt und geheiratet hat, möchte ihr neuer Mann Don Moretti, dass wir zu ihm ziehen.

Der erste Tag an Nicos neuer Schule wird für ihn zu einer Herausforderung. Sein Rivale Pauli und seine Crew haben es auf Nico abgesehen. Zum Glück helfen Nico seine drolligen neuen Freunde Truschel und Benito mit ihren Geisterkräften. Ein Mädchen aus Syrien, Jamila, beeindruckt Nico sehr und dann gibt es auch noch eine Gartenparty für die ganze Klasse.

Smoke Jensen has met some down-and-dirty, murdering prairie scum over the years. But this time it’s personal and it’s bloody—and going to get bloodier. First, they stole fifty of the hundred horses Smoke delivered to his old friend Big Ben Conyers in Tarrant County, Texas. Then they stole two thousand cattle from Big Ben...and killed him just for the fun of it. Now they’re going to pay.

Eines Tage kommt die Witwe Douglas auf die Idee, den Lausbuben Huckleberry Finn zu sich zu nehmen und wie einen eigenen Sohn großzuziehen. Hätte Huck das geahnt! Zusammen mit ihrer Schwester, Miss Watson, versucht Witwe Douglas ständig, an ihm herumzuerziehen. Sie meint allerdings, er würde sonst nie ein wohlerzogener Junge werden. Bis es Huckleberry Finn zu viel wird und er mit dem schwarzen Diener Jim flieht. Auf einem Floß fahren sie den Mississippi gen Süden und erleben auf dieser Reise manches spannende und nicht ganz ungefährliche Abenteuer.

Thirtieth-century Britain and the calamitous collapse of the pension system means compulsory euthanasia for all 70-year-olds. But a clerical error spells disaster for 69-year-old George Smith, who suddenly finds himself facing his demise a year early. Feisty George isn't going to take this lying down and goes into battle with Central Admin - and the terrifying TV crew from This Was Your Life, who want to broadcast his imminent death live on air.

Boston. Vor vielen Jahren hatte ich mir geschworen nie wieder auch nur einen Fuß in diese Stadt zu setzen. Doch nun steht mein einundzwanzigster Geburtstag vor der Tür und wenn ich das Erbe meiner Eltern antreten will, bleibt mir leider keine andere Wahl. Etwas Gutes hat diese Reise ja, denn so muss ich wenigstens Mason nicht ständig sehen. Dumm nur, dass ausgerechnet er plötzlich in meinem Hotelzimmer auf mich wartet, mit dem Auftrag mich zu töten.

Wenn ich nicht will, dass mein bester Freund Gavin Moretti mich für den Rest der Zeit hasst, muss ich wohl oder übel zu seiner Hochzeit kommen. Dafür muss ich zurück nach Las Vegas - ausgerechnet dorthin, wo ich mehr Feinde habe, als es Hotelbetten gibt. Kaum habe ich meinen Fuß über die Stadtgrenze gesetzt, stolpere ich von einer Katastrophe in die nächste und schließlich in die Arme von Lucas Moretti - und in die von Alexander Moretti. Hatte ich erwähnt, dass sie Brüder sind? Sogar Zwillinge? Zwei ganz neue Probleme auf der endlosen Liste...

"Royal Daddy": "Du brauchst offensichtlich jemanden, der dir beibringt, sich an die Regeln zu halten. Wie ein braves Mädchen." Statt sich zu verhalten, wie es ihrer zukünftigen Rolle als Königin angemessen wäre, ist Prinzessin Lucienne damit beschäftigt, bei Rockkonzerten in der ersten Reihe zu stehen, nachts in Tattoo-Studios zu stolpern und die falschen Partys zu besuchen. Ihr Vater macht sich Sorgen um ihren Ruf - während ich befürchte, ein anderer Mann könnte eine Kostprobe von dem bekommen, was längst mir gehört. Es wird Zeit, der rebellischen Prinzessin ein paar Manieren beizubringen.