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For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the American Dream come true. A glorious stretch of untamed land near the Colorado-Kansas border, it’s the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. But when a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock—with a well-armed militia—the Jensens’ dream becomes a living nightmare. This stranger calls himself Colonel Lamar Talbot. He’s come to warn them about a looming war with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacre—by launching a counterattack that’s even bloodier.

Part 2 of 2: Nevada, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with him an innocent victim of a horrible massacre and a dire warning for Sheriff Jon Highfather. The conflict between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers has been brewing for years, and now the spirits of the fallen Indian dead have begun to rise to join in the fight. Deputy Mutt's old nemesis, Snake-Man, returns to begin a final bloody war against the Whites, purging them from the land forever.

Vampires don't exist, do they? That is a question Private Detective Tony Mandolin finds himself pondering as the evidence piles up in a case involving a string of dead redheads and the usual dose of weirdness San Francisco has to offer. To complicate things, Mandolin has to deal with the perception that he has become the latest golden boy of the fog city's crime boss. Then there's his cross-dressing friend Frankie.... Just another day in San Francisco.

Undefeated galactic heavyweight champion Korak the Cutter has defeated all challengers, destroying everyone in his path, but the wins aren’t as easy as they used to be. After a decade of perfect fighting, his age is catching up with him. For a Quyth Warrior, that means he’s slowing down, and speed is the name of the game in mixed martial arts.

Nevada, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with him an innocent victim of a horrible massacre and a dire warning for Sheriff Jon Highfather. The conflict between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers has been brewing for years, and now the spirits of the fallen Indian dead have begun to rise to join in the fight. Deputy Mutt's old nemesis, Snake-Man, returns to begin a final bloody war against the Whites, purging them from the land forever.

Atrum Terra: Dark Lands tells the story of two people from different sides of the nation who struggle to survive after a devastating attack breaks the back of the United States. It is a journey in which the whole world is sent spiraling toward a dark future where humans are an endangered species.

Vivian Ellenshaw is fat, but she knows she doesn't need to lose weight, so she's none too happy to find herself forced into a weight-loss camp's van with her ex-best friend, Allie; a meathead jock who can barely drive; and the camp owner's snobby son. And when they arrive at Camp Featherlite at the start of the worst blizzard in the history of Flagstaff, Arizona, it's clear that something isn't right. Vee barely has a chance to meet the other members of her pod, all who seem as unhappy to be at Featherlite as she does, when a camper goes missing down by the lake.

Werwölfe - nein, die gibt es nicht. Schon vormals bekamen es Holmes und Watson scheinbar mit dieser Spezies zu tun. Doch immer entpuppten sich die vermeintlichen Bestien als normale Menschen. In diesem Fall aber scheint alles anders zu sein. Auf Blackwood Castle stehen sie plötzlich einem leibhaftigen Monster gegenüber.

From the moment she first met him, Callie knew that Simon Montague was a dead man walking. From rock-climbing to wing-suiting, the infuriatingly charismatic tech CEO lives every moment of his life like it might be his last—and given his packed schedule of adrenaline-fueled adventures, Callie calculated that statistically, one would be soon enough. In order to secure funding for her groundbreaking work in astrophysics, Callie must work with Simon—and as much as she tries to resist it, the shy and play-it-safe scientist soon finds herself warming to his outgoing personality and thirst for life.

Sherlock Holmes und sein ärgster Widersacher sind tot. Gemeinsam stürzten sie die Reichenbachfälle in der Schweiz hinunter. Das ist zumindest die offizielle Version. In Wahrheit sind die beiden Kontrahenten lebendiger als je zuvor - begierig darauf, die Klingen zum finalen Duell zu kreuzen. Als Mrs. Mary Watson entführt wird, gibt sich der Meisterdetektiv zu erkennen und nimmt gemeinsam mit seinem alten Weggefährten Dr. John Hamish Watson die Spur Moriartys auf. Sie führt tief in die Vergangenheit und fördert so manches Geheimnis hervor.

The pandemic was rough on everyone, especially since school went from being a fun place where you could hang out with your friends to a bunch of heads in small rectangles all trying to talk at once. For Bradley, Edelle, Hunter, Jasper, and Keiko, that’s about to change. A mysterious box arrives at each of their houses, and they’re invited to attend a virtual school. More than just being online, they’ll be able to create an avatar of themselves and interact with their friends and other classmates in real time using VR headsets.

Die STELLARIS ist ein Frachter der Minerva-Klasse, eines von vielen Millionen Raumschiffen, die zwischen den Welten der Milchstraße verkehren. Mit ihrem Rumpfdurchmesser von 200 Metern und einem Volumen von annähernd fünf Millionen Kubikmetern ist die STELLARIS eine Welt für sich... Im Paket enthalten sind folgende Kurzgeschichten: Folge 21: "Speisen mit den Bonfyers" von Wim Vandemaan, gelesen von Tom Jacobs, Folge 22: "Die Elianer (1): Vergeltung" von Roman Schleifer, gelesen von Michael Stange, Folge 23: "Die Elianer (2): Versuchung" von Roman Schleifer, gelesen von Hanno Dinger.

Was geschah mit dem jungen Ellis Morton? Sein Halbbruder, Sir Peter Clapp-Rothe, spricht bei Sherlock Holmes vor und bittet ihn, in dieser Sache tätig zu werden. Angeblich stürzte Ellis vom Dach als er versuchte, einen Tennisball aus der Dachrinne zu fischen. Doch Ellis war komplett unsportlich, sogar aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nicht in der Lage, Sport zu treiben. Und schon gar nicht Tennis.

Überfall auf einen Diamantenhändler. Der Täter: Father Christmas, der Weihnachtsmann persönlich. Die einzige Spur: ein auffälliger Sportwagen, in dem der Täter mit seiner Beute davonrast. Ein Fall wie geschaffen für den viktorianischen Meisterdetektiv und seinen treuen Begleiter Dr. Watson.

You can finally achieve your weight loss and metabolic health goals by reconditioning your body to preferentially burn fats instead of carbohydrates. This audiobook is your guided tour of the ketogenic lifestyle, supplemented with optional intermittent fasting (IF) and one-meal-a-day (OMAD) practices. The effects that the standard American diet (SAD), a plant-based diet, and a ketogenic lifestyle have on key metabolic markers are compared as the author shares actual results from his own lipid and metabolic panel blood tests performed over nearly nearly a decade.

For 17 years, Ty Mattson never knew if his father survived the Mexican War. But when he receives news that his father is alive - and he's joined the Confederate forces of General John Morgan - Ty leaves home to enlist with Morgan's Raiders. Owen Mattson turns out to be everything Ty imagined he would be: a good man, a true mentor, a great soldier. But a Confederate assassin's bullets nearly divide father and son yet again.

For Lawson, the horrors that stalked the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh were more than just those of war. After being forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge, Lawson chose to cling to what remained of his humanity and fought his way free of the Dark Society's clutches.

If you have ever been touched with a profound mystical experience, the daily grind of ordinary life can feel soul-crushing at times. How can you thrive in the here and now - managing image, career, and family - while surrendering the ego and embracing a power from beyond? Guided: Journey into the Unknown to Awaken the Soul and Live in Truth reveals an unexpected passage from fragmentation to wholeness, from hiding to being seen, and from fear to love.

Kennst du schon Petronella Apfelmus? Sie ist eine Hexe. Genauer gesagt eine Apfelhexe. Zusammen mit dem Hirschkäfer Lucius und den Apfelmännchen kümmert sie sich um den Garten der Familie Kuchenbrand und erlebt dabei so einige Abenteuer. Aber das ist natürlich ein Geheimnis. Nur die Zwillinge Lea und Luis Kuchenbrand wissen, dass es Petronella gibt. Und nun auch du! Lass dich verzaubern, Rapp Zapp!

Kennst du schon Petronella Apfelmus? Sie ist eine Hexe. Genauer gesagt eine Apfelhexe. Zusammen mit dem Hirschkäfer Lucius und den Apfelmännchen kümmert sie sich um den Garten der Familie Kuchenbrand und erlebt dabei so einige Abenteuer. Aber das ist natürlich ein Geheimnis. Nur die Zwillinge Lea und Luis Kuchenbrand wissen, dass es Petronella gibt. Und nun auch du! Lass dich verzaubern, Rapp Zapp! "Eine abenteuerliche Nacht": Malina hat einen Überlebenskurs absolviert und will ihre neuen Fähigkeiten nun Lea und Luis vorführen - mitten in Petronellas Garten!