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Eine Reihe von Störungen im Telegrafen- und Telefonsystem der Stadt London ruft bei den Sonderermittlern der Krone Erinnerungen an einen alten Fall wach. Aber aus welchem Grund könnte dem Zirkel der Sieben daran gelegen sein, dass die Kommunikation innerhalb und außerhalb der Stadt zum Erliegen kommt? Als zudem ein weiterer Anschlag auf eine Einrichtung des Militärs verübt wird, wird der Fall für Oscar Wilde, Sherlock Holmes und Irene Adler immer unübersichtlicher ...

With the turn of a new decade plagued with violence, sickness, disease, and economic instability, the people cry out for the prophets to speak. God is raising up a prophetic people who will help prepare the way for His purposes. In this book, Michelle McClain-Walters challenges readers to awaken to the call God is stirring in the earth and stand up as modern-day Elijahs who will partner with the Holy Spirit to change the culture by turning hearts back to God.

"The Secret Science: The Huna Knowledge of the Cosmic Energy Field" Scholarly Articles, Vol. 19, 2017, is a scholarly article for both neophytes and professionals on the subject of the Huna knowledge of the cosmic energy field. The author first asks what the motivation might be to studying Huna at all, and he comes to the conclusion that Huna is both a religion and a science, thus has prepared the path for the ultimate new age science that we now see emerging.

Terence McKenna (1946-2000) has been studying the ontological foundations of shamanism and the ethnopharmacology of spiritual transformation for the past quarter century. An innovative theoretician and spellbinding orator, McKenna emerged as a powerful voice for the psychedelic movement and the emergent societal tendency he calls The Archaic Revival, one of his most popular books. In 1993, McKenna wrote in This World and Its Double. It’s clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning.

The New York Times bestselling author of Up in the Air and Blood Will Out embarks on a journey that begins with the death of his mother - and ends in an inexplicable spiritual awakening. After the utter grief of taking his mother off life support, Walter Kirn is compelled to understand his recurring visions of a Native American holy site. With his children and girlfriend, he follows them. In opening himself up to the mysticism he sees in religion, music, and nature, Walter discovers something magical and transcendent: solidarity and solace in the world around him.

Straight out of the psych ward, Cora just wants her life to be normal. She doesn't want to see souls or the reapers collecting them. The guy she's loved from a distance for years moves away without saying good-bye. So yes, she's nursing a serious heartbreak. It's no wonder love is the last thing on her mind when Echo storms into her life. The chemistry between them is mind blowing. The connection defies logic. Even better, the souls leave her alone when he is around.

Short novels are movie length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2012 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form.

On the shady side of LA in 1961, African-American private eye Easy Rawlins can go places a white detective cannot. So when Saul Lynx needs a missing woman found, he hires Easy to do his dirty work. Elizabeth Eady - ‘Black Betty’ - is as dark as midnight and just as beautiful. An old acquaintance of Easy’s when he was a child back in Texas, she had been working for a rich white woman in Beverley Hills, but left her job with no forwarding address.

Froh darüber, dass es ihnen im letzten Moment noch gelungen ist, sich in Sicherheit zu bringen, setzen Irene Adler und Sherlock Holmes ihren Weg zur Höhle fort. Dort müssen sie jedoch feststellen, dass ihnen die Mitglieder des Zirkels zuvorgekommen sind. Als die Sonderermittler endlich hinter die Pläne des Zirkels der Sieben kommen, bleibt ihnen kaum noch Zeit, um die drohende Katastrophe abzuwenden.

Nach einem Gespräch zur Vorbereitung einer Hochzeit befindet sich Pater Brown auf dem Heimweg, als er auf einer Bank in der Nähe des Bahnhofs von Newton eine weinende Frau sieht. Sally Page kann die Hilfe des Paters gut gebrauchen. Zu allem Unglück ist auch noch ihre Geldbörse gestohlen worden. Pater Brown nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und sieht sich bald mit einem Fall konfrontiert, der immer verworrener wird.

In 1963, following twenty-three years of hard labor and abuse in Russian prison camps, Walter J. Ciszek, S.J., finally returned to America. Had he come back a bitter man, or a man of diminished faith, it would have been hard to fault him. But he didn’t. For the remainder of his years, until his death in 1984, Fr. Ciszek’s grace, faith, and wisdom touched—often in profound and lasting ways—everyone who came into contact with him.

What if we're all just searching for something? Anna Stewart is lost. After barely surviving a car accident as a teenager, Anna is scared of settling. Flitting between jobs, boyfriends and homes whenever she gets bored, she has no idea what the future holds. Then her brother Brodie, minister of Glendale, suggests she moves to the beautiful Scottish village, lining up a housekeeper job for her at Glendale Hall. Out of options, Anna agrees to take the job just for the summer.

Craig Lawton's best friend is an ancient vampire and his two siblings are half werewolf, so he's used to being the only human in the room. When he tries to help a new vampire in the throes of her transformation, he goes from "normal" to "paranormal." Left in an alley to become a monster like the one that attacked her, Evie Pelowski is confused, alone, and unable to control the strange bloodlust surging through her veins. When a Good Samaritan tries to help her, she does the unforgivable and turns him into a monster too.

Sonia Agostino comes from a family of Keepers, humans charged with helping paranormal creatures in the modern world. Her research into myths and legends has led her to Inhibitions, a nightclub in Chicago. She suspects the reclusive and enigmatic owner could be the one paranormal creature she has never met—a vampire—only he won't agree to see her.

Detective Reece Gallagher has spent the last decade working as a cop in Chicago so he can search for her—the red-haired woman who haunts his dreams. He's just about ready to give up and go home to Salvation, North Carolina, when he finally finds her. But she's the assault victim on a case he's working on, and there's a full-blooded werewolf who wants her dead. He needs to keep her safe and convince her she's his mate.

Half-breed werewolf Sage Gallagher can't shift, but he's a member of the Salvation Pack and a wolf where it counts. When he finds who he thinks is a lost hiker while camping in the Great Smoky Mountains, he's surprised to find she's a full-blooded wolf who ignites in him the instinct to take her home to where he and his pack can protect her, no matter how skeptical and untrusting she is of his offer. After Rina rejects her parents' choice for a mate, she's exiled from her pack. That's a dangerous position for any wolf to be in, and now she has a human hunter on her trail.

Drakon Jericho Drake, the child of a pure-blood dragon and human, has a simple plan: Kill the leader of the Knights of the Dragon and start a war. Except, when he meets his target, Karina Azarov, she can't remember who she is. Worst of all—he can't kill her. His dragon side has just claimed the dangerous woman as his mate.

Dying isn't an option. I've survived a kidnapping and now I'm on the run from the Knights of the Dragon who want my gift. I'm Abigail Owens and I can sense gemstones. There's nothing a dragon loves more than treasure. But when I find a beautiful stone at a tiny shop in Moscow, I have no idea it's a drakon tear, or that I've just put myself in the middle of a war between the Knights and a Drakon.

Die Reise geht weiter: Einsam, aber gemeinsam: Söldnerin, Piratenmönch und Ziegenhirte brechen auf zum Turm der Zeit, um die Welt zu retten. Doch wenn das so einfach wäre, könnte es jeder. Nebelhain, Fladensumpf und Pirateninsel lauern bereits - finstere Regionen, deren Anblick allein auf der Landkarte Angst und Schrecken verbreitet. Es kommt, wie es kommen muss, jedes verflixte Abenteuer stürzt sich mutig auf das Dreigestirn, sodass die Helden wieder alle Hände voll zu tun bekommen. Die ersehnte Fortsetzung der Schattenstaub-Saga der Weltenbauer.