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London takes us back to the Pleistocene when we still lived in the trees. Written in the first-person, the story revolves around the vivid, interlocking dreams from childhood that involve racial memories and the knowledge of his prior existence as a man-like creature named Big Tooth.

Abe believed his life was set—rooted in his Amish community, grounded in faith, and following the path laid out before him. But when a profound loss tore through that foundation, everything he believed in started to unravel. Left searching for answers that never seemed to come, no matter how hard he prayed, Abe questioned his faith and his entire way of life.

Tryon Dunham, a wealthy attorney is approached by a young woman who is running from some unknown danger. She is beautiful, well dressed, and obviously educated. She won't tell the young man why she's running, but he decides he will help her. Tryon arranges to take her along to a dinner party to which he has an invitation. At the dinner party, "Mary" (the name Tryon has given her) plays the piano beautifully and charms his hostess and the other guests. But, she is desperate to escape, so he provides her a ticket for a train to Chicago. ....He decides he must find her again.

Philadelphia, 1947. When private investigator Cole Harper is summoned to the penthouse of Sam Hensley—a powerful but shadowy industrialist--he knows it's no ordinary case. Luxury goods, military surplus, and counterfeit money are disappearing from Hensley's warehouses, and the clues point to an operation as sophisticated as it is ruthless. But Harper soon discovers this is no simple theft—this is the black market at its most dangerous.

When retired Navy Commander George Praddle vanishes without a trace, his wife turns to private investigator Cole Harper for help. With a sharp wit and a knack for uncovering hidden truths, Harper dives into a labyrinth of lies, betrayal, and dangerous motives. Set in 1947, against the gritty backdrop of post-war Philadelphia, this gripping noir mystery thrusts Harper into a shadowy world where trust is scarce, and peril waits at every turn.

Giant Spiders. Death Ray Guns. Personal Flyers. Cannibals. Sword Fights. From the fertile mind of Edgar Rice Burroughs comes the tale of A Fighting Man of Mars. Hadron of Hastor sets out to rescue a lovely kidnapped woman he believes he is in love with. Along the way, his adventures among the little-known ancient cities of Mars, his comradeship with a brave warrior-woman named Tavia, and their struggle together against the hordes of a cunning monarch, make for an exciting classic science fiction adventure.

Hugh Kellard stepped over his grandfather's home threshold with a weak smile and slumped shoulders as if the weight of all he'd been through had finally caught up to him. He had no plans to ever return to space, but he knew that Halfrich wouldn't accept this answer. When asked why he was leaving, Hugh refused to explain, an unspoken acknowledgment that there was something more than he was letting on. As pressure mounted, Kellard resigned himself to the inevitable: he would have to return and show Halfrich what he saw on Mercury.

This gripping thriller takes listeners on an adrenaline-filled journey through the shadowy world of sabotage in 1942 America. Ric Dymond is an inexperienced young FBI agent on a mission to bring a covert and deadly sabotage plot hatched by the German Abwehr to justice. Ric is forced to go undercover and rely on his wits and intuition to uncover the unknown saboteurs, aware that another uncover agent was brutally murdered. But the mission is further complicated when Ric meets an old flame, throwing his resolve and focus into question.

Rick and Scotty go to work on a project at an experimental rocket installation in Nevada at the request of Dr. John Gordon. Someone has been trying to sabotage the rocker launches and leaves pictures of a knight sticking a sword through a rocket. The person calls themselves The Earthman.

Alarm in der Bärbel-Rapunzel-Grundschule. Die Schule droht einzustürzen! Nach einem heftigen Schneefall sitzen die Kinder, Lehrer und Lehrerinnen der Bärbel-Grundschule abgeschnitten von der Außenwelt in ihrer Schule fest. Zum Glück hat Herr Maulhart im Keller ein geheimes Lager mit Proviant eingerichtet, so dass erstmal für das Nötigste gesorgt ist. Als auch noch ein gewaltiger Schneetornado die Schule bedroht, sind die Grundschul-Superhelden gefordert.

Ein Blick in die Kristallkugel. Die Wahrsagerin Signora Futuro ist in der Stadt und hat Hausmeister Maulhart vorausgesagt, dass Direktor Dobermeier in Gefahr ist. Doch der Leiter der Bärbel-Rapunzel-Grundschule nimmt die Warnung nicht ernst. Als CHAT die vier Freunde Anna, Caro, Jonas und Finn darüber informiert, beschließen sie, einen geheimen Rettungsplan für den Direktor zu schmieden.

Anna, Caro, Finn und Jonas beobachten, wie Henriette aus ihrer Parallelklasse heimlich auf dem Schulhof der Bärbel-Rapunzel-Grundschule raucht. Aber es kommt noch schlimmer: Während eines Ausflugs in das angrenzende Waldstück wirft Henriette ihre noch glimmende Zigarette achtlos weg. Im Handumdrehen entfacht sich ein verheerendes Feuer. Während die Feuerwehr alle Kräfte mobilisiert, um ein nahegelegenes, vom Brand bedrohtes Seniorenheim zu schützen, steht das Schulgebäude den lodernden Flammen schutzlos gegenüber.

The Giant Horse of Oz (1928) is the twenty-second in the series of Oz books created by L. Frank Baum and his successors. The tiny kingdom of the Ozure Isles, perched on five islands in Lake Orizon, surrounded by high mountains in a remote region of Munchkin Land, has little contact with the outside world—of Oz. The evil witch Mombi has turned her malice in the Ozure direction. After kidnapping Queen Orin, Mombi left a fire-breathing lake monster named Quiberon in Lake Orizon to keep the natives prisoner.