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Dying sucks. Being reborn as a legendary hero, the only guy enrolled at an all-female military academy? Not so bad. These gorgeous women say I’m destined to win the dragon war. They say I’m destined to save them all, and the world. First, I'll need to upgrade my new body. To do that, I need to win every battle I can. Because these beauties live by the sword. They fight one another for power and ranking in single combat. The winners get amazing new upgrades, while the losers get picked apart for scraps. Good thing I’m a winner.

Somewhere in the toxic Bone Pits, where mechanical nightmares roam, an emaciated and wounded young wolf clings to life. Wracked with pain, driven by instinct, it crawls across the subterranean landscape, avoiding the unnatural horrors that dwell there and seeking sustenance while fending off rats, insects, and other vermin stalking it as prey.

From Joshua Dalzelle comes the follow-up to the number-one best seller Warship. Captain Jackson Wolfe survived the initial incursion of a vicious alien species into human space...barely. He had assumed the juggernaut that had devastated three Terran systems was the herald for a full invasion, but for the last few years it has been eerily quiet along the Frontier. Jackson now struggles to convince the Confederate leadership the threat is still imminent and needs to be taken seriously.

Hillario Mendez ist tot. Kurz vor seinem schrecklichen Ende gelang es Mendez, mit dem Bösen einen Pakt zu schließen, um sich an den Mördern rächen zu können. Die Armee des Todes erwacht zum Leben und beginnt einen mörderischen Rachefeldzug.

The keep of Westwind, located in the cold mountainous heights called the Roof of the World, is facing attack by the adjoining land of Gallos. Arthanos, son and heir to the ailing Prefect of Gallos, wishes to destroy Westwind because the idea of a land where women rule, no matter how small and how isolated, is total anathema to him. Saryn, Arms-Commander of Westwind, is dispatched to the neighboring land of Lornth to seek support against the Gallosians.

Dans cet ultime tome de Capitale du Nord, Amalia est confrontée à un ultime dilemme qui décidera de son sort et de celui des deux cités. Claire Duvivier met un glorieux point final à une saga épique, flamboyante et ciselée.

Le colonel-commissaire Gaunt et le Premier et Unique de Tanith doivent reprendre Phantine, un monde riche en prométhéum, mais à ce point ravagé par la pollution que la seule option, dangereuse et inédite, réside dans un assaut par les airs. Face à une opposition déterminée et à un environnement mortel, comment Gaunt et ses hommes parviendront-ils à survivre ?

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In the fiery siege of the city of Hope’s End the young mage Raistlin must leave behind his ideals to save himself and his brother. Yet as Raistlin and Caramon train as mercenaries, far away another soul is forged in the heat of battle. Another path is chosen, and a future dragon highlord begins her rise to power. She is Kitiara Uth Matar, the twins’ half sister.

Having stopped a mutiny against Earth's government, General Bill Booly and his troops face an even greater challenge: a battle for the future of every living being in the universe, against a fanatical human and his killer technology.

This title chronicles the latest adventure of various iconic characters from the Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks. This series of novels is designed to bring listeners closer to the feeling of actually playing a D&D adventure. This eighth title in the novel line features, among others, the iconic character of the rogue, who appeared in two previous titles, The Savage Caves and Treachery's Wake. Andaron's Delve, a great dwarven stronghold ravaged by war, has for ages lain abandoned.

Lieutenant Travis Long of the Royal Manticoran Navy is the sort of person who likes an orderly universe. One where people follow the rules. Unfortunately he lives in the real universe. The good news is that Travis is one of those rare people who may like rules but has a talent for thinking outside them when everything starts coming apart. That talent has stood him - and the Star Kingdom - in good stead in the past, and it's one reason he's now a "mustang" - an ex-enlisted man who's been given a commission.

Led by Admiral Naismith (a.k.a. Lord Miles Vorkosigan), the Dendarii Mercenaries have pulled off the daring interspace rescue of an entire Cetagandan POW camp. But they have made some deadly enemies, and Miles realizes he's in trouble again. First the Mercenaries' payroll doesn't arrive on time; then someone tries to murder him. Now Miles must juggle both his identities to unravel a plot against him, and to reveal an unexpected ally. Just who is trying to assassinate which of his personas, and why?

Albus Dumbledore est mort. Son corps est tombé du haut de la tour d'astronomie. Son assassin, le Professeur Severus Rogue a révélé son appartenance aux Mangemorts qui s'apprêtent à prendre le contrôle du Ministère de la Magie et de Poudlard.Harry, Ron et Hermione ont quitté l'école. Neville Londubat se sent bien seul pour mener la résistance contre les soldats de Lord Voldemort. Mais, l'arrivée de nouveaux élèves pourraient lui apporter une aide inattendue.Cette histoire est un livre audio issu du Monde des Sorciers comme Harry Potter.Un nouveau chapitre sortira toutes les deux ...

First contact with the seemingly impossible human civilization at Proxima Centauri is not going well. The Earth ships sent to render aid have not been able to reverse the contagion ravaging their population and, worse, many Proximans are now wondering if the humans from Earth are there for other, not so charitable, reasons. Can the extinction-level disaster faced at Proxima be reversed by the combined ingenuity of scientists from both worlds working together?

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Die JULES VERNE erreicht Multika - Atlan auf der Spur geheimer Experimente...

A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit - in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and scary things that begin to happen after that, as only he can.