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W Niebiosach szykuje się wojna. Po buncie Samaela, który nie pokłonił się człowiekowi i za to został strącony w piekielną otchłań, kolejni aniołowie podważają odwieczny ład. Zazdrośni o miłość Ojca uważają człowieka za istotę ułomną i niedoskonałą. Planują zagładę ludzkości. W jej obronie stają aniołowie wierni Bogu. Podczas najazdu wojsk Nabuchodonozora na Królestwo Judy ze świątyni jerozolimskiej zostaje wywieziony tajemniczy artefakt, którym zbuntowane anioły chciały się posłużyć, by zerwać przymierze ludzi z Bogiem. Buntownicy rozpoczynają poszukiwania, ślad jednak rozwiewa się jak dym.

By the year 2017, a series of ecological catastrophes have eliminated most of the earth’s population while destroying the America we once knew. The few who have survived live in underground bunkers beneath the ruins of the nation’s major cities, controlled by ruthless corporate entities that have remolded the devastated society into USA, Inc. This is the nightmare into which crusading magazine publisher Glenn Howard awakens after 40 years of sleep.

Linx Maxwell is on the verge of greatness. She's finally graduated from street fairs and hopping chain link to making art that pays the bills. Her family life is...not dull. And it looks like her van might just be able to exist on hope and duct tape. If only she could get rid of the ghost who's plagued her since the eighth grade.

"Cada cosa visible en el mundo está puesta a cargo de un ángel." Y esos ángeles están entre nosotros. Eva es una joven camarera en un pueblo donde nunca pasa nada. Pero su vida empieza a cambiar cuando su madre se convierte en el ama de llaves de una vieja mansión en la que no vive nadie. Los problemas surgen cuando los legítimos dueños aparecen en el pueblo de forma inesperada. Hay algo en ellos que no es de este mundo, y que los hace diferentes a los demás.

In Speculative Los Angeles, 14 of the city’s most prophetic voices reimagine the city in very different ways. In this audiobook, you’ll encounter 21st-century changelings, dirigibles plying the suburban skies, black holes and jacaranda men lurking in deep suburbia, beachfront property in Century City, walled-off canyons and coastlines reserved for the wealthy, psychic death cults, robot nursemaids, and an alternate LA where Spanish land grants never gave way to urbanization.

Sevilla, 20 años después de la caída del Cielo En un mundo oscuro en el que los demonios vencieron a los ángeles y en que los escasos supervivientes humanos viven aterrados y sometidos, los demonios campan a sus anchas por Andalucía para defender un oscuro secreto que Luzbel, el rey de los...

Podcast hecho por chicas para todos los públicos donde hablamos desde temas frikis pasando por actualidad, o anécdotas del día a día.

PODPISUJĄC PAKT Z DIABŁEM, MUSISZ PRZYGOTOWAĆ SIĘ NA WSZYSTKO. Po śmierci ojca Jessica Turner zorientowała się, że ten zostawił po sobie długi. Co gorsza, to ona musi je spłacić. Szukając pomocy, trafiła prosto do piekła – domu Liama O’Dire’a, zwanego Diabłem Los Angeles. Miał być jej nadzieją, ale szybko okazało się, że trafiła do człowieka, który wydał na nią wyrok śmierci. „Mogę być twoim katem lub panem. Bez wahania zabiję cię tu i teraz”. By uniknąć śmierci, podpisała pakt z diabłem, oddając mu duszę i ciało, a on bez skrupułów to wykorzystał.

A fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming... Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She’s died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier... The RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League’s elite...

Set in present-day Los Angeles, Junk explores an epic conspiracy, one at work for thousands of years that involves total takeover of the planet Earth by aliens. In the wild, souped-up vision of Les Bohem - the acclaimed, Emmy-winning writer of the Steven Spielberg miniseries, Taken - the world is at the end stage of long-range plot that involves a gigantic genetic-engineering project. The aliens who have invaded us have no planet. No spaceship is coming. Instead, a small advance force comes, breeds, and dies - thus becoming an anomaly in our DNA that can’t be explained.

Es ist nichts Geringeres als eine medizinische Sensation: Durch die Entdeckung eines neuen Wundermittels kann der Alterungsprozess des Menschen aufgehalten werden! Wer das Medikament regelmäßig nimmt bleibt nicht nur ewig jung, er ist auch schöner und stärker als "normale" Menschen. Doch die neue Wunderdroge hat einen Haken: Man braucht dazu das Blut von Menschen, deren DNA eine besondere Sequenz aufweist. Oft werden diese "Träger" entführt und in Blutfarmen gefangen gehalten.

Un espacio en el que escucharas historias sobre sucesos extraños o paranormales en la que espero entretenerte un rato.

The evil Lords of Zhev'Na kept Gerick captive for months. Although his parents rescued him, he remains tormented by his experience-and mistrusted even by those who love him. Accused of treason, Gerick flees and takes refuge in a magical realm full of outcasts, where he will discover how to use his own magical talent-soul weaving-to save his people from Zhev'Na.

For 10 years, the noblewoman Seriana lived in exile, believing her husband Karon was dead, executed for practicing sorcery. But now she learns his soul has been anchored to this world by magic. He has been restored to life-though his memories of Seri are gone. When Seri's nephew is kidnapped - and a dark family secret comes to light - the two strangers will have to join together to defeat the evil Lords of Zhev'Na, who want to destroy both this world and the parallel magic realm that lies beyond.

With the alien Dhryn cutting a pathway through the inhabited spaceways - bringing about the annihilation of many of the races who have the misfortune to lie along the star trail they are following - time is running out for all sentient life-forms. Can biologists Mackenzie Connor and Emily Mamami solve the riddle of the Dhryn before their part of the galaxy becomes as dead as the mysterious region known as the Chasm?

Herself a biologist, Julie E. Czerneda has earned a reputation in science fiction circles for her ability to create beautifully crafted, imaginative, yet believably realized alien races. In Survival, the first novel in her new series, Species Imperative, she draws upon this talent to build races, characters, and a universe which will draw listeners into a magnificent tale of interstellar intrigue, as an Earth scientist is caught up in a terrifying interspecies conflict.

Senior co-administrator of the Norcoast Salmon Research Facility, Dr. Mackenzie Connor was a biologist who studied the spawning habits of salmon. Then, last season, just as she and Dr. Emily Mamani were starting their research, they were interrupted by the arrival of Brymm, the first Dhryn to set foot on Earth. And suddenly everything changed for Mac, Emily, Brymn, the human race, and all the member races of the Interspecies Union. Base was attacked, Em was kidnapped by the mysterious Ro, and Mac and brymn had to flee for their lives to the Dhryn home world.

With no magic talent of her own, Anne de Vernase must take on her sister's magical legacy to unravel the secrets behind the dark sorcery besieging the royal city of Merona-and to uncover the truth behind her sister's death. For Portier de Savin-Duplais, failed student of magic, sorcery's decline into ambiguity and cheap illusion is but a culmination of life's bitter disappointments.

In Avonar, Gerick investigates the ancient king D'Arnath's own daughter, held captive by the Lords of Zhev'Na for a thousand years-or so she claims. Entangled in bonds of love, family, and secrecy, Gerick unravels the mysteries of ancient kings, ancient evil-and the dreadful truth of his own destiny.

As part of her devil’s bargain with the industrial steam barons, Evelina Cooper is finally enrolled in the Ladies’ College of London. However, she’s attending as the Gold King’s pet magician, handcuffed and forbidden contact with even her closest relation, the detective Sherlock Holmes. But Evelina’s problems are only part of a larger war. The Baskerville affair is finally coming to light, and the rebels are making their move to wrest power from the barons and restore it to Queen Victoria.