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Henry and Joanne thought–hoped–it was over. That when Delilah was born, malevolent forces around every corner would disappear from their lives. But in the Witch City, it's never that simple. "Delilah Is Ours!" A threat, scrawled in blood, drips down their front door. Beneath it hangs the effigy of Wanda Heinze, leader of the League of the Moon coven, left by a mysterious, faceless entity caught on the building's security camera. A puppet whose strings are pulled by someone far worse. The Red Witch is on the rise.

Long lost to the public in out-of-print pulp magazines, dusty Victorian anthologies, and the pages of now defunct newspapers, these vintage vampire stories have truly proved immortal. Resurrected now for the year 2011, this is a stunning collection of nineteenth-century vampire stories by heavyweights such as Sabine Baring-Gould and Bram Stoker. These rare stories are arranged in chronological order from 1846 to 1913 and are compiled by two of the world's leading vampire anthologists and experts.

Salem was meant to be a fresh start. But when ER Nurse Henry Trank starts dreaming of a woman being hunted through the snow, the nightmare follows him into daylight—right down to the pine needles tangled in his hair. What began as a haunting dream spirals into something far more terrifying. Desperate for answers, he records himself sleeping—only to discover he's acting out the brutal final moments of the woman's life.

Plunged into darkness, the Earth's surface is shrouded in dust from the impact of asteroid AG5. Whilst the cloud threatens to choke the very fabric of civilization, Sarah Morgan is being held prisoner. In the depths of a subterranean facility, she has uncovered a deadly weapon; the truth behind the enormous structure buried beneath the Earth. Elsewhere, Professor Steiner and Robert Goodwin may be humanity's greatest hope, but they must struggle against monumental adversity as an internal battle rages within the Global Meteor Response Council.

L'entreprise de Sancia Grado, une jeune femme capable de faire revivre le passé des objets et d'entendre leur enluminure, est au bord de la faillite face à la nombreuse concurrence. Pour échapper au Hiérophante, une ancienne puissance qui s'intéresse de près à ses pouvoirs, Sancia doit percer le secret des origines de l'enluminure.

Sancia ist eine Diebin - und zwar eine verdammt gute. Daher ist sie im ersten Moment auch begeistert, als sie ihre neueste Beute betrachtet: ein Schlüssel, der jedes Schloss öffnet. Doch dann wird ihr klar, was das bedeutet. Man wird sie jagen! Jedes der mächtigen Handelshäuser wird dieses Artefakt besitzen wollen. Denn die Magie des Schlüssels ist nicht nur alt und mächtig. Die Person, die sie kontrolliert, könnte die Welt verändern.

Roi déchu, ancien prisonnier politique, espion d’élite de Saypur, Sigrud je Harkvaldsson n’est pas un homme comme un autre. Rendu fou par la mort de sa fille, il a tué plusieurs soldats innocents. Et le voilà désormais obligé de vivre dans la clandestinité. Mais le meurtre de sa plus vieille amie, l’ancienne Première ministre Shara Komayd, va le replonger dans son domaine d’excellence. La traque. La violence. L’assassinat. La destruction.

The world holds its breath as the colossal asteroid 2011 AG5 hurtles towards the Earth. As humanity is faced with extinction, archaeologist Sarah Morgan is in a race against time to uncover a secret that has been buried for millennia: that an advanced ancestor once populated the Earth. As Sarah travels across the continents in search of the truth, she discovers there are those that will kill to protect this most ancient of secrets....

Newly elected President John Harrison Henry is fighting to save the nation from nefarious forces that are hell-bent on chaos and destruction. While a brave few fight against the might of the Global Meteor Response Council that rules the world with an iron fist, in distant lands old forces shift and new powers arise, for word has it that something is coming that is going to change everything....

Alors qu’elle profite d’une retraite bien méritée au bord de l’océan, passant ses journées à boire du vin, à pêcher et à transformer chacun de ses proches voisins en ennemi mortel, la générale Turyin Mulaghesh reçoit la visite d’un fonctionnaire de Saypur. La Première ministre Shara Komayd a une mission pour elle.

Autrefois puissante cité divine capable de conquérir et d'asservir les peuples établis à sa proximité, Bulikov est tombée. Ses dieux protecteurs ont été exterminés par un chef de guerre venu de Saypur. Et une mystérieuse catastrophe a eu lieu dans la foulée : le Cillement. Soixante-dix ans plus tard, Bulikov n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Restent toutefois visibles, çà et là, certains vestiges des miracles qui l'ont façonnée, notamment d'immenses escaliers brisés qui ne relient plus la terre aux cieux.

A year has passed since the cataclysmic impact of asteroid AG5. Whilst Earth's survivors struggle against a devastating winter, the world's finest assemble on the International Space Station for a covert mission that could change the course of civilization. Back in the US, former director general Steiner is due to stand trial for masterminding heinous acts of terror. As calls for the death penalty gain momentum, those that sit in judgement are unaware that Steiner holds the key to the survival of the entire human race.

Autrefois, Sancia Grado n'était qu'une jeune voleuse dotée d'un talent rare. Puis elle a appris à utiliser ce talent et a battu les grandes maisons marchandes de Tevanne à leur propre jeu. Avec Clef et Bérénice, elle a même éliminé un hiérophante immortel – mais la guerre qu'ils mènent maintenant semble perdue d'avance. Sancia et ses alliés n'affrontent plus les élites de l'enluminure ou un hiérophante revenu d'un passé oublié ; cette fois, ils veulent détruire une entité dont l'intelligence est répartie sur la moitié du globe : un fantôme bien caché, qui utilise la magie pour posséder les objets, mais aussi contrôler les esprits humains.

Ein Mensch, der die Magie entschlüsselt. Ein Magier, der die Welt erschüttert. Ein Meister, der den Tod besiegt. Die Diebin Sancia und ihre Verbündeten haben ein eigenes Handelshaus gegründet. Das war ihre einzige Möglichkeit, nicht durch die mächtigen Familien von Tevanne einfach zu Verbrechern erklärt zu werden. Doch deren Rache ist nicht ihr größtes Problem. Der mächtigste Magier der Vergangenheit ist ins Leben zurückgekehrt und will nun die Realität nach seinen Wünschen neu formen.

Das Finale der großen High-Fantasy-Trilogie um die raffinierte Diebin Sancia und ihren sprechenden Schlüssel Clef. Es ist ein Krieg der Götter in der Welt der Sterblichen! Die ehemalige Diebin Sancia und ihre Gefährten hatten erfolglos versucht, den übermächtigen Magier der alten Zeit mit einem ebenso alten magischen Konstrukt zu besiegen. Nun kämpfen der Magier und die künstliche magische Wesenheit um die Vorherrschaft über die Realität. Dabei ist ihnen das Schicksal der Menschen ziemlich egal.

Toute l'économie de l'opulente cité de Tevanne repose sur une puissante magie : l'enluminure. A l'aide de sceaux complexes, les maîtres enlumineurs donnent aux objets des pouvoirs insoupçonnés et contournent les lois de la physique.

San Francisco's only PI with an eye into the supernatural, is having one of those months. His bad mood drives him to his local pub where he encounters his latest client, a Leprechaun who's lost his adopted niece, a runaway Dryad, and that's where the problems begin. Some days it pours and when Landau Bain, the city's crankiest wizard, arrives on Tony's doorstep, he knows what's coming down isn't rain.

High on the northern heath stands the convent of Borglum, ruled by Bishop Olaf Glob, a man of immense authority whose hunger for power outweighs mercy, kinship, and justice. When a widowed noblewoman refuses to surrender her rightful inheritance, the bishop wields the full force of church and curse against her—driving her into exile beneath papal ban. But faith endures where tyranny overreaches, and the long arc of judgment begins to bend.

It has been said that somewhere in the world you have an exact double. This rocket-ride of a novel ignites with the sudden cry of "Ai! Pedrito!", as Naval Lieutenant Tom Smith discovers that his exact look-alike is the notorious South American revolutionary and spy, Pedrito Miraflores. Inspired by a real incident in the life of L. Ron Hubbard, Ai! Pedrito! is a fun-to-listen-to, compelling novel of what can sometimes happen when intelligence goes wrong.

The mysterious prophecy that has shaped the life of Kelvin Knight Hackleberry and his family seems nearly to have run its course. The Two Kingdoms that were joined by Kelvin to form Kelvinia have now been united with three others, to make a great confederation under the rule of the young twin kings, Kildom and Kildee. Kelvin has earned some time to rest with his family. Charles and Merlain are now 20 years old, and so is Dragon Horace, their brother who is the Great King of all the land.