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Sean's spent the last 16 years of his life using his powers in a never-ending quest of exacting vengeance while saving the lives of innocent victims. The problem however, is that's all Sean has been doing. Forced to hide who and what he is from the world, Sean's life has become a fairly meaningless existence. But after an unexpected weekend with a rather willing woman, Sean suddenly realizes that there's a lot more to life than an endless stream of criminals and vengeance. It's time to let someone else punish the guilty. It's time to start enjoying life.

In his junior year at college, the only things on Sean's mind are doing his homework and getting out of college to get a real job. A gamer and a bit of a nerd, Sean's philosophy in life has been to keep his head down and get his work done. But when a failed kidnapping attempt leaves him with a gaping hole in his memory, his oldest friend dead, and his mother missing, Sean suddenly finds his whole world turned upside down as he's thrust into the hidden world of magic and the supernatural.

Twenty years ago, his father saved the world. Or so the history books will probably say once someone gets around to writing them. All Mihalis knows is the world he has been raised into. It's not a bad world, as things ago, he has a big and loving family, but there is the ongoing "war" that promises to be on-going for a good many years to come. Raised to the blade by his mother, and taught not only her ways as well as a good many of the ways of her people, but also the ways of his father's other wives, as well as the ways of his magic, Mihalis has had a very thorough education.

Growing up the eldest son of Sean Valens wasn't always easy–and it wasn't always fun–but when your father/son bonding moments consist of going out to blow things up and kill djevels together, you really don't have a lot to complain about.

Before he became Shadow, he was just Sean. Though to the media, the FBI, and a hundred police agencies he was The New Jersey Devil, The Steel Samurai, The Saint Louis Slaughter, and dozens more. These stories are the tales of how Sean learned discipline and the martial arts skills that have served him so well: from his time in college, where a series of accidents leads to him finding his sensei, to his life at Boston Implantables as one of their most gifted and inspired engineers, to becoming one of the more successful serial killers of the superhero era.

The complete BBC Radio collection bringing together two full-cast dramatisations of Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently novels. In Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently has an unshakable belief in the interconnectedness of all things, but his Holistic Detective Agency mainly succeeds in tracking down missing cats for old ladies. Then Dirk stumbles upon an old friend behaving bizarrely - and he's drawn into a four-billion-year-old mystery that must be solved if the human race is to avoid immediate extinction....

Dies ist eine Anthologie, die die Entwicklung des Autors widerspiegelt und zum Gruseln, Lachen, Träumen, Hoffen und Bangen einlädt. Ein Mann auf der Suche nach seinem Feuer. Ein frecher Junge im Angesicht eines Fratzenmannes. Ein Ronin und ein Fischermädchen auf der Spur einer sagenumwobenen Stadt. Eine Reise zwischen Alptraum und Wahnsinn. Ein Jäger und sein Begleiter im Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Mal poetisch, mal phantastisch, mal frech oder nachdenklich präsentieren sich die fünf unterschiedlichen Reisen an der Seite von Jonathan, Tim, Ketsui, der Dante und Abijaht.

Die Gabe des Gifts Wie alle Mitglieder des Clans »Grüner Efeu« besitzt Anastasia die magische Gabe, Gift zu erzeugen. Und obwohl sie dadurch eine unglaubliche Macht in ihren Händen hält, weigert sie sich seit einem tragischen Unfall vor sechs Jahren, ihre Kräfte erneut einzusetzen. Als aber ein Serienkiller die Magierwelt in Aufruhr versetzt, ist ausgerechnet Ana eine der Auserwählten, die ihn fassen soll. Sie ist nicht nur gezwungen, in das gefährliche Manhattan zu reisen, sondern auch mit Elias zusammenzuarbeiten, der sie abgrundtief zu hassen scheint.

Viele Jahrtausende nach dem Untergang der Menschheit erhebt sich die nächste Stufe intelligenten Lebens auf der Erde: Die Salatonier! Zwei dieser skurrilen Bewohner sind...

This publisher's pack includes Red Skies and Demon Days, books 11 and 12 of The Valens Legacy series. In Red Skies, when events start heating up in Washington, DC, Sean finds himself switching gears and reassessing his priorities, and begins to learn about the real enemy that he is facing. As the gates get larger with time and the immortal demon lords get ready to bring their massive armies to bear, Sean finds his resources and his people being stretched father and thinner. War has finally begun in Demon Days.

After their success against the Ascendants is used by the Vestibulum as a cover for the mass murder of their old enemies, Sean has discovered that the Vestis are far more ruthless and dangerous than the previous two councils he's fought. After 200 years of holding on to the leadership position among all of the councils, obviously the Vestibulum isn't going to give up anything to anyone. While Sean promised not to start a war, it's looking more and more like that choice isn't going to be his to make. Especially when the other Ascendant chapters come calling to avenge their dead.

Saul ist der letzte Kriegspriester. Ein heiliger Ritter, der die Heerscharen der Hölle bekämpft. Sein Orden ist ausgelöscht worden und all seine Freunde und Kameraden sind tot. Untote, Hexen und Dämonen durchstreifen das Land. Die Welt, so glaubt er, ist verloren. Ein Mädchen, das er in der Einöde der Apokalypse trifft, stellt diesen Glauben in Frage. Ihre Mitmenschen halten sie für verflucht und wollen sie verbrennen. Saul hingegen hält sie für gesegnet. Um sie zu retten, muss er beweisen, dass in Wirklichkeit ein Dämon hinter der Seuche steckt, die das Dorf plagt.

The Valens Legacy: Publisher's Pack 4 contains books seven and eight in The Valens Legacy series, following Sean in the world of the supernatural. In Vegas Rules, fresh from his victory in Reno, Sean's now in Las Vegas has to fulfill his promise to help the lycans there with their own slavery problems. Things are starting to heat up for Sean and for some of his allies in Desperate Measures. When several of the councils decide to ban together in a move to eradicate him and his followers, Sean has no choice other than teach them a painful lesson.

Sean's still up to his neck in trouble, but at least he's finally found an example of his father's work, along with all of his notes. Now all Sean has to do is figure out not only how to reproduce his father's greatest achievement, but to solve the one problem his father wasn't able to. Holed up in a Cold War era bomb shelter, all Sean wants to do now is keep his head down and his family safe while he untangles this latest problem. Like it or not however, Sean has set events in motion that will change the future for all of the mages and supernatural beings involved, should he prove successful.

Life for Dan Westridge used to be easy. Used to be. His father was once one of the richest men in the City of Sacramento. So what if his parents never had time for him? Made him work weekends and after school? Only allowed him to date the "right" kind of women? He still had a pretty easy life.

Sean is back in the Onderwereld, but this time it's on his own terms and he brought some friends. Their investigations of the djevels and the race that created the mechanisms that power the gateways bear unexpected fruits, however, leading Sean and the rest of the lions to some very unexpected discoveries, as well as results. But regardless of all of that, there is still a war going on back home and Reno is hanging on by its nails as the djevels have some tricks of their own up their sleeves.

Up until now, Sean has only been fighting battles. He's been fighting them against the demons coming through temporary gates, demonically backed agencies, magic users, or even just plain crazies. But now, now the war, the real war, is about to start as the date for the main gateway, which will be open for two years, draws near. A gateway through which millions of demons will be coming to conquer the world.

The Valens Legacy: Publisher's Pack 5 contains audiobooks nine and 10 in the series: Secret Treaties and It Ain't Easy....

Uhtred af Bebbanburg har generobret sit fædrene hjem. Det er dog ikke længe, han kan nyde sin sejr, da han bliver truet fra alle sider af både nye og gamle fjender. Igennem årtier har Uhtred stået midt mellem hedninge og kristne, mellem sakserne og vikingerne, mellem den gamle verden, han blev født ind i, og den nye verden, han voksede op i.

Diejenigen, die Hacker Georg Brand alias T-Rex für seine Freunde hält, nutzen den ahnungslosen Computerfreak nur als Spielball ihrer vertrackten Machenschaften aus und lassen ihn glauben, die größten Rätsel der Geschichte knacken zu können. Wer sind die Hintermänner, von denen T-Rex noch nicht einmal etwas ahnt, welchen kultischen Riten scheinen sie zu frönen? Und welche Rolle ist dabei eigentlich Georgs Widerpart, Ian G., zugedacht? ist auch er nur eine Variable einer uralten Weltverschwörung, oder ist er für eine ganz andere Rolle bestimmt?