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The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power. Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. But is the return of the Deliverer just another myth? Perhaps not. Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the desert tribes into a demon-killing army. He has proclaimed himself Shar’Dama Ka, the Deliverer and he carries ancient weapons - a spear and a crown - that give credence to his claim.

The North Korean government is days away from realizing its nuclear ambitions and only the heroes of SEAL Team Six can stop it. Chief Warrant Officer Thomas Crocker of SEAL Team Six's Black Cell is in Las Vegas after conducting a training exercise in the desert with new members of the team...

The sun is setting on humanity. The night now belongs to voracious demons that prey upon a dwindling population forced to cower behind half-forgotten symbols of power. Legends tell of a Deliverer: a general who once bound all mankind into a single force that defeated the demons. But is the return of the Deliverer just another myth? Perhaps not. Out of the desert rides Ahmann Jardir, who has forged the desert tribes into a demon-killing army.

Apropos is the unlikely noble whose life began in the lowest of ways: as the result of a gang assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench. Last time out, Apropos attempted to seize control of his own fate, and ended up with, appropriately, nothing. Time has passed since he fled the kingdom of Runcible, and Apropos leads a quiet existence as a tavern owner. All that changes abruptly, however, when the sorceress Sharee re-enters his life with the forces of the warlike Lord Bellicose hard on her heels. They want something they're convinced she has stolen.

For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics to protect them. Then two heroes arose - men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal. Arlen Bales became known as the Warded Man, tattooed head to toe with powerful magic symbols that enable him to fight demons in hand-to-hand combat - and emerge victorious.

Mankind has ceded the night to the corelings, demons that rise up out of the ground each day at dusk, killing and destroying at will until dawn, when the sun banishes them back to the Core. As darkness falls, the world’s few surviving humans hide behind magical wards, praying the magic can see them through another night. As years pass, the distances between each tiny village seem longer and longer. It seems nothing can harm the corelings, or bring humanity back together.

Lord Blackfield, Mitglied des Oberhauses und wortmächtiger Kritiker der Bank of England, findet im Garten seines Anwesens einen gewaltsamen Tod. Die Tatwaffe ist dieselbe, mit der Irene Adler erst kürzlich angegriffen wurde - eine Kreuzbergschleuder. Die Spuren weisen zum mächtigen Chief Cashier der Bank Sir John Conroy und seinem Sohn Sebastian, einem von Irene Adler einst abgewiesenen Verehrer. Mycroft Holmes schleust Irene als verdeckte Ermittlerin in den Haushalt von Sir John ein. Dort soll sie mit Hilfe eines von Mister Wu umgebauten Grammophons Beweise sammeln.

From celebrated fantasy author Den Patrick comes Witchsign, the first novel in a fresh and exciting new fantasy trilogy. It has been seventy-five years since the dragons’ rule of fire and magic was ended. Out of the ashes, the Solmindre Empire was born. Since then, the tyrannical Synod has...

Sworn allegiances, cruel punishments, broken hearts, shattered dreams and ancient magic make for an utterly spellbinding listen in this full-cast adaptation of Gareth Jones’s masterful novel.

For the legendary mountain man Preacher, times are lean. Trapping is a thing of the past. Only a handful of men cling to the old ways, trading pelts to a market with little demand. Thus it is that Preacher, along with his old friends Three Sleeps Norris and Antoine Revier, grudgingly accepts a commission from the War Department to act as trail guide and scout for a regiment of Dragoons.

A gunshot wound has robbed Audubon, Texas, of its top lawman at the worst possible time. Clete Lanagan and his band of outlaws have hatched a scheme to plunder the town bank of a small fortune in railroad money. When the acting sheriff, Dalton Conyers - half-brother of Smoke’s niece Rebecca - is unable to raise a posse to hunt down Lanagan’s gang, he calls on Smoke for help. But with so much cash at stake, Lanagan won’t go down without a fight.

Near what was once the Pacific northwest, Ryan Cawdor and his roving band of post-holocaust survivors discover a beautiful valley untouched by the nuclear blast that changed the earth forever. Resisting the temptation to settle in that idyllic land, the group is captured and forced deep beneath an extinct volcano to an isolated community of in-bred scientists. These psychopathic descendants of a 20th century government research team are blindly laboring to find better ways of genocide, unaware that the world they are striving to slaughter has already died.

Each night, the world is overrun by bloodthirsty demons. For centuries, humanity survived only by hiding behind defensive wards - magical symbols with the power to repel the demons. Now, the rediscovery of long-forgotten combat wards has given them the magic they need to fight back. In Tibbet’s Brook, the fighting wards have brought change, but the factions and grudges of a troubled past remain. Selia Square, the woman they call Barren, has long been the force that holds the Brook together. As a terrifying new threat emerges, she rallies her people once again.

Auf dem Weg in die verdammten Lande der Warunkei erreichen Gundar Gemmenschneider und seine Gefährten ein kleines Dorf. Sdie Erwachsenen des Ortes fielen den Schergen des Nekromanten zum Opfer und deren Kinder sehen in den Neuankömmlingen eine Gefahr. Der wetiere Verlauf ihrer Mission steht unter keinem guten Stern. Ist ihr Weg hier bereits zu Ende?

Gundar Gemmenschneider und seine Gefährten haben ihr Ziel fast erreicht. Der weiße Turm wird jedoch von einer schier unbesiegbaren Armee aus Untoten bewacht. Die Freunde stellen sich der Herausforderung und stehen schließlich ihrem ärgsten Widersacher gegenüber.

Dfie finale Schlacht steht bevor. Während sich unsere Helden aufmachen, Schwert und Siegelring zurück nach Gareth zu bringen, schmiedet die geheime Gruppe um Dexter von Crumold finstere Pläne. Werden Gundar Gemmenschneider und seine Gefährten erfolgreich sein? Oder droht alles in letzter Sekunde zu scheitern?

24 Stunden lang können die Menschen im Alzir-System ihre Stimme abgeben und damit über das neue Staatsoberhaupt der Solaren Republik entscheiden. Während die Wahl ihren Lauf nimmt, versucht Admiral Isa Jansen mit einer kleinen Gruppe Verbündeter Santana Pendergast zu retten und den Plan des Ketaria-Bundes zu vereiteln. Gleichzeitig macht sich Commodore Ashton dazu bereit, die Dunkle Welle einzusetzen und damit der Republik den Todesstoß zu versetzen. Auch Sjöberg ahnt nicht, dass er durch diese Tat Richard Meridian direkt in die Hände spielt.