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With the National Guard, private industry, and even a seemingly tranquil farming village caught in an explosive political crossroads all relying on NESS for missions of security, Neustatter and Astrid find themselves pressed to staff, train, and equip the agency while keeping up with their clients' growing requirements in scope and complexity. A simple railway escort mission involves a secretive manufacturing client from Grantville bearing mysterious cargo and a captured fugitive all destined for Magdeburg during the Baltic War . . . what could possibly go wrong?

Однажды я, Бог-Император, умер. И спустя тысячелетия переродился в теле тщедушного Вадима Сабурова из проклятого и презираемого рода. Мир изменился до неузнаваемости. И правят в нём мои старые враги, прикрываясь моим нетленным трупом... В школе Вадима травят и избивают одарённые дети из знатных родов. Учителя грозят отчислением из-за плохих результатов на Арене. Любимая девушка использует Вадима в качестве груши для битья.

Europe, 1632. It is a time of upheaval and great change. But none so great as when an unexplained temporal and spatial phenomenon known as the Ring of Fire transports the blue collar town of Grantville, West Virginia, smack dab in the middle of the Thirty Years War. When the dust settles, it becomes clear that the town of Grantville isn't going anywhere, and the can-do Americans of the twenty-first century begin altering the course of history forever.

Nachdem Adam Riese und die Kanzlerin geheiratet haben, fährt diese ein sensationelles Wahlergebnis ein, was sie in eine international glorreiche Position befördert. Zugleich beginnt der sie bisher fördernde Konzern GREENCORPS einen Krieg gegen sie, den die Regierungschefin mit einer neuen Form des politischen wie totalitären Widerstands beantwortet. Während sich auf der Welt die Streitmächte neu aufstellen und organisieren, bündelt die hohe universelle Gewalt ihre Kräfte, die Erde auszulöschen.

Two years on from the start of a devastating pandemic, food shortages are becoming critical, and rationing looms. So it's more than embarrassing when a truck full of luxury food for Scottish Virus Minister's banquet goes missing. When Bernard and Maitland from the HET team find it, the food is missing—but there is a dead body.

What if Cleopatra faked her death and escaped on a pirate ship? While her sister sailed for Wales with the most valuable ancient books from her Library of Alexandria? And they both landed in an imagined new world filled with crypto-creatures and historical humans? Trekking the desert of 1st century New Mexico, Cleo from the Yucatan and Alex from Nova Scotia, they’d need bravery and help from friends and lovers to evade inner demons and determined villains across an uncharted wilderness.

In Red River, the seventh volume of the Winds of War series, WIII continues to rage as Lieutenant Commander Leo Baxter and his Riverines battle Axis forces in the Gulf of Oman, the Gulf of Aden, and finally—on the Niger River in Africa. Nigeria's rightful leader has been kidnapped by the Black Axe arm of the Neo Black Movement, and is being held for ransom.

Estate 1944. A Newark imperversa una spaventosa epidemia di polio che minaccia di menomazione e perfino di morte i figli della cittadina del New Jersey. Bucky Cantor, l'animatore ventitreenne di un campo giochi della città, combatte la sua guerra privata contro la malattia nel tentativo di opporsi alla catastrofe. In che modo un individuo può resistere alla forza degli eventi?

Red Sands is the story of Strike Team 3, a combined arms unit consisting of mechanized infantry Strykers, and Tanks. Natanz is a hardened Fuel Enrichment Plant, covering sixty-two square miles located twenty-six feet underground and protected by a concrete wall that's eight feet thick. And on top of that, the Americans will have to overcome a mechanized security force at third larger than their force.

This ingenious novel is presented as a chronicle of an island from medieval to modern times. The island is not on the map, but it is real beyond doubt. It cannot be found in history books, yet the events are painfully recognizable. The monastic chroniclers dutifully narrate events they witness. The entries mostly seem objective, but at least one monk simultaneously drafts and hides a "true" history, to be discovered centuries later. And why has someone snipped out a key prophesy about the island's fate?

El caso de una paciente maltratada y aterrorizada se convierte en la pesadilla de la psiquiatra Ellen Roth. La mujer teme ser raptadas por el hombre del saco. Se lo susurra a Ellen y luego desaparece sin dejar rastro. Nadie la ha visto ni sabe nada de ella. Ellen quiere encontrarla. Pero cuando lo intenta, se ve involucrada en un macabro juego del que no sabe como salir para salvar a la paciente y a sí misma.

Thomas "the Great Stoner" Stone once performed miraculous surgery upon Phillip Theophrastus Gribbleflotz, the World’s Greatest Alchemist, using his bare hands, no anesthesia, producing no pain, and leaving no scar. It would have been wonderful if it was real. But Dr. Tom Stone, the face of modern medicine, has been engaging in fake treatments—bringing all modern medicine into question.

When the Ring of Fire drags Grantville, West Virginia, back to seventeenth-century Germany, down-time veteran Edgar Neustatter finds himself among the survivors of a unit devastated by the up-time Americans and their Swedish allies. After wintering in Grantville, they return home to find that while they have changed, their village has not. Having glimpsed the promise of a republic ruled by its people rather than lords and tyrants, Neustatter leads his men and their families back to Grantville to establish a new agency: Neustatter's European Security Services.

It's Real Life: An Alternate History of the Beatles is a multi-cast radio play based on Paul Levinson's story, "It's Real Life," a story about the most popular band in the history of rock & roll music—The Beatles—and WFUV Radio, adapted for audio by Vincent Tese.

Erdmond, Großes Archiv: Die Chronistin Tsai Yini ist dafür zuständig, die Tachyonen-Kommunikation zu überwachen, mit der auch Reisen in Überlichtgeschwindigkeit möglich sind. Als ihr die Forschungsdaten eines Astrobiologen zugespielt werden, kann sie kaum glauben, was sie liest. Aus dem Bericht geht hervor, dass auf einem Tropenplaneten im Gliese-System intelligente Lebensformen existieren. Ihre Kultur steckt noch in den Anfängen, kreist aber offenbar um ein Artefakt ungeklärten Ursprungs, das ihre Körperchemie zu beeinflussen scheint.

Two months after an investigation that nearly put Elias Roche behind bars, the former cop turned mob enforcer has endeavored to separate himself from his past by going straight. Now working as a private investigator, his attempts to build himself a quiet life have so far been promising. However, while Manhattan's Lower City is in the midst of a reignited mob war, Elias is faced with finding a man who doesn't want to be found, absolving a machine of a murder charge, and discovering a network of secrets that keeps the world turning, almost literally.

Brought to you by Penguin. When celebrity aviator, Charles A. Lindbergh, wins the 1940 presidential election on the slogan of 'America First', fear invades every Jewish household. Not only has Lindbergh blamed the Jews for pushing America towards war with Germany, he has negotiated an...

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While investigating the origins of a mysterious donation to Oxford University, private detective Charles Maddox encounters the mysterious Baron Von Reisenberg, the subject of many rumors and macabre legends. In the light of day Maddox can find no evidence of anything sinister—until a series of disturbing incidents send him on a quest to expose whatever evil lurks in the Baron's castle. After a terrifying encounter nearly costs him his sanity, Maddox returns home to find London besieged by an elusive murderer branded the Vampire. 

Was geschieht, wenn zwei skrupellose Politiker zu Verbündeten werden? Die Welt im Jahr 2025: Donald Trump ist erneut amerikanischer Präsident und schließt mit Wladimir Putin einen geheimen Pakt: Auf einem Gipfel in Kairo tritt Trump Europa an den russischen Präsidenten ab, holt seine außerhalb Amerikas stationierten Truppen heim und verlässt die NATO. Putin lässt dem Amerikaner dafür freie Hand bei seinem Kampf gegen China.