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Я находился на полном орков драккаре. Почти три десятка клыкастых различной степени вонючести зеленокожих составляли команду ярла Рюрика. И угадайте, куда он несся быстрее ветра по холодным водам Балтики? На восток, в славный град Ладогу. Бред, скажете вы? И будете, вашу мать, правы.

Ein Klassiker der Anti-Kriegsliteratur Dieter Noll, als "Remarque des 2. Weltkriegs" gefeiert, schildert den Weg junger Männer seiner Generation. Hungrig nach Abenteuern, ziehen sie begeistert in den Krieg. Nach erniedrigendem Drill, endlosen Nächten der Erschöpfung und Angst am Flakgeschütz erleben sie im Inferno der Rückzugsschlachten ihre völlige Desillusionierung und den moralischen Zusammenbruch. Frühjahr 1943.

This inventive, page-turning crime thriller with "palpable emotional depth" (New York Times Book Review) envisions a world in which the Red Scare never ended. USA, 1958. President Joseph McCarthy sits in the White House, elected on a wave of populist xenophobia and barely‑concealed...

En esta obra de madurez, Jorge Portocarrero propone adentrarnos en una fantasía -y un debate- que puede tener visos de convertirse en realidad muy próximamente... Se ocupa del siempre oscilante vínculo entre el Imperio y los pueblos en su día sojuzgados. El eje de esta nueva obra narrativa lo constituye una serie de asesinatos que parecen seguir una cadencia predeterminada desde un punto de vista docente.

La clarividencia de Julio Verne ha inspirado a medio mundo y Heinrich Himmler no iba a ser menos. Obsesionado con la clave secreta que contiene uno de sus escritos lanzará todo su poder para conseguir descifrar los misterios ocultos en una novela de Verne: "Viaje al centro de la Tierra". Arqueólogos, soldados y aventureros se lanzan en una frenética búsqueda en el centro de la tierra para encontrar la solución definitiva a la guerra y al dominio de la raza humana.

Wir schreiben das Jahr 2029, und die DDR feiert ihren 80 Jahrestag. Die Kosmonautin Mandy Neumann befindet sich seit mehreren Wochen an Bord der Raumstation "Völkerfreundschaft". Eigentlich wartet sie auf ihre Ablösung, doch als die ersten unerklärlichen Unfälle passieren, beschleicht sie der Verdacht, dass jemand ihre Mission sabotiert. Kurz darauf bricht der Kontakt zur Bodenstation ab, und sie muss um ihr Leben kämpfen. Der einzige Mensch, der ihr dabei helfen kann, ist Tobias Wagner, ein Leutnant der Volkspolizei in Dresden.

In the dead of night, a figure flits through the ruins of Dryburgh Abbey, searching for a hidden document he knows could change the course of history. The journal he discovers, by a young soldier, David Erskine, records an extraordinary story.

London, 1958. By crafting magical outfits for his friend, Princess Katherine, cloth mage Paul Gallagher is getting ahead. It’s not a seamless path. Not since the Virtuis Party came to power. The far-right faction is using criminals to create a protective barrier around England. The enchanted uniforms the prisoners wear may beget a demand for mages, but using luckless convicts as tools for warmongering reactionaries isn’t Paul’s dream for cloth magic.

Peach Blossom Paradise, set at the time of the reform, is the story of Xiumi, the daughter of a wealthy landowner and former government official who falls prey to insanity and disappears. Days later, a man with a gold cicada in his pocket turns up at their family estate and is inexplicably welcomed as a relative. 

Major Lewis Cayce will need to use every weapon in his arsenal to keep his stranded men alive on a deadly alternate Earth in this gripping new adventure set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Destroyermen series. It is 1847, and almost a full year after being shipwrecked on another...

Living deep within the mysterious southern forests, the spiritual Ninkuraaja people are being hunted to the brink of extinction by bloodthirsty raiders known only as Woves. Nobody knows better than a Ninkuraa that a Wove deserves only death.

Against the backdrop of a never-colonized North America, a broken Ojibwe detective embarks on an emotional and twisting journey toward solving two murders, rediscovering family, and finding himself.

In this classic Cold War thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author Ken Follett puts his own electrifying twist on the space race between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. "Code to Zero's split-second suspense proves that...[Follett is] a hell of storyteller."—Entertainment...

Con este audiolibro-testimonio, J. J. Benítez completa el famoso diario del mayor norteamericano que «saltó» a los tiempos de Jesús de Nazaret. Si en Jerusalén. Caballo de Troya 1 se afirmaba que los evangelistas no habían contado la verdad sobre el Nazareno, en esta nueva obra vuelve a...

Deirdre Green is no stranger to losing it all. Nearly two decades after her father's mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend, her job, and her London flat all go up in smoke. But when she suddenly inherits what’s left of her family’s publishing business, Deirdre is shocked to discover the cryptic magical conspiracy revealed in its remains.

Я находился на полном орков драккаре. Почти три десятка клыкастых различной степени вонючести зеленокожих составляли команду ярла Рюрика. И угадайте, куда он несся быстрее ветра по холодным водам Балтики?

Born the bastard daughter of a painted lady, Marilia was told she would live out her days within the walls of her mother's brothel, a companion for the rich men of Tyrace. But after a terrible betrayal, 10-year-old Marilia's world turns upside down. With the help of her twin brother, Annuweth, she flees the only home she's ever known in search of the one man who can offer her a chance at a better life: one of her deceased father's friends, the Emperor of Navessea's greatest general.

Daughter of a Norse king, 15-year-old Åsa dreams of becoming a shield-maiden. When she spurns a powerful warlord, he rains hellfire on her family, slaughtering her father and brother and taking her captive. To protect her people, Åsa must wed her father's killer. To take vengeance, she must become his queen.

Der Druck lastet schwer auf der Sondereinheit der Geistkrieger um den eingewanderten Schotten Finnley: Im Fall des "Gabensammlers" tappen sie im Dunkeln. Mit äußerster Brutalität reißt der Unbekannte denen, die gesegnet sind, ihre besondere Gabe aus dem Bewusstsein, um sie selbst zu nutzen und auf diese Weise immer mächtiger zu werden. Doch die Nation der Powtankaner wird noch von einem weiteren Übel bedroht: Immer mehr Menschen benehmen sich äußerst merkwürdig, das Ganze scheint sich wie eine Seuche auszubreiten. Ausgerechnet jetzt geraten die Geistkrieger in den Fokus widerstreitender politischer Interessen.

A sumptuous historical fantasy romance set in the court of the Sun King: now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan as King Louis XIV and Fan Bingbing as the Mermaid. Can she find the courage to defy a king? In seventeenth-century France, Louis XIV rules with flamboyant ambition. In his...