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Blood of Elves: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! The New York Times best-selling series that inspired the international hit video game: The Witcher. For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf. Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child.

A killer uses fearsome precision to take out impossible targets. Detective Michael Bennett teams with a shooting expert—a former Army Ranger and sniper with NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit. But Officer Rob Trilling seems more comfortable with rifles than he is with people. When his new partner begins to log unexplained absences from duty, only Bennett can prove whether the decorated officer is a lonely hunter or a hardened assassin.

Vincent Paterson began his professional dancing career late in life. It would take an exceptional turn when he became one of the lead dancers in Michael Jackson's Beat It music video. Through hard work, he rises to the rank of choreographer and director for the world's greatest singers, but also for cinema and musical comedy. He tells with humility the fascinating universe of film sets, the rehearsal sessions where he had to orchestrate and synchronize dozens of dancers, and life backstage, where it is sometimes necessary to manage a few whims of the stars.

A note is left on a car windshield, an old dog dies, and Kent Nerburn finds himself back on the Lakota reservation where he traveled more than a decade before with a tribal elder named Dan. The touching, funny, and haunting journey that ensues goes deep into reservation boarding-school mysteries, the dark confines of sweat lodges, and isolated Native homesteads far back in the Dakota hills in search of ghosts that have haunted Dan since childhood.

Alex Cross was a rising star in the Washington, D.C., Police Department when an unknown man gunned down his wife in front of him. His desire for vengeance was placed on hold as he raised his children himself. But when a case triggers a connection to his wife's death, Alex may finally have a chance to catch the killer.

Beatrix Potter's most famous tales in one wonderful collection. Contains The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Two Bad Mice, The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle, The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan, and many more!

On his 13th birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry gets a bag of sand in the mail - his only inheritance from his father and mother. He soon learns that this is no ordinary bag of sand. It is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. Alcatraz must stop them, using the only weapon he has: an incredible talent for breaking things.

Young wizards coming of age in a time of war... Will they be ready? Eynon was excited to leave his village and set off on his wander year. He’d turned sixteen today, and hoped for at least a few adventures. At high noon, he arrived a crossroads and saw a shimmer of silver in the mud. It was a thin and dirty oval, about the size of his palm. He washed it with squirts of water from his goatskin, then marveled at what was revealed.

In 1982, Wendy Wood was poised on the brink of stardom. Lead singer with talented local band, Velvet Temptation, she was a rising star of the Oxford music scene. Tipped for fame by the music press, success seemed inevitable. But conflict within the band, a series of betrayals and infidelities, and an unwelcome run of bad luck all played a part in shattering her dreams.

The Sayings of Mencius has been revered for well over 2,000 years, and is arguably the most influential of the Si Shu (Four Books) which form the foundation of traditional Chinese education. 'Master Meng' was born during the turbulent Warring States period, and was a tireless advocate of Confucian thought, defending and expanding its tenets as a means of achieving peaceful relations between individuals and competing kingdoms. The sage spent most of his life journeying from court to court, always seeking a Ruler sufficiently principled to apply his teachings. Few were found worthy.

Musings of a Chinese Mystic is a classic selection from the philosophical writings of Chuang Tzu, a disciple of the great Taoist philosopher Lao Tzu. An important figure in Chinese philosophy, Chuang Tzu helped to bring prominence to the philosophy of Taoism in ancient China. Drawn from the translations of Professor H. A. Giles with an introduction by Lionel Giles, "Musings of a Chinese Mystic" is an excellent introduction to the important Taoist philosophical writings of Chuang Tzu.

This second Major Brown adventure takes him and his team from the streets of London to Somalia. While his nemesis Brigadier General Tsygankov forms his team in his dacha to bring havoc to the UK using the IRA. They travel to Afghanistan, Moscow, Split, Libya, Ireland, France, Canal du Midi and Toulouse before setting foot in the UK and Southern Ireland and setting up a mission devised by General Tsygankov to cripple a major arm of the British Army and Major Rodney Brown.

This third Major Brown adventure takes him and his team on a chase against time, while his nemesis Brigadier General Tsygankov forms his team based in his dacha in southern Russia with the sole aim of bringing havoc to the UK energy supplies and its economy. They intend to do this with third party contractors.

Bei Nacht und Nebel flieht sie aus ihrem Heimatland, um in der Fremde ihr Glück zu suchen. Fast scheint es, als wäre sie endlich am Ziel ihrer Träume angelangt, da fällt ein drohender Schatten über ihr neues Lebensglück. Ein fürchterlicher Verdacht beschleicht sie, und so wendet sich die edle Dame mit den Saphiraugen an den einzigen Mann, von dem sie sich Hilfe verspricht - den beratenden Detektiv Sherlock Holmes. Holmes und Watson stürzen sich Hals über Kopf in ein neues Abenteuer.

Ein ungewöhnlicher Auftrag für Sherlock Holmes: Obwohl kein Verbrechen geschehen ist, wird der Meisterdetektiv mit einem Fall betraut, der den Rahmen des Gewöhnlichen sprengt. Denn über Nacht sind vier mittellose Personen in London zu sagenhaftem Reichtum gelangt. Dies weckt Scotland Yards Misstrauen. - Holmes nimmt die Ermittlungen auf, um festzustellen, ob dabei alles mit rechten Dingen zuging. Doch da ereignet sich ein überraschender Todesfall. Und noch erkennt niemand das Wispern der Libelle...

Die schöne Schwedin ist nur noch von einem einzigen Gedanken besessen: Sie will endlich die Wahrheit über den grausamen Mord an ihrer Schwester erfahren. Sherlock Holmes nimmt die Herausforderung an, dem Urheber des Schreckens das Handwerk zu legen. Noch ahnen weder Holmes noch Watson etwas von dem blutigen Ritual, das nachts in den Straßen des Londoner East Ends ausgeführt wird - dem Avalon-Ritus...

Meisterdetektiv Sherlock Holmes und sein treuer Weggefährte, Dr. John H. Watson, werden zum Schauplatz eines grässlichen Verbrechens gerufen. Inspektor Lestrade steht vor einem schier unlösbaren Rätsel - denn alles deutet darauf hin, dass der Mörder selbst längst tot sein müsste. Und doch lebt er noch immer und bahnt sich einen Pfad des Schreckens durch London. Sherlock Holmes hat nur einen einzigen Anhaltspunkt, der einer Visitenkarte gleich in den Mündern der Leichname steckt: Die gläsernen Flügel der Sphinx...

Kaum aufs heimatliche Anwesen zurückgekehrt, wird Lucille Amos in dramatische Umstände verwickelt. Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson müssen einsehen, dass in diesem Fall alle Hilfe zu spät kommt: Unweit von Harlington wurde die enthauptete Leiche des Lords entdeckt - Sandfort und seine Schergen haben ihre Drohung auf grausame Weise wahr gemacht. Holmes ist dennoch fest dazu entschlossen, den Mördern das Handwerk zu legen. Denn schon das nächste Opfer Sandforts könnte Lucille Amos heißen, die letzte verbliebene Erbin von Hysteria Hall...

Das British Museum in London: Ein anonymer Absender kündigt schriftlich ein geplantes Verbrechen an - die unbezahlbare Statuette einer römischen Göttin soll aus dem Museum gestohlen werden. Mr. Downing, der Kurator des Museums, bittet Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson um Hilfe in dieser Angelegenheit. Doch was als vermeintlich harmloser Einsatz beginnt, entpuppt sich bald als nervenzerreißendes Abenteuer. Holmes hat nur einen einzigen Anhaltspunkt, um ein weitaus schlimmeres Verbrechen zu verhindern. Und diese Spur führt zu einer rätselhaften Gestalt: "Sturmfront Steven"...

Ganz London steht Kopf: Das rätselhafte Ableben Lord Ashburys erschüttert die feine Gesellschaft der englischen Metropole. Es gibt nur einen Mann, der jetzt noch Licht ins Dunkel bringen könnte. Doch selbst der legendäre Meisterdetektiv aus der Baker Street 221 B sieht sich jäh Hindernissen gegenüber, die unüberwindlich scheinen: Liegt am Ende doch ein tödlicher Fluch über dem Haus Ashbury?