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The second Locustan invasion has just begun, and the galaxy is already teetering. Milos is leading the fight but taking heavy losses. Annihilation seems inevitable. The galaxy's hope rests on finding the Fury, an ancient weapon of the legendary Unosi, which, if the legends are to be believed, had once stopped the Locustans. But the path to it has been long forgotten. Ramya Kiroff sets off on a journey to find it, with hopes of delivering a miracle to the galaxy.

This is a comedic novel featuring a 15-year-old boy named Beetle and his involvement with the production of a film, The Attack of the Biotoxic Bulldogs. It is highly cinematic, both in content and in form. The novel uses a strong cast of characters, each vividly portrayed, believable, and compelling. Combining campy horror movie clichés, modern realism, and nostalgia, this novel will captivate readers of all ages.

A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him. Mourning the recent loss of his mother...

Second Lives takes us on a revelatory journey through the electronic looking glass as Tim Guest investigates one of the most bizarre phenomena of the 21st century: virtual lives.

Nolan Jackson is a journeyman carpenter by trade and a wanderer by nature. And in 2007, while fellow Americans fight in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Nolan roams, traveling between jobs building tract homes across the West. Following a shocking workplace accident in Las Vegas, he uproots himself from the tentative relationships he has made and heads toward the ocean.

From one of the foremost experts in the country on intellectual property law, a gripping legal thriller of depth and complexity Meet Michael Seeley, defender of artists’ rights, take-no-prisoners intellectual property litigator—and a man on the brink of personal and career collapse. So when...

He fled his village in eastern Hungary to escape his father's iron fist. But now, fighting for the SS, he's facing starvation on the Eastern Front as the deluge of enemy fire from the Russian army comes closer every hour.

Die Inseln Maotou und Hawutai feiern ein Fest der Freundschaft. Jeder der beiden Söhne der Dorfvorsteher soll zu diesem Anlass vor den Inselbewohnern etwas Besonderes vorführen. Auru hat einen traditionellen Tanz vorbereitet. Naones Sohn Keanu aber führt sein neues Flyboard vor und gewinnt mit seinem coolen Auftritt das Herz von Clarissa.

Paul Fleischman spins three engrossing stories about the unexpected ways an artist's creations reveal truths - tales whose intriguing plots and many moods will entertain readers and inspire future writers. Can wood, copper, or marble communicate? They can if they are the graven images in Newbery...

Literatur trifft Philosophie. Michael Köhlmeier ist ein großer Erzähler und Konrad Paul Liessmann ein brillanter Philosoph, der auch komplizierte Denkfiguren anschaulich erklären kann. In der Kunst, dem Mythos philosophische Wahrheiten zu entlocken, ergänzen sie sich perfekt. Zu zwölf Schlüsselbegriffen unseres Lebens erzählt Michael Köhlmeier eine Geschichte, inspiriert von antiken Sagen oder Volksmärchen; dazu zeigt Konrad Paul Liessmann in seiner Interpretation, was er aus diesen Geschichten über die Spielregeln und Möglichkeiten unserer Welt herausliest: Antworten auf grundsätzliche Fragen unseres Lebens.

Hal Perrone achieves his life's dream of becoming a CEO. But in his first week on the job, a criminal act within the company throws the entire organization into chaos. Hal suddenly finds himself a prime target of FBI Special Agent Maria Castellano, who relentlessly pursues justice and names numerous employees, investors, and vendors as additional suspects. Widespread panic drives many of them to desperately defend their innocence. Written in the gripping style of a corporate thriller, Inner Threat explores sin's insidious impact in the workplace.

A story from the collection FOR THE RELIEF OF UNBEARABLE URGES, a work of startling authority and imagination–an audiobook that is as wondrous and joyful as it is wrenchingly sad. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Taut, edgy, sharply observed. . . . A revelation of the human condition.”...

*** From the bestselling author of YOU, now a major Netflix TV series *** 'Compelling' Observer With her trademark flair, precision eye for detail and acerbic wit, Caroline Kepnes brings the suspense thriller to a whole new level with PROVIDENCE – a dark story of death, loss, horror...

Für das Muschelfest soll eine „Große Riesenmuschel" auf dem Festplatz der Insel aufgebaut werden. Doch Auru hat es eilig, er ist unvorsichtig und lässt die Muschel fallen. Sie zerbricht. Aurus Vater ist stocksauer. Er befiehlt seinem Sohn, unverzüglich eine neue Muschel aus dem Meer zu holen. Auru ist verzweifelt, denn er kommt zu spät zu der Verabredung mit seinem Freund Inapo.

In the not-so-distant future, the forecasted 'death of print' has become a reality. Bookstores, libraries, newspapers, and magazines are a thing of the past, as we spend our time glued to handheld devices called Memes that not only keep us in constant communication but have become so intuitive as to hail us taxis before we leave our offices, order takeout at the first growl of a hungry stomach, and even create and sell language itself in a marketplace called the Word Exchange.

Yann und seinen Freunden fallen rote Schlieren im Tiefseegraben auf. Sie informieren Onkel Patrick über dieses ungewöhnliche Phänomen, der sich das sofort persönlich ansehen will. Ramana warnt ihn vor einer Fahrt in den Tiefseegraben, weil dort die Ponaturis, unheimliche Unterwasserwesen, zu Hause sind.

Ramana eröffnet Timeti, dass sie eine echte Mutprobe bestehen muss, wenn sie eine vollausgebildete Schamanin sein will. Sie muss dafür im Meer einen Hai auf die Schnauze küssen. Als Timetis Mutter Maeva Wind davon bekommt, ist sie außer sich vor Wut und versucht alles, um Timeti von ihrem Vorhaben abzuhalten.

Ramana erzählt Yann und seinen Freunden Timeti und Auru die Legende vom Fischmann, einem erfolgreichen Perlentaucher, der angeblich stundenlang unter Wasser bleiben konnte. Yann, Timeti und Auru wollen das Geheimnis des Tauchers lüften und den Perlenschatz finden.

Seven years have passed since Driver ended his campaign against those who double-crossed him. He has left the old life, become Paul West, and founded a successful business. But walking down the street one day, he and his fiancée are attacked by two men, and his fiancée is killed. Sinking back into anonymity, Driver realises that his past stalks him - and will not stop. He has to turn and face it.

Florian Eder hat mit Pumuckl einen Weihnachtsbaum gekauft. Als sie ihn schmücken wollen, parkt plötzlich ein Umzugswagen im Innenhof: Ihr Nachbar, Herr Sorgichev, zieht um! Sorgichev will seinen gesamten Hausstand hinter sich lassen, was Flori ganz schön traurig macht. Herr Sorgichev versichert aber, dass er so oft er kann vorbeikommen wird, um im Hinterhof nach dem Rechten zu schauen.