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Die Menschheit auf dem Vormarsch. Die Schlachtlinien sind gezogen. Es ist Zeit seinen Mann ...äääh Drachen zu stehen. Carl und seine monströsen Verbündeten sehen sich an die Wand gedrückt — sie stehen vor dem sicheren Tod, wenn sie die Festung Verbrannter Berg verteidigen. Das menschliche Imperium mit seinen endlosen Reihen und seiner unerbittlichen Verfolgung kommt immer näher. Es geht nicht nur um einen Kampf, sondern ums Überleben, und die einzige Möglichkeit ist, sich aus dem Staub zu machen. Aber Carl macht sich keine Sorgen um die Flucht: Er plant bereits seinen Gegenangriff.

Exploring Buddha’s core teachings, the author shares his own secular and accessible interpretations of the Four Noble Truths, the Three Treasures, and the Eightfold Path within the context of his lineage and the teachings of his teacher and the teachers before him. He looks at Buddha’s teachings on our singular reality that appears as a multiplicity of things and on the “self” that perceives reality, translating powerful spiritual experience into the vernacular of modern life.

The Daughter of Time is a 1951 detective novel by Josephine Tey, concerning a modern police officer's investigation into the alleged crimes of King Richard III of England. It was the last book Tey published in her lifetime, shortly before her death. In 1990 it was voted number one in The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time list compiled by the British Crime Writers' Association. Scotland Yard Inspector Alan Grant (a character who also appears in five other novels by the same author) is feeling bored while confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg.

The Republic is a classic work by an ancient Greek philosopher Plato. There is one of the most famous dialogues of Plato about the arrangement of the state structure and the essence of the state (contemporary for Plato, of course, but also important nowadays because the whole modern so called "European civilisation" is based, first of all, on ancient schemes). The structure of Plato's dialogue is similar to others. Socrates and Glaucon are coming back to Athens from Piraeus. They are stopped by Polemarchus who invites them to visit him and talk.

A companion volume to Illuminations, the first collection of Walter Benjamin’s writings, Reflections presents a further sampling of his wide-ranging work. Here Benjamin evolves a theory of language as the medium of all creation, discusses theater and surrealism, reminisces about Berlin in the 1920s, recalls conversations with Bertolt Brecht, and provides travelogues of various cities, including Moscow under Stalin.

There's nothing eleven-year-old Marty Preston enjoys more than spending time up in the hills behind his home near Friendly, West Virginia.But this time is different. This time Marty sees a young beagle on the road past the old Shiloh school-house.Marty feels sure the dog is being abused by his owner. When the dog runs away to Marty's house, his parents say he must bring him back. But it hurts Marty to return the runaway dog to his cruel master.That's when Marty secretly decides he'll do anything to save the dog he names Shiloh.

Berlin, Zwanzigerjahre: Franz, ein junger Mann aus der Provinz, reist in die Hauptstadt, um im Warenhaus seines reichen Onkels Dreyer zu arbeiten. Doch schon bald hat er nur noch Augen für dessen Frau Martha, die nichts gegen diese jugendliche Schwärmerei einzuwenden hat. Bald träumen sie von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft und entwickeln einen Plan, um Dreyer aus dem Weg zu räumen.

In this unapologetically unclassifiable work, Lawrence Ferlinghetti lets loose an exhilarating rush of language to craft what might be termed a closing statement about his highly significant and productive 99 years on this planet.

In a stately West Village townhouse, a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered. In the 24 hours that follow, a flurry of activity circles around their shocking deaths: The head of one of the city's last tabloids stops the presses. A cop investigates the killing. A reporter chases the story. A disgraced hedge-fund manager flees the country. An Iraq War vet seeks revenge. And an angry young extremist plots a major catastrophe.

Defense attorney Mickey Haller is back, taking the long shot cases, where the chances of winning are one in a million. He agrees to represent a woman in prison for killing her husband, a sheriff’s deputy. Despite her conviction four years earlier, she still maintains her innocence. Haller enlists his half brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, as investigator. Reviewing the case, Bosch sees something that doesn’t add up, and a sheriff’s department intent on bringing a quick search for justice in the killing of one of its own.

Listeners often speak of a certain mystery in the way that Arvo Pärt evokes spirituality through his music, but no one has taken a sustained, close look at how he achieves this. Arvo Pärt: Out of Silence examines the powerful interplay between Pärt's music and the composers own deep roots in the Orthodox Christian faith a relationship that has born much creative fruit and won the hearts of countless listeners across the globe.

The gripping story of a young boy and his family, driven from their home by war and indiscriminate violence. Like millions of others, they attempt the treacherous journey across their war-torn continent, trying to reach the safety of Europe. The truth is, Europe doesn't want them, and thousands die every month at the hands of thieves and profiteering men to whom life is cheap. Kalu believes that he can lead his family to safety. They have money and a plan, and Kalu is, after all, the smartest man in Monguno.

Peter Straub has spent 40 years at the forefront of modern literary horror. This pair of stories represent his astonishing range and his ability to terrify, transport, and hold a reader or listener hostage. Both stories crack the foundation of our reality and open our eyes, taking us further and further into the darkness that normally remains deeply - and safely - hidden.

Alan Dean Foster is the acclaimed author of movie tie-ins for Star Wars, Alien and Transformers. He was awarded the IAMTW Grand Master Scribe Award in 2008. He is also a best-selling science fiction and fantasy author in his own right, including the popular Pip & Flinx novels and the Founding of the Commonwealth series.

What if you were adopted by witches? There's something very odd going on in Anna Kelly's new home – her guardians, Grizz and Wormella Mint, are witches, and they want Anna to help them with their nasty spells! Poor Anna gets stuck in their horrible house, chopping up toadstools and scrambling frogspawn, with no-one but Charlie the cat for company. She'd much rather be out playing. When she discovers an evil, old spell book in the cellar – can Anna make the magic work for her?

Anna's science teacher really gets on her nerves – but is that a good enough reason to turn her into a giant rat? With a big, angry rat on the loose, Anna soon realises she's made a bad mistake. How will she turn it back into her teacher? And can she do it quickly, before anyone finds out that she's an apprentice witch? Anna can't admit what she's done, so no one can help her with her big, furry problem – or can they? Sometimes even witches need a little help from their friends!

Sechs Monate ist es her, seit Ashlyn mit ansehen musste, wie alles, was sie besaß, in Flammen aufging. Sechs Monate, seit sie die Stimme gegen ihren gewalttätigen Stiefvater erhob und mit einer gebrochenen Rippe vor die Tür gesetzt wurde. Das Letzte, was sie gebrauchen kann, ist noch mehr Ärger – vor allem wenn dieser in Gestalt des Tätowierers Lane Garrett daherkommt. Denn Lane ist zwar unglaublich attraktiv, aber der totale Bad Boy. Noch dazu interessiert er sich kein Stück für sie. Doch hinter seinen Tattoos und seiner ruppigen Art steckt ein Geheimnis, von dem Ashlyn noch nichts ahnt.

BBC Audio presents full-cast dramatisations of Thomas Mann's three bestselling works: Buddenbrooks, Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain.

Rätselhafte Morde an der Nordsee Schiermonnikoog, Aurich, Sylt. Kurz hintereinander werden drei Leichen in unterschiedlichen friesischen Regionen gefunden. Den Opfern sind Botschaften in die Haut geritzt, ein Mordmotiv ist nicht erkennbar. Der junge Kriminalhauptkommissar Marten Jaspari übernimmt die Ermittlungen in Deutschland, stößt jedoch schnell an seine Grenzen. Erst die Zusammenarbeit mit der niederländischen Kollegin Iska van Loon führt zu einem alten Geheimnis und zu einem ungeheuerlichen Verdacht.

The Space Warfare Group books are a new kind of space thriller with hardcore military action, dark political conspiracies, and compelling world building. When the princess of an unfamiliar alien planet fails to arrive in time for a diplomatic summit with humanity’s top government officials and her spaceship is found floating dead in space, the Space Warfare Group is called into action.