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It is 1944. A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works - something which might have serious implications for D-Day. The only way to get more information from the agent in Paris - now closely watched by the Gestapo - is to send in a personal courier. Russian émigré Michael Gallatin is picked for the job. In retirement as a secret agent since a grisly episode in North Africa, Gallatin is parachuted into occupied France, on a mission which will take him to the festering heart of the Third Reich on the scent of doomsday.

Der Blutmond rückt näher. Zélie steht ihrem letzten Feind gegenüber. Dem König, der ihr Herz jagt. Das actiongeladene Finale der Nr-1-Bestseller-Trilogie aus den USA Zélie hatte ihr Ziel schon vor Augen: Der königliche Palast war gerade eingenommen, die Monarchie gestürzt, die Maji wiederauferstanden. Doch dann kam der Überfall. Jetzt findet sich Zélie auf einem Schiff wieder. Eingesperrt in einen Käfig, wie der Rest ihres Volkes. Ihr Entführer: König Baldyr, Anführer der Skulls. Er hat ganze Zivilisationen verwüstet, um Zélie zu finden und sich ihre Kräfte untertan zu machen.

A vacationing Harold Smith finds himself in the middle of a war zone when World War II planes bomb London and Nazi-attired skinheads goose-step through the streets. To complete the weird déjà vu, the guy responsible is a raging Nazi, part of a secret brotherhood with a high-tech agenda for recapturing the dream of a certain evil visionary. But this rogue Nazi devised a new blueprint for world domination that sets him on a path of violence in pursuit of the glorious dream.

British special agent Jeremiah Black, an officer of the King’s Guard, lands on a lonely beach in the wee hours of the morning in late November 1780. The revolution is in full swing but has become deadlocked. Black is here to change all that. His mission, aided by Loyalists, is to kidnap George Washington and spirit him back to London aboard the HMS Peregrine, a British sloop of war that is waiting closely offshore. Once he lands, though, the “aid by Loyalists” proves problematic because some would prefer just to kill the general outright.

Welcome to the bizarre and dangerous world of Victorian London, a city teetering on the edge of revolution. Its people are ushering in a new era of technology, dazzled each day by unfamiliar inventions. Airships soar in the skies over the city, while ground trains rumble through the streets and clockwork automatons are programmed to carry out menial tasks in the offices of lawyers, policemen, and journalists.

When Alex Kaine discovered that he would be able to travel between worlds, to visit places beyond Earth, he thought his life couldn’t get any crazier. He thought navigating the quirks of Mystic Getaways would be all he would ever need to worry about.

Seattle, 2019. After a severe injury, ace mecha designer and pilot Reiko Morikawa is recruited to a secret organization plotting a revolt against the corrupt governor (and Nazi sympathizer) of the United States of Japan. When their plan to save the USJ from itself goes awry, the mission is only saved from failure because the governor is killed by an assassin known as Bloody Mary. But the assassin isn't satisfied with just the governor.

In 1954, the Swedish government ordered the construction of the world’s largest particle accelerator. The facility was complete in 1969, located deep below the pastoral countryside of Mälaröarna. The local population called this marvel of technology The Loop. These are its strange tales.

Vasilii and Miroslava are back at work again. Czar Mikhail wants a rail line built from Ufa, the capital of his United Sovereign States of Russia, to the capital of the USSR’s newest addition, the Khazak Khanate. For that he needs a steam engineer and diplomat—Vasilii’s jobs—as well as a top surveyor. Unfortunately, the surveyor is an arrogant snob who gets himself murdered—and now the czar needs a detective as well. Fortunately, Vasilii’s paramour Miroslava came with him, so she’s there to take on the case. She and Vasilii need to solve the murder quickly without blowing up ...

Ole allowed his brother to live. Highpoint is under threat of being destroyed, and the strongest guilds have it out for the Knights of the Ashes. The human realm is no longer safe. Families need to be evacuated, and Ole's city needs to be built. Only then will they feel truly safe. But not all is lost. Mana based technology was discovered and is currently being built. But there's a problem. They need Ole and his knowledge to finish it all. Sora and Riley are still at odds over their relationship, and Ole is finally ready to choose.

In A Universe Revealed, Diyami Red Hawk is pursuing a sacred mission to build a new Native American city at the ancient site of Cahokia. But his success is based on a lie. If anyone finds out, will his project come crashing down? For years, Jim Collins, a financial genius and superb poker player, has been haunted by the mystery of his father, who was “very famous, but you’ll never find anyone who has heard of him.” When he meets Billy and Carol Boustany, he feels hope for the first time.

Carretera no siempre fue este showman eminente. Antes de convertirse en subastador ejerció como vigilante en una fábrica de jugos durante muchos años, hasta que el ataque de pánico de una compañera de trabajo cambió su vida de manera irremediable. En el tránsito hacia su destino Carretera deberá enfrentarse a la ira de un hijo al que ha abandonado, llevar a cabo una subasta para ayudar a un cura a salvar su iglesia, y realizar a manera de gran performance final «La historia de mis Gustavos personales», una subasta alegórica.

When Grace gets invited to an ‘experience’ south of the Mason-Dixon line, she’s more than a bit skeptical. She’s never visited the Confederate States of America in her life. But when her best friend talks her into going, she gets cautiously excited. It’s supposed to be a fun, enlightening experience, the likes of which she’s never contemplated.

Young Alvin Maker, the seventh son of a seventh son, is a Maker. Lolla-Wossiky—an Indian whose fate is closely linked with Alvin's—has heard black noise in his head since he watched white men murder his father. Unable to hear the green music he needs to live well, Lolla-Wossiky depends upon alcohol to still the black noise—until he meets Alvin.

It was supposed to be a day-trip, a fun and enlightening lark with friends from high school. But Grace’s world was shattered when she was pressed into the New Confederacy’s centuries-old system of human bondage. Now she finds herself being prepared to be auctioned to the highest bidder. For what purposes, she can only guess. None of them good.

A former Magistrate in the grim world of post-holocaust America, Kane cuts his ties to the ruling order and its launched on a reluctant quest to uncover the truth about a bitter enmity that haunts humanity. He knows the answer is out there - beyond the garrisoned cities, the Outlands' hell zones, the ancient seats of planetary power. Barely ahead of a Grudge task force, Kane and his fellow exiles venture from Cerberus redoubt to the hell zones and other global hot spots via the Mat-trans units.

1939: Adolf Hitler, fallen from power, seeks refuge in a London engulfed in the throes of a very British Fascism. Now eking a miserable living as a down-at-heels private eye and calling himself Wolf, he has no choice but to take on the case of a glamorous Jewish heiress whose sister went missing. It's a decision Wolf will very shortly regret. For in another time and place a man lies dreaming: Shomer, once a Yiddish pulp writer, who dreams lurid tales of revenge in the hell that is Auschwitz.

Former Aerial Corps captain Will Laurence and his faithful dragon, Temeraire, have been put out to pasture in Australia - and it seems their part in the war has ended just when they are needed most. The French have invaded Spain, forged an alliance with Africa’s powerful Tswana empire and brought revolution to Brazil. With Britain’s last desperate hope of defeating Napoleon in peril, the government that sidelined Laurence swiftly offers to reinstate him, convinced that he’s the best man to enter the fray and negotiate peace.

Captain John Farragut and the crew of the U.S.S. Merrimack face their greatest challenge as Caesar Romulus declares war on the United States of America with a direct attack on Earth. The Merrimack retaliates with an assault on the Roman capital world of Palatine, and in the midst of the chaos, the Hive descends on Earth. With the battle raging, Farragut finds himself in the middle of a final deadly showdown.

Rodrigo es un joven burócrata que podría pertenecer a lo que Strindberg llamó «el club de los jóvenes viejos». Sus días pasan sin mayores aspavientos en un museo de la Ciudad de México, hasta que la secretaria que le hacía la vida imposible le desliza una nota que dice «Acepto». Rodrigo se enterará de que alguien le ha propuesto matrimonio a Cecilia en su nombre, y la inercia no le deja más opción que casarse. A partir de ahí se desencadena una siniestra odisea en la que pierde su trabajo y pasa el rato espiando a una gallina que deambula por el terreno baldío.