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He is the perfect presidential candidate. Conservatives love his hard-hitting Republican rsum. Liberals love his peaceful, progressive practicality. The media can’t get enough of his larger-than-life personality. And all the American people love that he’s an honest, hard-working man who tells it like it is. There’s just one problem. He is William Howard Taft...and he was already president a hundred years ago.

A week after her mother found her sleeping on the ceiling, Amy Thomsett is delivered to her new school, Drearcliff Grange in Somerset. Although it looks like a regular boarding school, Amy learns that Drearcliff girls are special, the daughters of criminal masterminds, outlaw scientists and master magicians.

In the hallowed halls of Oxford’s Merlin College, the most talented - and highest born - sons of the Kingdom of Britain are taught the intricacies of magickal theory. But what dazzles can also destroy, as Gray Marshall is about to discover.… Gray’s deep talent for magick has won him a place at Merlin College. But when he accompanies four fellow students on a mysterious midnight errand that ends in disaster and death, he is sent away in disgrace - and without a trace of his power.

In her second year of studies at Merlin College, Oxford, Sophie Marshall is feeling alienated among fellow students who fail to welcome a woman to their ranks. So when her husband, Gray, is invited north as a visiting lecturer at the University in Din Edin, they leap at the chance. There, Sophie's hunger for magical knowledge can finally be nourished. But soon Sophie must put her newly learned skills to the test.

On the last day of December 1921, three enigmatic men - Cairo Martyr, a blue-eyed African who controls the Middle East's supply of aphrodisiac mummy dust; O'Sullivan Beare, a former Irish patriot and gunrunner who has made a fortune selling spurious, phallic-shaped Christian artifacts; and Mark Szondi, a dedicated Zionist who wagers only fried fish futures - sit down to a fateful game of poker in the back room of a Jerusalem antiquities shop owned by a 3000-year-old knight errant.

From New York Times best-seller and science fiction and fantasy mistress of adventure Mercedes Lackey, together with a team of topnotch collaborators, comes Book Two in The Secret World Chronicle, a pulse-pounding saga of superpowers - and the very human men and women who must learn to wield them without losing themselves in the process.

A time portal deposits the centurions into the wilds of prehistory, where Gorilla Khan and his ape warriors are preparing for their invasion of present day. They'll have to defeat the conqueror ape, save the domed city of Atlantis, and destroy the army of psychic dinosaurs before it can be unleashed on their home time! Meanwhile, modern-day Sally Slick and Mack Silver try desperately to bring their lost companions home before it's too late.

Thrown through time and space, Jet Black and his friends find themselves in a future that has changed everything they've ever known. Hunted, exhausted, and desperate to return home, they must stay one step ahead of the conquering psychosaurs who have taken over the world and enslaved humanity! But as the world changed, so did the people they left behind. Bitter enemies turn into vital allies and old friends sacrifice their ideals to seek victory by any means necessary in this fast-paced sequel to Dinocalypse Now!

River Kassandros has spent more than 2,000 years as a humble servant, bound to immortal Spartan warrior Ajax for eternity as his captain's weapon of choice. The two complete each other, forming a powerful fighting team against demonic foes. But at the height of an epic battle, River is flung into the depths of the Savannah River by their darkest enemy.

For 17 years of his life, the exact whereabouts of the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri are unknown to modern scholars. It is known that during this time he traveled as an exile across Europe, working on his epic poem, The Divine Comedy. In his masterpiece he describes a journey through the three realms of the afterlife. During his lost wanderings, Dante stumbled upon an infestation of the living dead. The unspeakable acts he witnessed became the basis of all the horrors described in Inferno.

This fascinating third volume in the Britannia's Fist series will have you pondering how easily history could have been swayed differently. What if other countries had become involved in America's Civil War? Historian Peter G. Tsouras presents the third installment in his Britannia's Fist alternate history series.

In order to hide from his unwanted fame as the spitfire pilot-monkey who emerged from a computer game to defeat the nefarious corporation that engineered him, the charismatic and dangerous Ack-Ack Macaque is working as a pilot on a world-circling nuclear-powered zeppelin. But when the cabin of one of his passengers is invaded by the passenger's own dying doppelganger, our hirsute hero finds himself thrust into another race to save the world - this time from an aggressive hive mind, time-hopping saboteurs, and an army of homicidal Neanderthal assassins!

Set against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Renaissance this alternate history takes place in a world where real faith-based magic exists. Our hero is Damiano Dalstrego. He is a wizard's son, an alchemist and the heir to dark magics. Shattered by the demonic fury of his dark powers, Damiano Delstrego has forsaken his magical heritage to live as a mortal man.

Russ Tabor is one of the top security specialists in the galaxy. Much against his will, he finds himself assigned to provide protection for Rupert Medawar Narayan Shenoy - "Lord Shenoy", as he likes to style himself - who is probably the human race's most brilliant savant. Shenoy has become convinced that the race of ancient aliens known as the Old Ones possessed powers unknown to any modern intelligent species.

Ein kauziger älterer Herr, Geschichten über ein Land, das es nicht mehr gibt und die Frage, ob ein Leben eher durch Wahrheit oder durch Phantasie gelingt. Gemeinsam mit seiner Frau Anja Tsokos erzählt Bestsellerautor Michael Tsokos in dem Roman «Heinz Labensky – und seine Sicht auf die Dinge» von der ehemaligen DDR. Wir tauchen ein in das Leben des liebenswerten Einzelgängers Heinz Labensky und begeben uns auf eine verschmitze Reise durch die deutsch-deutsche Geschichte. Heinz Labensky hat auch nach der Wende den Osten Deutschlands nie verlassen und sitzt in einem Seniorenheim die Zeit ab.

Arabrab è un'assassina devota al Dio dei Morti: sottratta da adolescente a una vita da principessa, gli intrighi e le ipocrisie della corte dei Faraoni, è iniziata alle arti nere da un sacerdote dello Sciacallo. Combatte culti, poteri oscuri, mostri, demoni e nemici dell'Egitto in avventure attraverso il Mediterraneo della cupa e feroce età del Bronzo.

It’s early spring 1959, and the word desire is synonymous with America’s most famous blonde: Marilyn Monroe. Being desired is her drug, her kryptonite, the very definition of who she is. It’s so much a part of her identity that her own wants and needs have become fleeting at best, as if she’s seen herself through others’ eyes so often that she’s forgotten what she looks like through her own. But the deepest needs always surface, and there is one thing Marilyn wishes for beyond all else: to meet her real father.

Dr. Kelly Connolly gehört zu einem streng geheimen Team aus Wissenschaftlern, das den wichtigsten Fund in der Geschichte der Menschheit untersucht: den Enigma-Würfel, ein Artefakt von unfassbarer Macht, das sich den Fesseln von Raum und Zeit zu entziehen scheint. Kelly und der Geheimdienstler Justin Boyd werden mit Feinden konfrontiert, die alles daran setzen, den Würfel in die Finger zu bekommen. Als sich die Situation zuspitzt und ein Kampf um Leben und Tod entbrennt, entdeckt Kelly, dass der Würfel viel gefährlicher ist, als sie angenommen hat.

Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di Genesi? Di cosa parliamo quando parliamo di Adamo ed Eva e di Diluvio universale? La storia la scrivono i vincitori, scrivono la storia che è più conveniente raccontare: censurano i massacri che hanno compiuto e nascondono la loro paura. Riducono le donne in polvere, al massimo in demoni. I vincitori, però, sono pigri, distratti, frettolosi e dimenticano di cancellare completamente la verità. Nella Bibbia, come in tutti i testi antichi, qualche cosa sopravvive.

El profesor Julio Verne, catedrático de historia y experto en la Segunda Guerra Mundial, tiene problemas para conciliar el sueño. Sólo interrumpen su insomnio terribles y vívidas pesadillas sobre las atrocidades del régimen nazi. Durante sus clases, Julio obliga a sus alumnos a reflexionar sobre cómo se habrían comportado en esa época y de qué manera los ciudadanos son capaces de aceptar la tentación autoritaria. Su fama como profesor comienza a trascender más allá de las aulas, especialmente cuando sale a la luz un extraño complot nazi en su contra.