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Seit seiner Kindheit wollte Reid Malenfant Astronaut werden, doch die NASA lehnte ihn ab. Seine Frau Emma ist erfolgreicher: Sie bricht 2004 mit einer Expedition zum Marsmond Phobos auf, um eine Anomalie zu erkunden. Doch ein Jahr später reißt der Kontakt ab, und Emma gilt seither als verschollen. Reid bekommt schließlich doch noch einen Platz als Space-Shuttle-Pilot, stürzt 2019 jedoch bei einem tragischen Unfall ab.

Congratulations! You've built a successful business. Now you face taking it to the next level. It's time to ask, “How do I scale my business?” Good news. You have come to the right place. Scale Your Business with CFO Navigator is an interview video and podcast series for business owners who want to make the leap from just working in their business to scaling it to the next level. In this series, Robert Stephens, founder and managing partner of CFO Navigator in Atlanta, Georgia, interviews business owners and experts on how to scale business operations, sales, marketing, technology, ...

A dying partner. An otherworldly healer. A race against time. To save his terminally ill psychic partner, private investigator Alex Penfield is on the trail of a mysterious man with healing abilities…but so is a clandestine organization of cutthroat assassins. In a run-in with the assassins, Penfield learns of the mystery man’s harrowing fate and determines to help him. Can Penfield track down the man before the professional killers? And just who - or what - is this healer?

What do Greta Thunberg, Elon Musk, and Warren Buffett have in common? As far apart as they may seem, these global icons represent key themes in Stephen Roberts’ time-tested approach to picking stocks with such common sense.

We all have our own version of how life started, but do we know how it will end? Each year, more and more radio telescopes are pointed to the heavens, so why have we not found any trace of intelligent life out there? To date, no radio signals of another advanced species have been received.

The murders scarred him for life. Can he face it again when a copycat resumes the butchery? Detective Alex Penfield’s hope for humanity hangs by a slender thread of justice. But even slamming the darkly disturbing serial killer behind bars can’t make up for the brutal loss of his dear friend 10 years ago. And he vows she won’t have died in vain when he’s recruited by the FBI to catch a vicious predator with the same blood-soaked calling card. Can the determined detective trap the mystery killer and put his demons to rest?

The war with the Xhoseti is over. The pyramid weapon is exhausted. As mankind rebuilds civilization, the need for clean energy becomes paramount. The Grand Master, with help from the Guardians, build a power plant on the Moon, but all is not as it seems. Deep inside tunnels beneath the Moon’s surface hide the last of the Xhoseti. They will have their revenge, no matter the cost.

Alex Penfield's gunshot wounds have healed, but the shock remains raw. Working the beat could be just what the detective needs to clear his head. But when a corpse washes up on the Chesapeake Bay, Alex's first case back could send him spiraling.... As Penfield and his partner examine the dead man's fortress of a house, an army of surveillance cameras takes the mystery to another level. When the detective sees gruesome visions that the cameras fail to capture, he begins to wonder if his past has caught up with him.

Detective Alex Penfield is no stranger to crime scenes. But when he tracks down a gruesome killer, he discovers she’s in a whole different league. And this assassin is far from alone.... It turns out that Penfield’s detective skills have uncovered a secret government program that’s better left buried. And the men and women of that program have put a target on his back. To survive the day, Penfield’s only chance is to trust a ruthless killer. He hopes his risky choice won’t be the last one he ever makes....

The Pyramids are complete. The weapons have been installed. All that remains is to stop the wars and unite mankind against the Xhoseti when they arrive. Will the Grand Master succeed with Plan “B” and finally create a united front against the insectoid invaders? War advances man’s technology. As man advances, the Xhoseti become more empowered with every human they absorb. The second book in the Xhoseti series.

Whilst surveying a seemingly unoccupied planet for Unmine, two prospectors unwittingly awaken the hibernating Xhoseti, and the war between humanoid and insectoid is re-ignited. Outright war with the Xhoseti can only end in the destruction of humanity. Will man survive the Xhoseti threat? Earth is man's last and only hope for survival. A delegation of Guardians and humans are sent to Earth who arrive 40,000 years ago. Their mission: To unite mankind into a peaceful civilisation capable of constructing pyramids to house the Guardians' weapons.

Lights. Camera. Murder. When lies become reality, can Poe find the truth before a killer strikes again? The Last Kill is the tenth standalone novel in the Murder on Maui series. If you enjoy colorful characters, a touch of humor, and plots that bend and twist like a palm tree on a windy beach, then you’ll love Robert W Stephens’ mysteries.

Edgar Allan “Poe” Rutherford is used to weathering difficult cases. And since one of the victims is his sister-in-law’s abusive ex, Poe hopes nobody looks too hard at his own compelling motive. Ignoring the sound advice to keep his nose out, Poe spars with the island’s newest police detective who seems to have her own hidden motivations, especially when she asks Poe to help with another case.

Five years have passed since Jonathan Dunsmore's last and only best seller. Forgotten, he's lost everything including beautiful Nisha, the only woman he loved. Dangling on the brink of insanity, a stranger appears in the author’s life: a person who knows Jonathan will do anything to get Nisha back. Torn between his fear of Beckett Reed and his desire to hold Nisha again in his arms, Jonathan must become a character in his next book.

The Oath tracks the intertwined lives of Dr. Katz and SS Doktor Bloch, who both survive Auschwitz and the war to practice medicine in the United States, never losing the stains upon their souls. Katz, a respected Jewish French surgeon captured by the Nazis, volunteers to serve at Auschwitz, believing he can protect his wife and children from the gas chambers by helping Joseph Mengele and other SS physicians with their human studies.

Explore diverse new universes of possibility through a variety of creative and fresh new ideas - all in one anthology. From dragons to mythical death dealers, from murder on the moon to deep space mystery, these stories bring you the hot new talent in science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Detective Alex Penfield has to solve a murder case before it happens. His own. Retirement never suited Detective Alex Penfield, but there's nothing like a death omen to get you back in the saddle. A psychic colleague warns the detective that his own murder is coming. When a local death bears an eerie resemblance to the psychic's vision, he can't help but get involved.

"Epic" is a mountaineering term that evokes a sense of treacherous disaster. The climb that went wrong: fighting blinding snowstorms and horrific avalanches; days spent tentbound running low on food, water, and oxygen; surviving broken bones and shattered spirits. This program offers a collection of the most memorable accounts of legend-making expeditions to the world's most famous peaks, often in the worst possible conditions.

This audio collection presents the best-of-the-best short science fiction novels published in 2013 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form. In Earth I, by Stephen Baxter, a search among the stars to ferret out the origins of mankind amidst the Xaian normalisation digs up many surprises. In Success, by Michael Blumlein, a brilliant but erratic biologist studying epigenetics struggles to hang onto his grip on everyday life as he writes his ground-breaking tome.

H. P. Lovecraft is arguably the most important horror writer of the 20th century. Culled from his 1927 essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature”, Lovecraft acknowledges those authors and stories that he feels are the very finest the horror field has to offer, including Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, and Arthur Conan Doyle. This chilling collection includes 20 works, each prefaced by Lovecraft's own opinions and insights in each author’s work.