Winter Adventure

Rebecca Barnhouse weaves Norse gods, blood feuds, and a terrifying dragon into this spectacular retelling of the end of the Old English poem Beowulf. When he was a baby, Rune washed up onshore in a boat, along with a sword and a pendant bearing the runes that gave him his nickname. Some people thought he was a sacrifice to the gods and wanted to send him right back to the sea. Luckily for Rune, King Beowulf disagreed. He lifted the boy from the boat and gave him to Amma, a wise woman living on a farm far removed from the king’s hall, to raise as she saw fit.

Exiled from the Smoky Mountains for gunning down a man in self-defense, Breck Wallace tries to make a new home in St. Louis, even tries his hand at romance, but some men are too wild to settle down. Breck is soon back on the trail, where a vicious gang of trappers, after his goods, picks up his scent and begins to dog his every step, until Breck’s only choice is to bed down for the winter with a tribe of friendly Indians. In the frigid, brutal cold of a Rocky Mountain winter, he hopes to find peace...but death is not done with Breck Wallace.

In einer Ausgestoßenen erwacht unheilvolle Glyphen-Magie. Ein Prinz soll die Völker der Berge gegen einen unbarmherzigen Feind vereinen. Über dem Gebirge des Winters ziehen düstere Wolken auf. Elija soll einen erbarmungslosen Feind aufhalten, sein Weg führt ihn in die Wirren eines jahrhundertealten Konflikts, der die drei Stämme der Berge entzweit hat. Doch nicht nur äußere Feinde bedrohen ihn, sondern auch der Zweifel an seiner eigenen Bestimmung. In der jungen Frau Chenka erwacht eine uralte Magie. Sie flieht vor unheimlichen Angreifern und weiß nicht, dass ihr Schicksal über das aller Menschen entscheiden könnte.

Meet married couple Chris and Marty. At midlife, they unexpectedly find themselves weighing the responsibility of parenthood against the possibility of one more grand adventure. After securing care for their 12-year-old son, they set off to undertake one of the hardest challenges on the planet: Ski 570 miles from the edge of Antarctica to the South Pole. With no guide or resupply. Riveting and inspiring, The Expedition is about the power of family and community, the adventurous spirit that dwells within us all, and breaking through to feel fully alive.

The Modern Outlaws are riders of a new century. We laugh like honest men at a rotary luncheon. We shake hands on our new business, understanding that it doesn’t mean shit, not one speck of it, because getting lost and becoming someone else begins with the utterance of your very name. We pulsate on a single idea, which is that of recapturing in the next 10 days what we’ve missed for the last 30 years. Where the early years were gilded with promise, the middle years assure these men that this is it, what it all comes down to, what happened to us.

When Old Bear Le Vrette goes to town for supplies, he sees his dead wife in the face of Lilly Grace Hanson. He forces the young girl to go with him into the mountains. Now a desperate father and a U.S. Marshal must turn to the one man who knows the mountains as well as Bear Le Vrette.

Auf dem Weg durch das unendliche Geschichten-Labyrinth geraten die kleine Fee Glü und ihr Begleiter Wolkulus in einen sehr kalten Teil des Labyrinths. Sie stapfen durch Eis und Schnee und erleben im Hörbuch 3 drei Wintergeschichten. Ihr hört die Geschichten: Wintergeister, Schneeflocke und Eisblumen. Die Jahreszeiten-Geister Blü, Somm und Herb hätten lieber bei Fräulein Frühling, Herrn Sommer oder Herrn Herbst ihr Handwerk gelernt. Doch deren Klassen waren bereits überfüllt. So blieb ihnen nur die Lehre bei Herrn Winter übrig.

Der Jedi-Meister Qui-Gon Jinn und sein Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi werden beauftragt, Amidala, die junge Königin des Planeten Naboo, zu beschützen. Doch die Lage auf Naboo eskaliert, die beiden Jedi und Amidala müssen vor Kampfdroiden flüchten und auf dem Wüstenplaneten Tatooine notlanden. Dort lebt der Sklavenjunge Anakin Skywalker, dessen größter Traum es ist, ein Jedi-Ritter zu werden. Er besitzt ein ungewöhnlich starkes Bewusstsein für die Macht.

10 Jahre sind vergangen, seit Anakin Skywalker in den Orden der Jedi aufgenommen wurde. Er ist erwachsen geworden und die Macht in ihm wird immer stärker. Seine Fähigkeiten werden auf die Probe gestellt, als Anakin und sein Jedi-Meister Obi-Wan Kenobi nach Coruscant gerufen werden, um Prinzessin Padmé Amidala nach einem Mordanschlag zu beschützen. Doch der Anschlag ist erst der Anfang, die dunkle Seite wird immer mächtiger und verschleiert den Blick der Jedi.

There are lights on the horizon. Electricity. Order. A return to civilisation. After three years cut off, living by their wits in the bush, Finn and Kas might at last find a life without danger and threat. But the tracking device beneath Kas’s skin begins to buzz – she can’t ignore that she is a Siley, a slave, and will never be free. And when the search parties arrive, with brutal force, Finn and Kas face a new reality – a world divided by fences, a world where they can’t be together. But after everything they’ve been through, they’re not about to play by the rules.

Cora Roberts, daughter of death and elemental badass, thought she had faced the worst White Castle had to offer. But when her grandmother, the head of the elementals, sets her sights on ruling over all supernatural factions, the stakes are raised higher than ever before. As Cora struggles to navigate her newfound relationship with Hudson, the king of shifters, and protect those she loves from her grandmother's machinations, she discovers that the true enemy may be closer than she ever imagined.

Home and uncertain of his place among the Alliance, Eugene has a whole set of new challenges ahead of him. Thrown in with a group of teens who are also Vunjikas he realizes that he may be their best hope. Isiro, awake and aware, and the timeline now pushed up, Willow is on her way across the stars to return Isiro to his home planet and find out once and for all, do Isiro’s people still live, or did their ancient enemy destroy them? A battle of wills, planets, and ships is only the beginning.

In The Fairy of Festive Wishes, meet Holly, a cheerful holiday fairy who listens to the whispered wishes of children all around the world. With a sprinkle of winter stardust and a heart full of kindness, Holly sets off on a sparkling journey to make their dreams take flight.

When Rick Lamplugh reports for work at the historic Lamar Buffalo Ranch on New Year's Eve, he has one goal: to learn as much as possible about the ecology of the Lamar Valley and how wolves fit in. He has three frigid months to explore on skis and snowshoes, to observe with all his senses, and to listen to and talk with experts. Lamplugh's story takes you with him as he watches winter-hungry elk and bison migrate to the Lamar Valley to graze. Wolves, coyotes, and mountain lions stalk the grazers while eagles, ravens, and magpies wait to scavenge.

Devil dogs weren’t meant to have hearts.... Hunter Christian sure as hell didn’t. He was a marine. A warrior. The last thin line of defense against evil in the world. He’d killed for his country, and he’d do it again. He just didn’t expect that call-to-arms would come in the middle of one of those easy TEAM ops in Brazil, nor that he’d have to kill in front of the woman he’d once given his heart to.

Welcome to the new world. We thought we were the last and all we had to do was survive the initial outbreak. Turns out the hard part is surviving each other. Man, the post-apocalypse is brutal. Most of the runners have phased out, but a fraction have survived. They are smarter, faster, and way more deadly. We were supposed to be safe, but the virus has mutated, making the infected smarter than anyone ever thought possible. Our only hope for survival is to make it to the Tower, where we'll be safe behind walls with a group of survivors just like us.

When a catastrophic explosion kills an estimated 30,000 people in the region of southeast New Mexico and surrounding areas, the military is tasked to find out exactly what happened. Six assessment teams are sent into the blast zone to investigate. After a series of devastating military defeats which kills close to 1,000 more, General Pierce finally sends in a unique 4-man team led by Hopper, on a suicide mission to capture one of these mysterious entities. Hopper is the sole survivor.

The long journey down the highway has come to an end, and as Chris and his girls at last find the town of Pine Lake, they discover that tragedy has struck. Raiders have burned down almost the entire town. Most of the population is dead, missing, or scattered across the region. Food reserves and medicine stocks were lost in the fire. Dangerous men and animals roam the frozen wilderness as temperatures plummet.

Get ready for an epic ride! The Mystery at La Perouse Bay is a thrilling adventure story about two Maui Island boys – Kai and Koa – as they dive into time and space aboard a state-of-the-art craft called the Seastar. They explore ancient worlds, discover incredible mysteries, and encounter the kind of trouble only kids can find.

In From the Death Zone to the Boardroom, speed ski mountaineer Benedikt Boehm tells gripping and inspirational stories about his fears, pain, suffering and facing death during his expeditions to some of the world's highest mountains. Throughout, his coauthor and professor of leadership and management, Stefan Gröschl, integrates scholarly ideas and works beyond traditional business boundaries providing you with unusual insights and thought-provoking alternatives for managing your business.