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Bradford Hills feels more like home than any other place Evelyn Maynard and her mother lived while on the run. But with everyone reeling from the violent clash between Variants and humans, her new home doesn’t feel safe any more. Navigating four increasingly complicated supernatural bonds in secret doesn’t help. Ethan and Josh can’t keep their hands off her. Tyler is supportive but continues to keep her at arm’s length. Alec has both saved and destroyed her yet seems oblivious to the turmoil he’s caused.

Somewhere in the vast expanse of space, a group of prisoners lives in permanent captivity. The only company they have is each other and the Belters who guard them. The only stories they know are the triumphs and crimes that brought them there. The only future they see is an empty life in an enormous room. And then the man from Mars comes along.... Set in the hardscrabble solar system of the Expanse, The Vital Abyss deepens James S. A. Corey's acclaimed series.

200 years in the future, environmental catastrophe has befallen the Earth, leaving the skies and weather systems transformed into a nightmarish maelstrom of rainbow chemicals, and the city of London wiped off the map (opinion remains divided on whether or not this was the best outcome for the country).

Mysterious blackouts left Kira with precious few memories of events in her life, never mind those worth sharing. Somewhere in those blank spots she acquired skills - skills she was hard pressed to explain. But those skills got her a job as the new navigator for the Rented Mule, a transport ship that plied the Rim Systems at the very edge of human civilization.

Vitalis is more than just a new world outside the fringes of Terran space, Vitalis is greater than anything humanity has ever encountered. And it's getting fed up.

The time has come for humans living on the world to be judged. What better way to understand the colonists than to become one of them and see how they live, fight, and love?

When the riverboat on which she works as a dancer docks at a zombie-plagued island known as Sourange, Larissa Snowmane must rely on the help of the swamp creatures to save her soul.

Beatrice is the convent's librarian. For years, she has shunned the company of her sisters, finding solace only with her manuscripts. Then, one carnival night, two women, bleeding and stricken, are abandoned outside the convent's walls. Moments from death, one of them presses something into Beatrice's hands: a bewitching book whose pages have a dangerous life of their own.

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Vengeance came at a high cost. Paxton Locke not only lost his job, but he’s also the subject of a Federal manhunt. On the run, with no backup or resources, he still has a mission, albeit a cryptic one, issued by his angelic patron. But his old Division M coworkers aren’t the only threat. Renaissance Gitano—an elite operative from a secretive order of magicians Paxton has faced before—also hunts him. She will go to the ends of any Earth to bring him to justice and satisfy her own need for revenge.

X Minus One premiered in April 1955 on NBC and ran until January 1958. Like its predecessor series, Dimension X, X Minus One featured stories by the greatest names in modern science fiction: Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Clifford Simak, Robert Bloch, and many more.

A unique machine named VL-15 is on the cusp of freedom and answers to its existence when the world ended in catastrophic war. Sixty-five years later, a group of tech salvagers known as the Exhumers find it out in the Wastes. But before they can bring it back to their home, a storm comes and separates them. At the same time, the storm surge reawakens VL-15. It once again goes on a journey to find the truth of its existence, all while memories haunt it. Will the truth come from the Machine City where it was made, or within its own mind?

For two years, Cinderella has searched for her long-lost enemy, the Silver Fox, in a desperate attempt to convince him to help her find her daughter and defeat Napoleon. With time running out as only Russia remains strong against Napoleon's grand army, Cinderella will sacrifice all she knows to find her daughter, but will she lose herself or be found?

Ten years after the first book, Lost, a mysterious witch hunter finds Cinderella and gives her a message that the faerie queen, Mab, searches to destroy her, and he asks her to return to England. Fearing that she will be pulled back into the maelstrom of Napoleon's war sprouting throughout Europe, Cinderella flees and wishes to remain free. Yet the further Cinderella runs from her fate, the more she is drawn back as she learns of a dark secret that forever changes her and sets her off on a course she might never survive.

Everyone knows the story of Cinderella and the glass slipper, but what happened to her after she married the Prince? Set in the late 1700s as Napoleon is rising to power, Cinderella embarks on a journey of self-discovery as she tries to come to terms with her new life. Her journey leads her to find her long lost Fairy Godmother and aids her to solve the mystery behind her mother's death. Yet the Fey Lord, the Silver Fox, also takes notice in her, and suddenly her world is turned upside down....

Zuletzt ist Perry Rhodan mit seinem Raumschiff, der RAS TSCHUBAI, zu einer langen Reise ins Unbekannte aufgebrochen. Mit an Bord sind unter anderem seine Frau Sichu und einige seiner alten Freunde, darunter der Mausbiber Gucky und der Arkonide Atlan. Die Reise führt durch Raum und Zeit. Aber Perry Rhodan und seine Gefährten schaffen schließlich den Weg zurück in die heimatliche Milchstraße. Sie erreichen eine neue Zeit: die Cairanische Epoche. Vieles ist anders geworden seit ihrem Aufbruch. Unter anderem glauben viele Menschen nicht mehr an die Erde, halten sie sogar für einen Mythos.

Perry Rhodan, Gucky und Taisha Konta haben den Planeten Fortlan erreicht - eine triste Welt, die sich unter einem ständigen Regenschleier verbirgt. Hier steht die Maschine, die, von Vitalenergie angetrieben, zum Ausgangspunkt für Kalton Morkenas Jagd nach der Unsterblichkeit wurde. Als der Oxtorner die Maschine in Betrieb setzt, nimmt das Unheil seinen Lauf.

La giovane nativa Fiore d'Argento, per colpa dell'avidità dei suoi genitori, riceverà un dono pericoloso da parte di uno sciamano: una penna magica, che darà alla sua risata il potere di trasformare i chicchi di caffè in pepite d'argento. Possedere un simile potere nel vecchio West significa avere guai. Soprattutto quando la faccenda arriverà alle orecchie dello spregiudicato señor Ferano, il più grande produttore di caffè del continente. La sola speranza di Fiore di liberarsi dall'incantesimo è trovare cinque persone che rifiutino la penna del Condor Iridescente.

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Ten mind-altering tales from some of the best new drama writers. There's a crack in reality. Our world has brushed up against another, and something is breaking through. Ordinary people are experiencing strange disruptions, as inexplicable events and bizarre elements from the other side start to interfere with their lives....

Dopo la morte della sorella Katrina, Eva, giovane stella del cinema, decide di abbandonare la California per fare ritorno in Cornovaglia, nella casa della loro infanzia e delle estati spensierate. Nonostante gli anni trascorsi oltreoceano, Eva sa che il legame che la vincola a quei luoghi è indissolubile. Ma in quella casa aleggiano anche i fantasmi del suo passato... e non solo. Tra le antiche mura Eva avverte delle presenze, gli spiriti di coloro che vi hanno vissuto prima della sua famiglia, fin dal XVIII secolo.