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Professor Johan Eschbach's lovely wife, Llysette du Boise, a refugee from the burning remains of France and a world-famous vocalist, has been invited to provide a command performance for the Russian Imperial household.

Kane and Tabitha return to New Chicago and find fire and death. The Special Forces have put Hidden Valley under Martial Law. Anyone can now be accused of being a Magician…and killed on the spot. The revolution is dead. As the body count in the city ramps up, a new figure emerges from the shadows and begins a one-man siege on Hidden Valley with weapons never seen before. Kane and Tabitha stay on the run, but Gentry and the Gunman are always a step away. Will a new revolution form and stand against the Oligarchy and their private army?

Half a decade has passed since the ArcNosian Civil War. Nations have been rebuilt. Peace has been restored. And the Avatars of Fate have been deathly silent. No sooner are Sinkua and Eytea called back to ArcNos than the gears begin turning again. Money begins vanishing from ArcNos. Scandals threaten the new power structure. Sinkua ends up at the center of a debacle that threatens Galo's sovereignty. Old allies and new faces emerge as an anti-Avatar force called the Coalition. They've worked in secret for decades, but the time has come for their disclosure.

She knows a liar when she sees one. He knows a fraud when he meets one. In a steam-powered world, Miss Constance Haltwhistle is the last in a line of blue-blooded rogues. Selling firearms under her alias, the “Brass Queen”, she has kept her baronial estate’s coffers full. But when US spy J.F. Trusdale saves her from assassins, she’s pulled into a search for a scientist with an invisibility serum. As royal foes create an invisible army to start a global war, Constance and Trusdale must learn to trust each other.

Alles scheint verloren. Alle Hoffnungen zerfallen wie Ascheflocken im Wind. Vergangenheit und Gegenwart vermischen sich, alles wird auf den Kopf gestellt. Lydia Frost kämpft gegen ihre Gefangenschaft in Grimms Labor und gegen die Kindheitserinnerungen an, die plötzlich aus den Nebeln auftauchen. Jackson Payne unternimmt einen letzten verzweifelten Versuch, Frost zu retten - und wird dabei vor eine Entscheidung gestellt, an der er zu zerbrechen droht.

1918 - Das Jahr in dem der große Krieg zwischen Maschinisten und Teslanern ausbrach. Die Magierzunft könnte dem Blutvergießen ein Ende setzen, doch ihre Gesetze verbieten ein solches Eingreifen. Trotzig widersetzt sich das technomagisch begabte Halbblut Darja diesem höchsten Gebot und soll zur Strafe durch den Todesfluch hingerichtet werden. Nur mit einer Finte gelingt die Flucht. Jedoch ist ihr nun der Tod höchstselbst auf der Spur - und ihm kann niemand entkommen.

To keep the credit flowing, Junle must light her torches. Indentured to the Tower of Shadows, Junle needs to earn return home credits to pay for her mother's life-saving medicine, so she signs up for the most dangerous and well paying job in the tower. Junle is a torchlighter, one of the few who are strong enough to climb the pipes outside the tower to keep them working and to keep the special licatherin drug flowing.

Left with partial amnesia after a steamcart accident, Claire McPhee tried lengthy treatment for the mental and emotional trauma. Now armed with her own training and medical degree, she helps others with combat-related neuroses hoping, she'll someday - somehow - fill in her own blanks. Particularly the elusive memory of a man she once loved.

James "Bodacious" Creed stopped a killer and helped bring peace to Santa Cruz, a coastal California city on the edge of the American frontier. Now, the undead lawman, resurrected with steam-based technology, takes on dangerous criminal cases as a private investigator. One night while riding by the wharf, Creed hears a gunshot. He and his coyote companion, Coconino, rush to the scene

Cecilias Exkursion zu den Quellen des Nils wird ungemütlich. Zu spät deckt sie einen Plot gegen Nathan Cosgrove auf. Über dem Mittelmeer kommt es zu einer Auseinandersetzung zwischen Leben und Tod. Während das Team um Frost und Payne einzelnen Spuren nachgeht, erkennt Dr. Baxter das wahre Motiv des Mörders - und begibt sich auf einen gefährlichen Weg, der keine Wiederkehr zulässt. Payne stellt Frost endlich zur Rede und verlangt Erklärungen von ihr. Ein Streit bricht aus, der das Fortbestehen des Teams gefährdet.

Rafik, der Puzzler, war ein Kind, bevor er sich in die größte Bedrohung seiner Welt verwandelte. Er gab seine körperliche Existenz auf, doch der Tod bedeutet für Rafik nicht das Ende. Dies gilt auch für den letzten Überlebenden der Gilde der Historiker: Funkelauge konnte Rafik im Kampf nicht besiegen, doch nun erhält er eine zweite Chance: Er kehrt von den Toten zurück und reist in die zwielichtige Stadt der Türme, wo schweres Geschütz und eine große Portion Glück vonnöten sein werden, um zu überleben.

Nevada, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with him an innocent victim of a horrible massacre and a dire warning for Sheriff Jon Highfather. The conflict between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers has been brewing for years, and now the spirits of the fallen Indian dead have begun to rise to join in the fight. Deputy Mutt's old nemesis, Snake-Man, returns to begin a final bloody war against the Whites, purging them from the land forever.

Das Katz-und-Maus-Spiel mit dem Mörder hat gerade erst richtig angefangen. Lydia Frost findet sich in einer gefährlichen Pattsituation wieder: Entweder tut sie, was Dr. Grimm von ihr verlangt, oder ihr Team wird die tödlichen Konsequenzen tragen müssen. Hilfe von Scotland Yard kann sie keine erwarten, denn auch da brodelt es unter der Oberfläche gewaltig. Doch Frost wäre nicht Frost, wenn sie sich einfach so fügen würde. Es gibt immer einen Ausweg. Doch dieser Weg wird bitter bezahlt werden müssen.

The choice of bringing a book out of the dustbin of history and making it more easily available to the general public should be an easy decision, right? Not in the case of The Wonderful Electric Elephant written by Frances Montgomery. Listeners can hear exactly what Frances Montgomery wrote and decide for themselves what they think of it. Parts of this novel are a vile stain on history and society. But, I must also add that she wrote some innovative ideas and had some imaginative concepts which were ahead of her time.

The Miracle Frequency changed the world, but was it for the better? The war has ended, but for the forgotten soldiers with inhuman abilities peace never came. Some are outlaws, some keep the law, but none of them are heroes. Guns, magic, and depression, this will end badly.

The war between those of the Sky Empire and those of the Sea Kingdom is as old as this world of endless water itself, and Stella is trapped inside its deadly confines. Stella finally agrees to her highly anticipated betrothal with the most promising leviathan mech fighter. This fighter, a military hero, has an alarming amount of blood on his hands. She isn't after his title, but something more dangerous. Stella's plan may give her the absolution she's been searching for, or she may end up losing her life for nothing.

Marie St. Jean’s supreme acting talent comes with a price: Every spellbinding performance extracts a piece of her soul. When she reluctantly steps into a role abandoned by another leading lady, she encounters the ghostly spirit that caused the other woman to flee in terror. And who promises to fix Marie’s affliction - for a price.

One proper Lady, an infuriating sky pirate, and an adventure that will change the course of their lives. Lady Lilstrum’s fate was sealed long before she ever admitted her dreams of journeys into the unknown, flying the skies, and feeling the wind on her face. Danger sweeping through her world and life in a way she never expected gives her the chance to finally jump on an adventure. Armed with only a small amount of information, Ainsley must embark on a journey unlike any other.

A bounty hunter with a price on his head, Davrick Caliburn must evade the sorcerous reach of the Grand Imperium. Never mind the fact that his new employer is a vampiric blood-baroness - she's promised him a pocket full of coins and a one-way ticket to freedom. The only problem: That "ticket" is aboard an Imperium battle-train. Between the armored automatons, elite enemy troops, and the fiendish sorcerer who leads them, Davrick can only wonder what kind of a mess he's gotten himself into.

Forced to work toward an impossible goal to satisfy the dreams of a madman, Amethyst must come to terms with the truth of her past and the uncertainty of her present if she’s to have any hope of a future. As her communion with the aether grows ever stronger, her physical strength drains away to almost nothing.