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1803. The Napoleonic Wars. A Royal Navy warship is ordered to pursue an enemy frigate to the icy waters far south in the Indian Ocean. There, it must capture the enemy ship and retrieve a mysterious sea chest, contents unknown, failure not permitted. For the determined young captain and his eager crew, this already dangerous mission turns into a battle with a mysterious vessel that appears not in the sea, but unbelievably, impossibly, in the sky above. But nothing could prepare the crew for what lay beyond the 50th latitude of south.

Kieron Dyer's memoir, Old Too Soon, Smart Too Late, is the first intimate and unsparing portrait of the failures and excesses of the generation of English footballers made rich beyond their wildest dreams by the post-1990 World Cup boom in the game and the explosion of the Premier League. It shares the same brutal honesty and self-awareness of the best-selling No Nonsense by Joey Barton and GoodFella by Craig Bellamy.

When the Supreme Being and his son decide that being supreme isn't for them anymore, it's inevitable that things get a bit of a shake-up. It soon becomes apparent that our new owners, the Venturi brothers, have a very different perspective on all sorts of things. Take Good and Evil, for example. For them it's an outdated concept that never worked particularly well in the first place.

Welcome to Dawson, Ahriman & Dawson! The team of commercial sorcerers at Dawson, Ahriman & Dawson can help with any metaphysical engineering project, large or small. (Though by definition, they all tend to be pretty large.) They can also create massive great puddles of chaos that might one day swallow up the entire universe. Take, for example, the decision to recruit a certain bearded fellow whose previous work experience mainly involves reindeer and jingle bells. It might have seemed like a good idea at the time, but is he really the best person to save the world from Tiamat the Destroyer?

Rosie Maxwell has a plan: move to New York, get her creative writing degree from NYU, become a bestselling romance writer. But that plan is derailed when she ends up in class with her archnemesis and ex-crush, Aiden Huntington, an obnoxious, surly, unreasonably gorgeous literary fiction writer who has no patience for romance – or for Rosie.

The last thing Ash Forester needs is to be in a relationship. For the past seven years, taking care of his eight siblings has been his top priority. With a life full of signing school agendas, diffusing tantrums, and attending parent-teacher conferences, Ash has almost forgotten what real love feels like and he's determined to keep it that way.

A happy workforce is a productive workforce. At the moment, the Wizard's employees are neither. The goblins are upset with their working conditions, the dragonslayer has thrown a hissy fit over his medical insurance (or lack thereof) and everyone is upset about the terrible canteen coffee. Yet the Wizard hasn't got time to worry about revolution in the workplace - he's about to see his brilliant business plan (based on entrepreneurial flair and involving one or two parallel worlds) disrupted by a clueless young man.

A heart-warming tale of Armageddon from one of the funniest, most original voices in comic fiction today.... The third planet out from the star was blue, with green splodges. Dirt. Oh, the bomb thought. And then its courage, determination and nobility-of-spirit subroutines cut in, overriding everything else, adrenalizing its command functions and bypassing its cyberphrenetic nodes. Here goes, said the bomb to itself. Calibrate navigational pod. Engage primary thrusters. Ready auxiliary drive.

Being the Dark Lord and Prince of Evil is not as much fun as it sounds, particularly if you are a basically decent person. King Mordak is just such a person. Technically he's more goblin than person, but the point is that he is really keen to be a lot less despicable than his predecessors. Not that the other goblins appreciate Mordak's attempts to redefine the role. Why should they when his new health-care program seems designed to actually extend life expectancy, and his efforts to end a perfectly reasonable war with the dwarves appear to have become an obsession?

This comprehensive guide takes you on a journey of self-discovery and growth. Understand the complexities of adult ADHD, its impact on your life, and how to navigate the challenges you face. From diagnosis to developing emotional control, boosting productivity, and nurturing meaningful relationships, this audiobook covers it all.

Selma Falck's personal life and career as a lawyer have hit rock bottom. That is until Hege Chin Morell - Norway's best female skier - approaches her desperate to overturn a doping charge. With two months to the Winter Olympics, Selma faces the seemingly almost impossible task of clearing Morell's name. However, when a male skier is found dead after a training accident, it becomes clear to Selma that there is something more serious at risk. Encountering corruption, hidden enmity and shady connections, the pattern of recent crimes and ancient sins becomes undeniable.

In the 1940s and '50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didn't turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible.

Less than six months after taking office, the Norwegian Prime Minister is found dead. She has been shot in the head. But was it a politically motivated assassination or personal revenge? The death shakes the country to its core. The hunt for her killer is complicated, intense and gruelling. Hanne Wilhelmsen must contain the scandal before a private tragedy becomes a public outrage, in what will become the most sensitive case of her career...

Davina Glentyres beskyttede tilvaerelse i et skotsk overklassemiljø forvandles til et sandt mareridt, da hun bliver anklaget for at have forgivet sin far med arsenik. Trods staerke indicier mod Davina lykkes det den unge advokat Ninian at få hende løsladt, og hun flygter til Sydafrika - bort fra offentlighedens søgelys og en haevet forlovelse. Men også her erkender Davina, at der er lagt en udspekuleret faelde for hende. Hvem skal hun tro på - og hvem tør hun give sin kaerlighed?

I 1893 finder en ung engelsk pige ved navn Annalice Mallory en gravsten med sit eget navn på - men hendes navnesøster er død 200 år tidligere. Fundet udløser en raekke dramatiske og uhyggelige begivenheder, hvor fortid og nutid blandes sammen, og snart befinder Annalice sig på en desperat rejse mod en mystisk tropeø. På sin rejse møder hun dødbringende farer - men også et løfte om kaerlighed.

In an orphanage outside Oslo, twelve-year-old Olav is causing havoc. The institution's ageing director, Agnes Vestavik, sees sheer hatred in the boy's eyes. When Vestavik is found murdered at her desk, stabbed in the neck with a kitchen knife – with Olav nowhere to be found – the case goes to Hanne Wilhelmsen, recently promoted to superintendent in the Oslo police. Hanne suspects that Olav witnessed the murder and fled, and she orders an investigation of the orphanage staff.

Esra Weaver, exo-geologist, is hired for the Kerberos-90 Mining expedition, but when she awakens in her Emergency Egress Pod on a tropical, uninhabited planet, she realizes her life has taken a drastic turn for the disastrous. "Predator Planet" tries to kill her at every turn. When danger and death converge on her, her hunter becomes her savior, and when her feelings for him evolve, she realizes she must battle not only Predator Planet but also her past to make room in her heart for an unexpected but passionate future.

Da den unge og smukke Caroline uforvarende kommer til at afsløre en dunkel hemmelighed, sendes hun vaek fra Londons society-miljø til sin tantes gods i Cornwall. Her møder hun godsets sønner, brødrene Jago og Paul, hvis bestraebelser på at bevare godset i slaegtens eje kommer til at spille en afgørende rolle i Carolines liv. Som tiden går, udvikler Caroline en glødende foragt for maend, en foragt, som blandt andet skyldes hendes personlige erfaringer og konfrontationer med forskellige maends mindre aedle motiver og handlinger.

Unge Catherine Corder har netop afsluttet sin skolegang i Dijon og er vendt hjem til Yorkshire. Da hun en dag er ude på en ridetur i omegnen, møder hun for første gang den unge mand Gabriel Rockwell, søn af den lokale baron, der bor på slottet Kirkland Revels i udkanten af Yorkshires hedeområde. Det er kaerlighed ved første blik mellem Catherine og Gabriel. Det bliver gift, og Gabriel fører sin brud til Revels.

Favel Farrington møder den unge Roc Pendorric på den idylliske ø Capri i Middelhavet, hvor hun bor sammen med sin far. Det er kærlighed ved første øjekast, og Favel er lykkelig, da hun som nygift ankommer til sit nye hjem Pendorric i Cornwall. Rocs søster og hendes familie venter dem med åbne arme, og det morer Favel, at den lokale befolkning straks giver hende tilnavnet Bruden fra Pendorric. Men Favels morskab forvandler sig snart til bekymring.