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Coel’s journey eastward with the sorcerer Reza Walladid earned him the wrath of the Hobgoblin Hordes and the Lord of the Assassins. The terrible secret he discovered there could turn humanity against him, yet now it must be revealed. Now nation after nation falls before the Horde’s inexorable march west, either slaughtered and eaten in battle or accepting the Horde’s terrifying terms of surrender. In every shadow, Assassin daggers lurk.

Sam'l Flintlock has been hired to protect an innocent man who narrowly escaped the noose but everyone still seems to want dead. The murder of a school teacher sets in motion a battle to the death that pits Flintlock against the hidden man who pulls the strings in the town of Open Sky. But first Flintlock must find out who that man is, what he wants and why. As people start dying, the pieces start to fall together and Flintlock knows that for every evil deed there must be a reckoning....and Flintlock is that reckoning.

Bounty-hunter turned "businessman" Rafe Kingston is the fastest gun in the west...and the last person you want to see on your doorstep. So you can imagine how the O'Brien brothers feel when this vicious vermin shows up at their ranch with a letter, signed by a US Senator, claiming he's the rightful owner of their land.

Jack “Jackknife” McCabe is through with Special Ops. But in an America where politicians, pundits, and the president care more about polls than securing the borders of the Nation, “Jackknife” finds himself sucked back into the terror wars. To stop a nuclear holocaust in the heart of the country, he leads his family and fellow citizens in the battle against fanatic evil hiding behind Islam.

Emerging relatively unscathed from the apocalyptic rebirth of North America, Canada hides a trove of Cold War-era secret government installations known as Diefenbunkers, filled with caches of weapons, wags, and food. Ryan Cawdor and his companions agree to ride sec for a convoy headed west across the remnants of the old Trans-Canada Highway to retrieve the ultimate prize: four portable nuclear reactors. It's enough power to light up a ville for years, a bright beacon for a new tomorrow. But they have death on their trail.

Devastation from the nukewar shattered civilization and left a planet both primitive and ripe for rebirth - or retaking. While the balance of power has fallen to avaricious, amoral barons, a handful of humanity still holds hope of a future worth fighting for or dying to defend. If a better life inside the hellground exists, Ryan Cawdor and his friends will find it.

Washed ashore in the North Atlantic, Ryan Cawdor and Doc Tanner discover two islands still pristinely intact after Skydark, but whose inhabitants suffer a darker, more horrifying punishment. A hideous strain of mutation infests, turning some into half-monstrous giants with an unquenchable thirst for blood. The Nightwalkers unleash a hellish feast of horror when the sun goes down. Now Ryan and Doc struggle to survive this enclave of unimaginable terror, trapped in a baronial conflict between the rulers of night and day, with only one way out - internecine war in a world of the damned.

Post-nuclear America has changed little since the primal leveling of the 21st century. Warrior survivalists Ryan Cawdor and his band live by a code that honors the kind of absolute freedom only a raw frontier can provide. Until rumors of a wider, more prosperous world than the Deathlands thriving deep in Mexico, untouched by the nukecaust, lure them into uncharted waters....

Magus is a steel-eyed cybernetic sociopath whose bloodlust knows no bounds. Now, the savage Pacific isles above a long-submerged Southern California are his new arena. Ryan wants a second chance to chill Magus once and for all. But as the ringmaster of torture orchestrates his magnum opus, a stunning sideshow is under way. Pre-Dark white coats believe they have found the key to turn back time and intercept the deed that erased human history.

The endless struggle for power among the barons is a way of life in Deathlands, but Ryan Cawdor and his warrior survivalists take no sides — unless forced to. But as the land around the Rio Grande reaches the breaking point in a bitter war, the companions are harnessed into battle, moving toward a grim confrontation with an old enemy whose secret stockpile of 21st-century nerve gas is poised to unleash infinite madness once more upon a ravaged Earth.

Compassion is a luxury in a brutal land where life is cheap, but Dr. Mildred Wyeth holds fast to her physician's oath to show mercy. Now she's stricken by a plague that brings on a deep craving for human flesh. Unwilling to lose one of their own to this pervasive pestilence without a fight, the companions follow the trail to Cajun country, where the mysterious queen of the Cannies is rumored to possess the only antidote to the grim fate that awaits Mildred...and perhaps her warrior friends.

Award-winning Black authors and artists come together to create a moving anthology collection celebrating Black love, Black creativity, Black resistance, and Black life.

Dieter Grobeck, der bei seiner Mutter in deren ererbtem Reihenhaus lebt, hat den Sprung zum Vollprofi in der Bundesliga geschafft. Sein Onkel Hans, der Versicherungskaufmann Hans Merten, hat schon lange eine Bundesliga-Lizenz - allerdings nicht als Spieler, sondern als Schiedsrichter. Und ausgerechnet dieser Onkel Hans, der mit Dieters Mutter wegen der Erbschaftsregelung im Streit liegt, pfeift nicht nur Dieters erstes Bundesligaspiel, nein, er muss ihm auch noch, nach einem klaren Foul, die rote Karte zeigen.

Wer sie kennt, hat sie ins Herz geschlossen: Eulalia, die kluge und ehrwürdige Eule und ihre beiden jungen Freunde Kleopatra, die Elster und Waldemar, das Eichhörnchen. Sie philosophieren auf dem Ast einer alten Eiche über die Dinge des Lebens und darüber, was ihnen so alles begegnet. Diesmal wird ihre Freundschaft auf die Probe gestellt. Aber sie ist hinterher fester als vorher.

In Erection, author David Thomas narrates his young, repressed childhood, and the pattern of “thinking with his crotch” that haunted his life. Erection is a story of the human damage ordinary men create when they follow their hormones and their culture’s permission to pursue aggressive sexual activity unreflectively, and to avoid at all costs reflecting on and communicating about their sexuality.

In einer Live-Sendung von Sakura TV droht ein Unbekannter die wahre Identität von Kira zu enthüllen. Der Geschäftsmann Kyosuke Higuchi will dies um jeden Preis verhindern. Auf seinem Weg zum Fernsehstudio tötet er mit Hilfe seines DEATH NOTE skrupellos jeden, der sich ihm in den Weg stellt. Und schon bald stehen nur noch L und Light zwischen ihm und seiner Freiheit. Doch ist Kyosuke wirklich der gefährlichste Feind in dieser halsbrecherischen Verfolgungsjagd?

The Bottomless Cloud challenges the scarcity-driven mindset by taking a hard look at how industrial-age business models are failing us by regarding data as a commodity and a cost that needs to be constrained, rather than a near-infinite resource that can be mined to build entirely new sources of value and insight. From Uber to Nike to Netflix, The Bottomless Cloud is defining the tenets of success in the 21st century by changing the way we view data, from being a byproduct of business to a foundational driver of radically new business models.

Fünf Jahre sind vergangen, seit L und sein Team Kyosuke Higuchi das DEATH NOTE abgenommen haben. Light hat in der Zwischenzeit seine Ausbildung an der Polizei-Akademie abgeschlossen und übernimmt offiziell die Nachfolge seines Vaters als Leiter der japanischen Kira-Ermittlungen. Schon kurz darauf entführt ein Unbekannter namens Mellow Lights kleine Schwester Sayu und fordert als Lösegeld ein DEATH NOTE. Aber die Übergabe läuft sehr viel anders als geplant.

Ich verließ die Wohnung, begab mich auf die Straße und freute mich schon auf das Treffen mit Raven. Doch dazu sollte es nicht kommen! Plötzlich - ohne Vorwarnung - war ich weg! Mir wurde schwarz vor Augen. Ich sah, wie der Asphalt auf mich zuraste, und dann? Und dann hörte ich auf zu existieren!

Ein einziger Schlag! Nur ein einziger Schlag der Bestie hatte den Kampf beendet! Die Kreatur war mit bloßer Faust in den Brustkorb seiner Gegnerin eingedrungen! Wie ein riesiger Pflock hatte er seine Widersacherin durchbohrt! Die Gesichtszüge der jungen Kämpferin erlahmten, der Glanz ihrer Augen verlosch, ihre Arme erschlafften und baumelten leblos vom Körper... Dann riss das Biest seine Hand aus der klaffenden Wunde. In seiner Pranke hielt er das Herz des Mädchens! Alles war ruhig... Nicht der geringste Laut war zu hören... Es war vorbei... Sie war tot...!