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By 4042 CE, the Hierophant and his Church have risen to political dominance with his cannibalistic army of genetically modified humans: martyrs. In an era when mankind's intergenerational cold wars against their long-lived predators seem close to running hot, the Holy Family is poised on the verge of complete planetary control. It will take a miracle to save humanity from extinction.

September 1944. Amerikanarna har börjat närma sig Tysklands hemliga stad, gamla Aachen, och Hitler ger överste von Dodenburg och SS-Stormdivision Wotan i uppdrag att städa upp. Wotan, som utvecklats till omänskliga slaktare på slagfälten runt om i Europa får nu äntligen slåss på hemmaplan. Men dess värre finns det nästan ingen lojalitet kvar mot Führern och fosterlandet... Leo Kessler är en pseudonym som användes av den brittiske författaren och militärhistorikern Charles Henry Whiting (1926-2007).

Stormtrupp Edelweiss får ett uppdrag som kan komma att ändra världshistorien. I Teheran rustar man för den stora konferensen mellan Churchill, Roosevelt och Stalin. Edelweiss uppdrag är att slå tre flugor i en smäll och döda de tre ledarna! Men för att kunna utföra det måste de förflytta sig ända bort till Persien där den fruktade banditen Dödskallen härjar.

Eerie old houses, wretched smiles, mausoleums, and banshees. Stories from masters of the horror genre, M.R. James, F. Marion Craword, Edgar Allan Poe, W.W. Jacobs, Amelia Edwards, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, and H.P. Loveraft, stories to make your body tingle and your mind play tricks.

New technologies and medical treatments have complicated questions such as how to determine the moment when someone has died. The result is a failure to establish consensus on the definition of death and the criteria by which the moment of death is determined. This creates confusion and disagreement not only among medical, legal, and insurance professionals but also within families faced with difficult decisions concerning their loved ones.

Discovered by a collector of rare books, this manuscript is assumed to be the fictional account of one man's search for his uncle, who was a well-respected professor before his own search for God led him down a dark rabbit hole. In that hole, he didn't find a benevolent, loving Father, but an ancient evil. Worse, the world's political and religious powers not only know about this dark thing, they may have sided with it! Let's hope this is only fiction - for all of our sakes!

A portrait of one of the greatest American food writers of the 20th century, Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher, whose writing transcended recipes and reviews to probe our deep-seated relationship to our appetites. Assembled from diaries, journalism, and short stories, Kelly Nespor's play creates a vivid tableau of the life of this preeminent and influential gourmet.

Max Haldermann nimmt all seinen Mut zusammen und beschließt seinen Fetisch für Gummi und SM endlich auszuleben...

The stuff of nightmares! A terrifying collection of stories about haunted rooms, strange beds, terrifying dreams and sleepless nights. Listen at bedtime if you dare!

Goals are something we use to incentivize ourselves to do things we wouldn’t otherwise have the desire to do. There is something inherently wrong with this at its core. Goal-setting and tracking merely works to ensure that we spend more time doing things we aren’t truly passionate about.

Sean Cardinal O'Malley explains why evangelization is at the heart of our faith and that there is a mandate to share the Gospel with the world. Passing on the faith is not an option but an imperative. In every century, believers have to hand on the faith to the next generation and at the same time offer the wisdom of the Church to a world that is content with foolishness. Drawing upon the scriptures, philosophy, and literature, he illustrates how this passing on the faith is ultimately God's enterprise.

Much has been written on the last words of Jesus, the traditional phrases taken from Scripture that depict the final moments of Jesus's life as he dies on the cross. In this new take on the last words, author Dan Horan brings a fresh perspective to this time-honored meditation as he challenges readers to look at their lives through the lens of Jesus s suffering and death. Yet interlaced with suffering, the focus throughout is on the immense love of God for human beings, shown in the gift of Jesus, God made flesh.

Have you ever thought to yourself, "I think I might have a thyroid problem. I'm tired all the time, no matter how much I exercise, I can't seem to lose weight, my hair's falling out, and overall I just feel blah." If so, it is essential that you explore the very real possibility that indeed, you do have hypothyroidism. In Hypothyroidism, Health & Happiness, Dr. Steven Hotze reveals how commonly hypothyroidism is overlooked, misdiagnosed, and mistreated in women and men, and gives you just the information you need to prepare yourself to obtain help.

The CliffsNotes study guide on Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, and critical commentaries, all for you to use as an educational tool that will allow you to better understand the work.

Featuring two classic horror stories that are sure to send shivers up your spine, Frightful Tales includes "The Night Wire", a story of a small town overrun by a horrible, animated fog and the night wireman who observes helplessly as unspeakable acts occur, and "Rats", a story of a deserted room at an out-of-the-way inn, and the young man who dares to enter.

Unable to approach her own long-buried history of loss and displacement, Historian Joan Severance takes refuge in the cool library rooms and the crumbling probate lists from Renaissance times. As Joan's disturbed, hyperintuitive mind falls increasingly under the spell of Valparuta and the charismatic resident archivist, Chiesa, a beautifully dressed heroin addict, she is forced to confront her long-submerged past.

Die Fortsetzung der erfolgreichen Tom Wagner Serie! Das größte Geheimnis der Welt. Falsche Freunde. Übermächtige Gegner. Die Chronik der Tafelrunde ist gefunden und auf Tom Wagner, Hellen de Mey und François Clourtard wartet ihre bisher größte Herausforderung. Die Suche nach dem heiligen Gral. Nur führt sie ihr Abenteuer nicht in die Zeit der Templer und Kreuzzüge, sondern noch viel weiter zurück in die Geschichte der Menschheit. Und die Jagd in die Vergangenheit, ist eine Reise ohne Wiederkehr.

Thirty little gems by some of the world's great classic short story writers, including: 'The Flying Man' by H. G. Wells, 'Between Rounds' by O. Henry, 'A School Story' by M. R. James, 'A Pair of Silk Stockings' by Kate Chopin, 'A Deal in Ostriches' by H. G. Wells, 'The Piano Next Door' by Elia W. Peattie, 'Royal Visitors' by E. F. Benson, 'The Stolen Bacillus' by H. G. Wells, 'The Story of Chugoro' by Lafcadio Hearn, 'One Law for the Rich' by Stacy Aumonier, 'My Enemy and Myself' by Vincent O'Sullivan and more.

En este podcast abordamos algunas cuestiones relevantes para el futuro del feminismo. ¿Cuál es la raíz de la división dentro del movimiento feminista? ¿Qué es y cómo se manifiesta el sexismo en nuestras sociedades? ¿Qué hacemos con la violencia machista? ¿Qué está pasando con el aborto y los derechos reproductivos? ¿Qué implicaciones tienen la igualdad y la diversidad como reivindicaciones políticas? Este podcast está inspirado en el curso gratuito online de la plataforma Coursera Feminismo, Género y Política dirigido por Eva Anduiza, Maria Freixanet y Margarita León e ...

Der größte Goldschatz der Menschheit. Eine internationale Intrige. Eine grausame Offenbarung. Als Sondereinheit für Blue Shield ist Tom Wagner mit seinem Team auf der Suche nach dem legendären El Dorado. Aber wie so oft läuft es nicht wie geplant. Das Team wird getrennt und sie müssen buchstäblich auf mehreren Fronten kämpfen: Hellen und Cloutard machen Entdeckungen, die die anerkannte Geschichtsschreibung über das Gold von El Dorado über den Haufen werfen. Tom ist inzwischen im Auftrag des US-Präsidenten unterwegs, um zu verhindern, dass eine gefährliche Substanz in die Hände von Terroristen fällt.