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Leira Berens is settling into the new house in DC, making new friends and setting up house with Correk and the troll. But there's a monster loose in two worlds. Wolfstan Humphrey is looking for a seat at every table and he's making the rounds. Will he take the deal from the Dark Families and hunt down Leira? Or will an old enemy, Axiom, make him a better offer? It's Wolfstan. The magical from hell. He'll try and take both and create chaos wherever he goes.

Leira Berens has joined federal black ops mixed with her own brand of magic. She's coming face to face with what happens when magic collides with technology and organic matter. Not pretty but very powerful. The hunt is on to stop this new kind of shape-shifting but can she do it without being wiped off the planet? Secrets are swirling all around Leira. Some of them will heal rifts and others could tear them all apart again.

Mia escaped in one piece from the ice ball masquerading as a planet, but what now? To start, she's got a laundry list of questions about her father and her origins. It's just her luck that the answers to her questions have the potential to topple regimes. She has to tread carefully or make things worse. Before she can begin her search, she needs to make it through training. The pressure ratchets as the rivalries among the trainees become ferocious. A little bit of skullduggery can go a long way toward ending a career . . . or ending a life.

London might as well be a world away from Sandsend, a tiny village on the Yorkshire coast. Gideon Smith dreams of the adventure promised him by the lurid tales of Captain Lucian Trigger, the Hero of the Empire, told in Gideon’s favorite “penny dreadful.” When Gideon’s father is lost at sea in highly mysterious circumstances Gideon is convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Deciding only Captain Lucian Trigger himself can aid him, Gideon sets off for London. On the way he rescues the mysterious mechanical girl Maria from a tumbledown house of shadows and iniquities.

In Westworld and Philosophy, philosophers, filmmakers, scientists, activists, and ethicists ask the questions you're not supposed to ask and suggest the answers you're not supposed to know. There's a deeper level to this game, and this book charts a course through the maze of the mind, examining how we think about humans, hosts, and the world around us on a journey toward self-actualization.

Unserem Freund, Chiefinspektor Tanner, war es gelungen einen sadistischen vierfachen Frauenmörder zu stellen und ihn vor Gericht zu stellen, wo er verurteilt wurde und bis zu seinem Lebensende in der Psychiatrie einsitzen würde. Für die Menschen war es Buße genug. Nicht aber für die Geister oder Seelen der toten Frauen. Sie wollten Rache und machten Tanner zu ihrem Spielball.

Heidi Mattson successfully united sex and scholarship to realize a '90s version of the American Dream by becoming a smart, sassy, self-confident stripper while attending Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Intelligent and ambitious, she grew up in small-town Maine, and her whole town applauded when Brown accepted her. But school and living expenses carried a high price tag - one she couldn't meet by waiting tables and cleaning houses. A chance ad brought her to The Foxy Lady, a strip club in Providence not far from campus.

Sie hatten lange in dem Massengrab gelegen, waren verfault und verwest. Nur einer hatte sie nicht vergessen. Matthias, Luzifers engster Verbündeter. Und er sorgte dafür, dass sich die Toten wieder in Bewegung setzten.

Victor, ein brillanter Auftragskiller im Dienst der CIA, steht vor seinem bisher gefährlichsten Einsatz: Bei einem kürzlich ermordeten Berufskollegen Victors fand man Hinweise auf dessen bevorstehendes Treffen mit einem mysteriösen Schweizer. Victor soll nun in die Rolle des Getöteten schlüpfen und herausfinden, um was für einen Job es dabei gehen sollte. Nach Rom beordert, trifft Victor dort auf eine ganze Gruppe von Killern, die offensichtlich auf einen spektakulären Einsatz vorbereitet wird.

For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics to protect them. Then two heroes arose - men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal. Arlen Bales became known as the Warded Man, tattooed head to toe with powerful magic symbols that enable him to fight demons in hand-to-hand combat - and emerge victorious.

Who's a Good Dog? is an invitation to nurture more thoughtful and balanced relationships with our canine companions. By deepening our curiosity about what our dogs are experiencing, and by working together with them, we can become more effective and compassionate caregivers.

Wilhelm Reich (March 24, 1897 - November 3, 1957) was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, known as one of the most radical figures in the history of psychiatry. Reich argued that mental illness and some physical illnesses were the result of deficiencies of cosmic energy, as measured in units called, "orgones," and lack of orgasms. This recording is his lecture on his Orgone theory.

Nathan Stone was a living legend in the West as a lawman, as an outlaw, as a gambler, as a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, he played his cards and used his Colt .45s as best he could in games of chance, skill, and savagery, for stakes of life or death.

Chronic unmanaged stress—at work, at home, or in other areas of life—can lead to burnout. Burnout For Dummies shows you the way toward understanding and overcoming this all-too-common condition of modern life. Many of us find ourselves living in a state of constant resignation, which sucks the joy out of life and can be detrimental to our physical health. The tips and exercises in this book can help you minimize stress, become more resilient, and create a happier, healthier, and more satisfying life.

Ein schwarzhumoriges Werk über die Tücken des Älterwerdens! Der Protagonist in Wilhelm Genazinos zynischem Roman hat Probleme mit seinem Liebesleben: er ist mit gleich zwei Frauen, Sandra und Judith, zusammen - allerdings wissen die beiden nichts voneinander, und es wird immer schwieriger, das Geheimnis um die Dreiecksbeziehung zu wahren. Gleichzeitig merkt er, dass er die Blüte seines Lebens langsam hinter sich hat - und das Altern bringt ganz eigene Herausforderungen mit sich...

Ein Mann kommt in eine Stadt. Unscheinbar. Schweigsam. Nach einem Job taucht der Auftragsmörder Victor in einem kleinen Motel in Kanada jenseits der Grenze unter. Ein paar Tage, dann wird er wie ein Geist verschwinden – doch eine Begegnung ändert alles. Victor lernt eine Mutter und ihren Sohn kennen, die ihn an seine schmerzvolle Kindheit erinnern … und als die beiden plötzlich wie vom Erdboden verschluckt sind, scheint nur ihn das zu interessieren.

An urban fantasy novel from the author of the All for the Game series.

Constance Hale, the best-selling author of Sin and Syntax, zooms in on the colorful world of verbs. Synthesizing the pedagogical and the popular, the scholarly and the scandalous, Hale combines the wit of Bill Bryson with the practical wisdom of William Zinsser. She marches through linguistic history to paint a layered picture of our language - from before it really existed to the quirky usages we see online today. She warns about habits to avoid and inspires with samples of brilliant writing.

Japan has always seemed a puzzle to most westerners - so modern, so industrialized, yet somehow so different. Japanese Society and History seeks to initiate westerners to the learning process of making Japan seem a little less mysterious and a little more understandable. This book walks readers through some of the important features of Japanese society to help readers begin slowly forming a more complete picture of Japan.

Victor ist der perfekte Auftragsmörder. Er ist das anonyme Gesicht in der Menge, der Mann, den man nicht wahrnimmt - bis es zu spät ist. Doch nun bittet ihn ein alter Bekannter um Hilfe, und zum ersten Mal besteht Victors Auftrag nicht darin, jemanden zu töten, sondern zu beschützen: die junge Giselle, Stieftochter einer russischen Unterweltgröße. Von seinen Verfolgern gnadenlos durch ganz London gejagt, muss Victor alles riskieren. Und jeder seiner Schritte lockt die Gefahr näher an Giselle, deren Leben er um jeden Preis schützen muss...