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Agatha Christie

While the light lasts

Gillian Colbert

Coming Out of Her Shell

When Susan Mallory decided to take up a hobby, she hadn’t expected it to be a weekly, one-woman show for her sexy neighbor, Eric Tanner. When the teasing gets out of hand, however, Eric decides to take matters, or in this case, Susan, into his own hands.<

L Sprague-De Camp

Conan Of The Isles

<p>As the Red Terror, a bizarre, magical dark force whose victims disappear without a trace, descends upon Aquilonia, King Conan sets out to destroy its source, evil, conquest-hungry sorcerer-priests from across the sea.</p><

L Sprague-De Camp

Conan The Castle of Terror

<p>An exhausted Conan seeks shelter in a ruined castle, where he encounters a pack of slavers and an undead horror.</p><

L Sprague-De Camp

Conan The Freebooter

<p>In these stories from Conan's late twenties, the Cimmerian is a mercenary with the Free Company in the city-states of Shem and the lands to the north and east, a war leader of the steppe-raiding Kozaki, and finally a soldier in the service of the kingdom of Kauran.</p><p>Chronologically, the five short stories collected as fall between and .</p><

Agatha Christie

The Thirteen Problems

Miss Marple

Agatha Christie

The hound of death

Agatha Christie

The Listerdale Mystery

Agatha Christie

The Harlequin Tea Set and Other Stories

Agatha Christie

Spider's Web

Glen Cook

Wicked Bronze Ambition

Garrett P.I.

Agatha Christie

Murder in the mews

Hercule Poirot

Thomas H Cook

The Crime of Julian Wells

Agatha Christie

Der Wachsblumenstrauss

Agatha Christie

Hercule Poirot's Casebook

Hercule Poirot

Christian Cameron

Tom Swan and the Head of St. George Part Four: Rome

Tom Swan and the Head of St. George

Christian Cameron

Tom Swan and the Head of St. George Part Five: Rhodes

Tom Swan and the Head of St. George

Christian Cameron

Tom Swan and the Head of St. George Part Six: Chios

Tom Swan and the Head of St. George

Agatha Christie

Miss Marple's final cases

Miss Marple

Claude Cueni

Der Henker von Paris

<p>Charles-Henri Sanson fühlt sich zum Arzt berufen. Doch auf seiner Familie lastet ein Fluch, der ihm bereits in der Schule zum Verhängnis wird: Man erkennt ihn als Sohn des Henkers, eine medizinische Laufbahn bleibt ihm verwehrt, er muss in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters treten. Töten statt heilen. Sanson wird zum Gefangenen seines Schicksals, die Qualen der Todeskandidaten werden zu seinen eigenen. Tagsüber richtet er auf dem Schafott, abends spielt er Klavier, und nachts seziert er die Leichen, um die menschliche Anatomie zu erforschen. Während der Terrorherrschaft im Gefolge der Französischen Revolution guillotiniert "Monsieur de Paris" über 3000 Menschen. Die Stadt ertrinkt im Blut, und Sanson verliert allmählich den Verstand. Verzweifelt sucht er nach Menschlichkeit und Anerkennung. Die Liebe einer Siamesin, die er gleichwohl nicht heiraten darf, gibt ihm Halt. Bis sie selbst auf die Todeslisten der Revolutionäre gerät ...</p><p>Claude Cueni, geboren 1956 in Basel. Nach dem frühzeitigen Abbruch der Schule reiste er durch Europa, schlug sich mit zwei Dutzend Gelegenheitsjobs durch und schrieb Geschichten. Mittlerweile hat er über fünfzig Drehbücher für Film und Fernsehen sowie Theaterstücke, Hörspiele und Romane verfasst, u.a. den Bestseller Das Grosse Spiel über den Papiergelderfinder John Law, der bisher in zwölf Sprachen übersetzt wurde.</p><p>Coverfoto: Pierre-Antoine Demachy,</p><p>(um 1793)</p><

Dean Vincent Carter

Blood Water

<p>Dr Morrow can’t identify the ‘thing’ he found living in the lake but he knows it’s dangerous… then it goes missing…</p><p>Caught in the flood that is devastating the town, brothers Sean and James stumble across Morrow and the carnage left at his lab. The missing specimen is some kind of deadly parasite that moves from person to person, destroying its hosts in disgusting, gory ways.</p><p>The death toll will rise along with the waters unless the brothers can track down the homicidal specimen and find a way to destroy it.</p><

Stephen Craig

Feel

Michael is a troubled individual. Feeling different all of his life he has listened to the voices in the shadows and lived exactly as he pleased. No pity, no regret, no concern for other people; in fact the only emotion he values is pain and there is a pain in being alive.<

James Hadley Chase

The World in My Pocket

<p>This is the job they have all been waiting for. The job that will set them up for life. A million dollars split five ways, who wouldn’t be interested? The only catch is that it’s the very definition of impossible…or is it? Armed with a brilliant plan, the four men and one woman think they can crack it. But as tensions in the group begin to mount and things start to go wrong, the million dollars feels more out of reach than ever. Even though it is right with them…</p><

James Hadley Chase

You've Got It Coming

<p>Reckless Harry Griffin was an ex-pilot on the skids. But he had an ingenious scheme for hijacking a plane and heisting 3 million dollars worth of diamonds. Another hardfisted mystery by the author of NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH.</p><

Greg Cox

Man of Steel

<p>The film, from director Zack Snyder, stars Henry Cavill () as Superman/Clark Kent, three-time Oscar® nominee Amy Adams () as Daily Planet journalist Lois Lane, and Oscar® nominee Laurence Fishburne () as her editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent’s adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Oscar® nominee Diane Lane () and Academy Award® winner Kevin Costner ().</p><p>Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Oscar® nominee Michael Shannon (), and Faora, Zod’s evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman’s native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman’s mother, played by Ayelet Zurer, and Superman’s father, Jor-El, portrayed by Academy Award® winner Russell Crowe ().</p><p>Rounding out the cast are Harry Lennix as U.S. military man General Swanwick, as well as Christopher Meloni as Colonel Hardy.</p><p>Currently in production, is slated for release on June 14, 2013 and will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.</p><p>TM & © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s12)</p><

D G Compton

The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe

<p>A few years in the future, medical science has advanced to the point where it is practically unheard of for people to die of any cause except old age. The few exceptions provide the fodder for a new kind of television show for avid audiences who lap up the experience of watching someone else’s dying weeks. So when Katherine Mortenhoe is told that she has about four weeks to live, she knows it’s not just her life she’s about to lose, but her privacy as well.</p><

James Hadley Chase

Not My Thing

Arthur C Clarke

2001 : l'odyssée de l'espace

L'odyssée de l'espace

<p>Pour les hommes du XXIe siècle, l’Univers, semble-t-il, n’a plus guère de secrets. Délivrés de la pesanteur, ils le sillonnent à bord de leurs vaisseaux spatiaux, en utilisant comme relais des satellites artificiels.</p><p>Et pourtant un phénomène intrigue ces savants, ces techniciens, ces astronautes de l’an 2001. Quelque part du côté d’un satellite de Saturne, on a localisé une source de radiation extraordinairement puissante. Un vaisseau part pour cette mission ultra-secrète, emportant à son bord un équipage dont une partie est en état d’hibernation, et aussi Carl, Carl 9000, le prodigieux cerveau électronique qui, tout à la fois, est le navigateur, l’interlocuteur, voire le partenaire aux échecs de ces hommes.</p><p>Cette fantastique odyssée va entraîner l’Explorateur I et son équipage jusqu’à découvrir peut-être les origines et le mystère de la vie dans l’univers en même temps qu’à entrevoir ce que peuvent être les lois qui régissent toute l’immense machinerie du cosmos.</p><p>II y avait là de quoi tenter un homme de cinéma : avec la collaboration de ce très grand auteur de sciencefiction qu’est Arthur C. Clarke, le réalisateur Stanley Kubrick a conçu en Cinérama cette odyssée de l’espace qui depuis des mois stupéfie les Américains, les Londoniens et que le public français découvre à son tour.</p><

Tina Chan

imperfect

imperfect

<p>In a world where all citizens are Perfects—people with genetically perfect DNA, Kristi can’t help but feel like a sore thumb. She’s an Accident—a child never meant to be born and therefore is not a Perfect. Just when she thinks her life couldn’t get worse, it does, starting with the arrest of her adoptive parents. Now Kristi is entangled in a web of secrets she has to unravel.</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JyKNkPKMck</p><p>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwdzpu7nPz4</p><

Peter Clines

Ex-Heroes

Ex-Heroes

Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes. Vigilantes. Crusaders for justice, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a better place. Then the plague of living death spread around the globe. Despite the best efforts of the superheroes, the police, and the military, the hungry corpses rose up and overwhelmed the country. The population was decimated, heroes fell, and the city of angels was left a desolate zombie wasteland like so many others. Now, a year later, the Mighty Dragon and his companions must overcome their differences and recover from their own scars to protect the thousands of survivors sheltered in their film studio-turned-fortress, the Mount. The heroes lead teams out to scavenge supplies, keep the peace within the walls of their home, and try to be the symbols the survivors so desperately need. For while the ex-humans walk the streets night and day, they are not the only threat left in the world, and the people of the Mount are not the only survivors left in Los Angeles. Across the city, another group has grown and gained power. And they are not heroes.<

Peter Clines

Ex-Patriots

Ex-Heroes

It's been two years since the world ended. Two years since the dead rose and the plague of ex-humanity decimated mankind. For most of that time, the superhero called St. George, formerly known to the world as the Mighty Dragon, has protected the people of Los Angeles at their film studio-turned-fortress, The Mount. Together with his fellow heroes - Cerberus, Zzzap, and Stealth - he's tried to give the survivors hope and something like a real life. But the swollen population of the Mount is becoming harder and harder to sustain, and the heroes are feeling the pressure. Hope arrives in the form of a United States Army battalion, based in a complex a few hundred miles away in Arizona. This is not just any base, however. The men and women of Project Krypton are super-soldiers, designed and created before the outbreak to be better, stronger, and faster than normal humans. They want the heroes and all the people of the Mount to rejoin America and have normal lives again. But can the military be trusted? And is there even a country left to rejoin? There is a secret at the heart of Project Krypton, and those behind it have an awesome power that will help them keep that secret hidden. The power of Freedom.<

Peter Clines

Ex-Communication

Ex-Heroes

<p>"All of us try to cheat death. I was just better prepared to do it than most folks."</p><p>In the years since the wave of living death swept the globe, St George and his fellow heroes haven't just kept Los Angeles' last humans alive - they've created a real community, a bustling town that's spreading beyond its original walls and swelling with new refugees.</p><p>But now one of the heroes, perhaps the most powerful among them, seems to be losing his mind. The implacable enemy known as Legion has found terrifying new ways of using zombies as pawns in his attacks. And outside the Mount, something ancient and monstrous is hell-bent on revenge.</p><p>As Peter Clines weaves these elements together in yet another masterful, shocking climax, St. George, Stealth, Captain Freedom, and the rest of the heroes find that even in a city overrun by millions of ex-humans…</p><p>…there's more than one way to come back from the dead.</p><

Gunārs Cīrulis

24-25 neatgriežas

Stephen Craig

Trapped in a Broken Mind

Peter feels helpless, blaming himself for not being able to protect his wife, Gabrielle, when they disturb a burglary. Lost in a coma for two months, a bedside vigil is nearing an end as death beckons to keep them apart forever. The real world is always dead when you are TRAPPED IN A BROKEN MIND.<

James Craig

The Circus

Inspector Carlyle

James Craig

Then We Die

Inspector Carlyle

James Craig

The Enemy Within

Inspector Carlyle

James Craig

What Dies Inside

Inspector Carlyle

Rachel Caine

Terminated

The Revivalist

<p>Already addicted to the pharmaceutical drug that keeps her body from decomposing, Bryn has to stop a secretive group of rich and powerful investors from eliminating the existing Returné addicts altogether. To ensure their plan to launch a new, military-grade strain of nanotech, the investors' undead assassin — who just happens to be the ex-wife of Bryn's lover Patrick — is on the hunt for anyone that stands in their way.</p><p>And while Bryn's allies aren't about to go down without a fight, the secret she's been keeping threatens to put those closest to her in even more danger. Poised to become a monster that her own side — and her own lover — will have to trap and kill, Bryn needs to find the cure to have any hope of preserving the lives of her friends, and her own dwindling humanity... </p><

James-Fenimore Cooper

Die Ansiedler. Oder Die Quellen des Susquehanna. Ein Zeitgemälde.

<p>»Die Ansiedler« ist ein Abenteuer- und Gesellschaftsroman des J. F. Cooper aus dem Jahre 1823. Eine erste deutschsprachige Übersetzung erschien 1824. Der Roman bildet den ersten Band des weltbekannten »Lederstrumpf«-Romanzyklus. Im chronologischen Handlungsablauf der Serie bildet der Roman den vierten Band. Die Handlung des Werks spielt in dem Zeitraum um 1793.</p><p>James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851) war ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller der Romantik. Cooper ist in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Schlüsselfigur der amerikanischen Literatur. Neben Washington Irving war er der erste amerikanische Schriftsteller, der von seinen Büchern leben konnte. Sein umfangreiches Werk umfasst zahlreiche historiografische Werke, Essays und Satiren über Amerika und Europa. Er blieb bis weit in das 20. Jahrhundert hinein auch in Europa der wohl meistgelesene Autor.</p><p>Nach der von dem Verfasser durchgesehenen, verbesserten, mit einem neuen Vorwort und mit Noten begleiteten Ausgabe übertragen</p><

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