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Jutta Profijt

Morgue Drawer Four

Morgue Drawer

<p>Coroner is the perfect job for Dr. Martin Gänsewein, who spends his days in peace and quiet autopsying dead bodies for the city of Cologne. Shy, but scrupulous, Martin appreciates his taciturn clients—until the day one of them starts talking to him. It seems the ghost of a recently deceased (and surprisingly chatty) small-time car thief named Pascha is lingering near his lifeless body in drawer number four of Martin’s morgue. He remains for one reason: his “accidental” death was, in fact, murder. Pascha is furious his case will go unsolved—to say nothing of his body’s dissection upon Martin’s autopsy table. But since Martin is the only person Pascha can communicate with, the ghost settles in with the good pathologist, determined to bring the truth of his death to light. Now Martin’s staid life is rudely upended as he finds himself navigating Cologne’s red-light district and the dark world of German car smuggling. Unless Pascha can come up with a plan—and fast—Martin will soon be joining him in the spirit world. </p><p>Witty and unexpected, introduces a memorable (and reluctant) detective unlike any other in fiction today.</p><

Rick Riordan

The Battle of the Labyrinth

Percy Jackson and the Olympians

<p>Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.</p><p>In this latest installment of the blockbuster series, time is running out as war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near. Even the safe haven of Camp Half-Blood grows more vulnerable by the minute as Kronos's army prepares to invade its once impenetrable borders. To stop the invasion, Percy and his demigod friends must set out on a quest through the Labyrinth — a sprawling underground world with stunning surprises at every turn. Full of humor and heart-pounding action, this latest audiobook promises to be their most thrilling adventure yet.</p><

Tom Perrotta

Nine Inches

Rick Riordan

The Lost Hero

Heroes of Olympus

<p>JASON HAS A PROBLEM. He doesn't remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper, and his best friend is a guy named Leo. They're all students at the Wilderness School, a boarding school for "bad kids," as Leo puts it. What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Jason doesn't know anything — except that everything seems very wrong.</p><p>PIPER HAS A SECRET. Her father, a famous actor, has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare about his being in trouble. Piper doesn't understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn't recognize her. When a freak storm hits during the school trip, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she's going to find out, whether she wants to or not.</p><p>LEO HAS A WAY WITH TOOLS. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there's weird stuff, too — like the curse everyone keeps talking about, and some camper who's gone missing. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them — including Leo — is related to a god. Does this have anything to do with Jason's amnesia, or the fact that Leo keeps seeing ghosts?</p><p>Join new and old friends from Camp Half-Blood in this thrilling first book in The Heroes of Olympus series. Best-selling author Rick Riordan has pumped up the action, humor, suspense, and mystery in an epic adventure that will leave readers panting for the next installment.</p><

Thomas Pynchon

Bleeding Edge

<p>Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet</p><p>It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there’s no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what’s left.</p><p>Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics—carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people’s bank accounts—without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mom—two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood—till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler’s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.</p><p>With occasional excursions into the DeepWeb and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where we’ve journeyed to since.</p><p>Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?</p><p>Hey. Who wants to know?</p><

Anne Rice

Memnoch il diavolo

Cronache dei vampiri

New York è stretta nella morsa di un inverno rigidissimo, ma i vampiri non sentono il freddo e Lestat, incontrastato principe delle tenebre, attende nella notte, pregustando il sangue della sua prossima vittima: Roger, un boss della droga. Una facile preda, se non fosse per uno strano turbamento che Lestat prova nei confronti della carismatica figlia dell’uomo, Dora. A dispetto degli inviti alla prudenza da parte dell’amico David Talbot, Lestat compie l’atto finale della caccia, affondando i denti nel collo di Roger. È un tragico errore: il fantasma del morto, infatti, minaccia di perseguitare Lestat se non si prenderà cura di Dora. Per il bene della sua nuova protetta, ma anche per liberarsi dall’angosciante sensazione di essere braccato — una sensazione che lo perseguita da tempo — il vampiro sarà costretto ad affrontare le sue paure più oscure e inconfessabili, perfino a costo di perdere la ragione. Una sfida che culminerà nello scontro con una creatura sovrannaturale, che dice di chiamarsi Memnoch e di essere nientemeno che il diavolo.<

Jay Parini

The Last Station

<p>As Leo Tolstoy’s life draws to a tumultuous close, his tempestuous wife and most cunning disciple are locked in a whirlwind battle for the great man’s soul. Torn between his professed doctrine of poverty and chastity and the reality of his enormous wealth and thirteen children, Tolstoy dramatically flees his home, only to fall ill at a tiny nearby rail station. The famous (and famously troubled) writer believes he is dying alone, unaware that over a hundred newspapermen camp outside awaiting hourly reports on his condition.</p><p>Jay Parini moves deftly between a colorful cast of characters to create a stunning portrait of one of the world’s most treasured authors. Dancing between fact and fiction, is a brilliant and moving literary performance.</p><

Phillip Reeve

Mortal Engines

Mortal Engines

<p>The great Traction City lumbers after a small town, eager to strip its prey of all assets and move on. Resources on the Great Hunting Ground that once was Europe are so limited that mobile cities must consume one another to survive, a practice known as Municipal Darwinism. </p><p>Tom, an apprentice in the Guild of Historians, saves his hero, Head Historian Thaddeus Valentine, from a murder attempt by the mysterious Hester Shaw — only to find himself thrown from the city and stranded with Hester in the Out Country. As they struggle to follow the tracks of the city, the sinister plans of London’s leaders begin to unfold…</p><

R W Peake

Marching With Caesar: Conquest of Gaul

Marching With Caesar

R W Peake

Marching With Caesar – Civil War

Marching With Caesar

Ruby Rhapsody

Perverted Passions

Beeline erotica

Jean Mimi Pamfiloff

Vampires Need Not...Apply

Accidentally Yours

<p>Meet Dr. Antonio Acero. Heir to Spain's wealthiest family, world-renowned physicist, and dedicated bachelor. While on vacation in southern Mexico, Antonio discovers an ancient Mayan tablet. Local legends say it contains magical properties, properties that could put his stalling research on the map. </p><p>But is this really his lucky break? </p><p>When Antonio attempts to put the tablet to use, he'll discover that Fate has other plans. Her name is Ixtab, and she's quite possibly the deadliest deity who ever lived.</p><

Adam Rex

Fat Vampire: A Never Coming of Age Story

<p>Doug Lee is undead quite by accident — attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night. But it's just not the same.</p><p>Then he meets the new Indian exchange student and falls for her — hard. Yeah, he wants to bite her, but he also wants to prove himself to her. But like the laws of life, love, and high school, the laws of vampire existence are complicated — it's not as easy as studying . Especially when the star of is hot on your trail in an attempt to boost ratings. .</p><p>Searing, hilarious, and always unexpected, is a satirical tour de force from one of the most original writers of fiction today.</p><

James Patterson

Gone

Michael Bennett

William Prochnau

Trinity's Child

<p>Kazaklis and Moreau had flown countless missions together aboard their B-52, simulating nuclear bombing runs in anticipation of the doomsday command that somehow never came.</p><p>There had been false alarms, of course: computer malfunctions, straying airliners, even flocks of geese showing up on radar as inbound waves of missiles. But by a miracle no-one had taken that final, irrevocable step. Until now.</p><

Bill Randolph

Eat out with his wife

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Terry Pratchett

Dunkle Halunken

<p>Von der Scheibenwelt ins London des 19. Jahrhunderts, in dem hilflose Schönheiten vor dunklen Feinden zittern, Schriftsteller sich als Detektive versuchen und mörderische Barbiere ihre Opfer nach allen Regeln der Kunst erledigen. Hier kann nur einer aufräumen - und das ist ausgerechnet der eigentlich nichtsnutzige Straßenjunge Dodger ... Terry Pratchetts neuer Roman ist ein Muss für alle Fans des britischen Großmeisters - großartig übersetzt vom Originalübersetzer Andreas Brandhorst.</p><p>Dodger ist ein Straßenjunge - doch nicht irgendeiner. Während eines Überfalls in den nächtlichen Gassen Londons rettet er einer Unbekannten das Leben, der betörend schönen Simplicity. Fortan setzt er alles daran, mehr über die Tat und die Herkunft der jungen Frau herauszufinden. Auf der Suche nach den Tätern bringt Dodger ganz nebenbei einen mörderischen Barbier namens Sweeney Todd zur Strecke und wird dadurch für ganz London zum Helden. Dies jedoch ruft einen geheimnisvollen Attentäter ebenso auf den Plan wie die Halunken, die Simplicity nach dem Leben trachten und ihren jungen Beschützer lieber früher als später tot sehen wollen ...  </p><p>Die englische Originalausgabe erschien unter dem Titel »Dodger« bei Doubleday Childrens/Random House UK, London 2012</p><

Dan Reagan

Three Sucking Daughters

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Frederik Pohl

Die Gateway-Trilogie

<p>Gateway: Ein Asteroid, der in einem exzentrischen Orbit um die Sonne entdeckt wird. Von außen ein verkohlter Materieklumpen, von innen das Tor zum Universum. Denn Gateway ist die Hinterlassenschaft der Hitschi, einer geheimnisvollen außerirdischen Zivilisation, die offenbar vor langer Zeit ausgestorben ist. Der Asteroid diente ihr als Weltraumbahnhof, er ist gespickt mit zahllosen Raumschiffen, die darauf programmiert sind, mit Überlichtgeschwindigkeit in die entferntesten Winkel des Universums zu fliegen. Das Ganze hat nur einen Haken: Die Reisenden wissen nicht, wo ihre Reise endet. Als sich die ersten Piloten von der Erde auf den Weg machen, beginnt das größte Abenteuer in der Geschichte der Menschheit.</p><p>Ausgezeichnet mit dem Hugo Gernsback, dem Nebula und dem Locus Award, gilt Frederik Pohls »Gateway-Trilogie« heute nicht nur als Meilenstein der Science Fiction, sondern ist auch eines der beliebtesten SF-Bücher überhaupt.</p><p>»Eine zutiefst menschliche Geschichte vor dem Hintergrund der unendlichen Wunder und der rätselhaften Schönheit unseres Kosmos. Pohl hat der Science Fiction damit einen neuen Weg gewiesen.«</p><p>Frederik Pohl zählt – neben Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein und Ray Bradbury – zu den legendären Gründervätern der amerikanischen Science Fiction. Geboren 1919 in New York, gehörte er zu den SF-Herausgebern der ersten Stunde und machte schnell auch mit eigenen Storys und Romanen von sich reden, darunter »Mensch+« und »Eine Handvoll Venus« (mit Cyril M. Kornbluth). Der Roman »Gateway«, Mitte der 70er Jahre erschienen, und die Fortsetzungsbände »Jenseits des blauen Horizonts« und »Rückkehr nach Gateway« gelten als sein bedeutendstes Werk. Pohl lebt mit seiner Familie in Illinois.</p><p>Titel der amerikanischen Originalausgaben:</p><p>GATEWAY</p><p>BEYOND THE BLUE EVENT HORIZON</p><p>HEECHEE RENDEZVOUS</p><p>Copyright © 1976, 1980, 1984 by Frederik Pohl</p><p>Deutsche Übersetzung von Tony Westermayr und Edda Petri, neu durchgesehen und überarbeitet von Rainer Michael Rahn Deutsche Übersetzung des Vorworts von Alexander Martin</p><

J J Preyer

Butler Parker - Der Butler setzt auf Sieg!

DER BUTLER

<p>Amanda Marbely, eine steinreiche Lady aus London, beerbt ihren überraschend früh verstorbenen Cousin aus Königstein im Taunus. Um das gigantische, jedoch sehr bedeckt gehaltene Firmenimperium des geliebten Verwandten aus Deutschland, in Augenschein zu nehmen, übersiedelt die schrullige Lady ins Siegerland. Zu ihrer Unterstützung engagiert sie einen vornehmen Butler, der neben zahlreichen Spezialausbildungen offenbar auch hochkarätige Geheimnisse verinnerlicht hat.Als Lady Marbely mit ihren neuen Geschäftsführern ein marodes Fabrikgelände in Siegen begutachten möchte, trachtet man ihr nach dem Leben. Ihr Butler ist jedoch bestens vorbereitet und läuft ad hoc zur Höchstform auf.</p><p>J. J. PREYER, geboren 1948 in Steyr, Österreich. Ab dem 14. Lebensjahr literarische Veröffentlichungen. Studium Deutsch, Englisch in Wien. Lehrtätigkeit in der Jugend-und Erwachsenenbildung. 1976 Auslandsjahr in Swansea in Wales. 1982 Initiator des Marlen-Haushofer-Gedenkabends, der durch die Teilnahme des Wiener Kulturjournalisten Hans Weigel den Anstoß zur Wiederentdeckung der Autorin gab. Mitarbeit an der Kinderzeitschrift KLEX von Peter Michael Lingens. 1996 gründete J. J. Preyer den Oerindur Verlag, einen Verlag für lesbare Literatur und Krimis. Der Autor schreibt seit Jahresbeginn 2010 für die Romanserie JERRY COTTON im Bastei Verlag.</p><

Brad Roberts

Jenny_s favorite color

Eliot Pattison

Bone Rattler

A Mystery of Colonial America

Don Russell

The dog ballers

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Eliot Pattison

Eye of the Raven

A Mystery of Colonial America

C K Ralston

Turning on her teachers

AB

Eliot Pattison

Original Death

A Mystery of Colonial America

Joanne K Rowling

Harry Potter şi ordinul Phoenix

Harry Potter (ro)

Harry Potter trebuie să înceapă cel de-al cincilea an de studiu la Hogwarts. Este disperat să se întoarcă la şcoală şi să afle de ce Ron şi Hermione au fost atât de secretoşi toată vara. Oricum, ceea ce va descoperi în acest nou an la Hogwarts îi va întoarce viaţa cu susul în jos… Un alt volum scris de J.K. Rowling: acaparator, electrizant, plin de suspans, secrete şi — binenţeles! — magie.<

Chuck Palahniuk

Doomed

Damned

<p>After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory—or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she’s invisible to everyone who’s still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they right through her as well. The upside is that, no longer subject to physical limitations, she can pass through doors and walls. Her first stop is her parents’ luxurious apartment, where she encounters the ghost of her long-deceased grandmother. For Madison, the encounter triggers memories of the awful summer she spent upstate with Nana Minnie and her grandfather, Papadaddy. As she revisits the painful truth of what transpired over those months (including a disturbing and finally fatal meeting in a rest stop’s fetid men’s room, in which . . . well, never mind), her saga of eternal damnation takes on a new and sinister meaning. Satan has had Madison in his sights from the very beginning: through her and her narcissistic celebrity parents, he plans to engineer an era of eternal damnation. For .</p><p>Once again, our unconventional but plucky heroine must face her fears and gather her wits for the battle of a lifetime. Dante Alighieri, watch your back; Chuck Palahniuk is gaining on you.</p><

Joanne K Rowling

Harry Potter şi Camera Secretelor

Harry Potter (ro)

Harry îsi petrece prima vacanţă de vară cu familia Dursley care se decide să nu-l mai lase să se întoarcă la Hogwarts. El va fi ajutat să scape din casa rudelor de prietenul lui, Ron Weasley, care-l răpeşte într-o maşină zburătoare. Întorşi la şcoală, se petrec anumite lucruri ciudate: forţe malefice pietrifică elevii (ceea ce i se va întampla şi lui Hermione). În timp ce Harry şi Ron încearcă să dezlege misterul acestor întâmplări, află că, undeva în şcoală, este ascunsă o “Camera a Secretelor”. Se zvoneşte că acolo trăieşte un monstru înfricoşător. Îşi dau seama ca aceasta cameră este cauza întâmplărilor ciudate şi sunt siguri că, dacă o vor descoperi, problemele lor se vor rezolva. Ca să afli daca au reuşit, nu trebuie decât să citeşti cartea şi nu o să regreţi pentru că este cel puţin la fel de bună ca prima.<

Viktor Pelevin

Sorcisto Ignato kaj homoj

Cindi Rebel

The horny housewife

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Diana Peterfreund

Across a Star-Swept Sea

For Darkness Shows the Stars

<p>Centuries after wars nearly destroyed civilization, the two islands of New Pacifica stand alone, a terraformed paradise where even the Reduction—the devastating brain disorder that sparked the wars—is a distant memory. Yet on the isle of Galatea, an uprising against the ruling aristocrats has turned deadly. The revolutionaries’ weapon is a drug that damages their enemies’ brains, and the only hope is rescue by a mysterious spy known as the Wild Poppy.</p><p>On the neighboring island of Albion, no one suspects that the Wild Poppy is actually famously frivolous aristocrat Persis Blake. The teenager uses her shallow, socialite trappings to hide her true purpose: her gossipy flutternotes are encrypted plans, her pampered sea mink is genetically engineered for spying, and her well-publicized new romance with handsome Galatean medic Justen Helo… is her most dangerous mission ever.</p><p>Though Persis is falling for Justen, she can’t risk showing him her true self, especially once she learns he’s hiding far more than simply his disenchantment with his country’s revolution and his undeniable attraction to the silly socialite he’s pretending to love. His darkest secret could plunge both islands into a new dark age, and Persis realizes that when it comes to Justen Helo, she’s not only risking her heart, she’s risking the world she’s sworn to protect.</p><p>In this thrilling adventure inspired by , Diana Peterfreund creates an exquisitely rendered world where nothing is as it seems and two teens with very different pasts fight for a future only they dare to imagine.</p><

Virginia K-G Ryder

Little Courtney_s Family Secrets

Dark Desires

Linda Poitevin

Sins of the Lost

Grigori Legacy

<p>From the author of Sins of the Angels and Sins of the Son comes the newest novel in the “electric, thrilling and extremely intelligent” (Ex Libris) Grigori Legacy series.</p><p>Heaven and Hell are on the brink of war as Lucifer builds his Nephilim army and waits for his new agenda to become a reality — that of having a Nephilimchild of his own bloodline to lead his forces to cataclysmic victory.</p><p>With rumors of the pending war rampant on Earth, Alex fights to save humanity from its own panic –­ leaving little time for her fledgling relationship with Seth, the man with heavenly origins who has captured her heart. But when Nephilim children begin to disappear, along with Alex’s own vulnerable niece, the inevitable war between Heaven and Hell becomes as personal as sin.</p><p>Heaven has its own plans to fight the coming apocalypse, but first it needs Seth back. Asked to betray the man she loves, Alex must turn for help to the soulmate she thought she’d given up — the Archangel Aramael, who may be her last chance to save her family and humanity from the ashes of Lucifer’s Armageddon.</p><

Charles Richards

A Kingdom Of Love

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Tamora Pierce

Battle Magic

On their way to the first Circle temple in Gyongxe, mages Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy pay a visit to the emperor's summer palace. Although treated like royalty when they first arrive, the mages soon discover that the emperor plans to invade Gyongxe, posing a fatal threat to the home temple of the Living Circle religion. Accompanied by one of the emperor's prize captives, the three mages rush to Gyongxe to warn its citizens of the impending attack. With the imperials hot on their trail, Briar, Rosethorn, and Evvy must quickly help the country prepare for battle. But even with the help of new allies, will their combined forces be enough to fight the imperial army and win the war?<

Michael Rennie

Hungry For Sister

CLP

Theresa Paolo

(Never) Again

<p>Just when she had finally moved on…</p><p>…He moved back.</p><p>When college freshman Liz Wagner hears her ex's voice for the first time since he moved clear across the freaking country, she does what any respectable girl would do: Dive into the girls' bathroom.</p><p>Zach Roberts—the Zach Roberts—is back. And he’s everywhere Liz looks—infiltrating her friend group, buddy-buddy with her brother. It’s enough to ruin college altogether. But what choice does she have but to put on a happy face and pretend he didn't leave her vulnerable and alone in a pile of emotional wreckage?</p><p>Pretending works, until tragedy strikes and the only person available for comfort is the one person she wants to stay away from. When Zach turns out not to be the jerk she convinced herself he was, but the boy she used to love, Liz needs to decide whether to open her heart again to the boy who tore it out.</p><

Christopher Reich

The Runner

At the end of WWII Erich Seyss, former SS officer and Olympic sprinter, known as the ‘White Lion’, uses his skills as a trained killer and escapes from the American POW camp holding him. He finds refuge with a shadowy organisation of former Nazis who plan to use his expertise in a breathtaking plot — a conspiracy that could change the destiny of Europe. Hard on his heels is Devlin Judge, an American lawyer who has his own reasons for wanting Seyss brought to justice. Devlin must find him at all costs — to prevent a catastrophe of horrifying proportions.<

Allison Parr

Running Back

New York Leopards

<p>Natalie Sullivan is on the verge of a breakthrough most archaeology grad students only dream of: discovering a lost city. Her research points to a farm in Ireland, but to excavate she needs permission from the new owner: the Michael O'Connor, popular NFL running back.</p><p>On TV Mike seems so charming and good-natured that Natalie figures getting his cooperation will be a breeze. So she's not prepared to deal with the arrogant—and adamantly opposed—man she meets in person. Or the way one look from him sends shivers down her spine…</p><p>Determined to kick-start her career, Natalie travels across the Atlantic and finds herself sharing an inn with Mike, who has come to Ireland in search of his roots. She tells herself her interest is strictly professional, but the more she gets to know him, the harder it is to deny her personal attraction to the sexy sports star. And when Mike confides why he refuses to allow the dig, Natalie must decide if she can follow her heart without losing sight of her dreams.</p><

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