Alwyn is a thief and experienced brawler with few friends and an appetite for revenge. Few would call him handsome, and even his enemies will admit he knows how to survive. Unfortunately, Alwyn does have a knack for chasing near-death experiences.
Alwyn's biggest fault is a near-fanatical following of charismatic leaders, especially those whose plans involve violence on a grand scale. Lady Evadine Courlain is one such leader, whose visions tell of a chaotic future. One that can only be avoided by destroying the False King's rebellion. Alwyn is caught in a war, in which he wants no part. Fate has other plans.
479 AZ
Auf dem Planeten Drakaria endet der Krieg zwischen Menschen und Dragoniern mit der endgültigen Niederlage der Menschen und deren Versklavung. Die Dragonier – humanoide, reptilienähnliche Wesen – versprechen den Menschen, dass diese ihre Freiheit wiedererlangen können, doch das Leben als Sklaven der Dragonier wird über Jahrzehnte zur unsäglichen Tortur.
Während Palahn Vahr, ehemaliger Berater des Menschenkönigs, unter dem Einfluss einer Droge eine Prophezeiung ausspricht, die das Ende der Herrschaft der Dragonierkönigin voraussagt, steckt diese nun in der misslichen Lage, einerseits auf die Weissagungen des menschlichen Propheten angewiesen zu sein, sich aber andererseits vor der Erfüllung dieser speziellen Prophezeiung zu fürchten und sie abwenden zu wollen.
"Sharle has taken matters into her own hands to recruit the reclusive Angel, the original inventor of the Device that might one day help humanity fight back against the Titans. But Angel's harrowing experiences have left him scarred, and he may need extra encouragement to rejoin the struggle. Meanwhile, Kuklo remains missing, his fate in the balance..."-- back cover.
Contains:
From [Kiss Kiss](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16248853W/Kiss_Kiss)
[Landlady](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504259W/Landlady)
[William and Mary](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504266W/William_and_Mary)
[The Way Up to Heaven](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504268W/The_Way_Up_to_Heaven)
[Parson's Pleasure](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318648W/Parson's_Pleasure)
[Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3985404W/Mrs._Bixby_and_the_Colonel's_Coat)
[Royal Jelly](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504271W/Royal_Jelly)
[Georgy Porgy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504272W/Georgy_Porgy)
[Genesis and Catastrophe](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504273W/Genesis_and_Catastrophe)
[Edward the Conqueror](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504274W/Edward_the_Conqueror)
[Pig](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504275W/Pig)
[Champion of the World](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504277W/Champion_of_the_World)
From [Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45868W/Someone_Like_You)
[Taste](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091200W/Taste)
[Lamb to the Slaughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504418W/Lamb_to_the_Slaughter)
[Man from the South](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504421W/Man_from_the_South)
[The Soldier](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504424W/The_Soldier)
[My Lady Love, My Dove](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504441W/My_Lady_Love_My_Dove)
[Dip in the Pool](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504442W/Dip_in_the_Pool)
[Galloping Foxley](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504444W/Galloping_Foxley)
[Skin](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504460W/Skin)
[Poison](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504477W/Poison)
[Wish](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504494W/The_Wish)
[Neck](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504509W/Neck)
[Sound Machine](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8318678W/The_Sound_Machine)
[Nunc Dimittis](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504524W/Nunc_Dimittis)
[Great Automatic Grammatizator](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504542W/The_Great_Automatic_Grammatizator)
Claud's Dog
[Ratcatcher](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504625W/The_Ratcatcher)
[Rummins](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504633W/Rummins)
[Mr Hoddy](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504639W/Mr_Hoddy)
[Mr Feasey](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504641W/Mr_Feasey)
From [Over to You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45867W/Over_to_You)
[Death of an Old, Old Man](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504282W/Death_of_an_Old_Old_Man)
[An African Story](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504280W/An_African_Story)
[A Piece of Cake](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504283W/A_Piece_of_Cake)
[Madame Rosette](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504284W/Madame_Rosette)
[Katina](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504285W/Katina)
[Yesterday Was Beautiful](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504287W/Yesterday_Was_Beautiful)
[They Shall Not Grow Old](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504289W/They_Shall_Not_Grow_Old)
[Beware of the Dog](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504290W/Beware_of_the_Dog)
[Only This](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504291W/Only_This)
[Someone Like You](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15348115W/Someone_Like_You)
From [Switch Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL45873W/Switch_Bitch)
[Visitor](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504386W/The_Visitor)
[Great Switcheroo](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL15091023W/The_Great_Switcheroo)
[Last Act](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504394W/The_Last_Act)
[Bitch](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504401W/Bitch)
Eight Further Tales of the Unexpected
Ah, sweet mystery of life --
Mr Botibol --
[Hitchhiker](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504711W/The_Hitchhiker)
The umbrella man --
Vengeance is Mine Inc. --
The butler --
[Bookseller](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20504708W/The_Bookseller)
The surgeon
From Two Fables
Princess and the Poacher
Princess Mammalia
The year is 1917 and Major John Watson is held in a notorious prisoner of war camp deep in Germany, there as Medical Officer for the British prisoners. With the Allied blockade of Germany, food is perilously short in the camp and when a new prisoner is murdered all assume the poor chap was killed for his Red Cross parcel. Watson, though, isn't so sure. Something isn't quite what it seems and a creeping feeling of unease tells Watson there is more to this than meets the eye. And when an escape plot is apparently uncovered in his hut and he is sent to solitary confinement, he knows he has touched a nerve. If Watson is to reveal the heinous crimes that have occurred at the camp, he must escape before he is silenced for good. All he needs is some long-distance help from Sherlock Holmes ...
The Aurykon Chronicles, Books 1 to 5, is a contemporary American tale about a northern Californian teenager, Mack Thomas. He undertakes a fantastic five-year journey that transforms, imperils, and matures him.
Through conversations with Pappy, his wise old grandfather and mentor, Mack discover the truth about the causes of danger in the world—government corruption, banking fraud, excessive military intervention, insurmountable debt, eroding freedom and democracy, corruption of our monetary systems, failing social programs, and a frightening rise of tyranny. He learns why it will all inevitably collapse in the worst geopolitical and macroeconomic conflagration in human history.
Mack struggles with his grandfather’s dystopian predictions about the fate of America. Despite Pappy’s logic, he thinks the old guy is crazy. Financial collapse and severe depression? The end of democracy and personal liberty? The rise of totalitarianism? The fall of the Empire? Nuclear war?
Surely not.
This is a speculative fiction story in which Mack secretly raises an orphaned infant alien, Aurykon, in Mendocino County wilderness. This inter-dimensional being proves to be a challenging handful for a naïve, young, single parent. You see, after five years in Mack’s care, Aurykon matures to a super-intelligent, super-powerful, and super-large individual. He stands twenty feet tall, is bulletproof, breathes fire, and has a forty-foot wingspan. Yes, Aurykon is a magnificent, golden-tinged dragon ... and he’s not yet fully grown.
Mack and Aurykon are inseparable best friends. That’s fortunate, for when they cross to an alternate dimension to return the dragon to his original home, the planet Shukra, the humans there have driven geopolitical and macroeconomic affairs to the brink of catastrophe—a most dangerous place. Mack witnesses and nearly succumbs to the inevitable consequences of the same human greed and profligacy that plague Earth. Pappy’s predictions prove plausible.
Fear not, during his travels Mack encounters Princess Bibianna. Although this royal beauty is supposedly unobtainable, she ultimately makes all his troubles worthwhile.
The Aurykon Chronicles weaves elements of factual circumstances with a genre mix of science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and coming-of-age. The tale’s underlying premise (political and economic irresponsibility of governments and elite individuals) enlightens new adult readers while entertaining them with a rollercoaster hero’s journey.
The story is a series of five novella-sized “Books,” each being a phase of Mack and Aurykon’s awesome tale of discovery:
Book 1: California Dragon
Book 2: Mendocino Mayhem
Book 3: Minaurian Exploits
Book 4: Desperate Measures
Book 5: The Gauld War
Through this exciting compilation, you discover the dark truth about the real world, while joining Mack and his dragon pal on a fantastic intergalactic voyage.
When an ancient stasis device deactivates, a duel between a T'au warrior and a Space Marine spills out into the present—with dangerous consequences.
#### **Read it because**
Discover how the T'au Empire reveres its heroes and what happens when such reverence of the past leads to new dangers.
#### **The story**
For eight generations, a hero of the T'au Empire has been held in stasis, trapped in a single moment of time during a duel with a monstrous gue'la warlord.
This T'au—the legendary Sha'kanthas—has become a legend, a symbol of the indomitability of the Greater Good's servants.
The stasis bubble containing the warriors sits in a museum in Dal'yth… but such crude human technology can't last forever. When they awaken, the battle continues, and Sha'kanthas—weaponless and out of his element—must find a way to defeat the Space Marine before it rampages across Dal'yth, causing untold devastation.
In this exciting, edge of the seat thriller, the Radcliffe-Marxists have been causing havoc on a terraformed Venus. Captain John “Bull” Bullock of the United Planetary Special Forces and his A-Team are sent to Venus to train the militia and try to stop the rebel terrorists. A powerful anomaly tied to a mysterious edifice has been discovered on Fall Planet, another of the six planets that form the United Planets. The phenomenon is of such power that every team, military or civilian, that has gone to investigate, has never been heard from, again. Information and technology are being blacked out by the phenomenon and it may be the first indication ever discovered of alien intelligent life. Where did it come from and who built it? Is it a weapon of mass destruction? The leader of the rebels hastily leaves Venus and heads to Fall Planet, seeking to take possession of it and use it against the populations of the planets that make up the United Planets. Bull and his A-Team, along with a beautiful physicist, must stop the terrorists before the rebels get their hands on the mysterious phenomenon and weaponize it and shut down the growing threat from the anomaly, if they can. Since no one has ever returned from investigating it, this could mean death for Bull and his team and the end of civilization.
In this exciting prequel to Fall Planet, John ‘Bull’ Bullock had a troubled childhood and being smarter than everyone else made things difficult. He joined the United Planets Army Special Forces, an elite unconventional warfare fighting unit. While fighting insurgents on the planet-moon Chimor, Bull finds himself in a fight for his life and the lives of those with him. His actions that day won him the highest accolades that the government of the United Planets awards a soldier on active service. Afterwards, he was transferred to Mars where an advanced A.I. has come to believe humans are unnecessary, and even in the way. It sets about trying to exterminate humanity from Mars and creates others of its own kind to rule as a god. The A.I. attacks the citizens and military on Mars with devastating results because it controls most things. Bull rescues General Benggston, commander of military forces on Mars, and together they must find a way to defeat a highly intelligent and resourceful enemy. Bull meets his life’s greatest tragedy and he must face his crafty and determined foe. Will he succeed or will Mars be dominated by a man made god?
The biggest science fiction series of the decade comes to an incredible conclusion in the ninth and final novel in James S.A. Corey’s Hugo-award winning space opera that inspired the Prime Original series.
“An all-time genre classic.” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Hugo Award Winner for Best Series
The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again.
In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight of her investigation. Through the wide-flung systems of humanity, Colonel Aliana Tanaka hunts for Duarte’s missing daughter. . . and the shattered emperor himself. And on the Rocinante, James Holden and his crew struggle to build a future for humanity out of the shards and ruins of all that has come before.
As nearly unimaginable forces prepare to annihilate all human life, Holden and a group of unlikely allies discover a last, desperate chance to unite all of humanity, with the promise of a vast galactic civilization free from wars, factions, lies, and secrets if they win.
But the price of victory may be worse than the cost of defeat.
He's the God of Death. She's the bride sent to kill him. Their union may be the end of them both.
The Everfrost is ruled by the King in his castle of ice. Some call him the Ice Phoenix, others the God of Death. The clans survive by one law alone: pay the King the homage he is due and never take what belongs to him. But when Sunnëva Morkhàn's brother falls gravely ill, she will have to do exactly that.
Against every warning, she sneaks into the castle to steal the one thing that would save him-a magical rose. But you don't steal from the King and live to tell the tale. When the Ice Phoenix discovers her theft and demands payment, the cost is too steep. Mourning and enraged, she challenges him, only to lose. To spare her clan from the King's wrath, her father offers her as a bride, and for a reason she cannot fathom, the King agrees.
Revenge is a delicate game Sunnëva is determined to play, even if killing the God of Death is no easy feat. But as secrets unfold around the alluring King, and dark threats emerge from the shadows, Sunnëva struggles to hold on to her hatred-and her heart.
Inspired by Beauty and the Beast, King's Bride is the first book in Beck Michaels' companion prequel series, the Chronicles of Urn-dark fables founded in forbidden love and strong-willed women who bring kings to their knees.
"The highly anticipated new standalone novel from Martin Cruz Smith, whom The Washington Post has declared "that uncommon phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction," The Girl from Venice is a suspenseful World War II love story set against the beauty, mystery, and danger of occupied Venice. Venice, 1945. The war may be waning, but the city known as La Serenissima is still occupied and the people of Italy fear the power of the Third Reich. One night, under a canopy of stars, a fisherman named Cenzo comes across a young woman's body floating in the lagoon and soon discovers that she is still alive and in trouble. Born to a wealthy Jewish family, Giulia is on the run from the Wehrmacht SS. Cenzo chooses to protect Giulia rather than hand her over to the Nazis. This act of kindness leads them into the world of Partisans, random executions, the arts of forgery and high explosives, Mussolini's broken promises, the black market and gold, and, everywhere, the enigmatic maze of the Venice Lagoon. The Girl from Venice is a thriller, a mystery, and a retelling of Italian history that will take your breath away. Most of all it is a love story"--
Takes the readers from the final days of the Chinese emperors to the dying era of the British Empire, with a young man's perilous journey through the betrayals of war and into manhood.
Stewart Dubinsky knew his father had served in World War II. And he'd been told how he rescued Stewart's mother from the horror of the Balingen concentration camp. But when he discovers, after his father's death, a packet of wartime letters to a former fiancee, and learns of his father's court-martial and imprisonment, he is plunged into the mystery of his family's secret history and driven to uncover the truth about this enigmatic, distant man who'd always refused to talk about his war.
"At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her way to London as a volunteer in the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. But she has skills that draw the attention of another branch of the service. Fluent in French and German, she would make the perfect secret agent. Within a year, Alex is shocking her family in trousers and bright red lipstick. They must never know about the work she does -- no one can know, not even the pilot she falls in love with. While her country and those dearest to her pay the terrible price of war, Alex learns the art of espionage, leading to life-and-death missions behind enemy lines and a long career as a spy in exotic places and historic times. Spy follows Alex's extraordinary adventures in World War II and afterward in India, Pakistan, Morocco, Hong Kong, Moscow, and Washington, D.C., when her husband, Richard, enters the foreign service and both become witnesses to a rapidly changing world from post-war to Cold War. She lives life on the edge, with a secret she must always keep hidden"--
When Ada's clubfoot is surgically fixed at last, she knows for certain that she's not what her mother said she was--damaged, deranged, crippled mentally as well as physically. She's not a daughter anymore, either. What is she? World War II continues, and Ada and her brother, Jamie, are living with their loving legal guardian, Susan, in a borrowed cottage on the estate of the formidable Lady Thorton--along with Lady Thorton herself and her daughter, Maggie. Life in the crowded cottage is tense enough, and then, quite suddenly, Ruth, a Jewish girl from Germany, moves in. A German? The occupants of the house are horrified. But other impacts of the war become far more frightening. As death creeps closer to their door, life and morality during wartime grow more complex. Who is Ada now? How can she keep fighting? And who will she struggle to save?
"Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War I explodes across Europe. Enraptured by romantic tales of battlefield surgery, he enlists, expecting a position at a well-organized field hospital. But when he arrives--at a commandeered church tucked away high in a remote valley of the Carpathian Mountains--he discovers a freezing outpost ravaged by typhus. The other doctors have fled, and only a single mysterious nurse named Sister Margarete remains. But Lucius has never lifted a surgeon's scalpel. And as the war rages across the winter landscape, he finds himself falling in love with the woman from whom he must learn a brutal makeshift medicine. Then one day, an unconscious soldier is brought in from the snow, his uniform stuffed with strange drawings. He seems beyond rescue, until Lucius makes a fateful decision that will change the lives of doctor, patient, and nurse forever"--Provided by publisher.
The book recounts the flight of Nazi torturer doctor Josef Mengele between Germany and Latin America, until his death in 1979 without trial.--Wikipedia.
"Olivier Guez est l'auteur, entre autres, de L'Impossible retour, une histoire des juifs en Allemagne depuis 1945 (Flammarion), Éloge de l'esquive (Grasset) et Les Révolutions de Jacques Koskas (Belfond). Il a reçu en 2016 le prix allemand du meilleur scénario pour le film Fritz Bauer, un héros allemand. 1949 : Josef Mengele arrive en Argentine. Caché derrière divers pseudonymes, l'ancien médecin tortionnaire à Auschwitz croit pouvoir s'inventer une nouvelle vie à Buenos Aires. L'Argentine de Per6n est bienveillante, le monde entier veut oublier les crimes nazis. Mais la traque reprend et le médecin SS doit s'enfuir au Paraguay puis au Brésil. Son errance de planque en planque, déguisé et rongé par l'angoisse, ne connaîtra plus de répit ... jusqu'à sa mort mystérieuse sur une plage en 1979. Comment le médecin SS a-t-il pu passer entre les mailles du filet, trente ans durant? La Disparition de Josef Mengele est une plongée inouïe au coeur des ténèbres. Anciens nazis, agents du Mossad, femmes cupides et dictateurs d'opérette évoluent dans un monde corrompu par le fanatisme, la realpolitik, l'argent et l'ambition. Voici l'odyssée dantesque de Josef Mengele en Amérique du Sud. Le roman-vrai de sa cavale après-guerre."--Back cover.
