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When Arkham Advertiser reporter Andy van Nortwick receives a mysterious film reel in the mail, with a simple note: "Maude Brion is very much alive!", he steps onto a path which will lead him to the brink of madness. Brion, the famous actress and film director, vanished a year ago on an ill-fated expedition into the Amazon rainforest, delving into the legend of the Spider Queen. Thrilled by the prospect of his big break, Nortwick swings the funds to launch a rescue mission. He gathers a team of explorers and a keen folklorist to bring back Brion and cement his reputation.

When a truck ran down Tyler, he didn't think he'd wake back up...but he did. Now he's in a fantastical world filled with wonder, adventure, and battling monsters tamed by humans like one of his favorite video games.

Un viejo enemigo regresa. Los nuevos mundos coloniales luchan para encontrar la manera de sobrevivir en la red de miles de soles que se ha creado tras la expansión de la humanidad. Todos los nuevos planetas viven en una balanza que se puede decantar hacia la destrucción o hacia un futuro maravilloso. Y la tripulación de la anticuada cañonera Rocinante está enfrascada en el intento de mantener una paz demasiado frágil.

Halley Zwick steckt in Schwierigkeiten. In der Art Schwierigkeiten, bei der falsche Ausweise, mächtige Politiker und mehr als eine Sorte Gesetzeshüter involviert sind. Sowohl die Guten als auch die Bösen sind hinter ihr her, aber Halley kann nicht länger sagen, wer eigentlich wer ist. Um allen zu entkommen, nimmt sie einen Job auf dem Raumschiff "Elysium Fields" an, wo die Reichen und Schönen Seite an Seite in ihren Kälteschlafkapseln liegen – und das seit Hunderten von Jahren.

The little girl stares up at Tessa, trembling so hard her whole body shakes. Her brothers stand clutching her hands, both pale with shock. ‘They told us not to speak,’ she finally whispers. But the terror in her tear-filled eyes tells Tessa all she needs to know… When a cargo ship runs aground off the Irish coast, the police are horrified to find the captain dead at the helm, the crew missing, and three little red-haired children, terrified but unharmed, locked in the galley kitchen. As an expert detective running a child-centred taskforce, Detective Tessa Burns is called in to lead the case.

On Earth, Peter is a financial wizard, the accountant that could make your monetary missteps disappear in a sea of numbers, but he's trapped in a thankless job...until the day he's shot dead in his apartment...only to wake up in a body that isn't his and a world he doesn't know. Part of the hated Gold clan, Peter is now a servant in a land of cultivating martial artists, strange fantastical races, and warring clans. And while he might start at the bottom, the Gold clan gains their power through the accumulation of wealth...and making money is what Peter does best.

Separated from her team and haunted by grief, Siena Dupont claws her way through the lightless Briardark in search of an escape. The final threads of her sanity unravel when she realizes The Shadow isn’t the only thing stalking her through the forest’s darkest depths. Cameron Yarrow has long abandoned her team in pursuit of a ghost from her past. Desperation drives her to the depraved settlement of The Tooth, where a terrifying ritual ensnares her. To survive, she must place her trust in a stranger and embrace the trail of clues to Avery Mathis, the crux of her obsession.

A mad surrealist's art threatens to rip open the fabric of reality, in this twisted tale of eldritch horror and conspiracy, from the wildly popular world of Arkham Horror.

Hidden away in an isolated cabin on the edge of her farm, seven-year-old Aisling Connolly shivers as the cold night air whistles through her thin jacket. It’s been two days since the men came, since her mammy told her to run like she’d never run before, to not look back. She hasn’t seen her parents since. And she’s terrified. But when Aisling is finally found by the police, she knows instinctively she can trust Detective Tessa Burns.

In our fast-paced digital world, stress and anxiety have become constant companions for many. Anxiety A to Z: How to Conquer Stress and Master Calm in the Digital Age is a comprehensive guide designed to empower you with a wide array of tools and strategies to manage and overcome these challenges. This transformative book is structured as an easy-to-navigate alphabetized guide, offering an extensive range of techniques from 'Acceptance' of stress and anxiety to 'Zen Practices and Zen Gardening'. Each chapter focuses on a different approach, making it simple to find what works best for you.

Nur noch wenige Tage, dann wird Claire Kovalik gefeuert. Sie und ihre Crew reparieren Relaisstationen im Sonnensystem, doch eine neue Kommunikationstechnik macht diese bald obsolet. Bei ihrem letzten Einsatz fangen sie ein Notsignal auf, das von weit jenseits der Plutobahn kommt. Was sie dort entdecken, raubt ihnen den Atem: Es ist die Aurora, das größte Luxus-Raumschiff aller Zeiten, das vor über zwanzig Jahren auf seinem Jungfernflug verschwand. Wenn Claire und ihre Crew das Wrack bergen können, haben sie ausgesorgt.

Pecola es una niña pequeña que vive con sus padres y tiene una prima que se llama Claudia. Le gustan las muñecas y las caléndulas, que no le gustan a nadie excepto a ella. Pecola es negra y cree que es fea porque no se parece a Shirley Temple. Y tiene un truco para desaparecer cuando sus padres se pelean o su padre la molesta por las noches: piensa que tiene unos preciosos ojos azules, que todo el mundo admira su belleza y que las otras niñas la envidian. Pero ese sueño nunca se convertirá en realidad y Pecola seguirá atrapada en la triste vida que le ha tocado en suerte.

When Egyptologist Rom Hardy receives a strange letter from his old friend, the bounty-hunting sniper Rex McTroy, he finds himself drawn into a chilling mystery. In the mountains of New Mexico, a bloodthirsty creature is on the loose, leaving a trail of bodies in its wake. Now, a wealthy big game hunter has offered a staggering reward for its capture, and Rom’s patron – the headstrong and brilliant Evangeline Waterston – has signed the team up for the challenge.

When Penny O’Dwyer is snatched from the quiet streets of Cahirsiveen, a small town in the west of Ireland, her family is distraught. Bright, beautiful, career-driven, she had the world at her feet. Local police scour the muddy hills surrounding the town, but, finding no leads, they turn to criminal behaviourist Jessie Boyle.

For Dr. Siena Dupont and her ambitious team, the Alpenglow glacier expedition is a career-defining opportunity. But 30 miles into the desolate Deadswitch Wilderness, they discover a missing hiker dangling from a tree, and their satellite phone fails to call out.

With this book, Sa'ed Atshan asks how transnational progressive social movements can balance struggles for liberation along more than one axis. He explores critical junctures in the history of Palestinian LGBTQ activism, revealing the queer Palestinian spirit of agency, defiance, and creativity, in the face of daunting pressures and forces working to constrict it. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique explores the necessity of connecting the struggles for Palestinian freedom with the struggle against homophobia.

Everything seemed fine. I took my farm back, made peace between the local troll tribe and the villagers, and wrapped everyone behind a protective wall. From there it was just back to the peaceful farming life. Until the adventurers came back . . . with a vengeance. Now, they threaten the women I love, the land I swore on my parents' grave to protect, and the people that live there. And they will never stop. Protecting my land isn't enough. No, it's time to unify every dungeon in the land and fight back.

Pendant des générations, le système solaire - Mars, la Lune, la ceinture d'astéroïdes - fut la grande frontière de l'humanité. Jusqu'à maintenant. Un objet non identifié opérant sous les nuages de Vénus est apparu dans l'orbite d'Uranus, où il a construit une porte massive qui mène à un hyperespace désolé.

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald, remains one of the most popular poems. Here, it forms the main work on the first half of this program, along with other shorter poems by other leading Persian and Indian figures, including Rumi, Sa'di, and Rabindranath Tagore.

‘I’ve come to report a murder,’ the little girl declares, lips trembling, her head only just high enough to see over the police counter. ‘Please, you have to help me.’ When tearful young Ellie O’Farrell walks into a rural Irish police station to report she’s dreamed a murder that hasn’t happened yet, she is gently, but firmly, sent on her way. But the very next night a beloved local grandfather is found dead, lethal knife wounds showing a struggle exactly as she’d described. How did innocent Ellie know what was going to happen?