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The Legend of the haunted Spirit Mountain isn't that old. Just a few decades. And something to do with secret government experiments in hidden bases deep in the desert. They must have thought no one would ever find out... When strange weather patterns started affecting local crops...

The Gilgamesh: a colossal airborne warship and relic of the Thirty-Year War. Once the glorious flagship of the North Atlantic Union, it has become a hive of renegades and pirates, unchallenged in the skies over Eurasia. Like an angry god, it dominates wherever and whomever it chooses. Now it...

The six star systems of the Orion Confederacy are under attack from an enemy humanity never expected and cannot understand. And the crime rate’s through the roof.While the Null War rages on border worlds, the average citizen is more likely to be murdered by their neighbour than killed by...

The council of Jelling has begun With one of the arm rings of Yngvar found, the children of Ribe and their guardian beast, Wifrith, set out to find the remaining seven rings. The warriors from Hedeby have not given up and are determined to find and kill the children of Ribe or face the...

Una autobiografía sumamente personal y sinceraacerca de la conversión C. S. Lewis, un observador del yo infaliblemente honesto y sumamente perspicaz, cuenta vívidamente la trayectoria espiritual que lo llevó desde una niñez cristiana en Belfast a una adolescencia atea y de vuelta finalmente al...

Eh, tú. Sí. Tú. Ya has empezado a leer. Me temo que no hay escapatoria para ti. Cuéntame una historia. ¿Qué? ¿No te viene ninguna a la cabeza? Mentira. Todos recordamos historias. La niña de aquella curva o los misteriosos crujidos de la última casa del pueblo. Todos miramos por encima del...

The vivid hues in the painting captured her attention. Deep blue and green water seemed to move as if a breeze blew across it. She felt giddy and stepped closer. The air around her turned cold. A picture formed in her mind of the river flowing through a city, reflecting buildings in the waters below....

Aeden has dreamed of adventure all his life. When he and his friends have that adventure thrust upon them upon their Nameday, he discovers that the quiet life is something to be appreciated, but now he will never have it again. Passing from one peril unto the next Aeden and his friends are drawn into a war of men and gods.

This book is written for retinal specialists and clinicians with a special interest in retinal diseases. It presents a collection of images and brief annotations of the microstructures of both the normal and diseased eye captured on swept source optical coherence tomography. The swept-source...

Children are sponges. They soak up all that the world has to offer—both good and bad. In a world flooded with insta-fun, insta-wrong, and lightning speed access; author C.S. Harrison has taken an unbiased approach to sort through practical methods for parents and educators for tools leading to...

How do you defend against a person who could kill you with a single touch? An unforseen bi-product of terrorists bombing a children's hospital, the Lazurai were deadly. A mere touch could spread that killer virus to others. Even downwind, without a sneeze or cough to start it. All that...

Dieser Longseller ist seit der deutschen Herausgabe vor 40 Jahren zu einem Klassiker zum Thema "Argumente für den Glauben" geworden. Höchst logisch und mit kraftvoller Bildhaftigkeit begegnet der "Narnia"-Erfinder Lewis dem Vorurteil, man müsse den Verstand über Bord werfen, um heute noch Christ zu sein.

What if you had all the time in the world? Thirteen authors answer that question with short stories about time travel. Go back in time to right a wrong, forward to see the future. No jump is too large, no method unfeasible, no lesson beyond learning. • Visit the past to learn a family...

When someone sends boulder-sized rocks down to planet Earth from the moon, they approach like meteors. On the right trajectory, they don't burn up in the atmosphere, but can come down with the force of a nuclear blast. Our tiny outpost of sentient shape-shifting wolves and escapees from...