World of Warcraft

<p>The ashes of the Cataclysm have settled across Azeroth’s disparate kingdoms. As the broken world recovers from the disaster, the renowned sorceress Lady Jaina Proudmoore continues her long struggle to mend relations between the Horde and the Alliance. Yet of late, escalating tensions have pushed the two factions closer to open war, threatening to destroy what little stability remains in the . . .</p><p>Dark news arrives in Jaina’s beloved city, Theramore. One of the blue dragonflight’s most powerful artifacts—the Focusing Iris—has been stolen. To unravel the item’s mysterious whereabouts, Jaina works with the former blue Dragon Aspect Kalecgos. The two brilliant heroes forge an unlikely bond during their investigation, but another disastrous turn of events looms on the horizon. . . .</p><p>Garrosh Hellscream is mustering the Horde’s armies for an all-out invasion of Theramore. Despite mounting dissent within his faction, the brazen warchief aims to usher in a new era of Horde domination. His thirst for conquest leads him to take brutal measures against anyone who dares question his leadership.</p><p>Alliance forces converge on Theramore to repel the Horde onslaught, but the brave defenders are unprepared for the true scope of Garrosh’s cunning and deceptive strategy. His attack will irrevocably transform Jaina, engulfing the ardent peacekeeper in the chaotic and all-consuming . . .</p><

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.<

The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people and their home. So begins a spectacular saga of power and sacrifice in which war has many faces, and everyone fights for something.<

In einer Welt die Draenor genannt wird, sieht sich der so stolze wie unbeugsame Orc-Clan der Frostwölfe zunehmend mit extrem harten Wintern und schwindenden Viehbeständen konfrontiert. Als der geheimnisvolle Gul'dan im Hauptlager der Orcs auftaucht und von neuen Jagdgründen und reicher Beute berichtet, sieht sich Durotan, der Anführer der Frostwölfe, mit einer schicksalhaften Frage konfrontiert. Stellt er sich dem drohenden Untergang oder ist nun die Zeit gekommen, das Land seiner Vorväter zu verlassen und sein Volk ins Ungewisse zu führen? Die offizielle Vorgeschichte zum Kinofilm WARCRAFT.<

<p>Czytając Martwego aż do zmroku zaczynasz wyobrażać sobie autorkę powieści, Charlaine Harris, jako ukochane dziecko Laurell K. Hamilton i Joego R. Lansdale'a – może z Tanyą Huff i P. N. Elrodem jako rodzicami chrzestnymi. A jednak "humorystyczny wampirzy kryminał z elementem romantycznym" Harris jest nie tylko kolejną mroczną igraszką z naszym ulubionym motywem nieumarłych. Otrzymujemy również opowieść o parze odmieńców próbujących znaleźć sobie miejsce w świecie, i o ich związku, który nie jest łatwy ani dla niej, ani dla niego.</p><p>W świecie Harris wampiry stanowią mniejszość społeczną, która niedawno otrzymała prawa obywatelskie. Ich nierozcieńczona krew stała się niezwykle poszukiwanym lekarstwem. Na czarnym rynku fiolka wampirzego płynu życiowego – który podobno "tymczasowo łagodzi symptomy pewnych chorób i zwiększa potencję seksualną, będąc czymś w rodzaju skrzyżowania prednizonu z viagrą" – kosztuje dwieście dolarów. Odkąd prawnie uznano nieumarłych, kelnerka Sookie Stackhouse wyraźnie miała nadzieję, że ktoś taki zjawi się w małym północnoluizjańskim miasteczku Bon Temps. Jest więc po prostu zachwycona, kiedy wysoki, ciemnowłosy, przystojny, blady wampir siada przy jednym z jej stolików. Jednak dziewczyny nie pociąga wcale nieśmiertelność wampira ani nawet jego zmysłowa atrakcyjność. Wydaje się za to urzeczona faktem, że nie potrafi czytać mu w myślach. Sookie bowiem, wyobraźcie sobie, jest telepatką. Dar, który sama nazywa upośledzeniem, utrudnia jej życie, a zwłaszcza spotkania z mężczyznami (mimo iż jest atrakcyjną dwudziestopięcioletnią blondynką). Właściwie wszyscy w mieście nazywają ją stukniętą. Czasami, atakowana przez setki natrętnych, cudzych myśli, sama się uważa wariatkę.</p><p>Sookie jest bohaterką zupełnie niepodobną do Buffy, więc ratuje świeżo poznanego wampira – wampira Billa, tak, naprawdę! – przed parą ludzi chcących osuszyć go z cennej krwi. Właśnie wtedy odkrywa, że nie "słyszy" ani jednej myśli Billa. Fakt ten wystarczy, by Sookie poczuła do wampira sympatię. Cóż, niektórym związkom trzeba było na początek nawet mniej.</p><p>Okazuje się, że korzenie Billa sięgają Bon Temps, że wrócił tu i zamierza się osiedlić w rodzinnej posiadłości, którą właśnie odziedziczył. W dodatku, walczył w wojnie domowej, a wampirem został w roku 1870. Fakty te zachwycają babcię Sookie, oddaną członkinię lokalnego klubu Potomków Wybitnych Poległych. Bill może dostarczyć klubowi szczegółów, dzięki którym babcia i inni członkowie znajdą się w "genealogicznym siódmym niebie".</p><p>Jednak szczęście nie tak prosto osiągnąć. Gdy zamordowano dwie młode kobiety, a na ich udach koroner znajduje ślady kłów, podejrzenie pada na wampiry, czyli także (a może przede wszystkim) na Billa. Mordercą mógłby też być Jason, seksowny brat Sookie, który uwielbia kobiety, choć lubi także lekką perwersję. Bill i Sookie (z niejaką pomocą pewnego wampira imieniem Bubba) muszą się zmienić w detektywów, rozwiązać zbrodnie i znaleźć prawdziwego przestępcę. Tak się to zaczyna…</p><p>"Pierwszorzędny kryminał… Przekonujący i zadziwiający". "The Washington Post Book World"</p><p>"Dobrze napisany i niezwykle interesujący… Wielka rzecz". "The Boston Glob"</p><p>"Atmosfera książek Harris nawiązuje do czarnego kryminału oraz powieści detektywistycznej… Fabułę stanowi świetnie skonstruowana historia, która sięga pod powierzchnię małomiasteczkowego życia". "Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel"</p><p>"Frapująca". "Minneapolis Star Tribune"</p><p>"Opowieści Harris na przemian czarują i mrożą czytelnikowi krew w żyłach. Z tą trudną kombinacją autorka radzi sobie bez problemów, wręcz doskonale". Carolyn G. Hart</p><p>"Styl Harris ma urok i lekkość, które przypominają styl powieści Anne Tyler… Jest oryginalny i zadziwiający. Niezwykłego smaku tej książce dodają nawiązania do powieści gotyckiej". "The Christian Science Monitor"</p><p>"Nadzwyczajna". "Library Journal"</p><p>"Styl Harris jest gawędziarski, zawsze przymilny, "tylko między nami dziewczynami". "Kirkus Reviews"</p><p>"Charlaine Harris to imię i nazwisko, które trzeba zapamiętać". "Macon Telegraph and News"</p><p>"Doskonałe powieści… Harris inaczej opowiada o morderstwach". "Mystery News"</p><

<p>The fragile dream of becoming a writer takes hold of Isabelle Rothman during her senior year of college. Feeling brave, she begins a one-on-one tutorial with a once highly praised novelist, Daniel Jablonski, who is known on campus as eccentric, difficult, and disengaged. Despite his reputation, Isabelle loves his early novels and hopes Daniel can teach her the secrets of his luminous prose. But their first meeting is a disaster. He never read the chapters she submitted and will not apologize for being unprepared. He has lived up to his reputation, and she feels dismissed, humiliated, and furious.</p><p>But slowly, over the semester, they gingerly form a bond that begins to anchor both of them. And over the next twenty years, as they live very separate lives — she in Northern California and he finally settled in a tiny New Hampshire town — they reach out to each other through e-mails, phone calls, and visits. Their continual connection helps Isabelle find the courage to take greater risks and push Daniel to work through layers of self-loathing and regret that have kept his career from flourishing. They are the single constant in each other’s life and the most profound influence.</p><p>Daniel and Isabelle recognize they are among the blessed few who meet at the exact moment they need each other the most, and that their lives are transformed by this connection. In a final collaboration, the boundaries of teacher and student give way to a work that heals something in each of them. They truly see each other as extraordinary — as people do when they love — and that belief makes all the difference.</p><

Sookie Stackhouse es una camarera con un inusitado poder para leer la mente. Su don es el origen de sus problemas. Siempre acaba sabiendo más de lo que le gustaría de la gente que le rodea, de todos menos de Bill Compton, porque su mente, la de un vampiro que trata de reinsertarse en la sociedad, es absolutamente impenetrable. Cuando sus vidas se cruzan descubrirá que para ella ya no hay vuelta atrás. La aparición de un asesino en serie es la prueba definitiva para su confianza… porque ni siquiera ella sabe si Bill es su protector, o si se convertirá en su fatal asesino.<

<p>Sei Shonagon’s —a key inspiration for Rivka Galchen’s new book — contains a list of “Things That Make One Nervous.” And wouldn’t the blessed event top almost anyone’s list?</p><p>Little Labors — atomized and exploratory, conceptually byzantine and freshly forthright — delights.</p><

Francis Pettigrew's holiday turns to nightmare when he stumbles across a body on Boulter's Tussock – a rather alarming body at that, given to vanishing and reappearing in unexpected places.<

A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games. This is the fictional memoir of Wat Dryhope — edited, annotated and commented upon. History has come to an end, war is regulated as if it's all a game. But Wat, the "History Maker" himself, does not play entirely by the rules, and when a woman, Delilah Puddock, joins the fray, this 'utopian' history is further enlivened. Alasdair Gray cleverly plays with the notion and writing of history, as well as perennial modern debates on war, sexism and society — entertaining and thought-provoking, this is a delightful satire illustrated throughout by the author.<

<p>W cichej, spokojnej okolicy Willow Road odżywają wspomnienia makabrycznych wydarzeń sprzed lat, kiedy to grozę i obrzydzenie budziły dokonywane tam praktyki okultystyczne. Tak jak niegdyś zatriumfuje szaleństwo, prowadzące do nagłych aktów przemocy.</p><p>Chris Bishop, specjalista od zjawisk paranormalnych, wznawia dochodzenie w tej sprawie. Nie ma wątpliwości, że na Willow Road wciąż jest coś, co doprowadza ludzi do utraty zmysłów, wyzwala w nich najgorsze instynkty, popycha do morderstw i samounicestwień…</p><

<p>Set in California, is an uplifting and poignant book about people finding their way toward happiness. In "Get Your Dead Man's Clothes," "Irish Twins," and "Aftermath," Jamie O'Connor finally reckons with his tumultuous childhood, which propels him to an unexpected awakening. In "Tell Me One Thing," Lucia's decision to leave her loveless marriage has unintended consequences for her young daughter. In "Sweet Peas," "What We Give," and "The Neighbor," the sudden death of librarian Trudy Dugan's beloved husband forces her out of isolation and prompts her to become more engaged with her community. And in "Wishing," Anna finds an unusual kind of love. is about the life we can create despite the grief we carry and, sometimes, even because of the grief we have experienced.</p><

<p>Miasto Wolnego Handlu to centrum egzotycznego handlu, a także siedziba kupieckiej arystokracji słynącej ze swoich rzadkich i niezwykłych, wyrzeźbionych z czarodrzewu żaglowców, które w magiczny sposób, zmieniają się w żywe istoty.</p><p>Powieść Carodziejski statek jest pierwszym tomem cyklu "Kupcy i ich żywostatki" opowiadającego o rozpaczliwej walce, jaką o czarodziejską "Vivacię" stoczy jedna z rodzin należących do grupy Pierwszych Kupców z pozbawionym skrupułów pirackim kapitanem. Walka to okrutna i desperacka, ale jej zwycięzca będzie kontrolował coś więcej niż tylko los i majątek jednej rodziny.</p><p>Trylogia "Kupcy i ich żywostatki" jest trzecią trylogią cyklu po "Złotoskórym" i "Skrytobójcy". W Polsce nigdy nie została wydana w całości.</p><p>Wydawnictwo Mag wyda wszystkie trzy tomy trylogii:</p><p>"Czarodziejski statek" cz. 1 i 2</p><p>"Szalony statek" cz.1 i 2</p><p>"Statek przeznaczenia" tom 1 i 21</p><p>Robin Hobb debiutowała trylogią o uczniu skrytobójcy Uczeń skrytobójcy, Królewski skrytobójca i Wyprawa skrytobójcy, stając się od razu największym objawieniem literatury fantasy lat dziewięćdziesiątych. Szczególne uznanie krytyków i czytelników na całym świecie przyniosła jej umiejętność tworzenia autentycznych, nietuzinkowych postaci, jakże różnych od rzesz papierowych, podobnych do siebie jak krople wody bohaterów zaludniających karty wielu innych powieści z tego gatunku.</p><

Die friedliche Welt Azeroth sieht sich plötzlich am Rande eines verheerenden Krieges, als ihre Ländereien von bislang unbekannten und furchteinflößenden Gegnern bedroht werden. Bei den Fremden handelt es sich um Orcs, die ihrer sterbenden Heimat den Rücken gekehrt haben, um neue Lebensräume zu erobern. Als sich ein Portal öffnet, das beide Welten verbindet, prallt eine Armee, die den sicheren Untergang vor Augen hat, auf ein Heer von zu allem entschlossenen Verteidigern. Das Schicksal ganzer Völker liegt nun in den Händen zweier Helden, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Der Beginn einer epischen Saga über Macht und Opferbereitschaft, in der der Krieg viele Gesichter hat und eine Niederlage keine Option ist …<

<p>Seine Niedertracht ist legendär. Er ist der Herrscher der untoten Geißel, Träger der Runenklinge Frostgram und Feind der freien Völker Azeroths.</p><p>Der Lichkönig ist ein Wesen von unberechenbarer Macht und beispielloser Bosartigkeit. Seine eisige Seele lechzt nach der Vernichtung allen Lebens in der WORLD OF WARCRAFT®</p><p>Doch es war nicht immer so. Einst war der Lichkönig kein Geringerer als Arthas Menethil. Kronprinz Lordaerons und treuer Paladin der Silbernen Hand. Als eine Armee von Untoten alles bedroht, was Arthas lieb und teuer ist, macht er sich auf, nach einer legendaren Waffe zu suchen, die ihm den Sieg über seinen grausamen Feind schenken soll. Doch die Runenklinge verlangt einen fürchtelichen Preis von ihrem Träger. In den arktishen Eiswüsten erwartet Arthas ein düsteres Schicksal, das ganz Azeroth in seinem Grundfesten erschüttern wird.</p><

Hank Thompson

<p>It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry “call me Hank” Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Hank is here, working as a bartender and taking care of a cat named Bud who is surely going to get him killed.</p><p>It begins when Hank's neighbor, Russ, has to leave town in a rush and hands over Bud in a carrier. But it isn't until two Russians in tracksuits drag Hank over the bar at the joint where he works and beat him to a pulp that he starts to get the idea: Someone wants something from him. He just doesn't know what it is, where it is, or how to make them understand he doesn't have it.</p><p>Within twenty-four hours Hank is running over rooftops, swinging his old aluminum bat for the sweet spot of a guy's head, playing hide and seek with the NYPD, riding the subway with a dead man at his side, and counting a whole lot of cash on a concrete floor.</p><p>All because of two cowboys, two Russian mafia men, and some of the weirdest goons ever assembled in one place. All because of Bud. All because once, in another life, in another world, the only thing Hank wanted was to take third base—without getting caught.</p><p>"WOW! Brutal, visceral, violent, edgy and brilliant." </p><p>2004</p><

<p>Thrall, weiser Schamane und Kriegshäuptling der Horde, spürt eine beunruhigende Veränderung ...</p><p>Vor langer Zeit wüteten Azeroths zerstörerische Elementare, bis die wohlwollenden Titanen sie auf die Elementarebene verbannten. Doch viele dieser Elementare sind nach Azeroth zurückgekehrt. Über Jahrhunderte haben Schamanen wie Thrall mit diesen Geistern gesprochen. Mit Geduld und Hingabe lernten sie über die Zeit, wilde Feuersbrünste zu bannen, sonnenverbranntes Land mit Regen zu versorgen und die zerstörerischen Kräfte der Elemente zu mäßigen.</p><p>Doch nun muss Thrall erkennen, dass die Elementare nicht mehr auf die Schamanen hören. Die Verbindung mit den Geistern ist schwach und brüchig geworden, als würde Azeroth selbst bedrängt. Während Thrall herauszufinden versucht, was die verwirrten Elementare krank macht, kämpft er gleichzeitig um die unsichere Zukunft der Orcs. Denn sein Volk hat mit schwindenden Vorräten zu kämpfen. Und seine Nachbarn, die Nachtelfen werden immer feindseliger. Zur gleichen Zeit überlegt König Varian Wrynn von Sturmwind, ob er auf die angespannte Lage zwischen Allianz und Horde mit einem Angriff reagieren soll. Dieses harte Vorgehen droht ihn all denjenigen zu entfremden, die ihm am nächsten stehen – darunter sein eigener Sohn Anduin. Der besorgte junge Prinz geht seinen eigenen Weg. Dabei riskiert er, sich in die politischen Ränke zu verstricken, die die Welt bedrohen.</p><p>Das Schicksal von Azeroths großen Völkern liegt im Ungewissen verborgen. Und so besorgniserregend das merkwürdige Verhalten der Elementargeister auch sein mag, ist es doch vielleicht nur das erste bedrohliche Vorzeichen eines Weltenbebens, das unmittelbar bevorsteht.</p><

Hank Thompson

<p>Hank Thompson is living off the map in Mexico with a bagful of cash that the Russian mafia wants back and many, many secrets. So when a Russian backpacker shows up in town asking questions, Hank tries to play it cool. But he knows the jig is up when the backpacker mentions the money . . . and the family Hank left behind. Suddenly Hank's in a desperate race to get to his parents in California before anyone can harm them. Along the way he'll face Federales and Border Patrol, mafiosi and vigilantes, extortionists and drug dealers, and a couple of psychotic surf bums with an ax to grind. From the golden beaches of the Yucatán to the seedy strip clubs of Vegas, Charlie Huston opens a door to the squalid underworld of crime and corruption - and invites the reader to live it in the extreme.</p><p>" rocks and rolls from the first page. This is one mean, cols, slit-eyed mother of a book."</p><p>2005</p><

Cool and Lam

<p>Unfettered, unfiltered, unorthodox Bertha Cool and Donald Lam have four of the least likely and most popular private eyes in the business — and they’ve never been in sharper focus!</p><p>It’s always exciting when Erle Stanley Gardner assumes his favorite pseudonym of A. A. Fair and lets her rip! This new mystery novel is exhibit A proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that Bertha Cool and Donald Lam are among the most ingenious and inventive characters in mystery fiction.</p><p>Here is all the old sweet-and-sour, plus the catchiest plot ever dissected by the intrepid twosome. Bertha is at her toughest and funniest, and Donald is at top form knowing and debonair.</p><

Hank Thompson

<p>“Among the new voices in twenty-first-century crime fiction, Charlie Huston . . . is where it's at.”</p><p>- The Washington Post</p><p>“Huston writes dialogue so combustible it could fuel a bus and characters crazy enough to take it on the road.”</p><p>- The New York Times Book Review</p><p>Reluctant hitman Henry Thompson has fallen on hard times. His grip on life is disintegrating, his pistol hand shaking, his body pinned to his living room couch by painkillers - and his boss, Russian mobster David Dolokhov, isn't happy about any of it. So Henry is surprised when he's handed a new assignment: keep tabs on a minor league baseball star named Miguel Arenas. </p><p>Henry has no pity for the slugger and the wicked gambling problem that got him in trouble, but he can't help liking the guy. After all, Henry used to be just like him: a natural-born ball player with a bright future. But hell, that was long ago. Before Henry did some guy a favor and ended up running for his life. Before his girlfriend and buddies got gunned down by someone on his tail. Before he agreed to buy his parents' safety with a life of violence.</p><p>And when Miguel gets drafted by the Mets and is sent to the Brooklyn Cyclones, Henry must head back to New York, back to the place where all his problems began - and where Henry might find a real reason to keep living, a reason that may just cost him his life.</p><p>“Huston reminds me of all my favorite writers - Pete Dexter, Robert Stone, Crumley. If there is such a thing as compassionate noir, Charlie has found it. He's a true marvel.”</p><p>- Ken Bruen, author of The Guards </p><p>“Charlie Huston is the real deal.”</p><p>- Peter Straub</p><p>2006</p><

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<p>When Azeroth was young, the noble titans appointed the five great dragonflights to safeguard the budding world. Each of the flights’ leaders was imbued with a portion of the titans’ vast cosmic powers. Together, these majestic Dragon Aspects committed themselves to thwarting any force that threatened the safety of the WORLD OF WARCRAFT®.</p><p>Over ten thousand years ago, a betrayal by the maddened black Dragon Aspect, Deathwing, shattered the strength and unity of the dragonflights. His most recent assault on Azeroth—the Cataclysm—has left the world in turmoil. At the Maelstrom, the center of Azeroth’s instability, former Horde warchief Thrall and other accomplished shaman struggle to keep the world from tearing apart in the wake of Deathwing’s attack. Yet a battle also rages within Thrall regarding his new life in the shamanic Earthen Ring, hampering his normally unparalleled abilities.</p><p>Unable to focus on his duties, Thrall undertakes a seemingly menial task from an unexpected source: the mysterious green Dragon Aspect, Ysera. This humble endeavor soon becomes a journey spanning the lands of Azeroth and the timeways of history itself, bringing Thrall into contact with ancient dragonflights. Divided by conflict and mistrust, these dragons have become easy prey to a horrific new weapon unleashed by Deathwing’s servants . . . a living nightmare engineered to exterminate Azeroth’s winged guardians.</p><p>Of even greater concern is a bleak and terrifying possible future glimpsed by Ysera: the Hour of Twilight. Before this apocalyptic vision comes to pass, Thrall must purge his own doubts in order to discover his purpose in the world and aid Azeroth’s dragonflights as they face the TWILIGHT OF THE ASPECTS.</p><

<p>If you love crime fiction-preferably wickedly profane, unabashedly grisly, and laugh-out-loud funny "pulp" fiction-your number one New Year's resolution needs to be to read Charlie Huston. It only takes one to get you so hooked you'll read everything you can get your hands on, so take a couple of days off and give yourself room to binge on the brutal and hilarious Hank Thompson and Joe Pitt series, the blistering Shotgun Rule, and this latest and greatest stand-alone, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death. The best thing about reading a Huston novel is that you never see it coming-laughter, tears, the passing urge to vomit-everything is a surprise, creating a wholly unsettling and exciting reading experience. The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death has all the makings of a perfect Charlie Huston novel-the down-but-not-out antihero, the outrageous supporting characters (each of whom deserves their own spin-off), the very bad situation involving money and violence, and the hilariously inappropriate dialogue that is Huston's signature-but with one surprising addition, hope. It does little good to break down the plot of a book this bizarre and brilliant. You're just going to have to trust us (and our Guest Reviewer, Stephen King), and read it.</p><p>***</p><p>With a style that is razor sharp, an eye that never shies from the gritty details, and a taste for stories that simultaneously shock, disturb, and entertain, Charlie Huston is one of a kind. And The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is the type of story-swift, twisted, hilarious, somehow hopeful-that only he could dream up.</p><p>The fact is, whether it’s a dog hit by a train or an old lady who had a heart attack on the can, someone has to clean up the nasty mess. And that someone is Webster Fillmore Goodhue, who just may be the least likely person in Los Angeles County to hold down such a gig. With his teaching career derailed by tragedy, Web hasn’t done much for the last year except some heavy slacking. But when his only friend in the world lets him know that his freeloading days are over, and he tires of taking cash from his spaced-out mom and refuses to take any more from his embittered father, Web joins Clean Team-and soon finds himself sponging a Malibu suicide’s brains from a bathroom mirror, and flirting with the man’s bereaved and beautiful daughter.</p><p>Then things get weird: The dead man’s daughter asks a favor. Her brother’s in need of somebody who can clean up a mess. Every cell in Web’s brain tells him to turn her down, but something else makes him hit the Harbor Freeway at midnight to help her however he can. Is it her laugh? Her desperate tone of voice? The chance that this might be history’s strangest booty call? Whatever it is, soon enough it’s Web who needs the help when gun-toting California cowboys start showing up on his doorstep. What’s the deal? Is it something to do with what he cleaned up in that motel room in Carson? Or is it all about the brewing war between rival trauma cleaners? Web doesn’t have a clue, but he’ll need to get one if he’s going to keep from getting his face kicked in. Again. And again. And again.</p><p>Full of black humor, stunning violence, singular characters, and neon dialogue, The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death is classic Charlie Huston: a wild ride that’ll leave you breathless and shaken, grinning and begging for more.</p><

World of Warcraft

<p>In den Trümmern lauert das Böse. Das Weltenbeben hat das Antlitz Azeroths für immer verändert. Städte wurden überflutet, ein alter Feind ist erwacht und mit den Worgen und Goblins tauchten zwei neue Völker auf der Bildfläche des World of Warcraft-Universums auf. Der ehemalige Kriegshäuptling der Orcs, Thrall, versucht in diesen Zeiten des Umbruchs zu retten was zu retten ist. Als Azeroth noch jung war, wiesen die erhabenen Titanen die fünf großen Drachenschwärme an, die aufblühende Welt zu beschützen. Die Anführer der Schwärme wurden dazu mit einem Teil der gewaltigen Macht der Titanen ausgestattet. Gemeinsam verpflichteten sich diese majestätischen Drachenaspekte dazu, jegliche Bedrohung von der neugeborenen Welt abzuwenden, jener Welt, bekannt als: World of Warcraft.</p><p>Vor über zehntausend Jahren erschütterte der Verrat des wahnsinnigen schwarzen Drachenaspekts Todesschwinge die Stärke und Einheit der Drachenschwärme. Sein jüngster Angriff auf Azeroth – das Weltenbeben – hat die Welt ins Chaos gestürzt. Am Mahlstrom – dem Zentrum der Instabilität – setzen der frühere Kriegshäuptling Thrall und andere fähige Schamanen alles daran, Azeroth vor dem wütenden Ansturm Todesschwinges zu bewahren. Doch auch in Thrall tobt eine Schlacht, die ihn daran hindert, seine normalerweise unvergleichlichen Fähigkeiten als Schamane des Irdenen Rings zu nutzen. Unfähig, sich auf seine Pflichten zu konzentrieren, übernimmt Thrall einen scheinbar belanglosen Auftrag vom mysteriösen grünen Drachenaspekt Ysera. Doch dieser Auftrag erweist sich schnell als eine gefahrenvolle Reise durch Azeroth und über die Grenzen der Zeit hinaus, die Thrall in Kontakt mit den alten Drachenschwärmen bringt. Zerrissen durch Konflikte und Misstrauen wurden diese Drachen zur leichten Beute einer furchtbaren neuen Waffe, die von den Schergen Todesschwinges entfesselt wurde. Ein lebender Albtraum, der die geflügelten Wächter Azeroths auslöschen soll. Eine noch viel größere Gefahr geht allerdings von einer möglichen Zukunft aus, deren Zeuge Ysera in einer Vision wurde: die Stunde des Zwielichts. Bevor diese apokalyptische Weissagung zu bitterer Wahrheit werden kann, muss Thrall seine eigenen Zweifel besiegen und seine Bestimmung erkennen. Nur dann kann er den Drachenschwärmen Azeroths bei ihrer größten Prüfung beistehen. Diese wird in die Annalen Azeroths eingehen als: Drachendämmerung</p><

In his quest to unravel the threads left by his brother's death in Cambodia, Thomas Reed travels to the streets of Manila and the jungles of Cambodia, where he gradually pieces together the information that will lead him to his brother's lost child.<

Petina Gappah is the voice of Zimbabwe. In this powerful debut collection, she dissects with real poignancy the lives of people caught up in a situation over which they have no control, as they deal with spiralling inflation, power cuts and financial hardship — a way of life under Mugabe's regime.<

Officer Chee attempts to solve two modern murders by deciphering the sacred clown’s ancient message to the people of the Tano pueblo. An Ancient Trust is Broken. During a Tano kachina ceremony something in the antics of the dancing koshare fills the air with tension. Moments later the clown is found brutally bludgeoned in the same manner that a reservation schoolteacher was killed just days before. In true Navajo style, Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn of the Tribal Police go back to the beginning to decipher the sacred clown’s message to the people of the Tano pueblo. Amid guarded tribal secrets and crooked Indian traders, they find a trail of blood that links a runaway schoolboy, two dead bodies, and the mysterious presence of a sacred artifact.<

Noble Dead, Series Two

After her adventures with Magiere and Leesil, Wynn Hygeorht has returned to the Guild of Sagecraft, bearing texts supposedly penned by vampires from the time of the Forgotten History and the Great War. Seized by the Guild's scholars and sent out for copying without Wynn's consent, several pages disappear — and the two sages charged with conveying these pages are murdered. Suspicious of the Guild, separated from the only friends she fully trusts, and convinced the Noble Dead are responsible for the killings, Wynn embarks on a quest to uncover the secrets of the texts.<

<p>As the high school football coach in his small, rural Maryland town, Dean is a hero who reorganized the athletic program and brought the state championship to the community. When he married Nicole — the beloved, town sweetheart — he seemed to have it all — until his troubled wife committed suicide. Now, everything Dean thought he knew about his life and the people in it is thrown off kilter as Nicole’s death forces him to re-evaluate all of his relationships, including those with his team and his three children.</p><p>Dean’s eleven-year old son Robbie is acting withdrawn, and running away from school to the local pizza parlor. Bry, who is only eight, is struggling to understand his mother’s untimely death. And nineteen-year- old Stephanie has just left for Swarthmore and is torn between her new identity as a rebellious and sophisticated college student, her responsibility towards her brothers, and feeling like she is still just a little girl who misses her mom. As Dean struggles to continue to lead his team to victory in light of his overwhelming personal loss, he must fix his fractured family — and himself. And what he discovers along the way is that he’ll never view the world in the same way again.</p><p>Transporting you to the heart of small town America, is an unforgettable, poignant story about the pull of the past and the power of forgiveness.</p><

An assassin waits for Officer Jim Chee in the desert to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed by blood. Who would murder a dying man? Why would someone steal a box of rocks? And why would a rich man’s wife pay $3,000 to get them back? These questions haunt Sgt. Jim Chee of the Navajo Tribal Police as he journeys into the scorching Southwest. But there, out in the Bad Country, a lone assassin waits for Chee to come seeking answers, waits ready and willing to protect a vision of death that for thirty years has been fed by greed and washed in blood.<

An assemblage of troubled grotesques struggle to retain identity and humanity in an alternately menacing and mysterious Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, under Soviet rule in the 1970s and 1980s. The late Gavelis's first translation into English centers on Vytautas Vargalys, a semijustifiably paranoid labor camp survivor who works at a library no one visits while he desperately investigates the Them or They responsible for dehumanizing and killing the humans around him, including his wife, Irena; his genius friend, Gedis; and the young siren, Lolita. Meanwhile, failed intellectual Martynas chronicles Vargalys's struggle and the city's mysterious energy in his mlog, library worker Stefanija Monkeviciute dwells on her wavering faith and personal humiliations, and the city itself speaks in the voice of a dog, claiming that Vilnius can't distinguish dreams from reality. Wrought — and fraught — with symbolism and ennui, the oppressive internal monologues of the characters and the city show the intense importance and equal absurdity of life.<

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Friday è una splendida figliola, moderna e disponibile, ma possiede due caratteristiche peculiari: è un corriere segreto ed è anche una PA, ossia una Persona Artificiale, uguale in tutto e per tutto a un comune essere umano salvo per il fatto di essere stata creata in laboratorio. Il suo capo, Boss, l'ha reclutata e addestrata quando per lei la vita non era certo facile ma ora Friday è un agente in grado di sopportare all'occasione stupri multipli e torture. Ma la sua vita non manca di lati piacevoli e distensivi, almeno fino al giorno che sarà ricordato dai libri di storia come il Giovedì Rosso. Chi si nasconde dietro l'ondata di delitti politici e di sabotaggio che dilagano sulla terra e nello spazio, minacciando il tranquillo caos che da secoli regna sull'Umanità?<

<p>In "Sir Fleeting," a Midwestern farm girl on her honeymoon in Argentina falls into lifelong lust for a French playboy. In "Blythe," an attorney who has become a stay-at-home mother takes a night class in poetry and meets another full-time mother, one whose charismatic brilliance changes everything. In "The Wife of the Dictator," that eponymous wife ("brought back. . from [the dictator's] last visit to America") grows more desperately, menacingly isolated every day. In "Delicate Edible Birds," a group of war correspondents-a lone, high-spirited woman among them-falls sudden prey to a brutal farmer while fleeing Nazis in the French countryside. In "Lucky Chow Fun," Groff returns us to Templeton, the setting of her first book, for revelations about the darkness within even that idyllic small town.</p><p>In some of these stories, enormous changes happen in an instant. In others, transformations occur across a lifetime-or several lifetimes.</p><p>Throughout the collection, Groff displays particular and vivid preoccupations. Crime is a motif-sex crimes, a possible murder, crimes of the heart. Love troubles recur-they're in every story-love in alcoholism, in adultery, in a flood, even in the great flu epidemic of 1918. Some of the love has depths, which are understood too late; some of the love is shallow, and also understood too late. And mastery is a theme-Groff's women swim and baton twirl, become poets, or try and try again to achieve the inner strength to exercise personal freedom.</p><p>Overall, these stories announce a notable new literary master. Dazzlingly original and confident, further solidifies Groff's reputation as one of the foremost talents of her generation.</p><

<p>Teenagers philosophize on the nature of ontology while fearing there's a ghost in the old mill they're stuck in; a man encounters an old friend in the unlikeliest of places; nineteenth-century inventor Sigismund Mohr is vividly brought back from obscurity; and two journalists travel to Kenya for a conference, where one of them has a paranoid breakdown.</p><p>'A thrilling collection: hot-headed, existential, crystalline. Goldbach’s novella illuminates the nightmare of being a man in this world — the twisted, spiritual conversion of buddy into warrior. This book is cadenced and visionary.'</p><p>— Tamara Faith Berger</p><p>'Searching and restless, a new Goldbach story is a thing to celebrate. A whole collection of them? A Mardi Gras of mischievous goodness. This fiction slays hearts in the most wondrous of ways.'</p><p>— Jeff Parker</p><p>Praise for :</p><p>'The world has hitherto been divided into plotters who wrote in shoddy sentences and linguistic aesthetes who wrote beautiful sentences but couldn't make anything happen on the page, no plot. Goldbach manages to do both — a thrilling plot and beautiful language. He has raised the bar for both murder mysteries and literary writing.'</p><p>— Josip Novakovich</p><p>'Mr. Goldbach will be a fun writer to watch. Check him out.'</p><p>— Padgett Powell</p><p>John Goldbach is the author of (Coach House, 2013) and the collection (Insomniac, 2009). He lives in Montreal, Quebec.</p><

World of Warcraft

<p>Die Asche des Weltenbebens ruht über den so unterschiedlichen Königreichen Azeroths. Während sich die geschundene Welt langsam von den Folgen der gewaltigen Katastrophe erholt, setzt die berühmte Zauberhexerin Lady Jaina Prachtmeer alles daran, die Beziehung zwischen Allianz und Horde wieder zu verbessern. Denn unlängst haben wachsende Spannungen die beiden Fraktionen an den Rand eines neuen Krieges geführt, der den letzten Rest an Stabilität zu zerstören droht in der … WORLD OF WARCRAFT®</p><p>Düstere Nachrichten erreichen Jainas geliebtes Städtchen Theramore. Eines der mächtigsten Artefakte des Blauen Drachenschwarms – die Fokussierende Iris – wurde gestohlen. Um die mysteriösen Umstände der Tat zu klären, entschließt sich Jaina zu einem ungewöhnlichen Bündnis mit dem ehemaligen Blauen Drachenaspekt Kalecgos. Gemeinsam wollen die beiden ruhmreichen Helden dem dreisten Diebstahl auf den Grund gehen. Doch es droht bereits weiteres Unheil am Horizont.</p><p>Garrosh Höllschrei versammelt die Armeen der Horde zu einer Invasion Theramores. Ungeachtet steigender Unzufriedenheit in den eigenen Reihen, strebt der skrupellose Kriegshäuptling eine neue Ära der Herrschaft der Horde an. Seine unstillbare Gier nach Macht, lässt ihn dabei zu den brutalsten Mitteln greifen, um jene mundtot zu machen, die es wagen könnten, seine Position als Anführer in Frage zu stellen.</p><p>Allianztruppen sammeln sich in Theramore um den Angriff der Horde abzuwehren. Doch sie rechnen nicht mit dem tatsächlichen Ausmaß der verschlagenen und heimtückischen Strategie des Kriegshäuptlings. Garroshs Angriff wird Jaina unwiderruflich verändern und die Friedenshüterin in eine chaotische, alles verschlingende Macht verwandeln – auch bekannt als: Gezeiten des Krieges.</p><

Perry Mason

<p>A bright, shiny tin can in a dark, cobwebby corner of the cellar preserve shelf — unlabelled and empty!</p><p>Mrs. Gentrie, the meticulous hose-wife, was annoyed but not too upset. Her sister-in-law Rebecca was exited and suspicious. Delman Steele, their new young boarder, was quietly interested...</p><p>Then things began to happen. A man and his housekeeper were found missing from the house next door. Willful old Elston Karr, who used to run guns up the Yangtze and was now confined to a Wheel-chair in the flat above the missing man’s apartment, retained Mason to protect him from — well, Mason wasn’t quite sure himself. But his mind began to work fast.</p><p>Then Mason heard about the empty tin can. It interested him — a .</p><p>All our old friends are here, Della Street, Paul Drake, Lieutenant Tragg, in a mystery so fast and exiting that it has been called “even better than Gardner.”</p><

Nanotech Cycle

A novel about death and grieving, about Afro-Caribbean culture and Voodoo and about the four waves of Nanotechnology development. The world of is a world that is being changed by the day by advances in nanotechnology; it is a world where radio has died, of vastly increased lifespans and where extra terrestrials will play a pivotal role in everyone’s life.<

It's Quiller's most dangerous mission yet, and is also his last for the British intelligence agency so secret that it has no name. No matter that its orders originate at the Prime Minister level; if detected, it would be denied at that and every other level of the government. Quiller's orders this time take the pseudonymous operative to post-Cold War Russia to infiltrate the powerful and omnipresent mafiya that controls every sector and ruble of the country's fragile economy. More ruthless than the Sicilian brotherhood and as conscienceless as the Colombian drug cartels, the mafiya owns top politicians, judges, generals, bankers, and the police. Those it doesn't own it can buy, and those it doesn't choose to buy, it eliminates. Chief among the lawless mafiya lords stands a criminally brilliant British national, whom the agency wants taken out of play. Quiller learns that the one man who can help him achieve his goal is impounded in Gulank, the most infamous of all the gulags. Quiller must sneak his way into Gulank, and from a gulag that no prisoner has ever escaped, rescue the only person who can save his last, internationally vital mission.<