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Welcome to the Enderverse. When ""Ender's Game" was first published as a novella twenty-five years ago few would have predicted that it would become one of the most successful ventures in publishing history. Expanded into a novel in 1985, "Ender's Game won both the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel. Never out of print and translated into dozens of languages, it is the rare work of fiction that can truly be said to have transcended a genre. "Ender's Game and its sequels have won dozens of prestigious awards and are as popular today among teens and young readers as adults. "First Meetings is a collection of three novellas-plus the original ""Ender's Game"-that journey into the origins and the destiny of one Ender Wiggin. ""The Polish Boy" begins in the wake between the first two Bugger Wars when the Hegemony is desperate to recruit brilliant military commanders to repel the alien invasion. In John Paul Wiggin-the future father of Ender -they believe they may have found their man. Or boy. In ""Teacher's Pest"-a novella written especially for this collection-a brilliant but insufferably arrogant John Paul Wiggin, now an American university student, matches wits with an equally brilliant graduate student named Theresa Brown. It is many years since the end of the Bugger Wars in ""The Investment Counselor." Ender's reputation as a hero and savior has suffered a horrible reversal. Banished from Earth and slandered as a mass murderer, twenty-year-old Andrew Wiggin wanders incognito from planet to planet as a fugitive. Until a blackmailing tax inspector compromises his identity and threatens to expose Ender the Xenocide. Also reprinted here is the originallandmark novella, ""Ender's Game," which first appeared in 1977. Fully illustrated, "First Meetings is Orson Scott Card writing at the height of his considerable power about his most compelling character.

Deel 4 van de Roger de Marskramer serie
In het voorjaar van 1475 is Roger op weg naar Totnes als hij maar net kan ontsnappen aan een bende struikrovers. Hij probeert wat meer over hen te weten te komen en ontdekt dat ze de streek al tijden terroriseren; ze hebben zelfs de moord op twee jonge, onschuldige kinderen op hun geweten!
Als hij in de stad is aangekomen en bij toeval een slaapplaats krijgt aangeboden in het huis waaruit de kinderen verdwenen zijn, wordt zijn nieuwsgierigheid gewekt. Hoe konden ze zonder dat iemand het merkte uit het huis verdwijnen? Waren ze uit vrije wil verdwenen, of ontvoerd? En hoe was het mogelijk dat niemand het tweetal meer gezien had tot ze zes weken later gruwelijk verminkt in de rivier werden aangetroffen? Roger beseft dat hij pas verder zal kunnen reizen als hij antwoorden op die vragen heeft gevonden...

Medina Thompson ist acht Jahre alt, als sie alles verliert. Von einer Pflegefamilie zur nächsten abgeschoben, wird aus ihr ein von Gewalt gezeichneter junger Mensch. Zwölf Jahre nach dem brutalen Mord an ihrer geliebten Grandma und ihrem Bruder Ross erfährt sie endlich, warum die beiden sterben mussten. Sie stellt sich ihrem Schicksal und tritt das Erbe ihrer Großmutter an: Die Jagd auf das Übernatürliche ... Die komplette erste Staffel der spannenden Fantasy-Thriller-Reihe!

Alle Toten lebten einsam und zurückgezogen mitten in der Großstadt, alle Toten hatten psychische Probleme - und alle waren sie in einer beliebten Nachmittags-Talkshow zu Gast. Der aalglatte Talkmaster ist nicht recht zu fassen, seine verschrobene Assistentin stellt Kommissarin Ina Henkel vor immer neue Rätsel. Die dünnhäutige Ermittlerin versucht, ihr Privatleben gegen die Zumutungen ihres Berufs abzuschirmen, doch die bestialischen Morde lassen sie nicht zur Ruhe kommen. Bald stößt sie an ihre Grenzen und ist dabei dem Täter näher, als sie ahnt.      

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A serial killer who wants to watch you burn…The media call him The Burning Man, a brutal murderer who has beaten four young women to death, before setting their bodies ablaze in secluded areas of London’s parks. And now the fifth victim has been found…Maeve Kerrigan is an ambitious detective constable, keen to make her mark on the murder task force. Her male colleagues believe Maeve’s empathy makes her weak, but the more she learns about the latest victim, Rebecca Haworth, from her grieving friends and family, the more determined Maeve becomes to bring her murderer to justice. But how do you catch a killer no one has seen? And when so much of the evidence they leave behind has gone up in smoke?

About the Author

JANE CASEY was born and raised in Dublin. A graduate of Oxford with a M. Phil from Trinity College, Dublin, she lives in London where she works as an editor. This is her second novel.