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It was known as the House of Blood. It sat at the entrance to a netherworld of unimaginable torture and terror. Very few who entered its front door lived to ever again see the outside world. But a few did survive. They thought they had found a way to destroy the house of horrors…but they were wrong. A new house has arisen. A new mistress now wields its unholy power-and she wants revenge. She will not rest until those who dared to challenge her and her former master are made to pay with their very souls!<

When the Duke of Lexington meets the mysterious Baroness von Seidlitz-Hardenberg on a transatlantic liner, he is fascinated. She’s exactly what he’s been searching for—a beautiful woman who interests and entices him. He falls hard and fast—and soon proposes marriage.

And then she disappears without a trace…

For in reality, the “baroness” is Venetia Easterbrook—a proper young widow who had her own vengeful reasons for instigating an affair with the duke. But the plan has backfired. Venetia has fallen in love with the man she despised—and there’s no telling what might happen when she is finally unmasked…

Polityczne intrygi, niedomówienia i tajemnice poliszynela. Starcia komunistów z opozycją – powieść ciekawa, wciągająca i pełna autoironicznego humoru.<

Millicent understands the terms of her arranged marriage all too well. She gets to be a Countess by marrying an impoverished Earl. And in return, the Earl Fitzhugh receives the benefit of her vast wealth, saving his family from bankruptcy. Because of her youth, they have agreed to wait eight years before consummating the marriage--and then, only to beget an heir. After which, they will lead separate lives.

It is a most sensible arrangement. Except for one little thing. Somehow Millie has fallen head over heels in love with her husband. Her husband, who has become her very best friend, but nothing more...Her husband, who plans to reunite with his childhood sweetheart, the beautiful and newly widowed Isabella, as soon as he has honored the pact with his wife...

As the hour they truly become husband-and-wife draws near, both Millie and Fitzhugh must face the truth in their hearts. Has their pact bred only a great friendship--or has it, without either of them quite noticing, given rise to a great love?

For young Prince Harpirias, the journey into the frozen tundra of the remote borderlands of Majipoor might well have been a death sentence. But it was also the only way out of a petty bureaucrat’s job in a provincial city, where he’d been exiled as punishment for a youthful indiscretion. Doomed to spend the rest of his days hopelessly separated from the Coronal’s glittering court, he grasps at his only hope — a mission that could represent suicide or salvation.

Somewhere beyond the nine guardian mountains of the Khyntor Marches, a party of paleontologists were captured while searching for the fossils of a fabled species of land-dwelling dragons. Their captors are a lost race of humans who, cut off from the majesty and civilization of Majipoor, have reverted to a primitive hunter-gatherer existence. Only one of the party has returned, a Shapeshifter named Korinaam, to bring back the terms for the release of the scientists.

Harpirias sets out on a mission of negotiation and rescue with a small band of soldiers and the wily Shapeshifter, who acts as both guide and interpreter. Facing blinding blizzards and slashing ice storms, physical privation and the attack of strange beasts, they finally reach their destination, only to find themselves face-to-face with a shockingly barbaric culture ruled by a dangerous chieftain. One mistake, one minor violation of custom and taboo, and the prince and his companions will face instant death or endless captivity.

Fidelma ermittelt in Norditalien.

Eigentlich wollte Fidelma in der Abtei Bobium bei Genua ihren alten Lehrer aus Kindertagen besuchen. Schon der Weg dorthin ist gefährlich, denn in der Gegend herrschen große Spannungen zwischen den Anhängern verschiedener christlicher Glaubensrichtungen. Fidelmas alter Lehrer hat seine Auffassung in aller Öffentlichkeit gepredigt und wurde dafür zusammengeschlagen. Fidelma kann gerade noch mit ihm reden, dann stirbt er. In der Abtei regiert die Angst, Gerüchte von einem sagenumwobenen Goldschatz gehen um. Man rät Fidelma immer wieder, so schnell wie möglich abzureisen. In einem fremden Land und ohne Kenntnis der Sprache dort gelingt es ihr, ein düsteres Geheimnis aufzudecken.

„Das beste an diesem Buch ist Schwester Fidelma - eine kluge, emanzipierte, mutige Frau, die ihre Widersacher in Grund und Boden argumentiert.“ Südwestrundfunk

Peter Tremayne ist das Pseudonym eines anerkannten Historikers, der sich auf die versunkene Kultur der Kelten spezialisiert hat. In seinen im 7. Jahrhundert spielenden historischen Romanen löst Schwester Fidelma, eine irische Nonne von königlichem Geblüt und gleichzeitig Anwältin bei Gericht, auf kluge und selbstbewusste Art die schwierigsten Fälle. Wegen des großen internationalen Erfolgs seiner Serie um Schwester Fidelma wurde Peter Tremayne 2002 zum Ehrenmitglied der Irish Literary Society auf Lebenszeit ernannt. 2007 erhielt er den Preis für die beste Krimiserie des französischen Verlags Univers Poche. Im Aufbau Taschenbuch erschienen bisher Die Tote im Klosterbrunnen (2000), Tod im Skriptorium (2001), Der Tote am Steinkreuz (2001), Tod in der Königsburg (2002), Tod auf dem Pilgerschiff (2002), Nur der Tod bringt Vergebung (2002), Ein Totenhemd für den Erzbischof (2003), Vor dem Tod sind alle gleich (2003), Das Kloster der toten Seelen (2004), Verneig dich vor dem Tod (2005), Tod bei Vollmond (2005), Tod im Tal der Heiden (2006), Der Tod soll auf euch kommen (2006), Ein Gebet für die Verdammten (2007), Tod vor der Morgenmesse (2007), Das Flüstern der verlorenen Seelen (2007), Tod den alten Göttern (2008), Das Konzil der Verdammten (2008), Der falsche Apostel (2009), Eine Taube bringt den Tod (2010), Der Blutkelch (2011), Die Todesfee (2011), Und die Hölle folgte ihm nach (2012), Die Pforten des Todes (2012) und Tod auf dem Pilgerschiff (2013).

Irmhild und Otto Brandstädter, Jahrgang 1933 bzw. 1927, haben Anglistik an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin studiert, waren im Sprachunterricht bzw. im Verlagswesen und kulturpolitischen Bereich tätig. Sie übertrugen Werke von Sean O’Casey, Jack London, John Hersey, Masuji Ibuse, Louisa May Alcott, Charles M. Doughty, John Keane, Joseph Caldwell sowie Historio-Krimis von Amy Myers, Ingrid Parker und Peter Tremayne ins Deutsche.

Die Originalausgabe unter dem Titel erschien 2011 bei Headline Book Publishing, London.

Эта история происходит в будущем, когда прогресс случается с такой скоростью, что человек не успевает осознать последствия научных открытий. За одну ночь пожар уничтожает Кингтаун — поселение гуманишей, сторонников гармонии с природой и противников прогресса. Трагедия ставит под вопрос переизбрание президента США Била Фримэна на второй срок.

Мия Арк оказывается в водовороте событий, когда ее просят защитить права гуманишей. Кто виноват в трагедии? Причастны ли к пожару роботы? Да и вообще кто есть кто в этом роботизированном, нанотехнологическом и ненатуральном мире?

Мия не знает, сможет ли она ответить на эти вопросы. Она не принадлежит к сильным мира сего. Она просто женщина…

On Majipoor — an immense world teeming with alien races and fantastic magical machinery, a certain Valentine wakes up one morning with only a vague and troubled idea of who he is. His dreams suggest he is the ruler of Majipoor — but no one believes him… so far.<

‘There's a room in there where millions of people of Majipoor have left memory-readings. You pick up a capsule, put it in a special slot and suddenly... you find yourself living in Lord Confalume's time, or Lord Siminave's, or out there fighting the Metamorph Wars…’

The archives of the House of Records of the planet Majipoor have been rediscovered by the boy Hissune in the time after the restoration of the Coronal Lord Valentine.

In tales of life, love, conflict and discovery, the complex and colourful world of Majipoor is explored from different perspectives, ranging across its long history and immense terrain.

In her international bestseller, , Margaret Thatcher provided an acclaimed account of her years as Prime Minister. This second volume reflects on the early years of her life and how they influenced her political career.<

The story presented here offers an episode dating back to a time before any of the Majipoor novels published so far — a period more than four thousand years before Valentine’s time, more than three thousand years before Prestimion. But its setting is ten thousand years after the time of the first human settlement, and the early history of Majipoor is already becoming legendary.<

When the young son of Elizabeth Lindstrom, the autocratic president of Starflight, falls to his death, Vance Garamond, a flickerwing commander, is the obvious target for Elizabeth’s grief and anger. She is not a forgiving employer and Garamond has no choice but to flee.

But fleeing Elizabeth’s wrath means leaving the Solar System behind for ever and hiding somewhere in deep space.

Pursued remorselessly by Earth’s space fleet, the ‘somewhere’ that Garamond discovers in an unimaginably vast, alien-built, spherical structure which could just change the destiny of the human race.

A sequel to .

Alien beings, Ultrans, built an enormous sphere, millions of times the size of Earth, which contains its own sun as a trap for sentient beings of the universe. The artificial world attracts the world’s population to such an extent that soon Earth is a half-deserted historical curiosity. Scientist Garry Dallen learns of the Ultrans’ plans second before Orbitsville and its population are whisked millions of light years into outer space.

Another year in mankind's war for survival against the insects. God is still on holiday, the Emperor still leads and his cadre of immortals are still quarreling amongst themselves. It is known that the insects are reaching the Fourlands from the Shift but now mankind just has to do something about it. And in the meantime attention shifts to new lands and a naval expedition is launched. And Jant, the Emperor's drug-addicted winged messanger is expected to join it. Just perfect for a man terrified of ships and the sea. Steph Swainston's trilogy is building to be a landmark of modern fantasy. This is a wildly imaginative, witty yet profound fantasy, peopled with bizarre yet real characters.<

Watch for the signs! What signs these shall be, I say unto you: first the earth will flow with the blood of Aen Seidhe, the Blood of Elves…

For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf.

Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world – for good, or for evil.

As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all – and the Witcher never accepts defeat.

Following The Last Wish, BLOOD OF ELVES is the new novel starring Geralt of Rivia, the inspiration for the critically-acclaimed videogame The Witcher.

Grubbs Grady and his half-brother Bill-E are thrilled to join their uncle Dervish as onset consultants for the newest movie by cult horror producer David A Hayms. Shot in a deserted town renamed Slawter, the demon-themed movie is to be Hayms's masterpiece. But as strange incidents disrupt the set, Grubbs begins to wonder whether more than filming is afoot.<

As demonic Fomorii ravage their land, Bec and a band of warrior companions leave their devastated rath to answer a plea for help. An orphaned priestess-in-training, Bec hopes the journey will help her solve the mysteries of her birth. But fighting demons has a steep price…<