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In 2036, college-bound Paul gets pushed into playing a video game called Thousand Tales. Its playful AI gamemaster, Ludo, wants a few favors from him and from his ambitious friend Linda. The reward? Immortality. Ludo starts selling "uploading", a process that puts a human mind permanently into the game world. In there you can shape-shift, fight monsters, cast spells, even fall in love.

Harper. Freundschaft? Familie? Konzepte, mit denen ich nicht viel anfangen kann. Seit ich in meiner Kindheit auf die harte Tour lernen musste, dass ich nicht genüge, schlage ich mich allein durchs Leben. Nicht unbedingt erfolgreich, aber man kann schließlich nicht alles haben. Nach ein paar Gläsern zu viel wache ich in der Wohnung dieses Fremden auf. Er ist sexy und aufdringlich und gibt mir das Gefühl, die Eine zu sein. Aber das kann nicht sein. Wir kennen uns doch gar nicht! An so etwas wie Liebe auf den ersten Blick glaube ich jedenfalls nicht. Oder ...? Dylan.

Summoned to another world where gods and monsters roam, Julian continues his streak of bad luck. Rather than touching the Godcore directly, he let his smartphone absorb it. Now, he's got to figure out how to make the Godcore and his phone work together to help the people who summoned him survive their upcoming annihilation by the mad God of Chains.

Gen-X computer hacker Toby is a classic American: impulsive, irreverent, intelligent, and inventive. And, after a silly accident in 2008, he can add “inanimate” to the list—because Toby is dead. But only for a while. Eighty years later, medical science has advanced enough to bring Toby back to life.

One month after being stranded on a fantasy world and finding his place with the town that has welcomed him, Julian is ready to upgrade his Godcore to the next tier and expand the Factory.

There are cowboy boots on his feet, pop-up hints appearing in his vision, and, oh yeah, there’s a mariachi band in his head. The world's not going to slow down and let him catch up though, no, it's going to throw a chrome hover car at him and hope he gets the picture.

Stan can't afford to have his brain removed. The richest and luckiest players of the video game "Thousand Tales" get their minds uploaded to its virtual paradise world, while Stan can barely buy a handheld console. Instead of sulking he plays, and grows, becoming a skilled craftsman and a seafaring explorer. The game's ruling AI, Ludo, helps him find the hope and inspiration missing from his real life. When the AI starts asking for favors and having him reach out between the real and digital worlds, Stan has a chance to turn his life into an actual adventure.

On the way home one day, 13-year-old Keith Croft stops at a neighbor’s yard sale and discovers a book for Crypts & Creepers that the lonely old woman says belonged to her granddaughter who disappeared without a trace. Days after he convinces his friends to try this bizarre game that doesn’t require electronics, strange noises in his closet wake him. His increasing inability to focus on anything other than a girl who vanished before he was born - and his obsession with her NPC ranger - drives him to dig deeper into the past, searching for what really happened to her.

Excited to get the Stargun Agency up and off the ground, Chuck and his group set out to get more money, more personnel, and a whole lot more moon. Finding everything from outlaws to accountants in their travels around the space western-themed rock, they quickly expand their operation and make new allies to secure their strengthening foothold of the Stargun Agency compound, all the while ignoring a growing threat on the horizon. Thrilling gunfights, bizarre characters, pulse-pounding missions, and a whole lot more await in the second adventure in the Galactic Badlands saga.

Times are hard for folks and it’s even harder for siblings Calvin and Abigail Shepherd after the untimely death of their mother at the height of the Great Depression. With dust storms ravaging their home in Ross, Oklahoma, they wonder how they are going to make ends meet.

Zwei Jahrhunderte lang verschwanden alle Darling-Mädchen an ihrem 18. Geburtstag. Manche für einen Tag, andere für eine Woche oder einen Monat. Aber sie kamen immer gebrochen zurück. Heute, am Nachmittag meines 18. Geburtstags, vergewissert sich meine Mutter, dass alle Fenster im Haus verriegelt und alle Türen abgeschlossen sind. Vergeblich. Sobald es dunkel wird, kommt er zu mir. Und diesmal lassen mich der Nimmerkönig und die Verlorenen Jungs nicht gehen.

In need of a new king, the choosing tower fills with names, and Gordon is relieved he has no chance at the crown. He hopes his sweetblood illness takes him out of the running; making it all the more shocking when he's chosen. The beginning of a nightmare that forces Gordon to flee his own kingdom.

The night before her wedding and honeymoon on Titanic's maiden voyage, Louise discovers the man she was to marry is a hardened criminal. Desperate to escape and protect her younger sister, she does the only thing she can think of to hide—become a mail order bride and mother to two young children. Louise knows nothing of mothering or managing a home, and it’s sure to be the perfect cover.

Die Volksparteien sind in der Defensive. In den Jahren der großen Koalitionen hat sich der politische Meinungsstreit an die Ränder des politischen Spektrums verlagert. Sie werden immer stärker, während die politische Mitte weithin sprachlos bleibt. Die SPD befindet sich im freien Fall, doch auch die CDU verliert immer weiter an Wählerzuspruch – eine hochbrisante Entwicklung für das Parteiensystem und die parlamentarische Demokratie, wie wir sie kennen.

Lagan kann seinen Juraprofessor Killian Evans nicht ausstehen. Er ist ein arroganter, versnobter Besserwisser, der auf jeden herabschaut, der nicht seinen Ansprüchen genügt. Wenn er nur nicht so verdammt heiß wäre.Wenn Lagan nur nicht eine ganz andere Lektion von ihm wollen würde … Killian verachtet Lagan Foster zutiefst. Er ist ein fauler, unaufmerksamer Student, der sich kaum dazu aufraffen kann, in einer Vorlesung aufzupassen, und nie etwas abgibt, das mehr als ein C verdient.Wenn er nur nicht so verdammt heiß wäre.

Blake Monroe verliert eine Wette mit Jordan Brooks und nimmt eine Rolle als schwuler Protagonist an, die seine Karriere gefährden könnte. Als die Produktion gestoppt wird und eine erfundene Geschichte die Medien erreicht, müssen Blake und Jordan untertauchen. Wegen eines unbedachten Fotos und Jordans verbittertem Ex-Freund stehen nun ihre Karrieren auf dem Spiel. Willkommen in Hollywood – dem Land der Skandale und PR-Albträume. Um den Ärger über seinen Ex zu verdrängen, beginnt Jordan ein "Method Acting"-Experiment mit Blake. Blake findet überraschend schnell Gefallen an seiner Rolle

In her first-ever solo anthology, New York Times best-selling author Rebecca Cantrell demonstrates her award-winning skill with four wonderful stories - including the prequel to her Hannah Vogel series where Ernst Vogel explores the shadowy world of Weimar-era Berlin as he investigates the murder of a young cigarette boy at his cabaret. The collection also includes a journey through the wreckage of postwar Berlin in a search for hope, a fated meeting on a train to a concentration camp, and a supernatural warrior protecting a shtetl in wartime Czechoslovakia.

Pay to play. Since the beginning of gaming this has been the norm; you pay the company and you can play their game. So, it's no surprise that Alex Stanton was living every gamer's dream. It was the opposite for him. He was getting paid to play. The latest in virtual reality gaming, in both graphics and hardware, was being beta tested by the largest retailer of online gaming, AltCon. But before they could go live, they wanted serious beta testers. So serious, AltCon was willing to pay and ensure their lives revolved around the Beta, and the Beta only.

Resurgence. Hands down the best Virtual Reality Massive-Multi Online Role Playing Game. Ever. There is no comparison between Resurgence and any other game, or Altcon and any other company, as any of the thousands of beta testers will attest. Any beta tester but Alex, anyway. Alex knows Resurgence is more than a game, and that others have likely died so Resurgence could be released to the public. The truth weighs upon him, though the mystery of AltCon's true endgame is the real cause of his frustrations

Du glaubst, du weißt, wer ich bin, wenn du mich siehst - der Mann, der alles unter Kontrolle hat. Doch hinter der Fassade verstecke ich ein Leben voller Schuld, Dunkelheit und Geheimnisse, die niemand erfahren darf. An meinen Händen klebt Blut. Immer wenn ich meine Augen schließe, sehe ich ihre Augen. Ihre toten Augen. Du bist nicht Teil meines Plans. Genau genommen solltest du niemals in mein Leben treten. Mit all deinem Chaos, deiner Tollpatschigkeit und deinem Lachen, das mich wahnsinnig macht. Und dann bist ausgerechnet du diejenige, die in mir liest wie in einem offenen Buch.