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Labor organizer Padma Mehta is on the edge of space and the edge of burnout. All she wants is to buy out a little rum distillery and retire, but she's supposed to recruit 500 people to the Union before she can. She's only 33 short. So when a small-time con artist tells her about 40 people ready to tumble down the space elevator to break free from her old bosses, she checks it out - against her better judgment. It turns out, of course, it was all lies.

As a gunslinger trying to outrun his reputation, Smoke Jensen becomes caught up in the unrest in Johnson County, where cattle rustlers and vigilantes have become the law. Smoke will have to use all his skills as the West's most infamous gunfighter to survive the Hell that is about to be unleashed.

Across the border is another wanderer and another tribe. Preacher’s old enemy, Willie Deaver, plies a band of Indians with the deadliest combination possible: whisky, guns, and bullets — then directs them to try out their killing tools on the Assiniboine. The raid reaps a harvest of devastating death, bloodshed, and helpless captives. Deaver is all the more delighted when he learns Preacher is among the fallen.

Irishman Doug Monahan runs a fencing crew outside the south Texas town of Twin Wells, digging post-holes and stringing red painted barbed wire for ranchers as protection against wandering stock, rustlers and land hungry thugs. Monahan's fencing operation is opposed by Captain Andrew Rinehart, a former Confederate officer and an old-school open range baron of the huge R Cross spread. With his brutal foreman, Archer Spann, assigned to the violent work, Rinehart wages a barbed wire war against Doug Monahan. And neither side takes prisoners!

Come away with us now to the far off future days of AD 1985, after men have landed on the moon! When Space Marshal Rory Rammer, and his sidekick, "Skip" Sagan, guard the rule of law and the rights of the innocent from the skies of Earth to the orbit of the moon!

Eine der beliebtesten Manga-Serien endlich als Hörspiel-Blockbuster. Folge 10: "Karma-Polizei": Seit der Befreiung von Sayu befindet sich das DEATH NOTE in den Händen des kriminellen Mello. Doch Light gibt sich nicht so schnell geschlagen und will es sich zurückholen. Sein Ermittlerteam macht Mello in einer alten Lagerhalle der Mafia aus und bereitet sich auf eine gefährliche Razzia vor. Zusammen mit seinen Kollegen und seinem pensionierten Vater stürmt Light das Gebäude und gerät dabei in einen tödlichen Hinterhalt.

Mimi Rutherfurt erhält unerwarteten Besuch einer verzweifelten älteren Dame. Lady Cynthia Craven glaubt ihren Verstand zu verlieren. Seit einigen Tagen scheint es auf dem Landsitz der Familie zu spuken. Warum jedoch scheint dies nur die Hausherrin zu bemerken? Versucht jemand die Dame des Hauses in den Wahnsinn zu treiben oder wird ihr Heim tatsächlich von Geistern heimgesucht? Mimi zögert nicht lang und bietet ihre Hilfe an.

The war continues, and the undead ravage the land. Jirom, Horace, and Emanon begin to hope they might free the empire. But can they manage to do so before the dark king conquers the world? 

Does Horace have the power and strength to save what he fought so hard to win? In a setting reminiscent of ancient Egypt and Babylon, where God-Kings and God-Queens hold the power of life and death, Horace, the one-time slave who became a powerful magician, has turned the tables on his former masters. Follow Horace, Alyra, and Jirom as they navigate the hurdles of managing the slave rebellion under the Akeshian Empire's nose. But evil is not content to sit back and let them gather their strength. A new threat is coming in the form of an unstoppable army of the walking dead.

In a setting reminiscent of ancient Egypt and Babylon, where God-Kings and God-Queens hold the power of life and death in their hands, Horace, the one-time slave who became a powerful magician, has turned the tables on his former masters. Follow Horace, Alyra, and Jirom as they navigate the hurdles of managing the slave rebellion under the Akeshian Empire's nose. But evil is not content to sit back and let them gather their strength. A new threat is coming in the form of an unstoppable army of the walking dead.

Daniel Provost is the son of a farmer. Living up to his father's high standards for the farm is very hard work, but his life is basically comfortable and a loving woman is waiting to become his wife. When a well-traveled stranger, bearing a story of Jim Bowie's legendary silver mine, appears at the farm, Daniel might just throw away everything for the chance at adventure he thought had passed him by.

Born and bred in the Texas Pandhandle town of Comanche Crossing, William "Wild Bill" Longley gunned down a dozen of its men in cold blood before he got around to the sheriff and deputy - so he could take over the job himself. Then he found the perfect sidekick in a vicious career criminal named Booker Tate. 

Desperately short of supplies, Ryan and his companions are forced to seek help at the prosperous-looking ville of Amity Springs. Hired on to retrieve a stolen relic, they quickly become caught up in an escalating power struggle between two strong-willed lady barons. Each woman covets the cache of predark goods buried in the ville's backyard. But they are not alone in their desire. And all that stands between a motherlode of buried bounty and the destructive power of unchecked greed is Ryan's grim determination to survive another day.

Devastation from the nukewar shattered civilization and left a planet both primitive and ripe for rebirth - or retaking. While the balance of power has fallen to avaricious, amoral barons, a handful of humanity still holds hope of a future worth fighting for or dying to defend. If a better life inside the hellground exists, Ryan Cawdor and his friends will find it.

The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials appointed by the Trump White House. Known in health care circles for his ability to turn around ailing hospitals, Dr...

Um sich vor den Hausaufgaben zu drücken, behilft sich Pinocchio mit dem Zauber eines Zwerges, dessen Name allen unbekannt ist. Nachdem dieser Pinocchio und einigen Freunden geholfen hat, ihre Hausaufgaben auf magische Weise zu erledigen, verlangt der Zwerg goldene Belohnungen, darunter Mamma Mangiares mit Gold verziertes Kochbuch.

The loyalties that united the Cerberus warriors have become undone, as a bizarre messenger from the future provides a look into encroaching horror and death. Kane and his band have one option: Fix two fatal fault lines in the time continuum — and rewrite history before it happens. But first they must restore power to the barons who dare to defy the greater evil: the mysterious new Imperator.  

Der französische Bildhauer Auguste Bartholdi tourt durch die Vereinigten Staaten, um Geld für sein neuestes Projekt zu sammeln: die Freiheitsstatue! Doch der Gefängnisdirektor Abraham Locker will auf der Felseninsel vor New York lieber ein ausbruchsicheres Gefängnis bauen und sabotiert Bartholdis Pläne, wo er kann. Zum Glück hält Lucky Luke seine schützende Hand über den Franzosen. Deshalb soll er ihn auch nach Europa begleiten, um den Transport der Statue nach Amerika zu sichern.

Als der junge Graf Hyppolit die anmutige Aurelie kennenlernt, ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Schon kurz darauf heiratet er seine Angebetete. Doch was hat es mit den nächtlichen Ausflügen auf sich, die Aurelie unternimmt, sobald ihr Gatte auf mysteriöse Weise in einen tiefen Schlaf gefallen ist? Der Graf beschließt, dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen und verfolgt seine Frau...

Seinen Eltern entrissen und in der Wildnis verloren, muss sich der Junge Mogli so einigen Gefahren stellen. Neben den anarchistischen und chaotischen Affen hegt auch der blutrünstige Tiger Shere Khan Interesse an dem Menschenjungen. Doch zum Glück findet Mogli im unbarmherzigen indischen Dschungel auch einige gute Freunde – allen voran natürlich Baloo, den Bären, und Baghira, den Puma... Eine nicht ganz so kindliche Interpretation des Klassikers von Rudyard Kipling.