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Silence of the Soleri is the action-packed sequel to the epic fantasy novel Lev Grossman calls "bloody and utterly epic."Solus celebrates the Opening of the Mundus, a two-day holiday for the dead, but the city of the Soleri is hardly in need of diversion. A legion of traitors, led by a former captain of the Soleri military, rallies at the capital's ancient walls. And inside those fortifications, trapped by circumstance, a second army fights fo...

Fight, Kid! is a novella told through the eyes of Benny Schultz, an old trainer living in a new world that left him behind. Expressed in humorous language and contemporary tone, it is a story of goals missed inside-and out-of the ring.Keith Way, Benny's young and impressionable fighter, is moving up weight classes to fight heavyweight Buster Davis. During training sessions, diner-cooked meals, and bouts of tough love, we learn early on that Ke...

Tajen's mission to seek aid from the Kelvaki Assembly is cut short when the Zhen invade Earth. Now he, Liam, and Kiri must return to Earth and liberate the colony from brutal occupation. When Tajen learns the Zhen plan to destroy a human fleet amassing in preparation to help Earth, he and his crew must escape the planet once more and warn them.

The sequel to The Widening Gyre, praised by Locus, ScienceFiction.com, Booklist, Library Journal and more! Reclaiming Earth from the Zhen was only the first battle. Now Tajen Hunt and his fellow colonists must fight for their fledgling colony's survival. Tajen's mission to seek aid from the Kelvaki Assembly is cut short when the Zhen invade Earth. Now he, Liam, and Kiri must return to Earth and liberate the colony from brutal occupation. When ...

The sequel to The Widening Gyre, praised by Locus, ScienceFiction.com, Booklist, Library Journal and more! Reclaiming Earth from the Zhen was only the first battle. Now Tajen Hunt and his fellow colonists must fight for their fledgling colony's survival. Tajen's mission to seek aid from the Kelvaki Assembly is cut short when the Zhen invade Earth. Now he, Liam, and Kiri must return to Earth and liberate the colony from brutal occupation. When ...

Once a war hero of the Zhen Empire, Tajen Hunt has become a freelance starship pilot. When his estranged brother is murdered, Tajen discovers that Imperial agents killed him. Betrayed by the Empire he used to serve, Tajen gathers a crew and sets out to finish his brother's quest-to find the long-lost human homeworld, Earth.

Once a war hero of the Zhen Empire, Tajen Hunt has become a freelance starship pilot. When his estranged brother is murdered, Tajen discovers that Imperial agents killed him. Betrayed by the Empire he used to serve, Tajen gathers a crew and sets out to finish his brother's quest-to find the long-lost human homeworld, Earth.

The Widening Gyre is the best Space Opera I've read in years." — Cemetery Dance OnlineThe Remembrance War Book 1Eight hundred years ago, the Zhen Empire discovered a broken human colony ship drifting in the fringes of their space. The Zhen gave the humans a place to live and folded them into their Empire as a client state. But it hasn't been easy. Not all Zhen were eager to welcome another species into their Empire, and humans have faced perse...

Corruption is once again high on the international policy agenda as a result of globalization, the spread of democracy, and major scandals and reform initiatives

Schlimmer als befürchtet Wo steuert diese Präsidentschaft hin? Und vor allem: Welche Folgen birgt sie für uns? David Cay Johnston, einer der besten Kenner des amtierenden amerikanischen Präsidenten, zieht nach dem ersten Jahr mit Donald Trump eine düstere Bilanz: Die Lage der Wirtschaft ist desolat, die globale Sicherheit in permanenter Bedrohung, das Alltagsleben spürbar eingeschränkt. Ein schockierendes Buch, nicht nur über den Präsidenten...

Opportunities is a five-level course for teenagers. Modules of topic-based units provide rich, contemporary content based on a wide variety of information themes. With a discovery approach to grammar and an upfront focus on vocabulary, Opportunities ensures the most effective language learning for students.

showing that contrary to the commonly held view that romances are representative of the "popular culture" of their day, in fact such texts appealed primarily to the gentry, England's elite landowners who lacked titles of nobility.

Since the first edition of this book was published in 1992, the number of pharmacological therapies available for treating neurological disorders has grown exponentially. This new edition brings the book fully up-to-date, and features PET scans to illustrate brain action, and new chapters on practical therapeutics and clinical trials.

These essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world we live in is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. Never before has such an ambitious and wide-ranging review been attempted, and never before has it been done with so much knowledge and passion. The principal themes covered in this volume are those of environment, place a...

The second edition of Neurobiology of Disease includes nearly 200 articles surveying all major disorders of the nervous system in both adults and children. Each article focuses on relevant diagnosis and treatment from the perspective of cutting edge clinical and basic neurobiological research.

Explores four types of corruption and the implications for reform, emphasizing practical ways to check abuses of wealth and power.

Analyse and address organisational challenges using real world examples  Service Operations Management,  5th Edition,  by Robert Johnston et al. is a market-leading text on service operations management and provides a clear understanding of how service performance can be improved inorganisations.  This textbook applies underlying theories to the real world challenges faced by service operations managers on a daily basis, by providing a diverse...

Inspirierend, humorvoll und berührend! Basierend auf wahren Begebenheiten Ken Matthews ist ein aufstrebender Investment Banker, der alles dafür tut, um noch erfolgreicher zu werden. Um eine steinreiche alte Dame zu beeindrucken, die er als Kundin gewinnen möchte, meldet er sich freiwillig als Betreuer für ein Ferienlager ihrer Kirchengemeinde. Im Camp trifft er auf den 10-jährigen Eli - einen Jungen, der ein tiefes Misstrauen gegen Erwachsene ...

Ambitious art historian Bill Maguire searches Paris for a subject for his doctoral thesis and follows up faint clues about once-famous abstract painter Alexander Golden. He and Anna Glover find Golden's farmhouse hideaway and make a discovery that adds love, greed, insanity, academic dishonesty, and very likely murder into the mix before leading to a completely unforeseen outcome.

Includes two folded sheets of patterns tipped in.