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Ein kleiner Yeti ist einem Versuchslabor in Shanghai entkommen und sucht Zuflucht auf den Dächern der Millionenstadt. Dort begegnet er ausgerechnet dem neugierigen Teenager-Mädchen Yi und ihren Freunden Jin und Peng. Schnell wird klar, dass das Trio den kleinen Yeti, den sie kurzerhand auf den Namen "Everest“ taufen, nur vor dem finsteren Laborleiter Burnish und der Zoologin Dr. Zara retten können, wenn sie ihn zurück in seine Heimat bringen.

From the author of Ender's Game, the Hugo and Nebula award-winning international best seller, comes the parallel novel, Ender's Shadow. In the first book, child-hero Ender Wiggin battles a deadly alien race and wins. But Ender wasn't the only child in his Battle School. There was also Bean, the one who became Ender's right hand, his strategist, and his friend—the only one who was with him in the final battle. Now Bean's whole story is told.

The lessons taught by ancient Chinese philosophers surprisingly still apply, and they challenge our fundamental assumptions about how to lead a fulfilled, happy, and successful life. Self-discovery, it turns out, comes through looking outward, not inward. Power comes from holding back. Good relationships come from small gestures. Spontaneity comes from practice. And excellence comes from what you choose to do, not your "natural" abilities.

Listen to mystery stories by today's top writers and the masters who inspired them. The idea for this collection came to Mystery Writers of America Grandmaster Lawrence Block when he was asked, "What is your favorite mystery story?" Block compiled this unique collection by posing the same question to some of today's favorite writers of the genre, including Stephen King, Tony Hillerman, and John Lutz.

This collection of classic horror stories is sure to give you goose bumps, raise the hair on the back of your neck, and put some fright in your night. Includes Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper by Robert Bloch, Coin of the Realm by Charles L. Grant, Something Had to be Done by David Drake, The Graveyard Rats by Henry Kuttner, The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury, Calling Card by Ramsey Campbell, The Words of Guru by C.M. Kornbluth, and Passengers by Robert Silverberg.

This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion, but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: there are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives: the demands of family, friends, work, and social obligation. And there are times that the pull of those threads becomes greater than the strength of the relationship. In these times, no matter how much two people love each other, a relationship must grow strong or be torn apart.

This collection of classic horror tales is as remarkable for its literary value as for its scream factor. You'll hear stories by the masters of the genre, past and present.

Intrigue, crime, and murder create suspense in this edge-of-your-seat collection of cat mystery stories whose plots are all centered on a beloved feline, written by some of the finest, best-selling mystery writers of all time.

Im Londoner Hafenviertel verschwindet der angesehene Gentleman Neville St. Clair spurlos. Alle Beweise sprechen für Mord und der einzige Verdächtige ist ein Bettler mit grausam entstellter Lippe. Aber was sind seine Motive? Und wo ist die Leiche? Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson durchstreifen die Opiumhöhlen Londons, um der Lösung des Falls auf die Spur zu kommen.

Seite an Seite überqueren die beiden berühmten Schiffe "Queen Mary" und "Queen Elizabeth" den Atlantik. Auf welchem der beiden Schiffe sich die legendären Grabschätze aus dem Tal der Könige in Ägypten befinden, weiß niemand. Ihr Ziel ist New York, denn im Metropolitan Museum findet bald die größte Tutanchamun-Ausstellung aller Zeiten statt. Da die berühmte Hobbydetektivin Mimi Rutherfurt einem verdächtigen Meisterdieb persönlich bekannt ist, wird sie von Scotland Yard unter die Passagiere gemischt. Lange tappt die exzellente Beobachterin im Dunkeln. Bald aber schwimmt ein Toter im Meer und Miss Rutherfurt ahnt, sich auf ein höchst gefährliches Abenteuer eingelassen zu haben.

Based on a real-life event, a moneyed client at a progressive law firm pressures the partners to drop a pro bono case they passionately believe in. Will they choose the easy path to preserve their business or keep fighting for what they believe is right?

Somewhere in the vast and merciless ocean, an obsessed, vengeful madman holds Michael Stone's wife and daughter captive. With the aid of no more than a canoe and the stars, Michael must find and rescue his kidnapped family. He must conquer deadly winter gales and turbulent tides in order to reach the teeming cities of the Far East. Once there, cold-blooded assassins are awaiting - who are they? and how did they know he was coming?

Die Ghouls wollen sich Clara holen, doch zum Glück ist sie nicht in ihrer Wohnung. Ihre Nachbarin Linda Perlmann will dem Lärm, den die Ghouls verursachen, auf den Grund gehen, womit sie sich in Lebensgefahr begibt. Währenddessen erwacht Michael in einem gläsernen Sarg und ein dritter Ghoul will ihm ans Leben. Auch Mary und Edith, die ihrem Nachbarn zu Hilfe eilen wollen, begeben sich in Lebensgefahr, denn sie alle sind ... In den Klauen der Ghouls.

As Jews tried to escape Nazi Germany in the 1930s, they faced unthinkable roadblocks in obtaining exit visas. And while they were denied entry in one country after another, a bureaucratic oddity enabled some of them to flee to an unlikely destination: Shanghai, China. In this LATW original commission, playwright Kate McAll used the survivors’ own words to create a narrative of people starting their lives over in a completely new land.