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Spike, a psychologist and activist, and Jane, a philosopher and writer, leave their dead-end temping jobs in Toronto and head for Paris – in their lunch break – by car, stopping frequently to stock up on chocolate. En route they pick up X, an extraterrestrial from a planet where chocolate is one of the major food groups and testosterone is a prohibited substance. X is cosmically, galactically lost in Earth’s backwardly gendered society. Jane and Spike decide to take a detour and help X...
| Автор | Jass Richards |
The Fifteens of Stone House have reached Attainment: the day a girlie may Beseech for the privilege of serving as a Perfected womanidol in the Orchid Nursery. When vivacious, irreverent Pearl goes missing, pious Mica hopes fervently that her friend has been chosen for Perfection and has not, as she fears, absconded from the State. Mica feels bound by love and duty to seek Pearl – to save her from punishment if she is caught by the Ecumen or, worse, if she has left Civilisation. Mica’s search...
| Автор | Louise Katz |
Deep-hidden in evil, Satan's Suicide Club sat in council – and men died. What dreadful force drove these men, leaders of society with everything to live for, to end their lives at the behest of that sinister being who sardonically called himself Professor Mephisto? And why did men and women suffer the tortures of the damned rather than defy this mysterious being? Richard Wentworth once more assumes the cloak of the Spider to free these lost ones from a living hell and a disgraceful death –...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Deeper and deeper New York had sunk in the toils of the Underworld czar – until its entire population had been regimented by the Black Police into a Kingdom of Crime! Everywhere marched the evil emperor's cohorts, collecting the taxes that meant death; and the law was at a standstill. In that moment of desperation, one man had a heaven-sent inspiration. For now Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, resolved to fight the Underworld with its own merciless weapons. With New York's own police...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
The Spider heard the first dread rumors in the secret councils of the Underworld. A keen-witted, ambitious criminal leader named El Gaucho – backed by a powerful army of brutal killers – was pillaging the West. Looting, ravaging, slaughtering wantonly, the master-mind of crime was ruthlessly following a plan which would make him King of America! Richard Wentworth – the debonair aristocrat who is in truth the deadly Spider, protector of the oppressed – knew that he must strike quickly, or die!...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Naia dreams of becoming a Jaihar Blademaster, but after assaulting a teacher, her future seems ruined. The timely intervention of a powerful stranger suddenly elevates her into elite Upper Grounds training. She has no idea that the stranger is Dal Gassan, head of the Daljeer Circle. Seventeen years ago he witnessed the massacre of Challimar's court and rescued its sole survivor, a baby girl. Gassan plans to thrust a blade into the machinations of imperial succession: Naia. Disguised as the...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Ein Mensch, der von der Magie beherrscht wird, ein Zwerg, der kaum zaubern kann, ein übergewichtiger Zwergelbe, ein hinkender Ork. Sie können die Welt retten – oder vernichten. Krieg überzieht Razuklan. Täglich landen Hunderte Vonynen an den Küsten des Kontinents und verwüsten ganze Landstriche. Bald wird die dunkle Zauberin auch die letzte magische Quelle zerstören. Der Drianyorden schaut diesem Treiben scheinbar unbeteiligt zu. Die Studenten der Âlaburg müssen eingreifen, um die Zauberin...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Im Kaiserreich Aramtesch haben Düfte Macht – und diejenigen, die sie beherrschen! Ausgerechnet am Blütenmond passiert in den geheimen Gärten der Hüterin der Düfte die Katastrophe: Der Kronprinz, der gerade erst angereist war, liegt vergiftet am Boden. Rakel, der armen Dienerin mit einem besonderen Talent für Düfte, und Ash, dem Leibwächter des Prinzen, fällt die eigentlich unlösbare Aufgabe zu, das rettende Gegenmittel zu finden. Dafür müssen die beiden kryptische Geheimnisse aus uralten Zeiten...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Selbst in ihren wildesten Träumen hätten sich Martin Banks und seine Computerfreak-Freunde nicht ausmalen können, dass sie eines Tages der Gnade ihres ehemaligen Zauberlehrlings ausgeliefert sein würden, den sie wegen groben Magie-Missbrauchs und ganz allgemein bösen Verhaltens ins Gefängnis gebracht hatten. Wer hätte gedacht, dass der rachgierige Todd entkommen würde, um dann ein Computerspiel voller Wölfe, Weibsbilder, Wüstenei und anderer grauenhafter Gefahren heraufzubeschwören – und seine...
| Автор | Scott Meyer |
"A book to rival TWILIGHT and VAMPIRE DIARIES, and one that will have you wanting to keep reading until the very last page! If you are into adventure, love and vampires this book is the one for you!" <br>–Vampirebooksite.com (Turned)<br><br>The #1 Bestselling series! THE VAMPIRE JOURNALS, comprising 11 books, tells the story of 18 year old Caitlin Paine, who finds herself uprooted from her nice suburb and forced to attend a dangerous New York City high school when her Mom...
| Автор | Morgan Rice |
For ten grim years, the Spider battled the underworld, imprinting his scarlet seal on the bodies of the criminals he slew. No one knew his name. His face was unknown. Pursued by the police, sought by the mob, the Master of Men crushed crime with a blazing intensity never witnessed before or since. Now he's back in a series of riveting audiobooks adapting his most intense adventures from the pulpy pages of The Spider magazine, as chronicled by Norvell W. Page, writing as Grant Stockbridge!...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
No criminal dared testify against another, while the Whisper was crime-emperor of New York – and the forces of the law were powerless against the ravages of the Underworld! For when the Whisper's eerie warning fell over Manhattan men died, slashed to bloody bits by a weapon that was invisible but killed horribly! In that awestruck city of riotous crime, where a murmuring voice brought instantaneous death, Richard Wentworth, in the Spider's strange garb, took up a doomed people's...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Never before had a shrewd criminal leader so successfully defied the Law – and the Spider's sure vengeance! A powerful Eastern murder syndicate, employing two deadly weapons, held America for ransom, spreading pain and terror and red destruction… Never had the Spider's struggle against the Underworld seemed so futile, for the name of Richard Wentworth was disgraced, his fortune was forfeit, and his beloved had betrayed him into the hands of the police – and certain death! Slaves of the...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
New York was powerless in the hands of the Black Police and its maddened master – and when men dared oppose this red regime of the Underworld, they were struck down by a frightful plague! Even the Federal government, which had stepped in to hold a New Deal for Manhattan, found itself hopelessly defeated by intimidated ballots at the polls! In this moment of black despair, a single, desperate hope remained. For Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, had come down from his mountain retreat. With him...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
When the narcotics-peddling Bloody Serpent and his army of pushers kidnap Nita van Sloan, Richard Wentworth goes on the warpath-as the Spider! Knowing that Nita's cruel captors intend to transform her into a debased drug addict, the Master of Men assembles a collection of fearsome weapons and equipment, then charges into the Underworld's secret crime nests to inflict terror on all criminals. Will Wentworth's need to save his beloved force him to knuckle under the Bloody...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
It began with the appearance of a creepily-gaunt apparition on the streets of New York. The Skeleton Man, they called him. A veiled figure as stark and unnerving as the Grim Reaper. Then, innocent citizens began dying like flies sprayed by DDT! Smokers. Drinkers. Even common coffee was laced with tasteless death. Into this living hell plunges Richard Wentworth, determined to root out the faceless terrorist behind the wholesale poisoning of everything from tobacco to tea. And where Wentworth...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
A shrill scream pierced the quiet night as the mighty Plutonic breasted the glassy waves. As if at a signal, countless passengers, young and old, men and women, were seized by an epidemic of frantic self-destruction. By water, fire, steel and lead they tried eagerly to hurl themselves into oblivion – into the greedy arms of Anubis, grim Egyptian deity of death! Richard Wentworth, who defended humanity in the guise of the dread Spider, recognized the suicide-mania immediately as an extremely...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Who is the Spider? More just than the Law. More dangerous than the underworld! Hated, wanted, feared by both! Alone and desperate, he wages deadly, one-man war against the supercriminal whose long-planned crime coup will snuff a thousand lives! Can the Master of Men prevent this slaughter of innocents? Celebrated crime author R. T. M. Scott introduces the sinister Spider in his premiere case. Go with criminologist Richard Wentworth during his first electrifying adventure, in which the avenging...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Never again would the Spider wage battle against crime – this Richard Wentworth had sworn to himself as he found sanctuary in a quiet rural retreat to nurse back to health the woman he loved. Yet, into that peaceful spot swept a whirlwind of horrible butchery like none he had ever seen – New York's sewers pouring out the Underworld's rabid hordes to engulf the countryside in a tidal wave of racketeer ruin! Whole towns were given their choice of paying blood money to a legion of...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Over the tabernacle meeting rose the old man's shout, "This is a phony religion, you dumb psalm-singers! There is only one true religion, and that is – " Then, horrified, incredulous, the victimized worshipers beheld that defiant figure suddenly snuffed out in fire and smoke. For a new hysteria was sweeping the nation – headed by one who called himself the reincarnation of Zoroaster. His god was the Fire God, and men must pay tribute in money and adoration – or die! Hundreds perished in...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Overnight, a bizarre crime wave had gripped New York, turning America's First Families into criminals who, for savage lawlessness, outdid the Underworld! Society's Four Hundred had now become a ghastly, blood-thirsting set of thieves and murderers. Embezzlements and bank frauds had terrorized Manhattan and pauperized a helpless people. In this topsy-turvy world of terror, Richard Wentworth, as the Spider, set out to save a betrayed civilization – from a mystic Hindu crime-czar who had...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Vashaels Leben ändert sich unerwartet, als eines der sagenumwobenen Ao in ihm erwacht. Ein Licht, das seinem Träger unbeschreibliche Macht verleiht. Er wurde auserwählt ein Bewahrer zu sein und ist fortan dazu verpflichtet, dem Orden des Lichts beizutreten, um das Land vor einer finsteren Bedrohung zu beschützen. Schon bald muss Vashael allerdings erkennen, dass der Orden einige finstere Geheimnisse hütet, die ihn an seiner Überzeugung zweifeln lassen. Er und seine Gefährten stehen fortan einer...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Galharrow hat durch den Tod der Frau, die er liebte, jede Hoffnung verloren. Und so wendet er sich wieder seinem alten Leben zu, das geprägt ist von Brutalität und von Alkohol, um die Brutalität wieder zu vergessen. Noch rücksichtsloser als zuvor geht er gegen die Schergen der Dunklen Könige vor, jagt sie und richtet sie hin. Da erfährt Galharrow von einem leuchtenden Schatten, der immer wieder gesehen wird. Was hat es damit auf sich? Und kann die Lichterscheinung wirklich die Erlösung bringen,...
| Автор | Ed McDonald |
Darrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left the town of Bramwell to walk the wide world as a soldier of fortune and champion of the realm. But Bramwell is not as he left it. Something dark and terrifying has ensnared the townsfolk, something very old and very patient, tangling innocents in a web of malice and profaning the very earth itself. Now that same power calls to Darrick and his only hope may be to walk the same perilous path of damnation. Darrick Lang is coming home. Years ago he left...
| Автор | Mel Odom |