Libertus accepts a contract to install a pavement for Genialis, a self-important citizen from a nearby town, in the house of the customer's intended but unwilling and young bride, Silvia. However, the winter is exceptionally severe, and although the mosaic is laid in time to earn the promised bonus, Genialis goes missing in the snow before payment can be made. Meanwhile, at an important feast, the sacrifice is spoiled as an aged priest lets go of the sacrificial ram – and when news arrives that the Emperor is dead, it seems that these dark omens are being realised. The subsequent discovery of not one, but two mutilated corpses only adds to this. Who holds the answer to the mysteries? Everyone had motive; Libertus attempts to solve the mystery against a backdrop of superstitious fear of auguries, and public riots following the confirmation of the Emperor's death.

Book SummaryBeasts or Men. Friend or Foe. Truth or Lie.Everything has a counterpart. There's always another side to a coin and to a person. Though, with these boys, I'm not sure if there's any light left in them. Maybe once upon a time they had a tender side. One that allowed mercy to lead their judgment... But that didn't exist within them anymore. Something snuffed out their brighter side and I wanted to know what it was. They were the most stunning kind of men within the world's standards. But I saw what the jaded eyes didn't. Under their beauty lied beasts of suffering. I noticed, so my bullies made me their target. They lashed their anger out on me. My pain excited them. I should've ran. I should've been smarter than this...Yet, I couldn't back down. I couldn't let them win. With how messed up I was, part of me craved their cruelness. Longed for their attention--even if it was only negative. Whether this mistake ends me or not, I've never felt more alive. Now, it was just unraveling their secrets to help me win this sick and twisted game. *WARNING: Triggers for sexual and physical abuse.

The Children of Amarid now know that invaders from Tobyn-Ser's sister land of Lon-Ser are responsible for the deadly attacks on their people. But their Order is paralyzed by infighting and indecision, and it is only a matter of time before the next invasion begins. To prevent this a rebellious young mage names Orris undertakes a journey into the darkest heart of Lon-Ser. There he will find technological marvels and industrial terrors unlike anything in Tobyn-Ser, a long-lost splinter of the Children of Amarid, and an extraordinary woman whose actions will either save him--or plunge both lands into all-out war.

It is a science fiction trilogy that collects three previous novels "THE DOORS OF THE WORLDS", "UNIVERSAL MESSAGE" and "COSMIC ARALD". The saga narrates the adventures of a charismatic anthropologist who has reactivated some innate faculties of the human being, now dormant, Carlos Vida, who, after receiving from the Universal Mind the task of guiding humanity to the Land promised by the Holy Scriptures, will have to escape the ambushes set by the Lords of Light, powerful multidimensional entities that have always tried to appropriate the human soul. He will lead his faithful companions into super-secret military bases that hide vital information revealed by humanity's greatest prophets, as well as into the heart of alien bases set up in Antarctica and on the dark side of the Moon. In the end, the space fighters of a remote star system will fight the decisive confrontation between the forces of good and evil. The mythical terrestrial heroes will face the boundless legions of those who were once Angels and Gods, in a pressing succession of actions, and twists, that will keep the reader in suspense until the end ... but, fortunately, they will never be alone! The book is translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant. ?Season 2 of Good Omens coming soon! “Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It’s a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick.” —Washington Post According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner. So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture. And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .

Each book in the Northern Michigan Asylum Series is a stand-alone novel. What if you knew the day of your death?Eleven years ago today, Bette's and Crystal's mother died. The sisters observe the day each year with a visit to her grave. As Bette stands in the forlorn cemetery, large oaks watching in silent contemplation, Crystal does not arrive.Flummoxed, though it's too early to panic, Bette embarks on the usual calls and stops in search of her free-spirited sister.However, minutes soon turn into hours, and hours turn into days.As more secrets pour from Crystal's life, it becomes clear that Crystal sensed the sinister destiny awaiting her. Step into a story of the missing, the murdered, and the people who carry their secrets to the grave.

Book I - Trinity of the Dark Legacy Cycle details the violent end of the Kai Order-an ancient, spiritual guild of warrior guardians and priestesses who have sworn their lives to protect the Oracle Queen of Atlantis-at the hands of Maniok, the being referred to as the "Great Evil" in the age-old Song of the Oracle King. It is a chronicle of Arkan, the last Kai guardian, and his desperate attempt to save the life of his priestess who carries his unborn son, and his escape from Atlantis. It is the story of Kieko, a lonely Lemurian boy of mixed blood who seeks to know more about his absent father's mysterious Atlantean past. Constantly bullied by Aiko, he eventually takes refuge with the village priest in the Kadek Temple where he studies medicinal and culinary arts, calligraphy, and ultimately, the art of Ki sword. Under the tutelage of the priest he comes to know the grim truth about his father, and is prepared to face the horrific assault of the armies of the Atlantean Empire upon his humble world. And this is just the beginning . . .

“A darkly funny memoir about family reckonings” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living. Andrew Meredith’s father, a literature professor at La Salle University, was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It’s a transgression that resulted in such long-lasting familial despair that Andrew cannot forgive him. In the wake of the scandal, he frantically treads water, stuck in a kind of suspended adolescence—falling in and out of school, moving blindly from one half-hearted relationship to the next. When Andrew is forced to move back home to his childhood neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia and take a job alongside his father as a “remover,” the name for those unseen, unsung men whose charge it is to take away the dead from their last rooms, he begins to see his father not through the lens of a wronged and resentful child, but through that of a sympathetic, imperfect man. Called “artful” and “compelling” by Thomas Lynch in The Wall Street Journal, Meredith’s poetic voice is as unforgettable as his story, and “he tucks his bittersweet childhood memories between tales of removals as carefully as the death certificates he slips between the bodies he picks up and the stretcher-like contraption that transports each body to the waiting vehicle” (Minneapolis Star-Tribune). “Potent” (Publishers Weekly), and “ultimately rewarding” (The Boston Globe), The Removers is a searing, coming-of-age memoir with “lyrical language and strong sense of place” (The Philadelphia Inquirer).