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Shakespeare's King John is a rarely performed history which tells the story of John's turbulent reign from 1199 to 1216. King John goes to war against the French after claims that his nephew should be king instead. John has conflict with the church, orders his nephew's death and turns the nobles against himself. In the end, John dies from poison, the French retreat and his son becomes king.

For 17 years, Ty Mattson never knew if his father survived the Mexican War. But when he receives news that his father is alive - and he's joined the Confederate forces of General John Morgan - Ty leaves home to enlist with Morgan's Raiders. Owen Mattson turns out to be everything Ty imagined he would be: a good man, a true mentor, a great soldier. But a Confederate assassin's bullets nearly divide father and son yet again.

Part 2 of 2: Nevada, 1872. Out of the merciless 40-Mile Desert, a stranger appears in the town of Golgotha, home to the blessed and the damned. He carries with him an innocent victim of a horrible massacre and a dire warning for Sheriff Jon Highfather. The conflict between the Indian nations and Mormon settlers has been brewing for years, and now the spirits of the fallen Indian dead have begun to rise to join in the fight. Deputy Mutt's old nemesis, Snake-Man, returns to begin a final bloody war against the Whites, purging them from the land forever.

Atrum Terra: Dark Lands tells the story of two people from different sides of the nation who struggle to survive after a devastating attack breaks the back of the United States. It is a journey in which the whole world is sent spiraling toward a dark future where humans are an endangered species.

Vivian Ellenshaw is fat, but she knows she doesn't need to lose weight, so she's none too happy to find herself forced into a weight-loss camp's van with her ex-best friend, Allie; a meathead jock who can barely drive; and the camp owner's snobby son. And when they arrive at Camp Featherlite at the start of the worst blizzard in the history of Flagstaff, Arizona, it's clear that something isn't right. Vee barely has a chance to meet the other members of her pod, all who seem as unhappy to be at Featherlite as she does, when a camper goes missing down by the lake.

For Smoke and Sally Jensen, the Sugarloaf Ranch is the American Dream come true. A glorious stretch of untamed land near the Colorado-Kansas border, it’s the perfect place to stake their claim, raise some cattle, and start a new family. But when a man claiming to be an army colonel arrives in Big Rock—with a well-armed militia—the Jensens’ dream becomes a living nightmare. This stranger calls himself Colonel Lamar Talbot. He’s come to warn them about a looming war with the Cheyenne Indians. And only he can save them from a bloody massacre—by launching a counterattack that’s even bloodier.

U.S. Deputy Marshal Will Tanner earned his badge the old-fashioned way. He shot the bad guys, saved the good guys, and won the fear and respect of everyone in between. That’s how legends are born. But when he visits a friend at his ranch and ends up confronting a trigger-happy horse thief, Will earns the wrath of the deadliest, lowlife killers west of the Mississippi. This is how legends die....Turns out Will Tanner is nothing but a moving target on a blood-soaked trail of revenge.

For the greatest trapper in the country, there’s no place like the Rocky Mountains. Preacher and his son Hawk are riding the High Lonesome when the clear mountain air is split by a girl’s savage screams. A gang of ruthless trappers has kidnapped a Crow woman, but before they escape with her, Preacher and Hawk burst out of the tree line, guns spitting fire.

After questing through the sidhe realms with her ex-hellhound lover, Nathan, Kai Tallman Michalski has finally returned home. But she knows Nathan will eventually be called back to serve his queen - and Kai will have to decide whether to enter her majesty’s service as well. Sure, the job comes with great bennies, but there’s one big downside: She would have to swear absolute fealty to the Queen of Winter.

For Lawson, the horrors that stalked the Civil War battlefield at Shiloh were more than just those of war. After being forcibly given the gift of undeath by the mysterious vampire queen LaRouge, Lawson chose to cling to what remained of his humanity and fought his way free of the Dark Society's clutches.

After the disappearance of a suspect and a hastily organized election, the power balance in Leadville and the friendship of Sheriff Gannon and Marshal Spencer are thrown into turmoil. But the unknown forces driving the election, push both men to decide on which side of justice they are willing to reside; lawman or outlaw.

For 17 years, Ty Mattson never knew if his father survived the Mexican War. But when he receives news that his father is alive - and he's joined the Confederate forces of General John Morgan - Ty leaves home to enlist with Morgan's Raiders. Owen Mattson turns out to be everything Ty imagined he would be: a good man, a true mentor, a great soldier. But a Confederate assassin's bullets nearly divide father and son yet again.

Undefeated galactic heavyweight champion Korak the Cutter has defeated all challengers, destroying everyone in his path, but the wins aren’t as easy as they used to be. After a decade of perfect fighting, his age is catching up with him. For a Quyth Warrior, that means he’s slowing down, and speed is the name of the game in mixed martial arts.

The present: His daughter, fifth generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong, finds herself on the trail of that same cargo when skeletal remains are found near an excavation site in the Texas desert. She’s also dealing with the aftermath of a massacre that claimed the lives of all the workers at a intelligence company on her watch. These two cases are connected by a long buried secret, one that men have killed and died to protect. Caitlin and her outlaw lover Cort Wesley Masters must prove themselves to be as strong as steel to overcome a bloody tide that has been rising for centuries.

Kennst du schon Petronella Apfelmus? Sie ist eine Hexe. Genauer gesagt eine Apfelhexe. Zusammen mit dem Hirschkäfer Lucius und den Apfelmännchen kümmert sie sich um den Garten der Familie Kuchenbrand und erlebt dabei so einige Abenteuer. Aber das ist natürlich ein Geheimnis. Nur die Zwillinge Lea und Luis Kuchenbrand wissen, dass es Petronella gibt. Und nun auch du! Lass dich verzaubern, Rapp Zapp!

Was geschah mit dem jungen Ellis Morton? Sein Halbbruder, Sir Peter Clapp-Rothe, spricht bei Sherlock Holmes vor und bittet ihn, in dieser Sache tätig zu werden. Angeblich stürzte Ellis vom Dach als er versuchte, einen Tennisball aus der Dachrinne zu fischen. Doch Ellis war komplett unsportlich, sogar aus gesundheitlichen Gründen nicht in der Lage, Sport zu treiben. Und schon gar nicht Tennis.

Überfall auf einen Diamantenhändler. Der Täter: Father Christmas, der Weihnachtsmann persönlich. Die einzige Spur: ein auffälliger Sportwagen, in dem der Täter mit seiner Beute davonrast. Ein Fall wie geschaffen für den viktorianischen Meisterdetektiv und seinen treuen Begleiter Dr. Watson.

You can finally achieve your weight loss and metabolic health goals by reconditioning your body to preferentially burn fats instead of carbohydrates. This audiobook is your guided tour of the ketogenic lifestyle, supplemented with optional intermittent fasting (IF) and one-meal-a-day (OMAD) practices. The effects that the standard American diet (SAD), a plant-based diet, and a ketogenic lifestyle have on key metabolic markers are compared as the author shares actual results from his own lipid and metabolic panel blood tests performed over nearly nearly a decade.

Kennst du schon Petronella Apfelmus? Sie ist eine Hexe. Genauer gesagt eine Apfelhexe. Zusammen mit dem Hirschkäfer Lucius und den Apfelmännchen kümmert sie sich um den Garten der Familie Kuchenbrand und erlebt dabei so einige Abenteuer. Aber das ist natürlich ein Geheimnis. Nur die Zwillinge Lea und Luis Kuchenbrand wissen, dass es Petronella gibt. Und nun auch du! Lass dich verzaubern, Rapp Zapp!

Kennst du schon Petronella Apfelmus? Sie ist eine Hexe. Genauer gesagt eine Apfelhexe. Zusammen mit dem Hirschkäfer Lucius und den Apfelmännchen kümmert sie sich um den Garten der Familie Kuchenbrand und erlebt dabei so einige Abenteuer. Aber das ist natürlich ein Geheimnis. Nur die Zwillinge Lea und Luis Kuchenbrand wissen, dass es Petronella gibt. Und nun auch du! Lass dich verzaubern, Rapp Zapp! "Eine abenteuerliche Nacht": Malina hat einen Überlebenskurs absolviert und will ihre neuen Fähigkeiten nun Lea und Luis vorführen - mitten in Petronellas Garten!