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Der junge Soldat Ernst Graeber erhält für einige Wochen Fronturlaub – und lernt in den letzten Tagen des Dritten Reiches die Liebe seines Lebens kennen. Angst, Terror und Verfolgung lassen ihn erst jetzt die ganze Sinnlosigkeit des Krieges erkennen. Aber es ist zu spät – er muss zurück in den Krieg ...

"Selbst dort, wo er zurückblickt, ist es die Gegenwart, die er anspricht." Wilhelm von Sternburg über Erich Maria Remarque. Das Schicksal einer kleinen Gruppe politischer Flüchtlinge in den Jahren 1937–1938: Auf der Flucht in die Schweiz über Wien und Prag sind sie auch im benachbarten Ausland...

Ein deutsches KZ in der Schlussphase des Krieges. Nur ein Funke Leben trennt die Insassen noch vom Tod. Doch mit den näher rückenden Alliierten keimt in den letzten Überlebenden wieder Hoffnung auf. Dieser Bericht aus einer grauenhaften Wirklichkeit ist eines der erschütterndsten, eindrücklichsten Werke Remarques.

Dem regimekritischen Journalisten Robert Ross gelingt im letzten Augenblick die Flucht aus dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland nach Amerika. Doch das vermeintliche Paradies erweist sich als geborgte Heimat: Trotz der Liebe zu der schönen Russin Natascha bleibt er in der neuen Welt ein Fremder...

"Es schien mir ... schon lange nicht mehr merkwürdig, einen anderen Namen zu haben und mit dem Pass eines Toten zu leben – im Gegenteil, eher passend." Nach einer langen Flucht vor dem nationalsozialistischen Deutschland erreicht der regimekritische Journalist Robert Ross 1944 endlich...

NO MAN IS RICH ENOUGH TO BUY BACK HIS PAST Aging screenwriter Ed Richie wakes up one morning to find himself nine months in his own past. The following day he jumps three years. What is happening to him? Is he going mad? Where will it end? In 2030—thirteen years after Richie’s jaunt begins—journalist...

A SHORT STORY. This short, steamy tale appeared in print in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica 2 in 2002. A grad student chasing tornados with a local man gets more up close and personal with a twister than she had planned when the local man tells her the tale of how he lost a lover to one of the terrible storms.

"The two-week battle for Corregidor was complicated by the American's gross underestimation of enemy strength: expecting a few hundred demoralized defenders, they encountered more than 6,000 Japanese soldiers and marines deployed in tunnels and caves, every man dedicated to the Bushido code that dictated...

Book 3 of The Sum of its Parts Things in Arcadia Lake take a turn for the complicated when the Lycan Tribunal shows up to evaluate Puck as an alpha. Not only are they dubious that a human can truly hold that mantle, their leader holds a grudge against Connor Henley. If Puck fails the trial, the sentence is execution - and if the pack objects to the ruling, their lives are forfeit as well.

Book 2 in The Sum of its Parts With things in Arcadia Lake finally settling down, Puck begins to think about expanding his pack. Then he gets the news that the hunter community is determined to get Hugo Durand out of jail. Fortunately for Puck, someone else seems just as determined to keep him there....

Book 4 of The Sum of its Parts Just when Puck thinks he might get a break, a warlock turns up in town and starts targeting his pack with dark magic. With no better options, Puck is forced into a cat-or-mouse game with their enemy. The struggle to keep his pack safe takes its toll on Puck in more way than one, and he finds himself facing threats he never would have expected.

It's another busy spring for Puck and his pack. His grandparents are visiting, and he's doing his best to keep them from finding out about werewolves and getting into trouble. Combined with a nosy state police officer and a series of strange deaths, and Puck is beginning to think that his final exams are the least of his worries.

Justin St. John is the leader of the Lycan Tribunal, the most powerful and influential werewolf in the world. When he goes missing, his mate comes to Puck for help finding him. What seems to be a simple search and rescue ends up having more twists and turns than Puck had anticipated. Before long, he's in over his head with the local contingent of hunters, who suspect him of murder.

As one of the most widely accessible building materials available to man, natural stone has been in extensive use for many centuries. It is a significant component, andin places the only one, of man-made structures the world over, and its properties, applications, and behavior over long periods of...