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Harvest Home
von Thomas Tryon
A family flees the crime-ridden city—and finds something worse.
After watching his asthmatic daughter suffer in the foul city air, Theodore Constantine decides to get back to the land. When he and his wife search New England for the perfect nineteenth-century home, they find no township more charming, no countryside more idyllic than the farming village of Cornwall Coombe. Here they begin a new life: simple, pure, close to nature—and ultimately more terrifying than Manhattan’s darkest alley.
Childhood's End
von Arthur C. Clarke
The peaceful alien invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival ends all war, helps form a world government, and turns the planet into a near-utopia.
Many questions are asked about the origins and mission of the aliens, but they avoid answering, preferring to remain in their ships, governing through indirect rule. Decades later, the Overlords eventually show themselves, and their impact on human culture leads to a Golden Age.
Eifelheim
von Michael Flynn
Over the centuries, one small town in Germany has disappeared and never been resettled. Tom, a historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived. What’s so special about Eifelheim?
Father Dietrich is the village priest of Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength but is still not nearby. Dietrich is an educated man, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact person between humanity and an alien race from a distant star, when their ship crashes in the nearby forest. It is a time of wonders, in the shadow of the plague. Flynn gives us the full richness and strangeness of medieval life, as well as some terrific aliens.
The Reincarnationist Papers
von D. Eric Maikranz
Discovered as three notebooks in an antique store in Rome at the turn of the millennium, The Reincarnationist Papers offers a tantalizing glimpse into the Cognomina, a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past lives.
Evan Michaels struggles with being different, with having the complete memories of two other people who lived sequentially before him. He fights loneliness and believes he is unique until he meets Poppy. She recognizes his struggle because she is like him, except that she is much older, remembering seven consecutive lives. But there is something else she must share with Evan—she is a member of the secretive Cognomina. They are, in effect, immortals—compiling experiences and skills over lifetimes into near superhuman abilities that they have used to drive history over centuries.
Krähentage
von Benjamin Cors
Zwei ehrgeizige Ermittler, ein hochintelligenter Serienkiller – ein unerbittlicher Wettkampf gegen die Zeit.
Bereits am ersten Arbeitstag steht das Ermittlerduo Jakob Krogh und Mila Weiss vor einem Rätsel. Am Rande einer Ermittlung stoßen sie auf die Leiche einer älteren Frau, die nachweislich nach ihrem Tod noch lebend gesehen wurde. Wie ist das möglich?
Kurz darauf wird ein junger Student in seiner Wohnung gefunden, auch er war nach seinem Tod offenbar noch an der Uni. Aber damit nicht genug: An beiden Tatorten werden Krähen gefunden, ausgehungert und versehen mit einer unheilvollen Botschaft.