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After covering the environment and energy beat for more than a decade, columnist Amanda Little decided that the only way to fully understand America's energy crisis was to travel into the heart of it. So she embarked on a daring, cross-country power trip to the most extreme and exciting frontiers of our energy landscape.

In Power Trip, we accompany her to a deep-sea oil rig, the cornfields of Kansas, the catacombs of the Pentagon, the Talladega Superspeedway, and inside New York City's electrical grid. We visit laboratories creating the innovations that will carry us into a...

Früher war ihre große Schwester Isa alles für Eva: ihre beste Freundin, ihre Lehrerin in Hofetikette und ihre Beschützerin. Kurz vor ihrem 17. Namenstag sind die beiden nur noch eins füreinander: Rivalinnen. Denn ihre Vorfahrin Reina - die erste Menschenkönigin von Myre - hat eine grausame Tradition ins Leben gerufen. Wie sie selbst damals, sollen auch die zukünftigen Königinnen sich den Weg auf den Thron erkämpfen. Während Isa Licht und Gedanken manipulieren kann, fürchtet sich Eva vor ihrer Blut-und-Knochen-Magie - einem weiteren brutalen Erbe von Reina. Doch wenn sie...

England, 1983. A celebrated love story entertains the nation: Patrick, the sexy young playwright, scourge of an enthralled establishment, marries Sara, who has abandoned her two children to fulfill her destiny as Patrick's beautiful, devoted muse. Thirty-five years later, Sara's death leaves Patrick alone in their crumbling house in Cornwall, with his whisky, his writer's block and his undimmed rage against the world. The children Sara left behind, Louise and Nigel, are now adults--with memories, questions and agendas of their own. What was their mother really like? Why did she leave them?...

I dangle my legs over the edge of the cliff, tapping my heels against the smooth dirt that crumbles down the side of the continent. I don't fear falling. The world below looks unreal and distant, like it's only been painted on. Falling is something I can't even imagine.

As heir to a kingdom of floating continents, Kali has spent her life bound by limits: by her duties as a member of the royal family, by a forced betrothal to the son of a nobleman and by the edge of the only world she's ever known--a small island hovering above a monster-ridden earth, long since uninhabited...