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Robert Langdon, o famoso professor de Simbologia de Harvard, chega ao Museu Guggenheim de Bilbao para assistir a uma apresentação sobre uma grande descoberta que promete abalar os alicerces de todas as religiões e mudar para sempre a face da ciência. O anfitrião é o futurólogo e bilionário Edmond Kirsch, que se tornou conhecido por suas previsões audaciosas e invenções de alta tecnologia. O ex-aluno de Langdon está prestes a revelar uma revolução no conhecimento, algo que vai responder a duas perguntas fundamentais da existência humana: De onde viemos? Para onde vamos?

Às vésperas do conclave que vai eleger o novo Papa, Langdon é chamado às pressas para analisar um misterioso símbolo marcado a fogo no peito de um físico assassinado em um grande centro de pesquisas na Suíça. Ele descobre indícios de algo inimaginável: a assinatura macabra no corpo da vítima é dos Illuminati, uma poderosa fraternidade que ressurgiu disposta a levar a cabo a lendária vingança contra a Igreja Católica. De posse de uma nova arma devastadora, roubada do centro de pesquisas, ela ameaça explodir a Cidade do Vaticano e matar os quatro cardeais mais cotados para a sucessão papal.

Die kryptographische Abteilung des US-Geheimdienstes NSA verfügt über einen geheimen Super-Computer, der in der Lage ist, innerhalb kürzester Zeit jeden Code zu knacken...

No meio da noite, o renomado simbologista Robert Langdon acorda de um pesadelo, num hospital. Desorientado e com um ferimento à bala na cabeça, ele não tem a menor ideia de como foi parar ali. Ao olhar pela janela e reconhecer a silhueta do Palazzo Vecchio, em Florença, Langdon tem um choque. Ele nem se lembra de ter deixado os Estados Unidos. Na verdade, não tem nenhuma recordação das últimas 36 horas.

Robert Langdon, professor of religious symbology at Harvard, is in Paris to give a lecture. At the reception that follows, he is scheduled to meet with a revered curator from the world-famous Louvre museum. But the curator never shows up, and later that night Langdon is awakened by authorities and told that the curator has been found dead. He is then taken to the Louvre - the scene of the crime - where he finds out that baffling clues have been left behind.

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Un récit palpitant qui nous plonge au cœur des mystères de la technologie et de l'intrigue. Le premier roman publié de Dan Brown finalement en audio.

Featuring contributions from fabulous horror indie authors, this filthy collection of extreme body horror tales is not for those easily offended. These stories contain common tropes used within the broader horror genre, as well as some characteristics more specific to the body horror subgenre to include; pornography, invasion, contagion, mutation, transformation, disease, mutilation, or other unnatural or violent distortions of the human body.

Dana Trent is only a preschooler the first time she uses a razor blade to cut up weed and fill dime bags for her schizophrenic father, King. While King struggles with his unmedicated psychosis, Dana’s mother, the Lady, a cold and self-absorbed woman whose personality disorders rule the home, guards large bricks of drugs from the safety of their squalid trailer. But when the Lady impulsively plucks Dana from the Midwest and moves the two of them south, their fresh start results in homelessness and bankruptcy.

Dana Brown was a 21-year-old college dropout playing in punk bands and partying his way through downtown New York’s early-'90s milieu when he first encountered Graydon Carter, the legendary editor of Vanity Fair. After the two had a handful of brief interactions (mostly with Brown in the role of cater waiter at Carter’s famous cultural salons he hosted at his home), Carter saw what he believed to be Brown’s untapped potential, and on a whim, hired him as his assistant

A secret cult operates at the zoo Carla works at. The pay doesn't keep food in her cupboards. All her clothes are second hand. There isn't enough money to cope with management, preferred employees, and customers. Starving before her wages land in her pay packet, Carla walks up the hill to steal some food from the zoo. She isn't alone. Induction night for the cult happens at the same place. They need sacrifices to the old Gods to maintain power. Left with no choice, and nothing to eat, Carla must overthrow the cult. It isn't a simple case of one bad employer, but many.

Washington, D.C.: In der amerikanischen Hauptstadt liegt ein sorgsam gehütetes Geheimnis verborgen, und ein Mann ist bereit, dafür zu töten. Doch dazu benötigt er die Unterstützung eines Menschen, der ihm freiwillig niemals helfen würde: Robert Langdon, Harvard-Professor und Experte für die Entschlüsselung und Deutung mysteriöser Symbole. Nur ein finsterer Plan ermöglicht es, Robert Langdon in die Geschichte hineinzuziehen. Fortan jagt der Professor über die berühmten Schauplätze der Hauptstadt, doch die wahren Geheimnisse sind in dunklen Kammern, Tempeln und Tunneln verborgen. Orte, die vor ihm kaum jemand betreten hat.

Robert Langdon ist Symbolforscher und lehrt als Professor an der Harvard Universität in Cambridge. Als er beruflich nach Paris reist, wird er dort in einen seltsamen Fall verstrickt. Mitten in der Nacht erhält er einen Anruf, dass der Museumsdirektor des Louvre, mit dem er für diesen Abend verabredet war, ermordet wurde. Zwar bittet die Polizei Langdon um seine Unterstützung, da sich am Tatort seltsame Symbole und Zeichen befinden, allerdings ist er selbst schon mitten ins Fadenkreuz der Ermittler geraten.

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to deliver an evening lecture in the U.S. Capitol. Within minutes of his arrival, the night takes a bizarre turn. A disturbing object is discovered in the Capitol Building. The object is an ancient invitation, meant to usher its recipient into a long-lost world of hidden esoteric wisdom. And when Langdon's mentor is kidnapped, Langdon's only hope of saving him is to accept this invitation and follow wherever it leads him.

Thunder boomed. The storm came up quickly, pushing the dead to the surface. The fish people rode it in. A raft for Vict to carry him into the mountains. He looked back on the house he shared with his mother for the last time. He was needed in the mountains.

It was a killer year for horror fiction of the harder kind. Authors, editors, and publishers presented readers with some startling works of horrific imagination, stories graphic in the extreme yet with subtleties suggesting larger meanings, tales that explore humanity by plumbing depths of soulless inhumanity and, in some cases, outright depravity. The stories here represent the best of them, disturbing tales that dig deep and take you into the dark heart of horror itself, unrelenting and unapologetic.

At 22, Dan Brown came to the Bronx's P.S. 85 as an eager, fresh-faced teacher. Unbeknownst to him, his assigned class, 4-217, was the designated "dumping ground" for all fourth-grade problem cases, and his students would prove to be more challenging than he could ever anticipate. Intent on being a caring, dedicated teacher but confronted with unruly children, absent parents, and a failing administration, Dan was pushed to the limit time and again: he found himself screaming with rage, punching his fist through a blackboard out of sheer frustration, often just wanting to give up and walk away.

"Illuminati", "Sakrileg", "Das verlorene Symbol" und "Inferno" - vier Welterfolge, die mit "Origin" ihre spektakuläre Fortsetzung finden. Die Wege zur Erlösung sind zahlreich. Verzeihen ist nicht der einzige. Als der Milliardär und Zukunftsforscher Edmond Kirsch drei der bedeutendsten Religionsvertreter der Welt um ein Treffen bittet, sind die Kirchenmänner zunächst skeptisch. Was will ihnen der bekennende Atheist mitteilen?

Dante Alighieris "Inferno", Teil seiner "Göttlichen Komödie", gehört zu den geheimnisvollsten Schriften der Weltliteratur. Ein Text, der vielen Lesern noch heute Rätsel aufgibt. Um dieses Mysterium weiß auch Robert Langdon, der Symbolforscher aus Harvard. Doch niemals hätte er geahnt, was in diesem siebenhundert Jahre alten Text schlummert. Gemeinsam mit der Ärztin Sienna Brooks macht sich Robert Langdon daran, das geheimnisvolle "Inferno" zu entschlüsseln.

Plant die längst vergessene Gesellschaft der Illuminaten einen Anschlag auf den Vatikan? Robert Langdon ermittelt. Ein Kernforscher wird in seinem Schweizer Labor ermordet aufgefunden. Auf seiner Brust finden sich merkwürdige Symbole eingraviert, Symbole, die nur der Harvardprofessor Robert Langdon zu entziffern vermag. Was er dabei entdeckt, erschreckt ihn zutiefst: Die Symbole gehören zu der legendären Geheimgesellschaft der Illuminati. Diese Gemeinschaft scheint wieder zum Leben erweckt zu sein, und sie verfolgt einen finsteren Plan, denn aus dem Labor des ermordeten Kernforschers wurde Antimaterie entwendet.