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Spellbinding superstitions! After the Westbridge High football team wins an amazing two games in a row, the whole team becomes superstitious. But the teammates take things a little too far by refusing to shower or change their socks and underwear, thinking it will bring them more good luck. Sabrina and Dreama ask Principal Kraft to curb the boys? bad hygiene, but he thinks that if the football team continues to win, they can be as smelly as they want to be! So Sabrina and Dreama decide to teach the guys a lesson to show them how silly it is to be superstitious. But their plan backfires. Can Sabrina fix the problem or will the people of Westbridge have to be forever wary of breaking mirrors and walking under ladders?

Having freed the trolls of Dismal Swamp from the tyranny of Stygius Rex, the reluctant troll leader Rollo has left the swamp on a bittersweet mission: to return his little friend Clipper to her people in the Forbidden Forest. It's a dangerous trip but he's determined not to fail. Ludicra, the troll who now finds Rollo worthy of her attentions, is distraught over his absence and convinced he needs her help. So she assembles a crew of trolls, ogres and even a gnome to cross the Great Chasm in search of her beloved. But the Chasm holds its own dangers and now the rescue party is in need of rescue! Look out for: TROLL TREASURE (1 904233 59 7) coming in May 2005.

As Necrosan and his undead armies lay waste to Urth, the Avatars struggle to free their imprisoned dino-god masters and must overcome personal differences in order to defeat their common enemy. Original.

When an avalanche destroys the hunting grounds of a pack of ravenous wolves, the starving animals make their way to the cold, snowy mountains of Tao, where they now menace Yee's people, and it is up to Brad, a young human, to concoct a plan to stop them. Original.

The Federation is locked in a battle with the Dominion, a battle the Dominion is certain to win if their attempt to construct a wormhole is successful, allowing fresh Dominion reinforcements into the Alpha Quadrant. Can Captain Picard thwart their plans? Part of the STAR TREK;NEXT GENEREATION series. By the author of ROGUE SAUCER.

As an Enterprise away team races to destroy a Cardassian wormhole that can deliver Dominion forces to Federation territory, they receive help from an unlikely source, but it soon becomes clear that there is a traitor lurking amid the away team. In the STAR TREK:THE NEXT GENERATION series.

Data makes a decision which endangers the Enterprise and Captain Picard's future career in Starfleet.

To protect a beautiful Lifespring that is menaced by a deadly sea serpent, Ryan and Yun, master of water, come up with a dangerous plan to have Ryan masquerade as Hana, a young girl destined to become a human sacrifice to the evil serpent. Original.

The ancient world of Tao depends on its natural Lifesprings for survival and on its mighty Warriors of Virtue for protection. The last time evil threatened to destroy the Lifesprings, the Warriors called on a young human named Ryan to help them. Now, the residents want Ryan and the Warrior Lai to fight headhunters--but the master of the wood has a different plan.

The concluding volume in this charming and highly readable trilogy for readers of 10 and over. Just when all the trials appear to be over for Rollo, the evil sorceror Stygius Rex returns, demanding that the new troll king surrender the lands of Bonespittle to him. As an incentive, Stygius produces Rollo's father and his former bridge mentor as hostages! The only way to stop Stygius is for the trolls to find a legendary treasure that was created by a troll king long ago and left with the elves in the Great Chasm for safekeeping. Now Rollo must figure out a way to make peace with the elves, find some treasure he isn't sure exists, rescue his father, and defeat Stygius, all the while hoping he can free his little fairy friend Clipper from the evil spell she's under. Will the new troll king ever make it to his coronation?

The Genesis Wave of energy is sweeping across the Alpha Quadrant at terrifying speed, wiping out entire populations and rearranging molecular matter. To fight the oncoming destruction, Captain Picard and his crew have formed an uneasy alliance with both the Klingons and the Romulan Empire.

Waterfall City is in grave danger when the Polongo River mysteriously dries up. Magnolia and her dinosaur friend Paddlefoot battle the elements in their desperate quest to save Dinotopia's most beautiful city.

With Captain Jean-Luc Picard's Starfleet command in ruins following the loss of the U.S.S. Juno with all hands, Acting Captain William Riker and the crew of the Enterprise brave the perils of an interstellar hot zone to uncover the truth about the event and search for a mythical menace that could have destroyed hundreds of powerful starships. Original.

Captain Picard must unlock the secret of the Genesis Wave, which is sweeping through the Galaxy and and transforming matter into bizarre forms of life and landscapes.

Teska, a Vulcan child raised on Earth, is destined to play a crucial role in the reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan peoples. While Spock escorts his young niece back to Vulcan for her betrothal ceremony, he strives to help her understand both her Vulcan heritage and her growing telepathic abilities. But when an unplanned mind meld reveals the true identity of a deadly assassin to Teska, she and Spock find themselves the target of a Rigelian criminal network. With the Enterprise light-years away, Spock and his niece must go on the run, pursued by a conspiracy determined to end Teska's future before it has even begun!

Like intertwining filaments of Human and alien DNA, a ruthless campaign of revenge has threaded its way through the galaxy, touching billions of sentient beings - and changing forever the life of Lieutenant Thomas Riker.Tom Riker, an identical duplicate of the Starship Enterprise's first officer, is serving as a Starfleet medical courier when he encounters a group of Maquis renegades, led by a former Starfleet officer named Chakotay. A planet in the Demilitarized Zone, now controlled by the Cardassians, has been stricken with the same deadly disease that has plagued the Alpha Quadrant for years, and only Riker can get the medical supplies the Maquis so desperately need. But the Cardassians would rather destroy all life on the planet than risk letting the epidemic spread!

To save the dying Gemworld and free the Enterprise from the lethal grip of the singularity which has trapped it there, Picard and his crew must disable the artifical shell which holds the planet's atmostphere intact. But to safeguard the shell - since the planet could not survive without it - it cannot be shut down without six clearance keys. One key is in the possession of each of the planet's distinct and often reclusive species, and travel on the crumbling, disintegrating surface is nearly impossible. A religious sect views the shell as a holy object and will stop Picard from tampering with it - at any cost. And when all the keys are gathered and a mysterious murder is solved, the responsible party is discovered to be the planet itelf!

The Enterprise tests a new experimental saucer section but the dangerous test turns even more deadly when hostile forces seize control of the saucer and turn it against the Enterprise.

Lieutenant Melora Pazlar, first seen in the Deep Space Nine episode that bears her name (Melora), is the only Elaysian in Starfleet. Stationed on board the USS Enterprise, six years after her short-lived romance with Dr Bashir, she receives a desperate call for help from her crystalline, multi-species homeworld. When subspace contact fails, Captain Picard sends the Enterprise to investigate, only to find the ship nearly torn apart by a dimensional rift and stranded, badly damaged, below the shields that protect the carefully constructed planet. With both escape and rescue impossible, Picard and crew set out to discover the cause of the rift and the strange, cancerous growth in the crystal choking the planet itself. A Federation ship attempts to reach the Enterprise but is destroyed, and when thoron radiation threatens to kill the crew, all signs on the planet point to sabotage...

When Klingons and humans collide, only Lt. Worf can prevent utter destruction. The planet Selva—a lush colony world settled by a hardy group of humans, who found the planet already inhabited by a small gang of young Klingons. When violence erupts between the two groups, Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterprise are sent to render assistance. Worf leads a landing party to the planet while the Starship Enterprise is called away on another urgent mission. On Selva, Worf and his party find that the old hatreds and prejudices between humans and Klingons are revived, and the settlers are out for blood. Now, Worf must prevent a horrible massacre, before all of them fall prey to Selva’s deadly secret…and raging fury.

The U.S.S. Enterprise™. is stunned when famed scientist Lynn Costa is murdered in one of the ship's science labs. She and her husband Emil were known as science's greatest ongoing collaboration and, together had received the Federation's highest honors for their achievements in scientific research.Determined to see the culprit brought to justice, Captain Picard assigns Lt. Worf and Counselor Deanna Troi to the case. their routine investigation of the ship's science lab soon reveals a dangerous web of deceit, betrayal, and madness. Now, Worf and Troi find themselves struggling against a ruthless assassin set on revenge -- for whom murder is only the beginning...

Having narrowly escaped death, Ambassador G'Kar knows he is a marked man. A rival family from his Narn homeland has taken the Blood Oath to kill him. Security Chief Garibaldi, Commander Susan Ivanova and Na'Toth journey to the Narn Homeworld and find themselves enveloped by a chilling alien environment. And in this deadly place, the Narn Blood Oath is turned against them all.

The Bajoran shipyard is assigned to build an engine for a new starship, a project which could be instrumental in revitalizing the planet's war-ravished economy. As Commander Sisko awaits the arrival of a tanker containing the antimatter that will power the starship, a band of hijackers captures the extremely valuable cargo and escapes through the wormhole. When the hijacking spurs a political debate, Major Kira struggles to mediate the dispute between the opposing factions. Meanwhile, Sisko makes a desperate move to retrieve the antimatter. With the stability of the Bajoran economy at stake, Sisko, Dax, and Odo infiltrate the hijackers, a move that could have deadly consequences for them and the planet Bajor.

A novel based on the television science-fiction series, "Babylon 5", set aboard a massive space station in the year 2257. Positioned in a key sector of the galaxy and under the jurisdiction of the Earth Alliance, Babylon 5 serves as a space-borne port of call, open to travellers from anywhere.

Sabrina hat eine geniale Idee, um Geld für die leere Kasse der Highschool zu sammeln: Sie verwandelt eine alte Fabrik in ein Geisterhaus für Halloween. Doch die Situation gerät schnell außer Kontrolle.

Captain Picard führt eine geheime Mission ins Cardassianer-Territorium, um ein künstliches Wurmloch des Dominion zu zerstören und eine Invasion zu verhindern. Die Enterprise, unter Rikers Kommando, ist beschädigt und kann nicht helfen. Picard muss ohne Unterstützung agieren und entdeckt, dass ein Gestaltwandler seine Crew infiltriert hat.

Devon and the colonists may finally be thwarted in their quest for New Pacifica by the very thing that brought them to G889--nature. Before them lies a canyon of astounding proportions. Carved out of endless miles of rock, it stretches beyond the horizon in either direction. And thousands of feet below, a mighty river rages. Their only hope of reaching New Pacifica is to cross it. Alonzo Solace knows the dangers that face the group--he has seen them in his dreams. Dreams that carry a message from the Terrians--if they attempt to cross the canyon, they will perish. Earth 2: Leather Wings

Sabrina freut sich riesig auf ihren Job als Betreuerin im Ferienlager. Ihre Begeisterung lässt allerdings schnell nach, als ihr ausgerechnet Hütte Nr. 13 zugeteilt wird: die mit den Nervensägen. Sabrina nimmt sich fest vor, die Gören ganz ohne Magie in den Griff zu bekommen. Doch die Mädchen sind einfach nicht zu bändigen. Als sie schließlich während einer Kissenschlacht die Hütte verwüsten, reißt Sabrina der Geduldsfaden. Jetzt muss ein Zauberspruch her! Doch der geht gründlich daneben ...

Jedes Jahr die gleiche Frage: Was schenkt man seinem Vater zum Vatertag? Doch diesmal hat Sabrina eine fantastische Idee: Hexopoly, das neue magische Brettspiel, ist genau das richtige Geschenk für ihren Dad. Doch das Spiel löst eine Katastrophe aus. Sabrinas Vater verliert seine magischen Fähigkeiten. Und Kater Salem verwandelt sich in ein riesiges Ungeheuer, das die Weltherrschaft übernehmen will... Reichen Sabrinas magische Kräfte aus, um ihren Vater zu retten? Und kann sie Salem, das durchgeknallte Monster, stoppen? Sabrina weiss, dass es nur einen Ausweg gibt. Sie muss Hexopoly austricksen...

Der neueste Band aus der beliebtesten aller Star-Trek-Serien, "The Next Generation", die regelmäßig im Fernsehen wiederholt wird

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Die Kristallwelt ist eines der erstaunlichsten Wunder der Föderation: ein Planet ohne Schwerkraft, der vollständig aus Kristallen besteht und dessen Atmosphäre von einem komplizierten Netzwerk aus Kraftfeldern aufrechterhalten wird. Ohne diese schützende Schale würden die sechs intelligenten Spezies, die diese Welt bevölkern, nicht überleben können. Lieutenant Melora Pazlar stammt von der Kristallwelt. Seit zehn Jahren dient sie bei Starfleet und wird nun auf die Enterprise versetzt. Als sie im Traum einen Hilferuf von ihrem Heimatplaneten erhält, kann sie Captain Picard nur mit Mühe von der Notwendigkeit einer Rettungsaktion überzeugen. Erst als die Enterprise in unmittelbarer Nähe der Kristallwelt beinahe dem Sog einer Singularität zum Opfer fällt, erkennt Jean-Luc Picard, dass der Planet dem Untergang geweiht ist. Melora Pazlar erntet wenig Begeisterung, als sie den traditionalistischen Vertretern ihres Volkes die Hilfe der Enterprise-Crew anbietet. Doch dann müssen die Bewohner der Kristallwelt entdecken, dass die Programmierung der schützenden Schale von einem ihrer Cheftechniker manipuliert wurde...

„Das erste Jahr an der Akademie ist schwer für Geordi. Dank des Visors ist seine Blindheit für ihn kein echtes Handicap, aber er ist eben doch nicht wie die anderen, und das lassen sie ihn spüren. Als er das As unter den Kadetten, Jack Pettey, in einem schwierigen Simulationsspiel besiegt, erringt er die Hochachtung seiner Klassenkameraden. Aber sein Rivale schwört ihm Rache. Die Gelegenheit dazu ergibt sich früher als erwartet, als sie beide in einem gemischten Team nach Saffair geschickt werden, einem Planeten mit geringerer Schwerkraft als auf der Erde.“ (Rückumschlag)

Der Bau des ersten Raumschiffs seit Beendigung der cardassianischen Besatzungszeit soll die Leistungsstärke Bajors demonstrieren und die angeschlagene Wirtschaft des Planeten sanieren. Doch von Anfang an steht das Unternehmen unter einem schlechten Stern. Sabotageakte werden verübt, Commander Sisko und Major Kira fallen bei einem Besuch der Werft um ein Haar einem Mordanschlag zum Opfer. Besonders brisant wird die Situation, als ein Tanker der Föderation eintrifft, um die für den Antrieb des Schiffes benötigte Antimaterie zu liefern - die gefährlichste und kostbarste Substanz im Universum. Ferengi, bajoranische Terroristen und abtrünnige Klingonen schließen ein Bündnis. In unmittelbarer Nähe von Deep Space Nine überfallen sie den Tanker und fliehen damit durch das Wurmloch. Commander Sisko zögert nicht lange. Zusammen mit Dax und Odo verfolgt er den Tanker, um die Antimaterie zurückzuholen. Ein waghalsiges Doppelspiel beginnt Heyne Science Fiction Deutsche Erstausgabe

Planeta osídlená lidmi před dvěma sty lety se pod vlivem nepříznivých přírodních podmínek nachází na úrovni feudální společnosti, kde se spory řeší násilím a vítězí právo silnějšího. Její obyvatelé se kryjí maskami odpovídajícími jejich společenskému postavení. Do tohoto prostředí je z vesmírné lodi transportován výsadkový tým, aby zajistil bezpečnost velvyslanci Federace, který má nalézt vládce planety a navázat s ním kontakt.

( Starfleet Kadetten, 1). Mit Farbfotos a. Taf. 123 S.