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The powerful forces of science and family collide when geneticist Paige Robson finds her world in upheaval: Her eight-year-old son Miles is struggling to fit in at his new school and begins asking questions about his biological father that Paige can’t answer - until fate thrusts the anonymous donor she used into their lives.

In 1633 Holland, a woman’s ambition has no place. Judith is a painter, dodging the law and whispers of murder to become the first woman admitted to the prestigious Haarlem artist’s guild. Maria is a Catholic in a country where the faith is banned, hoping to absolve her sins by recovering a lost saint’s relic. Both women’s destinies will be shaped by their ambitions, running counter to the city’s most powerful men, whose own plans spell disaster. A vivid portrait of a remarkable artist, A Light of Her Own is a richly-woven story of grit against the backdrop of Rembrandts and repressive religious rule.

Nestlé, die weltweite Nummer 1 im Lebensmittelsektor, ist das Musterbeispiel eines Weltkonzerns. Er pflegt das Image eines qualitätsbewussten Unternehmens, das gute Arbeitsbedingungen bietet und mit seiner Politik den Armen dieser Welt entgegenkommt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren dieses Buches, die sich als globalisierungskritisch verstehen, beschreiben die Realität hinter der schönen Marketingfassade: Während Nestlé enorme Gewinne einstreicht, wird der Konzern von Gewerkschaften in aller Welt beschuldigt, das Arbeitsrecht der Mitarbeitenden mit Füßen zu treten.

Seit sich die allein erziehende Martina von ihrem Freund getrennt hat, wird sie von ihm massiv belästigt. Als das Stalking für die junge Mutter und ihr Kind zu einer Bedrohung wird, macht sich auch Martinas Vater, der Moselaner Franz, Sorgen. Durch Zufall trifft er auf Lena, eine taffe ältere Dame aus der Eifel, die ihm dabei hilft, den Stalker im Auge zu behalten. Trotzdem ist Martina eines Tages verschwunden.

Caitlyn and her friends have returned to Jude’s Sorcerous Academy, but all is not well in the school. The Great Houses of Shallot are on the verge of going to war, and the conflict is spilling into the school; in the background, powerful and secretive forces prepare to finally reveal their plans to reshape the world. Caught in the middle, torn between her family and her friends - and burdened with a secret she dares not share - Cat must unlock the secret of the Zero Equation...or watch helplessly as her family, friends, and school are destroyed by war.

Im mexikanischen Grenzland zu den USA ist sauberes Trinkwasser so knapp, dass Mütter ihren Babys zum Trinken Coca-Cola und Pepsi geben - das Problem der Wasserverknappung betrifft immer mehr Menschen direkt und breitet sich in rasantem Tempo auf der ganzen Erde aus. Das "blaue Gold" wird in seiner Bedeutung als Rohstoff dem Erdöl bald den Rang ablaufen, bereits heute stehen hinter vielen so genannten ethnischen oder religiösen Konflikten Kämpfe um die Nutzung der knappen Wasserressourcen.

Anna Roux was a professional dancer who followed the man of her dreams from Paris to Missouri. There, alone with her biggest fears - imperfection, failure, loneliness - she spirals down anorexia and depression till she weighs a mere 88 pounds. Forced to seek treatment, she is admitted as a patient at 17 Swann Street, a peach pink house where pale, fragile women with life-threatening eating disorders live. Women like Emm, the veteran; quiet Valerie; Julia, always hungry. Together, they must fight their diseases and face six meals a day.

Spannender Krimi mit allerlei Nervenkitzel und Gänsehaut-Momenten. Eine Frau wacht nachts auf und ist nicht allein, ein Fremder sitzt auf ihrem Bett, bedroht sie mit einem Messer und will sie vergewaltigen. Um die Kontrolle über die Situation zu behalten, verführt sie ihn und wirft ihn dann aus dem Haus. Psychiaterin Klara Keitz zieht nach Andalusien, aber das erhoffte Idyll hat Risse: Ihr Partner hintergeht sie, und ihre liebste Freundin, die Bildhauerin Camila, verhält sich sehr eigentümlich. Dann wird die erste Leiche gefunden und Klaras Nerven vibrieren, denn der Tote ist hergerichtet wie eine von Camilas Skulpturen.

Nervenkitzel und Spannung unter der Sonne Andalusiens - ein klasse Krimi! In der sonnigen Urlaubsidylle Andalusiens verschwindet ein Kind. Und gewisse Villenbesitzer haben sichtlich etwas dagegen, dass man ihren Garten fotografiert. Die Dortmunder Kinderpsychiaterin Klara Keitz, die in Andalusien ihren wohlverdienten Urlaub genießt, ist aufmerksam, neugierig und viel unterwegs - und stößt auf ein abscheuliches Geschäft. Gemeinsam mit einigen unerschrockenen Verbündeten schmiedet sie einen gefährlichen Plan. Doch die Gegner haben gute Verbindungen und fühlen sich unangreifbar.

Youth and frailty, ambition and anxiety, the limitations of the body and the challenges of personal transformation: these are the undercurrents that animate acclaimed poet Ashleigh Young's first collection of essays. In Can You Tolerate This? - the title comes from the question chiropractors ask to test a patient's pain threshold - Young ushers us into her early years in the faraway yet familiar landscape of New Zealand: fantasizing about Paul McCartney, cheering on her older brother's fledging music career, and yearning for a larger and more creative life.

Der große Roman vom historischen Freiheitskampf Martin Luther Kings. Nominiert von der Jugendjury für den Deutschen Jugendliteraturpreis 2004 Birmingham (Alabama), 1963: Die junge Schwarze Audrey Jackson verliebt sich in Edward, einen Mitarbeiter Martin Luther Kings, der nach Birmingham gekommen ist, um gewaltfrei gegen die Willkür der Weißen zu protestieren. Audrey schließt sich dieser Bewegung an und nimmt teil am legendären Protestmarsch, bei dem die Behörden mit brutaler Gewalt gegen die Bürgerrechtler vorgehen. Doch Audrey glaubt an den Sieg der Liebe - und den Triumph der Menschlichkeit.

This collection of two short stories and assorted short pieces were published previously, and gathered here for the first time. "The Perils of Effrijim" is loaded with quirky characters, a fast-paced story, and an adorable demon who just wants to be with his beloved. In "Cat Got Your Tongue", Joy Randall thought her honeymoon with husband Raphael was going to fulfill all her expectations, but almost immediately they run into a decades-old curse, a spurned ghostly first wife, and a long-dead randy Scottish Laird.

They go through both bottles of champagne right there on the High Line, with nothing but the stars over them.... They drink, and Lavinia tells Louise about all the places they will go together when they finish their stories, when they are both great writers - to Paris and to Rome and to Trieste.... Lavinia will never go. She is going to die soon. Louise has nothing. Lavinia has everything. After a chance encounter, the two spiral into an intimate, intense, and possibly toxic friendship.

Eli and Harper have fled the compound - running from people who once fought by their side. Owen has been captured, Sawyer is infected, and Celdon is facing a crisis of conscience. When Eli gets wind of an attack that puts Owen's life in jeopardy, everything changes. Eli is determined to rescue his brother, but Harper will have to make a choice: follow Eli along on a suicide mission or push forward without him to find a cure.

Eli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don't ask too many questions. For Harper, the bid system works just fine. She's the best developer in her year, and she's confident she'll find a place among the wealthy, respected Systems workers. But when an upset in the bidding changes the course of Harper's future, she'll be forced to rely on an unlikely ally.

When Harper discovered the truth about Bid Day, she inadvertently painted a target on her back. Now Constance, the infamous espionage unit, wants her and her friends kept quiet at all costs. She and Eli are being sent out into the Fringe, where they'll face damaging radiation and violent gangs of survivors and be forced to fulfill Recon's sinister duty. After her first deployment goes bad, Harper is racked with guilt and paralyzed by fear. Out there it's kill or be killed, but the real danger is inside the compound.

When two missing Recon operatives returned to the compound, speculations ran wild about where they had been. Harper is certain they're infected with a deadly virus, but she's locked away in the cages, facing 10 to 20 years behind bars. Blaze thinks Harper has a shot at being released, but nobody can save Eli from Constance. Jayden is torturing him for information on his brother's whereabouts, and as Constance's newest lackey, Celdon is caught in the middle.

When Harper and Celdon escaped to compound 119, they thought they had a chance to start a new life away from Constance. What they found instead was a desolate wasteland ravaged by death. Now they have no choice but to return to their home compound, where things have never been worse. The drifters are plotting a large-scale attack out on the Fringe, and Jayden is speeding up deployments to secure the perimeter. She's ordered Eli to kill the drifters' leaders - including his estranged older brother.

Jahresbeginn 2005: Privatdetektivin Katinka Palfy ist vom Pech verfolgt. Erst wird sie Opfer eines Anschlags, dann verschwindet ihre Beretta, um kurz darauf wieder aufzutauchen...

Emotionally raw and emphatically sensual, Tongue is the story of the demise of an obsessive romance, and a woman's culinary journey toward self-restoration and revenge. When her boyfriend of seven years leaves her for another woman, the celebrated young chef Jung Ji-won shuts down the cooking school she ran from their home and sinks into deep depression, losing her will to cook, her desire to eat, and even her ability to taste.