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Alex Walker has always looked up to her perfect older sister. Maddie has succeeded in all the ways Alex has not: She escaped their hometown and seems to have put the memories of their unstable childhood behind her. But despite the different paths their lives have taken, the two sisters made a pact to spend one week together every summer. It was a promise they’d never broken . . . until now.

Jill Stone, an American radio journalist who married a Dutchman, has spent the past 20 years carefully curating the perfect Dutch life full of borrels—drinks, boats, bikes, and friends in the idyllic village of Loenen aan de Vecht, just outside Amsterdam.

Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and winner of countless awards—including the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar Allan Poe, and Bram Stoker—Harlan Ellison proved once more that he was both unpredictable and irrepressible in this second collection of innovative science fiction. Again, Dangerous Visions—the middle installment in a planned three anthology series—includes award-winning stories from incomparable writers such as Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Piers Anthony, Dean Koontz, and James Tiptree, among many others.

A cross between Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and a bartender from Cheers, Sally Witherspoon, a fifty-something accountant turned biker-bar owner, loves solving puzzles. Up to now, she has focused on helping neighbors and friends find lost jewelry, lost pets, and lost loves. But when she finds her best friend and business partner, Bill Arnold, dead in a dumpster behind the bar, she needs all her wits and grit to find out who murdered him.

Handsome, erudite, and sexy-as-sin Drake Vireo may look human, but he's a dragon through and through. One known for his prowess with the ladies . . . especially when enjoyed in multiples. Despite loudly proclaiming the fact that no woman could hold his attention for long, he falls hard when a curly-haired, unconventional Guardian named Aisling Grey marches into his life, and demands he be the savior she needs. Drake's no hero, however, and although their connection is unmistakable, Aisling leaves him feeling unbalanced.

Du bist gefeuert! Fristlos! Ein Enthüllungsbericht kostet Carla Job und Karriere. Frustriert kehrt sie Deutschland den Rücken. Ihr Weg führt sie in die Toskana, auf ein Gut nahe Siena. Abseits vom Touristenrummel. Dort begegnet ihr Silvio, der Sohn des Hauses. Der faszinierende Toskaner wirbelt das Gefühlsleben der Journalistin so richtig durcheinander. Und doch scheint er nicht der Gentleman zu sein, als der er sich in der Öffentlichkeit präsentiert - glaubt man den Anschuldigungen seiner Frau... Eine humorvolle und spannende Lovestory aus der Toskana.

From celebrated author Colombe Schneck, in her first translation into English, The Paris Trilogy is three semi-autobiographical takes on a woman’s life, starting with Seventeen, progressing with Friendship, and then Swimming: A Love Story. Exploring questions of sexuality, bodily autonomy, femininity, friendship and loss, The Paris Trilogy is a moving meditation on a lifelong journey to reclaim the female body, accepting it for all its faults and learning to celebrate its strength.

Homicide Detective Kit McKittrick finds herself standing over a dead body in the Shady Oaks retirement centre. Frank Flynn has been stabbed and his room ransacked. Though he kept his background quiet at the centre, Kit recognises Frank from the San Diego Police Department. Had the former detective been following a trail that led to his murder? When the head of security is also found dead, it points to a conspiracy right at the heart of Shady Oaks. The one person who might be able to help uncover the truth is just who Kit has been avoiding: Dr Sam Reeves.

Most people’s births aren’t immortalized in a police report—but Olivia was born during the infamous Camp Lost Lake murders. Seventeen years later, Olivia’s life looks pretty perfect . . . until she discovers the man she calls dad is not her biological father. Now she wants answers about her bloodline, and the only place she knows to look is Camp Lost Lake. Most people don’t spend their formative years on the run with an alleged murderer—but Reagan did. In the court of public opinion, her mom was found guilty of the deaths at Camp Lost Lake, and both of them have been in hiding ever since.

In Seventeen, Friendship, and Swimming, Colombe Schneck orchestrates a coming-of-age in three movements. Beautiful, masterfully controlled, yet filled with pathos, they invite the listener into a decades-long evolution of sexuality, bodily autonomy, friendship, and loss.

In the wake of the Hebridean insurrection, which threatened the safety and future of her homeworld, Alex of Terra is focused on isolating the conspirators so no further harm can be done. Her soulmate, Lauren of Earth, prepares to become Alex’s Consort and the Co-Ruler of the Terran people, but she is plagued with horrible nightmares from the aftermath of recent trauma. She’s also dealing with the sadness of believing she abandoned her dearest friends whom she left behind on her own homeworld.

In this new collection, Patrick Barb explores themes of family found and lost, media consumption and the dangers of runaway nostalgia, the supernatural in our lives, and the impact of violence in both the long- and short-term. From rural backwoods to Park Slope brownstones, Barb's characters face impossible, awful situations, testing their inner strength and understanding of reality. Covering quiet horror, weird fiction, supernatural horror, slasher horror, topical dark fiction, and more, these stories spotlight supposedly familiar terrors and fears in new and unexpected ways.

When a prominent local businessman is found dead in his office, Sheriff Kenni Lowry is thrust into another murder investigation. At first, it seems like an open-and-shut case, but as Kenni digs deeper, she uncover a web of secrets and lies that suggests this was no simple case of robbery gone wrong. With suspects and their motives, red herrings, and clues, Kenni must navigate a dangerous world of bribery and corruption that leads all the way to the state capital. She needs to get into places she knows only her ghost side-kick papa can go, but he's vanished.

1943, Seattle. While raging war reshapes the landscape of Europe, its impact is felt thousands of miles away too. Before the war, Nora Kinney was one of countless housewives and mothers in her comfortable Capitol Hill neighborhood. Now, with her doctor husband stationed in North Africa, Nora feels compelled to do more than tend her victory garden or help with scrap metal drives . . .

New York, 1953. For Alana Olson, there's always been something about Picasso. An art historian and aspiring journalist, Alana was bound to encounter the most renowned artist of the era, but it was her late mother's strange fascination with the man that inspired Alana's doctoral thesis on his work. Then an assignment for a profile on Picasso from her dream publication leads Alana to a series of intimate interviews with Sara Murphy and Irene Legut - two women from the once-vibrant French social circle that included the artist.

Globi und Hans freuen sich über freie Zeit und gehen Wandern. Dabei kommt es zu einem unglücklichen Zwischenfall. Hans stürzt ab, Globi hilft. Kurz darauf bekommt er eine Ausbildung zum Retter und Piloten. Mit der Rettungsflugwacht erlebt er viele aufregende Situationen, in denen Menschen und Tieren geholfen werden muss.

Ein grosser gelber Schnabel, eine schwarzrot karierte Hose, eine Baskenmütze auf dem Kopf – das ist Globi. Ein witziger und fröhlicher Lausbub mit einem grossen Herz. Der pfiffige Erfinder findet eine Lösung für fast jedes Problem (auch wenn die nicht immer so ganz funktioniert). Globi ist erfinderisch und fantasievoll, hilfsbereit und authentisch. Er ist aber auch temperamentvoll und kann manchmal wütend werden. Durch seine Neugier erlebt er immer wieder neue Abenteuer, reist an ungewöhnliche Orte und begegnet interessanten Menschen und Tieren.

Fille d'immigrants coréens, Casey Han a été élevée dans le Queens dans le respect des traditions et des valeurs de ses parents. Propriétaires d’un pressing, ils ont travaillé dur pour payer les meilleures études à leur fille et lui permettre une belle carrière professionnelle. Mais à 22 ans, Casey, diplômée de Princeton, a pris les goûts de luxe et les manières de ses camarades et ne rêve que d’une vie glamour à Manhattan.

Lange bevor wir einen Körper hatten, lange bevor es überhaupt Körper gab, war Bewusstsein, waren geistige Wesen existent. Hinter der sichtbaren Erscheinungsform existiert die geistige Realität. Schritt für Schritt erläutert Ruth Huber die Stufen, die wir als Geistwesen auf unserem Abstieg in die Inkarnation zurücklegen. Dadurch werden zahlreiche Schwierigkeiten leichter verständlich, denen wir in unserem Menschsein begegnen.

Vanished tells the stories of women and girls in upstate New York who are often overlooked or unseen. The characters range from an aging art professor whose students are uninterested in learning what she has to teach, to a young girl who becomes the victim of a cruel prank in a swimming pool, to a television producer who regrets allowing her coworkers into her mother’s bird-filled house to film a show about animal hoarding because it will reveal too much about her family and past. Humorous and empathetic, the collection exposes the adversity in each character’s life.