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On a serene night in 1953, Sally Mason, a dedicated wife and mother of two, drives a twisting road on her way home from night school. Suddenly, a mysterious bluish-white light descends over the road. Terrified, Sally slams on the brakes. After a flash of bright light nearly blinds her, she passes out, awakening to the persistent knock of a police officer on her car window. When she sees the officer and remembers her frightening experience, she screams and faints, and is rushed to the hospital.

A year ago, the Virus killed off most people in the world. A year ago, strange things started happening to those who survived. Some of them transformed into something dark and sinister, while others evolved, becoming something more, something beyond human. A year ago, Dani and Zoe were lost. They traversed the country to find one another, losing some of the people dearest to them along the way. They fought for their right to simply live, uncovered long-buried secrets, and discovered irreversible truths.

Grad student Dani O'Connor falls violently ill when a mysterious outbreak spreads across the globe. When her fever finally breaks, she barely recognizes the devastated world around her. Everyone is dead, and Dani is all alone. Or so she thinks... Across the country, her bartender best friend Zoe, is used to dealing with hotheads and dirtbags, but nothing could have prepared her for the twisted thoughts of her fellow survivors. Anyone left alive is either sick, insane, or changed...like her. As her newfound super senses gain strength, Zoe must learn to control them before she loses herself to madness completely.

In the wake of destruction left behind by the Virus, it took Dani and Zoe months to find each other. But their reunion was short-lived. Dani has been taken, and though little distance separates them, they might as well be worlds apart. From the moment she hears Dani's scream, Zoe's only goal is to save her best friend. She and her companions scramble to come up with a rescue plan, but when a ghost from Jake's past reappears, lines are blurred, decisions become harder, and secrets are revealed...and some secrets are best left buried.

Die Bestsellerautorin von How to kill your family ist zurück! Mit jedem erdenklichen Pomp begeht Anthony Wistern – Self-Made-Millionär, Patriarch, Womanizer – seinen 60. Geburtstag. Doch zum Höhepunkt der Party findet er sich überraschend im Jenseits wieder. Von dort aus muss er beobachten, wie "seine Lieben" die eine oder andere Krokodilsträne angesichts seines Todes hervorpressen, sich de facto allerdings nur für eines interessieren: das Erbe.

Jake's world was ripped away shortly before he fell victim to the virus. Waking up days later, he finds that everything has changed--even he has changed. Clara's childhood was less than ideal, but thanks to her beloved fairy tales, she managed to survive. Just as everything seems to be falling into place, a ghost from the past returns to haunt her. Traveling across the country together proves more difficult than either Jake or Clara expects, and just when they both think the world couldn't get any worse, it does.

Zoe and her companions succeeded in rescuing Dani from the Colony. But not without sacrifice. Beaten and broken, they head west, determined to leave behind the torment and horrors they experienced in Colorado. As Dani and Zoe make the perilous trek home to Bodega Bay, they learn that danger can take many forms—other survivors, their friends, even themselves—and that things are rarely what they seem. Zoe is desperate to become the woman she sees in others' memories, while Dani struggles to conceal damaging secrets, risking losing herself—her humanity—completely.

Edie lives quietly in a crumbling country house in Broadstairs with her partner Joanna. They have spent two decades together since the death of Harry, the third member of their marriage. It’s a bohemian existence, but a happy one – and yet conversations about the mother who abandoned her have recently awoken in Edie. Edie reflects on her childhood as part of the post-war Jewish Diaspora in Maida Vale, and the heady, hedonistic years of 1960s London when she experienced her sexual awakening. Now approaching fifty, she wonders if there’s still time to become the woman she once yearned to be.

Anima is an extraordinary portrayal of pastoral life, where humans and animals exist in profound interdependence. Kassabova conjures the spirit of this remarkable place with intimacy and empathy, and helps us imagine how we might all begin to heal our broken relationship with the natural world.

Daniel L. Stone's new novel is a powerful mix of suspense and paranormal mystery based on the connection between two love stories that take place 100 years apart. Both stories take place at the same manor on a beautiful island that legend said was the angels' playground on earth. The manor was built on a plateau between two tall mountains where the legend also said the angels ascended and descended from Heaven to their playground. This land was sacred and hallowed ground-not to be violated!

Comme chaque année, Léna et Phoebe passent les vacances d’été sur la côte basque. Léna ne rêve que de surf et de fêtes sur la plage, tandis que Phoebe peine à reprendre son souffle après une première année de fac compliquée. Les deux sœurs ne se parlent presque plus et leur famille est au bord de l’implosion. Mais cet été, il y a Inaya, cette fille qui bouleverse toutes les certitudes de Léna. Il y a aussi Isaac, le premier amour de Phoebe à qui elle a brisé le cœur l’été dernier. Il y a surtout ces choses que les deux sœurs ne se sont jamais dites.

Valerie Fillmore has struggled with demonic attacks of fear, anxiety, depression, OCD, and intrusive thoughts. Valerie sought help within her Calvinist Baptist church, only to be led into further bondage by their denial of the existence of spiritual warfare and their condemnation of her thoughts and emotions. Valerie kept seeking the Lord, asking Him to help her understand Him and why she was suffering. She was led by the Lord to a different church where she learned the truth about how the enemy attacks the children of God.

Growing up in Slater, Isadora Chang never felt at ease in the repressive small town, even before she realized she was bisexual—but after the deaths of two childhood friends, Slater went from feeling claustrophobic to suffocating. So, Isa took off before the town could swallow her, too. Even though it meant leaving everything she knew behind, including her last surviving friend, Mason. When Isa’s abusive father dies, however, she agrees to come back from art school just long enough to collect the inheritance. But then Mason turns up at the cemetery with a revelation and a plea.

In December 2013, an ice storm buries Toronto as realtor Laura Keys prepares to sell a one-of-a-kind house on behalf of its comatose owner. Haunting Laura, and longing to be invited in, is a mysterious teenage girl with a Scottish terrier tucked into her coat. As Laura readies the house for showing, she learns more about its owner, Edna "Eddie" Ferguson. Leading up to the Great Snowstorm of 1944, Eddie, a brickmaker, enters into a passionate yet ill-fated affair with her boss's daughter. While uncovering the past, Laura navigates both the death of her mother and a troubled marriage.

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic new teacher and longs to be her pet. However, when a thief begins to target the school, Justine's sense that something isn't quite right grows ever stronger. With each twist of the plot, this gripping story of deception and the corrosive power of guilt takes a yet darker turn. Young as she is, Justine must decide where her loyalties lie.

The world moves and it waits for none. Assigned by the Duchess to investigate the strange foreigners who were encountering in dialogue with the tribes of the mountains, Ling Qi, Cai Renxiang, and their companions must take a perilous journey through the wild mountains, and see what can be made of their intentions. A difficult and none-too-popular task, for the people of the Empire have only ever met barbarians with war. Or have they, history is not as simple as it seems.

Hailing from a small village in the beautiful land of Vietnam, young Lena enjoys living out her simple existence. Her world revolves around her grandma, siblings, school, and all her village friends, until one day, when a detonating bomb announced the beginning of a devastation that would go down in history—The Vietnam War. Having never known her father and being estranged from her mother, who resides in the US with her American husband, she soon finds herself fighting the treacherous waters of the sea in a small boat, seeking refuge from the war with a daunting task glowering down at her.

Liyen, the heir to the mortal kingdom of Tianxia, has been taught that her most important duty is to serve the immortal Queen of the Golden Desert, who rescued them from the shadowy Wuxin. Since then, Tianxia was bound in service to the immortals. But when her grandfather steals a magical flower from the queen to cure Liyen from a vicious poison, the powerful God of War is sent to attack Tianxia, plunging it into chaos.

Un libro en el que se entrecruzan el arte, la literatura y la vida: la confirmación del inmenso talento de María Gainza. Una noche, durante su estancia bonaerense para el rodaje de su película Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola le dijo a María Gainza: "El artista viene al mundo con un carcaj que contiene un número limitado de flechas doradas. Puede lanzar todas sus flechas de joven, o lanzarlas de adulto, o incluso ya de viejo. También puede ir lanzándolas de a poco, espaciadas a lo largo de los años. Eso sería lo ideal, pero ya sabés que lo ideal es enemigo de lo bueno".

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.