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Rabbits of the Apocalypse is set in a not-too-distant future plagued with drought, human trafficking, rabid religious groups, and people who completely lack a sense of humor. What with all the hunger, chaos, sunstroke, landmines, and radiation, it's hard to get by, and harder still to get laid. In the remote desert town of Lafontaine, Casey Prentice has been trying to survive the endtimes by keeping her head down and refusing to give a damn about anyone except her younger sister Emily and wingman Malice Hiroyama. But then a powerful and mysterious entity descends on the town.

It's New Year's Eve, the holiday of forced fellowship, mandatory fun, and paper hats. While dining out with her husband and their friends, Kirshenbaum's protagonist - an acerbic, mordantly witty, and clinically depressed writer - fully unravels. Propelled by stand-up comic timing and rife with pinpoint insights, Kirshenbaum examines what it means to be unloved and loved, to succeed and fail, to be at once impervious and raw. Rabbits for Food shows how art can lead us out of - or into - the depths of disconsolate loneliness and piercing grief.

It is very early in Jack Ryan’s career—so early that he has not yet even become an analyst for the CIA. But a series of nasty encounters with an IRA splinter group has brought Ryan to the attention of the CIA’s Deputy Director and his British counterpart. They offer him his first job as a...

Down the Rabbit Hole Collection One collects the first four episodes of the series, and includes two bonus short stories that take place from the girls' perspective.

An American student at Oxford. A secret society with a sinister streak. An unexpected twist you won’t see coming. Welcome to The Rabbit Club. When Ali McCain, an eighteen-year-old from Los Angeles, is accepted at Oxford, it’s a chance to fulfill his dreams. To study English literature in...

Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda - and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap - Henryk’s secret history begins to unravel. Searching for more clues of her father’s past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück women’s camp concealed among her mother’s things. Within its seams are dozens of letters to Henryk written by Frieda.

The impressive new novel from the award-winning author — a heartrending, enthralling mix of cold-case mystery and political suspense. In 1968, during the anti-war demonstrations in Chicago, four people are killed in the explosion of a militant’s hideout: two policemen and two radicals. Two others manage to escape. Fifty years ago, Cate and Joe Davis’s family was torn apart by the Vietnam War, the protests, and the disappearance of their older sister, Bobbie. It left their mother and father dead. It left what remained of their family fractured almost beyond repair.

Tom Clancy führt uns zurück zu Jack Ryans Anfängen als Wissenschaftler und Berater des CIA. Mitten in der heißesten Phase des Kalten Krieges soll er einen russischen Überläufer ausforschen, der hochbrisantes Material zu bieten hat...

Set in Memphis, Tennessee, and northern Mississippi, The Rabbit Factory presents a wildly diverse cast of characters who are looking for love, but not necessarily in all the right places. Helen is a sex-starved alcoholic who combs the local bars looking for the one thing her sugar daddy can't give her. Arthur, Helen's aging sugar daddy, is very wealthy, but suffers from severe self-confidence issues. Believing himself unloved, Eric is a runaway who oddly becomes Arthur's adopted son.

Book one of Veronica Christopher’s short story selection series is The Rabbit Hole. The Rabbit Hole is a collection of four short stories dealing with life’s tests, madness, and the unknown. In “Three-Leaf Clover”, 14-year-old Eve has lots of secrets to bear...but can she handle it? Next, go to 1950 Korea during the war, where Ah-seong and her little brother, Jae-hyun, take refuge under a bridge and bid “Goodbye from Nogunri". Then see RJ’s battle as he wanders his afterlife “Via Tranquilla” while confronting the pinnacle moments of his life that have shaped him.

Kai lives in a mixed-race family on a rural council estate in Somerset, where he and his three older sisters have three different dads and his mum is being led into crack addiction by his petty-thief father. He idolises his dad, adores his friend, Saffie, and the school rabbit, Flopsy, and is full of ambition to be the fastest runner in Middledown Primary. He and Saffie build a secret world of friendship in the school garden.

The gift that Joshua Brown receives from his father is a desperately needed understanding that every minute of our lives is precious, but never more so than when we are with the people we love. Magically though, this gift comes to Josh more than twenty-five years after the sudden death of his father. Since that fateful day, Josh has become a successful thirty-six year old executive, but sadly he has also become a man who hasn't let anyone into his heart, not even his wife or children.

An evil that has been unseen in the Academy walls for decades returns in this fourth instalment; the legendary Brotherhood of the Rabbit has risen to antagonise the students of Save the World Academy. With their twisted ancient rituals and rumours of double agents threatening the school, the students and teachers must be on their guard to stay alive.

A lonely boy in a prairie town befriends a local outsider in 1947 and then witnesses a shocking murder. Based on a true story. Canwood, Saskatchewan, 1947. Leonard Flint, a lonely boy in a small farming town befriends the local outsider, a man known as Rabbit Foot Bill. Bill doesn’t talk much...

Only very special people are chosen by children's author Laura White to join 'The Society', an elite group of writers in the small town of Rabbit Back. Now a 10th member has been selected: Ella, literature teacher and possessor of beautifully curving lips. But soon Ella discovers that the Society is not what it seems. What is its mysterious ritual, 'The Game'? What explains the strange disappearance that occurs at Laura's winter party, in a whirlwind of snow? Why are the words inside books starting to rearrange themselves?

Eine fesselnde Geschichte vor der Kulisse der wilden Küste Cornwalls. Auf Black Rabbit Hall, dem Sommersitz der Familie Alton, passiert normalerweise nicht viel. Bis zu einem stürmischen Abend 1968: Da stellt eine Tragödie die Verbundenheit der vier Alton-Geschwister auf eine harte Probe. Jahrzehnte später stoßen Lorna Smith und ihr Verlobter auf der Suche nach einem Ort für ihre Hochzeitsfeier auf ein verfallenes, aber wunderschönes Haus. Nach und nach verrät es Lorna seine schönsten Geschichten und traurigsten Momente.

It's Christmas! Things are going well in Rabbit Creek. Elizabeth has taken her duties as the Alpha's Mate to heart and as the story opens, that heart is breaking for the loneliness and isolation of one of her pack. It's Christmas Eve and no one should be lonely at Christmas. Lindy doesn't feel like she has much to celebrate. After two years of widowhood, she can barely make ends meet without the aid of her pack and while her inner wolf is ready to move on, Lindy isn't sure she can let go of the past.

A woman comes to terms with the human condition.

This timeless classic children's story The Velveteen Rabbit, tells the story by Margery Williams of how toys become real. Originally published in 1922, The Velveteen Rabbit is a treasured favorite that has warmed many hearts for decades. A beautiful tale of a stuffed rabbit magically transformed by the power of love, adored by little ones and their grown-ups. A fantastic addition to the family audio library, to be enjoyed over and over again.

Willkommen zurück in Mauswald! Der Marquis de Hoto, seines Zeichens Magier und sprechendes weißes Kaninchen, und sein junger Zauberlehrling ahnen nichts Böses, als sie in dem verschlafenen Städtchen vorbeischauen. Doch die hellsichtigen Visionen einer alten Fledermaus bringen die zwei bald auf die Spur des hinterhältigen Squamatax. Die Echse ist auf der Suche nach einem sagenumwobenen elektromagischen Artefakt, das ihm das Weltenwandern ermöglichen soll. Diese Fähigkeit, zwischen Orten und Zeiten zu reisen, haben sonst nur legendäre Baumläufer, Hüter der Portalwelten wie der Marquis.