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Librarian-witch Jane Madison has been invited to join the prestigious Washington Coven - a necessary step, if she’s going to hold onto her feline familiar, her beloved arcane books, and her sexy warder, David Montrose. As the Coven’s tests become more challenging, though, Jane must decide if she can trust her new witchy friend, Haylee. And then there’s that handsome Brit, Graeme Henderson, who is proving to be most distracting...Jane is about to be tested in ways she’s never imagined - and, pass or fail, nothing will ever be the same!

Outlandish and emotional, this humorous novel centers on Sheldon Funk, a struggling actor who dies in a bus restroom only to awaken during his autopsy and attack the coroner. Fleeing into the wintry streets of Toronto, Sheldon realizes he’s now a zombie - as if he didn’t have enough on his plate already. His last audition, reading for the reality television series House Bingo, had gone disastrously wrong. His mother is in the late stages of dementia, his savings are depleted, his agent couldn’t care less, and his boyfriend is little more than a set of nice abs.

This hilarious, whip-smart collection of essays from a top writer and producer of Six Feet Under crisscrosses from the highly personal (conflating her own loss of virginity and the Kobe Bryant accusations), to the political (what she has in common with Monica and Chandra), to the outrageously Los Angelean (why women wear huge diamonds and what they must do to get them). Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants is a genre-defying combination of personal essay and memoir, or a hilarious, unruly and unapologetic evaluation of society, religion, sex, love, and - best of all - Jill Soloway.

What Ho, Automaton! chronicles the adventures of Reggie Worcester, gentleman consulting detective, and his automaton valet, Reeves.

Reggie, an avid reader of detective fiction, knows two things about solving crime: One, the guilty party is always the person you least suspect. And, two, the Murders in the Rue Morgue would have been solved a lot sooner had the detective the foresight to ask the witnesses if they’d seen any orangutans recently.

Bleak Expectations' recounts the remarkable adventures of young Pip Bin as he tries to repair his destroyed family and distinctly damaged life, aided by his best friend Harry Biscuit and definitely not aided by his cruel and ironically named guardian Mr Gently Benevolent and his accomplices, the fearsome Hardthrasher siblings.

Pot thief Hubie Schuze is back, and this time his larceny is for a good cause. He wants to recover sacred relics lifted from San Roque, a mysterious pueblo that is closed to outsiders. Usually Hubie finds his pottery a few feet underground - but these artifacts are 150 feet above the New Mexico soil, on the top floor of the Rio Grande Lofts. Hubie will need all his deductive skills to craft the perfect plan - which is thwarted when he encounters the beautiful Stella. And then he is arrested for murder. That tends to happen when you are in the room with the body.

In the 99th district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the ‘three bitter years’, the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive.

Avid antiques collector Pierre-Francois Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an 18th-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life.

Der Tod des milliardenschweren Großindustriellen Thomas A. Anders scheint schnell aufgeklärt zu sein: tödlicher Unfall im Rahmen misslungener außerehelicher Fesselspielchen. Doch warum finden sich bei dem Opfer Spuren von einem hochkonzentrierten Betäubungsmittel im Blut? War es womöglich doch ein grausam kalkulierter Mord? Mithilfe ihres Ehemanns Roarke und Detective Delia Peabody nimmt Eve Dallas sich dem Fall an und ermittelt in der Familie des Opfers.

For the first time, Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling opens up about his life as a cast member and head writer for the comedy powerhouse The Howard Stern Show. In The Joke Man: Bow to Stern, Jackie tells of his beginnings as a working comedian and writer and his climb to the top on The Howard Stern Show. Jackie saw it all, and in The Joke Man: Bow to Stern he shares personal stories as well a look from behind the scenes at one of the highest-rated radio shows of all time.

Ein Blick auf die nackte Frauenleiche, die im East River Park gefunden wird, und Eve Dallas weiß, dass "der Bräutigam" nach fast einem Jahrzehnt wieder zugeschlagen hat. Die Tote liegt auf einem weißen Tuch. Ein Silberring steckt an der linken Hand. In ihrem Torso sind die Worte "48 Stunden, 12 Minuten, 38 Sekunden" eingeritzt. Die vier Opfer von damals waren ebenso tätowiert und trugen den gleichen Ring. Wird es Eve diesmal gelingen, den brutalen Killer unschädlich zu machen?

Lieutenant Eve Dallas muss in ihrem neuesten Fall ausgerechnet an einer Privatschule mit dem dubiosen Namen "Sarah Child Academy" ermitteln. Dort wurde in der Mittagspause ein junger Geschichtslehrer tot aufgefunden. In seinem Blut entdeckt man Spuren eines tödlichen Giftes. Hat ihn seine frisch Angetraute auf dem Gewissen? Oder hatte er Feinde in der Schule? Und was wissen die Schüler? Die Leiche des Lehrers ist aber nicht Eves einziges Problem.

Eve Dallas untersucht die brutale Ermordung eines jungen Liebespaares, als ihre Freundin Mavis sie um Hilfe bittet. Tandy Willowby, eine werdende Mutter aus Mavis' Geburtsvorbereitungskurs, ist spurlos verschwunden. Tandy war gerade von London in die USA ausgewandert und hat bislang nur wenige Freunde in New York. Ist sie womöglich entführt worden?

Niemals ist Lieutenant Eve Dallas etwas so schwer gefallen: Sie muss gegen ihre eigenen Kollegen ermitteln, weil alle Spuren des Mordes an einem liebenswerten, anständigen Polizisten direkt in die Zentrale führen. Als eine weitere Leiche vor ihrer Haustür deponiert wird, begreift Eve Dallas, dass dieser zweite Mord eine eindeutige Warnung ist: Eve selbst soll das nächste Opfer sein. Und diesmal steht Eve einem Killer gegenüber, so raffiniert, überheblich und hinterhältig wie das personifizierte Böse...

Sie alle sterben mit einem Lächeln im Gesicht. Doch die offensichtlichen Selbstmorde erwecken Zweifel in der gewieften Polizeibeamtin Eve Dallas. Durch ihre hartnäckigen Recherchen stößt sie auf ein geheimnisvolles virtuelles Spiel, das in einer der Firmen ihres angeblich unwissenden Ehemannes Roarke hergestellt wird und das die Welt unterwerfen soll. Unversehens wird Eve in einen teuflischen Machtkampf hineingezogen, dessen Mittelpunkt ihr Mann Roarke darstellt - und bei dem es nur einen Sieger geben kann...

Eine erfahrene Polizistin kann wenig erschüttern. Doch diese Mordserie ist selbst für Lieutenant Eve Dallas ein Grenzfall. Nicht nur, dass der Täter besonders grausam vorgeht - die Spuren führen außerdem direkt in Eve Dallas' Haus: Ist der Butler ihres Mannes Roarke etwa ein Mörder? Eve kann das nicht glauben und stellt eine drängende Frage: Was geschah damals vor zehn Jahren? Allerdings ist irgendjemand eher bereit zu töten, als ihr eine Antwort zu geben...

Helen Eisenbach's hilariously irreverent guide provides a front-row seat to a largely female universe where love, lust, and forbidden laughter are just a fingertip away. Sharing hard-earned truths with sly insight and wit, Eisenbach reveals the fascinating inside story of a growing culture and shows how anyone can acquire the skills and state of mind to be a lesbian.

Called “our finest black-humorist” by The Atlantic Monthly, Kurt Vonnegut was one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. Now his first and last works come together for the first time in print, in a collection aptly titled after his famous phrase, We Are What We Pretend To Be.

Americans have long been fascinated with the oddness of the British, but the English, says literary critic Terry Eagleton, find their transatlantic neighbors just as strange. Only an alien race would admiringly refer to a colleague as "aggressive," use superlatives to describe everything from one's pet dog to one's rock collection, or speak frequently of being "empowered."

Local weather reporter Suzanne Maretto craves nothing more than to transcend life at her suburban cable television news station and follow in the footsteps of her idol: Barbara Walters. When she concludes that her unglamorous husband is getting in the way of her dream of stardom, the solution seems obvious: Get rid of him. She seduces a 15-year-old admirer, Jimmy, and persuades him to do her dirty work. Mission accomplished, Suzanne takes to the airwaves in her new role as grieving widow, in search of a TV deal. If that means selling Jimmy down the river, she’s ready.