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For Glory Hopkins, inheriting her Aunt Lucille's Harlem brownstone feels more like a curse than a blessing. As a struggling artist, Glory doesn't have the money, time or patience to look after the aging house of an aunt she barely knew. But when she stumbles into Parkie de Groot, a savvy, ambitious auction house appraiser, her unexpected inheritance begins to look more promising. Glory and Parkie form an unlikely alliance and work to unearth the origins of a rare manuscript hidden in the brownstone's attic.

The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light - and with it the enormity of the universe, realizing that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where a sense of discovery is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies.

Scarlett, Stella, Sadie...With each name, I’ve had a different life. The only constant is the monster that haunts me. Cyrus was the boy I fell for, but he only wanted to own me. For years he made my life a living nightmare until the night they came and helped me escape my horrible life as Scarlett. He always promised he’d never let me go and would always find me. He kept that promise. My Lord has come back for me, but I’m not going back.

Es ist ein heißer Sommertag, als Gustav den Geist der dampfenden Vanessa am Straßenrand aufliest und mit ins gelbe Haus bringt. Vanessa erinnert sich an nichts mehr als ihren Namen, und erst mit Oles Hilfe gelingt es, herauszubringen, dass sie aus dem London des 17.Jahrhunderts stammt. Dort wütete ein schrecklicher Brand. Um dem Gedächtnis des verwirrten Mädchens auf die Sprünge zu helfen. Und noch dazu steht ein Besuch der Jugendamtstante Fiseline ins Haus, was für eine ziemliche Unruhe sorgt...

Nachdem sich Trulla mit ihrem allzu geschwätzigen Freund Pelle überworfen hat, muss sie sich einer besonderen Herausforderung stellen - dem schönen Knaben Gustav Goldstein, einem Knaben aus den zweiten Weltkrieg, der seiner Mutter, einem Opfer des Holocausts, harrt. Da muss Trullas Papa Ole schon viele Register seines Könnens ziehen, um die beiden zusammenzuführen, damit sie ihre diesseitige Aufgabe erledigen können. Und zudem erfährt Trulla ihre erste große Liebe, was zu guter Letzt in einem unverhofften Twist endet.

Trullas Eltern ziehen oft um. Schon wieder sind sie in einer neuen Stadt gelandet. Vater Ole schreibt an seinem "Buch der vergessenen Wörter", während Mutter Emma auf Jobsuche geht. In der Schule trifft sie den dicken Pelle, über den sich die anderen Kinder lustig machen und den sie "Kloß" nennen. Sie freundet sich mit dem Sonderling an, und er. zeigt ihr die Gegend, die seit dem Mittelalter "Dunkelland" heißt. Denn früher trieben wilde Räuberbanden in den Wäldern ihr Unwesen. Besonders grausam war der Schwarze Krolosch, der den Bauern nicht nur ihr Geld stahl, sondern auch ihre Töchter.

She’s a genius with a secret. He’s an agent with a grudge. Being pretty isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Nova Harbor would much rather be known for her brain than her symmetrical facial features, stunning bod, and eye-catching coloring.

Die Dunkelheit schwebt über dem Ort Eckstein und bringt zahlreiche Geheimnisse mit. Ein unverhofftes Gesicht tritt in Erscheinung und deckt Details aus der Vergangenheit auf. Auch eine schmerzvolle Erfahrung bringt Emilia und ihr Freunde an die Grenzen. Ein weiterer Splitter erwacht und alles scheint anders, als zuvor.

Die Finsternis breitet sich über Eckstein aus und konfrontiert die Bewohner mit ihren schlimmsten Albträumen. Durch einen Zauber wird der Ort von der Außenwelt abgeschirmt und der große Kampf beginnt, als die restlichen Splitter erwachen. Der unausweichliche Kampf steht bevor.

Die Begegnung im Haus auf dem Meeresgrund konfrontiert Emilia mit der Vergangenheit. Eine große Aufgabe erwartet sie, wenn Eckstein gerettet werden soll. Die mächtige Hexe holt zum entscheidenden Gegenschlag aus und das Chaos nimmt seinen Lauf, wobei die Grenzen zwischen Freund und Feind verschwimmen.

In 2025, a simmering conflict in the South China Sea erupts into total war between the People’s Republic of China and the United States… World War III raged not only on land, at sea and in the air, but also in space and cyberspace. A war that narrowly avoided oblivion. It's been twenty years after the war which took the planet to the brink of annihilation, the map of the world has been redrawn. China has emerged as the dominant economic power, exerting its influence on every continent.

Two teenage boys went missing from a park in King County a decade ago. While one of the boys was found days later, his body discarded in a ravine in the forest on Tiger Mountain, the other boy was never found. Until now. After a property developer’s front end loader unearths the skeletal remains of several teenage boys from around Washington State, the missing boy’s remains are identified.

1939, Canada unprepared but defiant, declares war on Germany and mass produces a mid-size warship, the Corvette. Thus starts the creation and journey of Canada's first Corvette, the HMCS Collingwood. Neither designed nor equipped for the North Atlantic, Collingwood is tasked to protect convoys and take on the predatory Sea Wolves lurking below the waves. Heart breaking wartime romance as Ian and Kate struggle with love in difficult times. Our hero Ian, takes command of the Collingwood. He is ready to fight with any weapon he is given having witnessed Nazi atrocities and now driven by hatred.

It’s been fifteen years since her sister died, and Rae McDonald still hasn’t recovered from the accident—or the ways she tried to cope with it. Not even a PhD in psychology has helped her deal with her feelings. It’s safer to shut them out. But that makes it difficult to connect with the son she gave up for adoption as a teenager. Lisa Smyth hasn’t fared any better. She was in the car with Rae’s sister that tragic night and keeps the truth of what really happened buried in her own grief. Still struggling, she drowns her guilt with glass after glass.

After a tumultuous childhood she couldn’t control, Addie Morgan is finally living her own life. She’s left her old pressures behind for a job in a country vineyard, and she finds more than just work with the vineyard’s owner, Scott. But as things are looking up, her family comes crashing down. When Addie’s sister gives birth to a baby she can’t raise, she leans on Addie for help. Unable to refuse in a time of crisis, Addie returns home to Alexandria to take care of everything she tried so hard to forget.

From the iconic author of Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Martian Chronicles, and The Illustrated Man, The Toynbee Convector is a true cause for celebration. The twenty-two classic tales in this special Ray Bradbury collection begin in the familiar rooms and landscapes of our lives, in common thoughts and memories, and then take off into the farthest reaches of the imagination.

King Harald’s bounty made targets of the magi. It’s bad enough to be defeated. Now they are hunted. Rol is the only one in his family who is not a magi, yet. Maybe he never will be, but they’re all in danger. There will be violence. There will be death. If the mage hunters don’t get them the fae creatures of the Great Savannah will.

Moving to a new town isn't easy, but Kylie McNaughton is determined to get away from her old South Carolina Pride. When she's accepted by the Neta of Maverick Point, it's almost too good to be true. Finally, she can just live in peace and lose herself in her designs.

When my beer kegs turn up missing days before a big event, I hire Monsters, PI to track down my beer. Who's assigned to my case? Tuvid, the gargoyle who wrongfully accused me of gnome-theft. Tuvid's seven feet of gargoyle muscles with a killer smile. So, when our not-one-night-stand results in a marriage proposal—solely to save his gargoyle rep—I know I'm in trouble. My business plans don't include marrying a gargoyle, but Tuvid's impossible to resist.

Nina will nach Frankreich reisen, denn die Schwester ihrer Freundin Madeleine ist spurlos verschwunden. Tom ist natürlich sofort bereit Nina zu begleiten und gemeinsam begeben sich die drei auf die Suche. Dabei stoßen sie auf eine Rockerbande und auf den ... Vampir von Verdun.