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Former rivals Quinn Bradford and Elise McKinney are not friends, at least not anymore. As teens, all they cared about was psyching each other out before concerts. But when Quinn - now the keyboardist for Shaken Dirty, the hottest rock band on the scene - returns to his hometown and hears about the car accident that shattered Elise's career, he's determined to make things right.

Things are looking bad for disgraced spy August Drummond. In emotional free fall after the death of his wife, fired for a series of unprecedented security breaches that saw him labelled a traitor...and now his neighbour on the flight to Istanbul won’t stop talking. The only thing keeping him sane is the hunch that there’s something not quite right about the nervous young man several rows ahead - a hunch that is confirmed when August watches him throw away directions to an old European cemetery seconds before being detained by Turkish police.

A classic tale of brotherly love and rivalry from short story master Tobias Wolff. Pete has always been successful. Happily married with two daughters, he lives a comfortable life in Santa Cruz. Pete is a practical, hardworking man and he enjoys life's monetary pleasures. His younger brother, Donald, is a gaunt, troubled man. Unmarried and without children, Donald earns what little money he has by occasionally painting houses. He's a religious man, unlike Pete, and has spent several years as a member of various Christian groups.

Sierra Chelsi is on the run from a sheriff and his deputies after murdering her abusive father. Stumbling through the woods of Northern Maine, the young werewolf falls into a shady grove and comes face-to-face with a dark monarch of Faerie. The Raven Queen Varella takes an unusual interest in the desperate shifter and offers her a seemingly simple bargain.

The coronavirus pandemic, the deepening economic crash, dangerously divisive political responses, and exploding social tensions have thrown an already declining American capitalist system into a tailspin. The consequences of these mounting and intertwined crises will shape our future. In this unique collection of over 50 essays, The Sickness Is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself, Richard D. Wolff argues clearly that "returning to normal" no longer responds adequately to the accumulated problems of US capitalism.

A collection of poignant, romantic and funny tales performed by Academy Award -winning actor William Hurt. This collection includes a bonus track of an exclusive interview with William Hurt. Hurt's readings are thoughtful, tender, romantic, and resonant. A treasure.

The Secrets of Sports Psychology Revealed by Rick Wolff, one of the pioneers in the field of sports psychology, is based upon his many years of clinical, hands-on work with top professional and amateur athletes in a variety of sports. He provides real insight into what does - and doesn’t - work.

A History of the Middle Ages is the amazing story of European man in transition. It is a dramatic chronicle of 1,000 years of political, social, and economic transformation beginning with the dissolution of the classical Mediterranean civilization and ending with the first flowering of the Renaissance. It is also the story of two new religions, Christianity and Islam, both of which were destined to dominate the mind of every person in those new civilizations arising in their wake.

Meticulous, funny, eccentric - Mary has always been mindful of the complex role she plays as a professor of history. Her lectures are carefully written out beforehand; her departmental loyalties ambiguous. She is so careful, in fact, that she began to see herself as flat, dull, and lifeless. The closing of Brandon College, the institution she'd spent more than fifteen years at, changes everything. Forced to find another position, Mary finds herself at an experimental college in rainy Oregon.

For fans of Delilah Green Doesn't Care and Written in the Stars comes a slow-burn lesbian romance about putting broken hearts back together and finding renewed magic in love. HEA guaranteed!

Das atemberaubende Finale der weltweit gefeierten Dark-Iceland-Reihe von Bestsellerautor Ragnar Jónasson. Ein gnadenloser Schneesturm, ein mysteriöser Todesfall und eine Wahrheit, die einen düsteren Schatten auf die nördlichste Stadt Islands wirft. Ari Arason, Polizeiinspektor im beschaulichen Siglufjörður, freut sich auf seinen dreijährigen Sohn, der die meiste Zeit bei Aris Exfreundin in Schweden wohnt. Obwohl sich ein Unwetter ankündigt, wollen sie die Ostertage als Familie zu dritt verbringen. Doch ein rätselhafter Todesfall nimmt Ari unerwartet in Anspruch.

Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover, a woman who will understand him in every tongue. His search takes him to Italy, where he befriends a Marchesa whose old Roman family is on the brink of ruin.

A story of siblings and faith from short-story master Tobias Wolff. Frances has always been protective of her younger brother Frank. The children of a brutal father and a sick, defenseless mother, Frances fought to keep her brother safe. And throughout all of his adult failings – from drug addiction to near-fatal car crashes - she has stood by his side. Now Frank has found religion. Standing in his crisp white shirt and restrictive tie, he's eager to recount last Sunday's sermon to his older sister.

It's been a few months since Sierra Chelsi struck her bargain with the Raven Queen and moved into the palace to become her pet. Now comfortable in her new home, the young werewolf has settled into a familiar pattern of being the fierce beast while her queen holds court and entertaining her mistress in the bedroom whenever she desires. But recently, things have started to change. Sierra's mistress has grown distant and busy as she schemes for a mysterious magic known only as Bliss.

Als der elfjährige Lev über Wochen ans Bett gefesselt ist, wird ausgerechnet die schlaue, aber von allen gemiedene Kato geschickt, um ihm die Hausaufgaben zu bringen. Zwischen dem ungleichen Paar entsteht eine unverbrüchliche Verbindung, die den beiden Heranwachsenden im kommunistischen Vielvölkerstaat Rumänien Halt bietet. Ein halbes Leben später läuft Lev noch immer die Pfade ihrer Kindheit ab, während Kato schon vor Jahren in den Westen aufgebrochen ist. Geblieben sind Lev nur ihre gezeichneten Postkarten aus ganz Europa. Bis ihn eines Tages eine Karte aus Zürich erreicht, darauf nur ein einziger Satz: "Wann kommst du?"

Awarded a three-month stipend to travel and work, a Swedish writer flies to Madrid, where in a bar she meets a man with an extraordinary story to tell. In exchange for somewhere to sleep and to hide out for a few days, he is willing to tell her the whole astonishing tale. What follows is an account of fantastic proportions and ingredients: the existence of a shadowy Internet TV show with a certain morality clause, a threat to the storyteller's life, a diabolical nun, and the story of a girl with a missing left thumb.

At a run-down brothel in Caudal, Spain, the prostitutes are collecting stray dogs. Each is named after a famous male writer: Dante, Chaucer, and Bret Easton Ellis. When a john is cruel, the dogs are fed rotten meat. To the east, in Barcelona, an unflappable teenage girl is endeavouring to trace the peculiarities of her life back to one woman: Alba Camb, writer of violent short stories, who left Caudal as a girl and never went back.

We are three girls from Texas, Florida, and Quebec who bonded over a mutual passion for Matt Berry's music. Join us as we obsess, analyze, and wildly speculate over this multi-talented multi-instrumentalist.

Tom and Nedith have been married for 30 years, but their marriage is one of convenience and finances. Their 22-year-old son, Peter, has recently split from his wife after less than a year. Three more couples are experiencing the throes of middle-class disaffection. Times are changing, the generation gap is widening, and the stage is set for a stormy weekend for these five couples.

Mord auf einem Fischtrawler vor Islands Küste und eine Aushilfsköchin, die um ihr Leben fürchtet. Auf einem Wertstoffhof bei Reykjavík werden menschliche Knochen gefunden. Wenige Wochen später eskaliert ein Nachbarschaftsstreit. Zeitgleich ist vor der Küste Islands ein Trawler unterwegs, dessen Schiffskoch erdrosselt aufgefunden wird. An Bord: Gunndís, die Aushilfsköchin. Kann all das mit einem Schiffsunglück in der Vergangenheit zusammenhängen, für das Gunndís Vater verantwortlich gemacht wurde? Die Polizisten Karó und Týr ermitteln wieder zusammen mit Gerichtsmedizinerin Iðunn.