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At forty-five, Jane McArdle has experienced her share of life’s twists and turns. Yet she’s shaken by the sudden death of her estranged half sister and the news that she’s now the guardian of her orphaned niece, Lucy. Still nurturing unresolved grief from a marriage bookended by loss, as well as her guilt over her adult son’s imperfect upbringing, Jane is her own worst enemy, content to focus on her small Michigan farm. Now, confronted with a traumatized eleven-year-old, the prickly empty nester is thrust into motherhood again, unsure she’ll do any better this time.

Detective G. Hornbuckle braucht Dr. Zephyres parawissenschaftliche Expertise. Der neue Meisterdieb, der sich selbst "Das Phantom" nennt, geht bei seinen Coups derart sensationell vor, dass es geradezu übermenschlich erscheint. Wer ist dieses Phantom? Auf der Jagd nach dem Meisterverbrecher erkennen Zephyre, Dave und Nina bald, dass hinter der Fassade von Einbrüchen ein gerissener Plan steckt, den das Team unter allen Umständen verhindern muss. Denn ist das Phantom erfolgreich, wird es die Welt verändern...

The Kama Sutra is a raunchy sex manual - right? Well, yes, but it's also a fascinating philosophical work. The Kama Sutra is an ancient Sanskrit text written some 1500 years ago that has gained the reputation of being a raunchy sex manual, which to some degree it is. But the chapter "On sexual union" is only one of seven that deal with many other aspects of love and life.

After the bloody French Revolution, Emperor Napoleon’s power is absolute. When Marie-Louise, the 18-year-old daughter of the King of Austria, is told that the Emperor has demanded her hand in marriage, her father presents her with a terrible choice: marry the cruel, capricious Napoleon, leaving the man she loves and her home forever, or say no, and plunge her country into war. Marie-Louise knows what she must do, and she travels to France, determined to be a good wife despite Napoleon’s reputation. But lavish parties greet her in Paris, and at the extravagant French court, she finds many rivals for her husband’s affection....

Key West, 1886. The booming cigar industry makes it the most prosperous city in Florida. As a rebel base for the anticolonial insurgency in Cuba, it’s also a tinderbox for six young friends with ambitious dreams. They all brim with secrets.

Detective G. Hornbuckle braucht Dr. Zephyres parawissenschaftliche Expertise. Der neue Meisterdieb, der sich selbst "Das Phantom" nennt, geht bei seinen Coups derart sensationell vor, dass es geradezu übermenschlich erscheint. Wer ist dieses Phantom? Auf der Jagd nach dem Meisterverbrecher erkennen Zephyre, Dave und Nina bald, dass hinter der Fassade von Einbrüchen ein gerissener Plan steckt, den das Team unter allen Umständen verhindern muss. Denn ist das Phantom erfolgreich, wird es die Welt verändern.

Jetzt, da sein totgeglaubter Vater wieder da ist, kann Romeo endlich mal etwas Erholung suchen. Zusammen mit Samantha möchte er ein paar ruhige Tage auf einer paradiesischen Ferieninsel verbringen und nichts von Monstern, Mutanten und Gefallenen Göttern wissen. Dafür haben sie sich aber leider die falsche Insel ausgesucht, denn im Inneren des vermeintlich friedlichen Eilands lauert ein alter Feind ...

Zach was nineteen when Tanya discovered him rerouting the wires of their landline, sure that the phone was bugged, that his friends were Mafia, that the helicopters swirling above were deployed by spies, that he couldn’t trust anyone – her included. That moment upturned and unmoored everything. It would strand them both in a profound and terrifying isolation the way that perhaps only a psychotic break – or loving someone who is experiencing one – can.

One night in 2009, Tanya Frank finds her nineteen-year-old son, Zach—gentle and full of promise—in the grip of what the psychiatrists would label a psychotic break. Suddenly and inexplicably, Tanya is thrown into a parallel universe: Zach's world, where the phones are bugged, his friends have joined the Mafia, and helicopters are spying on his family.