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Gordon is a delivery driver with a predilection toward road rage, and he's on the most important delivery of his life. In Santa Barbara there's a mother of three on life support waiting for Gordon, waiting for the liver he's transporting from Los Angeles. But there's a mudslide, and cars are being swept away, people being buried in the sludge. And Gordon, who's as far from a hero as they come, has to find a way to get the liver to Santa Barbara.

Men do not become mystics. They become warriors. But eighteen-year-old Salo has never been good at conforming to his tribe’s expectations. For as long as he can remember, he has loved books and magic in a culture where such things are considered unmanly. Despite it being sacrilege, Salo has worked on a magical device in secret that will awaken his latent magical powers. And when his village is attacked by a cruel enchantress, Salo knows that it is time to take action.

Some secrets survive in silence. Maddie escaped Willow Grove once. Now she’s being dragged back. A young woman has been abducted—returned to the cult that once claimed her. The only thread Maddie can follow comes from a silent witness: a survivor who can’t speak, but refuses to stay quiet. As Maddie closes in, Willow Grove tightens its grip. Someone inside is burying the truth. Someone outside is whispering it in pieces. And if Maddie pushes too far, she won’t just lose the girl she came to save. She’ll lose her way out.

Maj Carrén sitter vid köksbordet en morgon i oktober. Livet har fått sig en ordentlig törn. Självömkan, orkeslösheten och världens undergång upptar större delen av hennes inre. Hennes kropp har under åren vuxit, knäna känns i trapporna och lusten att göra något alls är borta...

En mycket värdefull tävlings- och avelshingst blir stulen från ett stuteri i Glommen, strax norr om Falkenberg. Hingstens ryttare anklagar stuteriägaren för att undanhålla hästen med vilja, samtidigt som en sörjande hästskötare börjar bete sig allt konstigare.Då hästskötaren en dag...

Sage and Alaric Reyes are twins who have spent their lives surviving the foster system, counting down the days until they age out, with nothing but each other. No family. No future. Just a plan to make it on their own. Then a tear in reality changes everything.

Florian Lukas liest T.C. Boyles großen Roman über die obsessive Liebe zweier Männer zu einer Frau, die sich zwischen ihnen nicht entscheiden mag. Terry, ein Arzt aus Los Angeles, zieht nach dem Tod seiner Mutter in ihr Haus in Boulder City in der Wüste Nevadas. Eigentlich wollte er es verkaufen, wäre er nicht in einer Bar Bethany begegnet, die sich bei ihm einquartiert – gegen seinen Willen. Der eigenbrötlerische Terry kann ihr nicht widerstehen. Aber da ist auch noch ihr eifersüchtiger Ex-Freund Jesse, der immer wieder auftaucht und ihn warnt: "Sie ist Gift".

Bairam Khan and his son, Abdur Rahim Khan-i-Khanan were soldiers, poets and courtiers whose lives reflected the turbulent times they lived in. In telling their stories, Attendant Lords spans the reigns of four emperors – Babur, Humayun, Akbar and Jahangir – and covers over a hundred years of...

This book tracks seventy years of the India-Pakistan interface. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of the relationship. It looks at the main events through the eyes and words of...

The third in the Dark Fates series, featuring a love triangle between Ares, Aphrodite, and Hephaestus. Bonds once formed can never be broken, but after lifetimes of pain and heartache, Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love, is determined to find a way. Shackled in a millennia-long love triangle between...

A spicy retelling of Persephone and Hades and the second in the Dark Fates series, centered around Greek deities and Otherworlders. Buried alive in Ancient Greece two thousand years ago, Persephone—the Goddess of Spring—resurfaces in '90s New Orleans with no memory of who she is or where she...

A spicy retelling of Persephone and Hades and the first in the Dark Fates series, for fans of Sav R. Miller, Jaysea Lynn, and Katee Robert. Persephone, Goddess of Spring, struggles to meet the impossible demands of her overbearing, manipulative mother, Demeter. Sequestered to the Upper Realm...

Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks of contemporary social issues in a range of...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST From the award-winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes a “gorgeously crafted epic” (People) about a band of hippies who attempt to establish themselves deep in the wilderness of Alaska. “Not only an entertaining romp...

A year had passed since Amy Grenshon returned from Silius. Although told to lead a ‘normal’ life, memories of everything she encountered and the guilt of abandoning her brother continue to haunt her. When sudden visions of the past disrupt her life, Amy begins to realize that her time in Silius is far from over. Something is drawing her back to the forest, setting her on a quest and a race against time to unveil secrets that will reshape everything she thought she knew. Will Amy’s determination to find her brother bring resolution, or unleash a power that threatens to destroy everything?

Boyle, a virtuoso of the American short story, creates daring imaginative leaps as he affirms the sheer joy of storytelling in this propulsive new work. A timely masterpiece, The End Is Only a Beginning underscores T. C. Boyle’s reputation as “one of the greatest storytellers in this...

The fifth in the Dark Fates series and the spiciest yet, featuring Dionysus, Thanatos, and Perseus. This is the love story between Dionysus, god of wine, Thanatos, god of death, and Tatiana, a siren and daughter of a Haitian Loa goddess. When they are all wed in a traditional ceremony on a small...

The fourth book in the Dark Fates series is Tomb Raider meets The Mummy meets spicy Greek mythology. For his kindness to humanity, Prometheus was chained to the Caucasus Mountains for thirty thousand years, only managing to escape when the fall of Olympus weakened Zeus's hold. On the run ever...

Hyacinth never expected to actually find her fated mate, much less hundreds of years in the past. When tragedy strikes and she is hurled back into her own time, she’s stunned to find him there as well. Liam is a retired Naval officer with scars the world can’t see. Adrift without the career that gave him purpose, he wanders searching for something he can’t name. He thought his story was finished. When Fate binds him to Hy, he finally understands: every step of his journey led him here.

Als er nach dem Tod seines Vaters einen geheimnisvollen Brief findet, macht sich der abenteuerlustige Weltenbummler Larkin Sullivan sofort auf den Weg nach Hemlock Cove, einer kleinen Stadt im Nordwesten der USA. Nichts hätte ihn auf Hemlock Cove vorbereiten können. Wahnwitzige Gemeinschaftsprojekte, Stadtversammlungen an den merkwürdigsten Orten und verdammt neugierige Stadtbewohner.