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Es ist so weit. Mit dem Angriff auf das Königreich unter der Glaskuppel haben extravagante Ballkleider, glitzernde Juwelen und funkelnde Mädchenträume ihre Bedeutung für immer verloren. Während fremde Soldaten das Land überschwemmen, bleibt Tatyana nichts Anderes übrig als zu fliehen - und kommt so zu einem Ort, von dem sie niemals gedacht hätte, ihn je betreten zu können. Nun liegt es an ihr, das Königreich zu retten, auch wenn dessen Prinz ihr das Herz gebrochen hat.

Wenige Wochen nur trennen die übriggebliebenen Kandidatinnen von der Enthüllung des echten Prinzen und seiner Wahl der Prinzessin. Alle vier jungen Männer scheinen sich bereits für ihre zukünftige Frau entschieden zu haben, nur wer Anspruch auf Tatyana erheben wird, liegt immer noch im Dunkeln. Dass sie selbst zwiegespalten ist, macht die Situation nicht unbedingt leichter. Erst eine gemeinsame Reise durch das gesamte Königreich öffnet ihr die Augen.

Nur zwölf Mädchen sind in der prunkvollen Fernsehshow zur Wahl der Prinzessin übriggeblieben und immer noch weiß niemand, wer von den vier jungen Männern der wahre Anwärter auf den Thron ist. Tatyana ist das aber mittlerweile egal. Ihr Herz schlägt bereits für einen von ihnen und was sie auch versucht, sie kann nichts dagegen tun. Erst als ihre Erinnerung an das zurückkehrt, was wirklich in der Nacht des Meteoritenschauers passiert ist, beginnen ihre Gefühle wieder zu schwanken.

Die entscheidenden Tage des Wettbewerbs um die Gunst des unbekannten Prinzen haben begonnen. Tatyana und den anderen Mädchen wird die erste Aufgabe zugewiesen und sie erfordert nicht wenig Einfallsreichtum und Geschick. Gleichzeitig beginnen sich die vier möglichen Prinzen Abend für Abend mit jedem der Mädchen zu treffen. Die Spannung steigt. Mit wem wird wohl Tatyana ausgehen müssen? Und was, wenn er sie nicht mag?

Einst hatte es sich nur um eine idealistische Idee gehandelt: Viterra, das Königreich unter einer Glaskuppel, abgeschirmt von jeglichen Giftstoffen der Welt. Nun ist es der einzige Ort auf Erden, an dem die Menschen überlebt haben. Um die Bevölkerung bei Laune zu halten, findet dort alle zwei Jahrzehnte die große Fernsehshow zur Königinnenwahl statt. Aber diesmal ist alles anders. Diesmal will der Prinz ein Mädchen finden, das ihn um seiner selbst liebt.

Here is Fast’s powerful denunciation of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, and a remarkable historical document of Spain’s fight for freedom from governmental oppression. Howard Fast was a longtime proponent of the antifascist movement in Spain. During the Spanish Civil War, Fast supported a hospital for Popular Front forces, and in 1950 he was sentenced to three months in jail for refusing to give the names of other supporters of that hospital to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

Howard Fast began to formally practice Zen meditation after turning away from communism in 1956. The Art of Zen Meditation, originally published by the antiwar political collective Peace Press, in 1977, is the fruit of Fast’s study: a brief and instructive history of Zen Buddhism and its tenets, written with a simplicity that is emblematic of the philosophy itself. Fast’s study of Zen also inspired his popular Masao Masuto mystery series about a Zen Buddhist detective in Beverly Hills.

This collection of short stories encompasses 20 years of work by Howard Fast, including some of his best-known and most treasured tales. Not merely fantasy or science fiction, these "Zen stories" explore the world’s mysterious and unanswerable questions, big and small, and the results are at once bizarre, humorous, chilling, and poignant. The 31 stories in Time and the Riddle showcase Fast’s range and supreme talent as a storyteller.

The story of Moses, who grew from orphan to adopted prince to leader of the oppressed people, is worthy of many retellings. In Moses, Fast breathes new life into the legendary story of the infant found among the reeds of the Nile. From Moses’s adoption into the home of Pharaoh Ramses II, to his upbringing in Egypt's royal court, to his controversial support of monotheism and eventual leadership of a nation, Moses is a stunning look at the life of one of world history's most celebrated men.

In this unforgettable final chapter of the Immigrants series, Howard Fast follows the trials and joys of the wealthy Lavette matriarch, Barbara, whose life has been a selfless journey powered by an unshakable faith in the human spirit. Barbara now discovers the unexpected delights of finding love in her later years, even as she encounters the most daunting obstacle of her life.

When the love of his life is accused of murder, a university professor will stop at nothing to prove her innocence. On a late night drive home, Ike Goldman, a retired Columbia University law professor, saves a woman from killing herself by jumping off the George Washington Bridge. The woman's name is Elizabeth Hopper, and Ike, a widower, unexpectedly finds himself falling in love. Everything changes when Elizabeth's estranged husband, a rich Wall Street executive she claims abused her, is found murdered, and Elizabeth is the prime suspect.

The inspiring story of Max Britsky, who grew up in the slums of New York and became one of the most powerful men in the American movie industry. Max tells the story of the rise of Max Britsky, entwined with the film industry’s beginnings near the turn of the twentieth century. When he was twelve, Max's father died, leaving him to scrape out a living in Manhattan's Lower East Side slums to provide for his mother and siblings. But Max was a natural entrepreneur, and he followed his business instincts and love of the theater to become one of the first film moguls in the history of American moviemaking.

A small-town girl flees from the assassin she hired to kill her when the doctor in her small hometown tells Sally Dillman that she has six months to live, the quiet young schoolteacher sells her house and moves to New York City. She comes not to see the sights, not for one last thrill, but to die as quickly as possible. Savings in hand, she pays a mobster $3,000 to put a contract out on her life. She wants to be killed before leukemia saps her strength, and she wants it to be a surprise. Only later does she learn of her terrible mistake.

Detective Masuto reopens an investigation into a murderous film star - with deadly consequences… On the day that Eve Mackenzie murders her husband, Masao Masuto is on a plane to Japan. For years he and his wife, both American-born Japanese, have dreamed of visiting their homeland, and though the trip is a delight, the Zen Buddhist detective cannot help but check the international papers for news of murder on his home turf of Beverly Hills. Part of him regrets missing the sensational Mackenzie killing.

In Beverly Hills, murder has suddenly gone out of style. For five weeks, the head of the city's tiny homicide squad, Zen detective Masao Masuto, has worked only robbery investigations. But after more than a month without a corpse, this dry spell is about to end. The dead woman is Ana Fortez, a Chicana whose death was originally classified as terminal food poisoning brought on by a feast of botulism-infested clairs. But because botulism can only grow in an airtight space, the medical examiner warns Masuto that the fatal bacteria must have been purposefully injected into the pastry.

Returning from a funeral, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Briggs find their Beverly Hills mansion ransacked. As they wait for the police, they discover something unusual: Despite the chaos, nothing appears to be missing - a fact that greatly interests Beverly Hills police detective Masao Masuto. But the Zen detective only has a few minutes to ponder the strange break-in before a murder intervenes. The victim is Ivan Gaycheck, a stamp dealer whom Masuto remembers for his stout frame and unplaceable accent.

Five generations of Preswicks, living, loving, fighting, laughing, and dying in a surge of limitless power that paralleled the course of America. A full tale of a family that grew with America, of an Aristocracy that gained everything but reason to live. Two women bore John Preswick two children - one the daughter of a southern innkeeper, who nursed a broken Revolutionary soldier back to health, the other a girl in New York, who waited seven years for her lover to return from the war.

The Naked God is Howard Fast's public repudiation of the Communist Party, of which he was a devoted member for thirteen years until reading about the full scope of atrocities committed by the Soviet Union under Stalin. The best-selling author of Spartacus and Citizen Tom Paine, Howard Fast lent his writing talents and celebrity to the communist cause as a steadfast advocate and public figure. However, he felt increasingly ill at ease with the superior manner Party leaders took with rank-and-file members and with rumors of Soviet anti-Semitism.

They call the pool at the Beverly Glen Hotel "the naked hooker." To the frustration of the Beverly Hills police department, the women there are so high class that it's impossible to distinguish guests and girlfriends from professionals. Women flock to the lavish hotel because it teems with film stars, businessmen - and America's richest criminals. Tonight, to detective Masao Masuto's chagrin, there is the body of a naked man in the pool.

Rain has spoiled Masao Masuto's vacation. For six days the storm has trapped the Zen Buddhist detective and his family inside their Los Angeles cottage. By the morning of his vacation's final day, he is so stir crazy that the call to come to work is a relief. Detective Masuto knows no better cure for boredom than a puzzling murder.