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An audio original novella featuring bestselling author Dean Koontz’s compelling new heroine, Jane Hawk. From the case files of the former FBI agent before she became the nation’s most wanted fugitive - The Bone Farm details a desperate man-hunt for a serial killer before he murders again.

New York City, 1962. Vera Kelly is struggling to make rent and blend into the underground gay scene in Greenwich Village. She's working night shifts at a radio station when her quick wits, sharp tongue, and technical skills get her noticed by a recruiter for the CIA. Next thing she knows she's in Argentina, tasked with wiretapping a congressman and infiltrating a group of student activists in Buenos Aires. When a betrayal leaves her stranded in the wake of a coup, Vera learns the Cold War makes for strange and unexpected bedfellows.

The Bodine ranch and resort in western Montana is a family business, an idyllic spot for vacationers. A little over thirty thousand acres and home to four generations, it’s kept running by Bodine Longbow with the help of a large staff, including new hire Callen Skinner. There was another member of the family once: Bodine’s aunt, Alice, who ran off before Bodine was born.

Three hundred years ago, accused witch Hester Warren buried a magical box in Mystic Notch. The secret contents within have the power to bring disaster to the town, and when the box is dug up at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new Mystic Notch Historical Museum, Hester's ghost and that of her cat make an appearance to warn the humans and enlist their help to ensure the box doesn't fall into the wrong hands. Too bad the only one listening is Pandora, the cat.

Middle age can be murder.... At least that's how it seems to former crime journalist Wilhelmina Chance, whose near-fatal accident has given her a strange side effect: She sees ghosts. After a messy divorce sends her fleeing back to her hometown of Mystic Notch, nestled in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Willa finds herself haunted by the tenacious ghost of the town librarian, who insists Willa solve her murder.

When recently widowed Maggie McElroy is called to China to settle a claim against her late husbands estate, she is blindsided by the discovery that he may have led a double life. Since work is all that will keep her sane, her magazine editor assigns her to profile Sam, a half-Chinese American who is the last in a line of gifted chefs tracing back to the imperial palace. As she watches Sam gear up for Chinas Olympic culinary competition by planning the banquet of a lifetime, she begins to see past the cuisines artistry to glimpse its coherent expression of Chinese civilization.

Zach Johnson, the world's last freelance detective, has been man-napped by the beautiful sapphire-haired Amazon Kiana. She's brought him to her home island of Lantis - where the women dominate men with their words - to discover who killed her mother, the Queen. But to save the day this time, Zach and his holographic AI sidekick, HARV, have to tangle with not just one gorgeous superwoman, but four. Each of Kiana's three sisters could have the motive and the means to pull off the crime - and now that you mention it, Kiana could too....

She was one of the FBI’s top agents until she became the nation’s most-wanted fugitive. Now Jane Hawk may be all that stands between a free nation and its enslavement by a powerful secret society’s terrifying mind-control technology. She couldn’t save her husband, or the others whose lives have been destroyed, but equipped with superior tactical and survival skills - and the fury born of a broken heart and a hunger for justice - Jane has struck major blows against the insidious cabal.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER George Stephanopoulos, the legendary political news host and former advisor to President Clinton, recounts the history-making crises from the place where twelve presidents made their highest-pressure decisions. No room better defines American power and its role in...

Quelques mois avant son anniversaire, Doris est frappée par une chronique aperçue sur le Web. L'article concernant une jeune blogueuse populaire et très active chamboule la jeune femme. Ce déclencheur la stimule, et elle se fixe une liste de choses à faire avant d'être vieille, c'est-à-dire avant ses trente et un ans. Entre ses journées de travail comme serveuse, ses sorties avec ses amies et ses visites à sa chère grand-mère, elle doit réaliser sa bucket list. Ses proches ont bien sûr des activités à lui suggérer, mais Doris se fixe des objectifs à son goût, pour elle-même.

In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited. Now Alison Gopnik - a leading psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother - explains the cutting-edge scientific and psychological research that has revealed that babies learn more, create more, care more, and experience more than we could ever have imagined.

Alles beginnt mit einem Buch... Die unsichtbare Bibliothek - ein Ort jenseits von Raum und Zeit und ein Tor zu den unterschiedlichsten Welten. Hier werden einzigartige Bücher gesammelt und erforscht, nachdem Bibliothekare im Außendienst sie beschafft haben. Irene Winters ist eine von ihnen. Ihr aktueller Auftrag führt sie in ein viktorianisches London, wo eine seltene Version der Grimm'schen Märchen aufgetaucht ist.

Was Marlen Haushofer auszeichnet, ist ihre Fähigkeit, in scheinbar schlichter Sprache messerscharfe Beobachtungen anzustellen, die unter die Haut gehen. So auch in der meisterhaften Novelle Wir töten Stella, einer furiosen und nüchternen Darstellung der Machtstrukturen und -kämpfe in einer Familie, einer eiskalten Bestandsaufnahme einer gescheiterten Beziehung.

Voilà huit ans qu'Emily, une jeune londonienne, a subi un viol. Voilà huit ans qu'elle ne croit plus en l'amour ni aux sentiments. Voilà huit ans qu'elle n'accepte plus qu'aucun homme ne la touche et qu'elle est revenue habiter chez ses parents, parce qu'elle a peur de vivre seule avec son « monstre intérieur ». À l'issue d'une dispute supplémentaire, et encouragée par sa meilleur amie, Sarah, Emily décide de quitter le domicile parental pour louer un appartement et tenter une nouvelle fois de voler de ses propres ailes.

It’s been two years since the world ended. Two years since the dead rose and the plague of ex-humanity decimated mankind. For most of that time, the superhero called St. George, formerly known to the world as the Mighty Dragon, has protected the people of Los Angeles at their film-studio-turned-fortress, The Mount. Together with his fellow heroes, he’s tried to give the survivors hope and something like a real life. But the swollen population of The Mount is becoming harder and harder to sustain....

Der Schweizer Sigurd Willemsen vermittelt der jungen Anwältin Katharina Tenzer einen ungewöhnlichen Auftrag: Der 37-jährige Bernhard Fillinger lebt seit Jahren in Costa Rica, denn er ist ein mit internationalem Haftbefehl gesuchter Steuerflüchtling. Allerdings leidet er an einer tödlichen Krankheit, seine einzige Hoffnung ist eine neue Therapie in Hamburg. Katharina soll nun einen Deal aushandeln: Im Tausch für eine Haftverschonung will Fillinger sein Wissen über im Zuge der Wende verschwundenes DDR-Geld offenlegen.

Princess Oona Talomir enjoys the little things that come with her station: a handmaiden, her lavish bedchamber, and scores of fancy dresses - the duty to win a decades-long war, not so much. Oh, did I mention assassins? Seers foretold the conflict would end by her hand. From the moment she drew her first breath, the neighboring kingdom has been trying to kill her so she could not grow powerful enough to destroy them. The burden of her crown becomes too much to bear, yet one thing lifts her spirits amid the gloom. Her servant girl, Kitlyn. Alas, in a kingdom obsessed with the god of purity, she is terrified to confess her forbidden love.

Cette courte nouvelle est l'introduction idéale à la série de fantasy urbaine primée Ivy Granger Détective paranormale. Quand une cliente affirme que sa maison est hantée, Ivy essaie de garder l'esprit ouvert et ses armes à portée de main. Si ses dons psychiques et ses affaires récentes lui ont appris une chose, c'est qu'il est préférable de s'armer pour l'inattendu. Notre détective paranormale préférée affrontera-t-elle des fantômes meurtriers ? Tout est possible à Harborsmouth...

Anna verbringt ihren Urlaub mit ihrem Mann und ihren beiden Kindern in Taormina auf Sizilien. Plötzlich fühlt sich der Boden, auf dem sie steht, brüchig an. Sie begegnet Alexander, der das aufregende Leben führt, nach dem sie sich sehnt. Und Alexander? Beneidet er sie um ihr Familienglück? Mit einem Mal wird der Zweifel am eigenen Leben übermächtig, alles steht auf dem Spiel. Und sieben Tage können alles verändern... Verena Carl erzählt mit großer Klarheit und Entschiedenheit von einer existenziellen Situation.

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