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Thomas Jerome Newton is an extraterrestrial from the planet Anthea, which has been devastated by a series of nuclear wars and whose inhabitants are twice as intelligent as human beings. When he lands on Earth—in Kentucky, disguised as a human—it's with the intention of saving his own people from extinction. Newton patents some very advanced Anthean technology, which he uses to amass a fortune. He begins to build a spaceship to help the last 300 Antheans migrate to Earth.

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost where salmonberries sparkle in the morning frost and where you just might catch a King Salmon if you're Zen enough to wait for it. Settled in 1935 by Norse fishermen who liked to skinny dip in its natural hot springs, the town enjoyed prosperity in the mid-20th century, at the height of the frozen fish boom. But now the cold storage plant is all but abandoned and the population is shrinking every day.

Der Politiker Donegan Marr ist in seinem Büro erschossen worden, und das nur ein paar Monate vor den Wahlen. Feinde hat er zuhauf, aber auch Todfeinde? Die schöne Witwe trauert, und selbst Marrs politischen Gegnern kommt sein plötzlicher Tod ungelegen - falls nicht bald ein Schuldiger gefunden wird, ist das schlechte Publicity.

An amoral young tramp. A beautiful, sullen woman with an inconvenient husband. A problem that has only one, grisly solution -- a solution that only creates other problems that no one can ever solve. First published in 1934 and banned in Boston for its explosive mixture of violence and eroticism...

A father searching for his missing daughter is suddenly given hope when a major clue is discovered, but learning the truth could shatter the seemingly perfect image Hollywood is desperate to uphold.Gates Foster lost his daughter, Lucy, seventeen years ago. He's never stopped searching. Suddenly...

French Riviera, winter 1992. On a freezing night, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell runs away with her philosophy teacher with whom she's been having a secret affair. No one will ever see her again. French Riviera, spring 2017. Formerly inseparable, Fanny, Thomas and Maxime - Vinca's best friends - have not spoken in 25 years. But when they receive a notice from their old school detailing the plans for a new gymnasium and inviting them to a class reunion, they know they must go back one more time. Because there is a body buried in that building...and they're the ones who put it there.

The mage Frank "Half Dead" Johnson is a marked man. Literally. A drunken decision fueled by tragedy has left him with half a soul, sorcerous powers, and two centuries to work off his debt to Scratch (a.k.a. the Devil) himself.   

Well past retirement age and feeling his years - but still staying sober one day at a time - Matthew Scudder learns that alcoholics aren't the only ones who count the days since their last slip. Matt's longtime partner, Elaine, tells him of a group of former sex workers who do something similar, helping each other stay out of the life. But when one young woman describes an abusive client who's refusing to let her quit, Elaine encourages her to get help of a different sort. The sort only Scudder can deliver.

Austin joins Dallas and Houston in Akashic's deep dive into the Lone Star State's darkest dimensions. Featuring brand-new stories by: Gabino Iglesias, Ace Atkins, Amanda Moore, Jeff Abbott, Scott Montgomery, Richard Z. Santos, Alexandra Burt, Lee Thomas, Miriam Kuznets, Jacob Grovey, Chaitali Sen, Molly Odintz, Amy Gentry, and Andrew Hilbert.

Beth has the perfect life. She's the one who escaped her bleak hometown, and now she's got a successful business, a devoted boyfriend, and her dream home. Then one phone call changes everything. Her father is dead, and Beth must go home to Maine to take care of the fourteen-year-old little sister she hasn't seen in eight years. Her little sister is dating a dangerous man. He's too old for her, obsessive, controlling. And he'll do anything to keep Beth's little sister to himself.

Philippa Watson, a good-natured yet troubled 17-year-old, has just moved to Washington, DC. She’s lonely until she meets Judy Peabody, a brilliant and tempestuous classmate. The girls become unlikely friends and fashion themselves as intellectuals, drawing the notice of Christine Martins, their dazzling English teacher, who enthralls them with her passion for literature and her love of noirish detective fiction. When Philippa returns a novel Miss Martins has lent her, she interrupts a man grappling with her in the shadows.

Adventuress Countess Alessandra Zorzi has a new vocation: reacquiring the occult artifacts she stole to put into the safer hands of Miskatonic University. With her new apprentice, Pepper Kelly, Zorzi tracks the infamous Zanthu Tablets to Paris. But the city is rife with spies and the countess has many enemies. When Pepper is kidnapped, it becomes clear that someone is out for revenge. Zorzi must rescue her apprentice, find the tablets, and prevent an old enemy from summoning an army of vengeful ghouls from the depths of the catacombs. Stealing relics is a lot harder the second time around.

'Christian Kracht is the great German-language writer of his generation' Joshua Cohen 'Ever since his era-defining debut, Christian Kracht has enjoyed a reputation as both a cult and a canonical author ... Air is as enigmatic as its title' TLS Two men venture through strange landscapes towards...

Mack Denver—ex-Marine, reluctant private eye, and occasional vigilante—has been told by his boss, Joe Macy, to keep his head down and stick to the simple insurance gigs. But Mack’s never been good at simple. A routine case gets second billing when he stumbles onto a web of city-wide corruption, a trio of bumbling bank robbers, a mob boss with a job offer he can’t refuse, and a new relationship with the sharp, beautiful Wanda. With a crew of unlikely allies, Mack does his best to keep the wheels turning—and his conscience clean. Macy was right. He should’ve stuck to the simple stuff.

Doug lies near death after his wife, Kristin and her boyfriend, Todd attack him in his kitchen and leave him for dead in the woods of Longfellow Pond. Their meeting had not worked out as planned. Kristin only came to announce she is leaving the marriage, but her husband's anger and harsh words toward her sets off her boyfriend, and they get into a terrible fight. Kristin hits Doug over the head with a vase and chooses to run rather than take responsibility for her actions.

À l'entrée du périph, un vieux monsieur, peignoir en velours et chaussons en peluche effilochés, se répète inlassablement cette question. Échappé de son Ehpad, Mariole, tueur à gages, ne se souvient plus de rien, sauf d'une chose : il lui reste une mission à accomplir. Seul problème, il ne sait plus laquelle. Mathilde, elle, se bourre d'anxiolytiques pour oublier.

Bob Dylan once declared that "Sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people's attention," and readers won't be able to look away from Shadows on Sidewalks, the new erotic thriller from James Grady. James Traven returns home to his small Montana town in autumn 2024 to care for his mother after a devasting fall. He quickly finds himself trapped in a life-threatening web of lies and lust. With the clock ticking, Traven must save the savvy and beautiful Lana LaBuff from almost-certain murder.

Unha cuadrilla de cazadores, urbanos e con relacións de amizade e negocios, participa nunha batida na que o obxectivo é «O Solitario», un lendario porco bravo, considerado moi perigoso, a quen se lle atribúe unha morte e ataques a participantes noutras cazarías. No escenario agreste da batida, dúas mulleres sendeiristas afrontan unha situación de risco e os cazadores acoden na súa axuda. Despois, o que comeza sendo unha conversa informativa e amábel irá derivando nunha tensa discusión, sobre a caza e outros asuntos da vida, até chegar a un punto de violencia verbal.

Walk the dark halls and threatening streets of 1920s Asheville in this thrilling third installment of The Stephen Robbins Chronicles, as fan-favorite Robbins confronts the dangerous contrast between appearance and reality at the exclusive Grove Park Inn.

Unnur has secrets. A single mother to a beloved daughter, Lilja, she lives a deliberately quiet life in Reykjavík, working at a bakery under an assumed last name and pushing away haunting visions of the last summer of her childhood. Her safety—and Lilja’s—now hinges on discretion.