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A young woman descends into a seductive magical underworld of power-hungry scholars, fickle gods and monsters bent on revenge to break her family's curse in this spellbinding contemporary fantasy debut. For centuries, generations of Everlys have seen their brightest and best disappear, taken as...

I always knew marriage for me would never be to a man of my choosing. As a young girl, I was all too aware of the power I wielded in a world where men were supposed to be the superior gender. To the underworld, I was just a mafia princess. To my family, I was an equal. To my soon-to-be husband? Well, that was yet to be determined. But I prayed Enzo Bianchi was ready for me because I was damn sure prepared for him.

Book two in the Sine Curve of Aeons trilogy reminds us that love transcends time and space, life and death, aeons and civilizations while humanity attempts the same. But Dante doesn't give a f--k about any of that—he's just trying to survive being awake in a world of sleepers as he navigates the chaos of the modern world while ancient foes plot in darkness for aeons, following the sine-curve path of humanity's progression, plotting intimately deceitful and perfected plots to ensnare all but the most vigilant.

Der britisch-ugandische Autor Musa Okwonga erzählt in seinem autofiktionalen Roman davon, wie es ist, in Berlin anzukommen und sich dort als Person of Colour zurechtzufinden, wie es ist, Freund*innen zu finden, Fußball zu spielen, sich zu verlieben und wieder zu trennen, die Magie des Voodoos zu erfahren, Kuchen zu essen und als Autor zu arbeiten. Und über die Suche nach einer Heimat, nach einem Ort, an dem man sich wohl und geborgen fühlt und an dem Hautfarbe keine Rolle spielt, irgendwo zwischen Uganda, London und Berlin.

Alfred Eduard Forschneritsch, geb. am 2. 4. 1872 in Wien, gest. am 18.4.1917 ebenda. Forschneritsch arbeitete als Handelsangestellter und Buchhalter und Zu seinen Werken zählen u. a. "Neue Märchen" (1910), "Von unserem Grund" (1912), "Wienerisches aus der Kriegszeit" (1916) und "Wiener Bilderbogen" (1916). Er verfasste Wiener Geschichten und Skizzen mit humoristischer, lebensnaher Darstellung des Alltags.

Alfred Eduard Forschneritsch (1872 bis 1917) verfasste Wiener Geschichten und Skizzen mit humoristischer, lebensnaher Darstellung des Alltags. Still liegt über der breiten Straße ein kalter graublau Morgen. Ein Bäckerjunge kommt daher, er pfeift ein Lied ohne Worte und ohne Melodie. Die Morgenkälte zwingt ihn das Genick einzuziehen und den Rockkragen aufzustellen... Eine kuriose Wiener Geschichte die Jung und Alt zum Schmunzeln bringt.

Alfred Eduard Forschneritsch (1872 bis 1917) verfasste Wiener Geschichten und Skizzen mit humoristischer, lebensnaher Darstellung des Alltags. Ich lehnte gerade in einem Beiwagen der Straßenbahn und ließ mir von der hübschen Schaffnerin das Straßenbahnenleitmotiv so lange vorblasen bis ich es fast auswendig konnte. Dabei war mein Herz vergnügt und meine Seele dachte an nichts schlimmes, da tritt aus dem inneren des Wagens Fräulein Pepi Brandlmeier und sagte... Eine kuriose Wiener Geschichte die Jung und Alt zum Schmunzeln bringt.

In order to purge herself from the ultimate betrayal, Sariah Reign turns cold to the world around her. Her good girl image is no more. It’s the Reign family versus the Cannon family, and only one can come out on top.

Luke found it difficult to sleep during the late summer nights. Half the city seemed to be awake and partying outside until the early hours of the morning. Tonight he was resentful that he was both kept awake and not partying him-self, although it was a fact that he could have gone out on the town if he had wanted to.

Julia's uneventful life takes an unexpected turn when her parents separate, but that is just the beginning. Something dark and sinister is happening near her home. As she makes new friends and hopes for romance, residents of her quiet, little neighborhood start to disappear. What kind of community has she moved into?Are there unthinkable truths hidden beyond the casual facades we encounter every day?

Sophy Stevens is moving to Australia. Turning thirty has found her unexpectedly out of a job, out of a relationship, and just in need of Something Different - and Australia, where she can finally meet her grandparents and surprise them on their wedding anniversary, looks like the perfect answer...if she can save up the money for the plane ticket. So when her feckless, absent dad Johnno offers her a job at his vintage clothes shop in Primrose Hill, she can't turn it down.

Growing up in the Black Country under Mrs Thatcher's iron grip, Jamie dreams of a life in a magical metropolis, rubbing shoulders with the mythical creatures from Smash Hits. Despite the quirky characters in his hometown and his mother's witty one-liners, Jamie's heart is set on something greater. Follow him through secondary school, teenage turmoil, and art school, where he falls in love with Billy and the allure of the big city.

"Auf unsere Liebe. Auf die Kriege, die wir im Innern, in aller Stille führen. Bis aufs Messer." Frech, provokant, hemmungslos: Maria Pourchet erzählt von einer verhängnisvollen Liebe in Paris, von einer Frau und einem Mann, die in einer leidenschaftlichen Affäre aus den vorgezeichneten Bahnen ihres Lebens ausbrechen. Ein faszinierender Roman über die Komplexität der Liebe und die großen gesellschaftlichen Fragen unserer Zeit.

Jane, Carly and Rose Savage are savage by name, savage by nature. Having lost their mum too young, and with a bedridden father too ill to work, the sisters learnt early to stand on their own two feet. The family's flat in the rough streets of Glasgow's Haghill is their fortress, but when Carly's ex-boyfriend Cole Alexander is released from prison, trouble soon comes knocking at their door. The Alexanders have beef with the Savages, so the girls call for back up in the shape of their uncle Eddie and his two gorgeous but dangerous sons, Harry and Dean.

Forbidden love and fierce rivalry drive Jeff Hollister, a street-smart high school senior and gang leader of the Hurricanes, to the brink of disaster. Thinking he’s got the world in his back pocket, and the police at a safe distance, he and his scrappy gang of teenage delinquents come to discover they don’t always come out on top after all. A deadly vow by a member of the rival Tornadoes gang sets Jeff and his friends on a roller coaster of knife fray and gunplay, foot races and car chases, trust and betrayal, and murder.

Disgraced in the US, maverick ad man Eliott Thurber is forced to transfer to the newly opened London offices of Parabola Media. The clash of cultures has hilarious consequences as he tries to cope with promoting a range of peculiar products, challenging clients and not to mention his disgruntled new colleagues. His first assignment is a gourmet cat food for an intensely conservative company but Eliott has his eyes on a bigger prize, American investment in the NHS. After all, "where there's pain, there's gain..."

Bennett Jacobs is okay with being square. With a loving spouse for company, the introverted software engineer doesn’t want or need to turn strangers into friends. But after the wife drags him kicking and screaming to a pool party, he reveals his computer smarts to a flamboyant artist dealing a popular street drug, and his life goes from blasé to bonkers.

Ein hinreißender italienischer Liebesroman... der Lust auf Urlaub, Liebe und Sommer macht ... Julia reist von Hamburg nach Rom, um endlich einmal den Urlaub zu genießen, den sie möchte. Ihre Scheidung liegt schon drei Jahre zurück und nun fühlt sie sich bereit für ein neues Leben. Ihr Sohn Sebastian schließt sich ihr an, doch von ihm kriegt sie nicht viel zu sehen, denn er gestaltet seine eigenen Ferien. Also verbringt Julia ihre Zeit mit Bruno, dem Vermieter ihres Ferienhauses.

Ein Ort, an dem man seine Ruhe möchte, eine stürmische Begegnung und zwei Herzen, die beide ein klein wenig heilen... Josef zieht sich regelmäßig in den Wald zurück. Hier gibt es nur Ruhe, keine säumigen Rechnungen, keine nervigen Kunden. Dieser Ort ist besonders. Nur hier gelingt es ihm, sich aufs Wesentliche zu besinnen und die nötigen Seelestreichel-Momente zu finden, die er so dringend braucht. Während er sein nächstes Zeichenmotiv begutachtet, stolpert er im wahrsten Sinne über die trauernde Lotta. Sie ist so ganz anders als die Frauen, die er kennt.

Dive into the searing underworld of 1990s New York, where the crack cocaine explosion fuels a fierce power struggle. A daring DEA agent risks everything to infiltrate the infamous Peruvian Rojas Cartel, only to find himself entangled in a decades-old family vendetta.