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The “best short story writer in English” (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose—wickedly funny, unsentimental, and perfectly tuned—Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: here is a collection of prismatic, deeply resonant stories that encompass joy and despair, oppression and revolution, bizarre fantasy and brutal reality.

Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural frameworks that enabled their assimilation into American culture. As Asian Americans investigate the personal and societal effects of longstanding cultural narratives suggesting they take up as little space as possible, their mental health becomes critically important. Yet despite the fact that over 18 million people of Asian descent live in the United States today—they are the racial group least likely to seek out mental health services.

The Silence Between Us is a raw and original double memoir tracing a mother and daughter as they try to understand and rebuild their relationship after the daughter's suicide attempt. Because Oceane had just turned 18 when she attempts to end her life, the hospital has to respect her request: to not notify her parents. But despite the distance between them, Cécile knows something is wrong with her fiercely independent daughter. As Cécile steps in to care for Oceane, the two reckon with things left unsaid and begin to rebuild a relationship that is both fragile and beautiful.

Dr. Amy Winslow tells the story: in foggy, nighttime San Francisco a jogging SFPD captain is savagely attacked by a Bengal tiger which then vanishes. In her ER, Amy labors unsuccessfully to save the captain’s life, then consoles his aggrieved closest friend, Lt. Luis Ortega. Neither suspects their lives will intertwine in a life-or-death mystery.

John Doe remembers nothing of his life before waking up in the hospital. He doesn't know he was a dangerous man, and he somehow has survived assassination by even more dangerous men. John needs long-term supervision and care to relearn how to live. Dr. Mitchell Oberon has been married to her surgical work for too long. She is comfortable in her spinsterish life. She resists being attracted to this brain-damaged patient with the body of Adonis and the mind of a child, but Agent Frank Stone, of Homeland Security, forces the doctor to take John Doe into her own home to recover.

Cody Roche ist nicht nur jünger, agiler und bescheidener als Wayne McLair, seine Weste weist auch die exakt richtige Zahl an Knöpfen auf. Die Zusammenarbeit der beiden droht zu kippen, doch gilt es, ein gemeinsames Ziel zu verfolgen: die Goldreserven der Roten Schlange! Um der neuen La Zorra zu helfen, muss das Team ausgerechnet in die Höhle des Löwen ... in das Büro des Superintendents der DMP!

A blind deejay (Shepard Krausse) and an invisible librarian (Miranda Ogilvy) from a tiny, rural Florida town try to solve a double disappearance connected to a recent canoe trip. It ain't exactly "deliverance", but there's a heap of trouble brewing for these folks - some of it human, some of it animal, and all of it deadly. Shep and Miranda rely on their sense of humor as they face dangerous fossil poachers - but even that is difficult when their engagement is broken amidst a river of troubles.

A hunky carpenter wants to adopt six children, but first he must convince authorities that he is not crazy. He isn't. His teapot really is talking to him. Despite his many positive attributes, Lloyd has reached the age of 32 years, seven months, four days, and six hours without finding Miss Right and converting her into Mrs. Lloyd Schifflebein. Yes, Schifflebein. A surname decidedly lacking romance in addition to being difficult to spell and way too long a signature for checks and the backs of credit cards.

Aufbruch in ein neues Leben. Weimar im Dezember 1918: Klara verspürt eine unbändige Lust auf Leben. Der Krieg ist vorbei, gerade wurde die Republik ausgerufen, und es wird ein Wahlrecht für Frauen geben! Aber was nutzt ihr alle Freiheit, in der Enge ihres kaisertreuen Elternhauses? Kurzentschlossen folgt Klara ihrer großen Liebe Fritz nach Berlin. Doch die Aufbruchsstimmung kippt: Bewaffnete Unruhen machen ihren Aufenthalt nicht mehr sicher. Als bekannt wird, dass die neue Verfassung in Weimar gegründet werden soll, kann Fritz sie überreden, zurückzukehren.

Jenna's Secret Show tells the story of an 18-year-old girl who gets her first taste of absolute freedom with a weekend away with her boyfriend. They won’t have to find privacy for stolen moments but instead can have all the sexy fun they want. Two beautiful older women have the cabin next door, though, and they’re ready to teach this younger woman all they know about sex! It’s a wild ride that’s sure to check all the right boxes and get your heart pumping!

Was würdest du tun, wenn du deine neue Wohnung mit deinem schlimmsten Albtraum teilen müsstest?Nach einer gescheiterten Beziehung beginnt Philippa ganz von vorn. Sie verlässt Minneapolis und zieht nach New York.Alles könnte so einfach sein, wäre da nicht plötzlich Graham, der ebenfalls der Meinung ist, die Wohnung gehöre ihm.

Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google’s acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.™ Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively.

When a tragic accident crushes her dreams, can a young woman fight to thrive once again? As a teen growing up in the '80s, Jenny Smith loved life. But, when a spinal cord injury paralyzed her from the chest down, her days of gymnastics and playing music came to an agonizing end. Completely reliant on others for her most basic needs, privacy and independence became things of the past. Refusing to give up, Jenny struggled along the exhausting, painful, and endless road to living as a quadriplegic.

Einhorn Horst ist in Nöten: Ständig wird er hin- und hergezaubert. Er wünscht sich nichts mehr, als seinen Fluch zu brechen. Doch wie soll das gehen? Das wissen weder die Drachen noch der Barde; dazu muss erstmal Zauberer Apfelmus gefunden werden. Eine weitere fell- und schuppensträubende Reise beginnt.

Karleigh Hammond had to follow her passion and stepped out on faith to open her own hair salon. After a series of unfortunate events that seemed to target her salon, Karleigh is struggling with keeping her faith. Simon Sharp had plans to expand his barber shop but runs into a hurdle when he meets the beautiful owner of the new salon next door. His genuine care to assist Karleigh to become a successful entrepreneur turns into feelings Simon had not expected. Instead of running from his feelings, he chooses to embrace them.

Radiant and tender, My Baby First Birthday is a collection that examines innocence, asking us who gets to be loved and who has to deplete themselves just to survive. It's about existence and nonexistence, about being born - without consent. Jenny Zhang writes about accepting pain, about the way we fetishize womanhood and motherhood, and reduce women to their violations, traumas, and body parts.

Det är första veckan i april. Rebecka reser till sina drömmars New York, men snart ångrar hon att hon låtit chefen övertala henne att skriva en artikelserie under vistelsen. I Stockholm känner sig Astrid mer och mer som en fånge i sitt eget liv. Studierna är inte alls vad hon hoppats på och ångestattackerna kommer allt tätare. Lovisa tar sig med nöd och näppe igenom sin egen olidliga trettioårsfest och inser att hennes man, Rikard, inte alls är den person hon en gång gift sig med. Finns det egentligen någon väg tillbaka för dem?

Growing up in the Canadian Rockies, the mountains have always been home for Jenny Tough. Travelling the world, she's always discovered commonalities with mountains—and mountain people. Her major project is to run solo and unsupported across a mountain range on every continent where indigenous mountain people live isolated from the outside, urban world. Running solo and unsupported comes with obvious logistical as well as physical challenges, but running is also a common language.

Vor ziemlich genau 500 Jahren in Sevilla: Fernando und Enrique sind unzertrennlich und haben es faustdick hinter den Ohren! Ihre beste Freundin Katharina ist die Dritte im Bunde. Sie ist gleichzeitig die weltbeste Geschichtenerzählerin und die Prinzessin von Spanien. Doch eines Tages fallen Katharina keine Geschichten mehr ein, sie hat Fernando und Enrique schon alle erzählt, die sie kennt. "Das kann doch nicht sein!", empören sich die beiden Jungs und nehmen diese tragische Tatsache zum Anlass für ein waghalsiges Abenteuer.

Ganz Schummelland ist in Aufruhr: Ein böser Drache hat die liebliche Prinzessin geraubt! Sofort brechen die tapferen Ritter auf, um sie zu retten, ein strahlendes Einhorn erscheint und – pupst. Oft sind die Dinge nicht so, wie sie scheinen, manche Legende erweist sich als Lüge und Bänkelsänger als dreiste Fake-News-Kolporteure.