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Chicago, 1930. Lee Harper ist kaltblütig, hochgefährlich, von Wahnvorstellungen getrieben. Er findet den Schlüssel zu einem alten Haus, dessen Türen sich zur Zukunft öffnen. Im Schlafzimmer sind die Bilder von neun jungen Mädchen aufgereiht, die seltsam zu leuchten scheinen. Harper spürt, dass er dazu bestimmt ist, die Mädchen zu töten. Von nun an reist er durch die Zeit, um seine Shining Girls aufzuspüren. Niemand kann ihn auf seinem mörderischen Feldzug stoppen.

Chicago, 1931. Prima di trovare la Casa Harper Curtis era uno dei tanti vagabondi in una città schiacciata dalla Depressione. Poi una voce lo attira in quella che sembra solo una villa in rovina, e la sua vita cambia per sempre. Le porte della Casa permettono di viaggiare nel tempo e lui incomincia ad assaporare le meraviglie del futuro. Ma Harper Curtis è anche un uomo violento e crudele, un sadico, e a farne le spese sono giovani donne, forti, indipendenti e ricche di talento.

Ein Hotel in den Bergen von Colorado. Jack Torrance, ein verkrachter Intellektueller mit Psycho-Problemen, bekommt den Job als Hausmeister...

Charlie Blossom hatte sich ihren Neuanfang in Miami anders vorgestellt. Statt im Umfeld der High Society als Personenschützerin der reichen Familie Newton zu arbeiten, wurde sie in die Fehde der Newtons und Favreaus gezogen. Niemals hätte Charlie damit gerechnet, dass sie zwischen die Fronten gerät - und damit auch zwischen zwei Männern stehen würde, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME In this masterpiece of modern American horror that inspired Stanley Kubrick’s classic film, Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in...

Danny is only five years old, but in the words of old Mr Hallorann he is a 'shiner', aglow with psychic voltage. When his father becomes caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, Danny's visions grow out of control. As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its...

Lady Eugenia Knight was the youngest of five, and the only daughter of a duke, so was it any wonder she was a hoyden? When she made her London debut, naturally Society - and the gossip columns - were fascinated with her. When her best friend and her brothers married, she was left to her own devices with an inattentive aunt and a childhood family friend as chaperones to navigate the perils of the ton.

In this electrifying and “superior thriller” (The Washington Post), a female psychiatrist is pitted against a brilliant serial killer with multiple personalities in an explosive and deadly battle of wills. For ten years, FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender has been investigating the apparently...

One of the most acclaimed books of our time—the definitive Vietnam War exposé and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. When he came to Vietnam in 1962, Lieutenant Colonel John Paul Vann was the one clear-sighted participant in an enterprise riddled with arrogance and...

The town of Graisseville, Louisiana is in crisis, and the mayor needs Jen Guidry's help! Jen has finally embraced small town life with open arms, but now she's facing new challenges that test her faith. She struggles to balance family and her desire to help, but her husband Mike prefers she leave well enough alone.

Mara, die letzte freie Nation des Kontinents, ist gefallen. Und hinter der feindlichen Linie steht Talin allein. Sie muss alles, woran sie geglaubt hat, verraten und als persönliche Skyhunterin für den Premier der Föderation kämpfen. Doch Red hat Talin noch nicht aufgegeben. Denn die Verbindung zwischen den beiden ist zwar schwach, aber dieser kleine Funke könnte genug sein. Genug, um zurück zueinander zu finden und um die Striker wieder zu vereinen. Während Red die verstreuten Streitkräfte von Mara um sich schart, macht Talin im Herzen der Föderation eine erschütternde Entdeckung.

Funkelnde Lichter. Klirrende Kälte. Dunkle Nächte. Fröhliche Weihnachtslieder. Keine Zeit im Jahr ist für Desideria lukrativer als die Weihnachtszeit. Neben ihrem Studium jobbt sie in Stockholm auf Weihnachtsfeiern als Weihnachtselfe. Das Geschäft boomt und sie kann sich vor Aufträgen ihrer Agentur kaum retten. Doch dieses Weihnachten ist anders. Nicht nur ihre Beziehung geht in die Brüche, sondern auch finanziell steht sie nicht gut da. Ihr Exfreund Espen hinterlässt hohe Schulden, die sie abzahlen muss. Somit nimmt Desideria mehr Aufträge als sonst an.

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE 2011 ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD Lauren Beukes' tale of a young woman trapped in a brutal city but looking for a way out . . . Zinzi has a Sloth on her back, a dirty 419 scam habit and a talent for finding lost things. But when a little old lady turns up dead...

Years ago, the Child-Goddess Aphrael had hidden Bhelliom, the Stone of Power, at the bottom of the sea. Yet now it is needed again to stop a malign force from spreading evil and destruction across the lands. Sparhawk, Queen's champion, sets out to retrieve the Stone. But others seek the gem for their own diabolical ends. Most fearsome of these are the Shining Ones, whose mere touch melts human flesh from bone.

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore is a gruesome account of the effects of radium on young women who worked with radium-based paint in the first part of the twentieth century. Centering on two exploitative radium plants in Orange, New Jersey and Ottawa, Illinois, the sad story follows the lives and deaths of female workers who became known as the radium girls.

Featuring Stephen King, Clive Barker, Stewart O'Nan, John Ajvide Lindqvist, Jack Ketchum, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Keene, and many others! Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King...

What would you do if your mom put you in a mental institution because you believed in Care Bears? Where would you hide if the US government was after your family because you knew their darkest secrets? Would you sell everything you owned for a pancake? This is my story of surviving a not-so-normal childhood. A book that will make you laugh, cry, and be totally mental... you have been warned.

Girl Meets God is a place where we come as daughters—bold in faith—opening His Word and learning to know His voice.Not perfectly. Not polished.Childlike faith meets the living Word here.Not religion. Not routine.But relationship.So come with a soft heart.Come with an open Bible.Leave with shining faces.Meeting God again and again—and every time we do, something in us changes.

Shining Night is book three in the Faithgirlz series Lena in the Spotlight, written by Alena Pitts, star of The War Room and tween blogger of For Girls Like You, and co-written with her mother, editor and author Wynter Pitts. In this fiction story that will appeal to young girls who have big...