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Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society's mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within.

Die Sterne zeigen dir die Liebe. Nova glaubt an Horoskope, überzeugt von der Weisheit der Sterne. Auch Weston widmet sich den Sternen, allerdings streng wissenschaftlich. Als Rockstar der Astronomie hält er Astrologie für reine Illusion. Wenig überraschend, dass bei ihrem ersten Aufeinandertreffen die Funken fliegen. Einige Jahre später braucht Nova ausgerechnet Westons Hilfe, als es um ihre Vergangenheit geht. Deshalb nimmt sie unter einem falschen Vorwand einen Job in dem Freizeitcamp an, in dem Weston mittlerweile lehrt.

""This novel will bend and twist your notion of what love is, while leaving you utterly bewitched."" — KIRKUS REVIEWS (Starred Review) ""Vivid and impressive...Fans of Addie LaRue will be enthralled."" — PUBLISHER'S WEEKY (Starred Review) An inventive and romantic speculative novel about two...

“Leave it to Peter Heller to imagine a postapocalyptic world that contains as much loveliness as it does devastation. His hero, Hig, flies a 1956 Cessna (his dog as copilot) around what was once Colorado, chasing all the same things we chase in these pre-annihilation days: love, friendship...

Glamour, Macht und bittere Intrigen: die Kopenhagener Hoteltrilogie. Als Erbe eines Hotelimperiums gehört Nikolaj Bjerregaard zur dänischen High Society und lebt in einer Welt von Wohlstand und Macht. Doch er will mehr. Aus dem Schatten des übermächtigen Vaters heraustreten, die Dämonen der Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen und mit seiner eigenen exklusiven Boutiquehotel-Kette expandieren. Als er die Hamburger PR-Expertin Emma Jakobsen kennenlernt, die ihm bei der Expansion helfen soll, ist die Anziehungskraft zwischen ihnen sofort spürbar.

Nach einer globalen Katastrophe hat Hig noch drei Dinge, für die es sich zu leben lohnt: Seinen Hund Jasper, seinen aggressiven, aber hilfsbereiten Nachbarn, und seine Cessna. Solange er nur Kurzstrecken fliegt und Treibstoff spart, kommt er über die Runden. Doch eines Tages empfängt er eine Nachricht von einem anderen Piloten. Gibt es irgendwo dort draußen noch ein anderes, ein besseres Leben? Diese Frage lässt Hig nicht mehr los. Schließlich folgt er der Stimme aus seinem Funkgerät und fliegt los, obwohl er genau weiß, dass er nicht genug Treibstoff hat, um wieder nach Hause zurückzukehren.

Anthony Opoka and Florence Okori are coming of age in Uganda in the 1990s. Outstanding students, they believe in being good humans before they are kidnapped and forced into the fanatical Lord’s Resistance Army. In a legion of young recruits, no one gets closer than Anthony to powerful messianic warlord Joseph Kony and his darkest secrets. To stay sane as he spirals through chaos, Anthony clings to his childhood lessons about being a good human. Florence’s upbringing grounds her, too, helping her keep her dreams alive even as she’s pulled deeper into the insanity of Kony’s war.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come.

On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to earth and obliterated much of the East Coast of the US, including Washington, DC. The ensuing climate cataclysm will soon render the Earth inhospitable for humanity, as the last such meteorite did for the dinosaurs. This looming threat calls for a radically accelerated effort to colonize space and requires a much-larger share of humanity to take part in the process. Elma York’s drive to become the first lady astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.

Darrow would have lived in peace, but his enemies brought him war. The Gold overlords demanded his obedience, hanged his wife, and enslaved his people. But Darrow is determined to fight back. Risking everything to transform himself and breach Gold society, Darrow has battled to survive the cutthroat rivalries that breed Society’s mightiest warriors, climbed the ranks, and waited patiently to unleash the revolution that will tear the hierarchy apart from within. Finally, the time has come.

The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S. M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life's unfortunates. Living in the slums of Rio and eking out a poor living as a typist, Macabéa loves movies, Coca-Colas, and her rat of a boyfriend; she would like to be like Marilyn Monroe, but she is ugly, underfed, sickly, and unloved.

An International Bestseller! A LibraryReads and Indie Next Pick! A trio of second-born daughters sets out on a whirlwind journey through the lush Italian countryside to break the family curse that says they’ll never find love, by New York Times bestseller Lori Nelson Spielman, author of The...

Powers are determined by geographic birth locations, and only the rich and powerful are permitted access to prized sites. SC is the first person born in space. The punishment for unauthorized births is death. Out of fear, SC keeps his strange abilities as his darkest secret. But when his mother is kidnapped by an unknown organization, SC has no choice but to act.

It’s hard to believe there could be a more enjoyable novel than Scattered All Over the Earth—Yoko Tawada’s rollicking, touching, cheerfully dystopian novel about friendship and climate change—but surprising her readers is what Tawada does best: its sequel, Suggested in the Stars, delivers exploits even more poignant and shambolic.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Grand Admiral Thrawn faces the ultimate test of his loyalty to the Empire in this epic Star Wars novel from bestselling author Timothy Zahn. “If I were to serve the Empire, you would command my allegiance.” Such was the promise Grand Admiral Thrawn made to...

Beginning the Star Force Phase 2 timeline, the Mak'to'ran serial details the defeated V'kit'no'sat fleet commander's days following the attack on Earth and the fallout within the Dinosaur empire that results from it. For as bad as the treason regarding the Humans and the bastardized Hadarak is, and the implications that one of the two founding V'kit'no'sat races are behind it, a much larger rift within the empire is being exposed that has the potential to do what neither the Zak'de'ron culling nor the Rit'ko'sor rebellion accomplished. A full Dinosaur civil war.

Ein kleiner Bauernhof am Meer - klingt idyllisch und romantisch? Nicht für Lilly, denn sie wohnt dort mit ihrem siebenjährigen Sohn, dem kauzigen Untermieter und einer bissigen Gans. Aber dann zieht Lilly mit ihrem Traktor das Auto eines gut aussehenden Surfers aus dem Sand, und ein geheimnisvoller Hausgast mit sehr blauen Augen quartiert sich unerwartet in ihre Ferienwohnung ein. Und auf einmal sieht es fast so aus, als könnte es mit der Liebe doch noch klappen... Ein Hörbuch zum Abschalten, Loslachen und Träumen.

Er ist der Typ Mann, der mich fasziniert. Es gibt nur einen Haken - er ist mein neuer BOSS. Um ihrer finanziellen Notlage endgültig zu entkommen, tritt die lebensfrohe Ava Parker einen neuen Job als Assistentin bei einem New Yorker Investmentunternehmen an. An ihrem ersten Arbeitstag begegnet sie ihm - unfassbar sexy, aber mit eiskaltem Blick. Noch ahnt sie nicht, dass es sich bei dem unverschämt attraktiven Fremden um den milliardenschweren CEO der börsennotierten Holding handelt und sie sich von nun an täglich über den Weg laufen.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

The National Book Award winning author returns to his original fictional territory--the lives of the dispossessed in San Francisco--with a parable about the limitations of desire and life at the margins of society In such earlier works of fiction as The Rainbow Stories and The Royal Family...