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Dieses Lied kann dich dein Herz und dein Leben kosten – tauche ein in die einzigartige Welt der Sirenen und in eine düster-romantische Liebesgeschichte. Zeit ihres Lebens musste sich Imogen Nel verstecken. Vor einem grausamen Königreich, das Sirenen für blutrünstige Ungeheuer hält. Vor einem nicht minder grausamen König und seinem Kapitän, die Imogens Volk gnadenlos jagen. Und vor der verführerischen Macht, die Imogen nicht kontrollieren kann.

Widerwillig kehrt Eden in die Heimat ihres verstorbenen Vaters zurück, um an der Testamentseröffnung teilzunehmen. Doch bereits in der ersten Nacht entdeckt sie die mit Motten bedeckte Leiche eines Mädchens im Wald – die spurlos verschwindet. Hat sie sich alles nur eingebildet? Wem kann Eden noch trauen? Als Eden erfährt, dass sie ein beträchtliches Vermögen erbt, scheint ihre Zukunft gesichert. Doch dafür muss sie ihr letztes Schuljahr an der rätselhaften Wyndhouse Academy verbringen.

Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life.

This collection of really funny short stories in easy Italian can be used by English native speakers to improve their Italian and gain fluency by having fun with the funny story.

Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairy-tale quest about an occult old ladies' home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her son's plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary place.... Here there are strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail, and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tent....

The slender young highwayman who held up Lord Raven's coach was shocked to discover he had made a terrible mistake. He turned and fled, but not before Lord Raven had put a bullet in his shoulder. It was then Raven's turn to be shocked. For the wounded highwayman turned out to be a beautiful young woman, the kind of woman the rakish Raven had been seeking all his life - Lady Tara. It was some time before Lady Tara could tell Raven the truth about this frightening masquerade.

The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond.

Jest lipiec 1794 roku. Ulice Londynu wypełniają plotki o rewolucji. Laurence Jago, urzędnik Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych, jest coraz bardziej uzależniony od leku na uspokojenie Black Drop, czyli Czarnej Kropli, który łagodzi jego koszmary. Laurence odkrywa ciało kolegi urzędnika, rzekomo samobójcy. Kilka dni później do prasy przedostaje się treść poufnego listu, co może doprowadzić do zniszczenia brytyjskiej armii.

You love reading historical romance fiction, but no one around you gets it. Join me, Lenora, a fellow historical romance fan, as I talk about a different historical romance novels. I break down the exciting ways our characters fall in love, the characters themselves, and the quirky things you learn when you read historical romance. If you want to have fun and love reading about lords, dukes, and lairds, this is the show for you.

I have created this special collection of stories because…in my youth and even today I love the fantasy and magic of fairytales, and I grew up longing for a prince charming of my own one day. Of course being a little boy, back then, I tended to imagine myself in the role of a princess as that seemed the only option.

Marion Letharby, novantanovenne inglese ormai sorda da anni, riceve in dono dalla sua migliore amica un imponente cornetto acustico tempestato di argento e madreperla e la sua vita, sorprendentemente cambia. Quando il bisnipote sceglie per lei un non troppo costoso ospizio per vecchi, la Confraternita del Pozzo di Luce, Marion, invece di abbattersi per la perdita della sua amata solitudine, comincia a guardarsi intorno. Nel vasto parco della Confraternita trova padiglioni a forma di casine di gnomi, di fungo velenoso, di orologio a cucù, di vagone ferroviario, di stivale e di mummia.

Musiker:innen, die plötzlich gute Romane veröffentlichen. Autor:innen, deren Bücher wie guter Rap klingen. Aufregende Bücher, die ein größeres Publikum verdient hätten. Neuerscheinungen, an denen kein Weg vorbei führt. Interviews zwischen Bookstagram-Nerdtum und Deep-Talk. All das gibt es jede Woche neu im „Buch zur Woche“ vom Popkultur-Magazin DIFFUS. Moderation: Daniel Koch und Celine Leonora

Mothering Heights is a podcast dedicated to the conversations around motherhood, creativity, and building community. Hosted by actor, director, producer, dancer, and community builder Leonora Pitts, Mothering Heights seeks to discover how to remain a creative human while raising creative humans, and how to build a community to support those goals. Every week, we will host a funny, inspiring, creative mama who will share their triumphs and follies.

What if your life was spinning out of control? Where would you turn? A silent meditation retreat in the Thai jungle promises to deliver peace and prosperity to its visitors. Lured by this tantalising promise, a ruthless Ukrainian businessman, a neurotic French scientist and a Brazilian feminist make their way to the remote forests of Thailand. As their worlds fall silent and the meditation intensifies, their inner voices grow louder and the deepest fears of their subconscious rise to the surface.

¿Y si te dijéramos que los adorables bebés, tan inocentes en apariencia, son expertos manipuladores desde el vientre? ¿O que en tu cuerpo hay más bacterias y virus que células propias, y que estás mejor así? ¿Te gustaría asomarte al interior de una lágrima y entender por qué te sigue doliendo el desprecio de tu ex? ¿O prefieres que te expliquemos el mayor misterio de todos: por qué el alcohol hace que nos crezca la panza?

Beautiful, fair-haired Helene Ambel was the hit of the London season, the epitome of a refined young heiress. But she preferred books, horses, and intellectual pursuits to the dances, parties, and simpering, overdressed, foolish men she could not take seriously. Helene was hungry for adventure. She found it by helping her friends Juliet and Nicholas, who wanted to marry.

For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western Ukraine. Her wild imagination takes her into birds and flowers, and into the waters of the river. All that changes when, one morning, she sees her mother crying. As she tries to find out why, she is drawn on an extraordinary journey into the secrets of her family, and her mother's fateful choices.

When dashing Lord Umber rescued Felicia from the coach accident, he automatically assumed she was merely a wench for fun and games. He knew nothing about her aristocratic heritage. Neither did she, for the blow on her head had quite driven all memory away. But even though Felicia did not remember her past, she was not going to allow herself to be seduced by a glamourous young stranger.

They met, scandalously, in her bedroom at midnight, and shared a daring escape from France. Now, in London, the cynical and mocking Sir Nicholas Thomas is high-spirited Roberta Rushforth's hired protector and seeming suitor in an elaborate masquerade. The social whirl exposes her to the schemes of her jealous former suitor and a notorious French count - and leaves her breathless in Sir Nicholas' arms.

She had always done as she pleased - with nary a thought to the consequences. Indeed, Sally Mallory's great success throughout the ton as a fine portrait painter had been aided by spirited independence - along with wit and extraordinary talent. But now it seemed she had gone too far. Impetuous Sally had compromised her reputation, and now was to be forced into a marriage of convenience with the most distinguished art critic in London, the cold and arrogant Duke Ian Frobisher!