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Sixteen-year-old Twylla lives in the castle. But although she's engaged to the prince, no one speaks to her. No one even looks at her. Because Twylla isn't a member of the court. She's the executioner. As the goddess-embodied, Twylla kills with a single touch. So each week, she's taken to the prison and forced to lay her hands on those accused of treason. No one will ever love her. Who could care for a girl with murder in her veins? Even the prince, whose royal blood supposedly makes him immune to her touch, avoids her. But then a new guard arrives, a boy whose playful smile belies his deadly swordsmanship. And unlike the others, he's able to look past Twylla's executioner robes and see the girl, not the goddess. Yet a treasonous romance is the least of Twylla's problems. The queen has a plan to destroy her enemies-a plan that requires an unthinkable sacrifice. Will Twylla do what it takes to protect her kingdom? Or will she abandon her duty in favor of a doomed love?

Sarah Perry's award-winning novel, set at the end of the nineteenth century and inspired by true events. Moving between Essex and London, myth and modernity, Cora Seaborne's spirited search for the Essex Serpent encourages all around her to test their allegiance to faith or reason in an age of rapid scientific advancement. At the same time, the novel explores the boundaries of love and friendship and the allegiances that we have to one another. The depth of feeling that the inhabitants of Aldwinter share are matched by their city counterparts as they strive to find the courage to express and understand their deepest desires, and strongest fears.

Die Enthüllung Der Millennium-Verleger Mikael Blomkvist hat sich mit der Enthüllung korrupter Persönlichkeiten des Establishments einen Namen gemacht. Als sich ein junger Journalist mit einer Recherche über Menschenhandel an ihn wendet, kann Blomkvist nicht widerstehen, den mächtigen Figuren den Krieg zu erklären, die diese lukrative Industrie kontrollieren. Der Mord Als ein junges Paar tot in seiner Stockholmer Wohnung aufgefunden wird, ist es für Inspektor Bublanski und sein Team ein unkomplizierter Fall. Der Mörder hat die Waffe am Tatort zurückgelassen – und die Fingerabdrücke auf der Pistole weisen nur in eine Richtung. Verdammnis Die ehemalige Sicherheitsanalystin Lisbeth Salander wird wegen Mordes gesucht. Ihre Vorgeschichte unberechenbaren und rachsüchtigen Verhaltens macht sie offiziell zu einer Gefahr für die Gesellschaft – doch niemand kann sie finden. Salander ist nur über einen Computer zu erreichen. Aber sie kann in fast jedes Netzwerk eindringen, das sie sich aussucht …

Από τη συγγραφέα των «Ο ωρολογοποιός της οδού Φίλιγκρι» και «Τα Βασίλεια», ένα επικό μυθιστόρημα του Ψυχρού Πολέμου που διαδραματίζεται σε μια μυστηριώδη πόλη στη Σοβιετική Ρωσία. Το 1963, σε ένα σιβηρικό γκουλάγκ, ο πρώην ειδικός στην πυρηνική ενέργεια Βαλέρι Κολχάνοφ έχει μάθει τι χρειάζεται για να επιβιώσει: τις κατάλληλες διασυνδέσεις με τους φρουρούς για να έχει πρόσβαση σε φαγητό και τσιγάρα, το κατάλληλο ζευγάρι ζεστές μπότες για να αποφύγει τα κρυοπαγήματα και τη σωστή στάση απέναντι στις μικρές απολαύσεις της ζωής ώστε να μη χάσει τα λογικά του. Όμως, μια συνηθισμένη μέρα, όλα αλλάζουν: ο πανεπιστημιακός μέντορας του Βαλέρι παρεμβαίνει και τον μεταφέρει από το παγωμένο στρατόπεδο φυλακής σε μια μυστηριώδη ανώνυμη πόλη που στεγάζει ένα σύνολο πυρηνικών αντιδραστήρων και περιβάλλεται από ένα δάσος τόσο κατεστραμμένο, που μοιάζει σαν τα δέντρα να έχουν σκουριάσει από μέσα. Στην Πόλη 40, ο Βαλέρι είναι ξανά ο δρ Κολχάνοφ και αναμένεται να εκτίσει το υπόλοιπο της ποινής του μελετώντας την επίδραση της ακτινοβολίας στα τοπικά ζώα. Όμως, καθώς ο Βαλέρι αρχίζει τη δουλειά του, τον απασχολούν τα ερωτήματα που εγείρει η έρευνά του: γιατί υπάρχει τόση ακτινοβολία σε αυτή την περιοχή; Τι ακριβώς κρύβεται από τις χιλιάδες ανθρώπων που ζουν στην πόλη; Και αν συνεχίσει να αναζητά απαντήσεις, θα ζήσει αρκετά ώστε να εκτίσει την ποινή του; Βασισμένο σε αληθινά γεγονότα σε μια σουρεαλιστική σοβιετική πόλη και αφηγημένο με το απαράμιλλο ύφος της συγγραφέα μπεστ σέλερ Νατάσα Πούλεϊ, το «Ο χρόνος ημιζωής του Βαλέρι Κ.» είναι μια συναρπαστική νέα περιπέτεια για τους αναγνώστες των Στιούαρτ Τέρτον και Σάρα Γκέιλι.

From Chuck Tingle, author of the USA Today bestselling Camp Damascus, comes a new heart\-pounding story about what it takes to succeed in a world that wants you dead. Misha is a jaded scriptwriter who has been working in Hollywood for years, and has just been nominated for his first Oscar. But when he's pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character in the upcoming season finale―"for the algorithm"―Misha discovers that it's not that simple. As he is haunted by his past, and past mistakes, Misha must risk everything to find a way to do what's right―before it's too late.

A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.

This irreverent psychological thriller shows the humor and dark side of the life of an influencer - think And Then There Were None but with sponsored livestreams. Michelle Monroe’s fifteen minutes are almost up. After ten years online, she is a master at her trade: scamming her fans. But her once-bright internet stardom is blinking into oblivion. The brand deals are drying up, the views are plummeting, and even her haters no longer care enough to snark. When she spots an ornate, scarlet envelope sitting outside her high-rise condo, she realizes her luck is about to change. It’s an invite to an exclusive brand trip for the new energy drink company, Excelsior. The answer is easy: Yes. Even if she has to tolerate hours with the peers that surpassed her. The worst she expects is a blow-out fight or two (filmed, of course, from multiple angles). But no one anticipates joining a different kind of Mile-High Club: witnessing the death of their frenemy at 30,000 feet. Still, the most tragic news of all is that there’s no internet on the island, no turndown service, and only each other and their shared grudges for entertainment. As the backstabbing turns literal, and more influencers die in awful, strange ways, the dwindling group can no longer deny the obvious: someone gathered them there to die.

Grace Evans, an overworked New Yorker looking for a total escape from her busy life, books an Airbnb on a ranch in the middle of Wyoming. When she arrives, she's pleasantly surprised to find that the owner is a handsome man by the name of Calvin Wells. But there are things Grace discovers that she's not too pleased about: A lack of cell phone service. A missing woman. And a feeling that something isn't right with the town. Despite her uneasiness and misgivings from Calvin's friends and family, the two grow close and start to fall for one another. However, as her departure date nears, things between them start to change for the worse. Grace grows wary of Calvin as his infatuation for her seems to turn into obsession. Calvin fears that Grace is hiding something from him. Told from dual points of view, You Shouldn't Have Come Here is a thrill ride and a cautionary tale of what can go wrong when you open up your house and your heart to a total stranger.

Rendered famous for his anti-religion stance, FBI behavioral psychologist Daniel Clark has a near-death experience when a mysterious serial killer attempts to murder him, an event that forces Daniel to re-create his death and challenge his belief system in order to identify his would-be killer.

Bleak House opens in the twilight of foggy London, where fog grips the city most densely in the Court of Chancery. The obscure case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs, the romance of Esther Summerson and the secrets of her origin, the sleuthing of Detective Inspector Bucket and the fate of Jo the crossing-sweeper, these are some of the lives Dickens invokes to portray London society, rich and poor, as no other novelist has done. Bleak House, in its atmosphere, symbolism and magnificent bleak comedy, is often regarded as the best of Dickens. A 'great Victorian novel', it is so inventive in its competing plots and styles that it eludes interpretation.

Kinder können einen grausamen, absoluten Gerechtigkeitssinn haben. Kinder können ein Monster töten und ziemlich stolz auf sich sein. Ein Mädchen kann ihren Bruder ansehen und glauben, dass sie dazu bestimmt sind, ein Ritter und ein Barde zu sein, die das Böse bekämpfen. Sie kann glauben, dass sie das gefunden hat, wofür sie geschaffen wurde. Hazel lebt mit ihrem Bruder Ben in der seltsamen Stadt Fairfold, wo Menschen und Feen Seite an Seite existieren. Die scheinbar harmlose Magie der Feen zieht Touristen an, aber Hazel weiß, wie gefährlich sie sein können, und sie weiß, wie man sie aufhält. Oder sie wusste es zumindest einmal. Im Mittelpunkt von allem steht ein gläserner Sarg im Wald. Er steht direkt auf dem Boden, und darin schläft ein Junge mit Hörnern auf dem Kopf und Ohren, die so spitz sind wie Messer. Hazel und Ben waren als Kinder beide in ihn verliebt. Der Junge hat dort Generationen lang geschlafen und ist nie aufgewacht. Bis er es eines Tages doch tut … Als die Welt auf den Kopf gestellt wird, versucht Hazel, sich an die Jahre zu erinnern, in denen sie so getan hat, als wäre sie ein Ritter. Doch wird es genügen, wenn sie von neuer Liebe, wechselnden Loyalitäten und dem frischen Schmerz des Verrats mitgerissen wird?

The harrowing tale of British explorer Ernest Shackleton's 1914 attempt to reach the South Pole, one of the greatest adventure stories of the modern age. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton's fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. First edition: here.