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Back when Morgan Mallory was human, she dreamed of magic while drowning in self-destruction. Then she was transported to a fantastical new reality, and her dream turned into a waking nightmare. To survive against the monsters of the labyrinthine land of Pandaemonium, she became Maven Alice, a soul-devouring demon who kills with blade and spell. Now that she's tasted blood and escaped a fae king's trap, Alice has been pitted against six fearsome rivals in a contest in which the stakes are no less than life or death.

After a lifetime of lies, deceit, and betrayal, Jackson Stone isn’t a man who trusts easily—with women being at the top of the list. Now he’s all about control in every aspect of his life. Especially between the sheets. Hot, mutual pleasure with a woman? No problem, as long as he’s in charge. But there’s something different about sexy bartender Tara Kent that he finds irresistible, in bed and out. Something that has him willing to compromise his principles and bend his rules. Let the sinning begin.

Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company's Slack channel. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it's an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy and, now that Gerald's productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from...wherever he says he is. Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service's AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality.

Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York-based public relations firm, has been uploaded into the company’s internal Slack channels - at least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume it’s an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from-home policy, but now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from...wherever he says he is. Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his coworker Pradeep to help him escape and to find out what happened to his body.

Micki Jordan is a tomboy as much at home on the playing field as in a locker room full of naked guys. But the star publicist is looking to prove she’s also an irresistible woman in order to get a second shot at professional baseball player and major league playboy, Damian Fuller. Micki transforms herself into one hot number Damian can’t help but notice, and together they burn up the sheets and find themselves falling hard. That is until Damian’s past returns, threatening their future.

They say the most dangerous magick is born from desperation. If that's true, I'm about to become a force of nature. The ritual we uncovered has set something in motion that can't be stopped. The fabric of magick is unravelling, and MistHallow Academy stands on the brink of collapse. Our bond—this wild, dark, beautiful thing we've created—is both our greatest strength and our fatal flaw. It's the key to saving everything... or destroying it. My family has resurfaced, their sinister plans for my magick now clear. They're not the only threat.

Literatur muss nicht kompliziert oder voll von Fremdwörtern und langen Sätzen sein. Alle können mit Geschichten in Einfacher Sprache etwas Neues erfahren. Einfache Sprache ist eine Sprache, die wir verlernt haben. Der Herausgeber Hauke Hückstädt hat das Experiment fortgesetzt und 12 namhafte Autor:innen dafür gewonnen.

In 1903 England, Vita Carew searches for the truth after a boxer dies in a match against her brother and tries to prove herself to a disdainful professor at Cambridge.

Pater Brown, dem dies natürlich auffällt, erfährt von ihr, dass sie am Abend zuvor wohl auf der Kellertreppe ausgerutscht sei, als sie nach Ladenschluss den Müll hinausgebracht habe. Da sie durch den Sturz an einer retrograden Amnesie leidet, kann sie sich nicht mehr an den Unfallhergang erinnern. Dennoch hat Sarah McCoy das Gefühl, dass da noch mehr gewesen wäre. Pater Brown verspricht der Bonbonverkäuferin zu helfen und gerät dabei in einen Fall voller Rätsel und Widersprüche.

I'm Sadie and I'm nearly nine. Mum's a childminder, but she doesn't have to mind me. I can mind myself, easy-peasy. Lucky for Mum, because now she's got the flu, so I've got to mind her – and help with all the babies!

Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age 17. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now, Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. The town is picture-perfect, but it's hiding secrets. And before school even begins for Ellery, someone has declared open season on homecoming, promising to make it as dangerous as it was five years ago. Then, almost as if to prove it, another girl goes missing.

The Dragons of Pern are the world's only defence against an ancient threat - Thread, an evil rain that devours everything it touches. Paired with their riders from the moment they hatch, they risk their lives burning the scourge of the Red Star from the sky. But the dragons are in decline. Only one Weyr remains, and the only dragon queen is dying. F'lar knows that the Red Star is rising again and that the ancient threat will return. His only hope is the last queen egg and finding a woman strong enough to be the new queen's rider. But the villainous Lord Fax has other plans.

When Hen and Lloyd move into their new house in West Dartford, Mass., they're relieved to meet, at their first block party, the only other seemingly childless couple in their neighbourhood, Matthew and Mira Dolamore. Turns out they live in the Dutch Colonial immediately next door. When they're invited over for dinner, however, things take a sinister turn when Hen thinks she sees something suspicious in Matthew's study.

A haunted Aquarius finds love behind the veil. An ambitious Aries will do anything to stay in the spotlight. A foodie Taurus discovers the best eats in town (with a side of romance). A witchy Cancer stumbles into a curious meet-cute. Whether it’s romantic, platonic, familial, or something else you can’t quite define, love is the thing that connects us. All Signs Point to Yes will take you on a journey from your own backyard to the world beyond the living as it settles us among the stars for thirteen stories of love and life.

Die Verantwortung des Todes liegt Simonja im Blut. Es ist das Erbe ihrer Familie. Wenn sie mit ihrer Sense und dem roten Umhang loszieht, tut sie es mit Stolz. Bevor Simonja zum Tod von Engelland wurde, lag diese Aufgabe bei ihrer Mutter Nisha – einer Frau voller Geheimnisse.

Lillith ist eine junge Frau, die ein fröhliches und freies Leben geführt hat, bis ihr Vater sie an Dimitri Smith weiter gibt, um seine Schulden zu begleichen. Von da an, ist ihr Leben die Hölle. Die Schläge sind ihr Alltag und das nicht nur von dem Kleinstadt Mafiosi. Aber eines Abends, als Dimitri einen wichtigen Gschäfftspartner einläd, sollte sich ihr Leben ändern. Darauf gefasst, endlich den Tod gegenüber zu stehen, nachdem sie ein Fehler zu viel getan hat, hatte sie nicht mit der Wendung ihres Schicksals gerechnet.

Single mum Carmen Lowery's life might be annoyingly imperfect, but at least it's orderly and predictable. Until a tall, dark, handsome stranger mysteriously arrives at her family's Whitsundays resort island – and turns out to be not quite a stranger after all. Carmen and Bruno pick up where they left off, but the legacy of their liaison runs deep – and Bruno is hiding his own not-so-white lie about that night.

In the picturesque Cornish seaside town of St. Bodwell, the Daveys and the Chenoweths have been entrenched in a bitter feud for centuries. But when local historian Sam Chenoweth begins curating an exhibition on the ill-fated 19th century romance between his ancestor Ada Chenoweth and John Davey, he finds an unexpected ally in Abbie Davey. As they work together uncovering Ada and John's tragic love story, a surprising connection blossoms between Sam and Abbie.

Un endroit sûr pour respirer, ressentir et grandir, une méditation à la fois. La vie d'un adolescent aujourd'hui peut sembler accablante. L'école, les amitiés, les pressions familiales, le bourdonnement constant des réseaux sociaux... C'est beaucoup à gérer. Guided Meditations for Teens offre un refuge sûr où se poser lorsque tout semble trop lourd.

Un événement familial les amène néanmoins à se retrouver : l'enterrement de leur père à Loisel, village perché sur les falaises normandes. Pendant les obsèques, une inconnue leur remet une lettre. Quelques mots seulement qui résonnent pourtant avec la force d’une énigme. Antoine se détourne de ce qu'il juge n'être qu'un joli message et rentre à sa vie rangée avec sa femme et ses enfants. Mais Valentine est troublée ; dans ces lignes, elle ne reconnaît rien de son père, ni des rires de son enfance.