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Never before published in English, Orhan Pamuk’s second novel is the story of a Turkish family gathering in the shadow of the impending military coup of 1980. In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, a widow, Fatma, awaits the annual summer visit of her...

Trained and traumatised by a secret assassin program for minors, Isabel Ryans wants nothing more than a new life as a normal civilian. And she might just be in with a shot when she befriends Emma Westray, because for the first time in her life things are looking up. But when Isabel blows her cover by impulsively murdering a burglar, she draws the attention of the guilds—the two organisations who control the city of Espera. An unaffiliated killer like Isabel is either a potential asset...or a threat to be eliminated.

Who says no to five-star travel? I should have. Isn’t retrospect a b*tch? Life was so much easier before him. Going home should mean regularly scheduled programming. Except, something’s different. I just can’t figure out what.

Enjoy three haunted house mysteries in this audio box set: The Haunting of the Falcon Creek Lodge, The Haunting of the Silver Creek Lodge, and The Haunting of the Briar Rose.

When Frances Teller accepts a job teaching at the prestigious Thackeray School in Vermont, she learns that the ghosts that haunt the hallways have a direct connection to her dangerous past. Now, Frances must come to terms with the crime she committed as a student...before history repeats itself.

When Savannah moves home to the small town of Humble, Georgia, she has no intention of getting involved in a kidnapping investigation. But when her older brother Mac becomes the main suspect, Savannah launches a secret investigation in order to clear her brother’s name. Savannah has inherited a gift, one that might reveal who the culprit is if she can stay one step ahead of the killer, who is closer than she thinks.

When her life as a New York City attorney becomes an unbearable moral burden, Lois Golden packs up her teenage daughter Janet and heads to rural Vermont to fulfill her childhood dream of owning a small town inn. However, this inn holds a wealth of dark secrets, full of deceit, death, and horrifying experiments that have left an undeniable mark of evil. When a vengeful spirit emerges, forcing all within the inn to experience their greatest fears, will Lois be able to fight back and salvage her dream from the nightmare it has become?

When Jules and Paul inherit a bed and breakfast from her mysterious uncle, they encounter the ghost of a guest who wants them to solve her murder.

This is volume one of a two-volume omnibus set comprising the complete fictional works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Every story written for publication under his own name is included in this set, from 1917 through 1935. (Poems, ghostwritten material, and stories written in collaboration with other writers are not included.)

The first of these novels, A Princess of Mars, was Burroughs' first book, and he wrote the next two novels in quick succession. Together they tell the story of John Carter of Mars - how he came to Mars, met the love of his life, and quickly found himself occupied full-time defending her and saving his adopted planet from interplanetary evildoers.

Welcome to Echelon, a domed city that protects the survivors of a ravaged Earth. Here, the wealthy elite live in Sky, high above the poor dwellers of Dirt. And Dirt children known as Decimites are injected with nanobots, allowing them to survive in a world ravaged by toxins. Forced to gather resources from Outside, their enhancements grant them a chance for a better life.

Als Jugendliche in der Zisterne eines einstigen Pellwormer Mädcheninternats die Leiche einer Frau finden, ahnt Gesa Harms, alleinerziehende Mutter und einzige Polizistin der Insel, noch nicht, dass sie es in Wahrheit mit zwei Morden zu tun hat. Denn im Schlamm unter der Leiche wird kurz darauf ein weiteres Opfer entdeckt: Das Skelett eines weiblichen Teenagers, das dort bereits 40 Jahre zuvor entsorgt wurde. Zwei Tote im gleichen Versteck?

Die Handlung: Ein gnadenloser Kampf ums Überleben. Die Schauplätze: Norwegens undurchdringliche Wälder. Ein unheimliches Höhlensystem. Ein geheimes Militärlager aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg mit Forschungslabor. Ein uraltes Wikingergrab. Die Charaktere: Sechs Angestellte einer Hamburger Werbeagentur, vier Männer, zwei Frauen, die sich nicht besonders mögen. Das TV-Team einer neuen Reality-Show. Ein Verräter.

Keine Zeit zu sterben - oder doch? Die geheimste Geheimdienstorganisation ermittelt in ihrem ersten Fall. Nachdem die unauffällige Assistentin Lena Kaufmann miterlebt hat, wie ihr Chef durch ein professionelles Killerkommando umgebracht wurde, kommt sie in Kontakt mit der geheimen europäischen Agentenorganisation A.R.G.O.S., für die ihr Chef offenbar arbeitete. Als Zeugin und im Besitz von wichtigen A.R.G.O.S.-Geheiminformationen ist nun auch Lena im Visier der Killer. Eine Gruppe um den Agenten Perseus übernimmt ihren Schutz.

Anna Fox vive sola, recluida en su casa de Nueva York, sin atreverse a salir. Pasa el día chateando con desconocidos, bebiendo vino (quizá más de la cuenta), mirando películas antiguas, recordando tiempos felices... y espiando a los vecinos. Entonces llegan los Russell al barrio: una pareja y su hijo adolescente. La familia perfecta. Hasta que una noche Anna ve algo desde su ventana que no debería haber visto. Todo su mundo empieza a resquebrajarse y sus propios secretos salen a la luz.

Don’t miss AJ Finn’s eagerly anticipated new thriller, END OF STORY! “As the plot seizes us, the prose caresses us. . . [Finn] has not only captured, sympathetically, the interior life of a depressed person, but also written a riveting thriller that will keep you guessing to the very last...

Generations ago, humanity was devastated by a virus that wiped billions from the planet. If not for AmeriGlobe's Pairing program to match immune survivors, and VaxWell's immunity-boosting biomods, humans would've died out. Lora Flannigan has sought to conform to the strict laws throughout her 18 years, and after the Testing she now stands on the brink of a prestigious pairing with high caste Jarid. Accepting the match will pull her and her family up from their low-caste existence.

In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives' ideas to reform America's lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support and were put into practice across the country. Today, these gains are in retreat, ceding ground to progressive nostrums that do little to boost the skills and knowledge of young people. Far from being discouraged, however, conservatives should seize the moment to refresh their vision of quality K-12 education for today's America.

More than 30 years ago, Finn Murphy dropped out of college to become a trucker. Since then he's covered hundreds of thousands of miles packing, loading, and hauling people's belongings all over America. Murphy whisks listeners down the I-95 Powerlane, across the Florida Everglades, in and out of the truck stops of the Midwest, and through the steep grades of the Rocky Mountains.

Is there a point to recycling? Is recycling even good for the environment? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Finn Arne Jørgensen answers: it depends. From a technical point of view, recycling is a series of processes - collecting, sorting, processing, manufacturing. Recycling also has a cultural component; at its core, recycling is about transformation and value, turning material waste into something useful - plastic bags into patio furniture, plastic bottles into T-shirts.