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Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s first poetry collection Flashes and Verses… Becoming Attractions uniquely waxes lyrical on such pop cultural icons as Marilyn Monroe, Billie Holliday, Muhammad Ali and David Bowie. He also crafts the most dynamic ekphrastic poems inspired by photos and artwork by Helmut Newton, Edward Hopper and Leonardo da Vinci. He composes the most bedazzling bilingual odes to Sandra Cisneros and Juan Felipe Herrera.

When a catastrophic disaster cripples the International Space Station, the balance of power shatters overnight. The United States and China race to seize control of orbit—because whoever dominates space controls the future of humanity. But the disaster wasn’t an accident. As governments mobilize and private space companies push dangerous new technology to the brink, a smoldering conspiracy for world domination ignites a war no one can stop.

Es gibt Träume, die man in Marmeladengläsern füllt, weil man Angst hat, sie könnten sonst zerbrechen. Doch manchmal beginnen sie von selbst zu leuchten und erinnern uns daran, wer wir einmal waren.

I thought the chaos twins were the worst of my problems… but I couldn’t have been more wrong. Sacrificial cults are supposed to be a theme in horror films—but they’re real. They exist right under our noses, and they’re hunting me. Adérfia Aímatos—The Brothers in Blood. They’re coming. They know who I am. They know where I live. They know I’ve killed one of their members. They’ll stop at nothing until I’m bleeding out on their altar. With only the chaos twins to protect me, how long before I’m dead? Will it be the brotherhood who gets to me first?

They destroyed his world. They killed his father. And now one of them is his prisoner. Ted James hates the Skya’ja, the fish-faced aliens who destroyed the Earth. Promising humanity the clean, renewable energy that transformed them into a peaceful spacefaring species, the invaders lured scientists like Ted’s father into their project. Instead, the explosion known as the Cataclysm wiped out electrical grids, governments, and militaries. Two years later, the Earth is a scrapheap where the remaining few humans and aliens war for the resources that are left.

A captivating volume of over forty short stories full of love, hope, and fear, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Lady of Hay. Barbara Erskine is a born storyteller. The tales in 'Encounters' illustrate her extraordinary talent for capturing the spirit of a place and drawing us into the...

Galen and Lisveth, unofficially recruited to single-handedly stop the theft of magical artifacts and the coming invasion, try to stay ahead of the rogue prince. Kayvin is determined to take what he needs to save his mother—but even success will not bring him the peace he craves and needs. A girl from the sera qadra may be the one to tip the scales in this arms race…

Ex-Secret Service operative turned world traveler, John Beckett planned to marvel at Venezuela’s majestic Angel Falls. Instead, he’s thrust into a nightmare when rebel guerrillas capture his tour group. In a jungle prison camp rife with danger, Beckett allies with Vanessa Adler, a CIA officer with her own motives, to orchestrate an escape. As rebel tensions explode and a monstrous enforcer takes control, Beckett must navigate a deadly web of bloodshed, betrayal, and survival. But with his identity a guarded secret, even from those hunting him, every decision risks exposure and disaster.

Galen was unhappy in his overcrowded farmhouse even before learning his uncles murdered his father for the spoils of a robbery. Now the only way to keep his family from killing each other—again—is to steal the magical amulet they’re fighting over. Too bad it turns out to be a hoax. A coup leaves Kayvin entrapped by the usurper, with his mother hostage in an icy prison. To save her life, he must venture alone into a hostile land to collect legendary artifacts. He can trust no one but a beautiful dancer and a young man trained to be the perfect luxurious companion—and perhaps not both of them.

Music is Emma Grant's world. Smuggling and murder are her family's. Internationally acclaimed for her sound engineering, Emma hopes to inherit the 100-year-old recording studio owned by her family by making a deal with the devil—her grandfather, Richard.

What if your dreams wouldn't stay in your head? Ted is an ordinary boy, until one magical night his pillow starts to hum with poetry. Suddenly, his dreams are no longer a jumble of thoughts, they are perfect, sparkling couplets and vivid, shimmering metaphors.

Mia schwört sich: Das war das letzte Mal, dass sie von ihrem Ehemann verprügelt wurde. Sie flüchtet zu ihrer Cousine Kat nach Chicago, wo sie auf dem Anwesen der Mafia-Familie von einem der Moretti-Brüder empfangen wird. Kats Schwager Lorenzo ist Witwer, der seit dem Tod seiner Frau nur noch ein halbes Leben lebt – bis Mia auftaucht. Mit Blutergüssen im Gesicht und einem strahlenden Lächeln plappert sie ihm die Ohren voll, bis sein Kopf raucht. Ihre herzliche Art besitzt einen ganz eigenen Charme, von dem Lorenzo nicht genug zu bekommen scheint.

Gerade als Bommel beschlossen hat, den restlichen Winter in seinem Bau zu verbringen, wird er von einem alten Hasen namens Pinsel um Hilfe gebeten: dessen Existenz als Osterhase hängt davon ab! Während Bommel noch zögert, ist seine beste Freundin, die mutige Maus Pippa, sofort Feuer und Flamme. Zögerlich machen sie sich auf … Nicolas Alexander Böll erzählt warm und unaufgeregt die zeitlose Ostergeschichte für die ganze Familie.

Madison wacht nach der Entführung in einem finsteren Keller auf und blickt ihren Entführern entgegen. Während sich Neptuno absolut sicher ist, dass Madox hinter der Entführung steckt, läutet er den Krieg ein. Niemand ist vor seiner blinden Rache sicher! Es führt zu einem gewaltigen Blutbad, das nur einer beenden kann: Joaquim. Wird er rechtzeitig auftauchen, um Madison zu retten, Neptuno davon abzuhalten, folgenschwere Fehler zu begehen und sich seine Macht zurückholen? Denn der wahre Feind steht direkt hinter Joaquim und dies ist nicht Madox Bodega.

Rule #1 at the new job: don't touch the boss's daughter. Or in this case, me—his granddaughter. With his dark eyes, tattooed arms, and shoulders for days, Michael Scarrone shouldn't be looking at me at all. And I definitely shouldn't be looking back. The sad truth was, we couldn't be more wrong for each other. Him, a mechanic just out on parole. Me, an innocent student with her whole future ahead of her.

Axel Hawthorne—Axe, is more monster than man. A bloodthirsty assassin with no mercy, no heart, no soul. The nightmare lurking in the underworld, my father commands. No one escapes his wrath. And now? I'm his. Trapped in his sick game of revenge. There's no escape. No hope. The Sovereign—a secret society of assassins driven by power, greed, and bloodshed—are the shadows in broad daylight, striking when you least expect it. I was born to serve them. My father's legacy is my burden. Now, his filthy greed has bound me to the deadliest Sovereign of all—The Reaper.

When the virtual and real worlds collide, US Marshal Alexa Chase plunges into the dark heart of the tech industry to track a killer who livestreams murder as a twisted form of entertainment. As the body count rises, Alexa must outsmart a foe who always seems one level ahead.

Der Tag beginnt nicht gut für Hauptkommissar Fendt. Sein Auto gibt dem Geist auf, mit seiner Frau gibt es mal wieder Streit und dann bekommt er es noch vor Sonnenaufgang mit einer Leiche zu tun. Wie sich herausstellt, handelt es sich bei dem Opfer um die geschiedene Künstlerin Annika Lüttgen. Verdächtige gibt es bald genug, denn die alleinerziehende Frau hat sich nicht gerade beliebt gemacht. Es gelingt den Ermittlern nicht, den Täterkreis einzugrenzen. Gerade, als sie glauben, endlich Fortschritte zu machen, wirft ein weiteres Verbrechen neue Fragen auf.

When FBI forensic toxicologist Miles Sterling makes a harrowing discovery—that a dozen unsolved deaths over the past decade each correspond to an element on the periodic table—he must race to follow the trail and find the mastermind behind these murders—and stop him before he strikes again…

Raiden has every reason to despise his new wife: she's his sworn enemy's daughter, a pawn in a dangerous game, and the living reminder of everything he's lost. But when they're stranded together, will he be able to resist the connection neither of them saw coming? Never thought I'd be forced to marry the enemy's daughter—a woman who worships her traitorous father like he's some kind of saint. But here we are, thrown together by club politics and enough bad blood to fill a damn river.