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I see her jotting down notes in her little notebook. Psychopath. Deranged. No empathy to be found. She doesn't yet understand just how right she is, but she will. I'm obsessed with her. She consumes my every waking thought. The problem is, she's my therapist. Can she break through to me, or will I end up breaking her?

There are white people, black people, brown people, red people, and yellow people, but what about the people who are bi-racial or multi-racial? This question of race and color leads one six-year-old boy named Christian on a quest to seek answers. He asks his parents, kids at school, and teachers what color they think he is and what color he should say he is. As the day progresses, he hears stereotypes, but he also hears valuable information which helps him to embrace all of who he is.

The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”—which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes.

Jo Nesbø is known the world over as a consummate mystery/thriller writer. Famed for his deft characterization, hair-raising suspense and shocking twists, Nesbø’s dexterity with the dark corners of the human heart is on full display in these inventive and enthralling stories.

Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after the Greek mythological figure. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era British playwrights. Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the 1938 film Pygmalion, the 1956 musical My Fair Lady and its 1964 film version.

It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's 40, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalising' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious—that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others—has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.

Alles deutet auf einen tragischen Unfall hin, als der zurückgezogen lebende Wissenschaftler Professor Norton ertrinkt. Nur Sherlock Holmes hegt den Verdacht, dass jemand dabei nachgeholfen hat... Ein heimlicher Besuch in Nortons Labor bringt Holmes und Watson in Lebensgefahr, als das Gebäude plötzlich in Flammen aufgeht. Schon wittert Holmes eine neue Spur, die in die Wäscherei des dubiosen Chinesen Fing Su führt.

Holmes' Erzfeind, das gefährliche Verbrechergenie Farley Straker, hat sich in den Besitz einer Formel zum Bau einer Bombe mit verheerender Zerstörungskraft gebracht. Als es Holmes gelingt, Straker in einem verschlafenen Dorf an der englischen Ostküste aufzuspüren, lässt der erste Mord nicht lange auf sich warten. Doch ausgerechnet Straker hat ein wasserdichtes Alibi: die Gesellschaft von Sherlock Holmes persönlich!