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When ex-CIA agent Vera Kelly loses her job and her girlfriend in a single day, she reluctantly goes into business as a private detective. Heartbroken and cash-strapped, she takes a case that dredges up dark memories and attracts dangerous characters from across the Cold War landscape. Before it's over, she'll chase a lost child through foster care and follow a trail of Dominican exiles to the Caribbean. Forever looking over her shoulder, she nearly misses what's right in front of her: her own desire for home, connection, and a new romance at the local bar.

Great teams are built and maintained with great intention, though they can make it look deceptively easy. Too many teams engage in dysfunctional behaviors or fall into territorialism, apathy, and unproductive relationships. The result? An overwhelmed, unengaged, and stressed-out workforce that settles for average or poor performance.

A music therapist who thrives on helping others, Kendra Michaels cherishes the ordinary life she has achieved after stem cell surgery restored her sight. The skills she perfected during those sightless years - the ability to pick up the most subtle audio, olfactory, and tactile cues in the world around her - coupled with her laser-sharp mind - have made her a uniquely potent observer and problem solver. Kendra’s uncanny way of connecting the dots is as baffling to law enforcement as it is legendary.

Justin and Libby Denbe have the kind of life you’d find in the pages of a glossy magazine: A beautiful 14-year-old daughter. A gorgeous brownstone on a tree-lined street in Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood. A great marriage, admired by all. A perfect life. When investigator Tessa Leone arrives at the crime scene in the foyer of the Denbes’ home, she finds scuff marks on the floor and a million tiny pieces of bright green Taser confetti. The family appears to have been abducted, with only a pile of their cell phones and electronic devices remaining. No witnesses, no ransom demands, no motive. Just a perfect little family, gone.

First glimpsed riding on the back of a boy’s motorcycle, fourteen-year-old Czeslawa comes to life in this mesmerizing novel by Lily Tuck, who imagines her upbringing in a small Polish village before her world imploded in late 1942. Stripped of her modest belongings, shorn, and tattooed number 26947 on arriving at Auschwitz, Czeslawa is then photographed. Three months later, she is dead. How did this happen to an ordinary Polish citizen? This is the question that Tuck grapples with in this haunting novel.

Mitten im schwülen Pariser Sommer gibt das alte Auto von Thomas den Geist auf! Doch in der Metro, die er gezwungenermaßen nutzen muss, begegnet ihm eine bezaubernde Schönheit. Aber nicht nur sie bereitet ihm fortan schlaflose Nächte, auch die Verwüstungen in seinem Restaurant. Ella glaubt zu träumen, als ihr eines Morgens im Zug dieser großgewachsene Mann mit den faszinierend grünen Augen gegenübersteht. Was hat er mit dem Gemüse in den Taschen vor? Und warum verhält er sich so seltsam, als sie ihn näher kennenlernen will?

After ten years away to build a family, Mallory returns to Floreana Island in the Galápagos, and to Gavin, the mentor with whom she had a long-ago affair. Their project is to build nests to revive the vulnerable penguin population. But Mallory doesn’t dare tell Gavin why she’s really come back. Then she discovers old journals hidden in a lava cave—confessions of another woman who needed to disappear.

It’s been said that at the core of every legend lies a seed of truth. For four American tourists vacationing in Greece, this is a lesson learned the hard way. When the group sets out to find a subterranean pool that’s rumored to be the one by which the demi-god Narcissus once wasted away in self-obsession, what started as a fun excursion quickly escalates into a full-blown nightmare.

At a time when civilian periodicals faced strict censorship, the army’s chief of staff George Marshall won the support of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to create an expansive troop-newspaper program. Both Marshall and FDR recognized that there was a second struggle taking place outside the battlefields of World War II—the war of words. While Hitler inundated the globe with propaganda, morale across the US Army dwindled. As the Axis blurred the lines between truth and fiction, the best defense was for American troops to bring the truth into focus by writing it down.

June 6, 1944. Allied forces hit the beaches of Nazi-occupied France. Among the countless lives shattered are those of five spirited women with starkly different lives. As the war reaches its tipping point, each of the women fight for the survival of themselves, their countries, and their way of life during one of the most pivotal days in history. Now, during the most perilous hours of their lives, all five women must summon courage they never knew they had as they confront the dangers of war alongside treacherous family secrets, heartbreak, and the ability to trust themselves.

In the grand finale of the epic Deathstalker saga, Lewis Deathstalker and his beloved Jesamine are compelled to embrace the full might of their extraordinary new powers. The Empire and rebel forces must forge an uneasy alliance to battle a common enemy: the demonic Uber-espers, a conflict that leads to a startling revelation as to their origin. The deposed King Douglas finally confronts the usurper Finn Durandal face-to-face. And Owen Deathstalker’s quest to halt the onslaught of the monstrous Terror reaches its dramatic conclusion.

Zach Johnson, the world's last freelance detective, has been man-napped by the beautiful sapphire-haired Amazon Kiana. She's brought him to her home island of Lantis - where the women dominate men with their words - to discover who killed her mother, the Queen. But to save the day this time, Zach and his holographic AI sidekick, HARV, have to tangle with not just one gorgeous superwoman, but four. Each of Kiana's three sisters could have the motive and the means to pull off the crime - and now that you mention it, Kiana could too....

Inmitten der 1950er Jahre, den Zeiten des Aufbruchs, eröffnet Luise Dahlmann ein kleines Lebensmittelgeschäft in Starnberg, in der Nähe von München. Dort gibt es alles, was das Herz begehrt: Obst und Gemüse, Frischwaren, Nylonstrümpfe, buttrigen Kuchen, Schokolade... und jede Menge Klatsch und Tratsch. Drei Frauen kreuzen dabei immer wieder Luises Weg und werden schließlich ihre Freundinnen: Annabel von Thaler, die neidische Arztgattin von nebenan, die junge Helga Knaup aus München und Marie Wagner, geflohen aus Schlesien.

Pittsburgh police officer Kate O'Hern is on the trail of a killer targeting cops. Only problem, he's already killed her once. Trauma surgeon Joshua Lightner saved Kate's life, only to have her awaken suffering from an unexpected side effect: visions of other people's deaths. As a doctor, he refuses to believe in "psychic mumbo-jumbo", but as a man, he can't deny his feelings for Kate. When the killer targets them both, are they living on Borrowed Time?

Von ihrem geliebten Vater Volker, einem Lehrer, hat Susanne gelernt, an den Sozialismus zu glauben. Ohne je das Vertrauen in die Menschheit zu verlieren, hat er gegen das Naziregime gekämpft - und wurde vor den Augen seiner sechzehnjährigen Tochter kurz vor Kriegsende erschossen. Nie hat Susanne dieses Erlebnis vergessen, dass sie für ihr Leben geprägt hat... Um das Vermächtnis des Vaters zu erfüllen, widmet sich Susanne von ganzem Herzen dem Aufbau eines besseren Deutschland. Erst als sie den lebenslustigen Koch Kelmi kennen- und liebenlernt, beginnt sie allmählich zu begreifen, was um sie herum passiert.

The intersection of motherhood and creative life is explored in these writings on mothering that turn the spotlight from the child to the mother herself. Here, in memoirs, testimonials, diaries, essays, and fiction, mothers describe firsthand the changes brought to their lives by pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering.

"Das Niedrigste wird aus den Leuten herausgeholt, nicht das Anständige." Diese einfache und eindringliche Warnung vor einer Rhetorik der Extreme richtete die 90-jährige Holocaust-Überlebende Gertrude Pressburger im österreichischen Präsidentschaftswahlkampf in Form einer Web-Videobotschaft an die Wähler und warnte damit vor der Wahl des FPÖ-Kandidaten. Das Video wurde mehrere Millionen mal geteilt - und Frau Pressburger damit in Österreich zur "Ikone derer, die den Parolen der Rechten etwas entgegensetzen wollen" (Süddeutsche Zeitung). Jetzt hat sie ihre Lebensgeschichte im Gespräch mit der jungen Journalistin Marlene Groihofer aufgezeichnet.

When magic meets mundane, sparks fly: These are exciting times in Archers Beach, Maine! An unprecedented Early Season has united townies and carnies in an effort expand into a 12-month resort, recapturing the town's former glory. Kate Archer, owner-operator of the vintage wooden carousel, is caught up in the excitement - and is quite possibly the cause of it. Because Kate leads a double life, as carny, and as Guardian of the land.

Welcome to Archers Beach in the Changing Land, the last and least of the Six Worlds, where magic works, sometimes, and the Guardian husbands the vitality of the land and everyone on it - earth spirit and plain human alike. Kate Archer, Guardian and carousel-keeper, has been busy making some changes of her own, notably beginning a romantic relationship with Borgan, the Guardian of the Gulf of Maine, Kate's opposite number, and, some would say, her natural mate.

Catherine Ling is one of the CIA's most prized operatives. Raised on the streets of Hong Kong, she was pulled into the agency at the age of fourteen. If life has taught her anything, it is not to get attached, but there are two exceptions to that rule: her son Luke and her mentor Hu Chang. Luke was kidnapped at age two, and now, nine years later, he has astonishingly been returned to her. Catherine vows never to fail him again.