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Kendra Ames is a driven young producer in need of a bachelor for her reality show. When she meets Lee Sullivan, the retired captain of Lakes hockey team, they have an instant connection. After listening to Kendra’s pitch, Sully decides he would rather pursue her instead. However, when the show’s network makes him an offer for his dream job with a unique stipulation, he can’t refuse.

Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola.

After three Army deployments—earning two Bronze Stars and a Combat Infantryman’s Badge—Pete Hegseth knows what it takes to be a modern warrior. In Modern Warriors he presents candid, unfiltered conversations with fellow modern warriors and digs for real answers to key questions like: What inspired them to serve? What is their legacy? What does sacrifice really mean to them? How do they handle loss? And what can civilians learn from this latest generation of veterans? These brave men and women take you inside the firefight, sharing the harrowing realities of war.

Garth Nix is renowned for his legendary fantasy works, but To Hold the Bridge showcases his versatility, as the collection offers 19 short stories from every genre of literature, including science fiction, paranormal, realistic fiction, mystery, and adventure. Whether writing about vampires, detectives, ancient spirits, or odd jobs, Garth Nix's ability to pull his readers into new worlds is extraordinary.

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.

Sylvia's had more than her fair share of hardship. Abandoned by her husband, sold into slavery by her father, and now ruled by a harsh master, she's never felt free. But everything changes when she discovers an injured stranger in the woods. Despite his initial hostility and the language barrier between them, Sylvia decides to help him at any cost. She's determined to save him from a cruel fate...and he's become her new secret. But she never realized that he'd be a prince - or that he would kidnap her as his bride!

Endlich Opa! Kommissar Kluftinger ist immer noch ganz hin und weg, dass ihn Sohn Markus und Schwiegertochter Yumiko zum Großvater gemacht haben. Die Freude über das neue Leben wird jedoch schnell getrübt: Beim Kirchgang mit der Familie entdeckt Kluftinger auf dem Friedhof eine Menschentraube, die ein frisch aufgehäuftes Grab umringt. Darauf ein Holzkreuz - mit seinem Namen. Nach außen hin bleibt Kluftinger gelassen. Als jedoch eine Todesanzeige für Kluftinger in der Regionalzeitung auftaucht, sind auch die Kollegen alarmiert.

Described by Len Deighton as ‘a classic writer of espionage fiction’, Ted Allbeury based his many acclaimed spy novels on his own real-life experiences. In World War II, he served as an intelligence officer with Special Operations Executive, and subsequently ran agents across the border between East and West Germany during the Cold War. He began writing in his fifties, and went on to pen over 40 bestselling books, five of which are dramatised here alongside three plays specially written for BBC Radio and two bonus documentaries.

Following its unforgettable characters through almost two centuries of history, from the horrors of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1865 to the aftermath of a mass shooting in the early 21st century, Wandering Stars is an indelible novel of America's war on its own people. It is also the tender, shattering story of many generations of a Native American family, struggling to find ways through displacement, addiction and pain, towards home and hope.

Four years have passed since Kaal led the Sky Dwellers to wage war against the land below. His forces have devastated one place after another, sparing no effort as they seek to conquer the world. Captured by his own brother during the first siege, Keil finds himself helpless to protect those whom he was forced to leave behind. It seems all he has left is the comfort of his dear wife, Sylvia, and the days spent with his children as they live in quiet confinement.

Millennia before Peter became Pan, Haephan is an orphan pickpocket scraping by on the filthy streets of Rainhold when divine events sweep him into breaking the world. Enslaved to a wizard and controlled by a priestess, Haephan must reconcile his newfound ability to teleport anywhere in the world while his magic drives him to plant new worlds from seeds stolen from the Tree of Life and the dragon bent on getting back his narcotic horde.

For eight millennia, the Pans of the Great Self have protected the powers of creation and the continuity of reality. As the first child Pan in millennia, Peter fights for life in a firestorm of personal and political power struggles. Trapped on a remote, man-eating island with his pixie attaché, Tinker Belle, he races to find his missing parents, build an army of bestial children, and fight off a desperate psychic bent on taking his powers for a virulent, transcontinental insurgency.

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.

Blutige Morde erschüttern das Allgäu - Kommissar Kluftinger ermittelt wieder: In seinem siebten Fall wird Kommissar Kluftinger am Telefon Zeuge eines Mordes - glaubt er zumindest. Doch am vermeintlichen Tatort findet er statt einer Leiche nur eine Blutlache. Während weitere Morde das Allgäu erschüttern, hat Kluftinger mit einem privaten Problem zu kämpfen: Aufgrund heftiger Kopfschmerzen verordnet sein Lieblingsfeind Doktor Langhammer strenge Schonkostdiät und einen Yoga-Kurs.

Von seinem Intimfeind Langhammer überredet, fährt Kluftinger mitten in der Nacht zum Schloss in Bad Grönenbach, um nach dem Rechten zu sehen. Dort findet er die Frau des Barons ermordet vor: In grotesker Pose drapiert wie auf einem uralten Gemälde des Schlosses. Liegt die Lösung des Falls in der Familiengeschichte? Und warum verschwindet der Baron immer wieder im schlosseigenen Märchenwald? Große Aufregung auch bei Kluftinger zu Hause: Sein Sohn heiratet seine langjährige Freundin Yumiko, und zur Feier haben sich ihre Eltern aus Japan angekündigt. Da lässt es sich Dr. Langhammer natürlich nicht nehmen, dem Kommissar bei dieser kulturellen Herausforderung zu helfen.

Follow the young Prince Fritz—later Friedrich III—of Prussia and his wife, Queen Victoria's eldest daughter, Vicky, (parents of Kaiser Wilhelm II) through their courtship and the joys and struggles of their first four years of marriage. Fritz and Vicky dream of a peaceful united Germany, but Fritz's uncle Karl has his own dreams of power.

Bei einem E-Bike-Ausflug mit Doktor Langhammer macht Kluftinger eine grausige Entdeckung: Am Himmelhorn, einem der gefährlichsten Berge der Allgäuer Alpen, findet er die Leichen von drei abgestürzten Bergsteigern, zwei davon seltsamerweise in historischen Kostümen und mit altertümlicher Ausrüstung. Der dritte ist der bekannte Bergfilmer Andi Bischof. Alles sieht nach einem Unfall aus, aber schnell mehren sich Indizien, die auf einen Mord hindeuten.

En 1871, Arthur Rimbaud débarque à Paris. Il y rencontre Paul Verlaine. Commence alors entre ces deux hommes une histoire qui les lie à tout jamais. Pendant deux longues années, les deux hommes s'aiment en secret et composent des vers magnifiques, des poèmes aujourd'hui encore adulés et connus de tous...
Pourtant l'histoire d'amour entre les deux hommes dégénère et un jour de juillet 1873 à Bruxelles, en proie à l'alcool, tiraillé par ses sentiments, Paul Verlaine tire une balle sur Arthur Rimbaud.

Das mittelhessische Dorf Umbach an einem Sommernachmittag. Der Strom fällt aus und die meisten glauben erst an eine vorübergehende Störung. Schnell wird klar, dass es kein gewöhnliches Ereignis ist: Auch Batterien und Akkus funktionieren nicht mehr und es entwickelt sich ein Albtraum. Die Versorgung mit Nahrung und Trinkwasser bricht zusammen, die Kommunikationsnetze sind ausgefallen. Malte versucht, seine Familie und sein Dorf durch die Krise zu bringen und merkt schnell, dass er zwischen Magen und Moral entscheiden muss. Jutta befindet sich in einer 767, als der Strom ausfällt.

Priester Magolus behauptet, Notch persönlich habe ihm aufgetragen, seinen Geburtstag mit einem großen Fest und Geschenken zu feiern. Die Dorfbewohner finden diesen Plan gar nicht mal so übel, beschließen aber, dass an Magolus' Ehrentag jeder Geschenke bekommen sollte. Das passt dem Priester nun gar nicht, schließlich wollte er doch im Mittelpunkt stehen. Deshalb schleicht er sich heimlich nachts an den Gabentisch, um schon mal das ein oder andere Päckchen zu öffnen - und setzt dabei versehentlich das komplette Dorf in Brand. Doch das ist erst der Anfang der Katastophe.