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Ravenous depicts the wide range of difficulties in growing up in America by exploring the journeys of three young women and two young men. Phoebe, the size-16 dreamer, finally gets a boyfriend and readers witness her euphoria and her fear during a particularly fragile time of life. Samantha, the anorexic perfectionist, faces difficult challenges with both her boyfriend and her father, and continues to struggle with an inability to eat more than lettuce and apples.

Lucid, forward-looking, and guided by a level-headed optimism that clearly distinguishes between genuine progress and exaggerated claims, Emerald Cities points the way toward a sustainable future for the American city.

Clover, Addison, Mia, and Jane were roommates at Harvard until their graduation in 1989. Clover, homeschooled on a commune by mixed-race parents, felt woefully out of place. Addison yearned to shed the burden of her Mayflower heritage. Mia mined the depths of her suburban ennui to enact brilliant performances on the Harvard stage. Jane, an adopted Vietnamese war orphan, made sense of her fractured world through words. Twenty years later, their lives are in free fall.

Ruth Galm's spare, poetic debut novel, set in the American West of early Joan Didion, traces the drifting path of a young woman as she skirts the law and her own oppressive anxiety. Into the Valley opens on the day in July 1967 when B. decides to pass her first counterfeit check and flees San Francisco for the Central Valley.

Insatiable is an astonishingly moving story of four teenage girls whose shame, fear and confusion compel them to binge, purge and refuse to eat in misguided attempts to feel safe and in control of their lives.

Superhell, superschnell - Super Neo! Neo wohnt auf einem kleinen Planeten weit draußen im All. Mit einem Gürtel voller Sternenpower und einem Umhang mit geheimen Kräften ist er blitzschnell im Einsatz, wenn ein Kind auf der Erde seine Hilfe benötigt. So wie Flo, der eine Mutprobe bestehen muss. Eigentlich kein Problem für Super Neo, wenn da nicht die Bösewichte Zonk und Zarafea wären. Zum Glück hat Neo den schussligen Professor Perkosinus zum Freund.

Blue Stars brings to life the realities of the modern-day home front: how to get through the daily challenges of motherhood and holding down a job while bearing the stress and uncertainty of war, when everything can change in an instant. It tells the story of Ellen, a Midwestern literature professor who is drawn into the war when her legal ward, Michael, enlists as a marine; and of Lacey, a proud army wife who struggles to pay the bills and keep things going for her son while her husband is deployed.

A luminous collection of short stories focusing on privilege and entitlement, from the best-selling author of The Starboard Sea Damage Control displays Amber Dermont's remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In " Lyndon", a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In "Damage Control", a young man works at an etiquette school while his girlfriend is indicted for embezzlement. A widow rents herself to elderly women and vacations with them as a "professional grandchild" in " Stella at the Winter Palace".

An erotic retelling of the classic fairy tale in which the mermaid sacrifices everything for passion. This story was selected for the new anthology, Aqua Erotica, edited by Mary Ann Mohanraj.

Am 14. April 1912 streifte das berühmteste Schiff der Welt im Nordatlantik einen Eisberg und begann zu sinken...

Kann Foster die entführte Emily Blake retten? Die Spur führt ihn zu einer mächtigen Sekte - und in die höchsten Reihen der Politik. Schon bald wird ihm klar: Wenn er Emily noch retten will, muss er hinabsteigen in die Welt der Schattenwesen. Und dort wird er völlig auf sich allein gestellt sein. Fosters Kampf gegen die Mächte des Bösen erreicht seinen ersten Höhepunkt. Machen Sie sich gefasst auf eine Achterbahnfahrt mitten durch die Hölle - mit dieser atemberaubenden neuen Horrorserie von Oliver Döring.

Gulliver begibt sich auf eine Schiffsreise, um die Welt kennenzulernen. Doch nach ein paar Tagen erleidet die Crew Schiffbruch und Gulliver wird an Land gespült. Als er wieder zu sich kommt, muss er feststellen, dass man ihn geknebelt und gefesselt hat. Er ist Gefangener winzig kleiner Menschen, den Liliputanern. Er bietet ihnen an, sie gegen ihre Feinde, die Blefuscu, zu unterstützen und wird alsbald als Held gefeiert. Aber seine Reise ist noch lange nicht zu Ende. Er trifft auf viele andere seltsame Gestalten...

Dragon Spell continues a new series of Dragonlance fantasy adventures written specifically for listeners ages 10 and up. Sized to fit the young listener market, the series features a group of young companions who band together for friendship and excitement during the golden age of the Dragonlance world.

Die Jagd auf Bill Buffalo geht weiter...
Es handelt sich um die Fortsetzung der Geschichte von der Jagd auf Bill Buffalo. Mit seinem neuen Weggefährten Parker Miller erlebt er aufregende Abenteuer auf seiner Flucht vor Taylor Hackford. Diesmal werden beide Protagonisten jedoch aufgehalten. Einer wird von einer Klapperschlange gebissen, der andere wiederum sitzt zeitweise im Gefängnis. Aber wie in jedem guten Western kommt es zum großen Showdown in der Wüste.

Ein Hassableiter absorbiert die negativen Emotionen des Büroangestellten Cardiff. Aber wie lange kann die kleine Figur den schwelenden Hass wirklich von seinem Ziel ablenken?

Set on the brink of war, Frances, an alien in fear for her life, tries to make her escape before an enemy invasion. Embark on her adventure with Laitel, her lover and servant of Lohno, a fugitive of sorts whose philosophy of life has left him alone and in hiding.

Wendy verbringt ihre Ferien in Spanien und freundet sich mit Roby, dem Sohn ihres Gastgebers an...

KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has to give up her vacation and bring her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story. "Girls Who Cry Wolf" is the topic for the season premiere of "Hourglass," television's premiere news magazine show. Diane lands an exclusive interview with a troubled young woman whose tale of being abducted and held against her will for three terrifying days and nights had been disbelieved by the authorities.

Mama's Child is story of an idealistic young white woman who travelled to the American South as a civil rights worker, fell in love with an African American man, and started a family in San Francisco, where the more liberal city embraced them - except when it didn't. They raise a son and daughter, but the tensions surrounding them have a negative impact on their marriage, and they divorce when their children are still young.

For nearly a decade, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Justin Davidson has explained the ever-changing city of New York to his readers at New York magazine, introducing new buildings, interviewing architects, tracking the way the transforming urban landscape shapes who New Yorkers are. Now, his extensive, inspiring knowledge will be available to a wide audience.