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The Kraken's Lament by Mark Wright. Gather round, wretched peoples of Atlantis, for Acanthus the Talesmith has a story to tell! A story of adventure, of courage, of a Winged Goddess searching for truth and sanctuary in a friendless city... On the streets of this fair city, the Goddess searches for a path to the child of two worlds but finds instead only questions and danger.

Trapped in a dead-end town, Justin Warren has had his life defined by the suspicious deaths of his grandparents. The unsolved crime happened long before Justin was born, but the ripple effects are still felt after thirty-eight years. Justin always knew he wouldn’t have much of a future. He just never imagined that his life might take him backward.

Meet the hapless management consultants of Unthinkable Solutions - idealistic team leader Ryan, sociopathic Sophie and hippy-dippy Daisy. Enthusiastic and enterprising, they’re strong on jargon (and always ready to ‘imaginate, reincentivise and skin the leopard’), but short on practical ideas - unfortunately for the unsuspecting corporations that come to them for help.

Recognising Black British experience within the Black Lives Matter movement, 19 prominent Black figures explain why Black lives should be celebrated when too often they are undervalued. Drawing from personal experience, they stress how Black British people have unique perspectives and experiences that enrich British society and the world; how Black lives are far more interesting and important than the forces that try to limit it.

Meet Budleigh Salterton's most famous son, Giles Wemmbley Hogg: bumbling backpacker, fearless investigator of cultural diversity, connoisseur of Eastern philosophies and upper middle-class student ponce. In these five series, armed with his trusty portable DAT and his Charterhouse rugby shirt, Giles bravely ventures forth to far-off foreign lands and records his adventures. His meanderings take him from the Sudan to Las Vegas - but wherever he goes, he always manages to make a thumping great prat of himself.

At nine years old, Joey is way too grown-up for make-believe. But when he agrees to participate once more in a pretend adventure cooked up by his oddball dad, he stumbles across a mysterious artifact that pits him against an unscrupulous foe....

Australien – ein Sexclub, ein Casino und ein Drogenumschlagpunkt getarnt als Farm - vier Brüder – zwei gebrochene Herzen und eine Frau, die keine Rettung erwartet. Vom Regen in die Traufe. So sah bisher der Lebensweg von Cleo aus, die nach mehreren Schicksalsschlägen bei Shawn, dem Kartellboss von Geraldton, landet. Ohne das Gefühl der Hoffnung fristet sie ihr Leben an seiner Seite. Unerwartet steht Kian, einer von Shawns Geschäftspartnern, in dessen Haus. Er fühlt sich von Shawn betrogen und will die Sache klären.

Der junge Rechtsanwalt Gordon Black genießt einen ausgezeichneten Ruf. Eines Tages ist sein detektivischer Spürsinn gefragt, als ihn eine junge Frau namens Hanako Kamara um Hilfe bittet. Sie ist wegen Mordes angeklagt, behauptet aber felsenfest, der Getötete sei ein Vampir gewesen. Gordons Neugier ist geweckt, denn Hanako weiß Dinge über ihn, die sie eigentlich nicht wissen kann. Nachdem ein Anschlag auf die Kanzlei verübt wird, stellen sich Rechtsanwalt Black und seine Mandantin gemeinsam gegen die Mächte der Finsternis.

Erik Thorvald was drafted into the army 10 days after graduating from college. He went in with an open mind to learn and get along with a cross section of American young men who were mentally and physically acceptable, yet represented a wide variety of intelligence and personalities. He found the experience to be interesting and oftentimes very funny. Of course, most draftees knew they were heading to the Nam after eight weeks of basic training followed by a like number of weeks in Advanced Infantry Training (AIT).