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Professor James Lowry didn’t believe in spirits, or witches, or demons. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn’t remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember.

El circo y La Mariposa es una novela colectiva escrita por 13 autores de Rosario, en pandemia, “encerrados con un solo juguete”, como diría Juan Marsé. Al producirse el 20 de marzo de 2020 el primer confinamiento nacional dispuesto por el gobierno con motivo de la pandemia Covid-19, quedaron varados en el territorio argentino, cuarenta (40) circos, situación que no se ha modificado mucho en el momento que escribo estas líneas, un año y medio después.

Иоанна Хмелевская – настоящая «королева» иронического детектива: этот жанр стал популярным в России именно благодаря ей и повлиял на целую плеяду современных писателей. Читатели полюбили ее книги за юмор, легкость и живительную атмосферу, в которую они погружают: с пани Иоанной и ее персонажами хочется дружить. Однако ее умные и тонкие романы стоят гораздо выше простой «юмористической литературы». Они полны любви и интереса к жизни, азарта и любопытства и неизменно поднимают настроение даже в самый пасмурный день.

Maggie Lennon’s summer teaching break has just begun when she learns her sister, Rhoda, has suffered a debilitating injury. Maggie races to the rural Florida town of Eugenia to help but quickly realizes she has stepped into a literal and virtual swamp of dysfunction. When a producer for a national television competition comes to Rhoda’s church to vet the choir, Maggie’s other sister, Cheryl, joins them to audition. Together, the three women encounter a host of quirky and questionable characters as they weave their way through chaos, ex-cons, and conspiracies.

Who would want to kill a clown? Lucky O’Toole, Chief problem solver for the Babylon Hotel, the primo property on the Las Vegas Strip, isn’t in any mood to find out. For one, it’s New Year’s Day and Lucky’s birthday. And she hasn’t caught her breath after a chase to the death in Hong Kong and Macau. Her French chef is pushing to set the wedding date. Her former lover, wounded in the China chase, needs TLC. A young woman, in town with the rodeo, shows up at her office with a secret that could blow the lid off Lucky’s life as she knows it.

Der Schilkseer Strand, ein idyllischer Ort. Im Strandkorb liegen, die Segelschiffe des nahen Olympiahafens beobachten, zwischendurch in die Ostsee hüpfen – so hat Telse Himmel sich ihr neues Leben vorgestellt. Nachdem sie ihr altes Journalistinnen-Dasein in Hamburg hinter sich gelassen und das schmucke Gartenhaus ihrer Freundin, der vermögenden Witwe Wanda Holle, bezogen hat, freut sie sich auf ein bisschen Ruhe.

Tom Huttle believes that he is on the path to a glamorous new life when he completes the first chapter of his novel, The Pyongyang Paradox, featuring dashing hero Buck Samson. The novel might give Tom the confidence he needs to pursue the woman of his dreams, and fulfill his abiding conviction that he is destined for a life of action and romance. Tom gets more excitement than he bargained for when the explosion of a top-secret satellite sends him to Buck Samson’s fictional world, just as Buck takes over Tom’s pedestrian life.

A red-letter day had turned bizarre as a lady in her mid-30s, Ritz Laggard, had been murdered in the most grotesque manner right at the venue of a high-powered business meeting. Inspector Brown is assigned the case file to unravel the killer and has an inkling it was state-sponsored. Meanwhile, when Stewart Larzio narrowly escaped death by the whiskers, in the same typical scenario as Ritz Laggard, it dawned on Inspector Brown that a serial killer was on the loose as he found a connection between both scenes in the same city of Bloomington.

Cross Roads: Pick a Path tells the journey of a young man by the name of Arrun Durai. Arrun had his life all figured out. A beautiful girl, the picture-perfect family, and his favorite job. Although, life wouldn't be all that great without challenges. His greatest form of challenge came following the death of a loved one, which ultimately sent his life into a spiral of events. Take a dive into finding out how a common software engineer from Toronto, Canada, ended up being a part of a notorious criminal organization in Chennai, India.

When assigned to determine the cause of brewing tensions in the exclusive seaside city of Ruen, Oscar Teabag-Dooven discovers that it's on the brink of tearing itself apart. Things become complicated when it appears those responsible are in charge of running the place.

Meet Daniel Chesterfield, a six foot seven inch foul mouthed straight arrow with a trite sense of humor and deep love and respect for law, order, and justice. Trading in his detective shield in Palm Beach County, Florida for a Sheriff’s badge in the rural town of Cowbell, Montana, Dan is assigned to take over the Bear Creek County Sheriff’s Office Sub-Station.

L'affaire de la Logia a beau être close, elle n'a pas pour autant épargné le fameux Justan Lockholmes. Un mois plus tard, alors que de terribles cauchemars le hantent, il va devoir reprendre du service aux côtés d'un tout jeune officier de police, et cela, qu'il le veuille ou non ! Un orphelin noyé, une énigme prométhéenne et une pintade bien peu digeste. Voilà que Justan plonge dans une histoire passablement compliquée !

Lex, a teenage Grim Reaper, has the power to damn souls - and it’s getting out of control. Her boyfriend, Driggs, is dead - sort of. She’s a fugitive, on the run from the maniacal new mayor of Croak and the townspeople who want to see her pay the price for her misdeeds. Uncle Mort rounds up the Junior Grims to flee Croak once again, but this time they’re joined by Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time. Their new mission is clear: Fix his mistakes, or the Afterlife will cease to exist, along with all the souls in it.

After years of pulling heist, the Great Bandit is caught. The judge discovers something different about her and gives her an opportunity that most criminals would only dream of. The Great Bandit has the ability to remember everything—she has an eidetic memory. After realizing the great potential that she could have for his country, the judge orders her to serve out eight years in the US Army and become part of the CIA. She doesn't want to go, but it was either this or 30 years in prison for all the robberies she committed.

Tom McCaffrey presents book three in the Claire Trilogy.

When Ren Sharpe was 14, she was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called FATE and trained to be a human weapon. Now, four years later, she receives her assignment: protect Gareth Young at all costs. Currently a student at Texas A&M, Gareth will someday change the world. FATE calls people like Gareth "FIPs" - future important people - and they're everywhere, each with a FATE-trained shadow.

Can the "Most Fired Show on the Radio" save Atlanta from a good ole boy with a short fuse? Whatever happens, it will be a blast - it always is with the Brad and Bone Morning Show. Following the show's annual Blow Up Bash, where Brad and Bone blow up anything and everything their listeners are ready to get rid of, a series of online comments from an anonymous fan raises concerns about a possible threat to the football stadium. Julia, a new member of the stadium security team, enlists the show's help to find the fan and prevent disaster. Will the show go on?

The Dream Journal of J.D. Solomon follows J.D. Solomon--a drifting insomniac, valetudinarian, and antiquarian--and his surreal hijinks around and through the bowels of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Himself a man out of time, J.D. encounters the wasteland of our contemporary era with decorous horror, whilst haunted by the memory of his lost childhood home.

Victor Svensson, un tipo ambicioso y sin escrúpulos, se casa con la hija de un multimillonario galerista en los últimos momentos de la vida de este. Cuando el hombre fallece, Victor engaña a su mujer y logra hacerse con el negocio y ver colmadas por fin sus ansias de dinero y poder. Sin embargo, la aparición en escena de un hijo bastardo de Victor, fruto de una antigua relación, podría dar al traste con sus planes, y no está dispuesto a permitirlo.

When Oscar stumbles across an arrogant bard named the Dodosette and the beautiful cat Vaasi-Vee, he unearths a plot to plunge the world into darkness. After some begging, a lot of snow and an industrial-sized vat of soup, the three animals argue all the way to the infamous land of Vra to do something about it. They did not, however, anticipate having to fight invisible Rottweilers, smash kitchens to pieces, lick frozen cars or fund taxi drivers' sisters' eye operations.