WTF! 20 Frauen stranden auf einer Insel Nach einem Flugzeugabsturz finden sich 20 Frauen auf einer abgelegenen Insel wieder und fragen sich, ob sie im Paradies oder in der Hölle gelandet sind. Sophie möchte Yoga machen und eine Menstruationshütte für alle bauen, Aurelia findet, das sei Cultural Appropriation, Bente will Lesbos ausrufen, Else ein Matriarchat errichten, hat aber kein Gegenüber, Noëlla möchte den Kommunismus ausprobieren, Nykki sucht ihr Drogentäschchen, Billie ist gar keine Frau, Evren ist wütend, Cara erscheint eine feministische Göttin, Nadja vermisst ihre Firma, Anne findet das alles nervig und Betty weiß nicht, wovon die anderen überhaupt sprechen, und will einfach nur nach Hause. Die Welt steckt in einer Krise – die 20 Frauen nach dem Absturz auch. Wie viel Sinn machen ihre Grabenkämpfe und was braucht es, um gemeinsam etwas Neues zu schaffen? Und die vielleicht wichtigste Frage: Werden sie überleben?

Rapunzel meets Six of Crows in this darkly imagined high fantasy for fans of T. Kingfisher’s Nettle & Bone, The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart, Naomi Novik’s Uprooted, and Disney’s Tangled, as a woman with amnesia—and magical hair—searches for her lost memories while navigating a web of royal intrigue, bone magic, and secret monasteries. All her life, Netta has only known the Tower—its musty shelves of books she cannot read, ink-splattered quills, and endless scrolls of paper. Her mother, ambitious and analytical, has spent decades perfecting her greatest masterpiece: a spellbook of unspeakable power. Netta’s only companions are her long red Hair, which moves of its own accord, and a telepathic raven named Baldbeak. Her only amusement lies in crafting intricate embroidery from scraps of silk and thread. When attackers storm the Tower, her mother and the spellbook vanish. Determined to find her, Netta ventures into a kingdom on the brink of civil war. The monarch lies dying, while pious Temple fanatics and the noble elite scheme for the throne, forging secret alliances and building hidden armies. For reasons she cannot yet fathom, all these factions seek Netta—and the dangerous, uncontrollable magic in her Hair. But whom can she trust? The sharp-eyed pickpocket bent on revolutionizing the use of magic? The elusive black market trader known only as the Book Man? The charming magician who slips between shadow and light? From masked carnivals to opulent ballrooms, from hidden monasteries to catacombs, Netta must untangle a web of lies and intrigue - not only to find her mother, but also to uncover the true nature of the power that has shaped her life.

Witzig und wunderbar schüchtern – Rory Shy ermittelt wieder! Die Hochzeitsgesellschaft ist in Die Braut ist beim Sektempfang vom Balkon des Nobelhotels gestürzt – direkt in den Wassergraben!Zum Glück ist sie unverletzt, kann sich jedoch an nichts erinnern. Doch ihr Bräutigam ist Das war kein Unfall. Rory Shy, der berühmteste schüchterne Detektiv der Welt, soll den Fall übernehmen – natürlich mit Unterstützung seiner cleveren Assistentin, der 13-jährigen Matilda und des hasenfüßigen Cockerspaniels Dr. Herkenrath. Schon bald stößt das ungleiche Trio auf ein Geflecht aus Lügen, Geheimnissen und falschen Fährten – und auf eine Hochzeitsgesellschaft, in der fast jeder etwas zu verbergen hat … Die Fortsetzung der beliebten "Rory Shy"-Reihe – der schüchterne Detektiv ist zurück!Ein unschlagbar cleveres Rory, Matilda und Cockerspaniel Dr. HerkenrathRaffinierter Humor & originelle charmant, klug und einfach andersKniffliger Fall voller Wer steckt hinter dem vermeintlichen Unfall?Ein brillant erzählter Kinderkrimi voller Charme, Wortwitz und liebenswerter Figuren – für alle Fans von Spannung, britischem Humor und schüchternen Helden!

From the newly appointed National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, a timely and intimate meditation on the ways we think about and interact with children’s literature, and what that says about our opinions of children and childhood.

Witzig und wunderbar schüchtern – Rory Shy ermittelt wieder! Die Hochzeitsgesellschaft ist in Die Braut ist beim Sektempfang vom Balkon des Nobelhotels gestürzt – direkt in den Wassergraben!Zum Glück ist sie unverletzt, kann sich jedoch an nichts erinnern. Doch ihr Bräutigam ist Das war kein Unfall. Rory Shy, der berühmteste schüchterne Detektiv der Welt, soll den Fall übernehmen – natürlich mit Unterstützung seiner cleveren Assistentin, der 13-jährigen Matilda und des hasenfüßigen Cockerspaniels Dr. Herkenrath. Schon bald stößt das ungleiche Trio auf ein Geflecht aus Lügen, Geheimnissen und falschen Fährten – und auf eine Hochzeitsgesellschaft, in der fast jeder etwas zu verbergen hat … Die Fortsetzung der beliebten "Rory Shy"-Reihe – der schüchterne Detektiv ist zurück!Ein unschlagbar cleveres Rory, Matilda und Cockerspaniel Dr. HerkenrathRaffinierter Humor & originelle charmant, klug und einfach andersKniffliger Fall voller Wer steckt hinter dem vermeintlichen Unfall?Ein brillant erzählter Kinderkrimi voller Charme, Wortwitz und liebenswerter Figuren – für alle Fans von Spannung, britischem Humor und schüchternen Helden!

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even "settle down" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are. Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined. Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power. source: annerice.com

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman’s determined quest to seize a final chance at glory—and write her own legend. Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon to retire peacefully with her family to a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural. But when she’s tracked down by the obscenely wealthy mother of a former crewman, she’s offered a job no bandit could refuse: retrieve her comrade’s kidnapped daughter for a kingly sum. The chance to have one last adventure with her crew, do right by an old friend, and win a fortune that will secure her family’s future forever? It seems like such an obvious choice that it must be God’s will. Yet the deeper Amina dives, the more it becomes alarmingly clear there’s more to this job, and the girl’s disappearance, than she was led to believe. For there’s always risk in wanting to become a legend, to seize one last chance at glory, to savor just a bit more power…and the price might be your very soul.

This is the story of Louis, as told in his own words, of his journey through mortal and immortal life. Louis recounts how he became a vampire at the hands of the radiant and sinister Lestat and how he became indoctrinated, unwillingly, into the vampire way of life. His story ebbs and flows through the streets of New Orleans, defining crucial moments such as his discovery of the exquisite lost young child Claudia, wanting not to hurt but to comfort her with the last breaths of humanity he has inside. Yet, he makes Claudia a vampire, trapping her womanly passion, will, and intelligence inside the body of a small child. Louis and Claudia form a seemingly unbreakable alliance and even "settle down" for a while in the opulent French Quarter. Louis remembers Claudia's struggle to understand herself and the hatred they both have for Lestat that sends them halfway across the world to seek others of their kind. Louis and Claudia are desperate to find somewhere they belong, to find others who understand, and someone who knows what and why they are. Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined. Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power. source: annerice.com

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix’s fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies? A shocking, moral tale of our times, Small Boat reminds us of the power of fiction to illuminate our darkest crimes.

The minds of five normal people merge in a beautiful, unnerving first contact story where the strangest thing humanity has to face is each other, from the critically acclaimed author of Sleeping Giants. “I’m you now. We all are.” When advertising executive Carole Veilleux loses it at Booker’s donut shop and bites Booker on the arm, it’s about the most interesting thing to happen in the small city of Marquette, Michigan in years. But that’s only the beginning of the story. Carole and Booker find their minds merging in a collective that extends to include Carole’s husband Shivansh and local doctor Evelyn Schlapp. The four of them become the beginning of something larger and stranger than they could ever have imagined.