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My Grandmother, Agnes Bartlett, used to own Cardinal Woolsey's knitting shop then died and left her shop to me, without informing me that she wasn't actually dead. She's a vampire and part of the world's strangest craft circle-the Vampire Knitting Club. As you might imagine, this means she's free to interfere in how I run the business that used to be hers. She's trying to teach me to knit, and it's not going well. She's also trying to teach me how to be a witch, since it turns out I'm from a long line of witches.

Mary Elizabeth Chapman boards the Speedwell in 1620 as a Separatist seeking a better life in the New World. William Lytton embarks on the Mayflower as a carpenter looking for opportunities to succeed - and he may have found one when a man from the Virginia Company offers William a hefty sum to keep a stealth eye on company interests in the new colony. The season is far too late for good sailing and storms rage, but reaching land is no better as food is scarce and the people are weak. 

From award-winning Financial Times journalist Sarah O’Connor, a deeply reported investigation into how AI is transforming our working lives in unpredictable ways A tsunami of change, we are told, is sweeping the economy, as robots and AI threaten to take over tasks done by humans. But while we...

Jane Bell had dreamt of playing in the casinos of Monte Carlo, but in her punk phase she got herself pregnant, and now she’s 46. She's a grandmother, her dreams as dry as the dust her Dyson sucks up from her hall carpet. Then her son, Ross, a researcher working for an arms manufacturer, is forced to disappear and to part with the secrets of his research. Jane will finally get the adventure she’s always wanted but at a price....

I knew Destiny wasn’t done with me. I knew that she was just getting warmed up, but I had no clue just how hard my world was going to come crashing down on me. I had thought that I was going to get my fairytale wedding and marry the man of my dreams. I was wrong.

What happened when Jane Austen’s heroines and heroes were finally wed? Marriage is at the center of Jane Austen’s novels. The pursuit of husbands and wives, advantageous matches, and, of course, love itself, motivate her characters and continue to fascinate people today. But what were love and marriage like in reality for ladies and gentlemen in Regency England? Rory Muir uncovers the excitements and disappointments of courtship and the pains and pleasures of marriage, drawing on fascinating first-hand accounts as well as novels of the period.

Sarah Millican picks through her guests' minds and secret routines—using simple surveys from the Great British Public on childhood habits, daily rituals, and preferred cheeses—to discover which of them fits the pattern of the average person on the street, and which is so far from the norm we really ought to be worried.

He came into my life like a raging storm. The man I despised. The killer with no conscience. I fell as hard as a woman like me can fall. When he bleeds, I feel his pain. When we kiss, I taste his tragedy. When he kills, my heart is stained with all the colors of his vengeance.

Eine epische LitRPG-/GameLit-Saga voller Crafting, Leveling und Dungeon-Aufbau. Sandra hat die erste große Invasion der nahen Orks überlebt – nicht zuletzt dank der Hilfe von Kelerim, einem Halb-Ork und Halb-Zwerg. Doch nun hat er den Dungeon verlassen, um seinen Vater zu suchen, und Sandra ist allein – nur begleitet von Winxa, ihrer treuen Dungeon-Fee. Mit dem Verlust ihres Freundes kommt Freiheit: Endlich kann Sandra erschaffen, was sie will, und eine Zeit lang scheint ihr Dungeon sicher.

"Heirate mich." Wie bitte? Hat Kronprinz Raphael DeSantis ihr wirklich einen Antrag gemacht? Aber für Bailey gibt es nur eine Antwort: Nein!

Juliet Tinsley is definitely not living her best life. She’s lost her job, her apartment, and what little confidence she had left—and now she’s facing the ultimate humiliation: going home for the holidays and admitting her overachieving family was right all along. But just when everything...

Der skrupellose Senator Virellion greift mit einer Armee von Plavaks das Geheimversteck von Wig Kina und seinen Gefolgsleuten auf Rorkan an. Knapp können Sara, Evelyn, Vitali, Irie und Al entkommen. Doch die Plavaks sind ihnen dicht auf den Fersen. Auf Tenebrion kommt es zu einem finalen letzten Kampf.

Nach ihrer fünf Monate langen FBI-Ausbildung in Quantico freut sich Dr. Autumn Trent auf ihren ersten Arbeitstag als offizielle Special Agent der Abteilung für Verhaltensanalyse. Kaum wieder zuhause, stürzt eine junge Frau mit ausgeprägter Wasserphobie von einem Wasserfall zu Tode. Autumns Team wird zu der Kleinstadt Beechum County entsandt, um eine Selbstmordserie und eine Sekte zu untersuchen.

Keine vierundzwanzig Stunden nach einer weiteren Beinahbegegnung mit dem Tod muss die Kriminal- und Forensikpsychologin Dr. Autumn Trent schon wieder arbeiten, statt sich endlich einmal erholen zu dürfen. Ihre beste Freundin, Special Agent Winter Black, ist verschwunden. Und dasselbe gilt für Winters jüngeren Bruder Justin ... einen brutalen Serienmörder. Um die Dinge noch schlimmer zu machen, fühlt Autumn sich für Winters Verschwinden verantwortlich.

Die Winx haben alle drei Juwelen gefunden und hoffen nun auf die Sirenix-Kräfte. Doch um diese zu erlangen, müssen sie die Quelle des Sirenix finden. Diese befindet sich im Roccaluce-See, den Tritannus allerdings auch schon verschmutzt hat und der auszutrocknen droht. Die Winx schaffen es, die Quelle zu kurieren und erhalten dafür Sirenix und Zutritt zum Unendlichen Ozean, dem aber auch Tritannus nicht lange fern bleibt.

Sylvie swore she’d never go back to Tassamara. She was wrong. At seventeen, Sylvie Blair left her infant son with his grandparents while she went shopping. She never returned. Twenty years later, she’s devastated to learn of his early, untimely death. But although Dillon’s body is long since buried, his spirit lingers on. And he’s not real happy. He doesn’t like his mom’s job —too dangerous. He doesn’t like her apartment —too boring. And he definitely doesn’t like her love life —non-existent.

Strange things happen around 14-year-old Alva, but mostly when she gets angry. The toaster catches fire, and the weather suddenly turns to lightning and thunder. When she starts at a new school, things go completely wrong. The meanest girl in the class steps way over the line when she finds out...

DO YOU DARE MAKE THE PLEDGE? The brand-new destination thriller from the half-a-million-copy bestseller. A mysterious offer. When Thea deciphers a cryptic invitation, she can't believe it's real. Yet the next moment she's on a jet, being whisked off to a private Caribbean island. But this is no...

Carol Danvers kicks off her U.S. Air Force career with her first year at flight school, where she’ll be tested in ways she never thought possible—and make a lifelong friend, Maria Rambeau, in the process—in this atmospheric and exciting prelude to the upcoming Marvel Studios’ film...

Martha Strangeways has settled into a quiet life in Strathbran, after the horrific events that traumatised the village a year earlier: her son, Dougie is at university, her friend Orla will give birth at any minute, and she's becoming ever closer to her ex, Jamie. But all this is turned upside down when her friend at Glasgow CID, DI Derek Summers, calls on her to help with a truly disturbing case: a human ear, with an unusual Celtic earring, has been found next to a railway line in the Highlands.