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Born in New York City’s Black ghetto Harlem at the start of World War II, Samuel R. Delany married White poet Marilyn Hacker right out of high school. The interracial couple moved into the city’s new bohemian quarter, the Lower East Side, in 1961. Through the decade’s opening years, new art, new sexual practices, new music, and new political awareness burgeoned. Beautifully, vividly, insightfully, Delany calls up this era of exploration and adventure as he details his development as a Black gay writer in an open marriage, with walk-ons by Bob Dylan, Stokely Carmichael, and more.

Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Affleck. Damon. Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also alumni of the ultra-exclusive, high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated film, Molly's Game. But Houston Curtis, the card shark who co-founded the game with Tobey Maguire, knows that Sorkin's is the whitewashed version. In Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist, Curtis goes all-in, revealing the true story behind the game. 

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. George Orwell once wrote of a world where abuse of power begins with an abuse of language and a bastardization of truth. Some of today's most exciting voices in speculative fiction explore the ramifications of those ideas in Ignorance Is Strength.

Professor Craig Kennedy and his loyal sidekick, newspaper reporter Walter Jameson, first learn of the Clutching Hand and his gang when they investigate a string of murders involving the policyholders of Taylor Dodge's insurance company. After receiving a threatening note, Dodge himself is robbed and killed, and his daughter, Elaine, turns to Kennedy for help. Using the latest advances in forensic science, the professor uncovers the exotic and deadly scheme behind the murders. But when the Clutching Hand and his band of evildoers kidnap Elaine, Kennedy must leap into action.

Orson Scott Card returns to his best-selling series with a new Ender novel, Ender in Exile. At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin – called Ender by everyone – is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who...

It is the turn of the century in an England that never was. Bright new aqua-plants are generating electricity for the streetlights; news can be easily had on the radio-viz; and in Gundisalvus' Land, the war is over and the soldiers are beginning to trickle home. Amongst these is Lt. Benjamin Braddock, survivor of the massacre that ended the war, and begrudgingly ready to return to a world that, well, doesn't seem to need him any more than it did in peacetime.

From Tim Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, an urgent and gripping account of the 75-year battle between the US and Russia that led to the election and impeachment of an American president. With vivid storytelling and riveting insider accounts, Weiner traces the...

In this original collection from Skyboat Media and Blackstone Publishing, Elizabeth Gaskell showcases the height of gothic fiction's ability to delight in the otherworldly and to dig deep into what truly haunts us. Set against the backdrop of the Salem witch trials, "Lois the Witch" reveals much about the complicity of mankind. Recently orphaned, Lois is forced to leave the English parsonage that had been her home and sail to America.

In “Two Hundred Thousand Francs Reward!”, it has been a fortnight since the baroness Repstein disappeared from Paris, taking with her a fortune in jewels stolen from her husband. French detectives have chased her all over Europe, following the trail of gemstones like so many precious breadcrumbs, but she has eluded their efforts. When Arsène Lupin finds her, she will not escape so easily. Also featuring “The Wedding-Ring”, “The Sign of the Shadow”, “The Infernal Trap”, “The Red Silk Scarf”, “Shadowed by Death”, “Lupin’s Marriage”, and more.

Das Motto eines Schreibwettbewerbs der Schülerzeitung heißt: Romantic Love. Biggi möchte auch teilnehmen und kommt auf ungewöhnliche Weise zu einer unwahrscheinlichen Story. Dolly ist eifersüchtig auf Biggis Erfolg und schickt ein riesiges Überraschungspaket.

One of the best-loved of Nabokov's novels, Pnin features his funniest and most heart-rending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian emigre precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to the manipulations of a deliberately unreliable narrator.

Renowned throughout the land of Ankhana as the Blade of Tyshalle, Caine has killed his share of monarchs and commoners, villains and heroes. He is relentless, unstoppable, simply the best there is at what he does. At home on Earth, Caine is Hari Michaelson, a superstar whose adventures in Ankhana command an audience of billions.

These stories are set in the familiar quasi-medieval worlds to which modern listeners are accustomed, and also stories rooted in the authentic myth-constructs of high antiquity, along with several that depend for their power on the juxtaposition of fantastic situations and terribly contemporary aspects of modern life on Earth. Together these stories make up a collection which provides reassuring proof of fantasy's eternal power in this technological age.

The survivor of a plane crash wakes up in a hospital in Canada, his memory a blank. Then in walks Kitty, a gorgeous woman, who tells him that he is Paul Madden, a photographer and her fiancé. Not bad. Except that a man on the phone keeps calling him Matt Helm. Things don’t add up. This can only mean trouble....

Die Götter des Altertums leben und die moderne Welt ist ihr Spielball. Mitten drin steckt Atticus O' Sullivan, der zweitausend Jahre alte Druide. Neun fesselnde Erzählungen, die nicht nur der Druidengehilfin Granuaille zur Anschauung dienen, sondern den Hörer gleichermaßen das Lachen und das Fürchten lehren. Im alten Ägypten nimmt Atticus an einem Überfall auf die Geheimkammer unter der Bibliothek von Alexandria teil. Doch wer hätte gedacht, dass im Team des Wachdienstes ausgerechnet zwei ägyptische Götter arbeiten?

Das Serienfinale um den letzten Eisernen Druiden. Befreit von jeglicher Form des Schicksals sind die altnordischen Gottheiten Loki und Hel bereit für die Entfesselung des Endkampfs Ragnarök - der Apokalypse auf Erden. Und in den Regionen vieler Pantheons haben sie Verbündete für ihren verheerenden Plan gefunden. Es braut sich ein den ganzen Globus umspannender Krieg zusammen, in dem der Druide Atticus kaum eine Überlebenschance für sich sieht.

Caine is washed up and hung out to dry, a crippled husk kept isolated and restrained by the studio that exploited him. Now they have dragged him back for one last deal. But Caine has other plans. Those plans take him back to Overworld, the alternate reality where gods are real and magic is the ultimate weapon. There, in a violent odyssey through time and space, Caine will face the demons of his past, find true love, and just possibly destroy the universe. Hey, it’s a crappy job, but somebody’s got to do it.

Als "Nowhere Man" wird Evan Smoak von Verbrechern auf der ganzen Welt gefürchtet. Für die, die ihn jagen, ist er "Orphan X", ein abtrünniger Regierungskiller mit eigenem Moralkodex. Um seine früheren Taten zu sühnen, nutzt er seine Fähigkeiten nun, um den Verzweifelten zu helfen. Doch Evan wird von seinen ehemaligen Auftraggebern gejagt. Da er bislang immer entkommen konnte, fordern sie ihn nun heraus: Sie attackieren den Menschen, der Evan am meisten bedeutet.

Du möchtest einen Fußabdruck auf der Welt hinterlassen? Dann solltest du dich als Kreativer nicht länger hinten anstellen. Mach dich sichtbar und zum Aushängeschild deines eigenen Unternehmens. Das ist dein direkter Weg zu mehr Tatkraft und Einfluss. Aber wo fängst du an? Und wie verwandelst du dein Unternehmen in ein Herausragendes? Wir haben 21 der führenden Kreativköpfe und Experten gebeten, Ihre Erfolgsgeheimnisse zu teilen.

"Und ich sagte noch: Das wird blutig. Verdammt, er wollte nicht hören." Patsy und Milo wollen an das große Geld. Doch nicht nur der rechtmäßige Besitzer hat was dagegen, sondern auch ein Mörder, der seit Wochen seine blutige Spur durch die Stadt zieht. Pearl, Ermittler wider Willen, muss indes eine Broadway-Diva aufspüren. Doch weder die Cops noch die Familie der Sängerin hegen daran großes Interesse. Schon bald gerät er selbst ins Visier. Welcome to FREAK CITY. Noch härter. Noch abgründiger. Die neue Serie von Martin Krist. Jede Episode in sich abgeschlossen.