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"Wie alt bist du?", fragte Humpte Dumpty. "Sieben Jahre und sechs Monate." "Ein ungemütliches Alter", sagte Humpty Dumpty nachdenklich. "Wenn du mich um Rat gefragt hättest, hätte ich gesagt: Hör mit sieben auf! Aber nun ist es zu spät." "Ich meine, dass einer nichts gegen das Älterwerden tun kann!" "Einer allein vielleicht nicht", stimmte Humpty Dumpty zu. "Aber zwei bringen das fertig. Unter sachkundiger Hilfe hättest du mit sieben aufhören können."

In a warren of crumbling buildings and desperate people called the Old City, there stands a hospital with cinderblock walls that echo the screams of the poor souls inside. In the hospital, there is a woman. Her hair, once blond, hangs in tangles down her back. She doesn't remember why she's in such a terrible place. Just a tea party long ago, and long ears, and blood.

Unverzichtbar für alle Fans von "Die Chroniken von Alice": Brutal, düster, originell! Alice und der Axtmörder Hatcher haben in Christina Henrys finsterem Wunderland schrecklichen Gefahren getrotzt – jetzt erfahren die Fans, wie es mit den beiden weitergeht, und sie dürfen zudem tief in das Innerste von Henrys beliebtesten Figuren blicken: In einer von vier Kurzgeschichten berichtet Hatcher aus der Zeit, als er selbst noch Nicholas hieß und der beste Kämpfer der Alten Stadt war. In zwei anderen erzählt Alice von einem dunklen Geheimnis, das sie sogar vor Hatcher geheim hält.

Captain Jacob Thomas, USMC, is a divorced combat veteran just trying to get his life back on track. Returning to the marine corps after a failed attempt at reconciliation with his estranged wife, Jake volunteers for a DARPA experiment that catapults him into a future where humanity has been stripped of 200 years of technological advancements and more than half its population. With the help of a faceless benefactor named Alice, he escapes the confines of an abandoned lab facility.

From the moment Teddy Roosevelt's outrageous and charming teenage daughter strode into the White House—carrying a snake and dangling a cigarette—the outspoken Alice began to put her imprint on the whole of the twentieth-century political scene. Her barbed tongue was as infamous as her scandalous personal life, but whenever she talked, powerful people listened, and she reigned for eight decades as the social doyenne in a town where socializing was state business.

1981 has not been Alice Merveille’s cup of tea. Abruptly pushed into a contract by her scheming uncle, Alice has no choice but to sign on as the guitar and drum tech for world-renowned recording artist J.D. Grayling. Heading for the summer gig at the notorious Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, it isn’t her musical ability that consumes her with fear. Horrified at the idea of J.D., his band, and visitors to the Grand seeing her mangled face from the accident which took her self-esteem, Alice plans to stay in the shadows. Knowing she can never fit in; her worries are enhanced when band ...

The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s world.

In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, Alice was portrayed as the wife who had "a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day" and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's school play, "the county would come and take the child". Now, five years after her death, her husband offers this loving portrait of Alice Trillin off the page.

After suffering the tragic loss of her best friend, Lottie Beck is struggling. Aged eighteen, she's flunked school and spends her days lying in a darkened room, doing nothing. Finally, she is forced to get a job in Silver Birches Care Home. Once there, and after meeting the residents, particularly the feisty, no-nonsense Bobby, she settles in, appreciating how much history lies behind each person. A history she can read, in her own special way, via the simple touch of a hand.