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A Pulitzer grantee’s timely work of reportage from the borderlands of Europe, Russia, and Turkey, where brewing conflicts mark a significant fault line in shifting geopolitics. Hannah Lucinda Smith, a Pulitzer grantee and acclaimed foreign correspondent, has devoted well over a decade to...

Kestrel awakes in the woods without a real name or his memories. Before him are twelve strangers, an altar on fire, and bones hanging from the trees like wind chimes. He’s to be initiated into their group so they may fulfill their purpose: head to the mountain of the so-called gods, have a feast, and bring about the end of the world. Kestrel is willing to risk it all to escape, but without any memories, he knows he must play along until he finds a way out. It won’t be easy.

Was können vergessene Grenzregionen und umstrittene Territorien über die Zukunft Europas verraten? Dieser Frage geht die Journalistin Hannah Lucinda Smith in ihrem Hörbuch nach. Es führt die Hörer*innen in teils vergessene Konfliktzonen wie Bosnien, Bergkarabach und Transnistrien, wo alte...

Why have Russian resorts sprung up in seaside towns in Northern Cyprus? What can Sarajevo's local politics tell us about Trump, Putin and Erdogan? How has the Syrian revolution turned the state into a new Cold War frontier? In Hinterlands, acclaimed correspondent Hannah Lucinda Smith reveals the...

A gorgeous collection of twelve “lush and deliciously sinister fairy tales” (Kelly Link) by the New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood and The Night Country! Before The Hazel Wood, there was Althea Proserpine’s Tales from the Hinterland... Journey into the Hinterland, a brutal...

When Garda officer Detective Sergeant Roisin MacKenna is called to the scene of a murder not far from the border between the North and South of Ireland she soon finds that boundaries, both geographical and moral, become blurred. A body has been found buried in an Irish peat bog, identified as a...

When Lieutenant Iari hears screams in the night, she expects to interrupt a robbery or break up a fight. Instead she discovers a murder with an impossible suspect: a riev, one of the battle-mecha decommissioned after the end of the last conflict, repurposed for manual labor. Riev don't kill people. And yet, clearly, one has. Iari sets out to find it. 

“Adulting + sandwich generation + morally gray > Painfully real in the best way.” Jolene Brandt is losing her mother, Imogene, to a slow fade of dementia. When Jolene discovers an experimental trial drug, it feels like a miracle. One pill can turn back the clock, restoring Imogene’s sharp wit, her laughter, and her memories. But the miracle comes with a devastating expiration date. The drug offers perfect clarity, with only one side effect: death within sixty days. As Imogene’s world spirals into darkness, Jolene is forced to weigh the value of a long, hollow life against two final,...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER MORE THAN 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE The oldest cultures in the world have mastered the art of raising happy, well-adjusted children. What can we learn from them? “Hunt, Gather, Parent is full of smart ideas that I immediately wanted to force on my own kids...

Am Stammtisch im "Nobody“ ist alles Spiel und gleichzeitig Ernst. Heute sind Ersatzspieler nicht notwendig. Lothar Altmann nimmt einen anderen Aufsichtsratposten wahr. Der Drexler ist stumm, der Pudel schlafende Kulisse. "Karo zugeben", verlangt der Fleischhauer, der fitgespritzt ist und die Karte auf den Tisch wirft. "Hab ich nicht", sagt der Postenkommandant. Er will den Stich mit seiner kleinsten Tarockkarte machen. Gleich muss er sich korrigieren, weil er mit Schrecken die Karo-Dame in seinem Blatt entdeckt hat.

Dr. Lena Marlowe built her career proving monsters are myths. Now she is trapped deep in the Appalachian wilderness, discovering that the legendary creatures who claimed her father seventeen years ago are terrifyingly real. Hired for a routine ecological survey, Lena soon realizes her team is nothing more than expendable bait. A ruthless corporate security force has infiltrated the remote wilderness with a single, highly classified objective. They plan to capture an ancient, intelligent primate for biological exploitation. But the massive beasts patrolling these mountains are not apex ...

A young hero comes of age in the crucible of war and galactic struggle. When Allen Allenson, scion of a noble family that has fallen on hard times, gets a mission to roust the power-hungry Terrans from a "wild" star sector where they're encroaching, he jumps at the chance to show his individual worth, improve his family's fortunes - and gather enough lucre to make a good marriage. But the wily Terrans are not so easily persuaded by a young colonial they think of as a "rube".

Aufgrund einer seltenen Schlafkrankheit, Narkolepsie genannt, muss die Hamburger Kriminalkommissarin Bette Hansen frühzeitig den Dienst quittieren und somit auch ihren aktuellen Mordfall ungelöst im Präsidium zurücklassen. Nun versucht sie, das Beste aus ihrer Situation zu machen. Doch eines Morgens findet sie in ihrem Garten ein Holzscheit mit demselben Zeichen, das auch der Täter in ihrem letzten Fall am Tatort hinterließ. Bette ist sehr schnell klar: Sie muss trotz ihrer Krankheit wieder ermitteln, zu ihrem eigenen Schutz, aber auch zum Schutz weiterer möglicher Opfer.

WHEN TWO WORLDS GET TANGLED, TURMOIL FOLLOWS In February 1872, the big news in the sleepy Cathedral City of Wells is that a new choirmaster is about to take up post. Clarence Makepiece and his young family are given a charming house in the picturesque old street known as Vicars’ Close. What they do not realise was that they are sharing the space with the faerie Japes family. In fact, they might never have realised because the two families dwell in different realms, parallel worlds divided by a barrier which for most of the time keeps humans and faerie folk separate. Apart, that is for a ...

What would domestic terrorists do with a couple of nuclear bombs? Andy Kelsey is a reporter who may have just stumbled on the story of a lifetime. He's infiltrated a white separatist group in the Ozarks, an underground organization ready to fight and die - and kill - for their extreme beliefs. The deeper Kelsey gets in the group, the more he's trusted, and the bigger his story becomes. Until he realizes the shocking extent of their scheme.

The Korengal Valley of Afghanistan was one of the most dangerous places in the world during 2008. Deployment there became a crapshoot of possibilities. The hapless gamblers rolling snake-eyes would die or suffer life-altering injury. Nobody served there unscathed.

1896. In the vast network of the Niger Delta waterways, where palm oil and blood flow from the hinterlands, the ancient kingdom of Benin is under siege. Legendary trader and leopard hunter Brendan Donivan battles to protect his adopted homeland's sacred civilization from the colonial expansion of the British while balancing his commerce with the White man's world. Brendan's reality is fractured by the arrival of....

A newly revised and updated edition of the classic guide to reframing our view of ADHD and embracing its benefits Explains that people with ADHD are not disordered or dysfunctional, but simply “hunters in a farmer’s world”--possessing a unique mental skill set that would have allowed...

In Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, Raoul Duke (Thompson) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo (inspired by a friend of Thompson) are quickly diverted to search for the American dream. Their quest is fueled by nearly every drug imaginable and quickly becomes a surreal experience that blurs the line between reality and fantasy. But there is more to this hilarious tale than reckless behavior, for underneath the hallucinogenic facade is a stinging criticism of American greed and consumerism.

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BOUGHT is a light-hearted, informative account of a Scotsman’s relocation to the Spanish hinterland. When Jack Waldie and his wife Nicola buy a house in rural Spain they intend to start a new life there, away from the hustle and bustle of Glasgow, but when things go awry between them Jack chooses to keep the spacious old place and moves there to write his crime novels in peace. In the small village in an area known as Spanish Lapland, due to its ever decreasing population, Jack befriends key local people who refuse to allow their birthplace to die. When he’s ...