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Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Across these poems, memory—historical, collective, personal—stains and erodes.

Wie lang wird das Leben des Kindes sein, das gerade geboren wird? Wer sind wir, wenn uns die Stunde schlägt? Wer wird um uns trauern...

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." So opens this famous novel which has become Jane Austen's best loved and best known work.

Uncovered: a list of noblemen's names - each one guilty of treason. To save his family legacy, Rafe Densmore must seize a courtesan's infamous register. No one can ever know how his father betrayed his country! One person stands in Rafe's way-the beautiful Cornelia, Comtesse de Vane. In the card rooms of Paris, Rafe and Cornelia made an unbeatable...intimate team. Until, convinced of Rafe's desertion, desperate Cornelia married an elderly comte. Now, returning to London an impoverished widow, she'll do anything to possess the register.

Prestige Gaming is the ultimate experience. Better than VR, better than real life, plus you can have as many BOOBS as you want to.... When Meredith Johnston invites Derek Hammings to play he is both shocked and ecstatic. But not all dreams are what they seem. Things are going wrong at Prestige Gaming. Computers laugh and holler. Villains stutter. And Meredith just cannot seem to get laid. As tiny nanobots begin to swarm with a will of their own can Derek and Meredith survive the reality of the game? Or will they end up bloody smears in the New Mexican sand?

Es geht um Leben und Tod, die Prinzessin wurde vergiftet! Der Täter hat das Gegenmittel, erpresst dafür aber Eliza und Millie: Sie müssen einen alten Fall neu aufrollen und eine Hinrichtung verhindern, die in weniger als 24 Stunden stattfindet. Im Wettlauf gegen die Zeit setzen die Ermittlerinnen auf jede Hilfe und stoßen auf eine Intrige in höchsten Kreisen.

Der Preis für den Sieg über Stephen Thaus war hoch und Anna Gudwin braucht eine Auszeit, um den Scherbenhaufen ihres Lebens zu sortieren. Dafür hat sie sich in die flirrenden Hitze von Texas zurückgezogen, wo sie eine Pilotenausbildung beginnt. Zwischen den Landungen bieten die Lagerfeuergespräche mit Vermieterin Dusty eine willkommene Gelegenheit, die dramatischen Ereignisse seit Annas Rekrutierung Revue passieren zu lassen.

Hannah Sandoval woke up from a two week coma with more than a murdered CIA agent’s heart. Vivid dreams haunt her of Kate’s life and death, including the memories of the man Kate loved, Agent Jase McCoy. But nothing prepared Hannah for meeting the flesh and blood man of her dreams. As Kate’s memories continue to haunt her with more terrifying details, soon Hannah finds herself embroiled in the same web of lies that cost Kate her life. The only person who can protect her now, is Jase.

Un-Cabaret assembled the entire Emmy-winning writing staff of Sex and the City, each reading their own work for this special sold-out edition of Say the Word at The Knitting Factory in New York. Meet the writers behind the hit show and hear the individual voices that came together to create a cultural landmark.

This provocative, fiercely imaginative debut follows a woman trying to slip the shackles of society by controlling her body and mind in extreme ways, by one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. “Chrysalis is a thrilling look at how we spin silk around ourselves by watching the world...

Circumstances have drastically changed young Laura Dawson’s comfortable and sheltered life, and she gratefully accepts what she sees as a lifeline—a job working with Viv Chaseley. Laura moves into Tyneholme and into the unbelievably amazing world of the Chaseleys. Working with Viv gives Laura the confidence she knows she lacks, and it brings new meaning to her previously uninspiring life.

During a bus ride with a group of fellow college students, Jenny Booth Potter came to a life-changing realization. She decided that racism in all its forms—in policies and systems, in organizations and churches, in neighborhoods and families—could no longer be tolerated. And even though Jenny didn't know what to do about racism, she was certain of one thing: doing nothing is no longer an option. That declaration Jenny made to her peers was more than seven words uttered on a bus. It was a vow, a lifetime commitment to seek racial justice.

This audio contains two best sellers that relate the extraordinary, courageous life of actress Jill Ireland. These revealing autobiographies cover the joys and tragedies of Ireland's life, from her marriage to movie star Charles Bronson, to their family of seven children, to her courageous battle with breast cancer, and the fight to save her 22-year-old son from the maze of drug addiction. These memoirs are candid, inspiring works from a truly remarkable woman.

A charming collection of classic children's stories hosted by a hilarious wicked witch and narrated with charm and excitement. The delightful favorites include the tale of "Hansel and Gretel", the giant-sized adventures of "Tom Thumb", the hilarious story of "The Brave Little Tailor", and the real story behind the classic nursery rhyme "The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe".

Lieutenant Michael Thorpe is a forbidden temptation for Lady Hannah Chesterfield. Etiquette demands Hannah ignore the shivers of desire his wicked gaze provokes, but he's the only man to recognise her restless spirit, and her unawakened body is clamouring for his touch. Thrown together by scandal, defiant Hannah joins Michael on an adventure to uncover the secret of his birth - could this common soldier really be a prince?

Ace Endicott, the Earl of Carde, needs a woman who will give him an heir, but he never expects to be engaged to three different women, or to become the laughingstock of the gossip columnists. Escaping this London nightmare, he takes a chance and comes up with a winning hand in the game of love.

Sons and Lovers is widely considered by critics and readers alike as D.H. Lawrence’s masterpiece and a classic interpretation of the Oedipal complex. Surely one of the greatest autobiographical novels ever written, it tells the story of Paul Morel, a sensitive artist with a far stronger attachment to his mother than his working-class, alcoholic father. Searching for love and human connection, Paul is torn between two very different women, but neither of them measures up to his mother.

Two delightful, fanciful, and heartwarming stories. "The Velveteen Rabbit" tells the tale of a stuffed rabbit that longs to become real, while "The Girl Who Owned a Bear" tells of a little girl who receives a magical book filled with the most unpredictable of magic.

Frustrated when none of the real newspapers will hire her as a reporter, Eliza Bradley takes the only job she can get—at a paranormal magazine. Her first assignment takes her to Fairbanks, Alaska to investigate the rumors that a werewolf has killed two local men.

Markus Lewin, ein Gerichtsvollzieher, begeht Selbstmord. Chefarzt Professor Hugo Mallen springt vom Dach des Dortmunder Klinikums. Während Lewins Witwe auf eigene Faust den Hintergründen des Todes ihres Mannes nachgeht, beauftragt Theresa Mallen Corinna Dupont - eine desillusionierte ehemalige Polizistin mit messerscharfem Verstand -, die Wahrheit über den Tod ihres Mannes herauszufinden. Die Spuren führen durch die dunklen Quartiere des Ruhrgebiets, hinein in die Machenschaften eines Kinderhändler-Rings, bis hin zu Verstrickungen auf höchster Ebene.