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The Rose and the Raven Tales from the Silent Garden VBy Evelyne DLorienIn a garden that has forgotten how to breathe, a centuries-old curse lingersand a love that should never have existed begins to stir.When wanderer Elian steps into a labyrinth of thorned roses, he discovers more than a forgotten beauty. He encounters a rose that dreams, and a raven that speakstwo souls bound together by a cruel, ancient spell. In a world where silence has its own heartbeat and every petal remembers a wound, a story of sacrifice, longing, and quiet devotion unfolds.The deeper Elian ventures into the gardens hush, the more clearly he senses the yearning buried beneath its roots. The rose aches for the sky. The raven aches to keep her safe. And between them stands a man who recognizes a piece of his own sorrow in their fragile tether.The Rose and the Raven is a lyrical, atmospheric dark-romance fairytalerich with symbolism, moonlit melancholy, and soft, dreamlike magic. It is a standalone tale within the Tales from the Silent Garden series, yet also a luminous chapter in a much larger myth.For readers who love stories that breathe like a whispered prayertender, haunting, and quietly transformative.For those who know that sometimes beauty is the softest form of pain and love is the light that blooms from a wound.

Rebellion and ruin await in the gripping second installment of Evan Leikams debut fantasy series, perfect for fans of Joe Abercrombie, R.F. Kuang, and Nicholas Eames.The king is dead. Shes still alive. The revolution is yet to come... The riveting adventure continues in the sequel to Evan Leikams breakout fantasy debut Anji Kills a King.Anji has survived a dozen different deaths. The king is dead, her family is dead, the fabled mercenaries of the Menagerie are deadand shes still here, the price that was on her head now jingling as coins in her own pocket.In the wake of her journey, the city she once called home has changed, and a revolution is brewing in a camp on the riverbank. A revolution Anjis new windfall was meant to fund, and still could if she can forgive them for being willing to throw her life away to do it. But building a bright new kingdom wont be as simple as cutting one kings throat... and in a city of dark alleys and desperate times, her path will take her to shadowy places she never could have expected.

((Vorschau))Eigentlich wurde der Hexer fur tot erklart. Doch jetzt treibt der beruchtigte Killer erneut sein Unwesen in Londons Straen. Seine Mission: Rache fur den Mord an seiner Schwester. Scotland Yard-Inspector Wembury und Polizeiarzt Lomond ermitteln, aber dieser Gegner ist ein Meister der Verkleidung In seinem Krimiklassiker verbindet Edgar Wallace eine rasante Geschichte mit elegant gezeichneten Charakteren. Kein Wunder, dass The Ringer (1926, dt. Der Hexer) in gleich mehreren Kultfilmen aufging.((Onix/Online))The Ringer was supposed to be dead. Now the notorious killer walks the streets of London again. His mission: vengeance for his sisters murder. Scotland Yard Inspector Wembury and police doctor Lomond investigate, but this villain is a master of disguise ...In this classic crime thriller, Edgar Wallace blends a well-paced story with delightfully crafted characters, and its no surprise, that The Ringer (1926) has been adapted as a cult movie more than once.

A savage, hypnotic dive into the lives and deaths of a coven of vampires living in 19th Century Paris, perfect for fans of Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Laura Purcell and Elizabeth KostovaParis, 1869. The Theatre Saint-Simeon is the place to be, if you can get in. The black slips of paper that guarantee entry are rare and highly desired, and given only to certain persons. The actors on stage are magnetic and ageless, performing only at midnight and never seen during the dayArnault and his clan of vampires have survived for as long as they have by observing a rigid set of rules. At night, they perform on stage at the Theatre Saint-Simeon, picking off just enough people in the audience to survive. But they understand the city, and how to live in it without being noticed.Their peace is shattered first with a visit from Beatrice, a witch who forms a strange connection to Arnault; then with the arrival of Victor de Rouvray and his sister Françoise, vampires from a very different world. And, as Arnault grows closer and closer to the beautiful, enigmatic Victor, he risks becoming distracted from the constant bickering of his immortal friends, from the daily running of the theatre, and worse, from the premonitions of blood, death and starvation that he receives at night.For a terrible change is on the horizon, revolt and revolution are brewing in the streets and soon, the city, and Arnault will never be the same again.

One calm night in Twickenham, a businessman named Tom Treadnor is shot off his barstool at The Queen. Superintendent Richard Jury is called in to investigate, and quickly realizes that everyone in Treadnors life - from his widow, Alice, to the staff at his manor, to his business partner - had differing opinions of him.Meanwhile, Wiggins, Jurys partner at New Scotland Yard, becomes sidetracked by an investigation of his own: his sister, missing for years and presumed dead, has just sent a postcard to their mother. When Wiggins takes off in search of his sister, the two investigations begin to converge.Funny, eccentric and fueled by Richard Jurys talent for seeing clues in the most unlikely places, The Red Queen is a welcome return to a classic character and an exciting addition to a series that has been called delightful, surprising, even magical (Washington Post).

A darkly magical sapphic retelling of Hans Christian Andersens "The Snow Queen" for fans of Ava Reid and Katherine Arden,from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A Sorceress Comes to Call.Gerta has been in love with her neighbor, Kay, for as long as she can remember. Kay thinks Gerta is...fine.When Kay is stolen away by the mysterious Snow Queen, its up to Gerta to find him. Her journey will take her through a dangerous land of snow and witchcraft, spirit roads and shape-shifters. Accompanied by a talking raven and a strangely entrancing bandit girl named Janna, Gerta travels further north than north to confront the Snow Queen and rescue Kay.The journey will be dangerous, but the unpredictable currents of her own heart might be the most frightening thing of all.

She runs her own race. An expansive, inspiring feminist novel about one womans rise as a racing driver in mid-century Britain._________________Its 1945 and Winifred Freddy Vaux fears shes the only person in the country who isnt thrilled the war is over. All she wants is to drive. Ambulances, recovery vehicles, anything. While shes still allowed behind the wheel, it will not be her occupation and certainly not fast.But speeding through the streets in a Victory night race, she makes a resolution: she must pursue race car driving. No matter the cost. From the provincial country lanes of her youth to the most glamorous, exhilarating tracks of Europe, Freddys thunderous ambition takes her to places no woman has ever gone before. However, in the conservative world of motorsports, she encounters many who dont relish her rise, but anticipate her fall - and travelling at such speeds, friends and lovers can be lost in an instant. Freddy has a lot to learn. Driving was the easy part.____________________Praise for Kelly Frost:CompellingThe TimesA storyteller who is here to stay Joseph OConnorA startling new talent Peter James

This dark yet hilariously satirical state-of-an-era novel sees Will Selfs middle-class, middle-English characters apparently trapped in a timeless go-round of polite chitchat in dinner parties that refract like a hall of mirrors, until one day someone says something to the effect of, This way to the gas chamber, please, ladies and gentlemen.The Quantity Theory ofMorality finally solves the equation of time and money that dominates our lives, in a way that is simultaneously deranging, destabilizing and hilarious, showing Self to be both a master of satire and slapstick humour and a sublime and thoughtful critic of the alienation of modern life.With The Quantity Theory of Morality, Self provides the sequel to his award-winning debut of 35 years ago, The Quantity Theory of Insanity. That literary psycho-surgery proved there wasnt enough sanity to go around - now hes established what many of us fear to be the absolute truth: there isnt enough good to go around, either.

Daniel Wiles connects us viscerally to the past we have buried the history we choose to ignore Hilary MantelIf his wife hadnt changed, then maybe Bernardo wouldnt have left, with his son in tow, to try and tame the wilderness of his childhood.If the land hadnt changed, turning grey and collapsing in their hands each time they grasped for survival, then maybe Bernardo and the boy could have built a life here.If the Puma hadnt changed everything, then maybe Bernardo wouldnt have to stalk the beast, searching for some measure of revenge, wishing hed pulled the trigger when he had the chance.The Puma is a novel that asks what a father would do to ensure his familys survival and what he might become when that is no longer an option.

"Taylors elegantly simple prose is compelling, and his attention to detail is the work of an expert storyteller. An unforgettable book that will resonate with readers of World War Il historical fiction." Library Journal starred review"A mans reverence for art leads to wartime defiance in the enchanting historical novel The Prodigal of Leningrad. Told with fabulistic claritya moving exploration of what it costs to uphold Christian virtues, including truth and beauty."Foreword ReviewsIn this World War II historical novel set during the harrowing siege of Leningrad, Daniil Aslanov, a docent at the Hermitage Museum, gives tours of empty frames. As the city starves, he battles a secret shame, while his grandfathera persecuted Orthodox priest exiled to the Gulagclings to faith.While bombs fall and starvation grips the city, Daniil Aslanov continues to lead tours of empty frames through the Hermitage Museum. Although the museums masterpieces have been hidden away for safekeeping, their presence lingers in memory and meaning.Daniils grandfather, an Orthodox priest exiled for decades to the brutal Gulag, embraces suffering as his sacred calling, thanking God for being allowed to minister to those around him. As Leningrads people perish, Daniil finds himself drawn to the story behind Rembrandts painting, "The Return of the Prodigal Son."Beautifully told and based on real historical events, including the extraordinary wartime tours of the Hermitages empty galleries, The Prodigal of Leningrad is a stirring and unforgettable story of human resilience, and a profound meditation on art, faith, forgiveness and healing. Readers of The Nightingale,A Gentleman in Moscow, and City of Thieves, and all those interested in World War II history will welcome this important contribution to the genre.

The definitive edition of Plaths poetry for readers, scholars and studentsSylvia Plaths first Collected Poems was published in 1981. This present volume emerges out of decades of research and almost doubles the content of that previous edition.The book is in two parts. It begins with the poems Plath composed in the last ten years of her life and on which her reputation is founded, and follows with those poems written in childhood and through her student years, sourced from diaries and letters, published in school magazines, and copied into the manuscript book that Plath kept for her own records. In each instance, the editors have dated and selected the most authoritative text, and provide critical notes that offer insight into Plaths extraordinary evolution as a poet - from her early, precocious determination to be a writer to her place in literary history as the twentieth-centurys most fiercely burning star.

Someone knows about Julia Glynns affair. She and husband Michael are the envy of their neighbours: prosperous, devout, the model couple. Then one day, an anonymous letter arrives with the morning papers, describing Julias trysts with Michaels nephew in obscene detail.Frantic with suspicion and frustrated desire, Julia imagines catastrophe in their small, curtain-twitching town. As the letters keep arriving, she struggles to retain composure and proceed with plans for a family pilgrimage to Lourdes - only for other buried scandals to come knocking at the door of their pristine home. Frank in its depiction of sexuality and queerness in 1950s Ireland, The Pilgrimage was immediately banned on original publication. Outrageous and bleakly funny, it is a powerful evocation of the corrosive effects of repression.

The beautiful Dorian Gray sells his soul in exchange for eternal youth. Inspired by his friend the hedonistic Lord Henry, he embarks on a life of decadence, debauchery and corruption: he remains physically unchanged, while his portrait, painted by his friend Basil Hallward and hidden behind a curtain in an attic room, becomes increasingly and monstrously hideous. Basil Hallward is what I think I am, he wrote: Lord Henry is what the world thinks of me: Dorian is what I would like to be - in other ages, perhaps.A new Faber Classics edition of the chilling cautionary tale.

When the past claws its way back, the hunt for truth could cost him everything.Five years after the brutal murder of his girlfriend Eva, haunted PI Ravn is dragged back into the one case hes never been able to close. New evidence surfaces, igniting a desperate chase for justice that plunges him into a dark web of crooked cops, a dying hitman, and a powerful elite guarding a deadly secret.To get the answers he craves, Ravn must strike a dangerous bargain with ruthless crime boss Kaminsky: recover 71 million in stolen cash, or lose everything. From Copenhagens gritty underworld to the corridors of corrupt power, Ravn will risk it all to unmask Evas killerif the truth doesnt destroy him first.The Pact is the electrifying fifth novel in the bestselling Ravn seriesperfect for fans of "Department Q" and Nordic noir that cuts to the bone.

A last-chance winter road trip for a Scottish band spirals into wild chaos seagull massacres, bomb tests, and darkly funny rocknroll madness on the edge. A raw, darkly funny novel by one of Scotlands finest authors newly reissued!ANNIVERSARY EDITIONINTRODUCTION BY VAL MCDERMID____Connor is twenty-four, brilliant, broken, and out of control. Hes the swaggering frontman of The Ossians, a Scottish indie band on the brink of signing a major record deal.Desperate to make their mark, they head off on a two-week winter tour across the cities and hinterlands of Scotland a last-ditch attempt to find fame, purpose, and themselves.But the tour soon spirals into a surreal, chaotic odyssey. From seedy bars and snowbound towns to a final, defining Glasgow gig, the band hurtles through a whirlwind of seagull massacres, botched drug deals, a mysterious stalker, radioactive beaches, bomb-testing ranges, epileptic fits, riotous Russian submariners, deadly storms, epiphanies, regular beatings and random shootings.Raw, darkly funny and wild with energy, The Ossians is a gloriously anarchic story of rocknroll obsession, national identity and self-destruction, and what it means to belong in a band, in a country, in a life unravelling at speed.___

A touching, mysterious novel, imbued with the beauty and strangeness of a fairy tale. Ayegul SavaIn the wake of her fathers death, Agathe leaves New York and returns to her childhood home in the French countryside, after fifteen years away. Agathe and her sister Vera have not seen each other in all that time apart. Now, they must empty their home before it is knocked down. Vera stopped speaking when she was six, and as the pair clean and sift through a lifetimes worth of belongings, old memories and resentments surface.Tender, melancholic and evocative, The Old Fire is Elisa Shua Dusapins most personal and moving novel yet. An exploration of time and memory, of family and belonging, of the unsaid and the unanswered, it is also a graceful and profound exploration of how loss and grief can live alongside life and abundance.

((Fur die Vorschau))Die Pariserin Madame LEspanaye und ihrer Tochter Camille wurden im vierten Stockwerk ihres ansonsten leerstehenden Hauses auf grausame Weise ermordet. Doch alle Turen und Fenster zum Raum sind von innen verriegelt. Wie konnte der Morder also fluchten? Der brillante Detektiv Auguste Dupin bringt Licht in den unerklarlichen Fall.((Fur Onix))The Parisian Madame LEspanaye and her daughter Camille are found gruesomely murdered on the fourth floor of their otherwise empty house. Yet all the doors and windows to the room are locked from the inside. How could the murderer have escaped? The brilliant detective Auguste Dupin sets out to shed light on this baffling case.

Sometimes murder runs in the family. Or does it?When a well-known artist is found in Snorris Pool with an axe buried deep in his chest, Stella Blómkvist is immediately thrown in at the deep end, brought in to defend the apparently harmless young man the police have in their sights as the killer.The mans mother had spent time prison, convicted of the killing of a personal trainer, despite her protestations of innocence. Stella cant help being drawn into both the cold case and this fresh murder, with a trail of guilt that stretches half-way around the world.As if she doesnt have enough to keep her busy, Stellas pursuing a political high-flyer suspected of being a serial rapist, and defending a senior police officer on corruption charges that have all the hallmarks of a vendetta. But the toughest challenges Stella faces are among her own loved onesWith a razor-sharp tongue and a moral compass all of her own, Stella Blomkvist has a talent for attracting trouble. Her trademark explosive mix of murder, intrigue and surprise has made this of Icelands best-loved crime series.Stella is a force of nature Mark Sanderson, The TimesI had never heard of Stella Blomkvist, but I guarantee Ill never forget her! Christoffer Petersen

An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community: a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, they have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable. As the archaeologist records his attempts to understand their world a strange negative of our own questions of translation, meaning-making and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore. Drawing on Borges, Le Guin and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemis singularly playful and eclectic style.

Hes searching the city. Shes dangling in plain sight.In the Old City of Québec, Kay Harper falls in love with a puppet in the window of the Quatre Mains, a toy shop that is never open. She is spending her summer working as an acrobat with the cirque while her husband, Theo, is translating a biography of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Late one night, Kay fears someone is following her home. Surprised to see that the lights of the toy shop are on and the door is open, she takes shelter inside.The next morning Theo wakes up to discover his wife is missing. Under police suspicion and frantic at her disappearance, he obsessively searches the streets of the Old City. Meanwhile, Kay has been transformed into a puppet, and is now a prisoner of the back room of the Quatre Mains, trapped with an odd assemblage of puppets from all over the world who can only come alive between the hours of midnight and dawn. The only way she can return to the human world is if Theo can find her and recognize her in her new form. So begins a dual odyssey: of a husband determined to find his wife, and of a woman trapped in a magical world where her life is not her own.