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#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face... Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters...

Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno...

The Mother of All Darkness-the first vampire-wants to enter into a new human body...and the one she has in mind belongs to Anita Blake...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face. . . . Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters...

Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno...

First time in trade paperback: the fourth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. Vampire hunter and zombie animator Anita Blake is an expert at sniffing out the bad from the good. But in The Lunatic Cafe-now in trade paperback for the first time-she's about to learn that nothing is...

In her tenth adventure, nothing can save vampire hunter Anita Blake from a twist of fate that draws her ever closer to the brink of humanity...

"The End of Men is a fiercely intelligent page-turner, an eerily prescient novel, at once thoughtful and highly emotive." --Paula Hawkins, #1 internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train Set in a world where a virus stalks our male population, The End of Men is an electrifying and...

A collection of sixteen sci-fi and fantasy stories edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton and author William McCaskey. A child’s wish for her father comes true. The end of the world has never been so much fun. Conquering personal demons becomes all too real. It’s...

Cole Parker is my worst nightmare. He's a straight-up asshole who lives to torment me, and he'll stop at nothing to punish me over the smallest slight. When he digs up a sex tape starring—you guessed it—me, he takes bullying to a whole new level, using it to blackmail me into doing his bidding. If the video gets out, it will ruin me. But my stepbrother makes it clear that he doesn't give a damn. He drags me deep into his dark and twisted world, showing me the monster he hides beneath his handsome exterior, taking risks that put our lives in danger.

Der Apotheker Duncan ist einem Herzinfarkt nahe. In seinem ganzen Berufsleben ist dem gewissenhaften Mann nie auch nur der kleinste Fehler unterlaufen. Doch an diesem Tag geschieht das Unvorstellbare - er verwechselt die Päckchen zweier Kunden, deren Adressen er nicht kennt. Eines der Päckchen enthält das todbringende Gift Arsen. Völlig aufgelöst spricht er bei Sherlock Holmes vor. Aber wie sollen Holmes und Watson den irrtümlichen Käufer des Arsens in der anonymen Großstadt London finden? Holmes weiß, gelingt es ihm nicht, dann wird eine ahnungslose Frau qualvoll sterben.

Alexis Valdés narra con profunda ternura sobre el niño que fue y logra reflejar no solo los años más duros de su vida, sino transportar al lector a la Cuba de su infancia y adolescencia, con sus problemas, sus carencias, su dolor, pero también con una alegría de vivir y la esperanza de que algún día todo será mejor.

Botanist Alfred Homer, ever hopeful and constantly surprised, is invited on a road trip by his parents’ friend, Professor Morgan Bruno, who wants company as he tries to unearth the story of the mysterious poet John Skennen. But this is no ordinary road trip. Alfred and the Professor encounter towns where Black residents speak only in sign language and towns that hold indigenous parades; it is a land of house burnings, werewolves, and witches.

More often than you think, a couple’s life seems a continuous course around pain and disappointment. Maybe, you feel stuck in a relationship that seems to have nothing more to give, and you are wondering if there is something wrong with you. You don’t need to endure these situations any longer.

We remember Audre Lorde as an iconic writer, a quotable teacher whose words and face grace T-shirts, nonprofit annual reports, and campus diversity-center walls. But even those who are inspired by Lorde’s teachings on “the creative power of difference” may be missing something fundamental about her life and work, and what they can mean for us today. Lorde’s understanding of survival was not simply about getting through to the other side of oppression or being resilient in the face of cancer. It was about the total stakes of what it means to be in relationship with a planet in transformation.

Tori Grace Almonte is still very much in love with her husband. How could she not be? He’s attentive, smart, loving and kind. The epitome of the perfect man. Until he wasn’t. When his indiscretions come to light, Tori is conflicted on if she should leave or not. How could she just walk away from a man that she’d loved for so long? But when Lance Marshall walks into her office, he steals her heart, serenades her soul, and gives her back all that she’d thought she lost.

Actress and playwright Tina Alexis Allen’s audacious memoir unravels her privileged suburban Catholic upbringing that was shaped by her formidable father—a man whose strict religious devotion and dedication to his large family hid his true nature and a life defined by deep secrets and...

Der Schriftsteller Kurt verliebt sich in die Sekretärin Lydia. Gemeinsam fahren sie in den Urlaub nach Schweden, wo sie eine unbeschwerte Zeit in der sommerlichen Idylle um das kleine Schloss Gripsholm erleben. Als nacheinander die Freunde Karlchen und Billie eintreffen, bricht die romantische Zweisamkeit auf.

When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style...

When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain-paranormal style...