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From author Charlie Jane Anders comes a Tor.com Original, Six Months, Three Days, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Doug and Judy have both had a secret power all their life. Judy can see every possible future, branching out from each moment like infinite trees. Doug can also see the...

Lydbogen henvender sig til alle, som har brug for at kunne motivere, inspirere og dele viden med andre. På møder, til foredrag og ved saerlige lejligheder, hvad enten det gaelder spontane taler eller nøje forberedte indlaeg. Lydbogen er saerlig oplagt til dig, der gerne vil tale uden manuskript eller PowerPoint, til dig der veksler mellem at vaere oplaegsholder og mødeleder og til dig, der gerne vil vaere bedre til at håndtere uforudsete forstyrrelser mens du er på. I bogen fremlaegger forfatteren sine erfaringer fra ti års traening af ledere og andre, der har brug for at tale med forsamlinger. Blandt andet fra sin tid som leder af Det Kongelige Ledelsesakademi, hvor han laerte meget af at arbejde sammen med Det Kgl. Teaters stemmecoach, Lisbeth Holdt Jørgensen, med skuespiller Henning Jensen og med Susan A. Olsen.

Jasmine—has been having dreams. In it, a rippling god claims her innocent body and makes it his own. That is only a dream, however. If she wants to be touched by a man in real life, she would first have to escape the palace where her father, the Sultan, has forbid any man from looking her in the eyes. But, something is telling her that her first love lies beyond the palace walls. How could she get there? Everything would have to go exactly right. Which means that her future would all come down to fate.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen – Danmarks statsminister fra 2001 til 2009 og NATOs generalsekretær fra 2009 til 2014 – fortæller her om tiden fra han blev medlem af Folketinget til han i dag rådgiver virksomheder og regeringer over hele verden og arbejder med at udbrede frihed og demokrati. "At turde" giver et enestående indblik i Anders Fogh Rasmussens tanker og bevæggrunde i hans politiske virke. Han fortæller åbent om glæder og frustrationer, ærgrelser og sejre både i Folketinget og i NATO. Oplevelserne dokumenteres af nedslag i hans dagbogsnotater og taler.

Malcolm and Beck first met by a car accident, then he collides into her life, and Beck never expected him. Malcolm looks vaguely familiar, but Beck can’t place him right away. At her best friend's bachelorette party, they go to one of the hottest male revue clubs on the Las Vegas strip, and suddenly, there is Malcolm on stage about to take off his pants, when he zeroes in on her.

An unlucky man falls upward into the sky. A disturbing dinner ritual begins with the family removing their left eyes and only grows worse from there… A woman encounters a mysterious entity that allows her to travel through time with gruesome consequences. A rapidly aging child with the ability to control minds forces her father into a nightmare of servitude. A man forms a deadly alliance with the intelligent parasite attached to his neck.

"Au temps des Vikings"​ nous plonge au sein d'une civilisation fascinante, loin des clichés virils et barbares dont on l'a longtemps affublée. Le temps des Vikings, de 800 à 1100, c'est ce moment de l'histoire du Moyen Âge où de farouches guerriers venus du Nord sèment la terreur dans de nombreuses villes européennes accessibles par mer ou voie fluviale. Ils pillent, s'emparent des trésors des églises et des monastères, enlèvent des habitants qu'ils échangent contre une rançon ou vendent comme esclaves.

Abby Merkley has been a member of the Church of the Apocalyptic Faith since she was a child, and there's no way out...until her darkly handsome, brooding neighbor defies the rules and takes her into the safety of his arms. He should frighten her, but everything inside Abby thrills at Luc Stanek's rough manners and shockingly gentle touch. He excites her, ignites her, leaves her shaken and wanting more. But evil men follow in her footsteps, and it may take more than one fierce beauty to defend her loving beast.

In a tech-dominated world, the most needed degrees are the most surprising: the liberal arts. Did you take the right classes in college? Will your major help you get the right job offers? For more than a decade, the national spotlight has focused on science and engineering as the only reliable...

Fantasy fans of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and John Flanagan’s Ranger’s Apprentice series will embrace this first novel in an adventure-filled, Viking-inspired series by a debut author. Meet Karn. He is destined to take over the family farm in Norrøngard. His only problem? He’d...

Time travel doesn't actually solve problems. It just makes them more complex…...

From the author of the Hugo-winning Six Months, Three Days, a new wrinkle on the old story of three wishes, set after the end of the world.

Contains mature themes...

When 11-year-old Theo goes to stay with his grandparents during the summer break, he's sure it's going to be a long, boring six weeks. After all, what's there to do in a town so small everyone knows his name before he even gets there? Then Theo meets Bay and Jilly, two kids who love monster movies...right before the movie cuts out and something howls inside the theater!

A widowed earl, a governess who is far too clever for her own good, two motherless little girls, and one small dog who manages to bring them all together..."Your First Kiss holds the answer to all that you desire". The fortune drew only laughter from Matilda Fortune when Madame Zeta, a visiting gypsy uttered the ridiculous words...At eight and 20, Tildy's first kiss had long come and gone. As had the gentleman who bestowed it...

When Shaye dropped out of college mid-semester, and moved to Lopez Island for the summer, she’d hoped to figure out what she wanted to do with the rest of her life. Instead, she reconnects with childhood friends Jason and Nick, and good intentions spiral into harrowing confrontations. The summer ends in tragedy and Shaye flees the Island, haunted by her mistakes. Eight years later, Shaye is forced to return to the place she’d hoped never to see again. Now, she must face the people, and the pain she left behind.

Året är 2016 och London ligger försänkt i evigt mörker och dimma. I sin exklusiva takvåning ovanför Canary Wharf har Tiphany Reeder avtalat middag med två av de viktigaste personerna i sitt liv. Väninnan Tipper, som ska närvara via Skype, och filmlegendaren Adam som alldeles strax ska äntra våningen. Tillsammans ska de dyka ner i gamla minnen och förhoppningen är att de ska hitta tillbaka till de prominenta känslor som de tre haft för varandra tidigare. I århundraden. Vad som väntar är en lång, surrealistisk natt kantad av mörker och sensualism, bortom både tid och rum.

Våren 1892. Fröken Evangelina Hökberg är en av de rikaste kvinnorna i landet. En kvinna man inte gör besviken. Tillsammans med sin bror äger hon ett järnvägsbolag, en synnerligen välmående rörelse, men under ytan döljer sig både mörka hemligheter och dunkla begär. Fröken Hökberg befarar att hennes bror blir utpressad och misstankarna pekar på den hänförande Vackra Olle. Privatdetektiven Lars Quist, som till vardags mest reder ut försäkringsbedrägerier, får uppdraget av fröken Hökberg.

Leopold Beckworth, son of a London prostitute, was abandoned as a child on the docks of London at a very young age. The odds were stacked against him, and yet, relying on nothing but his cunning and eventually, brute strength, he did better than survive, he thrived. Ironically, he's amassed power most aristocrats envy—along with great wealth—all while holding little regard for society. His people are the poor, the pickpockets, and thieves of London, and amongst them, Leopold is known as the King of Bond Street.

En kølig søndag morgen i oktober gør en motionist et uhyggeligt fund på Kalmars gamle kolerakirkegård. Et ægtepar er halshugget og rituelt indsmurt i en olie. Efterforsker Andreas Persson og hans team fra Kalmar politi står over for en gådefuld sag, hvor fortidens synder kræver blodig betaling, og det står snart klart, at morderen ikke er færdig endnu. Den yderste dag er tredje bind i den svenske krimiserie om efterforsker Andreas Persson og hans hold fra Kalmar politi.