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A remote outpost in the savage wastes goes dark. When the ruling corporations of Earth’s last free city cover up the incident, Dawn Moriti is hired to discover the fate of a lost researcher. Her client is her sister, a genetically engineered soldier who threatened to kill her if they ever ran into each other again. The missing researcher? Their kid brother Pascal. Together, they will have to set aside their differences and navigate the tangled web of a corrupt corporation with a private military. Dawn soon learns the research station has stumbled upon a secret someone in New Pacific is ...

A missing son. A kidnapper who's dead. Nobody believes her. Nothing will stop her. When Doctor Jemma Sands' five-year-old son goes missing, only she believes that a vengeful patient has stolen her child. How do you convince police to search for a dead woman? As her world falls apart, Jemma realises she is the only one who can save her son. If somebody took your only child, how far would you go to get him back?

A man seeking to purchase an antique doll for his ailing grandchild opens up a Pandora's Box of hidden family secrets and intrigue that results in bitter hostility and murder. Josh and Emily, through brilliant deduction and imaginative enterprise, discover the clues that lead to the solution that lies at the heart of this mystery. As characters they are similar in conception to the witty bantering loving couple, Nick and Nora Charles of the famed Thin Man series created by the mystery writer Dashiell Hammett.

Aging mafia Don Salvatore Padronelli, a.k.a. the Padre, is furious when fanatical terrorists capture his beloved daughter and grandson on a trip to Egypt. Fed up with diplomatic caution that prolongs their captivity, the Padre and his loyal henchman cleverly insinuate themselves into the White House and hold the President and his wife hostage. Now the Padre calls the shots on getting the President to take steps to release his family.

Emmy award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon brings her experience as a life-long New Yorker to this special reading of Warren Adler's New York Echoes. New York itself becomes a character in these seven deftly crafted and compelling stories. As in his celebrated novels, Adler's themes in New York Echoes deal primarily with human relationships ¿ the mysterious nature of love and attraction; the fragile bond between husbands and wives, and parents and children; the divide between generations.

Get comfortable, because you are about to be scared! Join us for 18 stories of monsters, killers, and holiday horrors! There's something to terrify everyone in this collection!

When a commercial artist, her stockbroker husband, and their twin daughters move to Los Angeles, they unwittingly fall prey to a woman who convinces them that she is a psychic and can foresee their future. By persuading them that she holds the key to their success and can protect them from the dangers that threaten them, she gradually takes full control over their careers, their parenting, even their sex lives, until they become her willing accomplices.

The year 1967. Violet MacInnes resents her genealogy assignment. Everybody knows her great-grandfather was a sea captain. Everybody knows her great-grandmother was the most sought-after debutante in Galveston. Everybody knows they defied society, married, and built an authentic Sottish castle nestled in a magnolia grove.

Rumors are abuzz at the Supreme Court that an associate justice has a not-so-secret sadomasochistic fetish. When Metropolitan Police detective Fiona Fitzgerald is called in to investigate the city's latest gruesome murder that involves S&M, she is forced to look at these rumors - and face her own painful memories.

Als kleines Mädchen verliert Nete Hermansen ihre Mutter. Damit beginnen für sie Jahre des Schreckens: Von einem Cousin vergewaltigt und geschwängert, gerät sie in die Arme eines fanatischen Arztes, der sie ebenfalls missbraucht, entmündigt und schließlich auf eine Insel bringt, wo sie zwangssterilisiert wird. Als eine liebevolle Pflegefamilie ihr ein neues Leben schenkt, lernt Nete zu vergessen. Bis sie Jahre später erneut auf ihren Peiniger trifft und beschließt, grausame Rache zu nehmen.

"L'Unité Alphabet" est le service psychiatrique d'un hôpital militaire où, pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les médecins allemands infligeaient d'horribles traitements à leurs cobayes, pour la plupart des officiers SS blessés sur le front de l'Est. Bryan, pilote de la RAF, y a survécu sous une identité allemande en simulant la folie. Trente ans ont passé mais, chaque jour, il revit ce cauchemar et repense à James, son ami et copilote, qu'il a abandonné à l'Unité Alphabet et qu'il n'a jamais retrouvé. En 1972, à l'occasion des Jeux olympiques de Munich, Bryan décide de repartir sur ses traces.

Nous sommes tous à la recherche du bonheur : mais qu'est-ce que le bonheur ? Comment l'atteindre ? Notre idéal de vie heureuse est-il un désir réalisable ? La psychologie positive, aussi appelée "science du bonheur", permet de mettre en perspective les différents facteurs de notre existence afin de favoriser un épanouissement. En identifiant ce qui nous rend heureux, cette discipline scientifique décortique les mécanismes du bien-être et crée des outils capables de développer notre sérénité et notre joie.

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En la costa de Chipre rescatan el cadáver de una mujer procedente de Oriente Medio. En Barcelona, en la playa de Sant Miquel en la Barceloneta, Joan Aiguader, un periodista frustrado, cree tener su gran oportunidad profesional cuando ve un reportaje sobre el "contador de la vergüenza", que lleva un recuento del número de refugiados ahogados en el mar y que contabiliza a la mujer de Chipre como la víctima 2117.

A shipwreck on an isolated island. No food. No comforts. And only one player wins. Jack’s back, and in the thrilling conclusion to the End-User Jack series, his nemesis Mr. Smiley has thrown him into the deadliest contest yet. He’s up against a new game set in an unforgiving wilderness against a dozen adversaries competing to be the last player standing. But Jack is here to bring it all down. If he doesn’t defeat the game’s mad host, the tower will fall. It’s a final collision between the virtual and real as Jack fights to uncover Starvation Island’s biggest secret—the ...

Alyssa Cressfield always wanted a pet - a big, sexy man who would look impressive on a leash. Now, she is finally ready to realize her dream. She visits a pet training center, intending to buy a trained pet. Instead, she finds Jax, a fierce human-alien hybrid freshly caught from space, still untamed and unbroken. Alyssa has never encountered an untamed pet before. She can't resist temptation; she must have him.

The Sunset Gang is as lively, fun, and courageous a group as you'll find anywhere this side of the Last Reward. The fact that you'll find them at Sunset Village, a condominium retirement community in Florida - where an ambulance siren is the theme song and cycling at a stately pace is strenuous exercise - does not mean that they are ready to pack it all in. Not by a long shot.

The caller made it clear - $10 million or her daughter's head. The power of unintended consequences sends the privileged life of prominent anti-war activist Sarah Raab crashing down around her. Fear and terror take hold, and Sarah turns to former CIA operative Carl Helman, a man she has only just met and who stands against everything she has been fighting for.

Winter 1939: Danusha and her family are forced to flee their home when the Nazis invade Poland. Danusha’s mother, Anna, changes her name and secures a position as a housekeeper in a German doctor’s mansion in Kraków where Gestapo meetings are hosted in the kitchen. Her secret is their salvation, but what Danusha remembers most is the solitude, with only her baby brother and the girl in the mirror for company.

What if someone you accidentally killed came back to haunt you? When the perfect crime results in the kidnap and murder of Megan, his only child, East End villain Mickey Speight is grief-stricken. But now, nearly 30 years later, Megan sends a message to her father, gone-to-ground in present-day Margate. As the messages from his dead daughter keep coming, Mickey teams up with a young American female therapist to discover whether this really is a voice from beyond the grave, or if somebody has loomed out of Mickey’s past wanting revenge.