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Fresh out of college, Mary H.K. Choi booked a one-way ticket to New York City and never looked back. Twelve years and countless jobs and dates and a bajillion dollars in rent later, she'd finally had enough. In Oh, Never Mind, Choi chronicles her decision to let go of New York by looking back at the hilarious and often brutal life lessons the city taught her - about love, money, friendship, and, above all, herself.

Die Endlose Armada - in weiten Teilen des Universums ist dieser gigantische Heerwurm längst zur Legende geworden. Millionen von Raumschiffen ziehen seit einer Ewigkeit durch die Weiten des Kosmos. Sie folgen einem mysteriösen Anführer und sind auf der Suche nach einem Objekt von größter kosmischer Bedeutung. Dieses wurde einst gestohlen und missbraucht. Im Randgebiet einer zerstörten Kleingalaxis stößt die Galaktische Flotte unter dem Kommando von Perry Rhodan auf die Endlose Armada. Auf seiner Seite hat der Terraner immerhin 20.000 Raumschiffe - aber sie sind ein Nichts gegen die Armada.

Dreißig Millionen Lichtjahre von der Erde entfernt: Die Galaktische Flotte unter Perry Rhodans Kommando steht einer riesigen Übermacht gegenüber, der Endlosen Armada. Rhodans 20.000 Raumschiffe haben keine Chance gegen den gigantischen Heerwurm, mit dem sie am Frostrubin konfrontiert werden - ihnen bleibt nur die Flucht durch das kosmische Gebilde. Doch danach sind die Raumer aus der Milchstraße im Sternenmeer der fernen Galaxis M 82 verstreut.

Seventeen-year-old Selena Bailey longs to flee her uneasy home life. Prepping every spare minute for a college escape, the headstrong, high school senior vows never to be like her alcoholic mom with her string of abusive boyfriends. So when Selena finds her beaten nearly to death, she knows safety is slipping away...

Anna is a possession. She is owned by the man named Will, shielded from the world of struggles by his care. He loves her, protects her and then breaks her. Anna is obedient, dutiful and compliant. Anna does not know her place in the world. When she falls pregnant, Anna leaves her name behind, and finds the strength to run. But the past - and Will - catch up with her in an idyllic town with a dark secret, and this time, it's not just Anna who is at risk.

As a monster, Shrubley is forbidden from joining the adventurers guild. In a world where essence artists rank up in power and most monsters are feral beasts, Shrubley is among the weakest of creatures and is treated as an outcast. With curiosity essence bound to his spirit, Shrubley might be weak, but he's intelligent and determined. Against all the odds, he discovers a loophole from the Druid that gave him life—but there's a deadly catch. For a chance of ever being accepted as a true adventurer, he must challenge an otherworldly realm threatening to consume everything.

PI Martina Monroe has found her groove working cold cases alongside Detective Hirsch at the CoCo County Sheriff’s Department. With a growing team of cold case detectives, Martina and Hirsch are on the heels of bringing justice for Julie DeSoto—a woman Martina failed to protect one year earlier. But when Martina receives a haunting request from her past, it nearly tears her in two.

She glances in the rearview mirror as the stranger walks towards her broken-down car. The wicked look on his face sends a chill up her spine and she knows he’s not here to help. She doesn’t have time to scream before she falls to the ground, and the darkening sky goes black.

Jo Who Died is the funny and bittersweet telling of a mother's life story from the perspective of her recently deceased daughter. Jenny Knight never intended to call seven of her eight children Jo(e). It's funny how life turns out. At twenty-six years old, Jo 5 throws herself out of a window with no intention of dying. Nor did she plan for her siblings to be suspects in a murder investigation. Sometimes, that's just the way things go.

Five years on from the adrenaline-fueled days of the Cold Case Squad, PI Martina Monroe is now a managing partner at the renowned, Drakos Monroe Security & Investigations. She spends her days running the firm—a safe desk job—allowing her to spend more time with her sixteen-year-old daughter and less time in the line of fire. But her quiet life shatters when a meeting with the desperate parents of Katie Kimble, a young woman missing for two years, pulls her back into the fray.

Unter dem Druck außerirdischer Mächte sieht die Menschheit keine andere Wahl als mit einem von Perry Rhodan inszenierten Bluff den Untergang der Erde vorzutäuschen. Doch die auf diese Weise erkaufte Ruhe täuscht, denn aus einer Unterwasserkuppel am Grunde des Atlantiks taucht ein geheimnisvoller Fremder auf, der die Terraner jäh wieder mitten in das galaktische Geschehen katapultiert: Atlan, der arkonidische Kristallprinz.

The table is set for family dinner; roast chicken, wine for them and juice for their darling boy, a vase of fresh daisies from the garden for decoration. But the food is cold, and the flowers are wilting. You might think they were sleeping in the next room, if it wasn’t for the blood dripping crimson onto the carpet.

Medal of Honor recipient Jack H. Lucas’s classic memoir of his heroics at the Battle of Iwo Jima—with a foreword by Bob Dole and reissued to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the battle in 2020. On February 20, 1945, the second day of the assault on Iwo Jima—one of the bloodiest...

Ten years earlier, two teenage girls were found murdered by what appeared to be a satanic sacrifice. The case had dominated the news headlines for months before the original investigators failed to arrest the perpetrators of the crime—despite multiple suspects. Without solid evidence to prosecute, and even with the near-heroic efforts of the original detectives, the homicide investigation turned cold. For years, the families of the two victims fought to keep the young women’s memory alive and to get the attention of law enforcement to not give up on finding those responsible.

Das Notsignal des auf dem Mond havarierten arkonidischen Schiffes lockt außerirdische Intelligenzen ins Solsystem. Die Menschheit, die Perry Rhodan gerade vor der atomaren Selbstvernichtung bewahrt hat, sieht sich den gefaehrlichen Individualverformern gegenueber. Rhodan entdeckt auf der Venus eine uralte Basis, die er in den Besitz der von ihm gegruendeten Dritten Macht bringen kann. Dort schult er parapsychologisch begabte Menschen, positive Mutanten mit ungewoehnlichen Faehigkeiten.

Der trügerische Frieden, der auf Terra herrscht, wird durch Sabotageakte gestört, hinter denen sich ein geheimnisumwitterter Unbekannter namens Overhead verbirgt...

Drake Holland lands a job in the warehouse of an online retailer, and it isn’t anything like he expects. Instead of actual work, the boss and an assistant are more interested in bondage and sex games with just the three of them on the night shift in a huge building alone.

Martina and Detective Hirsch, still reeling from their last high-profile case, agree to reopen the missing person case of Sadie Jarreau, a friend of one member of the Cold Case Squad. At first glance, Sadie’s disappearance from the local marina looks like the typical unhappy marriage resulting in a deadly end. But between the marina’s surveillance cameras malfunctioning that day, her husband’s air-tight alibi, and no one with a motive to harm Sadie, Martina and Hirsch are forced to consider a less common scenario - a stranger abduction.

Twenty years earlier, a set of female eighteen-year-old twins went missing in the Bay Area. There were no news reports or national coverage. The original investigators had barely touched the case, and like so many other cases of missing teens, were quickly labeled runaways, and the file sat on the shelf. Baffled by the lack of attention for the sisters, Martina insists it will be Hirsch and the Cold Case Squad’s next case.

“Sneaks up on you with its insight and poignancy.” —Entertainment Weekly From New York Times bestselling author Mary H.K. Choi comes a funny and emotional story about two estranged sisters and how far they’ll go to save one of their lives—even if it means swapping identities. Jayne and...