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The second brilliant novel in the highly acclaimed Malabar House series featuring Persis Wadia, India's first female police detective. A priceless manuscript. A missing scholar. A trail of riddles. Bombay, 1950 For over a century, one of the world's great treasures, a six-hundred-year-old copy...

Hard Reset is a fast-paced, unpredictable, and clever take on the LitRPG genre, blending beloved sci-fi and apocalyptic themes to create an intricate new reality. In this world, life begins in a coffin, cars float, a good ray gun is your best friend, and computer displays are activated with a...

Ein intelligenter Roboter und zwei Menschen erforschen Proxima Centauri b, den Begleiter des uns nächstgelegenen Sterns. Ihre naiven Vorstellungen über den Verlauf der Mission erweisen sich auf diesem Planeten der Extreme schnell als falsch. Wo sind die Absender des Hilferufs geblieben, der sie dorthin gelockt hat? Weil alle anderen Spuren im Sand verlaufen, setzen die drei ihre letzten Hoffnungen auf eine Expedition ins ewige Eis.

Writer (and sometime housecleaner) Jennifer is twenty-three when her beloved father, Wallace, is diagnosed with a brain tumor. This catastrophic discovery sets off Anne Lamott's unexpectedly sweet and funny first novel, which is made dramatic not so much by Wallace's illness as by the emotional...