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In the Prime Kingdoms, the system dominates everything. It dictates one’s strength, skills, and power. It spawns dungeons and guides the actions of their monsters. But every system has its limits, and it’s about to push four oddball adventurers to theirs.

Jane, a Minneapolis restaurateur, is invited to spend the week at Fothergill Inn, a Victorian house-turned B&B. Jane's old friend Leigh has spent years renovating the house and reopening it as an inn and restaurant. The inn has become so successful that people drive the 50 miles from Minneapolis just for dinner. But when Jane and her best friend, Cordelia, arrive for a week of relaxation, they find that the weekend's guests are anything but pleased, and that relaxing is the furthest thing from their minds. Broken glass litters the parking lot, dead animals turn up in the bedrooms, a bomb scare threatens the lives of the inn's guests. Then the pranks turn deadly....

After publication in 1928, it was banned for obscenity before going on to become an international best seller. It tells the story of Stephen Gordon, an Englishwoman from an upper-class family who is ostracised for falling in love with another woman, Mary Llewellyn. Groundbreaking in its day, Radclyffe Hall’s novel ultimately makes a very clear plea in regards to homosexuality: 'Give us also the right to our existence'.

The shock that Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless is in for when Chester Garrity, her ex-husband, returns to a city that he swore he'd never see again is nothing compared to Chester's own. After their divorce many years ago, he took off with his inheritance to travel the world, leaving Jane with enough seed money to open her first restaurant, which worked out well for Jane but less so for Chester.

Jane Lawless is at her wit’s end, keeping her Minneapolis restaurants running while volunteering on her father’s campaign for governor. With an eleven-point lead, the race is Ray Lawless’s to lose, but all that changes when his rival posts a list of violent criminals that are back on the streets early, thanks to Ray’s work during his career as a defense lawyer.

Minneapolis restaurateur and amateur sleuth Jane Lawless is in the middle of ringing in the New Year the best way she knows how - with her family, friends, and some excellent champagne - when the biggest financial backers in Minnesota politics break up the party with a little backroom proposition for her father: How'd he like to be the state's next governor? Flattered, Ray Lawless, a retired defense attorney, agrees to run, and the latecomer's sprint to the state capital is going great until reporters and opponents start digging up the kind of dirt that is more valuable than gold out on the campaign trail.

A seventeen-year-old boy, bullied and heartbroken, hangs himself. And although he felt terribly alone, his suicide changes everyone around him. His parents are devastated.

Of Human Bondage charts the life of Philip Carey, a sensitive and introspective individual born with a clubfoot. Orphaned at a young age, Philip searches for meaning through pursuits such as religion, art and medicine, but much of his early life is marked with emotional turmoil. Grappling with loneliness, unrequited love and existential doubt, Philip gradually learns the art of acceptance and how to live in harmony with the imperfections of life.

Dans un futur proche où l’amour se mesure en tests ADN, une femme refuse de se laisser définir par les algorithmes ni par les contes de fées qu’on lui a imposés. Le jour de son mariage, robe longue et espadrilles cachées aux pieds, elle remonte seule l’allée, bien décidée à ne plus être le « cadeau » qu’on remet d’un homme à un autre.

"Wildly inventive, twisty tour de force"—BookPage The lush Gothic drama of Crimson Peak meets the murderous intrigue of Knives Out with an LGBTQIA+ love story to die for from award-winning author KJ Charles. WHO WILL SURVIVE LACKADAY HOUSE? When Zeb Wyckham is summoned to a wealthy...

In 1918, when Henry Blake Fuller was 62 years old, he completed the manuscript of a novel, Bertram Cope’s Year. Though Fuller was well known as an accomplished realist and had published 12 previous novels, this work was his first published fiction to address the topic of homosexuality. In the novel Bertram Cope, a handsome young college student, is befriended by Medora Phillips, a wealthy older woman who tries to match him with several eligible young women. However, Bertram is emotionally attached only to his friend and housemate, Arthur Lemoyne.

In the lonely years following the death of her fiancé, Helen is unable to move on with her life. But life itself is moving on around her literally: The building of a dam is forcing her small town and her family home to relocate. But the construction project means more than the loss of a home. Helens brother, Robbie, who disappeared without a trace 15 years earlier, suddenly resurfaces. As he re-enters his sisters life, he reveals the secret of why he left in the first place: a secret that tore their family apart, and affected Helens life in more ways than she ever realized.

Everyone knows Arno Heywood. He's been a Minneapolis TV personality for years. So when he jumps to his death from a downtown high-rise, it's a shocker--especially since he dies wearing women's clothes, a suicide in drag.

Quando nel 2022 la giovane Jina Mahsa Amini viene uccisa dalla polizia morale a Teheran, in tutto l'Iran si accende una protesta guidata dalle donne. La notizia attraversa il mondo e colpisce profondamente un'altra Jina, nata e cresciuta in Europa ma legata da radici profonde alla terra dei suoi genitori. Sente il cuore spezzarsi e accendersi contemporaneamente di speranza e preoccupazione per la sorella Roya e la nipote Nika, che vivono lì e hanno scelto di scendere in piazza.

Der Auftakt der neuen Reihe von Bestseller-Autorin A.D. WiLK über starke Frauen. Es ist falsch. Doch sie kann nicht aufhören, an sie zu denken. Will nicht länger an sie denken. Soll sie sich ihren Gefühlen ein weiteres Mal hingeben, obwohl sie weiß, dass sie dabei alles verlieren kann? Sommer 1974. Nici und Kate sind 17. Abgeschieden von der Hektik der Großstadt und dem bunten Treiben der Siebziger Jahre verbringen sie sechs Wochen bei ihren Großeltern in einem kleinen Dorf in den Bergen.

El mundo ya no era el mismo, las piezas se habían movido. Una jugadora inesperada trastornó todos los planes, y pretendía arruinar el gran juego. ¿Un juego? ¿Eso era? Como si los espíritus no hicieran otra cosa que manipular el destino de todos, y además creyeran que ellos deberían adivinar el resto. No era la primera vez que lo hacía. Su nombre era Ann, y gracias a la magia se internaba en ese mundo de espíritus de vez en cuando en busca de respuestas. En aquel plano, todo se extendió ante ella como si de verdad estuvieran los jugadores en cada esquina, haciendo sus apuestas, sacando o poniendo nuevas piezas.

D’abord : ceci est une mutinerie. Et si notre mutinerie doit réussir, il faut que je nomme bien les choses, sans détour. Sans ça, tu ne dérogeras pas à tes certitudes. Alors voilà: je suis trans. Comme dans transgression. J’ai cassé les genres, je me suis soustraite aux codes.

Winner of the Whitbread Prize for best first fiction. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a coming-out novel from Winterson, the acclaimed author of The Passion and Sexing the Cherry. The narrator, Jeanette, cuts her teeth on the knowledge that she is one of God’s elect, but as this budding evangelical comes of age and comes to terms with her preference for her own sex, the peculiar balance of her God-fearing household crumbles.

The first of the dead is wealthy Belle Dumont, who vanished from her home in the Minnesota woods only hours before she was to reveal startling news to her three grown children. The kids and Belle's lover deny any knowledge of this mysterious bombshell, but amateur sleuth Jane Lawless, Belle's old friend, suspects these charming folk of being less than forthright. In fact, Jane suspects coldhearted murder....

Jane Lawless has a knack for cooking and a talent for detection. A case gone bad has left her with a serious head injury and vulnerable enough to accept help from former lover Dr. Julia Martinsen. The TLC is welcome, if only Jane didn’t suspect the jittery Julia of hiding something. Disquieted, Jane’s check into the doctor’s past turns up chilling details. Then a shocking death and swirling danger disrupt what’s left of Jane’s recovery, and being in love with Julia doesn’t protect either of them from a killer out for more blood.