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An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award "Narrator Adjoa Andoh captivates listeners with a stunning...

After his mission is suddenly terminated in Washington, D.C., British Intelligence agent Nick Stone decides to visit an old colleague, Kev Brown. But when Stone arrives at his friend's eerily quiet suburban home, he discovers a chilling scene of carnage. Every member of the Brown family has been brutally slaughtered except one: seven-year-old Kelly Brown. His instincts on red alert and adrenaline in overdrive, Stone grabs the girl and runs - with anonymous assassins in hot pursuit.

Harold and Fred watch television. They become the characters they watch. 1985. Inside a dingy apartment on the ninth floor of a dilapidated apartment building in downtown Los Angeles, Harold & Fred, two working-class English expatriates, sit on a shabby couch mesmerized by an old television set, in this bitter-sweet black comedy drama.Harold is wrapped in a dirty bathrobe. Fred is gaunt and pale, wearing a stained woman’s off-the-shoulder cotton dress....

Thousands of years ago, the ancients spoke of a coming age when truths buried deep beneath the sands of time would resurface. A time when powerful entities would seek not only to conceal their existence, but their origins as well. A time when unwitting heroes would find themselves at odds with such beings. The time of a remote and distant generation.Discovering that he has acquired a unique metaphysical skill set, Jeremiah finds himself in the unenviable position of having to decide if he’ll be one such hero. A decision not to be made lightly, for on the other side of it stands unimaginable ...

La musica nei viaggi verso le isole descritte da Judith Schalansky.

In remote Northern California, private investigator Sharon McCone goes undercover to investigate the murders of two indigenous women in this gripping, atmospheric mystery in the New York Times bestselling series. When the bodies of two Indigenous women are found in the wilderness of northern...