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From USA Today Bestselling Author Beverly Jenkins comes a new novel in a mesmerizing series set in the Old West, where an arranged marriage becomes a grand passion . . . What kind of mail-order bride greets her intended with a bullet instead of a kiss? One like Regan Carmichael—an independent...

Award-winning author of the national best-seller Tumbling, Diane McKinney-Whetstone is an immensely talented author of African American fiction. It is 1965 in Philadelphia and Clarise, Finch, and their three adolescent daughters are living a financially privileged life. But when Finch’s business falls on hard times and Clarise suffers a mental breakdown, their idyllic world is shattered and their daughters are endangered.

In ihrem luxuriösen Teehaus empfängt Arthie Casimir, Waise und kriminelles Superhirn, tagsüber die Reichen der Stadt – und gelangt dabei an so manches brisante Geheimnis. Nachts jedoch verwandelt sich die Teestube in ein illegales Bluthaus für die verachteten Vampire. Als ein geheimnisvoller Fremder das Teehaus bedroht, muss Arthie einen unmöglichen Job annehmen: Sie soll ein Buch aus dem Athereum stehlen – der verführerischen Unterwelt Ettenias, die von mächtigen Vampiren beherrscht wird. Zusammen mit ihrem engsten Vertrauten Jin stellt Arthie eine ungleiche Crew zusammen.

Award-winning poet and rapper Kae Tempest's electrifying debut novel takes us into the beating heart of the capital in this multigenerational tale of drugs, desire and belonging. It gets into your bones. You don't even realise it until you're driving through it, watching all the things you've always known and leaving them behind. Young Londoners Becky, Harry and Leon are leaving town in a fourth-hand Ford Cortina with a suitcase full of money.

Rose and her giant, simple son, Poe, live quietly on the fringes of their town - tending their goats and working at odd jobs. Prosper Thorne, banished from his big-city law practice and worrying about his fading memory, obsessively watches over his beloved daughter Miranda. When Poe erupts from the forest one day carrying Miranda's bruised and bloody body, he is arrested, despite his protestations of get help-get help-get help.