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Silke elsker havet. Hun er vild med vand, især havvand, der får hendes eksem til at holde op med at klø. Hendes forældre køber et sommerhus ved vandet, og her tager Silkes mystiske forandring for alvor fat. Et moderne eventyr om en piges forvandling.

I onde tider vælger kærligheden sine egne veje. Når krigen slutter er et stykke lokal Danmarkshistorie fortalt af Bent Haller. Edith har netop fået en tjenesteplads hos mejeristen i Bangsbostrand, da 2. Verdenskrig bryder ud. Det lille samfund vågner op til en ny virkelighed, hvor alle må sno sig for at tilpasse sig besættelsesmagtens lune. Frederikshavn bliver et knudepunkt i krigen, hvor tyskerne kan transportere deres tropper videre nordpå. Edith forsøger at forsætte livet på bedste vis, hun tager ud og danser og forelsker sig. Som altid går kærligheden sine egne veje.

Laura: a teenage girl struggling to fit into her small, sleepy town in upstate New York, slowly drifting away from reality, into the secret life she inhabits online. Paul: a twentysomething wannabe rock star, back home from NYC, broke and jobless, living with his mother. April: a math teacher with two kids, running her church's vacation Bible school, discontent with another summer planning crafts and regurgitating verses. Ben: a boy stuck at VBS, still adjusting to the presence of his foster brother, DeShawn, a quiet, brooding kid from Brooklyn. Over summer, their paths will collide.

Auf dem Hof eines Schafzüchters bietet sich ein grausames Bild: Die komplette Familie wurde ausgelöscht, ein Teil der Opfer mit einem Schwert enthauptet. Von der Brutalität am Tatort ist nicht nur die sonst so abgeklärte Kriminalhauptkommissarin Klara Frost erschüttert, sondern die gesamte Mordkommission.

The best teen zombie werewolf witchy faerie fantasy murder mystery you've ever heard, by debut author Hal Schrieve. Genderqueer 14-year-old Z Chilworth has to adjust quickly to their new status as a zombie after waking from death from a car crash that killed their parents and sisters. Always a talented witch, Z now can barely perform magic and is rapidly decaying. Faced with rejection from their remaining family members and old friends, Z moves in with their mother's friend, Mrs. Dunnigan, and befriends Aysel, a loud would-be goth classmate who is, like Z, a loner.

In this volume of the series of short science fiction stories we discover new sapient races, a race to Mars, planets disintegrating, psionic interlopers, hidden ancient worlds, explosive exploits and time travel. The stories are: 'Atom Drive' by Charles Louis Fontenay, 'Hot Planet' by Hal Clement, 'Nobel Redman' by Jesse Franklin Bone, 'Seed of the Arctic Ice' by H. G. Winter, 'Silver Dome' by Harl Vincent, 'The Vortex Blaster' by Edward Elmer Smith and 'Time and Time Again' by H. Beam Piper.

A quarter century after the Cold War ended, critics have renewed their calls for the United States to abandon its existing grand strategy, which they contend has both cost too much in blood and treasure and delivered too little in terms of peace, prosperity, and security. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt make this case in their article “The Case for Offshore Balancing” (July/August 2016), which charts an alternative course.

Katy Green is a working musician in the years before World War II. It's 1939, and Katy tries to help a friend out of a jam at a classical music conservatory that ought to be a quiet oasis in Hell's Kitchen, New York's roughest neighborhood. But when Katy searches for the stolen manuscript of a string quartet by Paganini, what she finds is madness, mayhem, unexplained sudden deaths, and a fight for her very life.

It's 1940, and musician Katy Green finds out how tough the road can be when she joins the Ultra Belles, a female swing band on tour in California. From the moment the band kicks off the set, you're caught in the rhythm of the music, and murder on the move.

This comic novel, told in epistolary fashion as a sequence of exchanged letters, presents pornographer "Guy LaDouche" retreating to the wilderness with the hope of solitude and concentration to write his next book under a looming deadline. Instead of peace, he finds harassment and distraction from his publisher, his old girlfriend, and an angry father convinced that LaDouche's last novel, featuring a genuine nymphomaniac, was based on the man's daughter.

Here is an anthology of exceptional Science Fiction short stories. Volume 2 includes "Proof by Hal Clement; "Mimic" by Donald A. Wollheim, and "Pilgrimage" by Nelson Bond.

Er versteht sein Handwerk und tötet bis zur Vollendung. Im Kofferraum eines gestohlenen Wagens stößt die Leipziger Polizei auf einen unheimlichen Fund: eine Glasfigur, in die ein menschlicher Schädel eingeschlossen ist. Kriminalhauptkommissarin Klara Frost übernimmt die Ermittlungen und entdeckt im Oberkiefer eine Zahl, die darauf hindeutet, dass es womöglich weitere solcher Glasgegenstände mit Skelettteilen gibt. Schnell muss Frost feststellen, dass sie einen Serienmörder jagt, dem das BKA schon einige Jahre auf der Spur ist.

A live recording by the increasingly popular comedian. Hal has appeared in many TV shows such as Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You and Mock the Week.

In this classic novella, harried human explorers must try to figure out the lifeways and motivations of some extremely strange and enigmatic alien creatures on one of the strangest planets ever portrayed in science fiction - and do it all before the clock runs out...

I Bent Hallers genfortolkning af en af verdenslitteraturens største værker, Homers ”Odysseen”, følger vi den græske helt Odysseus på hans lange rejse hjem fra krigen i Troja. Der er nu gået 20 år siden krigen om den skønne Helene, og hjemme på øen Ithaka sidder Odysseus’ kone Penelope og spejder efter sin mand. Hun er belejret af bejlere, som alle håber, at de ved et giftemål med dronningen, kan overtage kongemagten på Ithaka, men Penelope elsker stadig sin mand og har ikke opgivet håbet om at se ham igen. Odysseus’ unge søn Telemakos får besøg af krigergudinden Athene i forklædning.

Un-Agoraphobic offers a comprehensive, step-by-step self-help program for overcoming agoraphobia and panic attacks. Since overcoming his own disorder twenty years ago, Mathew has been leading support groups and recovery programs for people with agoraphobia. He understands what agoraphobes need and how to deliver it.

Through the best-selling ScreamFree Parenting, Hal Runkel showed thousands of parents how keeping their cool can revolutionize their family life. In his groundbreaking new book, ScreamFree Marriage, Runkel now shows couples how learning to stay calm, in the face of common marital conflicts, is...

If asked, who among us wouldn't say we were kind people? But kindness is often manifested in feelings of pity or sympathy--especially when others are watching--rather than in deeds. And when it comes down to it, what good does mere feeling do for the world?

The future is big right now - for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening right now. In Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started believing we could and should "create the future." What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happen next?

What should the United States do after ISIS’ all-but-inevitable defeat? Despite President Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric, the best approach is one close to the strategy the Obama administration pursued in 2016: airstrikes, raids by special operations forces, and battalion-sized U.S. forces deployed to counter specific threats.