Verlag: Bu Classics Books
Cursed at her christening to have no gravity, a princess floats through life unable to feel physical weight or emotional depth. Only the waters of her lake offer her grounding, until a prince’s sacrifice teaches her the true heaviness of love. A whimsical fairy tale that balances humor with a poignant lesson on sorrow.
A hilarious farce. When the King of the Grim Reapers' son needs help to take a ghost haunting his home, he asks his father to help remove it, but was it a mistake?Zum Buch
Bryce Pedley is a 40s-era PI in modern day Latham, New York, complete with a fedora, a double-breasted suit, a shoulder harness, and a revolver. Where cops fail, he succeeds-and the cops take all the credit. In The Laughing Dog, Samuel Cohen hires Pedley in a bar to find a rare book collection the Nazis stole in 1939. Locate rare books? Easy. Except Pedley's not the only one searching for the books. Wilhelm Hoffmann, of Nazi ancestry, has already purchased several books from the lost collection and has no intention of stopping. After Pedley is beaten, abducted, and left to die, he realizes little of this is about rare books. A stack of old WWII letters lead Pedley to a British Lieutenant and his driver who were in Bavaria in 1945 and to the greatest discovery of post-WWII. Confident he has the mystery figured out, the search leads Pedley to the basement of a house that hasn't been unoccupied for more than eight years. Expectations are high.... but nothing is as he expected.Zum Buch
There is little violent crime in Venice, a serenely beautiful floating city of mystery and magic, history and decay. But the evil that does occasionally rear its head is the jurisdiction of Guido Brunetti, the suave, urbane vice-commissario of police and a genius at detection. Now all of his admirable abilities must come into play in the deadly affair of Maestro Helmut Wellauer, a world-renowned conductor who died painfully from cyanide poisoning during an intermission at La Fenice. But as the investigation unfolds, a chilling picture slowly begins to take shape—a detailed portrait of revenge painted with vivid strokes of hatred and shocking depravity. And the dilemma for Guido Brunetti will not be finding a murder suspect, but rather narrowing the choices down to one …Zum Buch
Breaking down in a nowhere town called Providence wasn’t part of the plan. When her life falls apart in a matter of a few hours, all single mother Amy Lawson wants is a fresh start. She doesn’t expect to break down and find herself at the mercy of strangers. If securing a safe place for her and her daughter to stay means accepting the help of the brooding mechanic, then she’ll do it, despite the mysteries surrounding him. Widower and grieving father, Ben Young, avoids people, but he’s driven to help Amy—for her daughter’s sake. There’s something about Amy that draws him in, and when his cousins show interest in her, he fears he might miss out on another chance at love if he can’t find a way to move on. Just when a relationship begins to form between Ben and Amy, she discovers she holds the key to what happened to Ben’s family. But will her search for answers cost her everything? Winner of the 2019 Golden Rose Contemporary Romance Contest.Zum Buch
Confidential follows on the success of acclaimed photographer, psychologist, and writer Mikolaj Grynberg's highly acclaimed short story collection, I'd Like to Say Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry To, which was a finalist for numerous awards, including Poland's most prestigious literary prize, the Nike, a National Jewish Book Award, the Sami Rohr Prize, and the National Translation Award in Prose for Sean Gasper Bye's excellent translation. This powerful new novella is a darkly comic portrait of a Jewish family in today's Poland, struggling to express their love for one another in the face of a past that cannot and will not be forgotten. The grandfather is a doctor, a Holocaust survivor who has now vowed to live only for pleasure. His son, born at the start of the war, becomes a well-respected physicist, but finds himself emotionally unable to attend the medical conferences in Germany, despite the benefit it would give his career. The mother is loving but firm, though she has a secret habit of attending strangers' funerals so that she can cry. Confidential expands on one of the stories in I'd Like to Say Sorry, but There's No One to Say Sorry To, tackling themes of memory and care, trauma, and memory, as well as enduring anti-Semitism, with unforgettable power, emotional complexity, and Grynberg's trademark black humor.Zum Buch
An invasion by stealth. A ruthless mercenary. A wild love affair and hope of survival. Alissa returns to Kar in her quest to track down the shadowy syndicate behind the plot in the desert––only to find her search blocked as much by the constraints of university life as by the threats and deadly attacks she encountered in Irithen. Until the assassin strikes, revealing a whole new level of intrigue and expertise. Fleeing to the capital to discover who is behind the conspiracy is one way of taking the initiative. It also takes her into greater danger as she comes face to face with the invaders––and the terrifying Captain Reith who has haunted her dreams ever since she saw him on a grainy vid-recording in the desert. A compelling attraction she still does not understand.. Maybe love will prove more powerful than war… But the heart of the enemy is a dangerous place. Webdancer is the second book in the Stormweaver series, the far-future fantasy epic by Jay Aspen.Zum Buch
