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A combat cameraman serving his last mission in Iraq, Newman is ready to finally settle down with his fiancée. But on January 1, 2002, an IED explodes, overturning his up-armored Humvee. Death meets all his comrades, while Newman falls into a coma. Under the order of an anonymous CIA director, Newman is hidden from the world and sent to a top-secret research facility, where he is implanted with a device to capture and record his thoughts. And for 20 years, he remains there - until the day he awakens.

Èkó, the spirit of Lagos, and his loyal minion Tatafo weave trouble through the streets of Lagos and through the lives of the ‘vagabonds’ powering modern Nigeria: the queer, the displaced and the footloose. With Tatafo as our guide we meet these people in the shadows. Among them are a driver for a debauched politician, a lesbian couple whose tender relationship sheds unexpected light on their experience with underground sex work, a mother who attends a secret spiritual gathering that shifts her reality.

In Book Three of the Brittany Meyer Novellas, Brittany’s magical powers are both devastating and beyond her control. The witch queen, however, wants to harness Brittany's growing powers by sending her away to be trained in the dark arts — and to force Brittany’s compliance, she imprisons Brittany’s aunt in a modern-day dungeon and threatens her life if Brittany doesn’t submit.

In book four of the Brittany Meyer Novellas, Brittany tries to come to grips with her unusual abilities, most of which she doesn’t understand. She is mentored by Tusks, a demon who is enamored of her due to a love potion gone awry. But when Tusks is abducted and spirited away to another dimension for judgement by a demon master, Brittany knows she must put aside her self-doubt and go after him. A decision that is easier made than done. The demon realm is vast and can only be reached through astral projection - which she’s only managed once.

Kann man in der Hochzeitsnacht einschlafen, bevor man die Hochzeit vollzogen hat? Man kann, wenn man unter Narkolepsie leidet. Leonhard erfährt viele weitere unglaubliche Schlafattacken, aber das Unglaublichste ist: Er wechselt beim Einschlafen in eine andere Welt. Und auch dort will er heiraten! Kann das gutgehen?

Coffee Reading follows two young people trying to navigate uncertain times in 1967 Greece. Penelope is a farm girl with blessed hands for making traditional Greek pies, who has aspirations something outside of her rural life. Lysander is a farm boy with a passion for motors who also aspires to more than what his hometown has to offer. Despite embarking on separate journeys of discovery, magical intervention begins to weave a love story that spans generations and continents.

Set 10 years after the events in The Maiden, Nessa finds there's a lot of things she wishes she'd been told about the once mystical, unimaginable state of being a grown up. If something seems too good to be true, it probably is. Vampires are charming, but that’s because, like everyone else, they need to eat. And if an extremely powerful entity makes a deal with you, they ain’t doing it for the warm fuzzies. And when that powerful entity tells you to rewrite 10 years of history after your journals go missing, you do it.

Necropolis follows Sajan Dayal, a detective in pursuit of a serial (though nonlethal) collector of fingers. He encounters would-be vampires and werewolves, and a woman named Razia who may or may not be centuries old.

When I rouse from my trance-like state, I have no idea where I am or what’s going on. Fortunately for me, my mother is able to lead me back home, but not without revealing a few complications…Rowan and Gregory are both trapped in the other world and are being held captive by a powerful warlock with an affinity for “collecting” people. But the icing on the cake is when my deceased great-grandmother Linda decides to pay me a visit - and delivers a warning - that will turn my topsy-turvy world even further inside out!

One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona, an old friend, newly a lover. Soon, reports of similar occurrences surface across the land. Some see in the transformations the long-dreaded overturning of an established order, to be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders's father and Oona's mother, a sense of profound loss wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different shading: a chance to see one another, face to face, anew.

Hidden behind back doors of bars and restaurants and theaters and shops all over New York City are shortcuts—secret passageways that allow you to jump through time and space to emerge in different parts of the city. No one knows where they came from, but there are rules—you can only travel through them one way and only at night. When Jean’s work friend Iggy introduces her to the shortcuts, it’s to help shorten her commute between her night shifts bartending and her work at an upscale bakery.

Evie Berry is a 30-year-old wannabe screenwriter who spends her days managing a London cinema bar and making the podcast Pasta La Vista with her best friend, Ben. She's also obsessed with Hugo Hearst. Have you heard of him? Of course you have. He's only one of the most influential and not to mention swoon-worthy best-selling writers of his generation. When Evie's not hooking up with her on-again, off-again booty call 'Ever-Ready Freddy' (and sometimes even when she is), she fantasises about what might have been if she'd met Hugo years ago, when he was just a struggling writer.

Yarima Lalo believes he has been murdered twice before. The cause? Love. To make sense of these vivid memories he cannot shake, he travels from Abuja to Kano with his new friend and love interest Aziza to meet an old woman who he might have known in a past life. She is skeptical at first - and hesitant to revisit painful memories of her own - but together, they dig deeper and deeper into the past, piecing together a shared history with ripple effects that could shape Lalo’s future.

Lolly Blanchard's life only seems to give her lemons. Ten years ago, after her mother’s tragic death, she broke up with her first love and abandoned her dream of opening a restaurant in order to keep her family’s struggling Seattle diner afloat and care for her younger sister and grieving father. Now, a decade later, she dutifully whips up the diner’s famous lemon meringue pies each morning while still pining for all she's lost. As Lolly’s thirty-third birthday approaches, her quirky great-aunt gives her a mysterious gift.

Quando Danilo Chiesa riapre gli occhi, per la prima volta dopo la propria dipartita, sa perfettamente di essere morto, quello che non sa è dove si trova. Curioso, perché Danilo non si è mai perso. Seduto su un letto, studia la stanza: niente porte, niente finestre, solo una sedia bianca e due sedie. Nemmeno il tempo di formulare un pensiero, che di fronte a lui compaiono due loschi figuri per affidargli un compito: redigere la propria biografia e discutere poi con loro di ogni capitolo.

In 1976, David is fishing off the island of Black Conch when he comes upon a creature he doesn’t expect: a mermaid by the name of Aycayia. Once a beautiful young woman, she was cursed by jealous wives to live in this form for the rest of her days. But after the mermaid is caught by American tourists, David rescues and hides her away in his home, finding that, once out of the water, she begins to transform back into a woman. Now David must work to win Aycayia's trust while she relearns what it is to be human.

Salem, Massachusetts. Henry Trank usually has his feet firmly on the ground. But the dedicated nurse’s rational world upends when he wakes from a terrifying dream to find pine needles in his hair. And after he films himself sleeping, he’s shocked to see himself reliving the final brutal moments of a murdered woman. Finding it hard to make sense of what he’s just witnessed, he turns to the charming witch he’s been dying to date. But his skepticism shatters when a web of deadly magic and immortal menace leads him down a road that could end in death.

There hasn’t been a witch born in the Orchière clan for generations. According to the elders, that line is dead, leaving the clan vulnerable to the whims of superstitious villagers and the prejudices of fearmongering bishops.

A woman delves into science and superstition, fear and persecution, and the hope and courage of belief in an award-winning and internationally bestselling novel by Kateřina Tučková.

Brighten your day and dive into Flat Spell Tales! The author, Tony Martello, transforms ordinary events in our lives into fiction based on half-realities. Drop in and surf stories about romance, revenge, treasure hunts, and humor. He invites you along with him on a variety of adventures that take you into extreme nature, complex human relationships, and animal allegories.