Bist du bereit, dich einem Fremden auszuliefern? Der Dark Room ist verrucht. Männer bezahlen viel Geld, um eine Nacht lang mit ihren Gespielinnen tun zu können, was immer sie wollen. Die Frauen sind ihnen völlig ausgeliefert. Von alldem ahnt Allison nichts, als ihre Mitbewohnerin einen Weg vorschlägt, wie sie ihre Geldsorgen mit einem Schlag loswerden kann. Gerade ihre sanfte Unschuld ist genau das, was einer der Kunden des Dark Rooms dringend benötigt. Als Allison sich ihm schließlich...
Olivia When you find out that your fiancé is arrested for swindling over ten million dollars from his clients, you do what any sane woman would do. You escape reality and go undercover, trading in your city-girl Louboutins for country-pumpkin cowboy boots. It wasn't a forever change-it was temporary. I only had to stay here until things back home got straightened out, or so I thought. Casey I was riding horses before I was walking, or at least that was what they told me. I always knew I...
Supernatural creatures are no longer keeping their existence secret from humans, which is causing panic around the globe. To investigate, monitor, and-when necessary-take down dangerous supernatural offenders, an international task force was established: The Special Threat Assessment Team. STAT agent Jestina Ridley is in London with her team investigating a suspicious kidnapping. Over her radio, Jes hears her teammates being savagely attacked. She runs to help, but she's too late. The only...
In einer schicksalshaften Nacht in San Francisco wird Police Detective Brandon Hunt von einem wolfsähnlichen Wesen angefallen und schwer verletzt. Und nicht nur das: Er mutiert selbst zum Monster und ist fortan vor seinen eigenen Kollegen auf der Flucht. Hunt muss sich immer neuen Herausforderungen stellen und kann niemandem trauen – am wenigsten sich selbst. In sechs Folgen wird die Geschichte um Werwolf Brandon Hunt zu einem einzigartigen, hochspannenden Audio-Erlebnis das Gänsehaut...
Walter had spent all summer counting down the days until the first day of school. He couldn't wait to make new shark friends and finally swim into his classroom for the first time. But the first class picture of the year changes everything. Walter realizes there is one BIG difference between him and his shark classmates. After his discovery, Walter spends his day trying anything he can think of to blend in with the other sharks, only to learn that the things that make us feel like we...
Scarred and battered loner Zane Taylor has a gift with animals, particularly horses, but he's at a total loss when it comes to knowing how to handle women. Even though he's sworn off love, he can't seem to stay away from Bryn Callahan. He's known for being a horse whisperer, but can't seem to find his voice at all where Bryn is concerned. Bryn Callahan has a heart for strays, but she is through trying to save damaged men. She vows to only date nice guys, which is a...
Over the years, color has dazzled, enhanced, and clarified the world we see. The experimental palettes of painting, the advent of the color photograph, Technicolor pictures, color printing, and so on have created a vivid and vibrant continuum. These ways of representing reality in «living color» echo our evolutionary reliance on and indeed privileging of color as a complex and vital form of consumption, classification, and creation. It's everywhere we look, yet do we really know much of...
Gegensätze ziehen sich an … oder aus? Die neue humorvolle und romantisch-prickelnde Reihe von Saskia Louis. Callie Panther versucht, ein guter Mensch zu sein – auch wenn die ganze Welt auf ihren nächsten großen Fehltritt wartet. Allen voran ihr herrischer Vater, ihre drei überbesorgten Brüder und nicht zuletzt die verhasste Presse, die sie bereits ihr ganzes Leben lang verfolgt. Dabei ist alles, was die Millionenerbin will, die Vergangenheit hinter sich zu lassen, ihr Herzensprojekt zu...
August Wilson (1945-2005) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who had a particular talent for capturing the authentic everyday voice of Black Americans. As a child, he read off soup cans and cereal boxes, and when his mother brought him to the library, his whole world opened up. After facing intense prejudice at school from both students and some teachers, August dropped out. However, he continued reading and educating himself independently. He felt that if he could read about it,...