On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down from the window of Stuyvesant High School. Moments later, terrified and fleeing home to safety across the Brooklyn Bridge, he stumbles across a girl perched in the shadows, covered in ash, and wearing a pair of costume wings. With his mother and sister in California and unable to reach his father, an NYC detective likely on his way to the disaster, Kyle makes the split-second decision to...
Perfume chemist Josh Stevens has spent years making a life for himself in New York City and climbing up the corporate ladder of Kiss and Makeup, a global cosmetics company. Although his cousin, Emma, whips up soul-mate predictions with their late grandmother's pink enchanted mixing spoon each Monday during Batter Up night, he'd rather experiment with vanilla perfume oil than vanilla extract any day. Buttermilk Falls and magic are not for him. Little did he know that a run in last...
Let me make this clear right here, right now: I, Halley Dawson, do not care that Preston Wright is kissing other women. Not a lick. Not at all. Nuh-uh-freakin'-uh. I do care that he's doing it six feet away from me behind a gaudy velvet curtain-making him my competition in this year's kissing contest. Why do I care, you ask? Because I've had an unfortunate crush on the insufferable idiot since I was sixteen years old, but I also know it's never going to happen. He's...
His body is as chiseled as Adonis. His lips are as sculpted as David. And his ego is the size of the Guggenheim. You know the type: wolfish smile and the gravity of a black hole-the kind of man who sucks all the air from the room the second he enters it. My cocky boss thinks this internship was wasted on me, and he doesn't hesitate to let me know. But he's wrong, and I'm going to prove it to him. If I can stay away from his devil lips, that is, lips that cut me down and kiss me in...
Die Welt hat Wayne McLair vergessen – so zumindest verkünden es die Zeitungen. Zu viele Abenteuer fanden im Verborgenen statt, sehr zum Leidwesen des Gentlemangauners. Dieser ersinnt einen neuen Plan, das aufbrausende Inspectorchen O'Neill nach allen Regeln der Kunst an der Nase herumzuführen. Womit der Meisterdieb jedoch nicht gerechnet hat, ist die recht eindringliche Aufforderung O'Neills an McLairs falsche Identität Liam W. Craney, dem Raubzug als Berater beizuwohnen. Eine...
Aus einem fensterlosen Labor, das von keinem Menschen betreten wurde und dessen einzige Tür unter ständiger Beobachtung stand, ist eine Unze Radium im Wert von drei Millionen Dollar verschwunden. Unmöglich!, meint Prof. Dexter. Sein berühmter Kollege van Dusen ist indigniert. Sein Wahlspruch lautet: Nichts ist unmöglich, und so macht sich der große Kriminologe daran, das mysteriöse Geschehen aufzuklären. Komplikationen treten auf: Eine unbekannte Französin macht sich verdächtig, im Hafen wird...
One by one, the great Allied generals died or disappeared mysteriously. On the eve of the biggest drive of the war, the High Command was being decimated, their military secrets falling into the hands of the German enemy. Only G-8 saw the connection between these dastardly attacks and the strange war cripple who haunted the streets of Paris, creeping on his belly like a snake. Only the Master Spy sensed the power of the Serpent-a human monster who could hypnotize the strongest man at a glance of...
Evie is now queen of the protectors and rumored queen of the demons as well, but dealing with the black magic she can't control is far more dangerous than either of those titles. The protectors have fallen, demons along with them, and earth is not far behind. Can Nix, Trex, Connor, and Azi help Evie survive a power no one understands? And that no one knows how to stop? With random portals opening everywhere on earth, a war to be won, and Cex tracking her every move, can the...
An Oprah Editor's Pick, named as one of Globe & Mail's Best 100 Books of 2014, and one of Quill & Quire's Best Books of 2014 "Bewitching riddle of a novel." – O, the Oprah Magazine "Baillie reminds us of the power of novels to renew the world." – Booklist From the author of the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated novel The Incident Report comes a hypnotic novel following Heinrich Schlögel from Germany to Canada, where he sets out on a solo hike into the interior...
Jimmy hat von seinem Großvater 200 Dollar bekommen und soll auf dem Pferdemarkt in Silver City ein Pferd und einen Sattel kaufen. Begleitet von seinem besten Freund «Kleiner Bär» gelingt es ihm, beides von einem Händler zu erwerben. Schon nach kurzer Zeit entdecken sie einen Plan unter dem Sattel, der Joe Potter, einem berüchtigten Banditen, gehörte. Sollte der Plan etwa auf das Versteck eines Schatzes hinweisen?
Wertvolle Briefmarken liegen achtlos verstreut im Keller eines Hochhauses. Und es gibt da zwei schräge Vögel, die nur bei Nacht «fliegen». Außerdem Blüten, die nicht duften, und zwei Herren, die verduften wollen. Was wieder mal ein klarer Fall ist für Privatdetektiv Donald Kolumbus! Und natürlich ist auch Sohn Aki mit von der Partie, genauso wie seine Schulfreundin Alexandra und ihr Klassenkamerad Timo.