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A one-eyed chicken, a chimpanzee forgotten in a cage, a tormented daughter searching for a link to past lives. Everday madness and monsters are explored against the backdrop of an indifferent Lagos in Uche Okonkwo's dynamic debut collection. Across ten evocative stories, A Kind of Madness dips in and out of the lives of Nigerians, weaving through their lunacy and longing, unravelling the tensions between mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, best friends, siblings and more.

Jonathan Abernathy is a loser. Unemployed and behind on his student loan repayments, the only thing Abernathy has in abundance is debt. When a secretive government loan forgiveness programme offers him a job he can literally do in his sleep, Abernathy thinks he’s found his big break. Hired as a dream auditor, he finds himself entering the dreams of white-collar workers to flag their anxieties for removal at night so they'll be more productive in the day. If Abernathy can at least appear competent, might he have a chance at a new life?

Now, for the first time ever, a new complete edition audiobook original of the timeless classic by Richard Bach. This is the story for people who follow their hearts and make their own rules, people who know there's more to this living than meets the eye: they'll be right there with Jonathan, flying higher and faster than they ever dreamed. Read by Marcus Lovett. Music composed by Ken Miller.

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother....

Evelyn is a Creole woman who comes of age in New Orleans at the height of World War II. Her family inhabits the upper echelon of black society, and when she falls for no-name Renard, she is forced to choose between her life of privilege and the man she loves. In 1982, Evelyn's daughter Jackie is a frazzled single mother grappling with her absent husband's drug addiction. Just as she comes to terms with his abandoning the family, he returns, ready to resume their old life.

Was als harmloser Familienurlaub in der Bretagne beginnt, endet im größten Unglück ihres Lebens. Familie Reiter verliert jeglichen Halt, als ihr vierjähriger Sohn Maxi vor ihren Augen entführt wird. Die Polizei und der charismatische Jean-Marie versuchen fieberhaft das Kind zu finden. Vergeblich. Fast zehn Jahre später erscheint im Rahmen eines Schüleraustausches ein Jugendlicher, der das Herz von Monika, der Mutter des entführten Kindes, sofort berührt. Könnte dieser Franzose wirklich ihr Sohn sein?

From gilded youth to 30-something. Young gay couple Tom and Christopher are steering through the minefield of changes in social and sexual mores of the 1960s and ’70s. Experimentation is the keynote of the age and Tom and Christopher dive in with a will as they move in and out of relationships and jobs in Britain and France, Channel-hopping, and bed-hopping through the years.

A free woman of color in the 1830s, Margaret Morgan lived a life full of promise. One frigid night in Pennsylvania, that changed forever. They tore her family apart. They put her in chains. But they never expected her to fight back. In 1837, Margaret Morgan was kidnapped from her home in Pennsylvania and sold into slavery. The state of Pennsylvania charged her kidnapper with the crime, but the conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. Yet, the heart of this story is not a Supreme Court ruling.

Mike Hayes fought his way out of a brutal childhood and into a quiet if lonely life - before he met Verity Metcalf. V taught him about love, and in return Mike has dedicated his life to making her happy. He’s found the perfect home, the perfect job; he’s sculpted himself into the physical ideal V has always wanted. He knows they’ll be blissfully happy together. It doesn’t matter that she hasn’t been returning his emails or phone calls. It doesn’t matter that she says she’s marrying Angus. It’s all just part of the secret game they used to play.

Inspired by a true story, A Land More Kind Than Home is a spellbinding, heartbreaking tale about cruelty and innocence - and the failure of religion and family to protect a child. It is thick with stories and characters connected by faith, infidelity, and a sense of hope that is both tragic and unforgettable.

As a teenage girl, Ginny marries Linus Lancaster, her mother's second cousin, and moves to his Kentucky pig farm "ninety miles from nowhere." In the shadows of the lush Kentucky landscape, Ginny discovers the empty promises of Linus' "paradise" - a place where the charms of her husband fall away to reveal a troubled man and cruel slave owner. Ginny befriends the young slaves Cleome and Zinnia who work at the farm - until Linus' attentions turn to them, and she finds herself torn between her husband and only companions.

In Atlanta, Benjamin, a white-passing man of Nigerian heritage, is wondering what his life has been made up of, broken relationships, attempts to forge an identity from others’ memories. In Lagos, Margaret, a Nigerian single mother, is trying to decipher and finally destroy the mental malaise that has troubled her for as long as she can remember, by winding her way through a complex family history.

Sam Lattimore meets Elizabeth Church in 1970s Halifax, in an art gallery. The sparks are immediate, leading quickly to a marriage that is dear, erotically charged, and brief. In Howard Norman's spellbinding and moving novel, the gleam of the marriage and the circumstances of Elizabeth's murder are revealed in heart-stopping increments. Sam's life afterward is complicated. Sam has begun "seeing" Elizabeth - not only seeing but holding conversations with her, almost every evening, and watching her line up books on a small beach.

Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit für die Familie Hansen. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta erzählt die Geschichte der nächsten Generation. Hamburg 1927: Amala Hansen, Auguste und Eduard setzen alles daran, ihr gemeinsames Lichtspieltheater mit Restaurant endlich zu eröffnen. Andere Familienmitglieder sind mit ernsteren Themen beschäftigt: Bernhard Siegl, Helenes Verlobter, sitzt im Gefängnis und hat kaum noch Hoffnung, der Vollstreckung der Todesstrafe entgehen zu können.

Ein mitreißender Familienroman voller Schmerz und Trost, der im Werk des Autors an seinen großen internationalen Erfolg Patria anknüpft. Jeden Donnerstag geht der alte Nicasio zum Friedhof und besucht das Grab seines Enkels Nuco. Er spricht mit ihm, erzählt dem Jungen, was vor sich geht in der Welt. Am 23. Oktober 1980 gab es im Keller der Schule, die der sechsjährige Junge besuchte, eine gewaltige Propangasexplosion, die das gesamte Erdgeschoss zerstörte. Fünfzig Kinder und drei Lehrer kamen bei dem Unglück ums Leben; darunter auch Nuco. Der ganze Ort Ortuella steht unter Schock.

Herausfordernde Zeiten für die Hansens. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta erzählt die Geschichte der nächsten Generation. Hamburg 1927: Die junge Generation der Hansens startet mit viel Elan in ihr Vorhaben, das alte Kontor in ein Lichtspieltheater mit Restaurant umzuwandeln. Doch die Bauarbeiten schreiten eher langsam voran und es gibt immer wieder unvorhergesehene Hürden. Gelingt es Amala und Auguste, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen? Helene Siegls Verlobter wird wegen Mordverdachts festgenommen. Niemand in der Familie kann glauben, dass Bernhard wirklich die Tat begangen hat.

Aufregende Zukunftspläne für die Hansens. Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Ellin Carsta erzählt die Geschichte der nächsten Generation. Hamburg 1926: Amala Hansen ist auf gutem Weg, sich von ihrem Unfall zu erholen. Doch eins wird immer deutlicher: Sie muss sich von ihrer Traumkarriere als Schauspielerin verabschieden und im Leben neu orientieren. In Berlin zieht sie mit Eduard durch verschiedene Varietés und ist fasziniert von den Persönlichkeiten, mit denen ihr Cousin verkehrt, doch irgendwie spürt sie, dass dieses Milieu für sie nicht das richtige ist.

It is dedicated to women everywhere who might have had some rough, tough life experiences. It is my hope that these particular stories will inspire and uplift. Each of the stories is about three unique women, the difficulties they faced, and the changes that happened for them when they challenged their circumstances and eventually found solace, instead of pain and joy in place of despair.

Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families. Miguel Guerra, who grew up in poverty in Venezuela before his family's relocation to Chicago, could not be more different from his partner Chad Merry, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen - struggling with the deterioration of her marriage - offers the couple her eggs, they begin scrambling for a surrogate to carry the child, finally settling on Miguel's old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright.

Cult favorite Tony Vigorito invokes a kind of chaos theory in Nine Kinds of Naked that gleefully turns any expectation of time, space, or plot on its head.