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This unique collection for connoisseurs of detection done female style brings back six of the greatest fictional women sleuths of the era of gaslights and horseless carriages. Long out of print and unobtainable, these celebrated women 'tecs were once nearly as famous as the fictional sleuth of Baker Street himself. Their fame waned in the long decades of the 1930s through the '80s, when female sleuths took a backseat to Sam Spade, Nero Wolfe, and the like. But, they are back to baffle and thrill contemporary readers in The Legendary Women Detectives edited by Jean Marie Stine.

From the mind of R.L. Stine, the creator of Goosebumps, comes a new series that will give you chills, make you laugh, and entertain like only R.L. Stine can. Join Ivy, the club president, as she takes listeners into the strange, the bizarre, and the frightening world of R.L. Stine. Starring Ariel Winter (Modern Family) as Ivy, R.L. Stine's Story Club is part of the GoKidGo universe of shows for kids. R.L. Stine’s Story Club: let the thrills and chills begin! Recommended for ages seven and up.

A few generations from now, the coastlines of the continent have been redrawn by floods and tides. Global powers have agreed to not produce any new plastics, and what is left has become valuable: Garbage is currency. In the region-wide junkyard that Appalachia has become, Coral is a “plucker", pulling plastic from the rivers and woods. She’s stuck in Trashlands, a dump named for the strip club at its edge, where the local women dance for an endless loop of strangers and the club's violent owner rules as unofficial mayor.

Hearts of the West is a unique collection of classic Western tales that combine action and romance. This anthology showcases nine stirring, long-forgotten frontier tales with appeal to both men and women. It is a unique collection of frontier stories that combine action and romance.

Wylodine comes from a world of paranoia and poverty - her family grows marijuana illegally, and life has always been a battle. Now she’s been left behind to tend the crop alone. Then spring doesn’t return for the second year in a row, bringing unprecedented, extreme winter. With grow lights stashed in her truck and a pouch of precious seeds, she begins a journey, determined to start over away from Appalachian Ohio. But the icy roads and strangers hidden in the hills are treacherous.

There are hours of listening pleasure in The Legendary Detectives: 9 Classic Novelettes Starring the World's Greatest Super-Sleuths. You'll find gathered together a clutch of classic mysteries starring nine of the world's most famous fictional sleuths: The Thinking Machine, the Old Man in the Corner, Max Carrados, Morris Klaw, Sanders of the River, Reggie Fortune, Father Brown, Craig Kennedy, and, of course, the greatest and most famous of them all - Sherlock Holmes.

Follow Mary Jade VonStine as her world is turned upside down with the murders of her parents. Now, Mary must go to a faraway kingdom, and live with her distant royal family. How will Mary adapt to a strange country and her family? When her family is all a bunch of monsters mostly vampires, werewolves, and other undead creatures, how will Mary survive and cope living with them, and what of the assassins who seek to kill her? Who knows - there may be more to Mary than just your typical southern tomboy

Though they may all be siblings beneath the skin (and graveyard as well!), these vampiric sisters are as different as any eight women could be. One, "The Good Lady Ducayne", prefers to acquire her nourishment through more scientific means. Another doesn't even drink blood at all; her approach to draining the life from her victims is somewhat more direct (but we think you'll agree that "Luella Miller" deserves the appellation "vampire" every bit as much as any of the rest).

The thrill-a-minute stories the writers of the original movie, The Mummy, with Boris Karloff, and its many sequels and remakes, used for research. Fans of those films will find the origins of: the scene in which the sacred formula for eternal life is secreted in the base of a statue of Isis; as well as the scenes in which mummies are brought back to life by burning a rare Egyptian herb; where a modern woman, who is the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian princess, begins to turn into a mummy herself; where mummies can only be truly destroyed by fire; and many others

Die Näherin Ernestine Rehbein, genannt Stine, lebt in sehr einfachen Verhältnissen im Berlin der Gründerzeit. An einem Abend lernt Stine den jungen, aber kränkelnden Grafen Waldemar Haldern kennen. Der Adlige - angetan von ihrer natürlichen Art - verliebt sich in die Kleinbürgerin und macht ihr trotz der Standesunterschiede einen Heiratsantrag. Als Stine ablehnt, kommt es zur Katastrophe.

In Dänemark war "Meter pro Sekunde" der erfolgreichste Roman der letzten Jahre. Seine besondere Mischung aus Humor, Menschenfreundlichkeit und Sprachkunst macht es zum Buch unserer Tage. Kühe, Windräder und die sonderbare Welt einer Internatsschule: Eine junge Mutter zieht mit Mann und Baby nach Westjütland, ins "Land der kurzen Sätze". Eine einfache Unterhaltung wird für sie zum Wagnis, und das Leben selbst ist auf einmal voller Hindernisse. Mutterschaft, Ehe und Fahrprüfung: alles kaum zu schaffen.

Das Thema dieses späten Romans - die Liebe eines Mädchens aus niederem Stand und eines Adligen - hatte Fontane schon in "Irrungen, Wirrungen" behandelt. Er selbst schätze STINE sehr, wor allem wegen der kraftvollen Figur der Witwe Pittelkow. STINE ist bester Fontane, ein gelungenes Stadt- und Sittenbild mit lebendig gestalteten Personen.

Stine lebt in einfachen Verhältnissen. Als sich der junge Graf Haldern in sie verliebt und um sie wirbt, zeigt sich bald, dass diesem Glück etwas Großes im Weg steht: Standesgrenzen, die dem Adligen nicht erlauben, eine Bürgerliche zu wählen. Doch Haldern will Stine nicht aufgeben... Fontanes Roman löste seinerzeit einen gesellschaftlichen Skandal aus.

Die junge Ernestine Rehbein, genannt Stine, lebt in einfachen kleinbürgerlichen Verhältnissen. Gemeinsam mit ihrer verwitweten Schwester Pauline, die zwei Kinder aus zwei verschiedenen Ehen hat, lebt sie ein Stockwerk über der Wohnung ihrer Schwester in einem Wohnhaus in der Invalidenstraße 98e in Berlin. Bei einem abendlichen Diner, mit dem Pauline in kleiner Gesellschaft den Pflichten ihrer Liaison mit dem alten Grafen Haldern nachkommt, lernt Stine den kränklichen jungen Grafen Waldemar Haldern kennen.

Wie schon beim Erscheinen von "Irrungen, Wirrungen" löste Fontanes Werks einen Skandal aus...

When 10-year-old Genevieve Donovan's Nannie dies mysteriously in the Lowcountry river she's loved and lived near all her life, Genny and her family are heartbroken. In 1960s South Carolina, new industry is encroaching on old country, and Genny fears her grandmother may have gotten in the way of so-called progress. Even Daduh, Nannie's dearest friend and longtime housekeeper, doesn't know what to make of Nannie's death. Was it an accident, or did the drunkard son of a local businessman play a role?

This second volume of a must-listen collection contains 15 bibliomysteries by best-selling and award-winning authors.

A newly married woman longs, irrationally, for a silk umbrella, a husband chases away his wife's beloved cat, a betrayed mother impulsively sacks her housekeeper. Underneath the surface of these precisely observed tales of love, marriage and family life in mid-century Copenhagen pulse currents of desire, violence and despair, as women and men dream of escaping their conventional roles and finding freedom and happiness - without ever truly understanding what that might mean.

Une expérience de lecture joyeuse, mémorable et pleine de vie. L'autrice y construit un univers à la frontière entre Jonathan Coe et Camélia Jordana. Le pays des phrases courtes, c'est l'ouest du Jutland, région rurale située à l'ouest de la péninsule danoise. L'héroïne et narratrice de ce roman s'y installe après avoir longtemps vécu à Copenhague.

Konger og dronninger, guldalderens kunstnere og forfattere - dem har Maria Helleberg skrevet romaner om i 30 år. Nu vender hun blikket mod sin egen vilde familiehistorie. Det er en roman om to stærke kvinders vandring gennem et liv, der går brat ned og langsomt op. Om oldemoren Mariane, der kunne være blevet frue på en herregård, men i stedet ender i Vester Vandet, alene med 12 børn, da hendes mand stikker af for at prøve lykken i Amerika. Om mormoren, Marie Dusine, der derfor vokser op uden en far eller andre mandlige autoriteter.