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Dave, Jimmy und Sean kannten sich schon als Kinder. Nun, 25 Jahre später, kreuzen sich die Wege der drei grundverschiedenen Männer erneut unter tragischen Umständen, als Jimmys Tochter Katie ermordet aufgefunden wird. Sean, inzwischen Polizist, leitet die Ermittlungen, und schon bald steht sein alter Freund Dave unter Verdacht. Dennis Lehanes Weltbestseller, ausgezeichnet mit dem Deutschen Krimipreis, verfilmt und mit zwei Oscars prämiert.

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened - something that ended their friendship and changed the boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay - demons that urge him to do horrific things. When Jimmy's daughter is murdered, Sean is assigned to the case.

Während eines Aufenthalts auf der kanarischen Vulkaninsel La Gomera, den sie mit Schreiben und ausdauernden Naturbeobachtungen verbringt, wird Marica Bodrožić eines Tages gebeten, auf einen Hund aufzupassen. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit übernimmt er die Regie über ihre Tage und Wahrnehmungen. Ein überzeitliches Gespräch mit den vielen anderen Tieren ihres Lebens ist die Folge. Es entsteht eine Reflexion über Mensch und Natur, und über Angst, Verletzlichkeit und Trauer, die, einmal durchschritten, ein Hohelied des Lebens einleitet.

Mehr als ein Thriller - Ken Folletts neuester, actiongeladener Roman führt tief in die Verstrickungen unserer globalisierten Welt und stellt die Frage "Was wäre, wenn..." "Eine fesselnde Geschichte, und nur allzu realistisch" - Lawrence H. Summers, ehemaliger US-Finanzminister. In der Sahara folgen zwei Geheimdienstagenten der Spur mächtiger Drogenschmuggler. Sie riskieren ihr Leben - und ihre Karriere. Nicht weit entfernt macht sich eine junge Witwe mit Hilfe von Schleusern auf den Weg nach Europa. Als sie sich gegen Übergriffe verteidigen muss, hilft ihr ein Mitreisender. Doch auch er scheint nicht zu sein, was er vorgibt.

Erst vor wenigen Wochen haben Cedrik und seine Freunde Mistle End vor dem sicheren Untergang bewahrt. Nun entpuppt sich ein harmloser Ausflug nach Edinburgh als gefährliche Mission. Der junge Druide, dessen Gaben weiter gewachsen sind, rettet Blumenelfen vor einem Dämon. Als Cedrik ihm in die Tunnel der Stadt folgt, stößt er auf eine unterirdische Welt, in der der Distelorden gemeinsam mit den Schattendruiden die Vernichtung der magischen Welt plant. Cedrik, Emily und Elliot rufen ihre Freunde zu Hilfe und stellen sich mutig den dunklen Kräften entgegen.

Edgar Freemantle wird bei einem Unfall lebensgefährlich verletzt und verliert seinen rechten Arm. Er hat große Schmerzen und zieht sich auf eine Florida-Insel zurück, wo er sich aus therapeutischen Gründen der Malerei widmet. Von der Insel scheint eine unheimliche Macht auszugehen: Dinge, die Freemantle malt, erscheinen in der Wirklichkeit, was er ausradiert, verschwindet - auch Menschen.

Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell.

Dash Samuels, a grumpy reindeer-shifter, is faced with an ultimatum: marry by Christmas Eve or lose his family inheritance. The holidays are his least favorite time of the year, and now he needs to find a mate? Panicked, he devises a plan to marry a woman to play his wife for the ten years needed to secure the inheritance. But what he never anticipated was the whirlwind of emotions that would follow, or that fate was going to play a hand in this pretense.

When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were friends. But then a strange car drove up their street. One boy got in the car, two did not, and something terrible happened -- something that ended their friendship and changed the boys forever. Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective, Jimmy is an ex-con, and Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay - demons that urge him to do horrific things.

Summer, 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels comes to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the criminally insane. Along with his partner, Chuck Aule, he sets out to find an escaped patient, a murderess named Rachel Solando, as a hurricane bears down upon them.

But nothing at Ashecliffe Hospital is what it seems. Is he there to find a missing patient? Or has he been sent to look into rumors of Ashecliffe's radical approach to psychiatry?

Asher Wells hat endlich seine Gefährtin gefunden. Er hätte wissen müssen, dass seine temperamentvolle Gefährtin nicht zur Vernunft kommen würde. Obwohl sich ein Sturm nähert, ist sie wild entschlossen, den Pyramid Mountain zu besteigen. Glücklicherweise gelingt es ihm, ein Notsignal in ihren Rucksack zu stecken....

Riley, a New York workaholic, has health issues that leave her no choice but to move to a small town to lead a calmer life. She hates the huge mansion she bought on a whim and stands out like a sore thumb in the cheery community of Mystic.

Hayden is the alpha hellhound of his pack. He never imagined that his life would intertwine with fate in such a profound way. Everything changed the day he was asked by someone to whom he owed a blood debt to rescue her. Her name was Fallon, and she had been kidnapped by an ancient dragon – a shifter who had taken her to try and force the compliance of one of his assassins.

Nora Blake, known only as the Ghost, is an assassin who thrives in the shadows. When she refuses to kill her current target, the Shadow League sends another assassin to kill her as an example to others.

The small town of Mystic River was known for its secrets and its shadows. But the most mysterious figure of all was Colby, a man with a reputation as a smuggler and a gangster. Yet, to the surprise of many, Colby proves to be a valuable ally to the town, with a deep understanding of the Shadow League that threatens them all. In exchange for information, Colby only asks that the town provide safe passage for the Shadow Sisters and the women they protect.

Winter had no choice but to follow the orders of her father and marry Sean Campbell, the alpha of an enemy clan. After the wedding she is locked in Sean’s room until he is ready to claim her. She escapes before he can mark and claim her. Staying in Campbell territory is not an option and going back to her home clan is impossible. Hoping that no one would find her in a tiny, little town in Alaska, she found her way to Mystic River. Colby Reynolds takes her into his band of spies, now things are looking up for her.

Tess thought her life was ordinary until her mother's deathbed confession shatters her world. Raised as a human, Tess discovers her biological mother was a shifter and had been shot in a big game hunt on Kodiak Island. Armed with her mother's diaries, Tess embarks on a journey to Mystic River in search of the truth. Derek, the Mystic River deputy sheriff, finds an unconscious shifter in town and immediately knows she is his fated mate. However, when Tess awakens and he hears her story, he realizes she may be in danger.

Nova’s life was shattered when her father, the alpha, banished her fated mate, Mark, and he left without her. When she refused to bend to her father’s will he locked her in a cage for weeks in her fox form. Instead of complying with their plans to mate her to the second in command, she made plans of her own. Upon her release, Nova never returned to her father’s home, she moved to an old hunting lodge on the edge of the skulk lands and made it her own. She is independent with a job outside of the compound and has learned to be happy with herself.

Nicole is done with men. Her husband left her for a thinner and younger model and never looked back. She has worked hard to be an independent, successful woman without a man. Although she is still a curvy woman, she is healthy and loves outdoor activities. Climbing Pyramid Mountain is the next adventure on her list of things she wants to accomplish. So why does she feel drawn to Asher, the know-it-all US Forest Ranger telling her she can’t make her climb?

Jackson Miller (Jax) left the SEALs to return to his small hometown, Mystic River, Alaska, where all the residents are shifters. He’s a grumpy bear shifter and the sheriff.