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The United States may still be the world's strongest country, but it now faces real challenges at both a global and regional level. The unipolar world which was dominated by America after the Cold War is gone. Unlike the Soviet Union, China is both a military and economic competitor and it is actively challenging the norms and institutions that the US used to shape an international order during and after the Cold War.

From Denne Michele Norris and Electric Literature, a vital anthology of essays by trans and gender-nonconforming writers of color, sharing stories of joy, heartbreak, rage, and self-discovery. Featuring seventeen essays by trans people of color—spanning writers, scientists, actors, activists...

Planet Earth has been a familiar concept for a mere fraction of recorded history. Until about the mid-1600s, most humans thought of Earth as immobile, likely either dim or simply invisible from the Moon or anywhere else in the heavens, and not (like the planets) participating in what Galileo...

The profound coming-of-age story of a young boy growing up in rural Virginia, and the historic summer that would change his life forever. During the summer of 1959, Virginia’s Prince Edward County is entirely consumed by passionate resistance against, and in other corners, support for, the desegregation of schools as mandated by Brown v. Board of Education. Benjamin Rome, the 10-year-old son of a chicken farmer in one of the county’s small townships, struggles to comprehend the furor that surrounds him, even as he understands the immorality of racial prejudice.

In a moment of senseless violence, Malcolm Vaughn’s life is ripped away from him, leaving his wife and child to make sense of the shattered existence that remains. Sarah, a lab scientist and Malcolm’s widow, retreats into herself, refusing to return to work when even the most mundane activities require enormous effort. Malcolm’s son, Harry, just eight-years-old, goes cold, detaching from the grief that is rippling around him. Meanwhile, Vietnam vet Deckard Jones, Malcolm’s best friend, is forced to come to terms with yet another loss.

His life's work and ambition fulfilled, Francis Brimm believes the only metamorphosis left him is a slow, affable decline toward death. So he returns to the town of his youth and to his sister, Muriel, whose life has been as uneventful as Francis's has been exciting.But life is not about to let Francis go. Faces from the past haunt him, surprises in the present unsettle him. And suddenly, two people who thought their lives were over find themselves struggling not to be overwhelmed by new knowledge, hidden truths, and unexpected danger.

Musician Marty Lambert’s life is already falling apart when he receives the phone call that changes everything. His brother, Perry, has killed himself in New York, and Marty - with his marriage on the rocks and his record company sliding into insolvency - decides to leave San Francisco to investigate exactly what went wrong. His trip sends him headlong into the life his only brother left behind - his pleasures and disappointments, his friends, his lovely girlfriend, Jane - and finally, to the home they shared growing up in Virginia.

After sending their only daughter off to boarding school, Cookson Selway and his wife, Ellen, travel to London to escape their empty house. But their quiet hotel has guests other than those on the register, and the vacation turns into a journey not only to another city but to another time. As Selway is drawn into a series of mysterious encounters with a young girl who died in a fall from his hotel window sixty years earlier, the characters of her life become more real to him than those of his own.

In June of I985, while her teenage sons held their half sister down, Theresa Cross beat her I9-year-old daughter, Sheila, unconscious and then stuffed her into a 2' x 2' storage locker. After three days, the knocking, kicking, and cries stopped. Theresa and her sons dumped the girl's body in the desolate High Sierras....

Bonny Lee Bakley was shot to death in a car parked on a dark Hollywood side street. Eleven months later Robert Blake - her husband, the father of her child, and the star of the classic film In Cold Blood and the popular 1970s TV detective series Baretta - was arrested for murder, conspiracy, and solicitation. Did Blake kill his wife?

The New York Times bestselling novel from Dennis Lehane is a gripping, unnerving psychological thriller about the effects of a savage killing on three former friends in a tightly knit, blue-collar Boston neighborhood. When they were children, Sean Devine, Jimmy Marcus, and Dave Boyle were...

Med "Under bordet" vender Dennis Lehane tilbage til gaderne fra New York Times-bestselleren "Mystic River". Marv bestyrer en bar, der fungerer som bank for mafiaen. I baren arbejder Bob, som redder en sølle hundehvalp og møder en arret kvinde. Kun en tåbe ville finde på at røve den bar, hvor New Englands hårdeste gangstere kanaliserer penge - under bordet - i den underverden, som hersker i Bostons barmiljø. Historien skydes i gang med høj kaliber, da to tåber røver Marv's Bar, og den skrider med stor hast over isen i Bostons grå, urbane snelandskab.

Seven legendary unproduced screenplays, resurrected and reinvented for BBC Radio 4 The annals of movie history are full of lost treasures – spectacular scripts from world-renowned writers that could have been classics, had they only been made. Now, for the first time, some of these forgotten...

Die Jagd auf die Dämonendrillinge spitzt sich zu! Angeblich halten sie sich in der Black Angels Cathedral versteckt - nur dass in ganz London keine Kathedrale mit diesem Namen existiert! Als Dorian Hunter schließlich die verhängnisvollen Ereignisse der Hassfurter Fastnacht von 1532 entschlüsselt, ist es zu spät - die Falle schnappt zu und der Kampf scheint endgültig verloren... "Fastnacht" ist der dritte Teil der großen "Faustus"-Jubiläumstrilogie, die mit knapp 50 Sprechrollen die bisher aufwendigste Produktion von DORIAN HUNTER darstellt. Mit Gaststar Dieter Hallervorden als Dr. Faust!

Marvin Cohen folgt dem theriaksüchtigen Puppenmann Donald Chapman bis nach Schloss Alkahest, auf dem der Vampir Demur Alkahest angeblich gemeinsam mit seinem Onkel Lucius die gefährliche magische Droge herstellt. Kurz darauf ist auch Marvin Cohen spurlos verschwunden ...

Die Jagd nach ihrem neugeborenen Sohn Martin führt Dorian und Coco vom Himalaya bis an die panamaische Ostküste. Hier in Portobelo ist Dorian in seinem dritten Leben als Georg Rudolf Speyer vor 400 Jahren in See gestochen. Aber fährt die "Torquemada" tatsächlich heute noch als Geisterschiff über die sieben Meere – mit Martin an Bord?

Verfolgt von Heckenschützen, haben Dorian Hunter und Coco Zamis das Basislager auf dem Amai Dablang erreicht. Das Versteck der angeblichen Yetis scheint nur noch einen Steinwurf entfernt – und damit der geheimnisvolle Ort, an dem Hekate Dorians und Cocos Sohn Martin gefangenhält ...

Dorian Hunter bleiben noch sechs Tage, bevor Hekates tödliches Gift seine Wirkung entfaltet. Sechs Tage Zeit, um seinen neugeborenen Sohn zu finden! Aber wohin hat seine Widersacherin Martin verschleppt? Die Spur führt Dorian und Coco nach Nepal zu einem der höchsten Gipfel des Himalaya. Ein lebensgefährlicher Aufstieg beginnt ...

Coco Zamis ist tot – gestorben in Mexiko, vor den Augen von Dorian Hunter. Bald jedoch erhält Dorian eine Nachricht von Demur Alkahest, einem der führenden Dämonen aus dem Widerstand gegen Magus VII. alias Olivaro. Angeblich ist Coco am Leben und befindet sich auf der Insel Neubritannien. Dorian folgt der Spur – und wagt sich auf das Territorium des allmächtigen Duk Duk.

Die Flucht vor Olivaro hat Dorian Hunter und Coco Zamis bis auf den offenen Pazifik geführt, wo sie ohne Treibstoff für den Außenbordmotor in ihrem Schlauchboot dem Tod entgegentreiben. Gequält von Durst und Verzweiflung verliert Coco das Bewusstsein, und Dorian wird von finsteren Visionen heimgesucht, als eine fremde Jacht zielgenau auf das Boot zusteuert.