Ryan Douglass: The Taking of Jake Livingston

UK 2022, 248 pp., brochure, € 14.95
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Andersen Press
16-year-old Jake Livingston sees dead people everywhere. But he can't decide what's worse: being a medium forced to watch the dead play out their last moments on a loop or being at the mercy of racist teachers as one of the few Black students at St Clair Pre. Both are a living nightmare he wishes he could wake up from. ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ness: More Than This

UK 2013, 480 pp., pb., € 17.95
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Walker
A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies. Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive. How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place? - As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Ness: Burn

UK 2022, 384 pp., pb., € 14.95
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Walker
In 1956 Sarah Dewhurst's father shocks her by hiring a dragon to work the farm. The dragon is a smaller blue rather than the traditional larger reds, though even the reds are now scarce. When the blue dragon, Kazimir, unexpectedly saves Sarah and her friend Jason Inagawa from the attentions of the racist police deputy, Kelby, everything changes. Sarah is ... Weiterlesen

George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo

UK 2018, 368 pp., brochure, € 10.99
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Bloomsbury
The debut novel by George Saunders, is about Abraham Lincoln and the death of 11-year-old son, Willie, at the dawn of the Civil War. The American Civil War rages while President Lincoln's beloved young son lies gravely ill. In a matter of days, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln ... Weiterlesen

Steve Berman (ed.): Wilde Stories 2012

The Year's Best Gay Speculative Fiction. USA 2012, 225 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Lethe
Prepare to skew your view of the world: where jinn in the clouds of a future Tel Aviv aren't spirits but powerful computer programs; where a suburban garden hides unrecognizable bones; to a colony planet that outlaws color; or the night when a lonely lab tech finds a spambot flirting with him. The latest volume in the acclaimed »Wilde Stories« ... Weiterlesen

Rachel Haimowitz: Power Play 2 - Awakening

USA 2012, 247 pp, brochure, € 19.95
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Brandon is a man reborn. Newly awakened to the notion of consensual power exchange and the submissive urges inside him, he begs for a second chance from the man who opened his eyes to this world: Silicon Valley superstar Jonathan Watkins. But no birth is absent pain, and Brandon's is no exception. He fears he's not strong enough to see ... Weiterlesen

Chris Adrian: The Great Night

UK 2012, 293 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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Granta Books
It's Midsummer's Eve and three heartbroken lovers are trapped in San Francisco's Buena Vista Park: the verdant home of Titania and Oberon's embattled court, the stage-set of a homeless theatre troupe and the lair of the malevolent, vengeful Puck. When Titania, collapsing under the weight of her own recent grief, sets Puck free, all hell - quite literally - breaks ... Weiterlesen

Ally Blue: Love, Like Ghosts

USA 2010, 271pp., brochure, € 12.69
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At age 11, Adrian Broussard accidentally used his mind to open a portal to another dimension. Now, ten years later, he's successfully harnessed his strong psychokinetic abilities. In the process, he's learned the lessons which have become the guiding principles of his life. Absolute truth, absolute control, always. Sticking to his personal code of ethics has never been a problem, ... Weiterlesen