My enemy is invisible. Nameless. Faceless. Controlled. Puppets on strings. Sheep in the masses. And I've turned into their number one plaything.When I transferred to East Point Prep, I had one mission in mind: find the people responsible for murdering Magnolia. Someone within these entitled walls killed my only friend and threw her overboard like she was human trash.Now, they'll pay.My best friend told me everything through weekly emails, leaving co...

I had a plan. It was simple. Find my sister, bring her home, and then disappear where no one could find us—especially him.But you know what they say about plans? They have a tendency to go awry, like a train off the tracks barrelling in the wrong direction… toward the wrong people.That's what happened. Them. Jericho. Sheppard. Arrow. The mafia heir and his two best friends. They came into my life with obsession bleeding through their veins, and the only per...

Long before the world bowed down to the band, Whispered Words bowed down to me.I was a simple girl in a small town, working two jobs and juggling college full-time—all in the name of a better future. Until them...Kieran. Cal. Ash. Rad.They marched into my world like a hurricane, infiltrating every aspect of my life and taking control until they owned every inch of me. I became their obsession, their toy to use, and I ate up every second of it.Lookin...

Long before the world bowed down to the band Whispered Words, they shattered me to pieces when they walked away.Now, after five years apart, they're back to fix what they broke. If I let them...Before our fall, Callum, Rad, Kieran, and Asher were mine. My everything. My rock stars. My future.Until they weren't.All it took was one night. One massive lie. One false accusation. And they were gone. Leaving me with a broken heart, a restraining o...

My enemy is invisible.Nameless. Faceless. Controlled. Puppets on strings. Sheep in the masses.And I’ve turned into their number one plaything.When I transferred to East Point Prep, I had one mission in mind: find the people responsible for murdering Magnolia. Someone within these entitled walls killed my only friend and threw her overboard like she was human trash.Now, they’ll pay.My best friend told me everything through weekly emails, leaving coded clues in her si...

The consequences of my actions have finally caught up to me, and I'm staring the devil in the eyes.And he wants revenge.When I woke up bound to a chair on Shadow's mysterious island with Shepp unconscious and my sister standing beside me, I knew I was in trouble.And boy, was I right.Between the fight pits, new enemies, new allies and separations, secret loves, betrayals, and revenge, I'm thrust into a whole new world of survival.But ...

My enemy is the Apocalypse. Anonymous. Faceless. Shrouded in cloaks and deception.They are the true puppeteers of East Point, pulling the strings of their minions and controlling the masses of sheep. They're cowards hiding behind false identities and blank addresses.And guess who's still their number one plaything? Yep, that's me.When I came to East Point, I had one mission in mind: find the people responsible for killing my best friend. And boy, di...

Nella vita di Hunter Cabot, solo due cose contano più di ogni altra: l’azienda di famiglia e sua moglie Sara. Circondato da familiari interessati a spingerlo a vendere l’azienda, e con accanto una moglie che lotta per poter mettere su una famiglia tutta loro, Hunter non può fare a meno di soccombere alla pressione… Mandando alla deriva il suo matrimonio, tra discussioni quotidiane e distanze sempre più incolmabili.L’ambiziosa Sara, la donna che una volta Hunter ammirava, si sta sma...

"Lieblingsfarbe Pink, Sextipps aus den alten Schriften: Kein muslimischer Gelehrter bricht mit mehr Rollenbildern als Ali Ghandour."Nabila Abdel Aziz, NEONVerschleierte Frauen, übergriffige junge Männer: Das Verhältnis von Muslimen zum anderen Geschlecht gibt Rätsel auf. Ist da etwas schiefgelaufen? Und ob! Ali Ghandour zeigt, dass Liebe und Sex in der muslimischen Tradition als Geschenk Gottes genossen, doch unter modernem westlichem Einfluss streng reglementiert w...

Die Terroranschläge am 11. September 2001 erschütterten die im Westen weit verbreitete Vorstellung, Islamismus stelle allenfalls eine Bedrohung für die muslimische Welt dar. Die USA reagierten auf 9/11 mit der Ausrufung eines Krieges gegen den Terror; zahlreiche westliche Regierungen schlossen sich diesem ›Krieg‹ an und erließen oder verschärften Antiterrorgesetze. Hinzu kam eine hitzig geführte Debatte darüber, was Terrorismus mit dem Islam zu tun hat und wie sich der Islam zu den westlic...

Eine der frühesten deutschen Übersetzungen von «Tausendundeine Nacht» ist zugleich eine der schönsten: Johann Heinrich Voß, der bis heute unübertroffene Homer-Übersetzer, hat im 18.Jahrhundert auch die orientalischen Geschichten übertragen. Seine lange zu Unrecht vergessene Übersetzung ist mit dieser Ausgabe neu zu entdecken. Es gibt heute philologisch anspruchsvolle, auf das Arabische zurückgehende Ausgaben von «Tausendundeine Nacht», und dennoch lohnt es sich, die Fassung von Johann Hein...

Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist and economist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second World War as an underground political activist in Occupied Belgium and during his subsequent internment in a Nazi prison camp. Mandel's faith in human nature and in the working classes survived Nazi oppression and the murder of much of his family in the concentration camps. He retained his connec...