The sixteen stories and two screenplays that make up Volume One of the Emmy® Award–winning Netflix Original series Love, Death & Robots.Featuring bestselling authors and screenwriters from all over the globe, curated by filmmakers Tim Miller and David Fincher.Stories and screenplays by Alastair Reynolds, Alberto Mielgo, Claudine Griggs, David W. Amendola, Joe Lansdale, John Scalzi, Ken Liu, Kirsten Cross, Marko Kloos, Michael Swanwick, Peter F. Hamilton, Steven Lew...

Danger brought them together; his secret could be their undoing.When Lady Josephine Tweedale escapes an abduction and flees into the woods, she finds refuge in a small gamekeeper’s cottage, completely unaware that the man tending the fire is actually Jude Dexter, Earl of Pendryn. Desiring to simply keep her safe for the night, Jude allows her mistake to stand. If she knew the truth, Society would force them into a marriage that neither of them wanted....

This classic sci-fi tale from a master storyteller explores the life of a vampire on a Mars-like colony as she struggles to hide her true nature.On the rosy sands of a distant Earth colony, Sabella lives a quiet life in her isolated home—carefully hiding her vampirism from society.Sabella may not be undead, but she is painfully allergic to sunlight, possesses supernatural strength and speed, and feeds on fresh blood. In her youth, Sabella seduced a number o...

Welcome to the Furry United Coalition Academy, more commonly known as FUCN'A. The n standing for newbies.Being accepted into the new academy was a dream come true. Who didn't imagine as a cub or pup or even foal, growing up that they might one day serve and protect the shifter race? There was no higher caller than becoming an agent of the most prestigious and secret agency in the world.Teaching there presents it's own set of challenges, and even the administration staff isn...

An exclusive retreat. An isolated hotel. A storm that changes everything.The Tornivan Hotel in the remote Scottish Highlands is Jules’s last shot at success. When a wealthy investor and his wife arrive for a weekend stay, it feels like the chance she’s been waiting for. But as a blizzard arrives, the hotel’s guests and staff find themselves snowed in with no way out, and they all have secrets of their own. When one of them disappears without a trace, panic spreads ...

As the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis.This book explores these inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and governance, gender and marginalized communities. By examining these three themes in relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book uncovers how unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together invaluable insights from a range of internation...

The king's heir will bind her to him for good in this marriage of convenience romance by Jackie Ashenden.Pregnant by mistakeQueen by His Majesty's commandIn a moment of dark despair, a destitute Solace Ashworth gave up her newborn to palace officials. She was sure his wealthy father, King Galen Kouros, could provide the life she never could. Now she'll do anything to get her baby back—even blackmail the king!Facing the woman he shar...

Caring for eight siblings and burdened by a bankrupt estate, Jane Sedgwick happily accepts her aunt's invitation to the festive London season. This could be her chance to find a wealthy husband and get the entire family out of debt . . .But the upper crust of London bristles at Jane's blunt country ways—with one exception: Lord Glendale. The handsome lord, not in the market for a wife, finds himself amused by Jane's frank manner and he wagers that—within the month—even provincial J...

"Es ist ein magischer Ort, an dem einfach alles möglich ist." Seit einer Weile schon können die Tiere des Raubtier- und Exotenasyls Ansbach/Wallersdorf ihre Käfige verlassen und das angrenzende Wäldchen betreten. Bis heute wussten ihre Pfleger nichts davon. Jetzt werden sie es erfahren. Und auch ihr werdet lesen können, welche spannenden Abenteuer die Raubtiere dort erlebt haben. Selbst der Waldwächter, der in Form eines kleinen, schillernden Tannenbaums dieses Waldgebiet beschützt, wird v...

Lyric theater in ancien régime France was an eminently political art, tied to the demands of court spectacle. This was true not only of tragic opera ( tragédie lyrique) but also its comic counterpart, opéra comique, a form tracing its roots to the seasonal trade fairs of Paris. While historians have long privileged the genre's popular origins, opéra comique was brought under the protection of the French crown in 1762, thus consolidating a new venue where...

26 unheilvolle Kurzgeschichten rund um den romantischsten Tag des Jahres Folgen Sie uns zu verfluchten Dates, seltsamen Treffen, Affären, Rachepläne und Liebschaften, die in den Tod führen oder solche, die auf Youtube zelebriert werden. Doch zwischen reumütigen Eheleuten und Stalkern gibt es auch Mörder, Serientäter und Killer in Ausbildung, Kannibalen, Verrückten und missverstandenen Verfluchten. Und Monster ... Mit Fell oder Tentakel ... Geister, Trolle und Dämonen … Denn auch dieses Wes...

Eat Pray Love meets Want.Wayward Women is a unique, searingly honest, devastatingly raw two-person memoir about the friendship, travels and sex lives of two fiftysomething women finding their way again after divorce.It’s an entertaining, emotional and geographical journey that bounces around the world from Florida to India, Lapland to Hong Kong, as the authors -both leading travel writers - relay their experiences as midlife women – love, loss, parenthood, divorce, menopaus...