She woke up in the 1960s with nothing but a secret gift:she could hear every animal’s voice as clearly as human speech.In a world of ration tickets, strict rules, and watchful eyes, survival was already hard.Yet in the family housing compound, she thrived.Stray dogs delivered warnings.Sparrows whispered gossip.Cows, cats, and even stubborn donkeys offered loyalty and help.While others struggled for food and favor, she solved crises wi...

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROWAND THE STORIED LIFE OF A. J. FIKRY“SLY, EXHILARATING . . . HILARIOUS.” —People (Book of the Week)"BRILLIANT AND HILARIOUS." —Chicago TribuneThis is the story of five women . . .Meet Rachel Grossman.She’ll stop at nothing to protect he...

Doppelmoral, die Ungleichheit der Geschlechter und das Internet, das niemals vergisstDies ist die Geschichte von fünf Frauen...Gestatten: Rachel Grossman. Sie tut alles, um ihre Tochter Aviva zu schützen, auch wenn es sie am Ende alles kostet.Gestatten: Jane Young. Sie kehrt dem beschaulichen Leben mit Tochter Ruby den Rücken, um sich zum ersten Mal um ein politisches Amt zu bewerben.Gestatten: Ruby Young. Sie ist überzeugt davon, dass ihre ...

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Forced to drop out of an esteemed East Coast college after the sudden death of her parents, Jane Moore takes a nanny job at Thornfield Park, the estate of Nico Rathburn, a world-famous rock star on the brink of a huge comeback. Practical and independent, Jane reluctantly becomes entranced by her magnetic and brooding employer and finds herself in the midst of a forbidden romance.But there's a mystery at Thornfield, and Jane's much-envied relationship with Nico is soon tested by an ...

Young Jane Young's heroine is Aviva Grossman, an ambitious Congressional intern in Florida who makes the life-changing mistake of having an affair with her boss—who is beloved, admired, successful, and very married—and blogging about it. When the affair comes to light, the Congressman doesn't take the fall, but Aviva does, and her life is over before it hardly begins. She becomes a late night talk show punchline; she is slut shamed and considered a blight on politics in general.

Before he became the hero of the Trojan War, young Odysseus battled monsters and magicYoung Prince Odysseus longs to be a hero. But when he and his travelling companions are captured on their way home to Ithaca, Odysseus learns that being a hero isn't always easy. Now Odysseus must fight dastardly pirates, survive the enchanted songs of sirens, slay monsters, and defeat a treacherous king. Worse still, Odysseus has to deal with girls: snooty, spoiled Prince...

Before she became Queen of the Amazons, young Hippolyta fought to break a goddess's curse . . .An ancient prophecy states that any Amazon who bears two sons must kill the second, lest he grow up to destroy all the Amazons. But Queen Otrere can't bear to sacrifice her baby, so she gives him to her daughter, thirteen-year-old Hippolyta, begging her to take the child to his father, Laomedon, King of Troy. In order to save her baby brother's life, Hippolyta must find a ...

The boy wizard's adventure comes to a triumphant conclusion in this magical tale by the acclaimed author of the Pit Dragon Chronicles.In flight from the magic visions that plague him, Merlin falls into the hands of the wodewose—wild folk who, according to legend, live in the company of wolves and devour children. But far from being wild, the wodewose are an enormous family of the unwanted, the abandoned, and the homeless. For once Merlin has found a place where an o...

The legendary wizard's early years are explored in this magical adventure by the acclaimed author of the Pit Dragon Chronicles.A boy is abandoned in the woods of medieval England. A year passes—a year of terror and hunger, of sleeping in trees and foraging for food, of outrunning packs of wild dogs—until one day a falconer captures and tames the boy as he would any passager, a young bird caught in the wild and trained. The falconer adopts the boy and teaches him all...

They came to Earth. They destroyed my life, took those closest to me, and now they’re set on making me their own.Ella Monroe has only one goal in life. To survive. Trapped in a world that’s been taken over, Ella is reminded daily of everything that she has lost because of the Vepar. What was supposed to be a fun night out to celebrate her birthday turns into a nightmare encounter at a Vepar club when she catches the eye of three terrifyingly alluring men.Po...

Before Atalanta became a Greek legend, she encountered a beast . . .Abandoned by her parents and raised by bears until the age of four, Atalanta has led a life of adventure. After her adoptive father is slain by a ferocious beast, the twelve-year-old Atalanta sets off on a journey of revenge, accompanied by the bear she treats as a brother. She discovers that a monster is terrorizing the land of Arcadia and that the king has assembled a party to track it down—led by...