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In the alleyways of 1920s New York, long before their adventures would take them west, young immigrant and small-time gangster Jakub Danowicz meets Cheshire Bloom, an eccentric teenager in possession of explosive magical powers. Their partnership propels them from petty theft to turf wars to industrial espionage, flinging them into the paths of colorful friends and foes. But to Jakub, Cheshire is more than a fellow gangster. If only Cheshire knew... This prequel to the comic Bang! Bang! BOOM! is 260 pages and includes Del Borovic's full color illustrations. Recommended for readers 17+ due to violent and sexual content.
For almost seven years Jakub Danowicz pined after his friend and fellow criminal cohort Cheshire Bloom, until tragic circumstances brought them together. Now they’re...dating? Lovers? It might take just as long for them to figure it out! If their personal lives weren’t challenging enough, right after having come out on top of Brooklyn’s criminal underworld, they find themselves in the crosshairs of Manhattan’s most dangerous and unpredictable gangsters. Throw in cops and the feds, and New York just might be too hot for even this infamous fire-starter and his partner. This conclusion to the prequel ends just before the beginning of graphic novel series Bang! Bang! BOOM! Due to its violent and sexual content it is recommended for mature readers only.
The setting is a German university town at the turn of the millennium. Promising young researcher Teresa Rinaldi, a post-doc in sociology, struggles with anxiety about the future, while her boss, chair of sociology Jakub Feldmann, is suddenly faced with issues he has long evaded.
Tricia Goyer tells the little-known but true story of the orchestra started by prisoners in Hitler's Mauthausen death camp. This courageous orchestra played the American national anthem as Allied troops arrived to liberate the camps. Around the orchestra story, Tricia weaves the fictional stories of a beautiful member of the Austrian resistance, the American GI who loves her, and a young prisoner who fakes his way into the camp orchestra in a desperate attempt to stay alive.
Scarlett Fife has BIG feelings. And she's about to get into BIG trouble. From the bestselling Maz Evans comes a heartfelt and hilarious story about anxiety, friends and family, perfect for fans of Roald Dahl's Matilda. Praise for Scarlett Fife: 'A laugh-out-loud story full of warmth, Big Feelings and explosive results' Dominique Valente, author of Starfell 'So funny, you'll explode with laughter' Sam Copeland, author of Charlie Changes into a Chicken Scarlett Fife has BIG FEELINGS. And when she tries to squash them down, they come back up with shocking results! Scarlett knows she should be happy about all the big news that her family wants to share. But the worry is making her dizzy, and bei...
A Finalist for the 2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction A biting portrait of British class, politics, and money told through five interconnected families and their rising—and declining—fortunes. Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune. Riding on the high of a best-selling biography of Vermeer and field...
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From the bestselling author of Irena’s War comes a gripping novel of historical fiction based on one of the most extraordinary true stories of World War II—an uprising behind the walls of Auschwitz concentration camp. October 1944: In the long, narrow undressing rooms in Auschwitz-Birkenau, prisoner Jakub Bak toils under the scrutiny of SS guards. Like other members of the Sonderkommando, Jakub was selected on arrival for an unthinkable job: sorting through the clothes of the dead and moving their bodies from the gas chambers to the crematoriums. In this hell within a hell, Jakub clings to the promise he made to his murdered father—to live, at any cost—and to the moments he is able t...
Flight Sergeant Dennis Copping took off in a single-seat Kittyhawk fighter for a short flight across Egypt. He never arrived at his destination. The aeroplane was later found crash-landed, virtually intact, three hundred miles into the Sahara with no sign of the pilot.
Pepper has been having some amazing adventures. First, while at an outdoor celebration with his favourite little girl, the small puppy was carried off by balloons and dropped down smack in the middle of Cat City, where puppies are anything but welcome. Risking paw and tail, his new kitty friend Cinnamon helped him escape the city and its many dangers, but now, just as it appears Pepper will finally be reunited with his little girl, he and Cinnamon cross paths with an evil black cat named Meredith, who is in possession of a magical green stone that she uses to mesmerize and control everyone . . . and they find themselves in big trouble once again! Trapped in a cold basement by Meredith and her fiancé, Zoltar the “magician, the friends are forced to rehearse to the point of exhaustion in preparation for Meredith’s “new show.” Will they ever manage to escape? Will Pepper ever find his way back home? Or will they become the hottest new act in show business ... against their will? Only time will tell. Escape from Cat City 2: Secret of Zoltar is a story of friendship and perseverance, and the exciting sequel to Escape from Cat City: Pepper’s Incredible Adventure.