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Een hartverwarmende roman met een vleugje Japanse mystiek over verschillende vormen van liefde en omgaan met verlies. In een steegje in Tokio zit al meer dan honderd jaar een café dat zorgvuldig gezette koffie schenkt. Dit cafeetje biedt de klanten een unieke ervaring: de kans om door de tijd te reizen. In Voordat de waarheid uitkomt brengen vier nieuwe gasten een bezoekje aan het verleden of de toekomst.

Ein weiterer, ganz normaler Tag, und Jake befindet sich plötzlich in einem Wald voller Monster, Gefahren und Chancen ... Es war ein Tag wie jeder andere, als sich die Welt plötzlich veränderte. Das Universum erreichte eine Schwelle, deren Existenz der Menschheit völlig unbekannt war, und der Zeitpunkt für die Integration in das riesige Multiversum war gekommen … einen Ort, an dem man sich nur auf Stärke und Macht verlassen kann. Jake, ein scheinbar durchschnittlicher Büroangestellter, wird plötzlich in diese neue Welt geworfen; in ein Tutorial voller Gefahren und Möglichkeiten.

Lisa Weedas Großmutter heißt Aleksandra und stammt aus der Ostukraine. Über dieses Land, auf das heute alle Welt schaut, hat ihre Enkelin einen fulminanten Roman geschrieben. Die Nummer 1 aus den Niederlanden, übersetzt in zahlreiche Sprachen. "Meine Familie lebt in einem Gebiet, das seit hundert Jahren von Konflikten geprägt ist. Das Schreiben dieses Buches ist meine Art, mich an dem Kampf zu beteiligen. Es ist ein Denkmal für meine Familie, die durch all diese schrecklichen Ereignisse hindurch stark geblieben ist."

Rollo is tired of humans. Their cities are dirty, and their gizmos are dumb. He knows mankind is wrecking the planet. Rollo's dream is to escape to the Sierra Nevada mountains where he can live alone and be free of other people. There's just one problem with his scheme: Rollo's hungry human stomach. No matter how much food he carries in his backpack, he always runs out. Inevitably, Rollo has to come back to the "messed-up, man-made world" or starve. All this changes when Rollo finds an old, dusty, bear suit in a costume shop.

Dr. Tarak Kapoor cannot sleep. He has just taken a job as a telemedicine doctor in Texas. Garnet is two days and five airports away from his home in Mumbai. Tarak is so tired, but his body thinks it's lunchtime in India. By 2:30 a.m. he is wandering the empty streets. To his surprise, he finds a brightly lit pay telephone next to a set of broken traffic lights. Even though it's the middle of the night, people drive up one by one and make calls. Why on earth are they here at this hour? Who are they calling? The mystery deepens when Tarak retraces his steps the next day.

Jono is a lonely fisherman who must work hard to pay the debt he owes. Uncle Mike is a factory owner trying desperately to stay above water. The Baai is a tiny town, peopled with those who have fished the same way for generations. And now there are no fish.

Charlie Knight's life was supposed to be spectacular. Instead, he's in his late thirties, and still playing tennis against the same people every Friday night. Still jogging the same streets every morning. Still treating the same patients every day—fixing the high blood pressure and arthritic knees of folks who've known him since he was a kid. But Charlie has a secret plan to escape. A plan to live the life he was destined to, even if the woman he was meant to do it with has left him behind.

Roxi was a lonely girl in the forest till she met Zorian a prince who got hurt in the forest and roxi helped him heal.

Amane is ten years old when she discovers she's not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in 'clean', sexless marriages. But Amane's parents committed the ultimate taboo: they fell in love, had sex and procreated. As Amane grows up and enters adulthood, she does her best to fit in and live her life like the rest of society: cultivating intense relationships with anime characters, and limiting herself to extra-marital sex, as is the norm.

What do you do when something magical happens...in your own backyard? Linda and Earl are a happy couple. Although married for many years, they have never had children. Still, they are content being together, and watching reruns of "I Love Lucy" keeps them close. That, and a magical garden that never seems to grow what they plant. One day Earl finds a set of infant toes in the loam. He and Linda plant them and watch in amazement as the garden produces an enormous baby.

Im Wettlauf mit der Zeit begibt sich Daria auf die Suche nach dem sagenumwobenen Schwert Caliburn. Nach den zutiefst erschütternden Ereignissen vor einigen Wochen hat sich Darias Leben drastisch verändert, aber dieses Mal hat sie sich bewusst dazu entschieden. Die ihr vom Rat des Ordens auferlegte Strafe gibt ihr die Möglichkeit, sich auf die Suche nach der einzigen Waffe zu begeben, die ihrem Erzfeind gefährlich werden kann. Doch das mächtige Verbotene Artefakt war nicht umsonst ein ganzes Jahrtausend unauffindbar, denn nur, wer sich würdig erweist, wird Caliburn finden.

Qianze has not seen her father in eleven years, since he walked out of her life the night of her fourteenth birthday and disappeared without a trace. But then she gets a call—there is a man on the porch of her childhood home, and he’s asking for her. This man isn’t the Ba Qianze remembers: he is much older, more fragile, and worst of all, haunted by a half-forgotten prophecy.

Was würdest Du tun, wenn Dir Deine Tochter anvertraut, dass sie magische Kräfte hat? Für Alice, eine talentierte Malerin und liebevolle Mutter, ist die Antwort klar: Sie wird ihre Tochter mit allen Mitteln beschützen. Als ihre Tochter ein Stipendium für ein mysteriöses Elite-Internat erhält, ahnt Alice noch nicht, dass sie beide Teil einer uralten Prophezeiung sind. In einer Welt, in der Engel unerkannt unter uns leben und vergessene Märchen mehr Wahrheit enthalten als gedacht, muss sich Alice ihrer Bestimmung stellen.

The regulars at the magical Café Funiculi Funicula are well acquainted with its famous legend and extraordinary time-travel offer. Many patrons have reunited with old flames, made amends with estranged family and visited loved ones. But the journey is not without risks, and there are rules to follow.

Fiona, better known as eco-influencer @FoliageFifi, hasn't left her apartment since her boyfriend, Ed, died. But when Ed's favourite houseplant randomly appears on her doorstep with an anonymous note, Fiona takes this as a sign. Pouring Ed's ashes into the soil, she finds the plant has vibrantly flowered. And can... talk? There's only one logical explanation: Ed is back. This time as a houseplant. Intent on keeping Ed alive, and making up for her past mistakes, Fiona slowly ventures back out into a world on the verge of a climate crisis.

Mina Daaé dreams of performing on Broadway. Like her great ancestor, Christine Daaé, who sang at the prestigious Palais Garnier a hundred years before, Mina has the voice of an angel. But after graduating from Conservatoire de Paris, fortune fails her. Until the circus comes to town.

The Seeker blends inspirational Visionary Fiction with Mythic Fiction in this epic reimagining of the tale of Icarus. In his plunge from glory, rather than perishing in the waters of the Aegean, Icarus is rescued by a passing mariner, fictional demigod Amitayus, who is unaware of his own divinity. The two embark on an epic odyssey, braving impediments only Zeus himself could whip up, as Amitayus seeks the truth that will earn him a place in Elysium. Told through the lens of Greek Classicism, The Seeker puts a modern spin on classic archetypes that lend it unmatched spiritual resonance.

One year after the death of his beloved musician father, thirteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house—a sneaker, a broken Christmas ornament, a piece of wilted lettuce. Although Benny doesn't understand what these things are saying, he can sense their emotional tone; some are pleasant, a gentle hum or coo, but others are snide, angry and full of pain. When his mother, Annabelle, develops a hoarding problem, the voices grow more clamorous.

In a hard and hungry season thousands of years ago, a young wolf is turfed out of his pack and left to fend for himself among strange, clever new animals who walk on two legs, hunt with detachable claws and teeth, eat meat but wastefully discard the bones and tend fire as part of their pack. Eventually, one of these young animals carefully approaches Wolf. He explains that he’s a human, and that his kind and Wolf’s kind aren’t so different: they hunt the same prey, they're hunted by the same predators and they need help surviving.

Dr. Charlie Knight fears life is passing him by. He's in his late thirties, and treading water as a family doctor in the same small town he grew up in. Just as he's planning his escape, something changes. He develops a gift, an extraordinary insight for any doctor: a sense of exactly how many days his patients have left to live. But in a country town like Marwick, his patients are his friends. His own family. The people he grew up with, and the girl he still loves. And Charlie discovers this gift may not be a gift at all.