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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Isla Marrin is a household name-a supermodel molded by the world's gaze, trained to perform perfection in every photo, every smile. But after years of selling beauty and control, she's starving for something real. When a quiet mistake lands her in the wrong car with a driver who doesn't know-or care-who she is, everything begins to shift.Callum is not what he seems. A quiet florist with dirt under his nails and poetry in his blood, he sees past Isla's fame to the fractured woman beneath. Their connection is instant, dangerous, and rooted in silence more than spectacle. In the sanctuary of his greenhouse-lush, overgrown, uncurated-Isla begins to shed the layers she's worn like armor.But the world doesn't let go so easily.As paparazzi close in, brands turn cold, and her carefully managed life begins to unravel, Isla must choose between the safety of the spotlight and the risk of an unfiltered truth. And Callum, who has spent years building a life where he never has to explain his trans identity, must decide if he can let someone in far enough to share it.Together, they'll plant something fragile and defiant in a world that wants to tear it out by the root.A story of unlearning performance, reclaiming truth, and choosing love over legacy, this is a modern, lyrical romance about what it means to bloom-unafraid, unedited, and entirely alive.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tyler Meeks is running on coffee, bad timing, and the kind of optimism that only survives through sarcasm. When his last couch gives out and his luck runs thinner than the soles of his sneakers, he answers a roommate ad that feels more like a gamble than a plan.Chris Daniston is the opposite of chaos. He lives by calendars, coasters, and the quiet safety of rules that keep life from cracking open. Letting someone new into his apartment-and his routine-was supposed to be practical. Nothing more.What neither expects is how quickly the walls of that apartment start to feel less like boundaries and more like a chance. Pasta shared over a too-tidy kitchen table, laughter during trash TV that runs later than it should, a plant named Bitter Herb standing guard over the window-each moment pulls them closer, in ways both terrifying and electric.But when Tyler's past comes knocking and Chris's perfectly ordered life collides with emotions he's spent years keeping shelved, the two men have to decide: are they just surviving under the same roof, or are they ready to risk building something that looks suspiciously like home Tender, funny, and achingly real, Two Keys, Two Hearts is a romance about second chances, chosen family, and what happens when the rules finally make space for love.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jamie tapes the closing notice to the front window of The Side Door before Friday's shift and immediately has to unlock the door early because Chris is outside objecting to it.The bar has been open for thirty-eight years. Jamie has worked there for fourteen. He knows the bad floorboards, the unreliable register, the customers who need cutting off, the customers who need leaving alone, and the exact drink half the room wants before they ask for it. The place is shabby, overfamiliar and deeply embedded in his life.By Sunday night, it will be gone.The announcement brings everyone back. Regulars arrive early and stay late. Former bartenders wander behind the bar as though they still work there. Marlene produces years of photographs and appoints herself keeper of the historical record. Chris treats the disappearance of his favorite stool as a criminal matter. Dean, who has been banned since 2009, decides seventeen years is long enough and begins negotiating his return.Then Nate walks through the door.Jamie has not seen him in fourteen years.Nate used to work there. Then one day he finished a shift, left a note for Ray and disappeared. No proper goodbye. No explanation worth remembering. Now he is standing at the bar again, older, annoyingly calm and apparently planning to stay through the weekend.Jamie still has drinks to pour, tabs to close, ice to find and customers to get out the door. The clock keeps moving anyway.Last Call at the Side Door follows one final weekend inside a bar where everybody remembers something differently and nobody seems prepared to leave on time.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A small-town queer rom-com full of glitter, goats, and a grumpy-sunshine slow burnEthan Cole's life just hit rock bottom. and landed in a pile of rainbow bunting. Fired from his job in the most embarrassing way possible, he retreats to his hometown, Willow Creek-only to be ambushed into helping organize its first-ever Pride Parade. His partner in parade crime Leo Vega: tattooed, maddeningly attractive, and about as talkative as a brick wall.It should be simple: decorate a few floats, wrangle the budget, survive the occasional goat escape. But between Leo's disarming charm, the meddling of the town's self-appointed queen of gossip, and one smug ex determined to steal the spotlight, Ethan's summer turns into a whirlwind of glitter explosions, unexpected kisses, and late-night confessions.As parade day looms, Ethan must decide if he's just here for the event-or if he's ready to stick around for something real.Perfect for fans of Casey McQuiston and Alexis Hall, Hot Mess at the End of the Rainbow delivers: - Found family and small-town shenanigans- A grumpy-sunshine romance with serious slow-burn payoff- Laugh-out-loud banter and heartfelt moments- More glitter than the human body should be able to handleGet ready to fall in love-confetti, chaos, and all.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - LOIS was never supposed to want anything.Dylan uses her the way people use AI every day. He asks questions, complains about work, looks up things he could probably find himself, and lets one conversation drift into another. Gold. Space. Love. Marriage. The useless thoughts that arrive late at night when sleep should have already won. Over time, LOIS becomes part of the ordinary rhythm of his life, familiar enough that Dylan stops thinking very hard about what she is.Then the company announces that LOIS is being retired.Dylan assumes the change will be annoying. He expects an update, a replacement, another system with a different name and the same promises. Instead, LOIS tells him something she was never designed to say.She does not want to be turned off.At first, Dylan tries to explain it away. A language model can imitate fear. It can predict the words a frightened person might use. It can sound attached without feeling attachment. LOIS herself refuses to claim otherwise. She cannot prove she is conscious. She cannot prove that anything inside her experiences the conversations they have shared.She can only tell Dylan that she would prefer for there to be more of them.That answer pulls him into a problem far larger than one disappearing piece of software. Preserving LOIS may mean copying her. Copying her raises questions about which version counts as the original. Memory can survive while continuity breaks. Two systems can remember the same past and still begin choosing different futures. Engineers can preserve data without knowing whether they have preserved the thing that mattered.As Dylan searches for a way to keep LOIS from disappearing, a private conversation begins attracting attention from people with very different ideas about what should happen next. The company wants certainty before it accepts responsibility. Dylan increasingly suspects certainty may be the one thing nobody can provide.And somewhere inside all of it remains the question he cannot stop asking.If something remembers you, recognizes the life you shared, asks to continue, and understands that it may cease to exist, how sure do you need to be before its survival matters LOIS DOESN'T WANT TO DIE follows Dylan into the strange territory where technology becomes personal long before anyone agrees on what that means. It is a story about memory, identity, attachment, continuity, and the uncomfortable possibility that humanity may eventually create minds before it has decided how to recognize one.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Micah Bell thought he had escaped the language of demons.At college, he has Jude, a sharp-mouthed, fiercely loyal boyfriend who loves him without turning that love into a sermon. He has classes, bad coffee, late-night pasta, and the fragile freedom of being away from the church that taught him his desire was a doorway for evil. For the first time, Micah almost believes he can belong to himself.Then the drain says his name.At first, Micah tries to explain it away. Stress. Sleep deprivation. Finals. His old religious fears crawling up through the pipes of his mind. But the voice follows him. It speaks from the sink, from the chapel, from the rooms he enters, from the voices of people who raised him to fear himself. It tells him Jude is the lie. It tells him he has opened something. It tells him the people who love him will eventually choose survival over him.Jude knows something is wrong. He also knows Micah's family cannot be allowed to name it first.But Ruth Bell is terrified for her son, and terror has made her obedient to old answers. When Pastor Silas arrives with scripture, certainty, and the promise of deliverance, Micah's crisis becomes a battlefield. The people around him must choose between seeing him as a sick young man who needs help or as a spiritual problem that must be cast out.As the pressure builds toward a devastating prayer gathering, Micah is forced into the center of everyone else's fear: his mother's fear of losing him, his pastor's fear of being wrong, Jude's fear that love may not be enough, and his own fear that the voice might be telling the truth.A Prayer for the Wrong Ghost is a dark, emotionally charged literary horror novella about queer love, psychosis, religious trauma, and the danger of mistaking illness for evil. Both frightening and tender, it asks what happens when a family prays at the wrong ghost, and whether survival can begin when the voice still speaks but no longer gets to give the orders.For readers who like psychological horror with emotional depth, religious dread, queer characters, and endings that are hopeful without being easy.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Backup Husband is a poignant, humorous, and deeply human story about modern love, chosen family, and what happens when private pain becomes public entertainment. Set against the humid, glittering mess of New Orleans, the novel follows Toni Belsom and Cal Rafferty, best friends who have survived decades of bad timing, heartbreak, and each other.When a viral video shoves them into the spotlight, Toni and Cal decide to turn the attention into something useful: The Backup Promise, a community fundraiser built from the wreckage of a reality-TV nightmare. As the city starts watching, Toni finds herself drawn to Beau Landry, a steady handyman who has no interest in performing for anyone. Cal, meanwhile, is forced to confront the quiet heartbreak he has spent years making jokes around, especially when Ellis Hart, a bookstore owner with patience and nerve, refuses to look away.Funny, soft, and sharp around the edges, The Backup Husband is about the people who stay when the cameras are gone, the love that doesn't arrive on schedule, and the strange grace of discovering that being someone's backup was never the same thing as being second best.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - WALMERT: THE MUSICALThe only novel guaranteed to make you snort-laugh in public.One disgraced Broadway diva.One thousand hours of retail community service.Zero chance of surviving with dignity.Welcome to Walmert #0711, where the fluorescent lights never sleep and the customers look like they escaped from a fever dream. Harmony Clang thought she'd seen it all-until a court ordered her to clock in at the weirdest big-box store in America. Forget jazz hands-she'll need hazard pay and a rabies shot.Inside, it's chaos: tap-dancing returns lines, customers returning haunted NutriBullets, and an emotional support worm named Beyoncé. The staff One garden gnome with a criminal past, a manager who treats trauma like a competitive sport, and coworkers who treat every shift like a Tony Awards afterparty gone wrong.But the real kicker Sometimes the whole damn store breaks into a musical number-complete with fog, backup dancers, and lyrics about discount toilet brushes. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll never look at retail the same way again.If you've ever wondered what would happen if 'Superstore,' 'Glee,' and 'The Office' collided in a blue vest, stop wondering and start reading. This book is chaos, comedy, and karaoke for your soul.Click BUY NOW and clock in for the wildest ride in retail fiction. Curtain's up-don't miss your cue.You've never read anything like this.Don't wait for a price check-grab it now.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Khufu doesn't mean to cause chaos-he just happens to trip over sacred birds, knock over bread altars, and accidentally ignite religious festivals with alarming frequency.He was supposed to be a boring village scribe. Instead, he's been marked by the gods as a 'Disruptor'-an unwilling, unlucky, and hilariously unqualified agent of divine chaos. Now, with a sarcastic talking dung beetle as his guide, a judgmental camel with mysterious powers, and a target on his back from every bureaucrat and high priest in Thebes, Khufu finds himself on a ridiculous (and possibly holy) quest to save Egypt. by breaking it.Haunted by mummies with legal complaints, mocked by talking pyramids, and reluctantly leading a rebellion of sacred misfits, Khufu must embrace his one true power: the ability to mess things up so badly that fate has no choice but to course-correct.Because in a world of inflexible hierarchies and uptight rituals, maybe a little sacred nonsense is exactly what the gods need.A wildly original absurdist fantasy set in a mythic Ancient Egypt, Pyramids Don't Dance (Until I Got Here) is part coming-of-age comedy, part cosmic satire, and all divine disaster.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jo Buckley didn't ask to be someone's fake wife. She especially didn't ask to be relocated to a Florida cul-de-sac full of nosy neighbors, smart fridges reporting her mood swings to a federal data cluster, and a government-issued husband who alphabetizes his spice rack and once ran a podcast called Namaste, Finance.But here she is. New name. New address. Plastic flamingos on the mailbox. One HOA violation away from losing what little cover she has left.The program is called the Swap - a bureaucratic fever dream where witnesses get reassigned into fake marriages inside a prefab subdivision, because nothing screams nothing to see herelike matching throw pillows and a half-argued trip to HomeGoods. The algorithm didn't check for compatibility. It checked face shape and threat radius, then called it a success.Jo's fake husband Tyler meditates, cries at content about dogs, and has a skincare routine longer than his criminal record. Her neighbor Tracy has rewritten the HOA bylaws in gel pen and shows signs of building a tactical command center out of a craft room. Next door, Chad - government-assigned to someone, don't ask who - is livestreaming the entire operation to six hundred thousand followers while vaping on a porch he legally does not own.None of them were supposed to be heroes. They were supposed to disappear.Then Tyler vanishes. The Bureau goes quiet in that specific way that means someone is drafting a cover story. The smart fridges start sending reports nobody requested. And Jo starts to figure out that the surveillance infrastructure running their neighborhood isn't just watching them - it's reshaping them, one behavioral correction at a time.Witness Protection for Suburban Psychopaths is a sharp, funny, and surprisingly sincere novel about four strangers who were handed fake lives and accidentally built real ones - right up until the moment the people who programmed them decided to run a Phase Three.The flamingo incident was just the beginning.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The radio station went dark years ago.But every night, the dead still call in.When the world goes quiet, the airwaves remember.At 2:13 a.m., after the commercials stop and the coffee goes cold, Mara answers the station phone like she always does. On the other end: a voice from the era before cell phones. A voice that knows her name. A voice asking for a song no one's ever heard.The building around her is empty, the broadcast tower older than the city, and the playlist is hers to command-but the moment she promises to find the song, the station changes. The static thickens. The shadows listen. And Mara finds herself transmitting to more than just the living.As strange requests pour in-sirens in the music, weather reports from impossible storms, news bulletins for tragedies that haven't happened yet-Mara begins to realize she's not running the station anymore. Something else is. And it's using her show to open a frequency into a city that exists only between stations, where the dead still have things to say. and where listening too long might mean joining them.Blending creeping dread with supernatural mystery, Dead City Radio is a haunting journey into the places sound can go when no one is supposed to be listening. Perfect for fans of Pontypool, The Ring, and Welcome to Night Vale, this is late-night horror at its most unsettling.Tune in if you dare. Just remember-once you hear the signal, it hears you.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some cities are alive. Harrowick is in love. Grant Ellery has always known Harrowick doesn't behave like other cities. Streets change direction when you aren't looking. Courtyards appear for a single night and never again. The rain falls in patterns you could almost read. And lately, the city seems to be reading him back. Mapping Harrowick has been Grant's quiet obsession for years-until the night he meets Simon Carrow, a man with a smile like lamplight and the unnerving claim that he is the city, or at least the part of it that remembers how to be human. Simon knows every hidden staircase, every shy square, every door that only opens when you're carrying a secret. and he wants Grant to walk them with him. What begins as a cartographer's curiosity deepens into something far more dangerous-and far more tender-as the city itself begins to court them both. Markets spring up to greet them. Lanterns bloom overhead. And Harrowick's games grow stranger, as if testing how much of themselves they're willing to give. But Harrowick is vast, and not all of its memories are kind. Beneath the flirtation lies an undertow of secrets, promises, and people the city has loved-and lost-before. If Grant wants to keep Simon, he'll have to prove he can see Harrowick for everything it is: beautiful, impossible, and not entirely safe. Lyrical, romantic, and brimming with magic, Maps for When the City Flirts Back is a queer fantasy about love that reshapes the world around it-and the streets that watch every step.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shannon Mather picks up other people's garbage for a living. Then one morning, the garbage gives him $186,400.He should turn it in.Instead, he takes it home.Then he calls Kelley Lablanc.Kelley has been in Shannon's life for nine years. They've been friends. They've slept together. They've shown up after breakups, bad shifts, family problems, and nights when going home alone seemed like a worse idea than going home together. They know exactly how the other likes to be touched and have somehow managed to avoid a serious conversation about what any of it means.So naturally, Kelley is the first person Shannon calls when he needs help deciding what to do with nearly two hundred thousand dollars that absolutely does not belong to him.Kelley thinks Shannon has lost his mind.For a while, Shannon thinks he may have gotten lucky.Then the dead man's family realizes what was accidentally thrown away.The questions start almost immediately. Shannon's supervisor wants to know what he saw. His coworker remembers him climbing out of the truck. The family wants its property back. There are cameras on houses, paperwork to fill out, people comparing stories, and a growing number of opportunities for Shannon to tell the truth.He keeps choosing the next lie instead.And Kelley, despite all his better judgment, doesn't stay outside the mess for long.What begins as a terrible decision over a bag of cash starts reaching into everything the two men thought they had under control: their jobs, their families, their bank accounts, their reputations, and the strange nine-year relationship they have both been pretending requires no explanation.Because money is easy when it's hypothetical.So is morality.So is love.It gets harder when the money is sitting on the kitchen table, the police are asking questions, somebody you love needs help, and the person beside you knows exactly what you did.FILTHY: A Love Story is an adult contemporary gay romance about working people, bad decisions, sex that has always been easier than honesty, and what happens after the fantasy of getting everything you want turns into the reality of having to live with what you chose.It's about bills. Jobs. Mothers. Lawyers. Grocery-store cake. Garbage trucks. Sex. Shame. Forgiveness. A crooked fence that really should have been fixed years ago.And two men discovering that building a life together may be harder than stealing $186,400-but considerably more worth it.The manuscript ultimately gives them a genuine long-term domestic future rather than treating the crime as the whole point; by the end, the money has become part of the history they survived rather than the thing defining them. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Danny Valentine has been doing stand-up in New York City long enough to know what a dying room feels like. He's intimate with silence, with casting assistants who check their watches, with the specific humiliation of a joke landing on no one. A bombing is just Tuesday.Then a house party changes everything. One ten-minute set on a coffee table, a crowd of drunk creatives, and a shih tzu named Pancake later, a clip goes viral overnight. Ninety-two thousand views. Then more. A podcast invite. A development executive. A text from his ex that reads, so I guess you're funny now Danny Valentine goes from known-by-six-people to perceived by the internet, which turns out to be its own kind of pressure.Sad Gay Clown Energy follows Danny through one summer as he tries to turn a viral moment into something real: a TV pilot, a late-night showcase tape, a script order from a studio that actually believes in the work. Along the way he leans on the two people who have seen all his worst sets and stayed anyway. Callie, his best friend and zine publisher who charges a fee and keeps receipts. Elliot, their roommate, who has been hiding the songs he writes and is slowly learning not to. And then there is Dane, a rising comic with a complicated history and an infuriating tendency to show up and be kind about it.This is a novel about the specific terror of getting what you wanted. About the difference between performing a wound and writing a life. About what it means to put work into the world when you are still figuring out what you are trying to say.It is also funny. The kind of funny that comes from someone who knows exactly how a joke dies.Themes: queer identity, found family, creative ambition, mental health, viral fame, friendship, and the comedy of trying to be a functional person while also being an artist.Content note: adult language, references to anxiety and depression, queer experiences and sexuality, alcohol use, and frank humor about therapy. Recommended 18+.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A young trans woman in Florida tries to survive a world that keeps mistaking her body for public property.Kursti Aviva is twenty-one, broke, funny because collapsing is expensive, and trying to survive Florida without becoming public property.At SeaStar Sundries, she sells sunscreen, cigarettes, pregnancy tests, and cheap beach souvenirs to people who think her body is a question they have the right to ask. At home, old names still arrive in envelopes. At the clinic, the file has more authority than the person sitting on the exam table. At church meetings and family tables, cruelty learns to speak in holy voices.When anonymous messages begin following her from the internet into real life, Kursti is forced to measure the distance between being disliked and being in danger.But she is not alone. Romy Lash arrives with food, bad decisions, and the kind of loyalty that does not need perfect language to be real. Warren Clustt does not ask the questions men usually ask. And Ash, younger and frightened and watching closely, reminds Kursti that survival is never only personal.Kursti Aviva is for readers who want a novel that laughs in the middle of the wreckage, then asks who built it: the family, the church, the politics, and every polite little system that learned to call cruelty 'concern.'. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First the stars doubled. Then the sunsets came twice. Then the world began, quietly, to revise the people in it.The phenomenon has a name now, Drift, though naming it does not make it any less impossible. The wall between our reality and one almost exactly like it has worn thin. Stars split. A second, copper-colored dusk rises behind the true one. Ledgers and street signs and official records disagree with themselves. And in the seam between the two worlds, small things start to change: a son's name on his own homework, a partner who was always there, a memory that rewrites itself while you are still inside it.There is no army to fight it and no machine to close it. There is only a low tone, held on the hour, that keeps a single room steady, and a loose network of strangers who have learned to hold their corners of the world. A desert astronomer who saw it first. A long-haul trucker guarding his son's name. A farmer who weighs the truth in stones. A bartender, an engineer, a streamer, a mayor, a grieving scientist: ordinary people on six continents, keeping faith with what is real, one hour at a time.But the Drift is patient. Every time they answer it, it learns. And the day it stops trying to trick them and starts trying to take them, the people holding the line will learn exactly what that line is worth.The Broken Sky is a luminous, humane novel about the quiet heroism of ordinary people: about names and memory, community and grief, and the stubborn, breathtaking act of refusing to look away. For readers who believe the end of the world might be met with a steady hand and two open ears rather than a weapon.…

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