'Playful and witty, What A Time To Be Alive is a charming meditation on coming-of-age, privilege, and grief' Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls 'Jenny Mustard writes with honesty and wit about the strange, mundane, and wondrous aspects of youth' Ay¿egül Savä, author of The Anthropologists 'A beautifully plangent coming-of-age novel . . . will go straight to your heart' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'A timeless writer . . . reminiscent of the power and grace of writers like Rachel Cusk and Raven Leilani' Molly Aitken, author of Bright I Burn 'A measured and gorgeous writer, in command of the senses in a way that makes the reader feel alive' New York Times Some people move to the big city hoping to find themselves - Sickan Hermansson isn't leaving it up to chance. Twenty-one, friendless, without money but not without hope, Sickan's arrival at Stockholm University represents a new start. Her lonely childhood in a small southern town has left her utterly unprepared for intimacy: for friends, for sex, for love even. But Sickan is determined to build a new version of herself from the ground up, to make up for lost time. To simply be normal. Just as Sickan seems to be finding her first ever friends, in whose company she finally feels safe, she meets Abbe: beautiful, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too. Unlike Sickan, Abbe seems completely at ease in his own skin. A solid foundation then, on which to build a relationship? Maybe? What A Time To Be Alive is a story of class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. But above all, it's a story of firsts: the first party you're actually invited to, the first moment you fall in love, the first time you betray a friend. The first time you ask yourself, how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice, to finally fit in?

A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side). She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear. But then she meets Susan Burke. Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband and 15-year-old stepson Miles. They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor. Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home. The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supernatural. However when she enters the house for the first time, she begins to feel it too, as if the very house is watching her, waiting, biding its time . . . The Grownup, which originally appeared as 'What Do You Do?' in George R. R. Martin's Rogues anthology, proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world's most original and skilled voices in fiction.

In this stunning work of speculative urban fiction, Redfern Jon Barrett breaks down the binary between utopia and dystopia—presenting an ambitopian vision of the world's first gay state. A glittering gay metropolis of 24 million people, Berlin is a bustling world of pride parades, polyamorous trysts, and even an official gay language. Its distant radio broadcasts are a lifeline for teenagers William and Gareth, who flee toward sanctuary. But is there a place for them in the deeply divided city? Meanwhile, young mother Cissie loves Berlin's towering high rises and chaotic multiculturalism, yet she's never left her heterosexual district—not until she and her family are trapped in a queer riot. With her husband Howard plunging into religious paranoia, she discovers a walled-off slum of perpetual twilight, home to the city's forbidden trans residents. Challenging assumptions of sex and gender, Proud Pink Sky questions how much of ourselves we need to sacrifice in order to find identity and community.

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer! VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s... Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance... Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish 's stripped-down, non-stop style. Ash and Dr. Alexis Dawson, the surviving brother of the duo that created Banana Fish , struggle to escape the mental institution where they have been committed against their will. Unbeknownst to Ash, Max and Ibé are also attempting to free him. Ash litters the complex's sterile hallways with the corpses of the guards who try to stop him. Then Blanca, a mysterious new character with a link to Ash's past, emerges, and Dino hires him to get Ash.

ISadoville: an isolated continental metropolis, sometime in a 1950's era that never was, where the rules of society are very different. Here, naked public humiliation is used to punish female offenders, and house maids are kept as sex slaves. Even free women have something to fear: their number coming up the city's Defilement Lottery when anybody who can claim them can make intimate use of them. It is no place for a pretty and innocent woman from the provinces, and yet Danielle Gironde has come to Sadoville searching for her missing sibling Beatrice, surrendering her pride and modesty as she does so. She has been working in a Chastisement Shop posing naked and bound in its window as a living advert for its wares and then demonstrating sex toys and punishment devices for customers in its back room who may hire the use of her body to try them out on. Desperate for more money, she even spends a day off in an art gallery displaying sculptures that feature naked women trapped within them all the while interacting intimately with their critics. Then Danielle finds a new line of work that, for select paying clients, bypasses the rules of the lottery system. She is turned into a ponygirl and ridden in variety of humiliating races; rows would-be lovers naked for a romantic picnic on the river; becomes the subject for an eccentric inventor's series of intimate and literally shocking experiments; is turned into a helpless "patient" being intimately stimulated and examined by sadistic "doctors" and tended by a chained "nurse" in a see-through uniform; spends a day clad in rubber as an intimately accessorized puppygirl pet of a dominating rich lady and then as the bride in a strange wedding ritual where she has to pleasure not only the "groom" and "priest" but the entire congregation. During her perverse adventures, Danielle discovers tantalising clues to Beatrice's life in the city, but still she cannot find her. And then startlingly the answer is revealed ??" but by then it is far too late!

"'Mad Men meets The Devil Wears Prada,' which might as well be saying 'put me in your cart immediately.'"-PopSugar It's 1965 and Cosmopolitan magazine's brazen new editor in chief-Helen Gurley Brown-shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about all things off-limits... New York City is filled with opportunities for single girls like Alice Weiss, who leaves her small Midwestern town to chase her big-city dreams and unexpectedly lands a job working for the first female editor in chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown. For Alice, who wants to be a photographer, it seems like the perfect foot in the door, but nothing could have prepared her for the world she enters. Editors and writers resign on the spot, refusing to work for the woman who wrote the scandalous bestseller Sex and the Single Girl, and confidential memos, article ideas, and cover designs keep finding their way into the wrong hands. When someone tries to pull Alice into a scheme to sabotage her boss, she is more determined than ever to help Helen succeed. While pressure mounts at the magazine, Alice struggles not to lose sight of her own dreams as she's swept up into a glamorous world of five-star dinners, lavish parties, and men who are certainly no good. Because if Helen Gurley Brown has taught her anything, it's that a woman can demand to have it all.

»Die Komödie handelt vom Gelingen des Großartigen.« Robert Pfaller Lachen, Humor, Komik: Das scheint nur dem Menschen eigen. So eigen, dass er daraus eine Kunstform machte - die Komödie. Doch was bringt uns zum Lachen und warum? Welche Rolle spielen das Politische, Gesellschaftliche, Anständige und Unanständige dabei? Was sagen Freud und Lacan dazu? In den hier versammelten Texten geht der Philosoph Robert Pfaller der Würde der Komödie nach und fragt nach dem Lachen der Ungetäuschten. Mit Hilfe von Filmen wie denen von Ernst Lubitsch oder Serien wie »Sex and the City« untersucht er den Zusammenhang zwischen Komödie und dem Unheimlichen, dem Materialismus, der Sexualität und Polygamie, erklärt, was das Unter-Ich damit zu tun haben könnte und wo das Genießen zu finden ist. Eine so überraschende wie unterhaltsame Theorie der Komödie.

Originelle Cocktails inspiriert von TV-Serien Der nächste Fernsehabend wird zu etwas ganz Besonderem mit einem originellen Cocktail in der Hand! Wie wäre es mit einer Neuinterpretation des Cosmoplitan aus „Sex and the City“? Und was wären eigentlich die Lieblingscocktails von Walter White oder Daenerys Targaryen? Inspiriert von den beliebtesten Fernsehserien der TV-Geschichte präsentiert dieses Buch köstliche und unterhaltsame Drinks zum Selbermixen. Von Klassikern wie dem Old Fashioned, der in „Mad Men“ nicht fehlen darf, bis hin zu neuen Kreationen wie dem Central Perk als Hommage an „Friends“ findet sich unter den 60 Rezepten für jeden Geschmack das passende Getränk. Begleitet von stilvollen Illustrationen vermittelt das Buch auch die Grundlagen des Equipments, der Zutaten und Zubereitung sowie des Servierens von Cocktails.

Vor mehr als zwanzig Jahren beschrieb Candace Bushnell in ›Sex and the City‹ die seltsamen Paarungsrituale der New Yorker. Damit veränderte sie die Popkultur und das Dating. Nun liefert sie mit ihrem neuen autobiografischen Buch einen ungeschönten Blick auf die Höhepunkte und Abgründe des Datings jenseits der 50. Candace’ psychologisch genaue Beobachtungen sind mal komisch, dann wieder berührend, etwa wenn sie den »Irrsinn der Lebensmitte« beschreibt, die Isolation nach der Scheidung oder den Schmerz der Erkenntnis, dass selbst die Schönsten unter uns irgendwann unsichtbar werden. Die Krisen werden mit einem kühlen Glas Rosé in der Hand und guten Freundinnen in der Bar oder am Telefon durchgestanden. So zeichnet Candace Bushnell ein humorvolles und ehrliches Bild von der heutigen Beziehungslandschaft und den Spezies, die sie bevölkern.

Now reissued again due to popular demand, Witchcraft for Tomorrow answers many frequently asked questions about witchcraft including: 'How can I find a witches' coven?' and 'How can I become a witch?' Doreen Valiente tells you what the old religion of witchcraft has to offer the new age of Aquarius; how the age-old Craft of the Wise can be practised in the modern world; how to initiate yourself as a witch and found your own coven. The author, who was the leading figure in the establishment of the modern Wiccan movement, includes a new Book of Shadows (the witches' handbook of rituals and instructions) based upon ancient magical tradition but geared to the age of the future. There are witch songs, spells, incantations and practical advice on how to run a coven and how to acquire your own collection of magical implements; as well as methods of divination and other witch lore. The author shows how the oral traditions of witchcraft throw light not only upon the origins of the present-day witch cult and the activities of the witch leader George Pickingill and his covens, but also upon the mystery of the founding of the famous magical order, the Golden Dawn. Also discussed is the relationship between the witchcraft of Britain and Europe and the magical belief of the Far East. Do both traditions hark back to the legendary city of Shamballah and to the shamanistic practices of Asia? And why do the secret circles of the witches resemble those of the Tantric sex-magic of India?

Ein mitreißendes Drama über die Lebensgeschichte der US-amerikanischen Dichterin Emily Dickinson, mit Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City, And Just Like That …, The Gilded Age) in der Hauptrolle. Emily Dickinson, 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts geboren, erfasste mit ihren gefühlvollen Gedichten auf unnachahmliche Art und Weise sowohl den Schrecken, als auch die Schönheit der Welt. Dabei hat sie davon selbst nicht viel gesehen. Nachdem ihr Vater die gegen die evangelistischen Lehren rebellierende Emily schon früh aus der Schule nahm, verbrachte sie fortan die Zeit zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Austin und ihrer Schwester Vinnie in ihrem Elternhaus, das sie selten verließ. Sie hatte nur wenige Kontakte außerhalb der Familie und verbrachte Nacht um Nacht mit dem Verfassen von Gedichten. "A Quiet Passion" beleuchtet das Leben und die Werke der herausragenden Poetin, die mit einem außerordentlichen Intellekt, aber einer labilen Psyche ausgestattet war, in ihrer großen Schaffensphase.Bonusdisc: Dokumentation „My Letter to the World“ (ca. 77 Min.)"A Quiet Passion": Mediabook mit 2 DVDs, inkl. 24-seitigen Booklet mit Gedichten (auf Deutsch und Englisch)

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! Ren's drug use is spiraling out of control and he doesn't want to drag Trapnest down with him. Neither Takumi nor Reira are willing to let Ren quit the band, and both do their best to give him the time he needs to get it together. But Ren isn't sure this is something he can handle on his own. Will he turn to Nana for help, or will their strained relationship make him try to face his demons alone?

Ein mit billigen Tricks berühmt gewordener Bühnenmagier trifft auf eine waschechte Hexe, die ihm versehentlich ein verfluchtes Amulett verkauft. Ups. Mach dir die Spooky Season gemütlich mit dieser Cosy Romantasy und der perfekten Mischung aus Gilmore Girls, Disneys Rapunzel und Sex and the City! Poppy ist eine Hexe – chaotisch, liebenswert und mit Haaren, die buchstäblich ihren eigenen Kopf haben. Sie lebt in einem verwunschenen Haus am Highgate Cemetery und arbeitet in einem kleinen Magieladen im Herzen Londons . Eigentlich verkauft sie dort nur harmlose Andenken. Eigentlich. Nach einer durchgemachten Nacht und einem gebrochenen Herzen passiert ihr ein folgenschwerer Fehler: Sie verkauft ausgerechnet dem gefeierten Bühnenmagier Axl Storm einen verfluchten Anhänger. Während Axl nur an Fake-Magie glaubt, besitzt Poppy echte Zauberkräfte – und nur gemeinsam können sie das magische Chaos aufhalten, das sie entfesselt haben. Doch je mehr Zeit sie miteinander verbringen, desto schwieriger wird es, zwischen Funken aus dem Zauberkessel und denen im eigenen Herzen zu unterscheiden. Eine bezaubernde Hexen RomCom voller Humor, Romantik, London-Charme und ganz viel gemütlicher Fantasy – perfekt für alle, die sich in magische Liebesgeschichten verlieben möchten. Fans von Emily Wilde, Mr. Parnassus und den Wohlfühlromanen von Sarah Beth Durst kommen hier voll auf ihre Kosten. Tropes Forced Proximity Opposites Attract Reluctant Partners Found Family Magical Animal Companion RomCom Vibes Cosy Erste Leser:innenstimmen „Sex and the City meets Rapunzel – so eine humorvolle Fantasy findet man nicht oft!“ „Eine gemütliche Fantasy mit einer missverstandenen Protagonistin und einem heißen Illusionisten.“ „Eine witzige Hexen-RomCom voller Magie, Chaos und ganz viel Herz“ „Urban Fantasy trifft auf romantische Komödie – witzig, romantisch und einfach magisch“

Distribution News High Note No 18 Title: Side Hustle Artist: THOM ROTELLA From the moment he picks up his guitar, Thom Rotellas passion for music is palpable. Every phrase is crafted with intuitive care and precision that reflect a total commitment to his art. Each performance is an intimate journey into the expressive potential of jazz, where every chord tells a story and every solo speaks directly to the listener. Beyond his solo work, Rotellas collaborations with legendary artists and contributions to various projects cover an extraordinarily wide spectrum of music and entertainment heavy-hitters including Stanley Turrentine, Tommy Tedesco, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Bette Midler and countless others. His compositions and his playing have been featured in high-profile television and film projects such as Family Guy, Ellen DeGeneres, Sex and the City, Criminal Minds and Altos (2015), underscoring his ability to craft memorable and communicative music. Thom Rotella continues to inspire and innovate, as evidenced on his HighNote Records debut recording, Side Hustle. With the remarkable organist Bobby Floyd and the propulsive drumming of Roy McCurdy, Rotella swings, smolders and sizzles through a set of imaginative original tunes and standards, with HighNote regulars Eric Alexander and Jeremy Pelt on hand to welcome him to the label.

'Sarah Thankam Mathews' prose is undeniable . . . she captures the sneaky, unsaying parts of longing' Raven Leilani, author of Luster 'Some books are merely luminous . . . this one is iridescent' Susan Choi, author of Trust Exercise Graduating into a recession, Sneha tries on adulthood like an ill-fitting suit. Moving to a new city, she embraces all that it has to offer: friends that feel like family, gay bars, house parties and new romances. But when painful secrets rear their heads, corporate jobs go off the rails and evictions loom, Sneha and her community find themselves looking for a new way to live. All This Could Be Different is a novel about being young in the twenty-first century. About work, precarity, distant parents, found family, activism, queer love, sex and hope. About knowing that all this could be different.

Ein mit billigen Tricks berühmt gewordener Bühnenmagier trifft auf eine waschechte Hexe, die ihm versehentlich ein verfluchtes Amulett verkauft. Ups.Mach dir die Spooky Season gemütlich mit diesem Cosy Romantasy Hörbuch und der perfekten Mischung aus Gilmore Girls, Disneys Rapunzel und Sex and the City!Poppy ist eine Hexe - etwas chaotisch, liebenswert und mit magischen Haaren, die buchstäblich ihren eigenen Kopf haben. Sie lebt in einem verwunschenen Haus neben einem Friedhof und arbeitet in einem kleinen Magieladen im Herzen Londons. Eigentlich verkauft sie dort nur harmlose Souvenirs. Eigentlich.Denn nach einer durchgemachten Nacht und einem gebrochenen Herzen passiert ihr ein folgenschwerer Fehler: Sie verkauft ausgerechnet dem gefeierten Bühnenmagier Axl Storm ein verfluchtes Amulett.Während Axl nur mit Fake-Magie arbeitet, besitzt Poppy echte Zauberkräfte - und nur gemeinsam können sie das magische Chaos aufhalten, das sie entfesselt haben. Doch die Jagd nach dem Amulett erweist sich als schwieriger als gedacht und führt die beiden quer durch die Stadt und sogar darüber hinaus. Und währenddessen wird es immer schwieriger für Poppy und Axl, zwischen Funken aus dem Zauberkessel und denen im eigenen Herzen zu unterscheiden ...Ein magisches Hexen RomCom Hörbuch voll trockenem Humor, zauberhafter Romance und ganz viel Gemütlichkeit. In diesem ungekürzten Cozy Fantasy Hörbuch erwarten dich Opposites-Attract-Romantasy, witchy Vibes und humorvolle Magie-Chaos-Abenteuer in London. Perfekt für alle, die die Wohlfühl-Fantasy Bücher von Sarah Beth Durst, Lucy Jane Wood oder Josie Silver lieben und ideal für kuschelige Herbstabende, lange Spaziergänge oder die Pendelstrecke.TropesForced ProximityOpposites AttractReluctant PartnersFound FamilyMagical Animal CompanionRomCom VibesCosyErste Leser:innenstimmen"Sex and the City meets Rapunzel - so eine humorvolle Fantasy findet man nicht oft!""Eine gemütliche Fantasy mit einer missverstandenen Protagonistin und einem heißen Illusionisten.""Eine witzige Hexen-RomCom voller Magie, Chaos und ganz viel Herz""Urban Fantasy trifft auf romantische Komödie - witzig, romantisch und einfach magisch"

A chance meeting on a train to Tokyo sends two girls named Nana on a collision course with destiny! Nana "Hachi" Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties! With the tabloids still out for blood, Nana and her Blast bandmates move into a weird dorm building run by their agency. But they've barely got enough time to settle into their new digs because their crammed schedule has them running from music studio to TV interview. The stress of band life and dealing with a disintegrating Ren have started to take their toll on Nana. If she collapses now, will she ever get back up?

"Rest assured, when I finally get my hands on you... you will know for certain that I am no saint." A dark romantic comedy set inside an exclusive New York City kink society, perfect for fans of Butcher and Blackbird, Fifty Shades of Grey, and HBO's White Lotus and Search Party. What's worse than your best friend moving out mid-lease to shack up with her newest toxic boyfriend? Probably discovering she also joined a freaky cult for obnoxious rich people, crypto bros, and tradwife spiritual gurus nestled inside a deconsecrated Gothic church. If Nova Harding had enough money for therapy, she might've let go of Lorelei's mess to focus on writing. Instead, guided by mysterious social media ads, Nova is drawn inside The Circle to save her friend. While Nova has spent the last seven years in New York City chasing success as an indie romance author, Lorelei has spent them trapped in their shared dark past. Nova refuses to abandon Lorelei, even as The Circle forces her to confront her greatest shames-and deepest desires. But Nova isn't the only concerned citizen infiltrating The Circle. Wes is ten years older than her. He's tattooed, complicated, witty, and thoughtful. And he's impossible to read. He is everything Nova should hate, another reminder of the taboo fantasies she can't indulge. Wes says he wants to protect her in this den of snakes-that they can help each other and then part ways as friends. But the way Wes looks at Nova is anything but friendly. Caught in a New York City dreamworld of sex, glamor, power, and social media algorithms, Nova struggles to know who to trust. Is Wes really like her? Or is Wes one of them?

Distribution News High Note No 18 Title: Side Hustle Artist: THOM ROTELLA From the moment he picks up his guitar, Thom Rotellas passion for music is palpable. Every phrase is crafted with intuitive care and precision that reflect a total commitment to his art. Each performance is an intimate journey into the expressive potential of jazz, where every chord tells a story and every solo speaks directly to the listener. Beyond his solo work, Rotellas collaborations with legendary artists and contributions to various projects cover an extraordinarily wide spectrum of music and entertainment heavy-hitters including Stanley Turrentine, Tommy Tedesco, Frank Sinatra, Burt Bacharach, Bette Midler and countless others. His compositions and his playing have been featured in high-profile television and film projects such as Family Guy, Ellen DeGeneres, Sex and the City, Criminal Minds and Altos (2015), underscoring his ability to craft memorable and communicative music. Thom Rotella continues to inspire and innovate, as evidenced on his HighNote Records debut recording, Side Hustle. With the remarkable organist Bobby Floyd and the propulsive drumming of Roy McCurdy, Rotella swings, smolders and sizzles through a set of imaginative original tunes and standards, with HighNote regulars Eric Alexander and Jeremy Pelt on hand to welcome him to the label.

If only we would take the time to look a little closer, delve a little deeeper, when ordinary life goes awry, we might find the world more strange and unexpected than we ever could have imagined... Following on from Literary Remains, R.B. Russell's previous collection for PS_Publishing, the twelve stories of Leave Your Sleep concern sex and death, love and loss. Russell allows his characters to disappear, slip into alternate realities, or re-write their own histories. They find they are able to do the most extraordinary things, even though they may not immediately realise it._And who is in control of their actions, or those around them? In 'An Unconventional Exorcism', why is a young woman who claims to talk to the dead so shocked when her aunt comes back to haunt her? In 'The Red Rose and the Cross of Gold', when an engineer in a crumbling city stumbles upon a messy murder, who cleans up afterwards? And in 'Mathilde', what do lovers do when everyone is against their relationship? These and other questions are explored in Russell's beautifully evocative prose.