Imagine you're a flamboyant teenage girl convinced that super powers are the social edge you need. Imagine you convince a mad scientist to give you those powers. They always need test subjects, right? Imagine those powers come with a big drawback, like they always do.Congratulations, you're Stella Deetz, the best dressed and most popular fear eating monster in LA.And you forgot to keep a secret identity. Oops.

Since his experiences in World War 2, Martin has valued peace above all, but he realises his family is collapsing around him and he must take decisive action. A subtle, funny, clever examination of post-war social change and of a man in crisis.

Love, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live among native peoples in Greenland, both books explore the reaches of the human heart through their complex and unforgettable characters.Henrik Pontoppidan, the Danish Nobel laureate, is admired for the concentrated force of his novellas as much as for long, populous, world-encompassing novels like A Fortunate Man, and here are two of those novellas, newly and brilliantly translated by Paul Larkin.The White Bear follows the fate of the odd, gangly, red-bearded Thorkild Müller. Born in rural Jutland and destined for the ministry, Thorkild proves to be a poor student and is assigned to a remote Inuit tribe in Greenland. There, with his mythic-looking staff and dogskin skullcap, he becomes known as the White Bear—a beloved legend among the locals and...

Welcome to Murders Under the Sun, a podcast that pulls back the curtain on the dark side of sunny Southern California. I'm Molly Shure, and last March, I stumbled upon a chilling pattern—seven crimes, all linked, but their connection buried in the shadows. Each season, we'll peel back the layers of one case, exposing secrets no one was meant to find. When Willow elopes with Jonathan, she's ushered into a fairytale—a prince, a grand estate, a seemingly perfect life. But something is wrong at Sunset House. Jonathan's bond with his twin sister unsettles her, and the family's secrets whisper from empty rooms. Three deaths in three weeks push her from concern to fear. When she discovers a hidden journal filled with tales of abuse and captivity, the fear becomes terror. As the walls close in, Willow realizes she's not part of the family—she's prey. Trapped in a gilded cage, she must play the role of a lifetime to survive,...