A locked-room murder mystery set at a hotel for time travelers—in which a detective must solve an impossible crime even as her own sanity crumbles—from the author of The Warehouse For someone with January Cole’s background, running security at a fancy hotel shouldn’t be much of a challenge. Except the Paradox is no ordinary hotel. Here, the ultra-wealthy guests are costumed for a dozen different time periods, all anxiously waiting to catch their “flights” to the past. And proximity to the timeport makes for an interesting stay. The clocks run backwards on occasion—and, rumor has it, ghosts stroll the halls. Now, January’s job is about to get a whole lot harder. Because the U.S. government is getting ready to privatize time-travel technology—and a handful of trillionaires have just arrived to put down their bids. And there’s a murderer on the loose. Or at least, that’s what January suspects. Except the corpse in question is one
“Noah was a righteous man,” says Isaac Bashevis Singer, so he and his family were to be saved from the flood. But rumor had it that only the best of all living creatures were to be taken aboard the Ar
ALITA IS DEAD?!Living out his days in a remote fishing village, Figure Four hears a rumor he cannot bring himself to believe: Alita is dead! The news dredges up old memories, and soon Figure is back w
SAVE SUNAKO!The rumor is spreading that Kyohei and Sunako are an item, and many jealous women are out for blood. Their target? An unsuspecting Sunako, who now can't even go to the store without endang
A heartwarming story about family, healing from loss, and finding love, even when you never dreamed it was possible.Ashley Howland Scott has no time for romance as she grieves the loss of her husband, cares for her young son, and runs Magnolia Harbor’s only bed and breakfast. Ashley never imagined she’d notice―let alone have feelings for―another man after her husband was killed in Afghanistan five years earlier. But slowly, softly, Rev. Micah St. Pierre has become a friend . . . and now maybe something more. Despite her reluctance, Ashley has to admit that Micah is kind, thoughtful, and handsome to boot. All the more reason to steer clear of him. She can’t risk her heart again.After becoming the center of Magnolia Harbor’s rumor mill once, Micah St. Pierre has no interest in letting the members of the local quilting club play matchmaker for him. Besides, the only woman he’s interested in is the one he can never have. Micah is not allowed to date a member of his congregation, so there’s
《漢代的謠言》首版於2011年，一出版即引起學術界的廣泛關注和熱烈討論，十餘年來依然散發著持續的學術影響力。作者從語言學、心理學、社會學、人類學、傳播學和歷史學等多學科的視角，重新審視了漢代文獻，再次發現、辨析其時語境中的流言、訛言、謠言、讖言、讖謠、神話、傳說等言論信息，系統梳理、科學辨析了謠言類言論信息，如何參與並塑造了漢代社會的日常生活、政治語境和思想文化，為讀者和學界瞭解漢代的社會、政治、思想和文化提供了獨特視角，也為漢代謠言如何生成、傳播與流變之研究提供了翔實的史料和嚴密的論證。其英譯版Rumor in the Early Chinese Empires獲中華學術外譯基金贊助，2021年由英國劍橋大學出版社出版。闊別十年之久，《漢代的謠言》（修訂版）即將和讀者見面。本次修訂工作將再現該書的學術魅力，針對這些年來讀者、學者和專業書評指出的瑕疵作了一些技術性修正，同時也對漢代謠言案例增加了更多的補充考察。
A breathtaking novel of courage and determination, inspired by the true story of the woman who built the world’s greatest champagne house―Veuve Clicquot.For grieving Nicole Clicquot, saving the vineyards her husband left behind is her one chance to keep a roof over her head and provide a future for her little girl. She ignores the gossips who insist the fields are no place for a woman. But one day, buying fresh croissants at the boulangerie, Nicole is shocked to hear a rumor about her husband. They say he died with a terrible secret. One that brings disgrace on Nicole and turns the whole town against her.Heartbroken, her reputation in tatters, and full of questions no one can answer, Nicole turns to what she knows best: winemaking. Determined to create a perfect bottle of champagne, she works day and night to carry out her vision. But even that is not enough. To save her home and her daughter from ruin, she must risk everything―including her heart.
Aru Shah and the End of Time meets Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away in this mesmerizing portal fantasy that takes readers into the little-known world of Jinn.Nura longs for the simple pleasure of many things―to wear a beautiful red dupatta or to bite into a sweet gulab. But with her mom hard at work in a run-down sweatshop and three younger siblings to feed, Nura must spend her days earning money by mica mining. But it’s not just the extra rupees in her pocket Nura is after. Local rumor says there’s buried treasure in the mine, and Nura knows that finding it could change the course of her family’s life forever.Her plan backfires when the mines collapse and four kids, including her best friend, Faisal, are claimed dead. Nura refuses to believe it and shovels her way through the dirt hoping to find him. Instead, she finds herself at the entrance to a strange world of purple skies and pink seas―a portal to the opulent realm of jinn, inhabited by the trickster creatures from her mother’s caut
Things are changing at Fairy Tale Reform School.At least, that's what Gilly's heard through the Enchantasia rumor mill. Word is, notorious trickster Rumpelstiltskin has taken over management from Head
London, 1781. Harriet Westerman anxiously awaits news of her husband, a ship’s captain who has been gravely injured in the king’s naval battles with France. As London’s streets seethe with rumor, a bo
Rumors that Changed the World: A History of Violence and Discrimination explores the social and cultural impact of rumor from Antiquity to the mid-1990s, examining it as one of the most important cont
