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Seeking release from their small-town existence, two teenagers drive north on a vaguely plotted road trip. Adam and Teddy hope to leave boyhood behind. But they carry with them all the upsets and resentments they have accrued in their unhappy lives to date. As the pair’s journey progresses, the mood fluctuates as each of them sets out to prove himself. The dynamics of their friendship begin to unravel, culminating in an act of devastating – and all too familiar – violence.

Everything will be fine. That is what Mary and John promise when they tell their two children that they are getting a divorce. But while the end of their marriage offers them both freedom from their dissatisfaction, it brings to the fore the pain and resentments that have always percolated in their relationship and throws into stark relief their shortcomings as partners and as parents.

In the rugged Pacific Northwest of the United States lies the Olympic National Forest – a vast expanse of impenetrable darkness and impossible beauty. From deep within this mysterious woodland, a six-year-old girl appears. Speechless and alone, she offers no clue as to her identity, no hint of her past. Having retreated to her hometown after a scandal left her career in ruins, child psychiatrist Dr Julia Cates begins working with the extraordinary little girl.

I'm at breaking point. I'm a stay-at-home mom and I love my four-year-old twins more than anything—but they're a handful. My husband's always away on business. My mother's in the early stages of dementia. It's a lot. How does an 81-year-old woman, who hasn't left her bedroom in months, simply vanish into thin air? I'm trying not to freak out at the thought of my mother wandering the neighborhood, lost in a daze of confusion. We found her—but that was the moment I knew I needed help. So I let Dana into my home. She seems like the answer to my prayers. She'll be my mother's live-in caregiver.

We seem like perfect families. But our secrets must never come out... I trust my best friend Lydia with my life. We share everything, even the things we can't tell our husbands. So when we go on a beach holiday together, it's a dream come true. One night, we treat ourselves to dinner on the beach with our husbands while our children sleep soundly in the cottage behind us. But when I go to check on them, my entire world shatters. My son's bed is empty, the window wide open, his favourite teddy left between the crumpled sheets. I stifle a scream as my worst nightmare comes true.

Dundee, 1812. Isabel Baxter awaits the arrival of Mary Godwin, a girl of precocious intellect and grand passions, sent north to cure an ailment no one understands. Nestled in woodland on the banks of the Tay, the Baxter family estate seems a perfect place for a troubled girl to recuperate. But The Cottage is a place of secrets, memories... and monsters. Haunted by sickness and loss, Mary steps with Isabel into a shared fantasy world of intrigue and desire.

Casey's cabin in the wilderness is not built for a hurricane. Her roof shakes, the lights flicker, and the tree outside her front door sways ominously in the wind. But she's a lot more worried about the girl she discovers lurking outside her kitchen window. She's young. She's alone. And she's covered in blood.

Nach dieser Sache befindet sich Anna, die Heldin des Romans, in einem Sanatorium. Dort trifft sie auf Marija, die ständig Monologe über ihre tote Mutter hält, auf Elif, die sich jeden Tag ein neues Märchen ausdenkt, und auf Katharina, die Bundeswehr-Soldatin, die jede Nacht Rotwein mit Wodka trinkt. Und dann ist da noch Pepik, der blasse Flamingo aus dem Kurpark, dem Anna von ihrer Emigration erzählt, von der Zeit, als ihre Mutter aufhörte, ihr unsichtbare Kreise auf die Wange zu zeichnen, und der Vater sich kaum noch blicken ließ.

Diana ist zurück aus Paris. Statt aufregender erotischer Begegnungen in der Stadt der Liebe sitzt sie zusammen mit Ehemann Oliver in der Paartherapie. Beide sind fest entschlossen, den Funken zwischen sich wieder zu entfachen, und bereit, dafür allen Anweisungen ihrer Therapeutin zu folgen. Doch dann sagt diese ausgerechnet: »Absolut kein Sex«. Diana und Oliver sind gezwungen, sich auf die altmodische Art zu verabreden: Inlineskaten, Kinoabende und zunehmend sehnsüchtige Gutenachtküsse.

Ich bin verloren. Und ich möchte nie gefunden werden... Eine neue New-Adult-Dilogie von Spiegel-Bestseller-Autorin Nikola Hotel. Die ganze Welt beneidet sie darum, mit dem erfolgreichen Footballspieler Jason Miller verheiratet zu sein. Für die 21-jährige Darcy ist es jedoch ein Albtraum, in dem selbst ein Lachen fatale Konsequenzen haben kann. Als sie auf einer Party ein unbekümmertes Gespräch mit dem attraktiven Ellis führt – etwas, das sie kaum noch für möglich gehalten hätte –, wird sie von ihrem Ehemann beobachtet. Sie hat nicht mit Ellis geflirtet.

A man travels to Lisbon ahead of his wife to prepare their new home, while she stays in New York to oversee a research project on the neuroscience of memory and fear. Leaving behind a phase of their relationship indelibly marked by 9/11, the man revels in the Portuguese capital's temperate weather and the neighborhood's calmness, meticulously planning the details of their future.

Ein Junggeselle hat seinen Alltag so organisiert, dass dieser aus den immer gleichen Handlungen zu immer den gleichen Zeiten routiniert und problemlos bewältigt wird. Bei einem seiner seltenen Konzertbesuche erregt die Mutter einer etwa gleichaltrigen Frau sein Interesse und er spricht diese (die Mutter) an: Die beiden treffen sich nun öfters und verstehen sich so gut, dass er glaubt seine Seelenverwandte getroffen zu haben. Dennoch verlässt er sie.

When does silent compliance with an oppressive regime become unbearable? For Charlie Simpkins, the manager of a small vegetable shop in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, part of the West Coast People's Democratic Republic, the breaking point comes when he is asked to display a meaningless propaganda poster in his shop window. It is a seemingly insignificant act in a lifetime of obedience. But Charlie just can't bring himself to do it. This minor act of defiance, however, shows too much independent thinking on Charlie's part, setting off a chain of escalating consequences.

Days, weeks, years later, their bodies turn up in icy rivers hundreds of miles apart. How did they get there? What, if anything, connects them? Some of their loved ones believe the official answers. Some are convinced the boys are victims of an insidious network called the Smiley Face Killers. Some are trying to forget them altogether. Meanwhile, Caleb, Steven, Matthew, and Leo find one other—and other boys like them—in the murky depths of the afterlife..

Kent Duvall, a faded reality show winner, just wants another chance at glory—to find his way out of his depressing life and back to his highlight reel. When a scandal is captured on camera at a charity event, he gets his shot, on a new jungle survival show with seven other contestants. Each of them has been cast as a type—Ruddy the bully, Miriam the nerd, Ashley the love interest—but everyone is more than they appear.

Single, unfulfilled and well into middle age, long-troubled Charlotte Lansing desperately reaches for love and acceptance. When she announces her engagement to an unemployed morphine addict, her family falls into a tailspin. Her mother is determined to prevent disaster, her father seeks to mend the growing chasm, and her sister stubbornly hopes that their sibling bonds can keep Charlotte safe. But Charlotte resists all this because she thinks she is finally happy. Ultimately, all her loved ones can do is watch as Charlotte disappears, slowly and inevitably, into her new husband’s illness.

Carwyn and Rhian – the last in a long family line of sheep farmers – are living out a brutal year in their hillside farm, deep in the mountains of Eryri, North Wales. When Carwyn stumbles across a stone circle and some sort of burial mound in one of the fields on their land, he quickly develops an obsession. His wife, Rhian, meanwhile, is confronted with the growing realization that the man with whom she shares her life and home is slowly becoming a frightening stranger.

The virgin rainforest seems a paradise to Englishman Simon Corbett. A last chance to salvage his career. A final refuge from a terrible secret. But the jungle is no Eden. It hides secrets of its own. It does not forgive. As Simon is drawn deeper into its haunted shadows, he learns to his horror that the past will not stay buried. For there are places in the forest where the line between the living and the dead is thinner than the skin of water.

This fictionalized memoir of the award-winning author, Gloria Naylor, tells a story of a massive covert surveillance operation perpetrated against her by an official of the U.S. government.

When they were boys, Ray Dawley, Eddie Sayers, and Matthew Kauffman were the best of friends. Then new kid Bobby “Bones” Bonetti fell through the ice at Blackamore Pond. The other boys saved Bobby from drowning, but something else came out of the water that day, something dangerous that would tear their friendship apart and set one of them on a dark path.