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He is a brilliant math professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is an astute young housekeeper - with a 10-year-old son-who is hired to care for the professor. And every morning, as the professor and the housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them.

From the bestselling author of Kafka on the Shore: A magnificent coming-of-age story steeped in nostalgia, “a masterly novel” (The New York Times Book Review) blending the music, the mood, and the ethos that were the sixties with a young man’s hopeless and heroic first love. Now with a new...

There are three rules Brooke Sullivan must follow as a new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information. 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates.

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward. Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out. And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st...

Mikage is an orphan raised by her grandmother, who has passed away. Grieving, Mikage is taken in by her friend, Yoichi, and his mother (who is really his cross-dressing father), Eriko. As the three of them form an improvised family that soon weathers its own tragic losses, Yoshimoto spins a lovely, evocative tale with the kitchen and the comforts of home at its heart.

William Stoner is born at the end of the 19th century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the state university to study agronomy, he instead falls in love with English literature and embraces a scholar's life, far different from the hardscrabble existence he has known. And yet as the years pass, Stoner encounters a succession of disappointments.

Eve has a good life. She wakes up each day, kisses her husband Nate, and heads off to teach math at the local high school. All is as it should be. Except… Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal involving a student-teacher affair, with one student, Addie, at its center. But Eve knows there is far more to these ugly rumors than meets the eye. Addie can’t be trusted. She lies. She hurts people. She destroys lives. At least, that’s what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her. And Addie will do anything to keep it quiet…

A bestseller in Japan—a beautiful story about shared self-discovery and friendship involving an unlikely group of students who decide to defy the odds and pursue a seemingly impossible goal together. After shoplifting some bread one chilly March night, just before the start of a new academic...

South of the Border, West of the Sun is the beguiling story of a past rekindled, and one of Haruki Murakami’s most touching novels. Hajime has arrived at middle age with a loving family and an enviable career, yet he feels incomplete. When a childhood friend, now a beautiful woman, shows up...

Part romance, part detective story, Sputnik Sweetheart tells the story of a tangled triangle of uniquely unrequited love. Now with a new introduction from the author. K is madly in love with his best friend, Sumire, but her devotion to a writerly life precludes her from any personal commitments...

The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer, and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story There are two things that I simply cannot tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in the Tokyo Detention House convicted...

NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney...

In the wake of divorce and profound loss, Stewart Foster's world has shrunk to silence and decay. A retired public works employee, he tends to the remnants of a life once shared—an overgrown garden, an empty home, and the fading memory of companionship. Days blur into numbness, purpose slipping away like sand through fingers. Then, in a moment of desperation, Stewart discovers EgoEcho—an AI companion designed not as a gimmick, but as a quiet listener.

If your name is Jack Daniels, you must have a soft spot for whiskey. So when former Homicide cop Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels gets an opportunity to tour one of the best craft distilleries in Colorado, she's hoping for a fun getaway with friends. It doesn't matter that the distillery is supposedly haunted. Or that it is the source of dark rumors—going back over a hundred years—of missing and murdered people. After a lifetime of dealing with serial killers, Jack knows the odds of running into another one are astronomical. Right?

Anna ha sei anni e un rumore che le abita la testa. Nella periferia nord di Milano, osserva i suoi genitori consumarsi. È figlia di un operaio, Nino, che sognava di fare il calciatore, e di Adriana, segnata da una malinconia che non trova nome né sollievo, dalla costante paura della disgrazia. Anna cresce, la bambina introversa si trasforma in un'adolescente piena di domande, in cerca di una voce che non sia solo eco del mondo da cui proviene, mentre gli anni Settanta trasformano il Paese. Finché le crepe del mondo si spalancano anche nella sua vita, e la tragedia diventa realtà.

Sophie Émel è una donna carismatica e fuori dagli schemi: pilota spericolata, amante degli eccessi e di una vita disordinata, capace di slanci generosi quanto superficiali. È proprio uno di questi impulsi a spingerla ad accogliere in casa la nonna, un'anziana di ottant'anni dal carattere durissimo, costretta a lasciare la propria abitazione dopo un lungo e ostinato assedio alle autorità. Quello che inizia come un atto di carità si trasforma rapidamente in un perverso gioco di specchi.

In the first of three prequels to New York Times bestselling author J.D. Barker's wildly popular 4MK series... Before he was known as the Four Monkey Killer, he was just a boy trying to survive. Charleston, 1999. Fifteen-year-old Anson Bishop didn't mean to kill—not the first time, anyway...

What the Page Remembered is a literary novella about memory, silence, and the moment creativity returns. When writer Alex Mercer arrives at Stillwater, a secluded residency for artists at the edge of creative collapse, he expects quiet. What he does not expect is a house that seems to listen — or objects that begin to surface memories he has long avoided. As Alex settles into the rhythms of Stillwater, fragments of the past emerge through subtle signs: a sentence that returns unbidden, a mark pressed into paper, a presence that feels both internal and unmistakably real.

Ein Jahr nach dem Tod ihres Mannes ist Emma zu einem Mauerblümchen verkommen. Sie geht förmlich unter in der Farbenpracht des Blumenladens, in dem sie arbeitet. Doch als ein Kollege sie zu einem Vortrag über die Titanic einlädt, wird ihre Neugier geweckt: War der sagenumwobene Dampfer nicht auch mit Blumen geschmückt? Und wenn ja, wer steckte dahinter? Während ihrer Recherche stößt sie auf ein Foto einer jungen Stewardess der Titanic, das ihr auf unerklärliche Weise vertraut vorkommt. Emma dämmert immer mehr, dass sie sich auch auf den Spuren ihrer eigenen Geschichte befindet.