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Einsamkeit, Armut & ein verborgenes Leben – Sherwood Andersons eindringliche Kurzgeschichte über das Schicksal einer einfachen Frau, atmosphärisch gesprochen von Jürgen Fritsche. Mit „Tod in den Wäldern" zeigt Sherwood Anderson seine große Meisterschaft in der Darstellung stiller menschlicher Tragödien. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine unscheinbare Frau, deren Leben von harter Arbeit, Entbehrung und sozialer Isolation geprägt ist. Anderson erzählt mit ruhiger Intensität von Einsamkeit, gesellschaftlicher Härte und der oft übersehenen Würde einfacher Menschen.

There’s nowhere to hide… When a series of vicious attacks leaves the local running community in shock and fear, newly qualified detective Kay Hunter is thrust into the middle of a fraught investigation. Determined to make an impression on her first assignment with the murder team, and...

Christmas time can be murder… A suburban housewife is found dead in her garden. There is no weapon, no witnesses, and the only set of footprints belong to her cat. Probationary detective Kay Hunter and her colleagues are convinced it’s murder – but how can they find a killer when there are...

When a fire deliberately destroys a boat, nearly killing the occupant, Kay Hunter and her colleagues suspect a serial arsonist is targeting a small community of river dwellers. With another man dead and people fearing for their lives, Kay is desperate to catch a killer who shows no sign of...

Zwei Frauen – viele Meinungen Von unmöglichen Yogaposen, lauernder Doppelkinngefahr und anderen Freuden: Dora Heldts und Anouk Schollähns humorvolle, lustige, nachdenkliche und tröstliche Kolumnen über Altersunterschiede, Liebesbeziehungen, Mütterweisheiten, Haubentaucher und manche...

„Der Bajazzo" erzählt von einem jungen Mann, durchaus mit künstlerischem Talent begabt, welcher seine Schul- und Lehrzeit in einem träumerischen und desinteressierten Zustand hinter sich bringt und durch den Tod seiner Eltern ein Kapital erbt, das ihm ermöglicht, von dessen Zinsen ein recht gut situiertes Leben zu führen, ohne arbeiten gehen zu müssen. Er verbummelt seine Zwanzigerjahre im Ausland, spielt regelmäßig Klavier und liest gerne brandneue Romane von angesagten Autoren und beschließt schließlich, an einem finalen Standort sesshaft zu werden.

Now I'm Photogenic and Other Stories I Tell Myself is a collection of ten playfully strange and unsettling stories, some realistic and some surreal. The characters in this book feel alienated: from their communities and relationships, on the streets of wealthy suburbs, at the doctor's office, in classrooms and swimming pools, in their own homes and their own skin.

A stellar debut weaving a tale of survival through the interconnected stories of those affected by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A teenage Olympic champion in Krakow, a stripper in New York, an American professor at Yale, a tech executive, and a doctor turned undocumented nanny—in a stunning...

Multicast narration featuring David Suchet, Hugh Fraser, Juliet Stevenson, and more Murder and mystery lurk in the picturesque English countryside in this new collection of Agatha Christie short stories. Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the West Country never left her and many...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY LOS ANGELES TIMES, THE BOSTON GLOBE, TIME, HARPER'S BAZAAR, THE MILLIONS, BOOK RIOT, AND TOWN & COUNTRY "It Will Come Back To You should make you want to imbibe every word Nunez has ever written." —The Times Literary Supplement (UK) "One of the great writers...

An uncompromising and sensually charged collection from one of the great practitioners of the short story. Squandering the Blue is Kate Braverman’s debut story collection, a fierce, hallucinatory vision of Southern California and the women who move through its heat, glamour, and wreckage. Set...

Bloomsbury presents Please Don't Touch the Body by Emily Doyle, read by Alice Dodd and Daniel Henning “A magnificent debut” (Laila Lalami) that explores loneliness and community, religion and repression, and the pleasure and pain of womanhood. By turns tender and irreverent, the 11...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER BY VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, LA TIMES AND BOSTON GLOBE - AND ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS FOR 2026 The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend 'Once you discover...

One missing letter. One eccentric inventor. One very smoky meeting with the Viceroy of India. John Fennil Wonder is an ambitious private secretary with a talent for involving himself in matters far beyond his authority. Determined to manage the affairs of the British Raj—and occasionally the...

Some hauntings arrive not as shadows, but as a smile you cannot quite face. In The Smile In My Peripheral, Elara Voss receives a relic from her estranged mother's estate: an obsolete flip phone that smells of dust and antiseptic. What begins as clinical paperwork fractures into psychological suspense when the old phone vibrates at 3:03 a.m. with voicemails from a woman dead for eight weeks. Or so Elara believes.

Wenn der Schnee leise fällt, beginnen die Geschichten zu flüstern. In Schneegeflüster öffnen sich fünf winterliche Welten – märchenhaft, geheimnisvoll und manchmal ein wenig schräg. Eine Elfe kämpft um den letzten Funken Weihnachtszauber, auf dem Eis tanzen zwei Herzen umeinander, ein kleiner Vampir entdeckt ein uraltes Familiengeheimnis, und ein verbitterter Mann sucht nach seiner verlorenen Liebe. Und zwischen Büchern und Träumen liegt ein Moment der Ruhe und Wärme.

Upon returning from abroad, Ryan Jordan receives word that his mother has passed. As he processes this news from his sister over the phone, Ryan begins to question his past relationship with his mother. Grief soon mingles with regret as he makes the necessary preparations for her burial alongside his father. While at his father’s gravesite, memories of a fond childhood growing up around horses at their former home flood his mind, memories that he wants to share with his sister’s family when they bring down his mother’s cremated remains.

A literary short story featuring 'Theatre -of -the -Mind' cinematic audio design. On a cold Scottish autumn evening, a man stops by derelict castle ruins while driving through the Highlands. Something draws him towards the deserted ancient fortress. As dusk settles over the loch, a profound grief overtakes him—a sorrow so deep it threatens to consume him entirely. Something about this place speaks to him in ways he cannot explain. What the hell is happening?

A slow-burning folk horror novella blending ancestral terror, body horror, and psychological dread, The Wax Mother explores identity, inheritance, motherhood, and the horrifying possibility that blood remembers more than we do.

Das Chaos geht weiter. Staffel 2. Skurriles Comedy-Hörspiel mit Matze, Rainer und einem verrückten KI-Roboter! In der chaotischen Autowerkstatt treffen Humor, Science-Fiction und irre Ideen aufeinander. Mini-Hörspiele voller Unterhaltung, verrückter Experimente und witziger Dialoge.