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This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The last place Sarah Landry wants to go is back home to South Dakota. Her mother's unexpected death forces her to return to her hometown where she comes face to face with Sophia, her ex-friend. While processing the fractured relationship she had with...

Luzia wächst in einer Gemeinschaft auf, die für ganz unterschiedliche Menschen eine Zuflucht bietet. Im »Haus« werden queere und platonische Formen von Liebe sowie geteilte Elternschaft gelebt. Später, als Erwachsene, kämpft Luzia als Theaterregisseurin gegen patriarchale Strukturen an und versucht, etwas zum Guten zu verändern. Ihre Jugendfreundin Marle verspürt mit Anfang vierzig einen starken Kinderwunsch und entscheidet sich für einen ungewöhnlichen Weg abseits von Beziehungen mit Männern.

A man’s quest to resolve an inherited family trauma leads him to an enigmatic priory in a war-ravaged region, from which he’s not sure he will be able to flee Hoping to make sense of his grandfather’s unspoken trauma, Malachi journeys to return a family heirloom to the land of its origin...

Spiegel-Bestsellerautorin Anne Barns lässt uns in ihrem Wohlfühlroman auf der zauberhaften Nordseeinsel Amrum in ein berührendes Familiengeheimnis eintauchen, die frische Meeresbrise im Herzen spüren und den unvergleichlichen Duft von Butter und Zimt erleben. Hanna verbringt gern Zeit mit ihrer Oma. Doch ein rätselhafter Kosename, den die vergesslich werdende Therese plötzlich nutzt, lässt die Tischlerin nicht mehr los. Was verbirgt sich hinter dem friesischen Wort, das von Amrum stammt? Kurz entschlossen reist die Enddreißigerin auf die Insel.

Es ist nie zu spät, dem eigenen Herzen zu folgen. Judith fährt spontan von Hamburg nach Schweden, zurück zum Sehnsuchtsort ihrer Kindheit, auf eine Insel bei Stockholm. Ihr Mann hat sie nach fast zwanzig Jahren Ehe verlassen. Sie hofft, in dem kleinen roten Gästehaus zur Ruhe zu kommen und ihr Leben neu zu ordnen. Doch die vertraute Umgebung weckt nicht nur Nostalgie, sondern auch schmerzhafte Erinnerungen an ihre einst beste Freundin, deren Freundschaft in einer verhängnisvollen Nacht des Krebsfestes jäh zerbrach.

From the author of the multi-award-winning, National Book Award–longlisted, “vivid, fast, funny, way-smart, and verbally inventive” (George Saunders) story collection Heads of the Colored People, comes a sly, spry, literary debut novel about the murder of an infamous moonshiner and the...

Featuring six new recordings of classic works by Frédéric Chopin, Maurice Ravel, Edvard Grieg, Erik Satie, and Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by Han Chen. The story of a brief, passionate, life-changing love affair, wrapped up in what might be the greatest romance of all: our eternal human...

Discover new delicious mysteries in this fourth installment in The Kamogawa Food Detectives series, the beloved Japanese bestseller and celebration of the healing power of food. “Off-beat and charming, [with] more complexity of flavor than you might expect.” – NPR – Fresh Air with Terry...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers and How Beautiful We Were, a captivating novel about love lost—and the weight of regret “Every Story Is a Love Story is a deeply moving, beautifully told novel about grief, regret, anger, forgiveness, and the insistent...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Golden Poppy Book Award Winner "A banger of a trans feminist body horror comedy."—Caro Claire Burke, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yesteryear She’s...

»Colson Whitehead gehört zu den wichtigsten literarischen Stimmen der Gegenwart.« Zeit online Reagan-Jahre, Immobilienboom, entfesselter Kapitalismus, wilde Musik: New York in den Achtzigern. Trotz seiner Vergangenheit als Hehler scheint Ray Carney in Harlem angekommen zu sein: Möbelhändler...

Carrie gets the shock of her life when the matchmaker she's to interview turns out to be her long-lost husband. Journalist Carrie Fields is sent to a small village in Ireland to cover its annual matchmaking festival. It turns out the town’s elusive matchmaker is the man she married years ago...

Lydia Millet’s dialogue-driven, fast-moving double novel Fair Ones follows two Brooklyn women in their forties reeling from the sudden and baffling death of their friend Claire. Fair, Mara’s account, opens in the wake of initial shock as she and Jen try to come to grips with the enigma of Claire’s killing. Ones, told from Jen’s point of view, picks up a year later as she and Mara wrestle with new relationships and old secrets. In this vibrant, funny-sad fiction of companionship and solitude, Millet dazzles with dry wit and sharp prose.

From New York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson comes a fantastically creepy holiday story of a writer tasked with helping a famous novelist finish his next book. But when two dead bodies turn up at the seaside manor, he must uncover the killer before the clock ticks down to Christmas Day...

Winner of the International Prize for Arabic Fiction For fans of Naguib Mahfouz's classic Cairo Trilogy and Hisham Matar's In the Country of Men, a tense and heartbreaking portrait of a young Libyan from a long line of bakers who tries to live up to his society's expectations of what it means to...

"An epic account of the fight for human dignity and an intimate, unforgettable story of love, ambition, and resilience." —Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Wayfinder The highly anticipated second novel from the award-winning author Kawai Strong Washburn: an extraordinary saga...

“An adrenaline-filled high-wire act. It’s funny when it needs to be, hard to track when it wants to be, and meticulously engineered at every moment. It is storytelling from a writer who knows the fundamentals of the craft well enough that he can break all the rules and still build a...

AN AUDACIOUS, INVENTIVE DEBUT AND A CULT CLASSIC IN THE MAKING, FROM A THRILLING NEW TALENT IN FICTION 'A BANGER OF A TRANS FEMINIST BODY HORROR COMEDY' CARO CLAIRE BURKE 'CAMPY, EROTIC, PROVOCATIVE AND UTTERLY ESSENTIAL' LUCY ROSE ‘TRANGRESSIVE, GROTESQUE AND TOTALLY COMPELLING' ALICE SLATER...

Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle ist eine unvollendete Erzählung von Franz Kafka. Sie wurde 1915 verfasst und postum veröffentlicht. Kafkas Erzählung behandelt die skurrilen Schwierigkeiten eines Junggesellen in seinem Privat- und Berufsleben.

A young man’s solitary pilgrimage to a tiny West Country church, a journey ostensibly inspired by the literary figure Sabine Baring-Gould, eccentric librettist of Onward Christian Soldiers, turns into a semi-mystical experience when the pilgrim, responding to some obscure prompting of the soul...