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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.

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...

The New York Times bestselling saga of a most unusual family from the award-winning author of The World According to Garp. “The first of my father’s illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels...

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...

From the surreal to the mundane, twenty-four stories that “show Murukami at his dynamic, organic best” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). "A warning to new readers of Haruki Murakami: You will become addicted.... His newest collection is as enigmatic and sublime as ever." —San Francisco...

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…

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...

Psychiatrist Dr. Gwen Moore is an expert on killers. She’s spent a decade treating California’s most depraved predators and unlocking their motives - predators much like the notorious Bloody Heart serial killer, whose latest teenage victim escaped and then identified local high school teacher Randall Thompson as his captor. The case against Thompson as the Bloody Heart Killer is damning - and closed, as far as Gwen and the media are concerned. If not for one new development.

Quinn Alexander has committed an unthinkable crime. To avoid spending her life in prison, Quinn makes a run for it. She leaves behind her home, her job, and her family. She grabs her passport and heads for the northern border before the police can discover what she's done. But when an unexpected snowstorm forces her off the road, Quinn must take refuge at the broken-down, isolated Baxter Motel. The handsome and kindly owner, Nick Baxter, is only too happy to offer her a cheap room for the night.

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.

The annual Curlew Street scarecrow competition is back, and the residents of Melbourne’s inner north have never seen an entry like it. Shirt bloody, head and arms slumped over a scarecrow crucifix: Victoria’s most conservative Supreme Court Judge, Harry ‘The Pope’ Somerton, is dead...

'Is home the place where we are born? Or is it the place where we die?' These questions haunt Magnolia, a successful Haitian American real estate agent in Miami, after she hears the terrifying sounds of gunfire while shopping for her daughter's birthday gift. Once she's safely home, Magnolia...

Lily und ihr Freund erleben die erste große Liebe und sind überzeugt, dass sie ewig halten wird. Doch ein tragisches Ereignis in einer Partynacht zerstört das Leben mehrerer Menschen, woran auch ihre Beziehung zerbricht. Lily findet Halt und ein neues Glück in ihrer zweiten großen Liebe. Ihr Ehemann, der Ornithologe Marshall, wird der ruhende Pol in ihrem Leben. Doch die Erinnerung an ihre Jugendliebe lässt Lily nie ganz los. Über Jahrzehnte hinweg kreuzen sich ihre Wege immer wieder, bis zu einer weiteren schicksalhaften Nacht.

Un an. Un an depuis le 17 août 2013. Un an que l’avion s’est écrasé... et que Sky est la seule survivante. Depuis le crash qui a coûté la vie à toute sa classe, la jeune fille revit sans cesse l’horreur : crises d’angoisse, cauchemars, hallucinations, perte partielle de l’ouïe...

An einem klaren Frühlingmorgen erscheint ein Fremder in Golden, einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt im Süden. Theo besucht das örtliche Café, in dem zweiundneunzig Bleistiftporträts an den Wänden hängen – Porträts der Menschen von Golden, gezeichnet von einem lokalen Künstler. Er beginnt, sie nach und nach zu kaufen und sie den »rechtmäßigen Besitzerinnen und Besitzern« zurückzugeben. Mit jedem Austausch wird eine Geschichte erzählt, eine Freundschaft gestiftet und ein Leben verändert. Und ein neues Geheimnis offenbart.

Olive ist eine Meisterin darin, ihre Gefühle hinter fantastischen Geschichten und Kaltschnäuzigkeit zu verbergen. Als jedoch, wie schon zuvor ihr Vater, ihr kleiner Bruder verschwindet, muss sie sich entscheiden: Will sie sich weiter vor der Realität verstecken oder endlich leben? Leben mit all dem Schmerz, aber auch all der Liebe, dem Glück und den unendlichen Möglichkeiten?

Mit dieser Warnung des Großvaters, der fast Amerikaner geworden wäre, aber doch Elektriker in Unterfranken blieb, wächst die Ich-Erzählerin auf. Als der Großvater stirbt, beginnt die Erzählerin als Freiwillige in einem Berliner Seniorenheim – ohne zu ahnen, wie sehr ihre alte und ihre neue Welt zusammengehören. Mit scharfem Blick und großem Herz erzählt Alexandra Stahl vom Älterwerden. Von den Dingen, an die man nicht denkt, bis sie passieren.

From one of our most heralded writers--Joy Williams belongs, James Salter has written, "in the company of Céline, Flannery O'Connor, and Margaret Atwood"--her first novel in more than a decade: the life-and-death adventures of three misfit teenagers in the American desert. Alice, Corvus, and...

When forensic genealogist Sloane Vance returns to her childhood home after her father’s death, she expects dust, paperwork, and old silence. What she finds instead is a military field-phone her brother built in 1994—the year he died. When she turns the crank, the line connects. Not to memory. Not to a ghost. To herself. Twelve years old. Six days before the accident. Desperate to save her brother, Sloane begins altering the past—only to discover that fate resists correction.

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...

Her ex-husband disappeared, leaving her overwhelmed, cleaning up the mess he left behind. She suspects a friend of foul play but can’t prove it. She must find out the truth to protect her daughter from heartbreak. Irena Fishbone is always in a hurry, repairing boat engines and caring for her...

"Beyond the mountains and the sun, lived a hermit, ancient one." Sal knows that when dealing with predators, it’s best to stay still. After agreeing to haul a trailer of scales and bone across state lines, he tells himself he’s providing a final mercy for the displaced. He’s joined by a mute hunter who treats his rifle like a prayer, and a young runaway whose eyes hold a familiar, tragic spark. But as they move north, the rules of the road begin to bleed into the rules of the wild. The police call it trafficking. The world calls Sal a killer.

He wasn’t ready to listen. But she left it for him anyway. Fourteen months after his wife’s death, Daniel Thayer finds a hard drive hidden in her studio. 847 audio recordings. Twenty-six months of their life captured in quiet rooms, soft mornings, and the unnoticed moments in between. At first, it feels like a gift. The sound of coffee brewing. Rain against the porch. The familiar rhythm of a life they built together. But as Daniel listens, a pattern begins to emerge. Some days are missing. Some moments cut short. Some truths… never recorded at all.

No one knew his background and genealogy. He was referred to as the one without father and mother. He had no formal name, for his misfortunes overshadowed his identity. Though blind, yet in the face of darkness, he provided light that others may see. Initially, he was disdainfully addressed as the blind boy and later as Uncle Blindman. Though born in royalty, he was homeless and lived in penury. Before he knew how to say daddy or mommy, he was implicitly convicted for a violation of societal norms. His twin birth placed him on the wrong side of the village tradition.

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From the Booker Prize finalist and author of Sisters: a haunting novel about the complexities of motherhood, nested within three generations of women and children searching for each other to find themselves. Found alone on a remote island as a toddler, Ori grows up mired in the mystery of what...

Carlotta Indranova is a preservation specialist in a quiet Vermont town where objects are maintained, documented, and rarely questioned. But when artifacts begin surfacing without clear origin—misattributed, absorbed into public record, quietly legitimized—she realizes the danger isn’t corruption. It’s process.

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...