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Phoebe Wycherly was missing two months before her wealthy father hired Archer to find her. That was plenty of time for a young girl who wanted to disappear to do so thoroughly—or for someone to make her disappear. And before he could locate the Wycherly girl, Archer had to reckon with the Wycherly woman, Phoebe’s mother, an eerily unmaternal blonde who kept too many residences, had too many secrets, and left too many corpses in her wake.

Este relato explora las complejidades del mundo del arte y la autopercepción del talento. La historia sigue a Jack Gisburn, un pintor reconocido, cuya carrera toma un giro inesperado cuando decide abandonar la pintura en la cima de su éxito y casarse con una viuda rica. La narrativa se desarrolla a través de los ojos del narrador, un conocido de Gisburn, quien reflexiona sobre la decisión de Jack de abandonar su arte. El narrador visita a Gisburn y su esposa en la Riviera, buscando entender la razón detrás de esta elección.

Two teenage boys make a gruesome discovery. A body locked inside a church crypt. The victim’s throat viciously ripped out. The dead man is quickly identified as twenty-year-old Matthew Flynn, son of a wealthy businessman. He was reported missing a year ago. Nothing about the crime scene makes sense to forensic psychologist Kate Hanson. The evidence reveals careful planning — but also a frenzied loss of control. Kate and her team disagree about the killer’s motive — is it drugs? Money? Sex?

Journalist Tasman Hill must chase every angle in the biggest story of his career—the suspicious disappearance of his own colleague, star crime and investigative news reporter Harrison Marks. When Tasman is suddenly and mysteriously offered his chance at glory, he must take Harrison’s place at the Sapphire Times newspaper, located in a famous mountainous city on Australia’s east coast.

Sibylla, an American-at-Oxford turned loose on London, finds herself trapped as a single mother after a misguided one-night stand. High-minded principles of child-rearing work disastrously well. J. S. Mill (taught Greek at three) and Yo Yo Ma (Bach at two) claimed the methods would work with any child; when these succeed with the boy Ludo, he causes havoc at school and is home again in a month. (Is he a prodigy, a genius? Readers looking over Ludo’s shoulder find themselves easily reading Greek and more.)

Fred Bracken is headed back to the tiny Montana community where he grew up after being an inpatient in a military psychiatric hospital for a year. Still pestered by nightmares and flashbacks from the war that left him with severe PTSD, he wonders what life will look like. He wants to marry his childhood sweetheart, but how can that happen? Her father is in prison. She has two children by prior marriages, is living with her mom, and working to support them all. He has no home, no family, and no job skills other than ranching.

Die Gesangsstudentin Anna konkurriert tagsüber beim Vorsingen gegen ihre Kommilitoninnen aus gutem Hause, nachts singt sie Jazz in einer verrauchten Bar, um die Miete bezahlen zu können. Dort trifft sie den wohlhabenden Max. Einen betörenden Winter lang oszilliert ihr Leben zwischen den schwer erkämpften Momenten auf der Bühne und den Nächten in Max' Apartment, das über die Lichter der Stadt blickt. Doch Annas Karriere fordert einen immer größeren Teil ihres Lebens – ebenso wie Max.

Einmal die Küste runter, immer am Meer entlang. Für Martin, 49, abgerockter Musiker, One-Hit-Wonder von vor 20 Jahren, steht die Route fest. Sein Ziel: Ein Musikfestival in Portugal, seine große Chance aufs Comeback. Als seine Schwester ihn kurz vor Abreise bittet, während ihres Reha-Aufenthaltes auf ihren Sohn Karl aufzupassen, ist die Antwort klar: Nein. Einen 12-Jährigen kann Martin gerade überhaupt nicht gebrauchen. Er bringt den Jungen bei Oma unter und fährt los, in seinem alten Kombi, immer in Richtung Süden.

"Mourning" is a poignant and deeply introspective novel that explores the journey of grief, love, and acceptance through the lens of one man’s extraordinary experience. Thomas, the protagonist, is forced to confront the fragments of his life after his death—reliving memories of joy, pain, regret, and hope. Each chapter unfolds a new layer of the human experience, mirroring the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.

Ask yourself this question? If good girls like the bad boys, then who do the nice guys like? Of course, the science is not definitive, but the answer may lie within this story….. This is a tale of a millionaire in New Orleans who seems to have it all, but what you don’t know is that he has a fatal flaw; he’s attracted to the wrong women. The ones that smell like trouble from a mile away, and this one in particular had her demons on her shoulders. She wore them like a badge of honor. She has a Borderline Personality Disorder, pulling several weights of troubling history, and evil agendas.

A complex and fast-paced financial thriller taking place over three continents. Follow the money!

Stefan Zweig, “Korku”da günlük yaşamın sıradan görünen perdesi arkasında saklanan endişeleri çarpıcı bir şekilde işliyor. Ufak bir hatanın insanın tüm dengesini nasıl altüst edebileceğini, en beklenmedik anlarda nasıl bir hesaplaşmaya dönüşebileceğini gösteriyor. Evlilik, toplum baskısı ve vicdan arasındaki zorlu mücadelede, kahramanımızın korkularını adım adım soluyor; her sayfada onunla birlikte çıkış yolu arıyoruz. Zweig’in üslubu, duygu yoğunluğunu yavaş yavaş artırarak okuru hikâyenin içine çekiyor ve karakterin çırpınışını paylaşmamızı sağlıyor.

1916. The Russian Empire is crumbling under the weight of defeat in the World War I and the imminent Revolution. Irina Yakovleva is a 17-year-old girl of noble birth living in Moscow. She falls in love with a young and ambitious lawyer Nikolai Rakelov. They marry in the middle of the tumultuous 1917 right before the Bolshevik Revolution. A few months later, Nikolai is murdered by a group of four Bolshevik soldiers while Irina is left alive to be raped and later executed.

On this journey through the labyrinthine streets and hidden corners of one of the world's most fascinating cities, everybody is searching for something, and maybe searching in the wrong places. Elements of the fantastical and the surreal abound, as they tend to do in the early predawn hours of the morning, yet the settings, the human stories, and each character's search are all as real as can be.

It's my first Christmas with my new husband and we're spending it with his wealthy family in their remote, luxurious lodge in the Irish mountains. I feel completely out of my depth; their perfect world is so different to my life before I met Jack. But I've got to make this marriage work. And I'll do whatever it takes. With the festivities in full swing, I quickly discover that behind their flawless image the Silver family are hiding plenty of secrets. Jack's glamorous step-mother Dawn welcomes me with open arms. Then I find out she's whispering about me behind my back.

After my beautiful daughter Annabelle died in a tragic accident, I thought I would never recover. With my world in pieces, my husband Matthew did what he could to support me and our son, Noah. He hired a young woman, Reka, to help us at home, to be the mother for Noah that I couldn’t be. She cares for him like he’s her own.

Vera and Thea are mother and daughter. Vera writes for the internet: she constructs identities and scenarios for brands to cater to the ideal consumer. Yet she also consumes the offerings of the online world herself: the addictive pursuit of a cure, the narratives she craves in which mother and daughter find a way out of the shared experience of chronic illness. She becomes preoccupied with a blog written by a woman named Claudia, a mother whose daughter also has a chronic illness.

New Year’s Day. A dog walker is enjoying the early morning calm in Birmingham’s Woodgate Country Park. At first he thinks it’s some old rubbish. His dogs are always digging up trouble. But it’s a mummified body. The victim is Nathan Troy, an art student who disappeared twenty years ago. Days later, a second body is found. This time it’s a fresh kill. And the ligature marks on the victim’s neck are identical. It’s been twenty years, but after all this time, forensic psychologist Kate Hanson knows that Nathan’s killer is back.

"אִתי החיים משחֵק" הרבה הוא סיפורן של שלוש נשים חזקות, וֶרה בת התשעים, בתה נינה, ונכדתה גילי. פרשה מרה ומושתקת מרעילה את חייהן, קורעת אותן זו מזו ושבה ומטיחה אותן זו בזו במשך עשרות שנים. עד שאין להן ברירה, והן יוצאות – יחד עם רפאל, האוהב הנצחי של נינה, ואביה של גילי – למסע אל אי העונשין גוֹלי אוֹטוֹק, הנמצא מול חופי קרואטיה. במקום הקשוח והצחיח הזה, לפני עשרות שנים, החלו הדברים להשתבש. פה היתה וֶרה כלואה ומעונה בעבודות פרך, מפני שסירבה לבגוד בבעלה המת ולהכריז עליו 'אויב העם'. פה הותכו יחד נאמנות מוחלטת ובגידה מייסרת.

Nicholas has plenty of reasons to feel unstable: he’s fifteen, the child of divorced parents, living with his absent dad in the bleak Chicago suburbs, and an outsider at school. Then, one day in geometry class, he forgets how to breathe. The doctor says it’s just panic, but Nicholas suspects that his real problem might not be a psychiatric one: maybe the Greek god Pan is trapped inside his body.

סבא של מיכאל הוא סבא אחר, מיוחד ושונה. ויש משהו מופלא ומרתק בשונה ובמיוחד. סבא של מיכאל מתקן דברים בעולם. הוא איש חושב וחולם, אוהב ולפעמים נוקם. אבל תכונתו הנפלאה ביותר היא יכולתו לקחת עמו אל תוך חלומותיו את האנשים האהובים עליו ולהוסיף לחייהם ממד קסום ומרגש. מיכאל זכה בסבא שהעשיר את חייו. האם זו אגדה לילדים? האם זה סיפור פילוסופי, או פשוט סיפור פיוטי רב-קסם? ואולי כל אלה יחד, שלובים זה בזה ומעניקים לנו, הקוראים, את מה שלבנו מבקש, חולם ופוחד לגעת.

In the heart of an old Southern house, Sarah Bennett unearths her family’s chilling connection to a sinister legacy. Driven by a protective instinct for her children, Sarah wrestles with fear and determination as dark secrets unfold. Her son, Ethan, is enchanted by an ethereal melody that beckons him to complete a tune that could either liberate a trapped spirit or plunge him deeper into the house’s malevolent grasp.

Kylo’s Lament is a slow-burning psychological horror that traces one man’s descent into madness as he battles an unknown terror. Dave has always found comfort in his routines, a stable office job, casual tennis matches with friends, and quiet evenings with his cat, Kylo. But everything changes the night he glimpses a reality-bending distortion creeping along his arm. At first, he dismisses it as stress or fatigue. At least, until it comes back. Over time, the strange static-like substance appears again and again.

Camille Bell never wanted to raise her husband’s mistake. RJ, the son of Ryan’s most public betrayal, was a constant reminder of everything she lost—the picture-perfect life, the adoring husband, the future she was promised. But instead of casting him aside, she did what no one expected. She made him hers.

When beautiful Jules Benton, a seventeen-year-old senior, goes missing after the spring formal dance in the small town of Watertown, Wisconsin, her father, Richard, becomes suspicious of Jules’ boyfriend, David Miller, and his involvement with her disappearance.

Kaveh Akbars faszinierender, von Presse und prominenten Leserinnen und Lesern gefeierter Debütroman führt vom Iran der 1980er-Jahre bis in die heutigen USA und ist eine Hymne auf all das, was uns bei der Suche nach Sinn und Bedeutung im Leben helfen kann: auf die Kunst, den Glauben an uns selbst, auf Liebe, Freundschaft und Mitmenschlichkeit. Nominiert für den National Book Award 2024. Cyrus Shams, 29, ist kein Meister des täglichen Lebens. Er schreibt umwerfend gute Gedichte und nimmt zu viele Drogen.

Emma is so happy to have moved from the city to her husband’s small hometown. James was strangely reluctant at first – but she convinced him their little cottage is the perfect place to settle down. The perfect place to give their six-year-old son a new life. But then a woman at the school gates asks Emma if she is really married to ‘that man’. ‘Which man?’ Emma asks. The woman replies…

Susan Chambers woke up feeling like she had been hit by a bus. Mostly because she had been hit by a bus. And Susan Chambers wasn’t so much waking up, as she was arriving in The After Death, the place between one life and the next. After forty-two years as a human, a freshly dead Susan must tackle some of the biggest questions in life, death and everything that comes after. Why are mosquitoes the way they are? What lessons can a soul learn from a single life? Does it really matter if you were a good person? Is there such a thing as a life that doesn’t matter at all?

Als Paula aus der Zeitung erfährt, dass eine gefährliche Psychopathin aus dem Maßregelvollzug ausgebrochen ist, bleibt ihr fast das Herz stehen. Ihre Sorge gilt sofort ihrem kleinen Sohn Elias, denn die Nachricht reißt alte Wunden wieder auf, die bis heute nicht verheilt sind. Die Geflohene lebt seit Jahren in dem Wahn, Elias sei ihr Kind und hat Paula und ihren Freunden schon einmal unsagbares Leid zugefügt. Was auch immer diese Psychopathin in ihrem kranken Kopf plant, Paula wird ihren kleinen Sohn vor ihr beschützen ‒ auch wenn es sie das Leben kosten könnte.

Théo a 20 ans lorsqu'il quitte son Auvergne natale et poursuit ses études de lettres à Paris. Il ignore tout de la capitale où il n'a d'attaches que sa grand-tante Ange-Lise, seule personne à l'avoir toujours compris. La bourse qui lui est allouée lui permet difficilement de vivre.