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Pre-empting novels such as the Booker Prize-winning ‘Time’s Arrow’ by as much as twenty years, Counter-Clock World is a story of racial tensions told against the background of the year 1998, in which time flows in reverse as people are born old only to grow younger and younger.

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: She must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful 13-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims - a bit too strongly.

Alice Love is 29, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine Alice’s surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital, where she discovers the honeymoon is truly over - she’s getting divorced, she has three kids, and she’s actually 39 years old. Alice must reconstruct the events of a lost decade and find out whether it’s possible to reconstruct her life at the same time.

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day–partner, parent, creator, muse–and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

Een hartverwarmende roman met een vleugje Japanse mystiek over verschillende vormen van liefde en omgaan met verlies. In een steegje in Tokio zit al meer dan honderd jaar een café dat zorgvuldig gezette koffie schenkt. Dit cafeetje biedt de klanten een unieke ervaring: de kans om door de tijd te reizen. In Voordat de waarheid uitkomt brengen vier nieuwe gasten een bezoekje aan het verleden of de toekomst.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s haunting chronicle of crippling depression, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a cornerstone of weird fiction. First published in 1892, it has now been given an unsettling yet empathetic treatment courtesy of Robert Hunter (original score) and Linda Jones (narration) who skillfully brings the listener into the tale’s interiority and demonstrates its timelessness.

At sixty-four Mickey Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, tormented by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction...

A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed. Beginning with Johannes's father's thoughts as his wife goes into labor and ending with Johannes's own thoughts as he embarks upon a day in his life when everything is exactly the same yet totally different, Morning and Evening is a novel concerning the beautiful dream that our lives have meaning.

The Other Name follows the lives of two men living close to each other on the west coast of Norway. The year is coming to a close and Asle, an aging painter and widower, is reminiscing about his life. He lives alone, his only friends being his neighbor, Åsleik, a bachelor and traditional Norwegian fisherman-farmer, and Beyer, a gallerist who lives in Bjørgvin, a couple hours drive south of Dylgja, where he lives. There, in Bjørgvin, lives another Asle, also a painter. He and the narrator are doppelgangers—two versions of the same person, two versions of the same life.

Yoshio is thirty years old, and his life is a mess. A shut-in living with his parents, he has no job, no relationship, and no prospects. When he receives a new sim computer game that boasts characters created with a new kind of A.I., he doesn't think much of it--until he gets drawn into a fantasy world so vibrant and lifelike that its residents can't just be game characters. Suddenly finding himself the benevolent god of a scrappy fantasy village is a lot for Yoshio to handle, but it might be the key to the change he is desperate for.

Step into the world of "The Real Thing" by Henry James, a masterful exploration of art, authenticity, and human relationships. This audiobook takes you into the lives of a struggling artist and the wealthy patrons who commission his work. With James' keen observations and elegant prose, the story delves into the complexities of artistic creation and the blurred lines between reality and illusion. It offers a thought-provoking reflection on the nature of truth, beauty, and the quest for authenticity in a world filled with artifice.

How do you find a girl the world says never existed? Eight years after her daughter vanished without a trace, Eva Langley returns to Hollow Lake—haunted by whispers, sleepless nights, and a single locket that should have been buried with her child. Then a strange girl appears. Red-haired. Silent. Wearing her daughter’s necklace. She calls herself Grace. But Grace isn’t just a child. She’s a key to Eva’s buried past. A walking riddle stitched with secrets. As Eva pulls the thread, she uncovers a forgotten clinic, lost therapy tapes, and a hidden program designed to erase memories—and lives.

All I ever wanted was to write a bestseller. And now, finally, I've done it. People ask me, How and where did I get my inspiration? But I can never tell them—because I have a secret. No one knows what I did. Not my beloved husband or my busybody mother. And nobody can ever find out—it would destroy my career and I'd lose everything, including my precious baby. Then the threats begin. The ominous emails, the sinister letters, and the chilling gifts left outside my door by someone who knows the truth. Someone who's stalking me and wants to make me pay for my sins.

Zwischen Wurzeln, die erinnern, und Stille, die spricht, liegt ein Ort, den niemand betreten kann, der nicht bereit ist, gehört zu werden. Als Liora in den Garten zurückkehrt, der einst verschlossen wurde, um das Vergessene zu bewahren, spürt sie, dass etwas erwacht – nicht im Außen — in ihr selbst. Was zunächst wie ein stilles Naturgeflecht erscheint, entpuppt sich als lebendiger Organismus aus Erinnerung, Entscheidung und Verbundenheit. Doch der Garten beginnt sich zu verändern. Er wächst nicht länger nur nach innen – er beginnt, hinauszuwollen.

At the Loomis Estate, every secret has its price. Jane is starting over in Old Saybrook, Connecticut—new town, new job, same rules: stay quiet, stay useful, stay unnoticed. But her latest client, the Loomis family, lives in a sprawling estate in the secluded coastal enclave of Fenwick, and nothing about them feels ordinary. Her employer is the family matriarch—elegant, commanding, and quick to correct. The house is filled with routines Jane must follow and expectations she simply has to meet. Then there’s Graham, the grandson.

It’s 2125 when a long-separated grandson suddenly arrives on his doorstep looking for answers. Max MacGyver retells their family story and secrets, revealing a century of challenges that they’ve faced. Journey to 2125 is one family’s touching story, across generations, of adventure, rivalry, loss, survival, and resilience.

After the death of her long-time partner, and a scandal at the school where she taught music and art, Janice Halston emerged as a shadow of herself. Feeling shaken, cautious and artistically blocked. Tam Murphy lost her wife and son within a short time of each other. She tries to fill her emptiness with her daughter Mae, and granddaughter, Ocee. Janice and Tam are brought together by the precocious Ocee. As their friendship deepens, so do their feelings for each other. Their deepening feelings send both women spiraling…in different directions.

New York, 1963. Ever since he was a young boy, struggling to survive among the rubble of bombarded Berlin, Manny Heimann knew he wanted to be a doctor. Having barely managed to escape the terrible fate of Mischling German children, Manny is adamant about dedicating his life to helping all those in need… Until a familiar face enters his clinic one fateful afternoon, threatening to uproot everything he believed about human kindness – and cruelty.

After countless millennia of guiding souls to the afterlife, the Grim Reaper is crumbling under the weight of eternity. Lonelier than the void between stars, he does the unthinkable: he seeks therapy. Dr. Ahema Adisa never expected her newest patient to be Death himself. But when a shadow-cloaked figure materializes in her office, radiating ancient sorrow, she doesn’t turn him away. As their sessions unfold, a shocking truth emerges. Now, he faces a terrifying question: Is his suffering truly necessary, or has he been a prisoner all along?

Egons liv är ingen framgångssaga varken privat eller i yrkeslivet som terapeut. Självhjälpsboken som ska få allt att vända verkar inte gå att slutföra och den nya chefen kräver att han ska dra in fler klienter. För att fylla sin patientkvot tvingas han leda en gruppterapi men gruppens medlemmar har inte bara svårt att hantera sina egna liv, de har dessutom väldigt svårt för Egon.